Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:43:39 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> Subject: Re: Unable to mount the root fs on stable/8 r264339, GENERIC kernel, with MBR, FreeBSD slice, and UFS volume labels Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404140827190.9102@mail.fig.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404121042140.34556@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404111820160.9102@mail.fig.ol.no> <e44e0e1edb39d8db3be2a3db1d9b3f77.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404112158360.9102@mail.fig.ol.no> <31c0491faf776771e8a28dba8f66b02b.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404112305160.61185@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404121407110.9102@mail.fig.ol.no> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404121042140.34556@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:53-0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:09-0600, Warren Block wrote: > > > > > > My first guess would be missing bootcode in the BSDlabel slice. But I may > > > have missed that when I missed earlier parts of this thread. > > > > How? Why? The system has booted FreeBSD stable/8 for the last five > > years using MBR, slice, and UFS labels. Why should it stop all of a > > sudden? > > Accidental overwrite or (long shot) disk sector failure? I don't know, > really. Check the smartctl output for that disk. The BSDlabel bootcode can > be reinstalled without harming the filesystems. I'd still make a backup > first, something questionable is going on. > > Inclusion of the geom_raid kernel module for the first time, and old RAID > metadata on the disk? That would show in /var/log/messages or dmesg. If > that's the problem, it can be disabled in loader.conf or at a boot prompt with > kern.geom.raid.enable=0. I wouldn't rule out anything yet, but the spare system has a fairly recent and hardly used harddrive, dated 2010 on the sticker, an WDC WD5000AAKB-00H8A0. Incidently, this is the same kind of drive as I have in the amanda box. :-/ On Saturday, I installed 8.0-RELEASE on the spare system using the standard menu option, which results in MBR and slice. I overrode the newfs options by adding -L volumename to each fs. Before rebooting I edited /etc/fstab to use the UFS labels found in /dev/ufs instead of the usual device names. It turns out this arrangement is readable by 8.4-RELEASE dvd1 and also by the stable/9 snapshot marked 20140405 r264148. I wiped the drive clean and installed 8.4-RELEASE the same way as I did with 8.0-R. This arrangement is readable by 8.0-RELEASE dvd1 and by the stable/9 snapshot. Something must have happened in stable/8 between r258344 and r264339. Today's plan is to rewind the working copy of stable/8 on the spare back to r258344 and confirm that the UFS labels are accepted by the kernel of that revision. If all goes well, I'll move forward one revision at a time until I reach the revision where it all breaks. I haven't checked the disklabels with any recent stable/10 snapshot, so I might do that as well. Thanks for all your input. I'll keep you posted. -- +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Vennlig hilsen, | Best regards, | | Trond Endrestøl, | Trond Endrestøl, | | IT-ansvarlig, | System administrator, | | Fagskolen Innlandet, | Gjøvik Technical College, Norway, | | tlf. mob. 952 62 567, | Cellular...: +47 952 62 567, | | sentralbord 61 14 54 00. | Switchboard: +47 61 14 54 00. | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 07:56:49 2014 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F346C74; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-x232.google.com (mail-oa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D8BB1FC6; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id i7so8938482oag.9 for <multiple recipients>; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:56:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=7wU4BPaqCFK4v36MrFzJTjXuWKsw4xzrd9ivG5d+1Ek=; b=KHdj1xdZMmWfNPaTvABwY9jq5EiLzhr+2zeVlpg9DHu4KyK2f28x1gX7vJaxxwDKO4 cWEw/c1YducfW8YjJgbT6pY/yiUT97lj6055d3vMx9DMkyudHQXUCOG6Y45brxbyH36X yurOPN/4KtTspSYDPuISXYYAS+bTcVhEqH2hss5El1MWhnCbRZySjGc0ja2LWjQU4ZLW Yut4LVaZndRe+HA7r4mKwhFJjXXv7DCJXJnj3VZetGV7FeVL6YHOErbnt+ScA2mH8spk gP4lUkCsGtThN+NnROlQF4OaFCDviFkDN4Dy/Zns7Xz9yZWAJquJiB9NlAR/GCT+BDt7 yTLg== X-Received: by 10.182.104.101 with SMTP id gd5mr606850obb.54.1397462208422; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:56:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.76.173.129 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:56:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <cf788dbbd5b58ec188820b601783c09a.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> References: <20140402092434.GY99393@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <cf788dbbd5b58ec188820b601783c09a.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> From: n j <nino80@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:56:28 +0200 Message-ID: <CALf6cgYB_wJUZAo5ojkCDZoE+0bezp6x1Hj=-27FVmKsfHgB4Q@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ports 2014Q2 branched To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:56:49 -0000 On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am pleased to announce that we have created the 2014Q2 branch of the > ports > > tree. > > > > Because the first 2014Q1 branch was experimental you might not have > heard of it > > yet. > > > > January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at > > providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches > are a > > snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and currently > supported > > for three months, during which they receive security fixes as well as > build and > > runtime fixes. > > > > Packages are built on regular basis on that branch (weekly) and > published as > > usual via pkg.FreeBSD.org (/quarterly instead of the usual /latest). > > > > They are signed the same way the /latest branch is. > > > > While packages for 2014Q1 were only built for 10 (i386 and amd64) 2014Q2 > will be > > built for both FreeBSD 9 and 10 (i386 and amd64). > > > > The first build of 2014Q2 will started this morning (wednesday at 1 am > UTC) and should > > hit your closest mirrors very soon. > > > > On behalf of the port management team > > Bapt > > > A big +1 on this! IMHO l-o-o-n-g over due. Thanks Bapt! > > A step towards making FreeBSD a distribution, not just a base OS anymore? :-) -- Nino
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