Hello, I just had a powerloss with y desktop machine (which is not on an UPS). The machine is running: FreeBSD frodon 10.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p2 #2 r287854: Thu Sep 17 11:37:46 CEST 2015 root@frodon:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM amd64 After reboot SU+J was unable to recover the journal (segfaulting). A full fsck hopefully worked .. I took a couple of screenshots which are available from here: http://home.bebif.be/~jcigar/ufs/ I can provide more information if needed ..
Yes this is a bug. Unfortunately, this type of PR is almost useless since there is no actionable information included. I don't know any devs who love wild goose chases. If it happens again, better ways to handle this are: 1. Snapshot the underlying block device so there is always access to the problematic state. 2. Run "fsck_ffs -d" and "fsck_ffs -f -d" and ensure the output is saved eg script(1). See bug #187221 for an example of an actionable PR. Also what does this "A full fsck hopefully worked .." mean? Did a full fsck work? If yes then there is no need to mention it and if no it needs to be in the PR.
As noted this report does not have enough information to reproduce the problem. Several bug fixes have been made to fsck that may have been relevant to this report.