[haiku-development] Re: Follow-up to the "Luposian bug"

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:26:14 +0200

Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Yesterday I've compiled and ran r24809, I believe, on real hardware. I 
> was able to work with it for some time but then it KDL'ed (saying 
> something like 'unused page ... should not have a cache', or similar). 
> 'continue' brought up other error messages, so I had no other choice than 
> to 'reboot'. Since then, booting up Haiku reproducibly shows me a license 
> agreement on a blue background and afterwards the Haiku installer. Is 
> this expected behavior? Does this mean that rebooting Haiku from KDL has 
> completely ruined my file system, and this is some fallback 
> functionality? Or is something else going wrong? Either way it seems this 
> shouldn't happen! It was on the first boot and the last thing I did was 
> re-running subversion's configure, it had just checked successfully for 
> the version of Perl. I'd expect some damaged files possibly but still a 
> bootable Haiku partition since I didn't mess with anything crucial.
> 
> If you're interested in any debug info or part of the partition for 
> analysis, let me know soon, before I overwrite it.

This problem is being tracked in 2024. Currently, you are almost guaranteed 
to damage your partition, since somehow changes to the FS/Jornal are not 
correctly tracked anymore in the BFS super block since some revisions. Axel 
is working on it AFAIK.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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