Booting from a gmirror always leads to a broken gmirror

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 05:33:23PM +0100, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running 8.1-RELEASE with the folloing mirror setup:
[...]
> Nov 18 15:36:01 gvr kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Component da0 (device gm0) broken, skipping.
> Nov 18 15:36:01 gvr kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm0 launched (1/2).
> Nov 18 15:36:01 gvr kernel: Enter passphrase for da0s2: 
> 
> Now, the passphrase the geli asks, is for the so-called broken disk. But it is not broken.
> I can always rebuild it fine when I rebooted and re-insert da0. 
> My question: why does gmirror mark da0 as broken?

I can't answer it just yet, but can you set kern.geom.mirror.debug=2
from the loader prompt and send the debug output here?

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