>> i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29 >> twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe >> cvsupped 24 hours ago >> new kernel world >> will not boot. get beastie but stops at first twirly >> >> can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel >> >> can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs >> start > > A few questions: Have you cvsupped to 7-STABLE or 8? Are you using ZFS > root? Do you get anything extra with "boot -v"? Have you tried your > old loader (/boot/loader.old)?
really dead ended with old systems. no, root not zfs. the post mortem by a friend: friday morning, while trying to solve some other problem (i no longer remember what), randy did a "make installworld" that broke psg.com's ability to use its zfs filesystems. obvious answer was to revert, but that turns out to be easier to say than to do with /usr offline. friday's attempts to roll back via net and remote hands failed, so randy diverted to seattle. after further whackiness on saturday with randy in the westin with a crash cart, it became clear that, even using the pre-zfs filesystems that had been sitting idle since the move to zfs, the machine was too messed up to be able to run "make world". many programs (eg, "ln") were failing with sigsys errors due to some kind of mismatch between userland and kernel. so we installed freebsd 7.2 from distro media onto a blank usb hard drive, whacked the bios with a club until it admitted to being able to boot from usb, and used that disk as a stable build platform capable of running csup and make world. this didn't solve the problem, but got us far enough that randy could check out of the westin. after further antics, gyrations, sacrifices of rubber chickens, and some sleep, we finally got zfs back up, installed new world and kernel, fixed all the things we had broken (well, that we could remember or had logged), and got the machine back up and running on its filesystems, with just enough time left for randy to eat dinner and head for the ferry to catch a red eye bound for nanog. so that's where we are now: randy's in transit and everything seems back to normal. initially exim was groaning under the load of a weekend's mail backlog, but that looks to be calming down. -30- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
