gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory

[Boris Kochergin]

martinko wrote:
> Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
>> On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 18:47:27 +0100, martinko wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> gstat(8) does not work here on 8.0 (it worked happily on 6.x and 7.x) :
>>>
>>> # gstat
>>> gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Is this known ?  What can I do ?
>>
>> I doubt that it is widely known, but I've seen these 2-3 times before
>> when fussing around with USB media and/or md(4) devices with gmirror on
>> top. Basically, if you get really creative with the geom layering, this
>> is likely to happen.
>>
>> It sure is a bug, but without a good way to reproduce, noone's gonna fix
>> it.
>
> Well, it is definitely reproducible here -- I cannot run gstat(8).
>
> Apart from mouse I have no USB devices connected.
>
> I use tmpmfs="YES" in rc.conf but I do not use gmirror nor any other 
> creative GEOM layering.
>
> If someone's willing to investigate -- what info should I provide ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
I believe geom_gettree() gets its information from the kern.geom.confxml 
sysctl. With that said, can you put the output of the following command 
somewhere?

sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml

-Boris