Re: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200
On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:16, Holger Kipp wrote: > I have to install two production servers from Dell that come with a Perc H > 200 controller. > > Disks are not recognized with 8.2-RELEASE :-( AFAIK Perc H 200 should be supported by mps(4) which wasn't merged to stable/8 until after 8.2. > Any ideas? If this works with 8-stable, where can I download an ISO Image? Unfortunately the latest official snapshots were before the driver was merged. You could try first just to boot on the curent / FreeBSD 9 snapshots and see if it sees your disks at all. You can get the snapshot from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ . I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so (assuming mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of stable/8 yourself - the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the servers and install by hand... but that's of course not a trivial thing if you never tried it before. I suspect there will be new official snapshots at some point, but I don't know when... -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
svn.FreeBSD.org upgrade
Hey, Just FYI, I'm in the process of updating svn.FreeBSD.org to latest FreeBSD stable/8. The base system is now upgraded, but now I need to recompile ports so to avoid any interesting mixups while that happens I will disable svn access until all ports have been recompiled. I had forgotten it was running FreeBSD 7 so the process will take longer than expected, otherwise I would have sent a mail earlier. PS. The viewvc svn interface is running separately so you can point your browser at http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/ while I upgrade if you need to browse some history etc. PPS. this now means that one of the last system having it's FreeBSD base source controlled by CVS is switched to using SVN... -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org admins ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: svn.FreeBSD.org upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Apr 2011, at 17:43, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > Just FYI, I'm in the process of updating svn.FreeBSD.org to latest FreeBSD > stable/8. Hey, Everything should be working again now. For committers, note that the upgrade to FreeBSD 8 means the RSA ssh keys are now presented by default. This should be the fingerprints: 1024 8d:35:fb:99:ec:66:01:f3:5a:0d:f4:06:17:58:d2:0f svn.freebsd.org DSA 2048 56:bc:da:e8:c0:40:31:0b:a9:b2:2d:6b:19:24:3b:2c svn.freebsd.org RSA See also: http://www.freebsd.org/internal/ssh-keys.asc - - -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org admins team - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk2zGm0ACgkQBJx0gP90kKu/7QCeK2i9lt8BDpPtvmWq/PRaRs69 /5oAn3AoR0Ln3ODVRItr/ojCGRgoWPZq =mazb - -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk2zGoEACgkQBJx0gP90kKs0HACaA18czONZFWOc+GXocr/2yMT6 hrkAnA8o1jF/JVipTsTPLZagozIgcWQe =PRiN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD mail was down for a few hours
Hey, Just FYI, the RAID controller on mx1.FreeBSD.org decided to take a break (IE, firmware crashed) so that all inbound mail, and much internal mail too, was not delivered for around 4.5 hours. I think mx1 was one of the hosts which have not had RAID firmware etc. updated so it's likely the problem has already been fixed, but I will look into that when I have some spare time. Everything should be working again and all queued mail delivered. PS. this mail is primarily sent to stable@ so non-committers can also get the information. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org admins team PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: FreeBSD mail was down for a few hours
On 19 May 2011, at 12:28, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: >> Hey, >> >> Just FYI, the RAID controller on mx1.FreeBSD.org decided to take a break >> (IE, firmware crashed) so that all inbound mail, and much internal mail too, >> was not delivered for around 4.5 hours. >> >> I think mx1 was one of the hosts which have not had RAID firmware etc. >> updated so it's likely the problem has already been fixed, but I will look >> into that when I have some spare time. > > I'm curious -- what brand of RAID controller and what driver on FreeBSD? > Not that I have any solutions, just curious about what's in use. Hey, The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with a PERC 5/i RAID controller (IE. really LSI MegaRAID) using the mfi(4) driver. Many of the other primary FreeBSD.org systems are running on similar hardware. At some point I will get around to updating our machine webpage again :-) For mx1 the machine page is actually correct: http://www.freebsd.org/internal/machines.html -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
svn2cvs fixed again
Hey, svn2cvs has been fixed and is catching up now. Mirrors should be fully up to date within a couple of hours (depending on their sync schedule). -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
svn2cvs replication down for the moment
Hey, The FreeBSD svn2cvs exporter is currently down and won't be fixed until tonight CET at the earliest. This basically mean that until that is fixed, any change in svn (IE, src/) won't be available via CVS or CVSup. A change yesterday morning "replaced" an entire directory, which svn2cvs don't know how to deal with. As it's an entire directory I can't just use our usual hack and ignore the delete part as that will leave files in the directory in CVS which wasn't supposed to be there. As that not a quick thing to do I won't be able to fix it before getting home from work. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org cluster admins team ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: svn2cvs replication down for the moment
On 4 Nov 2010, at 09:55, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > The FreeBSD svn2cvs exporter is currently down and won't be fixed until > tonight CET at the earliest. This basically mean that until that is fixed, > any change in svn (IE, src/) won't be available via CVS or CVSup. > > A change yesterday morning "replaced" an entire directory, which svn2cvs > don't know how to deal with. > As it's an entire directory I can't just use our usual hack and ignore the > delete part as that will leave files in the directory in CVS which wasn't > supposed to be there. After some handholding (and 'evil' direct cvs commit) cvs2svn is now running again. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org cluster admins team ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...
