Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:12:08 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory Message-ID: <hhqtmn$sut$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4B40E7B6.8040500@acm.poly.edu> References: <hhlcfe$tqk$1@ger.gmane.org> <20100103013537.GK3508@acme.spoerlein.net> <hhqftc$m4a$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B40E7B6.8040500@acm.poly.edu>
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Boris Kochergin wrote: > martinko wrote: >> Ulrich Spörlein wrote: >>> On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 18:47:27 +0100, martinko wrote: >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> gstat(8) does not work here on 8.0 (it worked happily on 6.x and 7.x) : >>>> >>>> # gstat >>>> gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory >>>> >>>> Is this known ? What can I do ? >>> >>> I doubt that it is widely known, but I've seen these 2-3 times before >>> when fussing around with USB media and/or md(4) devices with gmirror on >>> top. Basically, if you get really creative with the geom layering, this >>> is likely to happen. >>> >>> It sure is a bug, but without a good way to reproduce, noone's gonna fix >>> it. >> >> Well, it is definitely reproducible here -- I cannot run gstat(8). >> >> Apart from mouse I have no USB devices connected. >> >> I use tmpmfs="YES" in rc.conf but I do not use gmirror nor any other >> creative GEOM layering. >> >> If someone's willing to investigate -- what info should I provide ? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Martin > I believe geom_gettree() gets its information from the kern.geom.confxml > sysctl. With that said, can you put the output of the following command > somewhere? > > sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml Yes, you're right and now I think I know what may cause this bug and it worries me even more -- my FAT32 partition has a funny name but it for sure was not like this before: $ ll /dev/msdosfs/ crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 95 Jan 3 09:28 FREEDOS crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 103 Jan 3 09:28 01wb? Here's the complete output you asked for: http://mato.gamato.org/freebsd/aw1n/kern.geom.confxml-8.0 Cheers, Martin PS: I've just read about some msdosfs issues and I'm very much worried that my partition data might be corrupted. :-/
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