Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:37:22 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Phillip Smith (3BAGSMEDIA)" <phillip@3bags.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP (or, now I've done it!) Vinum, RAID, and drivefailure... Message-ID: <20021119220722.GN57946@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001001c28fd4$b1af7560$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> References: <001001c28fd4$b1af7560$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>
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On Tuesday, 19 November 2002 at 9:05:19 -0500, Phillip Smith (3BAGSMEDIA) wrote: > > Hoping that the gods are with me and that you knowledgeable people can > assist me with this _really_ big screw up... > > FreeBSD4.6-stable > > I was setting up Vinum (rather successfully I might add) until last when > I tried to configure a second mirror with two different drives... > > All I can tell you is this... > > I had one vinum mirror set-up with this info: > > ... > > Working fine. I moved /usr to that mirror and edited /etc/fstab to point > /usr to this new mirror -- which worked fine. Then I wanted to set-up > another mirror on another two drives, so I > (stupidly) changed that vinum.conf to the following: > > ... > > And started vinum and used the create -f command. That's your mistake. NEVER use create for existing objects. Vinum finds them automatically. > Then there was an error, something about no space on one of the > devices (presumably, the device where the mirror was already > working). These error messages are important. That's why I ask for them (and not the config files) when people submit problem reports. > Next thing I know there's a kernel panic or something that stops the > system. If I reboot, the kernel panics with a "fatal trap 12: page > fault while in kernel mode" message... Vinum sais that a device is > not functioning properly and can't 'sync' the devices... > > I can't figure a way around this. The /usr (and binaries) are not > accessible, neither is my data. I can't start the system. I'm hoping > you can help... Well, not with the information you've supplied. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and supply as much of the information as it asked for there. > (Wish I spent the 10 minutes and made that 'one last backup') > > All I'd like to do is reverse that last vinum configuration... but I > can't get to any of the binaries because /usr is offline. I don't mind > re-building the system, but I moved my last back-up to that first mirror > (which I thought would be safe) and now I don't have access to it. What happens if you try to start Vinum? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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