VM images for 12.0-CURRENT showing checksum failed messages

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 07:49:00AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 11:57:44 AM David Boyd wrote:
> > The FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20171012-r324542.vmdk image displays
> > many checksum failed messages when booted. (see attachment).
> > 
> > I think this started about 20170925.
> > 
> > I have VirtualBox VM's running 10.4-STABLE, 11.1-STABLE and 12.0-
> > CURRENT.
> > 
> > Only the 12.0-CURRENT image exhibits this behavior.
> > 
> > This is easily fixed by "fsck -y /" in single-user mode during the boot
> > process.
> > 
> > I can test any updates at almost any time.
> 
> I wonder if the tool creating the snapshot images wasn't updated to generate
> cg checksums when creating the initial filesystem.  Glen, do you know which
> tool (makefs or something else?) is used to generate the UFS filesystem
> in VM images for snapshots?  (In this case it appears to be a .vmdk image)
> 

mkimg(1) is used.

Glen

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