Re: ata-lowlevel.c ate my slave disc

2003-09-24 Thread Fred Souza
> FWIW, I have the same problem on my amd64 boxes at home. It will not see > the drive if its in slave mode. It too happens to be a seagate. > > > If I revert a 1.10 revision of ata-lowlevel.c (#ifdef 0 a section of > > probing code), the disc is back and works absolutely fine. > > I'll try the

Re: Bad performance

2003-09-13 Thread Fred Souza
> i guess portmapper is not runing. whats the name of the rc.d script on fbsd > ? > i looked for portmap (as under linux) but haven't found in /etc/rc.d ... If you're running 4.x, it's portmap. If it's 5.x, it's rpcbind. To have it loaded at boot-time, just put rpcbind_enable="YES" into your

Re: Bad performance

2003-09-13 Thread Fred Souza
> I have the same southbridge and a very fast system. That can't be the problem > - and it really does sound like a network problem. It looks like it's looking > for a host that it can't find. Possibly your own hostname. I've seen a problem somewhat like that one if portmap/rpcbind is not ru

VIA VT82C686A sound problems

2003-08-23 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, I'm using -CURRENT built with sources of 08/23 and I'm noticing two problems with sound with a VIA soundcard: a) There's a annoying noise coming out all the time, including when playing sound files (I've noticed this noise before, but it used to be noticeable only when you

Re: -E flag in /etc/rc.d/ipfilter causes warnings

2003-06-17 Thread Fred Souza
> I believe it's harmless, and while not aesthetically pleasing, it's a necessary > work-around. The stop command to rc.d/ipfilter uses -D to disable ipfilter, so > it's necessary to use -E with the start command because there's no way to know > how/when/why/in-what-environment it's being called. I

Re: qmail uses 100% cpu after FreeBSD-5.0 to 5.1 upgrade

2003-06-15 Thread Fred Souza
> I've been running qmail for years and like it, installed pretty much > per www.LifeWithQmail.org. My main system was running FreeBSD > 5.0-RELEASE and -CURRENT and qmail was fine. When I just upgraded to > 5.1-CURRENT a couple days back, the qmail-send process started using > all CPU. [snip]

panic: bad pte

2003-06-10 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, I experienced this panic few hours ago, but couldn't debug it back then (the kernel that crashed has no debugging stuff). So here's the only info I could read from the screen when the box hardlocked: TPTE at 0xbfefeffc IS ZERO @ VA bfbff000 panic: bad pte syncing di

Re: New Kernel Breaks IPFW

2003-06-10 Thread Fred Souza
> Alas make buildworld fails for the past few days: > ===> usr.sbin/config > [snip] > > Short term, cd /usr/src/sbin/ipfw; make depend && make all install ought > > to fix it. > > I tried that as well, but the new binary also dumps core, but works > well with previous versions of the firewal

Re: FTP client dumping core

2003-06-06 Thread Fred Souza
> Try this patch: Yes, it works now, thanks. Will this patch be commited to src, or should I keep it and apply locally? Fred -- "How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?" -- UNIX/WORLD's First Annual Salary Survey, Brian Boyle pgp0

Re: FTP client dumping core

2003-06-05 Thread Fred Souza
> I think what Kris ment was something similiar to > > cd /usr/src/usr.bin/ftp > make clean > make DEBUG_FLAGS="-g" all install Ahh, yes, with that I can see where the problem is. It's because of my custom prompt, which should look like "ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:directory> " Here's the outp

Re: FTP client dumping core

2003-06-05 Thread Fred Souza
> Can you rebuild ftpd with ggdb in CFLAGS and repeat the traceback? The ftpd? I don't have access to it, sorry. If you meant the ftp client, here's the output from gdb (the same as before): (gdb) run x.y.z.w Starting program: /usr/bin/ftp x.y.z.w (no debugging symbols found)...(no debu

