rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-25 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi stable@,
I just imported an old tower from a friend. Used to run Linux OK.
Reset BIOS to defaults, turned off power saving etc, installed
7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso
I now sees 
rl0: watchdog timeout + 40,000 ms ping outgoing.
ping incoming fails,
it's not my net switch, I've moved to different segments etc & all else fine

I'm remaking binaries, & will look around for netstat r whatever
commands later, meanwhile here's dmesg (via a floppy)

Of course it could be somehow a hardaware bad config, its a new box to me.

Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.1-BETA #0: Sun Sep  7 13:49:18 UTC 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel Pentium III (651.48-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x681  Stepping = 1
  
Features=0x383f9ff
real memory  = 134152192 (127 MB)
avail memory = 117157888 (111 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0:  on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
ACPI Error (psargs-0459): [INX_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._PRW] 
(Node 0xc1bd6700), AE_NOT_FOUND
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 10, 7ef (3) failed
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
pcib0:  port 
0xcf8-0xcff,0x4000-0x407f,0x4080-0x40ff,0x5000-0x500f on acpi0
pci0:  on pcib0
agp0:  on hostb0
agp0: aperture size is 256M
pcib1:  at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1:  on pcib1
vgapci0:  port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 
0xe000-0xe7ff,0xed00-0xed00 irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
isab0:  at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0:  on isab0
atapci0:  port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0:  on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1:  on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
uhci0:  port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 7.2 on 
pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0:  on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0:  on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0:  at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
rl0:  port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xee00-0xeeff 
irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0
miibus0:  on rl0
rlphy0:  PHY 0 on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:08:a1:6d:65:07
rl0: [ITHREAD]
pci0:  at device 11.0 (no driver attached)
cpu0:  on acpi0
acpi_throttle0:  on cpu0
acpi_button0:  on acpi0
acpi_tz0:  on acpi0
fdc0:  port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FILTER]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio0: [FILTER]
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
sio1: [FILTER]
atkbdc0:  port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0:  irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
ACPI Error (psargs-0459): [INX_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._PRW] 
(Node 0xc1bd6700), AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psargs-0459): [INX_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._PRW] 
(Node 0xc1bd6700), AE_NOT_FOUND
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0:  at iomem 0xc-0xccfff pnpid ORM on isa0
sc0:  at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0:  at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 651482522 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 4110MB  at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master UDMA33
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
rl0: link state changed to UP
rl0: watchdog timeout
rl0: link state changed to DOWN
rl0: link state changed to UP
rl0: link state changed to DOWN
rl0: link state changed to UP
rl0: watchdog timeout
rl0: watchdog timeout

Cheers,
Julian
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Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-26 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi All
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:36:44PM +0200, Julian Stacey wrote:
> > Hi stable@,
> > I just imported an old tower from a friend. Used to run Linux OK.
> > Reset BIOS to defaults, turned off power saving etc, installed
> > 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso
> > I now sees 
> > rl0: watchdog timeout + 40,000 ms ping outgoing.
> > ping incoming fails,
> > it's not my net switch, I've moved to different segments etc & all else fine
> > 
> > I'm remaking binaries, & will look around for netstat r whatever
> > commands later, meanwhile here's dmesg (via a floppy)
> > 
> > Of course it could be somehow a hardaware bad config, its a new box to me.
> 
> It's a "new box" with hardware from the late 90s?  :-)

Yes, new to me :-)
The offer I got was "Do you want this or shall I dump it ?" :-)


> > Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
> > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> > FreeBSD 7.1-BETA #0: Sun Sep  7 13:49:18 UTC 2008
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> > CPU: Intel Pentium III (651.48-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x681  Stepping = 1
> >   
> > Features=0x383f9ff
> > real memory  = 134152192 (127 MB)
> > avail memory = 117157888 (111 MB)
> > kbd1 at kbdmux0
> > ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> > acpi0:  on motherboard
> > acpi0: [ITHREAD]
> > ACPI Error (psargs-0459): [INX_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
> > ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._PRW] 
> > (Node 0xc1bd6700), AE_NOT_FOUND
> > acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> > acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed
> > acpi0: reservation of 10, 7ef (3) failed
> > Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
> > acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
> > pcib0:  port 
> > 0xcf8-0xcff,0x4000-0x407f,0x4080-0x40ff,0x5000-0x500f on acpi0
> > pci0:  on pcib0
> > agp0:  on hostb0
> > agp0: aperture size is 256M
> > pcib1:  at device 1.0 on pci0
> > pci1:  on pcib1
> > vgapci0:  port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 
> > 0xe000-0xe7ff,0xed00-0xed00 irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
> > isab0:  at device 7.0 on pci0
> > isa0:  on isab0
> > atapci0:  port 
> > 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on pci0
> > ata0:  on atapci0
> > ata0: [ITHREAD]
> > ata1:  on atapci0
> > ata1: [ITHREAD]
> > uhci0:  port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 7.2 
> > on pci0
> > uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > uhci0: [ITHREAD]
> > usb0:  on uhci0
> > usb0: USB revision 1.0
> > uhub0:  on usb0
> > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> > pci0:  at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
> > rl0:  port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 
> > 0xee00-0xeeff irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0
> > miibus0:  on rl0
> > rlphy0:  PHY 0 on miibus0
> > rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:08:a1:6d:65:07
> > rl0: [ITHREAD]
> > pci0:  at device 11.0 (no driver attached)
> > cpu0:  on acpi0
> > acpi_throttle0:  on cpu0
> > acpi_button0:  on acpi0
> > acpi_tz0:  on acpi0
> > fdc0:  port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> > fdc0: [FILTER]
> > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> > sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on 
> > acpi0
> > sio0: type 16550A
> > sio0: [FILTER]
> > sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
> > sio1: type 16550A
> > sio1: [FILTER]
> > atkbdc0:  port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
> > atkbd0:  irq 1 on atkbdc0
> > kbd0 at atkbd0
> > atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
> > ACPI Error (psargs-0459): [INX_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
> > ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._PRW] 
> > (Node 0xc1bd6700), AE_NOT_FOUND
> > ACPI Error (psargs-0459): [INX_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
> > ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._PRW] 
> > (Node 0xc1bd6700), AE_NOT_FOUND
> > pmtimer0 on isa0
> > orm0:  at iomem 0xc-0xccfff pnpid OR

Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-26 Thread Julian Stacey
>  > I'm remaking binaries,

New generic kernel built & installed, & install of all src/ done too.
No improvement.

