From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 11 21:40:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD90106566C for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com (mail-fx0-f220.google.com [209.85.220.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF178FC0A for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:40:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so1687203fxm.43 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:40:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Gy/SKaU3kCKIWMb92ky4jCpAxwq58ewFgX8ss+94Suo=; b=usqRS/HCGyy/SjTFhx+OxCHSogZajZsdLbTp1U4WC34hehVadVsfALz7iXSuI7JnQ3 1fKDMeWr5luF8q3lPklHSxynO27v6ReS3ywWMMvCFDUifP6DsR59LnupUYsmUSANJUTN xRK0PhGvZy+WdVRBd5GvtsSqc6NnLCKJpBkeQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GKSrlImpT03eElxRB5OEldx/S/PPsxKakj0TlvDVsLCV1yvDMYi6B/XDX23CPw61Rv piYE7K0LV280yY/bqPR/juRst4V3uvF3fVbmpGY4SAR9IsfMughZLFwg2ob+s6ULgv4M 3CYalBpQJVsvs5BoLEeCASRv+jSw9U6zDYeLg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.123.83 with SMTP id o19mr2942022bkr.12.1244756437460; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:40:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:40:37 +0000 Message-ID: <3a142e750906111440s26405c53v82fa82917145b930@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Dan Allen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:40:39 -0000 On 6/11/09, Dan Allen wrote: > I sync with 7-STABLE almost every day. I build everything on a > Toshiba U205 Satellite. Things are fine for months on end. > > I did this on June 8th. Everything was fine. > > I did this on June 10th. The machine no longer booted. The entire > root partition got clobbered. I reinstalled a snapshot of 7-STABLE > from May 28th that I had put on a DVD. Everything was once again fine. > > I then sync'd again this morning June 11th with 7-STABLE, did a full > build, and reproducibly, BOOM - the entire root partition got > clobbered. Gone. Again. After the reboot it just comes up with: > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > > and stops. Nothing else is printed. There is no choice of how to > boot. There is no files for me to send, no log files to inspect, no > remnants. I unfortunately did not see where in the build this > happened. My build does the canonical steps exactly as outlined in / > usr/src/Makefile and then does a reboot. It builds userland and the > kernel. > > When I inspect it from the bootable DVD the partition that my root > filesystem was in has no association with it having the root any > more. The partition is listed, but it looks like it had been freshly > partitioned. > > Something is very, very wrong. > > Ideas? Are you using ZFS on root partition? -- Paul