FTP client dumping core

2003-06-05 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, I just noticed this (and I think it never happened to me before): torment:~! ftp x.y.z.w Connected to x.y.z.w. 220 h4w h4w h4w Name (x.y.z.w:fred): anonymous 530 Sorry, no ANONYMOUS access allowed. ftp: Login failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) torment:~! And runn

Re: /etc/hosts completely ignored

2003-05-29 Thread Fred Souza
> Umm, host(1) looks in the DNS for hostnames, as per the manpage: > > DESCRIPTION > Host looks for information about Internet hosts. It gets this informa- > tion from a set of interconnected servers that are spread across the > world. > > It doesn't use /etc/hosts, just DNS. Tha

Re: /etc/hosts completely ignored

2003-05-29 Thread Fred Souza
[snip] > -bash-2.05b# cat /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost.noonlights.net localhost > 192.168.1.5 jupiter.noonlights.net jupiter > 192.168.1.5 jupiter.noonlights.net. > 193.5.56.6 www.freebsd.org myfreebsd [snip] > -bash-2.05b# cat /etc/nsswitch.

Re: VIA82c686a sound problem

2003-03-28 Thread Fred Souza
> but it requires a reset. Can you apply the attached patch to the head version > of via82c686.c and let me know if it works on your h/w and what the additional > dmesg information is? It works, flawlessly (at least up to now). Here's the dmesg difference for the kernel with the patch appli

Re: VIA82c686a sound problem

2003-03-27 Thread Fred Souza
Hello again, I just tried reverting (sys/dev/sound/pci/) via8233.c to 1.7, via82c686.c to 1.22 and via82c686.h to 1.5 and the sound works again. These are the revisions of those files prior to the lastest ones. Fred -- "Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work." pgp

Re: VIA82c686a sound problem

2003-03-27 Thread Fred Souza
I forgot to mention that the "old kernel" was built off source of 03/26, around mid-night GMT-3. Fred -- Insults for obnoxious people: I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant... pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ [EMA

VIA82c686a sound problem

2003-03-27 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, Since my last kernel build (sources of 03/27, about 15:00 GMT-3), my -CURRENT box detects the soundcard OK, esd starts fine and mpg123 "prentends" to be playing soundfiles correctly, only no sound will come out. Booting the previous kernel guarantees it's not hardware's fault, bec

Re: IPDIVERT problem?

2003-03-21 Thread Fred Souza
> ipfw: opcode 50 size 1 wrong > getsockopt(IP_FWD_ADD): something something I had this experience a few days ago too. It turned out as being an outdated /sbin/ipfw. cvsup'ing and then `cd /usr/src/sbin/ipfw && make all install clean` solved it. Notice that if you did NOT run a make world

Re: -O2 considered harmful

2003-02-26 Thread Fred Souza
> I was recently a participant in a thread in another forum where all sorts > of people, including a well respected gcc developer, said categorically > that the latest (stock) gcc produces correct code with -O2 in all cases on > ia32. If it doesn't, the gcc folks would like a bug report. I use -

rpcbind DoS when running with -l

2003-02-25 Thread Fred Souza
Hi, I've just run into a new bug. I was running rpcbind with the -l flag, and when I started Opera and it tried connecting to 127.0.0.1:111 to begin the DNS resolution phase, rpcbind started fork()'ing and eating up all resources. After a few minutes, I could get this from `ps`: root ~

Non-important but weird

2003-02-24 Thread Fred Souza
Hi, I've just noticed it, and as the subject says, it's just weird. On Win2k/FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (tested with a floppy install disk), my HDD usage LED blinks whenever there's disk usage, but with -CURRENT it just stays on all the time. Why does this happen, or what does it mean? Where can

Re: Panic while on mid-load network traffic

2003-02-24 Thread Fred Souza
> Do you have revision 1.196 of netinet/tcp_input.c? If not, please > re-cvsup, as this version has some fixes that might apply in your > case. I just re-cvsup'd and rebuilt the kernel. Same results, except that it now pagefaults quicker. Fred -- "I'm So Miserable Without You It's Almo