> Is there reliable way to reproduce the issue? 

Its continuous, the machine virtually never does a ping in less
than 10 seconds.

> Anyway, would you try attached patch and let me know result?

Thanks
Done, doesnt help.
Seeing a new message now too:
ping: sendto: No buffer space available.

Output of vmstat -i and pciconf -lv look the same as before

It's a small card. Weighs 46 gram. I was going to write 
I could simply post it to you, & you could keep it if you
want.  As I had quessed it might be some new kind of card
unexperienced before,
RTL8139D, card just says made in China

But I just grabbed another card 
card says Level One.
chip 8139B
& with both patched kernel & original no improvement.
So I tried a totaly different card xl0 fails too,
I think that 3com xl0 card was OK before in another box,
so I'd guess not an rl problem, Sorry.

Probably not 7.1 either, but probably a BIOS config problem of some sort.

IRQ 12 was listed in Award BIOS as Primary, options were also secondary or 
disabled, so Ive set it disabled.
PNP OS Yes
Resources: Auto
"Reset config data" to Enabled (I forgot before after card changes)

Did another restore BIOS factory defaults, no help.  
Moved xl0 to another slot (all other 3 slots never use I guess, as
chassis plates not torn off on what I guess is original chassis.
No luck with xl0
I'm out of ideas.


Cheers,
Julian
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Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-26 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi,
Reference:
> From:     "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:16:57 +0200 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

"Julian Stacey" wrote:
> >  > I'm remaking binaries,
> 
> New generic kernel built & installed, & install of all src/ done too.
> No improvement.
> 
> > Is there reliable way to reproduce the issue? 
> 
> Its continuous, the machine virtually never does a ping in less
> than 10 seconds.
> 
> > Anyway, would you try attached patch and let me know result?
> 
> Thanks
> Done, doesnt help.
> Seeing a new message now too:
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available.
> 
> Output of vmstat -i and pciconf -lv look the same as before
> 
> It's a small card. Weighs 46 gram. I was going to write 
>   I could simply post it to you, & you could keep it if you
>   want.  As I had quessed it might be some new kind of card
>   unexperienced before,
>   RTL8139D, card just says made in China
> 
> But I just grabbed another card 
>   card says Level One.
>   chip 8139B
> & with both patched kernel & original no improvement.
> So I tried a totaly different card xl0 fails too,
> I think that 3com xl0 card was OK before in another box,
> so I'd guess not an rl problem, Sorry.
> 
> Probably not 7.1 either, but probably a BIOS config problem of some sort.
> 
> IRQ 12 was listed in Award BIOS as Primary, options were also secondary or 
> disabled, so Ive set it disabled.
> PNP OS Yes
> Resources: Auto
> "Reset config data" to Enabled (I forgot before after card changes)
> 
> Did another restore BIOS factory defaults, no help.  
> Moved xl0 to another slot (all other 3 slots never use I guess, as
> chassis plates not torn off on what I guess is original chassis.
> No luck with xl0
> I'm out of ideas.

Got it working on xl
interrupt problem, I turned off lpt com2 & something else
in bios.
Got to go out now
Ill go back to rl0 too & report back soon
thanks for help both !


Cheers,
Julian
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Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-28 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi,
Reference:
> From:     "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:54:04 +0200 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

"Julian Stacey" wrote:
> Hi,
> Reference:
> > From:   "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > Date:   Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:16:57 +0200 
> > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> 
> "Julian Stacey" wrote:
> > >  > I'm remaking binaries,
> > 
> > New generic kernel built & installed, & install of all src/ done too.
> > No improvement.
> > 
> > > Is there reliable way to reproduce the issue? 
> > 
> > Its continuous, the machine virtually never does a ping in less
> > than 10 seconds.
> > 
> > > Anyway, would you try attached patch and let me know result?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Done, doesnt help.
> > Seeing a new message now too:
> > ping: sendto: No buffer space available.
> > 
> > Output of vmstat -i and pciconf -lv look the same as before
> > 
> > It's a small card. Weighs 46 gram. I was going to write 
> > I could simply post it to you, & you could keep it if you
> > want.  As I had quessed it might be some new kind of card
> > unexperienced before,
> > RTL8139D, card just says made in China
> > 
> > But I just grabbed another card 
> > card says Level One.
> > chip 8139B
> > & with both patched kernel & original no improvement.
> > So I tried a totaly different card xl0 fails too,
> > I think that 3com xl0 card was OK before in another box,
> > so I'd guess not an rl problem, Sorry.
> > 
> > Probably not 7.1 either, but probably a BIOS config problem of some sort.
> > 
> > IRQ 12 was listed in Award BIOS as Primary, options were also secondary or 
> > disabled, so Ive set it disabled.
> > PNP OS Yes
> > Resources: Auto
> > "Reset config data" to Enabled (I forgot before after card changes)
> > 
> > Did another restore BIOS factory defaults, no help.  
> > Moved xl0 to another slot (all other 3 slots never use I guess, as
> > chassis plates not torn off on what I guess is original chassis.
> > No luck with xl0
> > I'm out of ideas.
> 
> Got it working on xl
> interrupt problem, I turned off lpt com2 & something else
> in bios.
> Got to go out now
> Ill go back to rl0 too & report back soon
> thanks for help both !

