Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions
Thanks very much. Please could I make a suggestion that this be included in the handbook page? On 8 Oct 2013 01:31, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump + restore commands, as the dump failed due to an issue with the journalling. To get around this problem, I dropped into single user mode, so I could remount root as read-only. The dump commands then worked. It specified in the handbook to restart the machine, and boot from ada1. It was at this point that I noticed something wasn't quite right. There was a spew of 'not found/no such file or directory' messages. These were all trying to reference libs and binaries that live in /usr. I boot into single user mode, and upon checking the other partitions, I notice that /tmp and /usr are empty, apart from a .snap file, and the restoresymtable file. Please could someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Let me know if you need any more info, and I'll post it up asap. dump does not work reliably on filesystems with SUJ enabled. Turn off SUJ on the filesystems to be dumped by booting in single-user mode and running tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0whatever Do each filesystem, then use dump. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions
This is actually trickier than it first looked. First I got into single user mode by supplying 'shutdown now', but the tunefs commands all failed with the following: #tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0s1a Clearing journal flags from inode 4 tunefs: Failed to write journal inode: Operation not permitted tunefs: soft updates journalling cleared but soft updates still set. tunefs: remove .sujournal to reclaim space tunefs: /dev/ada0s1a: failed to write superblock I tried the dump command on the off-chance, and it failed with the original errors. Is there anything you can recommend? I then noticed you specified to boot into single user more, so I restarted the machine, with only ada0 attached. Because the handbook wants me to use the mirror/gm0sX devices, I swapped my fstab file back to the original. The boot loader now only seems to recognise the mirror/gm0 nodes, the original ada0sX are gone (though ada0 still shows up). I'm not sure if it's acceptable to do the dump by booting the 1st hard drive using the mirror/gm0, and then dump to the 2nd hard drive by mounting what will be ada1sX. Is this okay to do? On 8 October 2013 01:31, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump + restore commands, as the dump failed due to an issue with the journalling. To get around this problem, I dropped into single user mode, so I could remount root as read-only. The dump commands then worked. It specified in the handbook to restart the machine, and boot from ada1. It was at this point that I noticed something wasn't quite right. There was a spew of 'not found/no such file or directory' messages. These were all trying to reference libs and binaries that live in /usr. I boot into single user mode, and upon checking the other partitions, I notice that /tmp and /usr are empty, apart from a .snap file, and the restoresymtable file. Please could someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Let me know if you need any more info, and I'll post it up asap. dump does not work reliably on filesystems with SUJ enabled. Turn off SUJ on the filesystems to be dumped by booting in single-user mode and running tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0whatever Do each filesystem, then use dump. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions
I On 8 October 2013 01:31, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump + restore commands, as the dump failed due to an issue with the journalling. To get around this problem, I dropped into single user mode, so I could remount root as read-only. The dump commands then worked. It specified in the handbook to restart the machine, and boot from ada1. It was at this point that I noticed something wasn't quite right. There was a spew of 'not found/no such file or directory' messages. These were all trying to reference libs and binaries that live in /usr. I boot into single user mode, and upon checking the other partitions, I notice that /tmp and /usr are empty, apart from a .snap file, and the restoresymtable file. Please could someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Let me know if you need any more info, and I'll post it up asap. dump does not work reliably on filesystems with SUJ enabled. Turn off SUJ on the filesystems to be dumped by booting in single-user mode and running tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0whatever Do each filesystem, then use dump. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions
# gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for this method. So the only thing in loader.conf is geom_mirror_load=YES. I'll rephrase the question: given that the handbook originally wanted me to dump from ada0s1 to the mounted mirror/gm0s1 (which was ada1 at the time), and I cannot do this, would it be enough to dump from mirror/gm0s1 (which is what ada0 is now mounted as), to ada1s1 (even though this *should* be the other way around, it's equivalent as far as i can see, isn't it?)? On 8 October 2013 22:59, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: This is actually trickier than it first looked. First I got into single user mode by supplying 'shutdown now', but the tunefs commands all failed with the following: #tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0s1a Clearing journal flags from inode 4 tunefs: Failed to write journal inode: Operation not permitted tunefs: soft updates journalling cleared but soft updates still set. tunefs: remove .sujournal to reclaim space tunefs: /dev/ada0s1a: failed to write superblock I tried the dump command on the off-chance, and it failed with the original errors. Is there anything you can recommend? I then noticed you specified to boot into single user more, so I restarted the machine, with only ada0 attached. Because the handbook wants me to use the mirror/gm0sX devices, I swapped my fstab file back to the original. The boot loader now only seems to recognise the mirror/gm0 nodes, the original ada0sX are gone (though ada0 still shows up). I don't know what would do that. The device nodes on the original drive should be untouched until it is added back to the mirror. What does gpart show ada0s1 show? Did you make a backup of the original drive first? Is there an entry for vfs.root.mountfrom in /boot/loader.conf? I'm not sure if it's acceptable to do the dump by booting the 1st hard drive using the mirror/gm0, and then dump to the 2nd hard drive by mounting what will be ada1sX. Is this okay to do? Sorry, I don't quite understand the question. The mirror will not be usable until a good copy of the original drive is made to it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions
I tried creating the mirror before the install. As the drives are now mirrored, the installer picked up on the face that there are two gm0 nodes - one on each hard drive. I installed onto ada0's gm0 node. After it reboots, the bootloader stops at the manual prompt. From what I can see that's not dissapeared up the screen, it tried and failed to mount from mirror/gm0s1a with error 19. I had to mount from ada0s1a in order for the boot to get further, but as it's been installed to boot from gm0s1x, it stops after it mounts /. After having checked my partition setup many times at this point, I know for a fact there's a rather large 500MB section free at the end of my hard drives with this partition set up. Is there any reason I can't just install as normal, do a 'gmirror label gm0 ada0', and then do a 'gmirror insert gm0 ada1', before changing my fstab to use mirror/gm0? I can't see why dumping and restoring is necessary, it's just manually doing what gmirror is there for in the first place. Correct me if I'm wrong :) On 9 October 2013 00:11, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: # gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for this method. So the only thing in loader.conf is geom_mirror_load=YES. I'll rephrase the question: given that the handbook originally wanted me to dump from ada0s1 to the mounted mirror/gm0s1 (which was ada1 at the time), and I cannot do this, would it be enough to dump from mirror/gm0s1 (which is what ada0 is now mounted as), to ada1s1 (even though this *should* be the other way around, it's equivalent as far as i can see, isn't it?)? There is not much point in dumping from the mirror to another drive. The dump/restore is how the single drive is copied to the mirror. On a fresh install, use the Shell mode of the installer to set up the mirror, then install directly to it. There are some instructions on mountpoints in the bsdinstall man page. This will avoid the lag of waiting for the second drive to sync. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions
Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump + restore commands, as the dump failed due to an issue with the journalling. To get around this problem, I dropped into single user mode, so I could remount root as read-only. The dump commands then worked. It specified in the handbook to restart the machine, and boot from ada1. It was at this point that I noticed something wasn't quite right. There was a spew of 'not found/no such file or directory' messages. These were all trying to reference libs and binaries that live in /usr. I boot into single user mode, and upon checking the other partitions, I notice that /tmp and /usr are empty, apart from a .snap file, and the restoresymtable file. Please could someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Let me know if you need any more info, and I'll post it up asap. Kind Regards Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Dynamic Window Manager install with patch(es)
Hi all, First time poster to the lists! Using dwm, loving the minimalism and it's forcing me to learn stuff the hard way which is all good. But I can't seem to figure out how to apply a patch to it. According to the instructions listed here: http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/ I figured I'm to use the tarball method as that's how ports fetches dwm. I tried applying the method to /usr/ports/x11-wm/dwm/work/dwm-5.9 but it didn't work (malformed patch). I've used ubuntu for about a year but for all intents and purposes I'm still a beginner with UNIX-like, and I've never used patch or diff before. But, I remembered that these are ports and wonder if these patches would work on FreeBSD source? Would I have to apply the patch to the tarball while it's in distfiles before it gets 'ported' to freebsd? Or am I talking crazy? Any help would be appreciated. andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
