stable/15-aX file/IO issue after compiling 500 ports
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:00:17 UTC
Hello, unfortunately I can only report an observation, no detailed trackdown yet. All of a sudden, building ports resp. auto-installing dependecy-builds, fail with error messages like: 'chown: /portsworktree/.../work/.../libxyz.a: no such file' or 'bad file descriptor'. Why I think this is an OS issue: After reboot, the build successfully completes, while simply re-invoking 'make' keeps failing without reboot (untouched sources of course). Also performance seems to degrade over time - will check that and do some debitable measures over the weekend hopefully. What I am using/doing: I started with ALPHA3, building (X11 desktop stuff like xfce4, librewolf and some Qt6 applications) ports in my build chroot (kernel compiled from stable/15, main userland stable/14, chroot is pkgbase stable/15). It's a KabyLake Xeon with 64G and a single-NVME backed zpool (separate from system zpool). The problem didn't change over updating up to very recent APLPHA5. It seems to start during Qt6 depencies-builds. For example a icon dependency port I accidentally saw installing awfully slow, and an hour later an arbitrary other dependency stopped with 'chown: no such file' error. After reboot, everything continued seamlessly. Obviously, OpenZFS comes to my mind, but no errors are logged from any component when the IO failure happens. I've been updating my stable/14 workstation the exactly same way (chroot build env) with the exactly same hardware (NVME zpool) without any issues. Compiling and packaging all ~700 ports over and over again, without any reboot needed on stable/14. Please excuse this poor detailed report, but I wanted to make sure others an add 'me too' at least if the observe similar suspicious failures and it gets some notice before 15.0-RC starts! -harry P.S.: I doubt a degraded flash disk could be the issue, although I'm not able to read S.M.A.R.T attributes with smartmontools anymore (not entirely sure this worked on stable/14 on /dev/nda1, but I think so): smartctl /dev/nda1 smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Smartctl open device: /dev/nda1 failed: INQUIRY failed At least a 'zfs scrub' works in reasonable time: zpool status pool: titanP0 state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:05:46 with 0 errors on Fri Oct 10 09:55:13 2025 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM titanP0 ONLINE 0 0 0 nda1 ONLINE 0 0 0