From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] more fossil woes In-Reply-To: <5a828837c6470dfc75b135b56c038ebe@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 00:56:10 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b931a48-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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