12-RELEASE + Storage woes

[Bob Healey]

Solved this one.  Was actually failing hardware brought on by changes in 
how 12 does things under the hood.

On 2019-01-06 01:12, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-01-05 at 20:39 -0500, Bob Healey wrote:
> 
>> I've been updating my 11.2 systems to 12 via freebsd-update. It has
>> not
>> been a smooth process at all. The virtual machines I did before the
>> start of the new year had no issues. I posted the other day about
>> issues with a C2000 Atom and the BTX loader hanging.
>> 
>> Today I've run into 2 different problems. The first is a host that
>> hard
>> resets with a hypertransport error and bad dimm when something tries
>> to
>> write to drives connected to the onboard SATA controller. The second
>> is
>> when updating ports on a different system between the two post
>> reboot
>> freebsd-update installs, fetch is broken due to SSL problems.
>> 
>> I was able to work past that via pkg-static list > pkg.lst &&
>> pkg-static
>> delete -f *, doing the second install, and reinstalling all packages
>> 
>> from scratch, but it was very frustrating and annoying to have to
>> work
>> through. 12.0 really feels like a late stage beta or release
>> candidate
>> with all the incompatibilities and work arounds required.
>> 
>> Is anyone else having similar issues, or have I just been
>> extraordinarily unlucky?
> 
> I had ZFS problems with Beta, solved by reverting back to 11.2 (I
> pretested in a virtual instance without ZFS and without trouble). I am
> presently running 12.0 in one virtual instance and on one
> consumer-grade bare metal, which has a known memory problem. 12.0 is
> working in those two cases.
> 
> Bare metal:
> 
> FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE r342776 GENERIC amd64
> FreeBSD clang version 6.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_601/final 335540) (based on
> LVM 6.0.1)
> VT(vga): resolution 640x480
> CPU: AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor (4721.76-MHz K8-class CPU)
>  Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0x600f20 Family=0x15 Model=0x2 Stepping=0
> 
> Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
> 
> Features2=0x3e98320b<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,FMA,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C>
>  AMD Features=0x2e500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
>  AMD
> Features2=0x1ebbfff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,LWP,FMA4,TCE,NodeId,TBM,Topology,PCXC,PNXC>
>  Structured Extended Features=0x8<BMI1>
>  SVM: NP,NRIP,VClean,AFlush,DAssist,NAsids=65536
>  TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
> real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB)
> avail memory = 33319538688 (31775 MB)
> Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600
> ACPI APIC Table: <ALASKA A M I>
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
> FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 8 core(s)

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Bob Healey
Systems Administrator
Office of Research and
Scientific Computation Research Center
healer at rpi.edu
(518) 276-6022