I'm wrong it is Not working. 
(I typed my own own card address of 192.168.x.x by mistake,
not the 192.168.x.x of another host on net. )

Ive fiddled more with BIOS IRQ to no good effect
(not suprsing, dont understand some options in BIOS & no
MOtherboard manual for this Award BIOS 2A6LGB09, on box:
fujitsu siemens t-bird

I was wondering if setting anything to polling might help a bit 
I went looking with syctl -a -d | grep hw.pci

   hw.pci.do_power_nodriver: 0
   hw.pci.do_power_nodriver: Place a function into D3 state when no driver 
attaches to it.  0 means
   hw.pci.do_power_resume: 1
   hw.pci.do_power_resume: Transition from D3 -> D0 on resume.
   hw.pci.enable_io_modes: 1
   hw.pci.enable_io_modes: Enable I/O and memory bits in the config register.  
Some BIOSes do not
   hw.pci.enable_msi: 1
   hw.pci.enable_msi: Enable support for MSI interrupts
   hw.pci.enable_msix: 1
   hw.pci.enable_msix: Enable support for MSI-X interrupts
   hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist: 1
   hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist: Honor chipset blacklist for MSI
   hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648
   hw.pci.host_mem_start: Limit the host bridge memory to being above this 
address.  Must be
   hw.pci.irq_override_mask: 57080
   hw.pci.irq_override_mask: Mask of allowed irqs to try to route when it has 
no good clue about
   hw.pcic.intr_mask: 57016
   hw.pcic.intr_mask: Mask of allowable interrupts for this laptop.  The 
default is generally
   hw.pcic.pd6722_vsense: 1
   hw.pcic.pd6722_vsense: Select CL-PD6722's VSENSE method.  VSENSE is used to 
determine the

Abdullah wrote:
> Do you have poll enabled for rl0 ?

I didnt understand question but after "man 4 polling" & eg
ifconfig xl0 192.168.100.64 polling
I dont see ifconfig -a showing polling

Still stuck not working, with 
BSD showing: xl0 on irq10
BIOS showing irq10 disabled
Changed bios irq10 to "Secondary" rebooted.
PC Manufacturer has no manual on line (to describe BIOS options)

Ideas & comments welcome !

Cheers,
Julian
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Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-29 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:34:07 -0700 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:21:19AM +0200, Julian Stacey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Reference:
> > > From: "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:54:04 +0200 
> > > Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > 
> > "Julian Stacey" wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Reference:
> > > > From:   "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > > Date:   Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:16:57 +0200 
> > > > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > 
> > > "Julian Stacey" wrote:
> > > > >  > I'm remaking binaries,
> > > > 
> > > > New generic kernel built & installed, & install of all src/ done too.
> > > > No improvement.
> > > > 
> > > > > Is there reliable way to reproduce the issue? 
> > > > 
> > > > Its continuous, the machine virtually never does a ping in less
> > > > than 10 seconds.
> > > > 
> > > > > Anyway, would you try attached patch and let me know result?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Done, doesnt help.
> > > > Seeing a new message now too:
> > > > ping: sendto: No buffer space available.
> > > > 
> > > > Output of vmstat -i and pciconf -lv look the same as before
> > > > 
> > > > It's a small card. Weighs 46 gram. I was going to write 
> > > > I could simply post it to you, & you could keep it if you
> > > > want.  As I had quessed it might be some new kind of card
> > > > unexperienced before,
> > > > RTL8139D, card just says made in China
> > > > 
> > > > But I just grabbed another card 
> > > > card says Level One.
> > > > chip 8139B
> > > > & with both patched kernel & original no improvement.
> > > > So I tried a totaly different card xl0 fails too,
> > > > I think that 3com xl0 card was OK before in another box,
> > > > so I'd guess not an rl problem, Sorry.
> > > > 
> > > > Probably not 7.1 either, but probably a BIOS config problem of some 
> > > > sort.
> > > > 
> > > > IRQ 12 was listed in Award BIOS as Primary, options were also secondary 
> > > > or disabled, so Ive set it disabled.
> > > > PNP OS Yes
> > > > Resources: Auto
> > > > "Reset config data" to Enabled (I forgot before after card changes)
> > > > 
> > > > Did another restore BIOS factory defaults, no help.  
> > > > Moved xl0 to another slot (all other 3 slots never use I guess, as
> > > > chassis plates not torn off on what I guess is original chassis.
> > > > No luck with xl0
> > > > I'm out of ideas.
> > > 
> > > Got it working on xl
> > > interrupt problem, I turned off lpt com2 & something else
> > > in bios.
> > > Got to go out now
> > > Ill go back to rl0 too & report back soon
> > > thanks for help both !
> > 
> > I'm wrong it is Not working. 
> > (I typed my own own card address of 192.168.x.x by mistake,
> > not the 192.168.x.x of another host on net. )
> > 
> > Ive fiddled more with BIOS IRQ to no good effect
> > (not suprsing, dont understand some options in BIOS & no
> > MOtherboard manual for this Award BIOS 2A6LGB09, on box:
> > fujitsu siemens t-bird
> > 
> > I was wondering if setting anything to polling might help a bit 
> > I went looking with syctl -a -d | grep hw.pci
> > 
> >hw.pci.enable_msi: 1
> >hw.pci.enable_msi: Enable support for MSI interrupts
> >hw.pci.enable_msix: 1
> >hw.pci.enable_msix: Enable support for MSI-X interrupts
> 
> You could try disabling MSI and MSI-X in loader.conf to see if that
> makes a difference.
> 
>   hw.pci.enable_msi="0"
>   hw.pci.enable_msix="0"

OK Thanks, I just switched back from an xl ro an rl card,
I just tried above sysctl s, no help.

BTW I dont know if ifconfig -a should show word polling, but it does not.


Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> Can you see 'rl0: link state changed to UP' message in dmesg after
> you assign an I

Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-10-16 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi stable@ & I added re@
Summary:
Seems I've found a regression error between 6.0-RELEASE & 
7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso.

Detail at foot of mail.

Reference:
> From:     "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:12:00 +0200 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

