FreeBSD 11 sparc64 instability

[Allan Jude]

On 2016-11-21 21:24, David Cross wrote:
> After upgrading to FreeBSD 11 on some of my sparc64 machines (Sun Ultra
> 10), I noticed some truly disturbing behavior.
> 
> 1) ipfw won't work, at all.
> 
> kldload ipfw
> ipfw add 100 allow all from any to any
> 
> ipfw -a list
> 
> you will get errors about invalid arguments.
> 
> *HOWEVER* if you use the ipfw that was from a 10.x install (10.3 in my
> case), it works perfectly.  ???
> 
> 2) fsck will destroy your filesystems
> clean filesystem, "fsck -t ufs /dev/foo"  you will see more errors than you
> knew were possible.
> 
> *HOWEVER* if you take a version of fsck from 10.x (again, 10.3 in my case)
> ***AND*** libufs.so from that (LD_LIBRARY_PATH), everything is fine
> 
> I suspected this may have been because I did a 11 buildworld on a 10.3
> machine and "something leaked" with respect to headers, so I id a fresh
> buildworld, and when that too didn't fix it, I grabbed install images and
> used binaries and reproduced both of these errors.
> 
> What is going on here?
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Try running: uname -K and uname -U

This will print the API versions of your kernel and userland. If they do
not match, this is definitely the source of your issues.

-- 
Allan Jude

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