Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 07/12/2010 01:44 Pete French said the following: > >> Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) > > > > ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) > > That's exactly the reason why I said "unless t

Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Pete French on Monday, 06 December 2010: > > Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) > > ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) > > > Because few thousand other people do not seem to be as lucky: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~edwin/gna

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:52:25PM +, Pete French wrote: > > This problem has been reported many times in the past and almost > > certainly has nothing to do with 8.x. Here's a thread about the matter > > where a user states the same as you but about 7.1: > > > > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mail

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
> This problem may be a reverse problem of this PR: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=138789 > > In other words, your virtual CD-ROM reads correct TOC from mounted > image but block size is wrong? Maybe old umass(4) corrects this case > heuristicly but the new USB stack doesn't? Mi

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 01:46 Pete French said the following: > So, I just gave the 8.1 CD a try - which didnt take nearly as long as > anticipated. End result is that it also fails to insall. Pr > filed as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152874 BTW, that error message is produced by sysinstall o

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Monday 06 December 2010 06:46 pm, Pete French wrote: > So, I just gave the 8.1 CD a try - which didnt take nearly as long > as anticipated. End result is that it also fails to insall. Pr > filed as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152874 > > Am wndering if this could be due to the chan

Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 01:44 Pete French said the following: >> Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) > > ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) That's exactly the reason why I said "unless the reporter also actively pursues it" :-) Because as my e

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
> This problem has been reported many times in the past and almost > certainly has nothing to do with 8.x. Here's a thread about the matter > where a user states the same as you but about 7.1: > > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-10/msg00307.html I found that - it ap

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
So, I just gave the 8.1 CD a try - which didnt take nearly as long as anticipated. End result is that it also fails to insall. Pr filed as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152874 Am wndering if this could be due to the change in the USB stack somehow though - I have a feeling that iLO pr

Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
> Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) > Because few thousand other people do not seem to be as lucky: > http://people.freebsd.org/~edwin/gnats/gnats-openpercategorycummulative.html ah, not good gra

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 01:27 Pete French said the following: > Actually my expereice of filing PR's has been pretty positive over the > years. Am a bit surprised you feel this way. Investigating and posting > here also generates reseults, but I do like to tag them onto a PR in > the end, just so they dont g

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
> Basically if it feels like you are the first one to report the problem, then, > unfortunately, the onus is on you... Sure, I've been around here long enough to know this - was just trying to see if anyone else knew about it, as it takes so long to boot over the network that I really didn't want

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:51:36PM +, Pete French wrote: > Trying to re-install a set of HP servers over the iLO, and every time > I tried to install the 8.1 CD I ended up with an error message > telling me that the CD looked more like an audio CD than a FreeBSD > distibution. > > I ouzzled ov

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 00:51 Pete French said the following: > Trying to re-install a set of HP servers over the iLO, and every time > I tried to install the 8.1 CD I ended up with an error message > telling me that the CD looked more like an audio CD than a FreeBSD > distibution. > > I ouzzled over it a b

FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
Trying to re-install a set of HP servers over the iLO, and every time I tried to install the 8.1 CD I ended up with an error message telling me that the CD looked more like an audio CD than a FreeBSD distibution. I ouzzled over it a bit, and then remembered that I originally installed these machin

Re: pcm says `channel dead' with snd_hda

2010-12-06 Thread Zhihao Yuan
Anybody has any ideas? At the beginning, I guess it's caused by some software. After seen it many times in my log, I found that it appears whenever I want to use the sound card. If you don't use the sound card for a long time (like 10mins), the next time you use it will cause this warning message.

Re: idprio processes slowing down system

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Nov-28 02:24:21 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: >On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Since all the boinc processes are running at i31, why are they impacting >> a buildkernel that runs with 0 nicety? > >With the setup you presented you're going to have a lot of context s

Re: DTrace (or other monitor) access to LBA of a block device

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/12/2010 16:59 Alexander Leidinger said the following: > I do not think it is trivial. The amount of discussion around this does not > makes > me want to do a MFC. Sorry, I must have missed the discussion. Could you please clarify what is not trivial in this case? The change itself seems to

Re: Could MSGBUF_SIZE be made a loader tunable?

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/12/2010 07:20 per...@pluto.rain.com said the following: > Would there be some fundamental problem in changing MSGBUF_SIZE > from a compiled-in constant to a tunable that could be set at the > loader prompt? (I'm _not_ suggesting that it be adjustable while > the system is running.) > > The

Re: DTrace (or other monitor) access to LBA of a block device

2010-12-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Artem Belevich (from Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:27:00 -0800): On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: By the way, in order for this to work one would need r207057 applied to -8. Any chance that could be MFC'ed? http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=207057

Find a committer for conf/144842 and kern/148928

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas Sandford
There's two unloved buglets that as far as I can see haven't been resolved so far in 8-STABLE, but which would be nice to squeeze into 8.2-RELEASE. Could some kind committer/releng type please take a look at them - pretty please? conf/144842: [ip6] ipv6_default_interface causes route complai

Re: ZFS raidz recovery

2010-12-06 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Sat 2010-11-27 (15:22), Gareth de Vaux wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to simulate a disk fail and replacement in > a raidz array and failing myself. What'm I doing wrong? Here's Ok I did some science, it looks like the array doesn't like me throwing zeros at the disk when it's 'offline'. If I take

Re: boot0cfg -B can't work

2010-12-06 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 06.12.2010 13:15, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> It seems it was broken with r209469. >> > > Something as simple as what Yue is trying to do could/should be done with > gpart. > But boot0cfg has some additional features... boot0cfg is already doing this via gpart's ioctl interface. AFAIR, there is ye

Re: boot0cfg -B can't work

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/12/2010 08:48 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: > On 06.12.2010 3:37, Yue Wu wrote: >> Thanks, I remembered that boot0cfg in the previous version can do it >> without changing the sysctl parameter, maybe it's changed in newer >> version. > > It seems it was broken with r209469. > Somet