Re: HEADS UP: Today's -CURRENT, vinum damage

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:53:33 +0930
On Tuesday,  6 May 2003 at 15:54:20 +0300, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:55:45PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
> <grog_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>>>> I cvsup'd this morning, and built/installed a new -CURRENT.  (I was
>>>> previously running circa morning April 29.)
>>>>
>>>> I was greeted by
>>>>   WARNING: Expected rawoffset 63, found 0
>>>> which seemed harmless enough (I only mention it in passing).
>>>>
>>>> When attempting to start Vinum, the `vinum' process became stuck &
>>>> unkillable in biord.  Has anyone else seen this?
>>>>
>>>> I loaded my old kernel and I am trying to recover by rebuilding a
>>>> morning of 2003/05/04 world.
>>>
>>> The `morning of 2003/05/04' world works.  I will try again in a couple
>>> of days, and get some more debug info if the problem persists.
>>
>> Is anybody else having trouble with recent Vinum?  If so, please let
>> me know as soon as possible.
>
> It's broken. I had to do some repairwork to get my /usr back up just
> moments ago. The May 6 kernel and userland from ~17:30 UTC hangs at
> boot while trying to start vinum (scan disks). 

Hmm.  That's the first I've heard of that one.  What happens if you
don't try to start Vinum at boot time?

> May 1 kernel and May 6 userland will not play together, complains
> about some ioctl.

Yes, that's a feature, not a bug.  You should never mix kernel and
userland of different ages, especially not in -CURRENT when work is
being done on a subsystem.

Greg
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