With kde or xfce4 you have no trouble? There are a couple more desktop options at least. While the topic of "magic" is not one that Iam familiar with, as far as partitioning goes you have a couple options. On the other hand, a complaint during boot is not unusual. You can look through dmesg a find maybe a few more. It is interesting.
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Re: ?? 1. dscheck(vn0): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector > boundary (Martin Aleksandrov Ivanov) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:38:28 +0200 > From: Martin Aleksandrov Ivanov <[email protected]> > To: Jonathan Douglas Engwall <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: ?? 1. dscheck(vn0): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector > boundary > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hello Jonathan, > > thank you very much for your reply. What I find strange is that these > complaints only occur after installing mate or gnome. Without mate or > gnome there are no complaints. Also, in a previous post I attached the > boot messages from a verbose boot. They additionally spewed this out: > > md1: invalid primary partition table: no magic. > > I guess this has something to do with the fact that after installing > DragonFly, I used OpenBSD to change a partition type on the same hard > drive to A6 and Linux to change another partition type to 8e00. Maybe > these manipulations by tools from other OSs have somehow changed the > partition table so that DragonFly now complains? > > Anyway, apart from these complaints the system works perfectly. Unless I > get further clues, I am going to ignore the complaints. > > Best regards, > > Martin > > On 2020-06-09 17:17, Jonathan Douglas Engwall wrote: > > > > On June 9, 2020, at 4:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > >Send Users mailing list submissions to > > >[email protected] > > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > >http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > >[email protected] > > >You can reach the person managing the list at > > >[email protected] > > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > >than "Re: Contents of Users digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > >?? 1. dscheck(vn0): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary > > >????? (Martin Aleksandrov Ivanov) > > >?? 2. RE: dscheck(vn0): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary > > >????? (Martin Aleksandrov Ivanov) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >Message: 1 > > >Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 08:13:17 +0200 > > >From: Martin Aleksandrov Ivanov <[email protected]> > > >To: users <[email protected]> > > >Subject: dscheck(vn0): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary > > >Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed > > >Dear all, > > >I am running the latest DragonFly on an ASUS laptop: > > >marto@dragonfly% uname -a > > >DragonFly dragonfly 5.8-RELEASE DragonFly v5.8.1-RELEASE #1: Thu May? 7 > > >08:26:21 CEST 2020 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC? x86_64 > > >After installing the mete desktop, I get the following boot messages: > > >dscheck(vn3): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512) > > >dscheck(vn2): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512) > > >dscheck(vn1): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512) > > >dscheck(vn0): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512) > > >md1: Malloc disk > > >If I remove mate and then do package autoremove, these boot messages > > >disappear. After installing mate again, the messages reappear. Do you > > >have an idea what these messages mean? Should I ignore them? Everything > > >seems to run OK on my system. > > >After spitting the above 5 lines, dmesg continues like this: > > >[drm] Initialized > > >[drm] pdev:? vendor=0x8086? device=0x591b rev=0x04 > > >[drm]?????? svendor=0x1043 sdevice=0x1970 irq=17 > > >WARN_ON(domain->wake_count == 0)<4>WARN_ON(domain->wake_count == > > >0)<4>WARN_ON(domain->wake_count == 0)<6>[drm] Memory usable by graphics > > >device = 4096M > > >[drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). > > >[drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. > > >i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2 > > >tunable drm.video.eDP-1 is not set > > >error: [drm:pid-1:csr_load_work_fn] *ERROR* Failed to load DMC firmware > > >[https://01.org/linuxgraphics/intel-linux-graphics-firmwares], > disabling > > >runtime power management. > > >tunable drm.video.DP-1 is not set > > >tunable drm.video.HDMI-A-1 is not set > > >tunable drm.video.DP-2 is not set > > >drm1: taking over the fictitious range 0x40000000-0x50000000 > > >kms console: xpixels 1920 ypixels 1080 > > >[drm] RC6 on > > >[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20160711 for (null) on minor 0 > > >drm1 on vgapci1 > > >md2: Malloc disk > > Malloy is a type of memory. Your system is complaining about video > > ram. If everything works, you can leave it? > > Everything works? > > >I guess some service is installed and turned on with the mate desktop. > > >This service should be responsible for the messages. My hard drive has 4 > > >partitions that I created with gpt letting it automatically determine > > >partition boundaries. > > >I am looking forward to your feedback. Any suggestions will be > > appreciated. > > >Best regards, > > >Martin > > >------------------------------ > > >Message: 2 > > >Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 11:34:58 +0200 > > >From: Martin Aleksandrov Ivanov <[email protected]> > > >To: <[email protected]> > > >Subject: RE: dscheck(vn0): b_bcount 2 is not on a sector boundary > > >Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > >Hello, > > >I am attaching the output of the verbose boot log before starting mate > > >(boot.log) and the output of dmesg issued from the runnig mate desktop > > >(mateBoot.log) > > >Something new I notice is: > > >md1: invalid primary partition table: no magic > > >Best regards, > > >Martin > > >-------------- next part -------------- > > >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > >URL: > > < > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20200609/b8c61b58/attachment.htm > >; > > >-------------- next part -------------- > > >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > >Name: boot.log > > >Type: text/x-log > > >Size: 108295 bytes > > >Desc: not available > > >URL: > > < > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20200609/b8c61b58/attachment.bin > >; > > >-------------- next part -------------- > > >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > >Name: mateBoot.log > > >Type: text/x-log > > >Size: 110490 bytes > > >Desc: not available > > >URL: > > < > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20200609/b8c61b58/attachment-0001.bin > >; > > >------------------------------ > > >Subject: Digest Footer > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Users mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > >------------------------------ > > >End of Users Digest, Vol 94, Issue 5 > > >************************************ > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20200610/a61fe294/attachment-0001.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Users Digest, Vol 94, Issue 7 > ************************************ >
