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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:04:27 +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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Kernel Panic wrote:

> 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.
>>
> 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

sorry, the appearance of your venti problem is *not* the same as from
what i reported.
they may, but this is just speculation...

sorry if i caused confusion here...

cinap