On 23 Aug 2012, at 20:41, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>>>> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
>>>> csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
>>>> If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1.
> * RIght now you can mirror
> svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/{stable/9,release/9.1*,etc} to your laptop,
> and Simon is setting up a US-east coast and US-west coast mirror. You
> can easily switch your mirrors on the fly if there's a closer/faster
> one.
Real world got in the way, but they should be ready by Friday or Saturday, and
will be documented in the Handbook.
On a side note, the svn part of one mirror had to be re-created a few days ago
as svnsync gets very unhappy if you pull the power while it's running (we had a
PSU die). There seem to be a fair chance your local repository gets corrupted
enough in that case that svn just gives up. Not that it's a big problem, but is
a bit annoying.
We (clusteradm) are working on getting an EU mirror up, but no timeframe yet.
> You can do your own personal svnsync all the way from rev 0, but it
> takes some time. It's more time efficient to start with a seed and
> let it catch up.
And if people are wondering, some time is really some time. The original ports
mirror took ~24h to create - and that was over the LAN. Don't do that yourself
unless you feel like doing a latency test of your internet connection :-).
--
Simon L. B. Nielsen
___
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...
[Removing re@] On 25 Aug 2012, at 10:33, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > schrieb Peter Wemm am 24.08.2012 00:14 (localtime): >> ... >> You'll also find out very quickly how much fsync(2) hurts on a softdep >> or su+j system. The svn fsfs backend does a fsync multiple times per >> revision to guarantee its transaction boundaries. > > Not only on softdep ufs, also with zfs I'm seeing big performance > regressions (checkout ports from one zfs holding svnsynced repo to > another on the same pool takes hours with svn, while completed in less > than half an hour with csup) > But my real problem is that svn is not in the base system. And for > example installing subversion package on my cvsup mirror failed because > pkg-config-0-25_1 was installed and sqlite, a dependency of subversion, > wants to install pkgconf-0.8.5. So I'm hit by the henn-egg problem. I > hope I can build subversion (sqlite) with pkg-config-0 dependency, but > right now I still have to wait for this awful slow svn checkout (svn co > file:///svn/repos/mirror/ports/head /usr/ports/) > > Can someone share any sensible tuning for svn and zfs? > > Is it possible to build any svn compatible (checkout-only-capable) > binary without that much dependencies? If so, I hope this will be in the > base very soon. If you are going to do checkouts from svn:// only you can disable Neon which should reduce the dependency chain some. I haven't found svn checkouts to be too slow most of the time, but of course I'm generally using systems with hardware RAID controller which likely helps some. PS. I don't think you should expect svn in base - it has too many dependencies, options, and is too fast moving to sanely be in the base system. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...
On 23 Aug 2012, at 22:52, "Simon L. B. Nielsen" wrote:
>
> On 23 Aug 2012, at 20:41, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>>>>> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
>>>>> csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
>>>>> If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1.
>> * RIght now you can mirror
>> svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/{stable/9,release/9.1*,etc} to your laptop,
>> and Simon is setting up a US-east coast and US-west coast mirror. You
>> can easily switch your mirrors on the fly if there's a closer/faster
>> one.
>
> Real world got in the way, but they should be ready by Friday or Saturday,
> and will be documented in the Handbook.
Mirrors are now running and documented:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/mirrors-svn.html
I'm still doing some final tweaks so there might be some shorter outages over
the weekend, but it should be < 1m issues.
PS. also, if anyone are access http://svn.FreeBSD.org/ you are in fact now
using svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org, to avoid having to run apache on the main svn
server, so - you might as well use the mirror directly and avoid going through
netcat...
--
Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hat: FreeBSD.org admins team
___
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
GNATS now available via rsync
Hey, The GNATS database can now be mirrored using rsync from: rsync://bit0.us-west.freebsd.org/FreeBSD-bit/gnats/ I expect that URL to be permanent, at least while GNATS is still alive. At a later point there will be more mirrors (a us-east will be the first) and I will find a place to publish the mirror list. On a side note, GNATS changes aren't mirrored to the old CVSup system right now, as cvsupd broke on FreeBSD 10.0, which the hosts running GNATS is running. There is no current plans from clusteradm@'s side to fix this now that an alternative way to get GNATS exists and cvsup is deprecated long term anyway. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: clusteradm@ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit
Hey, Due to a security issue in the moinmoin wiki software, the FreeBSD wiki will be offline for a bit. I do not yet know if the issue actually has been exploited in the FreeBSD wiki (haven't had the time yet to examine it), but I took the wiki down just in case. Note that even if the software was compromised, it was considered untrusted from the start and as such heavily sandboxed (including jailed) to keep it away from any sensitive FreeBSD.org parts, so there is absolutely no reason to believe a compromise would go any further than the wiki itself. I hope to have the wiki back within 24 hours, assuming not too much gets in the way. For further reference see: http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes and http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce/1754 . PS. this is entirely unrelated to the 2012 November FreeBSD.org compromise. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD clusteradm / FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit
Hey, tl;dr Wiki is back, and everybody with account need to reset their password. On 4 January 2013 22:38, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > Due to a security issue in the moinmoin wiki software, the FreeBSD > wiki will be offline for a bit. I do not yet know if the issue > actually has been exploited in the FreeBSD wiki (haven't had the time > yet to examine it), but I took the wiki down just in case. > > Note that even if the software was compromised, it was considered > untrusted from the start and as such heavily sandboxed (including > jailed) to keep it away from any sensitive FreeBSD.org parts, so there > is absolutely no reason to believe a compromise would go any further > than the wiki itself. > > I hope to have the wiki back within 24 hours, assuming not too much > gets in the way. > > For further reference see: http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes and > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce/1754 . > > PS. this is entirely unrelated to the 2012 November FreeBSD.org compromise. The wiki is back now. Looking at logs it there were people attempting to exploit this back in July but I do not think they actually succeeded. It seemed to mostly automated bot and not a target attempt. The wiki has been reinstalled from scratch and users and pages were copied. As I did a very selective copy it's entirely possible I made the wiki unhappy, so let me know if you see issues. Just to be extra safe I have reset all password, so everybody will need need to use the standard account recovery process to set a new password. On a side note we have ~23000 user accounts and had 26000 empty pages mostly caused by spammers, so someone(tm) will likely need to find a way to change how we handle wiki user accounts to fix this. PS. only reason I could see that they tried back in July was that I found out I had forgotten to set up log rotation, so the wiki logfile was over 3GB :-). (It was the internal log file which doesn't contain user IP's so privacy part isn't really an issue.) -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: clusteradm ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit
On 6 January 2013 20:40, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > Hey, > > tl;dr Wiki is back, and everybody with account need to reset their password. Small followup. The wiki's surge protection (yet again) got confused and blocked the frontend proxy. I think it should be fixed now. If you see any 'varnish guru meditation' please let me know, and include the XID number so I can trace it in the logs. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: clusteradm ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
