Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2013-01-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 06/01/13 03:58, Steven Chamberlain wrote: I think it might have to do with devices in the zpool being renamed [...] Furthermore, there is a particular problem when ZFS is on a partition, rather than a whole device, and if that partition extends to the end of the disk. If both ada0 and

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-04-17 Thread Robert Millan
retitle 651624 sometimes device nodes disappear after a reboot, making them inaccessible to root file system thanks El 10 d’abril de 2012 17:38, Robert Millan r...@debian.org ha escrit: Some tests that could confirm this, when any of us hits the problem again:  - When you get the mount error,

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-04-17 Thread Christoph Egger
Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: retitle 651624 sometimes device nodes disappear after a reboot, making them inaccessible to root file system thanks El 10 d’abril de 2012 17:38, Robert Millan r...@debian.org ha escrit: Some tests that could confirm this, when any of us hits the problem

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-04-17 Thread Robert Millan
El 17 d’abril de 2012 22:07, Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org ha escrit: Confirmed: the list is empty.  The device nodes aren't present. Furthermore, rebooting doesn't help but shutdown fixes the problem. Christoph, I only hit this problem in VirtualBox.  Did you experience it with real

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-04-10 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I suspect this bug has nothing to do with the actual content of the device. Some hints: - It recently happened in one of my VMs. Tried rebooting a few times, always failed. Then instead of reboot I shut down and restart, then it works. Disk content has to be exactly the same in all

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-03-25 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: I'm not sure if people in debian-bsd can help with this. I myself can't. Maybe you should try to reproduce this in a pure FreeBSD environment by trying to import the pool from a FreeBSD system. If it can be imported with kFreeBSD 8.x (either GNU or

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-03-25 Thread Robert Millan
El 25 de març de 2012 23:07, Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org ha escrit: Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: I'm not sure if people in debian-bsd can help with this.  I myself can't.  Maybe you should try to reproduce this in a pure FreeBSD environment by trying to import the pool from a

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-02-11 Thread Robert Millan
El 8 de febrer de 2012 19:16, Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org ha escrit:  pool: base    id: 6831564585978878790  state: FAULTED status: One or more devices contains corrupted data. action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data.        The pool may be active on

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-02-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Just an interesting Gem I noticed. `zpool list -o version` tells me my pool is at version 28 while `zdb` thinks it's version 15. Regards Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2012-02-08 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: El 21 de desembre de 2011 12:23, Christoph Egger christ...@christoph-egger.org ha escrit:  I've managed to build kfreebsd-9 9.0~svn228246-2 now and using that kernel (cp to /boot) mounts the zfs root while both the stable and the unstable 9.0 kernel

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-21 Thread Christoph Egger
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:06:42AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: 2011/12/12 Christoph Egger christ...@christoph-egger.org: Please try setting vfs.zfs.debug=1 from GRUB and see if relevant output turns up. [...] Can't see anything relevant in those messages. Could you rebuild kfreebsd-9

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Millan
El 21 de desembre de 2011 12:23, Christoph Egger christ...@christoph-egger.org ha escrit:  I've managed to build kfreebsd-9 9.0~svn228246-2 now and using that kernel (cp to /boot) mounts the zfs root while both the stable and the unstable 9.0 kernel do not. Not sure why. Sounds like heisenbug.

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-12 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:57:45PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: 2011/12/10 Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org: The official 9.0 kernel manages to mount the root fs Maybe they've fixed this bug recently. I just uploaded a new SVN snapshot to experimental (9.0~svn228246-1), can you

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/12 Christoph Egger christ...@christoph-egger.org: Maybe they've fixed this bug recently.  I just uploaded a new SVN snapshot to experimental (9.0~svn228246-1), can you try? Still the same failure. Please try setting vfs.zfs.debug=1 from GRUB and see if relevant output turns up. --

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-12 Thread Christoph Egger
Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: 2011/12/12 Christoph Egger christ...@christoph-egger.org: Maybe they've fixed this bug recently.  I just uploaded a new SVN snapshot to experimental (9.0~svn228246-1), can you try? Still the same failure. Please try setting vfs.zfs.debug=1 from GRUB and

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/12 Christoph Egger christ...@christoph-egger.org: Please try setting vfs.zfs.debug=1 from GRUB and see if relevant output turns up. [...] Can't see anything relevant in those messages. Could you rebuild kfreebsd-9 with debug options (see attachment) and try that? The internal sanity

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Millan
Another test that might be useful is booting from a kfreebsd-9 rescue image and trying to import your pool from command-line (zpool import -o altroot=/target base). If that fails it'll probably give more useful diagnostics. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/10 Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org: The official 9.0 kernel manages to mount the root fs Maybe they've fixed this bug recently. I just uploaded a new SVN snapshot to experimental (9.0~svn228246-1), can you try? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 11/12/11 12:03, Robert Millan wrote: Please don't add unrelated information to bug reports. If you found a new bug, you can file it, or we can discuss it in the mailing list(s). Okay sorry, some of that I ought to file separate bugs for, but regarding this bug I was really trying to

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/11 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org: * I managed to install to a new ZFS root under kfreebsd 8.2, upgrade to kfreebsd 9 and still boot it;  so what did we do differently for Christoph to have this issue? Hard to say. It's probably just not reproducible every time, or depends on

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Package: kfreebsd-image-9-amd64 Version: 9.0~svn227451-6 Severity: important Hi! Booting from a zfs root filesystem (created with the daily installer and a 8.2 kernel) fails with the kfreebsd 9 kernel: kfreebsd can mount a root filesystem and the kernel drops in the manual root filesystem

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-10 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/10 Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org:  Booting from a zfs root filesystem (created with the daily installer and a 8.2 kernel) fails with the kfreebsd 9 kernel: kfreebsd can mount a root filesystem and the kernel drops in the manual root filesystem selection dialog. This happens

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: Can you reproduce this with upstream kernel? (kfreebsd-downloader). If it's an upstream bug, it'd help to get upstream involved IMHO. Unfortunately the downloader doesn't work any more as rc3 is released: Setting up kfreebsd-downloader (9.0~rc2-1) ...

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org writes: Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: Can you reproduce this with upstream kernel? (kfreebsd-downloader). If it's an upstream bug, it'd help to get upstream involved IMHO. trying to use a bootonly iso via netvoot also failed. will continue

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-10 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/10 Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org: Setting up kfreebsd-downloader (9.0~rc2-1) ... --2011-12-10 18:40:14--   http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/9.0-RC2/kernel.txz Resolving ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.freebsd.org)... 2001:6c8:2:600::132, 2001:4f8:0:2::e,

Bug#651624: Booting from zfs root seems to not work 8.3 and 10.0 however work

2011-12-10 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 10/12/11 16:52, Christoph Egger wrote: Booting from a zfs root filesystem (created with the daily installer and a 8.2 kernel) fails with the kfreebsd 9 kernel Hi, I just had a go at this myself and it worked. I had trouble with zfsutils during install though which may be relevant. I used