Re: firefox, Xorg and crash.

2005-08-15 Thread Vladimir Botka
It seems like a HW problem. I would run a memory test, check the temperature, slowdown bios memory timing. Cheers, Vladimir. On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not w

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Chuck Swiger wrote: If it's going to be a big database server, why aren't you using all of those drive spindles to help break up the I/O load? :-) I have other drives for other things, but I still end up with a single large volume. Thanks for the suggestion. __

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Brandon Fosdick wrote: Erik Stian Tefre wrote: You can avoid the problem by splitting the array up in partitions smaller than 2TB each. (I know this does not answer your question, but it simplifies things, and it works for me(TM)... :-) :) Thanks, but I thought of that already. This is going

Re: firefox, Xorg and crash.

2005-08-15 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only Firefox seems to be doing this. Does anyone else have the same problem? Anyone knows how to solve/debug this? I've been having this problem for about a month

Re: firefox, Xorg and crash.

2005-08-15 Thread Pete Slagle
Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only Firefox seems to be doing this. Does anyone else have the same problem? Anyone knows how to solve/debug this? In my case the problem was solved by uninstallin

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread dpk
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Any suggestions? Are there specialized raid test suites or should I just > write a script that writes/deletes a lot of files? That's what I did -- lots of dds running with high block sizes, filling the partition, then forcing an unclean flag (umount,

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Brandon Fosdick
dpk wrote: Whatever you end up doing (we used auto-carving here, had to unfortunately) be sure to test the partitions fully before proceeding. Any suggestions? Are there specialized raid test suites or should I just write a script that writes/deletes a lot of files? ___

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Dan Rue wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/084557.html Though, I didn't find the dd and disklabel steps necessary. It appears that the dd step is necessary to clean out any cruft left over from previous attempts. In my case it erased the gpt stuff.

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Mikael Krantz wrote: I had the same problem with 8x400 disk on a areca hardware sata card in fbsd 5.4-stable. Soo I just did newfs -m 2 -U -O 2 -i 262144 /dev/da0 with those options as I needed as much space as possible. Ok, so that appears to have worked. Is there any benefit to doing this? Or

Re: Build failure in procfs module

2005-08-15 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi, Yar! On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:34:09 +0400 Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:28:35PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:19:24 +0400 Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:15:07PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > > > > > > I ran into a problem that mi

Re: 6.0, installworld: libcom_err_p.a: No such file or directory

2005-08-15 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:40:39 -0400 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:32:02AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > Just a couple of hours cvsupped 6.0-CURRENT (from end of july 2005) to > > RELENG_6. Makeworld, kernel was fine, but at the beginning of > > installworld

Re: 6.0, installworld: libcom_err_p.a: No such file or directory

2005-08-15 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:40:39 -0400 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:32:02AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > Just a couple of hours cvsupped 6.0-CURRENT (from end of july 2005) to > > RELENG_6. Makeworld, kernel was fine, but at the beginning of > > installworld

Re: 6.0, installworld: libcom_err_p.a: No such file or directory

2005-08-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:32:02AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi! > > > Just a couple of hours cvsupped 6.0-CURRENT (from end of july 2005) to > RELENG_6. Makeworld, kernel was fine, but at the beginning of > installworld i've got: > > - > ===> lib/csu/i386-elf (install) > install -C -o

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:13:29AM -0700, dpk wrote: > The most recent general data available appears to be at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ With my bugmeister hat on, I will note that I have tried to flag PRs about this issue with the tag '[2T]' and I would encourage anyone filin

6.0, installworld: libcom_err_p.a: No such file or directory

2005-08-15 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi! Just a couple of hours cvsupped 6.0-CURRENT (from end of july 2005) to RELENG_6. Makeworld, kernel was fine, but at the beginning of installworld i've got: - ===> lib/csu/i386-elf (install) install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 crt1.o crti.o crtn.o gcrt1.o /usr/lib ===> lib/libcom_err (ins

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-15 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Thanks for all replies and suggestions. sounds like I can give 6 a try. I can move the hd to a bigger machine for installing and compiling. ...except that pcic and card have been removed from -current :( so it's back to 5.4R chris __

DELL SC430 & ahd0:

2005-08-15 Thread Hutterer Robert
My dell Sc430 Server with Freebsd 5.4 gives soon after a reboot and minimal harddisk actions (erase a file or directory) strange messages concerning Adaptec SCSI adapter: ahd0: Recovery Initiated - Card was not paused Dump Card State Begins < ahd0: Dumping Card State at progr

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Dan Rue
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:58:36AM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array. My > > solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up. So > > long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as > > one big disk,

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread dpk
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Now that my shiny new 9500S is installed and not fighting for IRQs, I've > created and initialized a ~2.5TB array using the bios utility. So the > next step is mounting the new array. > > I naively tried following the regular handbook instructions for

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Mikael Krantz
Brandon Fosdick wrote: >>I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array. My >>solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up. So >>long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as >>one big disk, forget partitioning it. newfs the device directl

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Brandon Fosdick
> I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array. My > solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up. So > long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as > one big disk, forget partitioning it. newfs the device directly, and > mount it direct

Re: 6.0 BETA1 hangs at boot (ahd(4) broken ??)

2005-08-15 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 8/15/05, Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scot Hetzel wrote: > > Try 6.0 BETA2 and see if you have similar problems. > > > exactly the same problems and the same hard-hang. > Unluckily, the bootonly.iso doesn't seem to support a serial console... > or does it ?! > I do have a serial n

Re: 6.0 BETA1 hangs at boot (ahd(4) broken ??)

2005-08-15 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Scot, Scot Hetzel wrote: On 8/15/05, Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since the SCSI controller (some kind of) worked before, I'd really like to know what had happened and why it doesn't work anymore ... I can help testing, since this machine is a testing machine only :-) Try

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Dan Rue
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:04:43PM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Now that my shiny new 9500S is installed and not fighting for IRQs, I've > created and initialized a ~2.5TB array using the bios utility. So the next > step is mounting the new array. > I naively tried following the regular handb

Re: 6.0 BETA1 hangs at boot (ahd(4) broken ??)

2005-08-15 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 8/15/05, Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Don't know wether problems with 6.0 BETA1 belong to freebsd-current@ or > freebsd-stable, so if I'm wrong, sorry in advance. > > I'm about to test FreeBSD 6.0 BETA1 on my Dell Precision 720 > Workstation. Just thought I'd help wi

5.4 GEOM taste/gvinum trouble

2005-08-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I have a server set up to boot from a gvinum mirror volume. This was all working fine, so I then proceeded to load my data on it, safe in the knowledge that all was well. However, all was not well after the last reboot: it seems that while the two ATA disks probe, for some odd reason GEOM doe

Re: firefox, Xorg and crash.

2005-08-15 Thread Unix
Yann Golanski wrote: Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only Firefox seems to be doing this. Does anyone else have the same problem? Anyone knows how to solve/debug this? ; uname -a FreeBSD ru

firefox, Xorg and crash.

2005-08-15 Thread Yann Golanski
Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only Firefox seems to be doing this. Does anyone else have the same problem? Anyone knows how to solve/debug this? ; uname -a FreeBSD rubicon.york.ac.uk 5.4-STAB

Re: ULE scheduler freezes kernel

2005-08-15 Thread Rene Ladan
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:14:50PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying the ULE scheduler again on my single i686 5.4PRE laptop, > but it causes the kernel to freeze after some time (>=30 minutes): the > kernel does not even respond to opening/closing the lid when booting > verbose (nor

RELENG_6/i386/SMP NFS locking behavior

2005-08-15 Thread Vladimir Sharun
2 weeks ago we switch our mx'es to 6.0-beta(1/2) and nfs locking test tool hang in uninterruptbl state: ps axc shows state "D". Without rpcbind/rpc.statd/rpc.lockd tool receives correct errno 45 EOPNOTSUPP Operation not supported. Tool src (sniffed from @freebsd.org ML's): ==8<

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6.0 BETA1 hangs at boot (ahd(4) broken ??)

2005-08-15 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi All, Don't know wether problems with 6.0 BETA1 belong to freebsd-current@ or freebsd-stable, so if I'm wrong, sorry in advance. I'm about to test FreeBSD 6.0 BETA1 on my Dell Precision 720 Workstation. Just thought I'd help with testing :) I downloaded the 6.0 BETA1 bootonly iso and tried boo