"Julian Stacey" wrote:
> Hi,
> Reference:
> > From:   Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > Date:   Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:34:07 -0700 
> > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> 
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:21:19AM +0200, Julian Stacey wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Reference:
> > > > From:   "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > > Date:   Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:54:04 +0200 
> > > > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > 
> > > "Julian Stacey" wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Reference:
> > > > > From: "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > > > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:16:57 +0200 
> > > > > Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > > 
> > > > "Julian Stacey" wrote:
> > > > > >  > I'm remaking binaries,
> > > > > 
> > > > > New generic kernel built & installed, & install of all src/ done too.
> > > > > No improvement.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Is there reliable way to reproduce the issue? 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Its continuous, the machine virtually never does a ping in less
> > > > > than 10 seconds.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Anyway, would you try attached patch and let me know result?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Done, doesnt help.
> > > > > Seeing a new message now too:
> > > > > ping: sendto: No buffer space available.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Output of vmstat -i and pciconf -lv look the same as before
> > > > > 
> > > > > It's a small card. Weighs 46 gram. I was going to write 
> > > > >   I could simply post it to you, & you could keep it if you
> > > > >   want.  As I had quessed it might be some new kind of card
> > > > >   unexperienced before,
> > > > >   RTL8139D, card just says made in China
> > > > > 
> > > > > But I just grabbed another card 
> > > > >   card says Level One.
> > > > >   chip 8139B
> > > > > & with both patched kernel & original no improvement.
> > > > > So I tried a totaly different card xl0 fails too,
> > > > > I think that 3com xl0 card was OK before in another box,
> > > > > so I'd guess not an rl problem, Sorry.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Probably not 7.1 either, but probably a BIOS config problem of some 
> > > > > sort.
> > > > > 
> > > > > IRQ 12 was listed in Award BIOS as Primary, options were also 
> > > > > secondary or disabled, so Ive set it disabled.
> > > > > PNP OS Yes
> > > > > Resources: Auto
> > > > > "Reset config data" to Enabled (I forgot before after card changes)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Did another restore BIOS factory defaults, no help.  
> > > > > Moved xl0 to another slot (all other 3 slots never use I guess, as
> > > > > chassis plates not torn off on what I guess is original chassis.
> > > > > No luck with xl0
> > > > > I'm out of ideas.
> > > > 
> > > > Got it working on xl
> > > > interrupt problem, I turned off lpt com2 & something else
> > > > in bios.
> > > > Got to go out now
> > > > Ill go back to rl0 too & report back soon
> > > > thanks for help both !
> > > 
> > > I'm wrong it is Not working. 
> > >   (I typed my own own card address of 192.168.x.x by mistake,
> > >   not the 192.168.x.x of another host on net. )
> > > 
> > > Ive fiddled more with BIOS IRQ to no good effect
> > >   (not suprsing, dont understand some options in BIOS & no
> > >   MOtherboard manual for this Award BIOS 2A6LGB09, on box:
> > >   fujitsu siemens t-bird
> > > 
> > > I was wondering if setting anything to poll

Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-10-17 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi,
Reference:
> From:     "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:32:04 +0200 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

"Julian Stacey" wrote:
> Hi stable@ & I added re@
> Summary:
> Seems I've found a regression error between 6.0-RELEASE & 
> 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso.

I just installed 6.4-RC1-i386-disc1.iso & that works OK with rl0
Now installing 7.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso & will report after.

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Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-10-17 Thread Julian Stacey
4 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT82C691/693A/694X Apollo Pro/133/133A System Controller'
class  = bridge
subclass   = HOST-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1:0:class=0x060400 card=0x chip=0x85981106 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT82C598MVP/694x Apollo MVP3/Pro133x PCI to AGP Bridge'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7:0:class=0x060100 card=0x1106 chip=0x05961106 
rev=0x12 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT82C596/A/B "Mobile South" PCI to ISA Bridge'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-ISA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7:1:class=0x01018a card=0x chip=0x05711106 
rev=0x06 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C Bus Master IDE Controller'
class  = mass storage
subclass   = ATA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7:2:class=0x0c0300 card=0x12340925 chip=0x30381106 
rev=0x08 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT83C572, VT6202 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host 
Controller'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7:3:class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x30501106 
rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT82C596/596A/596 Power Management and SMBus Controller'
class  = bridge
subclass   = HOST-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:10:0:   class=0x02 card=0x50323030 chip=0x813910ec 
rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:11:0:   class=0x040100 card=0x00011565 chip=0x1969125d 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ESS Technology'
device = 'ES7 Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive family'
class  = multimedia
subclass   = audio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0:class=0x03 card=0x031018bc chip=0x51591002 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
device = 'RV100 Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE'
class  = display
subclass   = VGA

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Re: Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts

2008-11-07 Thread Julian Stacey
> But regardless of TLER being toggleable, FreeBSD's ATA command timeout
> of 5 seconds is too aggressive, and should be increased.  Likewise, the
> value should be a sysctl, so those who do want such aggressive values

Once it migrates from a constant to sysctl variable, could kernel maybe
also sniff the drives, & automatically set appropriate value ?
(Just an idea ? :-)

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Re: [OT] Waiting for 7.1

2008-11-15 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi,
> When does the official version of 7.1 (7.1-RELEASE) release out? Does it
> have some critical issue? Or how it goes? Just i'm waiting for 7.1
> because of i have some plan with 7.1 personally. Cheer up, Ken and the
> Release Engineering Team!

Previously there's been a big ToDO list, I took a quick look to see
if I could quote a URL, but only see:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/schedule.html lists
RC2 builds  29 September 2008
http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
November 2008
No matter, re@ will release when ready :-)
I'm running 7.1-BETA2 on AMD64, with a load of home built
current ports too. No problems with src/, just usual ports/ things.

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Re: amd.core on 7.1-BETA2 amd64

2008-12-27 Thread Julian Stacey
"Julian Stacey" wrote:
> Hi stable@,
> I have been seeing some amd core dumps in / running 7.1-BETA2 amd64

PS I see with cd / ; /bin/ls -l | grep host
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel 5 Dec 27 12:36 carp -> /host
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel 5 Dec 27 13:41 host -> /host

(carp is nothing I deliberately set up)

host -> /host   is obviously wrong, should be a directory, something
keeps removing the directory & creating this recursive symbolic link.

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amd.core on 7.1-BETA2 amd64

2008-12-27 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi stable@,
I have been seeing some amd core dumps in / running 7.1-BETA2 amd64
with rc.confamd_flags="-l syslog -n -r -t 3 /host /etc/amd.map"
I recall someone else mentioned amd cores recently too.

I have reinstalled with /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS += -g -static # for gdb debugger For /usr/src/usr.sbin/amd
& installed without -s so: file `which amd`
/usr/sbin/amd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), for 
FreeBSD 7.0 (700112), statically linked, FreeBSD-style, not stripped
If I can get it to core again I will provide a backtrace

In hope of producing something perhaps interesting for re@ 
I will  cvs -R export -r RELENG_7_1 src # make world 

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Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

2008-12-29 Thread Julian Stacey
Martin wrote:

> Am Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:33:25 -0500
> schrieb "SDH Admin" :
> 
> > Try burning new cd media and/or try another cd-rom drive if possible,
> > if the acpi/dma doesn't work.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried that already with RC1. I've burned it multiple times and
> tried 3 drives. It seems someone removed CD emulation boot from the
> livefs CD. It won't work with older PCs anymore. I'm using 8.0-CURRENT
> now, but I wanted to give you people a notice. Sometimes a live CD is
> useful and perhaps you won't be able to boot it anymore.
> 
> I just realized that the CD is not booting on older PCs only, that's
> why noone is really concerned about it here, perhaps thinking that I'm
> not able to burn an ISO or something like that. But I can definitely
> boot 8-CURRENT livefs without problems, so at least it's not a drive
> problem.

