Question about 'gptzfsboot'

[Thomas Laus]

> On 2019-04-28 22:27, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>
>> If you're using gptzfsboot, I guess you're using zfs?  I just fixed a
>> problem with probing disks for zfs volumes a few days ago (r346675). 
>> There is even some small chance it fixes this problem, because one of
>> the things I noticed was that in one of the disk structures in loader,
>> the "slice offset" value was sometimes a bit random-looking, like it
>> was being initialized with whatever garbage was laying around in
>> memory.  It actually makes some sense that the "garbage" might be
>> different between a firstboot after power-on and a reboot.
>>
>> So all in all, it wouldn't hurt to update both gptzfsboot and loader
>> (gpart bootcode -b and -p) to see if there's a fix lurking in my zfs
>> probe changes.
>>
> I'll build and update my laptop OS this morning and report back to this
> thread if I have any additional issues.
>
Ian:

Updating to r346885 turned out to be a disaster!  There were changes to
DRM between FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r346544 and r346885.  The desktop that
I use for a build machine because it is much faster than any of my other
PC's installed kernel and world without any problems including starting
'X'.  I had to update the drm-current-kmod port on my build PC.  Nothing
was in /usr/src/UPDATING or /usr/ports/UPDATING about the need to do so.
 DRM on my build computer did not start until the update and then worked
as expected.

I did the same on my Dell laptop and it crashed on the first boot right
after loading DRM-kmod.  I removed the line in rc.conf that activates
the kernel module and my laptop booted into multiuser.  When I started
'X' it crashed just like before.  The screen was black and I could not
login remotely via SSH.  Nothing in any system log.  The Xorg log shows
this and stops:

 40.979]    compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 2.4.0
[    40.979]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    40.979]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
[    40.979] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
        i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G,
        915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM,
        Pineview G, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35,
Q33,
        GM45, 4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43
[    40.981] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics
[    40.981] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics
[    40.981] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics
[    40.981] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[    40.981] (II) scfb: driver for wsdisplay framebuffer: scfb
[    40.981] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[    40.981] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
[    40.981] (--) using VT number 9

I had to recover my system using beadm to rollback to the last CURRENT
snapshot from a week ago.

Tom


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