Re: [9fans] Broken my venti

[Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>]

Russ Cox wrote:
>> Owing to clumsiness I killed an xterminal while a p9p venti was running
>> in it and being written to, now when I attempt to start the venti I get
>> the following errors:
>>
>> % venti/venti -d -h tcp!localhost!1090 -a tcp!localhost!17036
>> 2007/1022 10:22:15 venti: conf...httpd
>> tcp!localhost!1090...init...icache 0 bytes = 1,000 entries; 4 scache
>> sync...arena arenas60: start=3217408000 fix=1 flush=0
>> 267860100->268330241 222469->222753 189738->190021 936320221->937469311
>>
>> It never starts listening.
>>
>> Is this recoverable, if so, how would I go about it?
> 
> If you are not running the latest venti code, do so.
> (The binary from /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/venti
> is the latest code, dated October 3.)

The venti is hosted on plan9ports on ubuntu linux, not plan9.

My p9p installation does a cvs update every night, followed by mk
install from $PLAN9/src, just to be sure I've re-ran the ./INSTALL to
rebuild it all from scratch -- still hangs.

> If you are running the latest venti, please send me
> the output of 
> 
> 	http://backup.pdos.csail.mit.edu/proc/all

I'll try again later, but for the last eight hours I've been unable to
get to http://backup.pdos.csail.mit.edu

  "Connection Failed
  The system returned: (110) Connection timed out"

> when venti has hung.
> 
> I suspect you are running an old venti that is suffering
> from an already-fixed bug.
> 
> Russ

thanks for your help,

	Adrian