Nasty ! Even though some of us on lists might know to guess & avoid
or ask about this, it seems an un-necessary pain as CDROM is only
half full.  I recall people got caught last time FreeBSD CDs didnt
have both boot methods.  Maybe whoever removed the code didnt know
that ?  Hopefully someone could put it back so FreeBSD doesn't look
broken to some machines & people ?

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Re: 7.1 Live Filesystem CD

2009-01-06 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Erik Trulsson  
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:43:23 +0100 
> Message-id:   <20090106094323.ga98...@owl.midgard.homeip.net> 

Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:48:56AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:53 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> > > Is the Live Filesystem CD supposed to be bootable?  7.0's was but I  
> > > can't get the 7.1 disc to boot.  It works fine if I boot from CD 1 and  
> > > then switch.
> > 
> > Yes, it's supposed to be bootable.  Works for me.
> > 
> > Which architecture?
> 
> Funnily enough the release announcement said:
> 
> 
>disc1, disc2, disc3, livefs, docs:  disc1 contains the base FreeBSD
> system and a few pre-built packages.  disc2 and disc3 contain
> more pre-built packages.  Those three can be burned to CDROM
> sized media and should be all you need to do a normal installation.
> livefs contains support for entering into a "livefs" based
> rescue mode but you need disc1 to do the initial boot first.
> docs contains the documentation.
> 
> 
> implying that the "livefs" CD is not supposed to be bootable.

Martin (who confirmed to Doug on this thread, he'd also seen that)
previously raised the problem on this same list on a different
thread, For more background:
  First:
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-December/047238.html
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...
From: Martin 
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:18:13 +0100
To: Ken Smith 
Cc: freebsd-stable 

  My comment
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-December/047259.html

  Latest (Thanks Oliver)
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047329.html
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:46:42 +0100 (CET)
Message-Id: <200901051946.n05jkgwo039...@lurza.secnetix.de>
From: Oliver Fromme 
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, j...@berklix.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

Summary: 2 Boot methods for CDs, not a new problem, been known a long time.

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Re: SSH problem

2009-01-26 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Xian Chen  
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:45:56 -0500 
> Message-id:

Xian Chen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I can use scp to move files from a linux to my Freebsd machine.
> 
> But, when I try to use WinSCP under windows, it always failed. WinSCP
> errors: "Network error: Connection refused". Both scp & sftp fail if using
> WinSCP.
> 
> Any clues for this?

on FreeBSD:
man sftp says -v option exists
man ssh also offers -v
so try both those from Win/Lose/Mickesoft (*),
Also ref.
man sshd 
try 
 kill -9 `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
or hash out sshd line in /etc/inetd.conf & then 
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
& then run  as root
/usr/sbin/sshd -D -d 
& 
more /var/run/auth.log

(*) PS I hate MS & dont use it, but doesnt invalidate debug stuff above
though, except you might need to start ssh from a command line to
add a parameter, rather than just clicking.

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7-stable dynamic libraries perhaps more agressive than 6 ?

2008-01-29 Thread Julian Stacey
Just asking this below out of interest (no insurmountable problem):
Is 7-stable dynamic executable scheme a little more demanding than 6 ?

I've been upgrading machines for some years with fairly careful
sequences of `mv' of trees pre positioned within same FS (to avoid
eg link breaks within /rescue & du explosion etc) & havent been
caught for years on shared libs, yet just been caught on 2 boxes,
moving from 7.0-RC1 to 7-Stable. (I know below is not the official
way but I had slow target hosts & all bins precompiled from another
host & ftp'd.)

Rest of post is a log illustrating 2 lines marked *** puzzling me.
& 2 lines === of work round.

( /ST holds my new stable bins compiled on another box
  /7R1 the older 7.0-RC1 bins from cdrom )
   cp `which mv` /mv
   pwd
/ST
   foreach i ( * )
foreach? /mv /$i /7R1/$i
foreach? /mv $i /$i
foreach? echo done $i
foreach? end
   done bin
   done boot
***/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by "mv"
   done lib
   /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by "mv"
   /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by "mv"
   done libexec
   /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by "mv"
   /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by "mv"
   done sbin
# Suprising, used to have no problem pre 7 with Static mv.
   cd /ST
   ls
lib libexec sbin
   ls /7R1  
bin bootlib
   ldd /bin/mv
*** ldd: /bin/mv: not a dynamic executable  # as expected
# But why did /mv complain ? maybe 'cos it exec'd a cp
# for a directory & cp is not static, but didn't used to error.
   file `which ln`
/bin/ln: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), 
for FreeBSD 7.0 (700100), statically linked, FreeBSD-style, stripped
   file `which cp`
/bin/cp: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), 
for FreeBSD 7.0 (700100), statically linked, FreeBSD-style, stripped
   file `which ldconfig`
   ldconfig -v -R
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by 
"ldconfig"
#   I'd been thinking of setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
===setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /lib:/7R1/lib:/ST/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
===ldconfig -R /7R1/lib /ST/lib
   /mv /etc.lapd /etc.lapd2 ; /mv /etc.lapd2 /etc.lapd
#   Shows one of the above now makes /mv work again.
   pwd
/ST
   ls
lib libexec sbin
   ls /7R1
bin bootlib
   ls /lib
ls: /lib: No such file or directory
   /mv lib /lib
   ls
libexec sbin
   /mv /sbin /7R1/
   /mv sbin /sbin
   /mv /libexec /7R1/
   mv libexec / # whoops, I forgot / befor mv but OK

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Re: finstall alpha3

2008-02-06 Thread Julian Stacey
Henri Hennebert wrote 2 emails with same common text
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:20:38 +0100
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The first private shouting got answered.  Then came
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:25:57 +0100
Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Assume Henri is too young  to remember first graphical installer.

