From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 23:38:05 2012 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 57712106566C for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:38:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6998FC08 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q1ONbvn0022483; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:38:00 -0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:37:20 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.3-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: <201202221334.36484.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <201202241350.56933.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <1330100633.7317.41.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <1330100633.7317.41.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201202250637.21276.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: Ian Lepore , Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday 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: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:38:05 -0000 On Friday 24 February 2012 23:23:53 Ian Lepore wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 13:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > On Thursday 23 February 2012 20:22:57 Stefan Bethke wrote: > > > Am 22.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Erich Dollansky: > > > > tunefs -L NewDeviceName /dev/da0a > > > > > > > > Either this call or the mount command does not work randomly. > > > > > > > > When I then try to mount the device on /dev/da0a it does not work always. > > > > > > > -- > > > Stefan Bethke Fon +49 151 14070811 > > I've been putting up with problems like this since first upgrading to > 8.2. I guess I haven't dug deeper into them because it's actually a > huge improvement from what I was used to in 6.x and 7.x where complete > system lockups were more common with removable usb drives. Here's an > example sequence that just happened to me with a compact flash card in a > usb multi-card reader... > I was lucky then. Since 8.0, these problems disappeared for me and came back only with 8.3. > revolution # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt > mount: /dev/da0s1a : Invalid argument > revolution # fsck -y /dev/da0s1a > fsck: Could not determine filesystem type > revolution # fsck -t ufs -y /dev/da0s1a > ** /dev/da0s1a > Cannot find file system superblock > ioctl (GCINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device > fsck_ufs: /dev/da0s1a: can't read disk label > > At this point I unplug the multi-card reader and plug it back in. > > revolution # fsck -y /dev/da0s1a > fsck: Could not determine filesystem type Yes, this are some of the messages. They changed randomly for me. > > I'm not sure whether or not this is related to the problem Erich > originally reported, but there are some similarities in symptoms such as > the inability to recognize the filesystem type, so I thought I'd mention It is the same what happened to me. Erich