Re: [9fans] more fossil woes

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:

> I'd say you had something more fundamental wrong, or else you're not telling
> the whole story. If you do the 2nd flfmt as described below you should
> get a message like
> 	fs header block already exists; are you sure? [y/n]:
> unless you have the '-y' option.
>

there is no message, fossil dies absolutely immediately after I type the
command (and before I had done the 'cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdC0/fossil' there
was no corruption on the disk whatsoever, so after each crash I rebooted
safely from either devfs or the first disk on the box).

the only thing suspect for me is the earlier crash with nblock > 1, which I
have no way of debugging anymore -- there was no log trace of that crash,
except what I had logged on a different machine from the serial console.

if you think i'm omitting something important -- tell me what it could be, so i
can try and help...

andrey