I can't help with this in particular, but QEMU does some really low-level hackery to the point where it wouldn't compile with GCC 4, so it's possible something like that is going on here.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Adrian Tritschler<a...@ajft.org> wrote: > I've got a p9p venti running on two separate ubuntu linux boxes that > I've been using for months to keep backups of data and for QEMU plan9 > guests. They have both stopped working, I suspect due to a recent > ubuntu kernel update. I've rebuilt all of p9p but to no avail. > > The QEMU guests crash on boot stating "error reading block 43a72...3 > or wrong score: read too small 1: asked for 0 need at le... > panic: boot process died: unknown" > > Any attempt to write data into either venti on the linux systems fails > with the error: > > a...@xyz:~/tmp$ vac x > create bsize 8192 psize 8160 > vac: vacfscreate: vacfileroot: read too small 1: asked for 0 need at least 389 > > reading any existing *.vac file also fails: > > a...@xyz:~/venti/2009/04/24$ unvac -t xyz_bin-2009-04-24.vac > unvac: vacfsopen: read too small 1: asked for 0 need at least 300 > > Any ideas? > -- > Adrian > >