From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 13 03:38:23 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 08823106564A; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C7B8FC0C; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:38:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5D3PwvW043392; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:25:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:24:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Dan Allen Message-ID: <20090613032442.GA24933@thought.org> References: <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net> <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com> <200906120832.51098.jhb@freebsd.org> <22FB500C-9655-4702-99B8-F6498DD27E2F@airwired.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22FB500C-9655-4702-99B8-F6498DD27E2F@airwired.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Yuri Pankov , "Paul B. Mahol" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin 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: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:38:23 -0000 On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Thursday 11 June 2009 9:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: > >>Isn't boot part of the kernel build? Why would installing the kernel > >>not cause this problem? > > > >No, sys/boot is built during world. Likely some change in /boot/ > >loader is > >causing your problem. Can you narrow it down to a specific change > >under > >sys/boot? > > Ok. I updated just the one file since it appeared like one of the few > changed files > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c > > and rebuilt things with > > cd /usr/src/sys/boot; make cleandir obj depend all install > > and it was okay. No problems. > > Then I did sync'd all of the changed files for /usr/src/sys/boot and > my machine is hung again at boot, so we have narrowed it down to > somewhere in /usr/src/sys/boot/. > > Time to reinstall from a DVD and try it with finer granularity. This > will take some time. > > There appears to be only four files that have changed in /usr/src/sys/ > boot from June 8th (all working fine) to June 11th (dead in the > water). They are: > > /usr/src/sys/boot/Makefile > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/Makefile > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile > > I have ruled out bisodisk.c, as stated above. > > That means that the Makefiles are building new stuff that previously > was not built, namely > > zfsboot gptzfsboot > > I believe it has to do with that. More help is needed! I am tired of > reinstalling the OS, but I am much more paranoid about updating my > other machine in any way now, as it could erase that whole machine. I > can't believe I am the only one seeing this... > > Dan > Whew!! i'm giving thanks to every saint, god and daemon known. i rebuilt my kernel in very recent days (7.2) on my ancient 500MHz kayak, but did not go further. So still runing on the 7.0 kernel. Will someone send up a flare when it's *safe*? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php