Though a new graphical installer may be very nice as an option,
let it not ever be the only way: Remember blind installers,
non VESA supported consoles, non X recognised chips, serial line
controlled installs, & non intel/AMD platforms with broken 
graphics terminal support. (Sparc maybe ? more later ?)

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Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Julian Stacey
> But I'm not up to it right now. I'll save it for another posting.

Posting come & go & forgotten, so I suggest send your final script
as a send-pr to eg the doc/ tree.  That (doc/ tree) (& www tree generated
from it, copied in advanced to local host) people can have available
eg on local laptop, even if off line travelling, so no need of
continuous net/ web dependence.

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Re: FreeBSD-stable setup

2008-06-17 Thread Julian Stacey
Reference:
> From: "Salex S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:39:29 +0400 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

"Salex S." wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> Yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD-stable and I never saw that new 
> installer which is in FreeBSD-stable. Usually I use sysinstall. 
> Unfortunately "new" setup didn't show me my  NTFS partition on that disk 
> and I thought that  it's normal and I can see only free space which will 
> be used for FreeBSD slice. As a result NTFS partition was cleaned out! I 
> got one partition on the whole disk with freebsd slice on it! And my big 
> photo archive was lost! Certainly  it's my fault, but I'm sure the 
> installer is not intelligible enough in partitioning and much worse than 
> classic sysinstall.  User must see the whole disk he operating on with 
> all partitions shown in one summary table! Now I'm trying to recover 
> NTFS partition that now is UNDER FreeBSD slice. And I'm looking for 
> tools that have possibilities to find NTFS tables that were not probably 
> erased by FreeBSD empty slice.

/usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs perhaps
or ask list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

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Re: When inode change time changes?

2007-06-22 Thread Julian Stacey
> Well, this is FreeBSD in 2007.  :-)
> All syscalls that change st_{a,m,c,birth}time should be

I added "birth" to mine, Thanks. :-)

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Re: sparc64 kernel build error

2007-10-01 Thread Julian Stacey
> Hello Beasties.
> 
> I have attached the error text and my kernel config. The build seems to
> die while building ipfilter but I'm guessing that's not the real
> reason for it failing.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.

Most times I change the path of /usr/src (a sym link) or /usr/obj
also a sym link, it seem to blow in ipfilter (but not in sys for me).
Rather than waste human time analysing I spend free CPU cycles:
rm -rf /usr/obj/* 
cd /usr/src
make obj depend all

As your prob/ is in sys/ you might want to be more analytic & spend
more human time & less CPU cycles & do a make depend just in there.
Your choice.

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7.0BETA4 /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int Thrashes

2007-12-18 Thread Julian Stacey
Has 7.0-BETA4 perhaps wrongly got a -pipe in the .mk macros ?
Please someone with generic 7.0BETA4 check with eg:
A single line /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS += -Dzonk=bla
~/tmp/Makefile
tst:
@echo "XX ${CFLAGS} YY"
make tst
XX -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Dzonk=bla  YY
Is pipe coming from generic mk/ ?
Or from my local hacked version  ?
Could someone test please:
My /usr/src is no longer generic, on a very slow CPU, SLIP
linked, building rest of src/ & I'm about to go away, &
will miss the 7-RELEASE date, but -pipe should not be in
generic, needs to be a host dependent choice. )
Thanks

PS
Discovered after thrashing, never getting past
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int
  cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i586  -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
  -DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools
  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools
  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc
  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/config
  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/include
  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/libcpp/include
  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/libdecnumber
  -c ../cc_tools/insn-attrtab.c

& many
swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
Then I got desperate & 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/SWAP count=20
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /var/tmp/SWAP
swapon /dev/md0
I've hashed out cc in src/gnu/usr.bin/Makefile to nurse it on.

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7.0BETA4 ../cc_tools/insn-attrtab.c compiles forever

2007-12-19 Thread Julian Stacey
Anyone else noticed on 7.0BETA4 (& hence Ive cc'd re@)

This runs forever:

===> cc_int (all)
Warning: Object directory not changed from original 
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -march=i586  -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
-DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/config 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/include 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/libcpp/include 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/libdecnumber  -c 
../cc_tools/insn-attrtab.c
 
With or without -pipe & with or without /usr/obj
All the rest of /usr/src compiles OK though.

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strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ___

2008-01-05 Thread Julian Stacey
On 7-stable
strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ___
fails to show kernel config,
whereas on 6.2-REL & before it worked.
Also in 7 there's no
START CONFIG FILE
END CONFIG FILE
Is this deliberate or a mistake ?
strings are still there though, look for
^options CONFIG_AUTOGENERATED
(assuming your kernel congif gile included
options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE
)

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sticky sound on 7 stable

2008-01-11 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi stable@
I have sticky sound flow on 2 different slowish laptops running 7
Stable, Sound plays for a few secs, then breaks for a fraction &
resumes, repeatedly.  I guess fault is not sound config, hence I'm
not posting multimedia@, but stable@ where I've seen other Sticky
7 response topics.

I have 3 test files:
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jhs  staff  32521108 Dec  9 18:01 1.avi*
-rw-r-   1 jhs  staff   3859434 Dec  6 11:03 audio_01.mp3
-rw-r-   1 jhs  staff  42535964 Dec  6 11:02 audio_01.wav

1.avi:RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, ~15 fps, video: Motion 
JPEG, audio: uncompressed PCM (mono, 11024 Hz)
audio_01.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo
audio_01.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, 
stereo 44100 Hz

1.avi is from my digital camera: a short movie.
(nothing wrong with 1.avi on a faster laptop running 6.2-REL)
mplayer plays it in bursts.
screen is local, no ethernet activity,
no other disc acrivity (makes etc)
Only other processe I have are idle sshd & apache & such, 
nothing active. No disc activity until I start the
music player.
on a dir of / thus no soft updates
also on a dir of /usr with soft updates

mplayer *.wav   (plays fine on a faster 6.2 box)
Plays normal speed on the slower CPU (where top shows 6 to
0% free).  but occasional interruptions. ie sticky.
(no pcmcia ethernet activity, I can control it via SLIP!)

