Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home to my PC tonight, but this hopefully is enough to replicate the crash

Re: SuperPages utilization survey

2012-06-06 Thread Florian Smeets
On 05.06.12 16:29, Mark Felder wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:49:18 -0500, Florian Smeets wrote: > >> As far as i understand it does at least enable usage of pages up to 4MB, >> perhaps someone should teach mysql about the FreeBSD's limits? >> If you look at the output i sent, it certainly chang

Re: tkcvs/tkdiff

2012-06-06 Thread Sean Bruno
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 14:40 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > I keep getting > nothing but a "wish" window popping up when I install tkcvs. Correction: I get a "wish" window popping up when I run "tkdiff file1 file2" Sean ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org ma

tkcvs/tkdiff

2012-06-06 Thread Sean Bruno
Does anyone have tkdiff working from ports right now? I keep getting nothing but a "wish" window popping up when I install tkcvs. I didn't see any obvious results with my internet search foo, so thought I'd ask here as well as in other places. Sean __

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-06 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:20:12PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:31:01PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > > Also, the attack surface of such a daemon may be smaller than that of a > > setuid/setgid program. > Really? I don't see that. With current patch and setgid t

CD bootcode

2012-06-06 Thread rank1seeker
FreeBSD's CD bootcode '/boot/cdboot' is targeting stage 3 boot -> loader For example, stage 2 boot '/boot/boot' is attempting the same. In my case of a '/boot/loader', '/boot' is a symlink! So if '/boot/boot' works with symlinks, why '/boot/cdboot' doesn't! Yes, I did use Rock-Ridge extensions, u

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-06 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:31:01PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > Also, the attack surface of such a daemon may be smaller than that of a > setuid/setgid program. Really? I don't see that. With current patch and setgid to utmp the process can only read some files that don't even contain very sens

Wide character types

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Turner
I've been working on getting the ARM EABI working with FreeBSD. As part of the EABI spec the Procedure Call Standard for the ARM Architecture (AAPCS) defines wchar_t as either an unsigned int or an unsigned short with the former as the preferred type. FreeBSD defines wchar_t as a __wchar_t, which

dtrace crashes on ustack

2012-06-06 Thread Steven Hartland
When running dtrace looking at syscall::write:return for a java app with a ustack call for the first few calls I get:- dtrace: ERROR: gelf_getehdr() failed: No error: 0 And then after a number dtrace crashes:- #0 0x000800fcc59d in _malloc_prefork () from /lib/libc.so.7 [New Thr