From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 1 18:36:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7808C14BEF for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA37894; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:04:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:04:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Darryl Okahata Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum and 3.2R -> 3.3R upgrade Message-ID: <19991002110407.O496@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199910012310.QAA29992@mina.sr.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199910012310.QAA29992@mina.sr.hp.com>; from Darryl Okahata on Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:10:19PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 1 October 1999 at 16:10:19 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Ludwig Pummer wrote: > >> I had that problem when upgrading a 3.1-STABLE machine to 3.3-STABLE. I >> don't remember the exact process anymore, but the system is working fine >> and vinum doesn't list any bad volumes/plexes/subdisks. I fixed the >> disklabel in single user mode (took some work because /usr and /var are >> vinum volumes), rebooted, did a 'vinum makedev' (in single user mode) >> and rebooted. I think after that last time, it came up OK. > > In upgrading one of my systems from 3.1-RELEASE to 3.3-RELEASE[*], I > couldn't get vinum to recognize my existing volume (it kept on thinking > that the disks were crashed). After a couple frustrating hours, I ended > up blowing away the volume and recreating it ("vinum resetconfig" is > your friend ;-). Fortunately, I backed up the system before upgrading > it. ;-) You don't really want to do this if you have an alternative. Assuming you haven't completely hosed your configuration (which, unfortunately, is possible), you could have upgraded to the patch I released a day or two ago. > [*] -- My 3.3-RELEASE subscription disk arrived in the mail, and I > thought, "What the hell -- it's about time I upgraded". Urg. I > knew I was in for some fun, as I'm using both vinum and > softupdates, but I wasn't expecting to actually *use* my backups > ;-). I think it's time I moved that system to -stable, anyway. You should really do that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message