Plays slow on the faster CPU! (where top shows 10% free CPU)
(unusual machine, 5 pcmcia slots, maybe irqs or other conf. screwed,
thus pcmcia ethernet works.)
Also interruptions.

ksmp3play audio_01.mp3  (plays fine on a faster 6.2 box)
Really bad break up, this could be a different simpler problem ?
Maybe my CPU can't decompress fast enough ?
Maybe this not a FreeBSD problem ?
I think I tried swapoff on all partitions, & then building
a little ram disc for the mp3, no improvement.

Much other info on both laptops & their BSD conf. here:
host=lapd CPU 166M 586 
  http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/digital/
host=lapn CPU 133M 586 
  http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/dell_latitude_xpi_p133st/
Many dmesg & other debug info linked within, anything else you want
please just tell me debug command to run.  I'm happy to try src/ &
sys/ patches etc. Pref. based on 7-stable.

Both have /boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma="0"  # Essential else disk access fails.
Could that be it ? 
both report from xs atacontrol mode ad0
current mode = PIO4

I dont know about HZ setting, or different schedulers, but happy
to try sysctls or tweak kernel configs if people suggest ideas ?
Should I be using rtprio or that SCHED/ULE whatever swapper ?

At least the same model Digital laptop
has played sound for others on older FreeBSD.

Ideas, comments, & TYFM URLs all welcome, Thanks !
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more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports

2009-04-07 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi stable@ people,
Idea for a SOC or other development:

Not all ftp sites carry betas (understandably), that raises an inefficiency
of human & net resources also seen similarly on ports/ , eg:

I tried to download 7.2-BETA to test, Not on local
ftp://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
Found manually on 
ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
but slow at 60 KB/s
Faster @ 100K from USA
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
but I'd feel guilty loading main site & intercontinental band width.

One could rustle up a ports/ entry to fetch ISO-IMAGES automatically
from a list of nearest local national sites, using MASTER_SITE_BACKUP
&/or MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE, But does a pseudo port or tool exist already ?

Choosing ftp site just by country is crude, (albeit better
than global as once was), but if client is near national border,
another country's adjacent city might be a nearer & faster server.

Some servers for ports/ fetch are also incredibly slow, but fetch will
hang in there trying, even if another site lower in the list might
be nearer &/or faster.

Perhaps some SOC student might like to develop some extension to
fetch, or a new tool to intelligently save net bandwidth & human
time (if not this year if SOC bids are in, then next) :
Intelligently & automatically sniff fetch list to see where
stuff is, measure the bandwidth, perhaps on a preliminary
README, & automatically decide where to fetch from.
& as 2nd stage, give up & try elsewhere if the server 
    connection gets too bad.

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Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports

2009-04-07 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi stable@ people,
Ref my:
> Found manually on 
>   ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
>   but slow at 60 KB/s
> Faster @ 100K from USA
>   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
>   but I'd feel guilty loading main site & intercontinental band width.

Erwin Lansing emailed me off list:
> ... Are you sure you hit the US mirror?  ftp.freebsd.org is a DNS round
> robin between a US and a danish mirror, so my guess would be that
> if you'd have hit the danish one, it would have been faster. ...

Thanks Erwin, You're right, nslookup:
Name:   ftp.freebsd.org
Address: 87.51.34.132
Address: 204.152.184.73
For me in Munich Germany the Danish mirror 
87.51.34.132 ftp.beastie.tdk.net.
is 10 times faster than USA.
204.152.184.73 freebsd.isc.org.

But I wouldn't want to load Denmark needlessly either, so look
forward to reading follow up I see starting re. bitorrent &
fastest_cvsup etc. Thanks all !

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Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-19 Thread Julian Stacey
Reference:
> From: "SigmaX asdf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:26:54 -0400 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

"SigmaX asdf" wrote:
> Yo;
> 
> I have a series of comma-delimited text files with fourteen columns of
> data and several hundred rows.  I want to use a short shell script to
> strip them of the last 9 columns, leaving the same file but with just
> five of its columns.  I can do it in C++, but that seems like
> overkill.  How would I go about doing it with sed or a similar
> utility?

awk !
/usr/ports/lang/gawk  exists too.
PS
Here's odd notes from my syntax file, not exactly appropriate to you,
but near enough to give ideas with  `man awk' for ref, & `fun' to learn ;-)

 awk '{printf "rm -f %s ; ln -s ..%s %s\n",$1,$3,$1}' < /tmp/x
 awk -F = '{printf "%s\n",$1}' < /tmp/t
 awk --field-separator # '{printf "%s\n",$1}'
 awk -F # '{printf "%s\n",$1}'  # 5.0 has no --field-separator
 awk '{printf "%s\n",$1}' < distfiles.dump
 find /etc /var /usr -type l | sort | xargs ls -l | \
 awk '{printf "%s -> %s\n",$9,$11}' # List all links

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Re: Buckets of spam on list?

2006-09-20 Thread Julian Stacey
Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Has FreeBSD's spam filter opened its legs again?  Along with MOBILE, ACPI, 

That phrase had me chuckle  :-) 

Other possibility is perhaps not that @freebsd.org spam dam (or its
included RBLs) is suddenly letting a higher percentage through, but
perhaps there's a new Tsunami of spam out there from from new &
better tools ./ service suddenly on sale to spammers.

(I run a hombrew anti spam here, (not dependent on imported RBL
lists or public tools, so immune to changes there),
but I think I'm seeing more spam too (apart from via @freebsd.org)).
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Re: fetchmail -> sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Julian Stacey
> 
> > Is there a way to tweak the timeout behavior of sendmail, or maybe  
> > even no dns resolve option for sendmail, or even better some way to  
> > tell fetchmail to use the idle command to keep the connectio to the  
> > pop server open ?
> 
> sendmail.mc supports FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'),
>   http://www.sendmail.org/m4/README
> but I dont know if it forces a skip of DNS lookup (to avoid delay
> into your fetchmail timeout)

PS I guess you'r using fetchmail built into/ called from sendmail:
& that's why a timeout can occur.  I do it a different way: fetchmail
called  from crontab, & localy delivers to me on gate host, & gate
invokes another mail via ~/.forward to my internal network; More
processing, but no DNS hang.

