Re: Panic caused by bad memory?

2006-10-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 02:28, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get a kernel dump since it fails like this each time: dumping to dev #da/0x20001, offset 2097152 dump 1024 1023 1022 1021 Aborting

Re: Panic caused by bad memory?

2006-10-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get a kernel dump since it fails like this each time: dumping to dev #da/0x20001, offset 2097152 dump 1024 1023 1022 1021 Aborting dump due to I/O error. status == 0xb, scsi status == 0x0 failed, reason: i/o error Bad memory seems unlikely

Panic caused by bad memory?

2006-10-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, Without a full dump are there any telltale signs from the panic message that can give me some sign of whether I'm dealing with a hardware or software issue? I have a box that has been running 4.11-p10 for quite some time with no problems. I upgraded a number of ports (apache/php/

state of growfs?

2006-05-23 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I've gotten somewhat fed up with the SCSI hardware RAID stuff out there, so I'm jumping ship and going with 3Ware SATA for a new PGSQL server. It's fairly important to me to be able to "grow" the filesystem. We'll be starting with 6 or 8 250GB drives and going up to the max of 12 we

Re: Jail Quotas - quota.user hard link

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:23:59PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: I have a question about using quotas in a jail with FreeBSD 6.x. So far I have had no problems on a test box with setting quotas from the host using a numeric UID (ie: edquota -u

Jail Quotas - quota.user hard link

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
any weird nullfs/quota interactions to be aware of? Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

nullfs/quota/jail interaction

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I know nullfs is not to be relied upon, but I did hit an interesting bug the other day, and I was wondering if I should bother with a PR or not. In short, doing the following seems to dirty the partition and leave the machine in a state where a hard reset is required to recover. This

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:15:52PM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: The loader groks it just fine when you choose the 'boot with USB keyboard' boot menu option ;-) How can I choose a menu op

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-25 Thread Charles Sprickman
I'm missing the start of the thread, so perhaps I can just cut in here. I'm to the point at home and work where I've got more USB keyboards than PS2. It seems like even my old boxes support getting into the BIOS and everything via USB keyboards... You all know where I'm going... Whenever I

Re: Promise FastTrak RAID 5 support ?

2005-11-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Has any one a hint on a cost-effective, FreeBSD-supported RAID-5 SATA disk controller ? I've got a handful of various low-end 3Ware cards scattered about in a few production boxes and I'm very happy with them. These are not "quasi-hardware-raid"

Re: 4.8 "Alternate system clock has died" error

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Uwe Doering wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2005 02:16 pm, Uwe Doering wrote: John Baldwin wrote: [...] Actually, there was a patch that was committed in 5.4 and 6.0 for this issue. You can see the diff

Re: 4.8 "Alternate system clock has died" error

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2005 02:16 pm, Uwe Doering wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 18 November 2005 10:05 pm, Charles Sprickman wrote: I tried this query on -stable, hoping someone here can help me further understand and troubleshoot this

4.8 "Alternate system clock has died" error

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello, I tried this query on -stable, hoping someone here can help me further understand and troubleshoot this. Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/32837 In short, top, ps report 0% CPU on all processes as of a few weeks ago. "systat -vmstat" hands out the "Alternate

twe and giant

2005-11-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I was just wondering about this... I recently bumped a soon-to-be production box to 6.0 as it seems like upgrading now is easier than doing it the week after the box goes into production (it's amazing how the release engineering team knows to schedule this way...:). One thing I n

Nagios and threads

2005-06-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello, Just curious if there's any regulars here who would like to help Ethan out: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/whatsnew.html "Known Issues There are a few known issues with the Nagios 2.0 code at the moment. Hopefully some of these will be fixed before 2.0 is released as stable..

watching a file for ownership change

2005-05-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've run into a brick wall on this one, so I thought perhaps someone might point me in a new direction. I have a mailserver that uses Maildir++, which means there's built-in (non-system) quotas. The one problem that I'm having is that the file that stores the current quota information (

Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Ceri Davies wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS. My only real concern are the process creation/termination results on FreeB

Re: Mac UFS partition unreadable

2004-12-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Matthew Reimer wrote: Try this on FreeBSD 5: http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ Wow! I have mixed feelings... It would be really nice to have working HFS under FreeBSD, but it looks like the project is dead, so it may not make it beyond 5.3. It's a shame JKH can't nudge

Re: Mac UFS partition unreadable

2004-12-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: Hi, I use both mac and freebsd and would like to have the abbility to use my external firewire drive on both plattforms. There is another way to do this, but it's a tremendous hack. That said, I've been doing it for more than two years... From wha

Re: HD Mirroring

2004-11-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Brian Reichert wrote: And, although I've not tested it, recent versions of MySQL can outright support a cluster: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/NDBCluster.html I'm just curious if there's any other solution that will work on FreeBSD. I have about 5 mysql servers (4 slaves,

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, [ISO-8859-1] João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: What is the practical diference? Performance? I don't know how much of it to believe, since it is marketing material, but the Seagate white paper on their site claims that all the command-queueing stuff brings the performance very

Re: tcsh fix

2004-11-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote: I'm extremely happy with having tcsh instead of csh in the base system. As others have said, if someone has an operational requirement for plain old csh, they are free to install the port and make the appropriate links. As an interested (and innocent) bys

Re: Mysql - Linuxthreads : Still needed?

2004-11-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
For those that like a link: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-current&m=109842492327954&w=2 On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, jesk wrote: It would be nice if you could post the resaults back to the list so other do not have to go through these steps and maybe create an interesting disccusion about the use

Re: serial ATA support?

