From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] venti sync fixed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:29:47 +0200." <470247CB.3020201@gmx.de> From: Bakul Shah Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:55:43 -0700 Message-Id: <20071002155543.5D88F5B5A@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c9f9523c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > >I installed a Plan 9 from a rather recent cd image (about two weeks old). > >With fossil+venti. Everything seemed to work well, however, after the second > >boot, I got the same venti sync problems as others have reported here. > > > >Now. On IRC it was rumoured that this issue was found and perhaps fixed. Is > >it? Could there have been a way for me to find out myself if this has been > >fixed? Is there a CHANGELOG for kernel/fossil/venti? > >--vk > > > > > Here was no rumor on IRC. Russ just fixed it: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/patch/applied/nventi/readme > Copy files from sources and rebuild it you want to test. Today's ISO does not seem to fix the problem on a qemu install. This is what I did: fetch the iso verify (md5 387cb470f2c46e5f8116ef7419086a05) bzcat < plan9.iso.bz2 > plan9.iso qemu-img create -f qcow2 img 10G qemu -monitor stdio -vnc :2 -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d img Then a usual install choosing fossil+venti. On install completion restart qemu. qemu -monitor stdio -net tap -net nic -vnc :2 img Login as glenda. kill timesync|rc # as it thinks it is Jan 2, 2000 ndb/cs -f /lib/ndb/local ip/ipconfig ndb/dns -r aux/timesync -n # back to the present! cat >> /rc/bin/termrc.local TIMESYNCARGS=(-n pool.ntp.org) ndb/cs -f /lib/ndb/local ip/ipconfig ndb/dns -r ^D fshalt #wait for it to finish ^t^tr On reboot system pauses at ...init...sync... After a few minutes verify there is no disk activity due to qemu on the host system. If it matters this is on a qemu 0.9.0 (for i386), without kqemu, run on a 64 bit mode freebsd on amd64.