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Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-15 Thread Julian Stacey
Oliver Fromme wrote:

>  > Using a normal UDP mount I had eratic come & go problems with amd
>  > until I added to rc.conf
>  >nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 10"
>  > Turns out I had too few. 10 fixed it.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think it applies
> here.
> 
> I'm using the default (-n 4), but this is the only mount
> from localhost, so that should be sufficient.
   ^
Unless some other host mounts on to yours & occupies slots,
maybe driven by a remote { amd or MS equivalent } (long shot, admitted).

>  Besides,
> the same problem occurs when trying to mount from a NetApp
> filer.

MS ?  I'm clueless :-)

> Also, I don't have "erratic come & go problems",
> but the mount(8) command simply hangs right from the start.

Good, intermittents are harder to chase.
I had a bad solder joint on a coax BNC once, intermittent, pings
worked, some protocols broke, & had an electolytic die in a UTP hub
power that similarly caused intermittents through low voltage.

> I'm not using amd, if that matters (I don't think it does).

Agreed. (Just mentioned it in case you were doing anything unusual,
eg my hosts mount themselves occasionaly, to allow transparent host
independence/ orthogonality of scripts).  More a question if other
host mounting yours. I recall X terminals can try unusual boot
methods inc NFS, maybe other devices eg TCP printer spoolers to
parallel converters too etc ?

Maybe if you remove all but your 2 hosts on to a seperate net
briefly for a test to see if some weird 3rd party problem ?
(a bit like ripping spare cards out of a problematic PC).

> Since I weren't able to track this problem down, I now tend
> to think that it's a bug in the NIC (either broken hardware
> or a bug in the bge(4) driver) that makes it break TCP NFS
> packets somehow.  I don't have any other explanation.

I think you've already checked no ipfw in way either end (your old
mail not to hand).  Sometime my probs come down to eg: bad cmos
battery on a cold standby gate I power up, timed masters off the
spare gate, zaps internals, rdist of configs fails, named fails,
NFS fails. All 'cos I turned a box on :-)

Good luck.

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Re: Please Suport Starsky2 DVB-S card please

2005-04-20 Thread Julian Stacey
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> Maher Mohamed wrote:
> > Hello there I would like to ask you if you could add to the final
> > realase drivers for the SkyStar2 PCI card it is a Digital Sat-Reciver
> > made by TechniSat Company, the bad thing though is that they do not
> > suport it
> > 
> > Thank you very much...
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html#components
> 
> If donate & send one to developers, (perhaps sharing purchase cost
> with another owner) & if you get tech. docs from manufacturer, your
> chances of getting a developer to donate his time free may likely
> rise dramaticaly.  (No I'm Not looking for a card myself :-)

I happened to see one of those cards in a 2nd hand PC junk shop @
lunch break today, if you Maher Mohamed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> want me
to ask that shop what it would cost, & if you then agree price plus
send money for that & postage to wherever in world you want it sent,
I will post it to whichever FreeBSD developer if any you find &
identify as having volunteered to develop a driver.

I'm still not interested for myself, but don't mind helping a bit.
If you want to contact shop I think from memory its called 
Balmer, Schiller Str, Munich Germany.
Shop owner speaks German & English. Your phone directory enquiries should do.
Would be nicer if you sent a developer a guaranteed new & working one though.

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6.0-BETA3 nfs mount of 5.3 hangs

2005-08-29 Thread Julian Stacey
Since I upgraded my laptop from 5.3 to 6.0-BETA3 it's doing a lot
of hangs on NFS in both directions.  Anyone else noticing this ?
The laptop is OK when running a 5.3 partition.  I'm running AMD on
all hosts. 

I'm about to run mergemaster -sicv to upgrade my /etc from 5.3 to  6.0-BETA3,
meanwhile ...  ps -laxww | grep nfs
049 0   0   8  0 0 8 -  SL??0:00.00 [nfsiod 0]
050 0   2   8  0 0 8 -  IL??0:00.00 [nfsiod 1]
051 0   2   8  0 0 8 -  IL??0:00.00 [nfsiod 2]
052 0   2   8  0 0 8 -  IL??0:00.00 [nfsiod 3]
0   580 1 147 114  0  1344  1012 select Is??0:00.06 nfsd: 
master (nfsd)
0   582   580   0   4  0  1252   844 -  I ??0:00.01 nfsd: 
server (nfsd)
0   583   580 104   4  0  1252   844 -  I ??0:00.00 nfsd: 
server (nfsd)
0   584   580 104   4  0  1252   844 -  I ??0:00.00 nfsd: 
server (nfsd)
0   585   580 147   4  0  1252   844 -  I ??0:00.00 nfsd: 
server (nfsd)

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Re: Slow internet browsing.

2005-09-13 Thread Julian Stacey
Reference:
> From: Sandro Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:51:05 -0400 
> Message-id:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

Sandro Noel wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> i dont know if this is the right group, so please correct me .
> I'm using 5.4 RELEASE
> 
> i need to know how to uninstall a networking device from the system  
> completely
> it was configured with sysinstall.
> 
> when the system starts up, the sk0 is configured to get a DHCP lease.
> it gets the lease but afterwards anything trying to access the  
> network is slow to a crawl,
> 
> i tried disabeling the device and the system boots just fine and fast.
> but when on, it draws somme operations to a crawl.
> 
> starting Xorg takes forever and
> i use KDE, and for some reason the Konkeror browser is slow to the  
> point where it will time out eventually.
> i tried Firefox, and the same thing happens.
> 
> 
> some operations are notmal for some reason,
> SAMBA operations are ok,
> FTP is somewhat slower but acceptable.
> Downloading a file from the FTP is very long to start, but once started,
> it's as fast as what i am used to.
> 
> ping and all the related tools seem to work ok.
> 
> any clue would be helpful, I'm looking in the eye of a reinstall, and  
> i hate that solution.
> 
> Sandro Noel

Sounds like nameserver timeouts
Clues you can try to learn what you machine is doing:
more /etc/host.conf
man host.conf 
more /etc/resolv.conf
man resolv.conf

netstat -ra # look at default route

vi /etc/rc.conf # patch out sk line if you dont want it.

if you'r new to Unix & nets etc, & find the above a bit much,
rather than reinstall, you can reconfig by 
su
/usr/sbin/sysinstall# Valid path on my 6.0-BETA4
# /stand/sysintall  # other path I recall
Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD
Configure additional network services
Configure additional network interfaces

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