Panic while on mid-load network traffic

2003-02-24 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, I first noticed this last night, after recompiling the kernel to fix the delayed ACKs bug. What happens is that if I only use the network "regularly" (fetchmail/web browsing/IRC/IM/etc), the system seemed to run normally. But after launching a gnutella client, the system panics wi

ATAPI CDROM drive not found

2003-02-23 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, I've just noticed that recent -CURRENT kernels (from at least 2 days to now, but I suspect it might be a little longer) do not find my ATAPI CDROM drive. The kernel config file is the same as before, kernel CFLAGS are also the same (and I've even tried building the kernel without

Re: Do we still have a FIFO / named pipe problem?

2003-02-09 Thread Fred Souza
> Hi, > > ports/mail/gensig has a problem. It is supposed to create a named pipe > (~/.signature) and wait for an application to read from the pipe. It > allows to have a random signature on every mail. On 4.x and on 5-current > from last year it works as expected. But since the end of the last ye

Re: Linux networking emulation broken?

2003-02-07 Thread Fred Souza
> OK - I found a second bug, which is a bit more subtle, but which > seems to fix sendto and stop it sending packets to 4.0.0.0. I've > updated the patch, please let me know if it helps. Yes, it works perfectly for me now. :-) Fred -- "Every program has at least one bug and can be shorten

Re: Linux networking emulation broken?

2003-02-07 Thread Fred Souza
> I'm guessing the short patch at: > > http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/linux_sendmsg.patch > > should help. Can you try it and let me know? I've just tried that and it still tries connecting to 4.0.0.0:111 instead of localhost:111. I had to follow Hajimu UMEMOTO's suggestion, once

Re: X compilation problems

2003-02-06 Thread Fred Souza
> > ago.) Has anyone seen this? How do I fix it? > > Please remove your nonstandard CFLAGS and try again. Yes, that was the problem. Thank you :-) Fred -- "The first marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence, and the second the triumph of hope over experience." msg519

Re: Linux networking emulation broken?

2003-02-06 Thread Fred Souza
> Are you running 5.0-RELEASE or -current? If -current, when did you > last rebuild your kernel? Some changes were made to the linux network > emulation in the last few days. I was testing them and didn't notice > any problems like this, but I may have missed something. Sorry for not mentioning

Linux networking emulation broken?

2003-02-06 Thread Fred Souza
Hi again, After noticing a huge delay between host names resolution and the beginning of pages loading with Opera (6.11/Linux), I noticed that it is trying to connect to 4.0.0.0:111 instead of the usual 127.0.0.1:111. I worked it around by setting up 4.0.0.0/32 as an alias on lo0, but th

X compilation problems

2003-02-06 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, I trully suspect that for some reason this is specific to my box, but I'm not quite sure if it is nor why it is. I hope this is the appropriated place to ask, and if I'm mistaken, please correct me. Since the last port update for XFree86-libraries, I've been unable to get that po

mpg123 dumping core

2003-01-16 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, Has anyone besides me experienced mpg123 dumping core on recent (from 10/01/03 builds and on) -CURRENT builds? I was using it perfectly, then I reinstalled the port to include a couple of cosmetic patches of mine (they don't do ANYTHING that could cause this - it's only to change

Re: ssh authentification broken, only public keys work

2002-12-20 Thread Fred Souza
> I got this tonight on my ultra. I thought it was sparc64 specific, glad > I saw your post. I cvsup'd 2 days ago. > > Im going to build OpenSSH from ports and see if it has the same error. I posted here about three or four days ago, saying that using the ports' version is a workaround to t

OpenSSH 3.5p

2002-12-17 Thread Fred Souza
Hello, Like some people, I'm running -CURRENT and its sshd suddenly started to die with a message "ssh_msg_send: write" when using password authentication. I then tried cvs'ing the version used on RELENG_4, but it wouldn't compile, complaining about PAM errors. So I decided to give the