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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:39:48 +0200
From: Kernel Panic <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] latest iso: venti issues
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John Soros wrote:

>Hi everyone!
>I'm having a problem with the latest iso (sept. 26).
>The issue is probably with venti. Here's the description:
>After a fossil+venti installation, I boot up my terminal, and a venti archive snapshot is taken at once. (normal behaviour)
>The unusual thing is that when it stops, the machine freezes. Though stats works fine, so I can see my cpu utilisation go down to minimal, i can't fshalt, or do anything.
>Then, if I reboot my machine, the same thing happens: (probably) venti starts to archive (high CPU and hdd utilisation), then, if I let it finish, again, rio (or something) freezes, I can't fshalt, I can't run any command.
>
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some people on irc reported the same problem. I can reproduce it on qemu
with a normal install.
venti hangs on "sync..." after the 2nd boot.

see:
http://9fans.net/archive/2007/09/254
http://9fans.net/archive/2007/09/266

but here is no solution yet. :-(

>Many thanks to everyone contributing, plan9 is truly a beautiful os.
>
>Cheers
>
>
cinap