From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 8 13:14:56 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778572D71D6 for ; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (mailman.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::50:13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49JW5X2bnXz3HyL for ; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 575D22D71D5; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:14:56 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572292D71D4 for ; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mouf.net (mouf.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:0:4400:216:3eff:fe69:33b3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mouf.net", Issuer "mouf.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49JW5X1SBzz3HyJ; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:14:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from lrrr.mouf.net (cpe-76-182-16-135.nc.res.rr.com [76.182.16.135]) (authenticated bits=0) by mouf.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id 048DDnsa058564 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 8 May 2020 13:13:54 GMT (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: ZFS system can no longer boot - zfs_alloc()/zfs_free() mismatch To: Joseph Mingrone , questions@freebsd.org Cc: kevans@freebsd.org, tsoome@freebsd.org, Allan Jude References: From: Steve Wills Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 09:13:44 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mouf.net [199.48.129.64]); Fri, 08 May 2020 13:13:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=4.5 tests=KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on mouf.net X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mouf.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49JW5X1SBzz3HyJ X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.99 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.994,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.32 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:14:56 -0000 I didn't solve it, I avoided it by renaming the kernel directory and reinstalling the kernel, forcing the bits to be in a different physical location on disk... The only theory I had at the time was that the bits were beyond some arbitrary 4G limit or something, but that was just a wild idea. Good luck, that's super frustrating. Steve On 5/7/20 7:59 PM, Joseph Mingrone wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As it says in the subject line, my system stopped booting for some > unknown reason. It might have been after upgrading from 12.1-p2 to > -p4, but I'm unsure. It sounds similar to this issue: > https://twitter.com/alelab_/status/1222437570501644291 > > Allan and I tried debugging for a few hours today, but without > success. We tried replacing the boot code and the loaders, but the > result was the same. We also tried booting from a usb thumb drive, > then `set currdev=zfs:zroot/ROOT/default:` and `boot`, but the same > error is shown. > > Steve and Kyle, did you ever solve this problem? > > Thanks, > > Joe >