Re: newfs silently fails if random is not ready (?)

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> Wednesday, September 5, 2018, 12:05:43 AM, you wrote:
>> I think it is tripping on raise/abort() in one of these routines, but
>> nothing is printing that information.  See below.
>
>  Maybe, it should be fixed?

Yes, it should.

> One second after that random is ready to use and
> newfs works as intended. It is, really, some race between early init script
> (rc.initdiskless) and kernel. I don't think, that newfs must be
> killed/aborted in such situation, it could wait!

I agree.  It looks like it is waiting, in fact, but then Something Bad
Happens when the random device is unblocked.

>> Ah, thanks.  I missed this.  mdmfs(8) has a bug in its run() function.
>> It treats programs that exit with a signal (KILL, ABRT, ILL, SEGV...)
>> the same as programs that exit with success.  This is a (major)
>> problem and the reason raise/abort is not visible.
>
>  And it is another problem. But if it will be fixed, it doesn't help to init
> system properly in my case, only diagnostic will be better.

Yep.

Best,
Conrad