2004-11-02 Thread Charles Sprickman
However if you're stuck in that "I need something now, and 5.3 isn't it" space, you can look at SATA drives and a hardware raid controller from 3Ware or Adaptec... Charles On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Søren Schmidt wrote: Yury Tarasievich wrote: Do I understand right (after looking into sour

Re: fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I've done this. The problem is stopping fsck before it starts throwing > away files. Once you stop fsck, you need to do a 'mount -f ...', > rename lost+found to something else, unmount the filesystem and > start lost+found again. This I just tried and

Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ?

2004-08-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, John Baldwin wrote: > The i830 DRM stuff is ported in a branch of DRI, but it's not in DRI head > because of a security problem with the code. Just out of curiousity, does this support the original i810 chipset? ie: agp0: mem 0xff00-0xff07,0xf400-0xf7ff irq

fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've worked through most of the problems I had with trying to recover some data from a dd image of a wrecked filesystem. Thanks very much to everyone that helped me out with the basics and with the vnconfig stuff to mount it. Right now I'm working on another copy of this same image, and I co

Re: disk recovery help

2004-07-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >command does, but they are fairly certain that it writes it's config at > >the end of the disk, then zeros it from the outside in. > > Which puts an upper limit on the amount of damage done. The only > difficulty with this is that (ISTR) your filesystem

Re: disk recovery help

2004-07-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Eitarou Kamo wrote: > >Here's what fsck says: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mnt/tmp/vpopmail/domains]# fsck /dev/vn0c ** /dev/vn0c > >BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST > >ALTERNATE > >ioctl (GCINFO): Invalid argument > >fsck: /dev/vn0c: can't read

Re: disk recovery help

2004-07-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > It's difficult to see how a sanely written RAID utility could totally > screw up an array in a short time - a 'build' utility presumably > writes known data to the array but logically it would do so > sequentially. The only thing I can think of is that t

Re: disk recovery help

2004-07-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
k says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/mnt/tmp/vpopmail/domains]# fsck /dev/vn0c ** /dev/vn0c BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE ioctl (GCINFO): Invalid argument fsck: /dev/vn0c: can't read disk label Any hints? Thanks, Charles On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Charles S

disk recovery help

2004-07-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm sorry for hitting this list, but I'm trying to target people with some good old-fashioned recovery procedures in their toolboxes, and people that have a better understanding of UFS than I do. I'll try to keep this brief. We are looking for either some "here you go" help, or if there's so

Re: help with panic/kgdb

2004-05-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Colin Percival wrote: > At 06:18 09/05/2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >This particular machine has been acting up since I upgraded to 4.8-p18 > >from 4.8-p6(?). The only bit of "odd" hardware in it is a 3Ware IDE RAID > >card (full dmesg be

help with panic/kgdb

2004-05-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, First off, let me say it's been a very long time since I've had to deal with a FreeBSD box panicing, so bear with me. Tried this on -questions and no takers. Not really sure if I've got the right list, my apologies if this should go elsewhere... This particular machine has been acting up s

Re: kern/40003: Panic on boot w/4.6-stable

2002-07-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
On 28 Jul 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > (kgdb) p *atadev > > $4 = {channel = 0xc075b600, unit = 16, name = 0xc04503b0 "ad1", param = 0x0, > > driver = 0x0, flags = 0, mode = 0, cmd = 0, result = 0x0} > > ad_attach() is trying to dereference atadev->param, which is NULL. Is there any oth

kern/40003: Panic on boot w/4.6-stable

2002-07-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've posted about this to -stable and -hackers before, basically having a problem where under 4.4-RELEASE this box had no problems, but even with the most recent -stable it panics while trying to probe the ata drive. In the past I sent a simple trace and all since it was panic-ing before it

kern/40003: Panic on boot w/4.6 and 4.6-stable (ATA problems)

2002-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, Just thought I'd check here, I haven't had much luck on -stable. Is this information helpful or do I need to get my remoted gdb stuff working to give useful info? It would be nice to see any ata issues ironed out before the point release. There still seem to be a decent number of people ha

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
he compile machine, in the compile/MYKERN directory, > type 'gdb' > (you must have compiled with debug support "config -g") > > to go back to ddb > > 'det' > > to reboot from ddb: > > call boot 0 > (you may need to do it more than onc

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
thing about remote gdb. Charles > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering if there's any way to get a coredump on a machine that's > > panicing while probing ata-attached drives. I'd like to help someone fi

getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm wondering if there's any way to get a coredump on a machine that's panicing while probing ata-attached drives. I'd like to help someone fix whatever this remaining ata bug is in 4.6 and -stable, but I'm stumped on how to do this. I can break into the debugger, but my only option there t

porting from linux

2002-06-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm trying to track down a problem in the netsaint-plugins plugin "check_snmp". It partially works, but if check_snmp is given more than one OID, it bombs out with a failure in "strscat". Apparently "strscat" comes from "utils.c" which is linked with "check_snmp.c". The error generally loo

Shoutcast, high cpu, threads

2001-04-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
: Tom Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: high cpu usage keep going up. your machine is fast enough that values as high as 10,000 may show improvement. you're seeing this problem because freebsd is the only o/s i know of that ignores

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > The handbook instructions are for kernel-generated panics; for a manual > panic like yours, the stack is unimportant. The easiest way to see > which processes are active is to run this: > > (kgdb) source /usr/src/sys/modules/vinum/.gdbinit.kernel Inter

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > A backtrace is not likely to be useful, but a 'ps' (from DDB) may be. > > It might also be useful to leave 'systat -vm 1' and 'vmstat 1' running > to see if the system is doing any paging or other significant work at > the time of the