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Subject: sysinstall label fails
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>Number:         12421
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall label fails
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 27 16:40:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jul 9 16:20:05 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jul 09 16:20:31 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Randall Hopper
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
self
>Environment:

	Stock 3.2-RELEASE

>Description:

        I repartitioned and labeled a slice on one of my disks (wd4s1), and
        sysinstall's Fdisk succeeded and then the Label failed the first
        time ("Invalid Argument").  Then, after I exited sysinstall and
        restarted it, Label and Newfs worked.  I repeated this procedure
        twice (Fdisk, Label, Newfs), and got the same results the second
        time around (Label after Fdisk fails; exit sysinstall; restart;
        then Label succeeds).

>How-To-Repeat:

	Included in problem description.  Start sysinstall, Fdisk, Label,
        and Newfs a data partition.  In my case at least, Label right after
        Fdisk fails.

>Fix:
	
	Exit sysinstall after Fdisk, restart, then it works.  Some
        sysinstall state seems to be corrupt the first time around.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Chris Wilkes <cwilkes@singingfish.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, aa8vb@ipass.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/12421: sysinstall label fails
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 10:57:30 -0700

 In Randall's bug report he states:
         Exit sysinstall after Fdisk, restart, then it works.  Some
             sysinstall state seems to be corrupt the first time around.
 
 This is the same procedure I have to follow to get /stand/sysinstall to
 Label the disk correctly.  I'm using FreeBSD 4.0; looks like this
 problem carried over from 3.2.  Label never ever works the first time
 around.  I have to quit, then rmdir the directory created.
 
 I'm adding 1G of swap space and 58G of file system space to my
 60G array, if that matters.
 
 Chris
 
 

From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>
To: Chris Wilkes <cwilkes@singingfish.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/12421: sysinstall label fails
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:00:00 -0400

 Chris Wilkes:
  |In Randall's bug report he states:
  |        Exit sysinstall after Fdisk, restart, then it works.  Some
  |            sysinstall state seems to be corrupt the first time around.
  |
  |This is the same procedure I have to follow to get /stand/sysinstall to
  |Label the disk correctly.  I'm using FreeBSD 4.0; looks like this
  |problem carried over from 3.2.  Label never ever works the first time
  |around.  I have to quit, then rmdir the directory created.
  |
  |I'm adding 1G of swap space and 58G of file system space to my
  |60G array, if that matters.
 
 Sorry you're having the same trouble, though I'm glad to hear that it
 wasn't something specific to my hardware.
 
 -- 
 Randall Hopper
 aa8vb@nc.rr.com
 

From: Chris Wilkes <cwilkes@singingfish.com>
To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/12421: sysinstall label fails
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:14:29 -0700 (PDT)

 What's odd is that I watched the other admin setup this box and he didn't
 have to do the exit sysinstall and re-enter when he was doing the inital
 setup.  This problem only seems to occur for me (maybe that's the
 problem) when trying to add this largish raid array.
 
 When going back into the Label portion none of my changes are in
 there.  So I can't see why doing it a second time works ... its not like
 there is any "stub" information for it to go on and know how to mkfs the
 drives.
 
 Chris
 
 on Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Randall Hopper wrote:
 
 > Chris Wilkes:
 >  |In Randall's bug report he states:
 >  |        Exit sysinstall after Fdisk, restart, then it works.  Some
 >  |            sysinstall state seems to be corrupt the first time around.
 >  |
 >  |This is the same procedure I have to follow to get /stand/sysinstall to
 >  |Label the disk correctly.  I'm using FreeBSD 4.0; looks like this
 >  |problem carried over from 3.2.  Label never ever works the first time
 >  |around.  I have to quit, then rmdir the directory created.
 >  |
 >  |I'm adding 1G of swap space and 58G of file system space to my
 >  |60G array, if that matters.
 > 
 > Sorry you're having the same trouble, though I'm glad to hear that it
 > wasn't something specific to my hardware.
 > 
 > 
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: iedowse 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 9 16:05:44 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

Have you seen this problem in more recent releases such as 4.3? 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=12421 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: iedowse 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 9 16:20:05 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

Old PR, mail to submitter bounces. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=12421 
>Unformatted:
