Re: FYI: SVN to GIT converter currently broken, github is falling behind

2015-11-11 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I just got this error when fetching from remote; related? [elars@laurel: ~/src] git fetch --all Fetching origin Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. Fetching upstream remote: Counting objects: 557, done. remote: Compress

Re: env functionality of config(5) has no effect?

2015-10-22 Thread Eggert, Lars
amd64 -- Sent from a mobile device; please excuse typos. +49 151 120 55791 > On Oct 22, 2015, at 21:08, Ian Lepore wrote: > >> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:09 +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the ker

env functionality of config(5) has no effect?

2015-10-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the kernel, via the "env" functionality described in config(5). When I look at the compiled kernel binary with strings(1), I see that the tunables are compiled in. However, they don't seem to take any effect when booting the kernel, and they a

Difference between pkg 1.5.2 and 1.5.4

2015-06-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm netbooting with a read-only rootfs. Up until version 1.5.2 of pkg, that sometimes caused some errors when installing various packages, but the install continued even if some files couldn't be written. That seems to have changed with 1.5.4. Specifically, upgrading ca_root_nss from 3.19

Re: ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-5-20, at 17:42, Ryan Stone wrote: > Oh, I bet that you have a bunch of CPUs and ixl is consuming all of your > interrupt vectors. Does setting this tunable fix the issue? > > hw.ixl.max_queues=1 Yeah, this box has 40 cores, but unfortunately that tunable doesn't change things in terms

Re: ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-5-18, at 19:22, Ryan Stone wrote: > Hm, I'm unable to reproduce this on the latest -CURRENT (r283059). My > hardware is a little different from yours -- my CPU is a Haswell Xeon, and I > have only 1 igb port and no ixgbe. Also, I was just booting GENERIC. I > didn't have Xen or anyth

Re: ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-5-18, at 16:08, Ryan Stone wrote: > This is very strange. I have successfully netbooted -CURRENT in a very > similar environment (ixl compiled into kernel and booting over igb). I > can't remember when the last time I did this but it was probably within the > last couple of weeks. I rou

ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, when I have the ixl driver compiled into my -CURRENT kernel (or loaded as a module via loader.conf), the boot seems to hang (or silently crash) when BOOTP starts bringing up interfaces to send out probes. (I'm not netbooting over an ixl, the boot interface is an igb.) What works is buildin

FreeBSD FUSE calls truncate() on read-only files

2015-02-25 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, this came up when trying to port tup (https://github.com/gittup/tup) to FreeBSD. Even though we are opening the file read-only with cat, FUSE calls truncate() on it, which modifies its mtime and this screws up tup. See https://github.com/gittup/tup/issues/198 Anyone know why FreeBSD's FUSE

Re: HEADS UP: Upgraded clang, llvm and lldb to 3.5.0

2015-01-07 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-1-7, at 16:28, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Please open a bug and cc hselasky@ on it. Done: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196597 Lars signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: HEADS UP: Upgraded clang, llvm and lldb to 3.5.0

2015-01-07 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-12-31, at 21:41, Dimitry Andric wrote: > I just committed an upgrade of clang, llvm and lldb to 3.5.0 to head, in > r276479. there seem to be issues when building with -DWITH_OFED: --- contrib/ofed.all__D --- /usr/home/elars/src/contrib/ofed/usr.bin/opensm/../../management/opensm/op

Re: [PATCH] nscd

2014-09-30 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I've been seeing the same issues with nscd not caching, but unfortunately your patch doesn't seem to change things, for better or worse. My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: group: cache files nis hosts: cache files dns networks: cache files passwd: cache files nis shells: files services: cac

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-8-19, at 13:54, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > I know that this a bit late but have you ever considered Hesiod? it uses > DNS/txt. > we have been using it since the days when BSDi had no NIS support and haven’t > seen a ypserver not responding since :-) I don't control the master NIS infrast

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-8-18, at 20:23, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Why not run a local slave on your server? I am trying to get one set up. It requires a change request to our organization's IT, which is, ahem, not always lightning fast. Lars signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMai

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-8-17, at 18:10, Adam McDougall wrote: > We were using +: type entries in the local password and group > tables and I believe we used an unmodified /etc/nsswitch.conf (excluding > cache lines while testing nscd): I tried that setup too, and it doesn't seem to be caching any NI

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Nobody using nscd? Really? On 2014-8-14, at 13:26, Eggert, Lars wrote: > [Resending to current@, since I can't get it to work on -CURRENT either.] > > Hi, > > anyone have an idea why nscd would not be caching NIS lookups? > > My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: &

nscd not caching

2014-08-14 Thread Eggert, Lars
[Resending to current@, since I can't get it to work on -CURRENT either.] Hi, anyone have an idea why nscd would not be caching NIS lookups? My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: group: cache files nis hosts: cache files dns networks: cache files passwd: cache files nis shells: files services: cac

Re: HEADS UP: Updated llvm/clang to 3.4 in r261991

2014-02-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Disregard - pilot error. (It's not Feb 4...) Lars On 2014-2-18, at 9:50, Eggert, Lars wrote: > Hi, > > On 2014-2-16, at 21:06, Dimitry Andric wrote: >> I have just upgraded our copy of llvm/clang to 3.4 release, in r261991. > > I just done a "git pull" f

Re: HEADS UP: Updated llvm/clang to 3.4 in r261991

2014-02-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-2-16, at 21:06, Dimitry Andric wrote: > I have just upgraded our copy of llvm/clang to 3.4 release, in r261991. I just done a "git pull" followed by a buildworld. Shouldn't I be having version 3.4? root@six:~ # dmesg | grep clang FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Last follow-up: I just saw that there are some additional messages (errors?) on the serial console when changing the device from IB to Ethernet, maybe they mean something to someone: root@one:~ # sysctl sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1=eth sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1: auto (ib)<7>ib0: stopp

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-1-21, at 10:04, Lars Eggert wrote: > See the attached dmesg which I of course forget to attach (sigh). See below. Lars GDB: no debug ports present970 KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986,

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-1-20, at 21:59, John Baldwin wrote: > I believe this should work, yes. Getting a crashdump or the panic messages > would be really helpful in figuring out why it isn't. Thanks. I rebuilt the kernel, and see no crashes anymore. So that's good. But there are a bunch of other issues

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, if I leave the mlx4ib device out of the kernel (i.e., only compile in mlxen), doing the sysctl switch to Ethernet mode works fine. Lars On 2014-1-20, at 13:08, Eggert, Lars wrote: > Hi, > > On 2013-7-9, at 22:08, John Nielsen wrote: > On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John Ba

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2013-7-9, at 22:08, John Nielsen wrote: On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >> So this was just fixed (finally) in HEAD in r253048. You can how use the >> sysctls to change this. > > I saw the commit. Thanks! I'll give it a try at some point (whenever my > schedule and hard

nfsd server cache flooded, try to increase nfsrc_floodlevel

2013-08-07 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, every few days or so, my -STABLE NFS server (v3 and v4) gets wedged with a ton of messages about "nfsd server cache flooded, try to increase nfsrc_floodlevel" in the log, and nfsstat shows TCPPeak at 16385. It requires a reboot to unwedge, restarting the server does not help. The clients a

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-07-01 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 29, 2013, at 2:45, Rick Macklem wrote: > Btw, a NFSv4 mounted root fs will not work correctly, because the client > name is generated from the host uuid, which isn't set when the root fs > is mounted. I'm not sure what the client would use as its client name, > but this will definitely

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
Thanks Rick! I will check these Monday. Lars On Jun 29, 2013, at 2:45, Rick Macklem wrote: > Lars Eggert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:37, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: >>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:14, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: >>

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I should have mentioned that the server is FreeBSD -STABLE running newnfs, and the network isn't partitioned (because I access the box over SSH at the same time I see these messages.) They only appear under heavy NFS load (portmaster build of math/R in this case.) Lars On Jun 29, 2013, at

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:37, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: > On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:14, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: >> on a -CURRENT client, I get quite a number of console messages under heavy >> NFSv4 load, such as: >> >> nfsv4 expired locks lost >>

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:14, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: > on a -CURRENT client, I get quite a number of console messages under heavy > NFSv4 load, such as: > > nfsv4 expired locks lost > nfscl: never fnd open actually, not sure if the "nfscl" message is from an

NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, on a -CURRENT client, I get quite a number of console messages under heavy NFSv4 load, such as: nfsv4 expired locks lost nfscl: never fnd open nfscl: never fnd open nfscl: never fnd open nfsv4 expired locks lost nfscl: never fnd open nfscl: never fnd open nfsv4 expired locks lost nfsv4 expir

Re: ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 17, 2013, at 14:51, Bryan Drewery wrote: > ccache is known to be broken with clang [1]. I would recommend not using it. Pity! We do buildworld often enough that that's an inconvenience. > Sometimes CCACHE_CPP2=1 in make.conf can help. CCACHE_CPP2=1 is > hardcoded in version 3.1.9_2 o

Re: reboot hanging?

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jun 17, 2013, at 15:18, Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote: > It was a change on alq. The fix was committed in r251838. Awesome! I can confirm it's fixed. Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cu

Re: ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, any further ideas? This issue still exist when building -CURRENT on -STABLE as of today. Thanks, Lars On May 23, 2013, at 12:33, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: > Hi, > > On May 22, 2013, at 13:37, Dimitry Andric wrote: >> Can you try to figure out which copy of cl

reboot hanging?

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, something changed in the last 2-3 weeks on -CURRENT that causes reboots to hang after this line: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done I need to manually cycle the power to reboot. Any clues? Thanks, Lars ___ freebsd

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-06-03 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:57, Rick Macklem wrote: > Cool. Thanks. Would you like to review and/or test the above? it'd be great if folks would test this a bit. It certainly works for me, but I can't say that I have done a very thorough testing. > I'll be happy to commit it if Lars doesn't have

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-05-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, to conclude this thread, the patch below allows one to specify an nfs rootfs via the ROOTDEVNAME kernel option, which will be mounted when BOOTP does not return a root-path option. Lars diff --git a/sys/nfs/bootp_subr.c b/sys/nfs/bootp_subr.c index 2c57a91..972fb12 100644 --- a/sys/nfs/bo

port building & warnings about compat.ia32.maxvmem

2013-05-27 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, when I try to build ports on -CURRENT, I've been seeing tons of these messages since the past week or so: make: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" line 1633: warning: Couldn't read shell's output for "if /sbin/sysctl -n compat.ia32.maxvmem >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo YES; fi" The amd64 kernel I'm

Re: ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-05-23 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On May 22, 2013, at 13:37, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Can you try to figure out which copy of clang ccache finds and runs? I enabled CCACHE_LOGFILE, and it seems that it runs /usr/bin/clang: [2013-05-23T12:25:36.810346 48913] Command line: /usr/local/libexec/ccache/clang --sysroot=/home/elar

ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-05-22 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, my buildworlds using ccache have recently begun failing with the message below. Buildworld without ccache works fine. Any ideas? CC='/usr/local/libexec/ccache/world/clang --sysroot=/home/elars/obj/usr/home/elars/src/tmp -B/home/elars/obj/usr/home/elars/src/tmp/usr/bin' mkdep -f .depend -a

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-23 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 22, 2013, at 2:56, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > As anyone been able to test this patch? I've been running with it for a few days. I've done a reinstall of all ports plus a few "portmaster -a" runs without pkgng database corruption. I've not tested it for very long, but so far, things

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-12 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 12, 2013, at 1:10, Rick Macklem wrote: > Well, I have no idea why an NFS server would reply errno 70 if the file > still exists, unless the client has somehow sent a bogus file handle > to the server. (I am not aware of any client bug that might do that. I > am almost suspicious that t

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-11 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:30, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > First, I think you can recover your database. that would be great. > Can you try the following command: > > # mv /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite /var/db/pkg/backup.sqlite > # echo '.dump' | pkg shell /var/db/pkg/backup.sqlite | pkg shell Tha

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 11, 2013, at 0:16, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Will you be able to test it? yes. (But I will be traveling for the next two weeks and so the turnaround may be a bit longer than normal.) Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 11, 2013, at 1:28, Rick Macklem wrote: > Error code 70 is ESTALE (or NFSERR_STALE, if you prefer). The server > replies with that when the file no longer exists. > > File locking doesn't stop a file from being removed, as far as I know. but the file is still there. Lars

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:02, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > This can usually happen when a user do not have the nfs lock system started. > Are you sure that nfs lock is correctly started? with NFSv4, the locking system is integrated with the main protocol, it's no longer separate. > If that is

newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, on a diskless server, I keep the ports tree and pkgng databases on a newnfs NFSv4 mount. After a bunch of "portmaster -a" runs, the pkgng sqlite database appears to get corrupted. For example, when I try to update an existing port, this happens: root@five:~ # portmaster ports-mgmt/pkg ...

Re: NewNFS vs. oldNFS for 10.0?

2013-03-15 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, this reminds me that I ran into an issue lately with the new NFS and locking for NFSv3 mounts on a client that ran -CURRENT and a server that ran -STABLE. When I ran "portmaster -a" on the client, which mounted /usr/ports and /usr/local, as well as the location of the respective sqlite data

Re: serial console not accepting input?

2013-03-05 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Mar 4, 2013, at 20:59, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Try to do a {Ctrl}D to see if works. We've seen that the TX on reset > hangs but input works fine. I'm not sure if we ran into this with > uart(4) but had a problem with sio(4). No change. Lars ___ fre

Re: Dtrace: Module is no longer loaded

2013-02-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 16:03, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Couple of thoughts: > - is your kernel installed in the typical location? yup. > - what does the following produce? > readelf -a -W /boot/kernel/kernel | fgrep shstrtab > readelf -a -W /boot/kernel/kernel | fgrep SUNW_ctf # readelf -

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 17:58, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Try top -HS .. to try and break down the kernel threads. ACPI is eating the cycles, according to top: 0 root 80 0K 496K - 2 1:13 27.88% kernel{acpi_task_2} 0 root 80 0K 496K - 0 1:1

Re: Dtrace: Module is no longer loaded

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, did you ever figure this out? I'm seeing the same thing. Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 13:37, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: > On Feb 19, 2013, at 13:15, Lars Engels wrote: >> You need to recompile your Kernel to use DTrace: >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace > > I did. But I still get that error, even with the sample from the

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 13:15, Lars Engels wrote: > You need to recompile your Kernel to use DTrace: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace I did. But I still get that error, even with the sample from the wiki: # dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry { @num[execname] = count(); }' dtrace: invalid probe specifi

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, thanks for looking into this! On Feb 19, 2013, at 12:14, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Please try to run the following DTrace script (dtrace -s script-file) and > capture its output. I get this error: # dtrace -s x dtrace: failed to compile script x: "/usr/lib/dtrace/psinfo.d", line 90: failed to

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 11:21, Fleuriot Damien wrote: > What about a newly build kernel without the line "device acpi" and without > the options ACPI_DEBUG ? > Hoping that this kernel: > 1/ won't crash on boot > 2/ will make the 20% cpu load and high interrupt rates disappear I added "device at

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:54, Fleuriot Damien wrote: > And indeed we find your answer here, acpi0 firing up a lot of interrupts. > > Don't you get any message about that in dmesg -a or /var/log/messages ? > > I'd expect something like "interrupt storm blabla… source throttled blabla.." nope.

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:40, Fleuriot Damien wrote: > What about reviewing top(1) ? top shows the ~20% I mentioned: last pid: 3176; load averages: 0.79, 0.80, 0.84 up 0+14:49:49 09:43:51 17 processes:

system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I have a system running -CURRENT that in top(1) is showing ~20% CPU usage for the system at all times. Any ideas what could be causing this, or how I would go about diagnosing this further? Nothing in the logs. Thanks, Lars PS: dmesg attached, in case it helps: Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 31, 2013, at 15:54, Daniel Braniss wrote: > a shot in the dark, but is /usr/home/elars/dst properly exported? Yep, the NFS mount works fine when I use BOOTP with a root-path option Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:53, Andre Oppermann wrote: > The interface doesn't have a name during loader stage. The kernel > finds the interface to use based on the MAC address. You should > set boot.netif.hwaddr as well in the kernel environment. Done, no change. Here is what's in my loader enviro

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:45, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Just a shot in the dark, did you actually tell it to do the root mount ro, > or try with the nfs share as rw? ro Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 30, 2013, at 22:43, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > What you need to do is, before the FreeBSD kernel boots, your > loader needs to export some environment variables. This will trigger > the various behaviors in the FreeBSD mount code. the loader can export some environment variables (this

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-30 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:32, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: > On Jan 29, 2013, at 20:22, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> In src/sys/boot/common/boot.c which is part of the loader (not the kernel), >> if you look in the getrootmount() function, >> you will see that the loader w

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-30 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 29, 2013, at 20:22, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > What kind of architecture are you trying to do this on? Is this > i386/amd64 or something else? amd64 > I am not familiar with netboot compared to > PXE. Is TFTP involved at all with netboot? TFTP is not involved. The kernel gets boote

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:13, Lars Eggert wrote: > On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:34, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> I recommend that you do not use ROOTDEVNAME, and instead >> you should follow the instructions which I wrote and contributed to the >> FreeBSD handbook: >> >> "PXE Booting with an NFS Root File S

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:34, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > I recommend that you do not use ROOTDEVNAME, and instead > you should follow the instructions which I wrote and contributed to the > FreeBSD handbook: > > "PXE Booting with an NFS Root File System" > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 28, 2013, at 16:23, Ian Lepore wrote: > Remove the BOOTP_NFSROOT option, it tells the bootp/dhcp code to keep > querying the server until a root path is delivered. Without it, the > ROOTDEVNAME option should get used (and I think even override a path > from the server, if it delivers

mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm trying to netboot a system where the root device is specified in the kernel via ROOTDEVNAME: options BOOTP options BOOTP_NFSROOT options BOOTP_NFSV3 options BOOTP_COMPAT options BOOTP_WIRED_TO=em4 options ROOTDEVNAME=\"nfs:10.11.12.13:/usr/

Re: serial console not accepting input?

2013-01-24 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 23, 2013, at 17:04, Dimitry Andric wrote: > CTS/RTS hardware flow control, maybe? E.g. add ":hw" to the default > settings in /etc/gettytab, or make a specific entry with an added ":hw" > setting. nope, I don't even get a login prompt if I do that. > If it is a physical serial conso

serial console not accepting input?

2013-01-23 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm embarrassed to ask this newbie question, but I'm at my wit's end: I've configured a serial console according to the handbook. I see the boot messages and get the login prompt. But at no point during the boot process does the console seem to accept any input, incl. when at the boot promp

genmodes dumping core during buildworld

2012-11-15 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, anyone see something similar before: > ===> usr.sbin/zic/zdump (depend) > rm -f .depend > mkdep -f .depend -a-DTM_GMTOFF=tm_gmtoff -DTM_ZONE=tm_zone -DSTD_INSPIRED > -DPCTS -DHAVE_LONG_DOUBLE -DTZDIR=\"/usr/share/zoneinfo\" -Demkdir=mkdir > -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/zic/zdump/.. > -I/usr/src