ZFS system can no longer boot - zfs_alloc()/zfs_free() mismatch

[Joseph Mingrone]

Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> writes:

>> On 8. May 2020, at 16:13, Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>> I didn't solve it, I avoided it by renaming the kernel directory and reinstalling the kernel, forcing the bits to be in a different physical location on disk... The only theory I had at the time was that the bits were beyond some arbitrary 4G limit or something, but that was just a wild idea. Good luck, that's super frustrating.

>> Steve


> I guess we better backport the zfs_alloc/zfs_free removal code…  You can use loader from current meanwhile.

> rgds,
> toomas

We tried loader/zfsloader from current, but the got the same error.

Joe

>> On 5/7/20 7:59 PM, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> As it says in the subject line, my system stopped booting for some
>>> unknown reason.  It might have been after upgrading from 12.1-p2 to
>>> -p4, but I'm unsure.  It sounds similar to this issue:
>>> https://twitter.com/alelab_/status/1222437570501644291
>>> Allan and I tried debugging for a few hours today, but without
>>> success.  We tried replacing the boot code and the loaders, but the
>>> result was the same.  We also tried booting from a usb thumb drive,
>>> then `set currdev=zfs:zroot/ROOT/default:` and `boot`, but the same
>>> error is shown.
>>> Steve and Kyle, did you ever solve this problem?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joe

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