On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:51:48AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Markus Lude wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:02:59PM -0500, Emilio Perea wrote:
> > > I follow -current on an i386 at work and an amd64 at home, and rarely
> > > run into any problem which is not self-inflicted.  So when I had a weird
> > > experience this weekend, I assumed it was my fault.
> > > 
> > > What happened was that after the usual sequence of [build kernel;
> > > reboot; build userland; reboot] the system complained that it could not
> > > fsck wd1j and dropped into single-user mode.  wd1j is mounted on
> > > /usr/obj, and I thought that something in the last build had messed it
> > > up, so I ran "newfs wd1j" and got 
> > > 
> > >  newfs: /dev/rwd1j: Device not configured
> > > 
> > > "disklabel wd1" showed partitions d-i and k-p, but no j.  I added the
> > > partition, ran newfs, and everything seemed fine.  This afternoon I
> > > installed the i386 snapshot downloaded this morning (dated Jun 3 19:19)
> > > on the work pc, and after reboot it was missing the /usr/obj partition
> > > (sd0g in this case).
> > > 
> > > Everything seems to be working fine on both computers, but I didn't
> > > expect the partitions to disappear.  Did nobody else run into this
> > > "problem"?  Or did everybody else who saw it thought it was too obvious
> > > to mention it to the mailing list?
> > 
> > I had a similar problem on sparc64 with a snapshot from jun 2. The
> > system was unable to fsck some partitions and dropped to single user
> > mode.
> > Here the problems were with the /usr, /var, /tmp and /home partitions.
> > Some further (and larger partitions) weren't affected.
> > 
> > I installed an older snapshot.
> > 
> > Any suggestions how to get this fixed or what to test/try?
> 
> There were some validations checkc added to partitions. If a bad
> partition is found, it will be marked "unused". The checks were a
> little to strict for some cases. A fix for that went in yesterday, so
> try a new snap. 

Thanks for your info.

After rebuilding kernel and userland the problem still exists, but now
the affected partitions are /var, /home and /data. Hmm. Unmounting /data
and doing a manual fsck -f runs without problems.

> If the problem persists, please report with full disklabel output.

$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/wd0d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
/dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2
/dev/wd0f /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
/dev/wd0g /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
/dev/wd0h /data ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
/dev/wd1d /backup ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2

with an actual kernel:

$ sudo disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: ST3120213A      
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 16514064
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#             size        offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:       1024128             0  4.2BSD   2048 16384   16 # Cyl     0 -  1015 
  b:       3072384       1024128    swap                   # Cyl  1016 -  4063 
  c:     234441648             0  unused      0     0      # Cyl     0 -232580 
  d:       2048256       4096512  4.2BSD   2048 16384   16 # Cyl  4064 -  6095 
  e:      20479536       6144768  4.2BSD   2048 16384   16 # Cyl  6096 - 26412 
disklabel: partition c: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition e: partition extends past end of unit

older kernel:
$ sudo disklabel wd0
[...]
16 partitions:
#             size        offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:       1024128             0  4.2BSD      0     0   16 # Cyl     0 -  1015 
  b:       3072384       1024128    swap                   # Cyl  1016 -  4063 
  c:     234441648             0  unused      0     0      # Cyl     0 -232580 
  d:       2048256       4096512  4.2BSD      0     0   16 # Cyl  4064 -  6095 
  e:      20479536       6144768  4.2BSD      0     0   16 # Cyl  6096 - 26412 
  f:       4095504      26624304  4.2BSD      0     0   16 # Cyl 26413 - 30475 
  g:      20479536      30719808  4.2BSD      0     0   16 # Cyl 30476 - 50792 
  h:     183242304      51199344  4.2BSD      0     0   16 # Cyl 50793 -232580 
disklabel: partition c: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition e: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition f: offset past end of unit
disklabel: partition f: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition g: offset past end of unit
disklabel: partition g: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition h: offset past end of unit
disklabel: partition h: partition extends past end of unit

Any hints how to fix this beside repartition and reinstall?

Regards,
Markus

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