Re: Odd "phantom MFS mountpoint" issue

2006-04-11 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
;/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/.diskless" fails. > > It should have been, but I went ahead and set tmpmfs="NO" in rc.conf, > rebooted, and things are fine now. > > Thanks for the help! Check if /tmp itself has strange permissions or file flags or ownership -- Bria

Re: File system corruption with ATA RAID-1 on 6-STABLE

2005-12-21 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
it still boots. That's how it appears, yeah. What does the drive health look like? Seems most like a chipset bug or nvidia driver bug, but could be things are just coinciding with drive or drive controller failure. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \&

Re: gmirror SCSI+IDE

2005-12-21 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
caveats. For > example, AFAIK SCSI devices are under Giant and IDE are not - is there any > reason this would make problems? Might have bad performance, who knows. Why the funny setup exactly? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-21 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
the em performance under 6.0-stable is half of any other box i have, > and a similar mb running linux gives about 1GB, so > > Q: any ideas what can be wrong? Performance of what? Do you even have a correct MTU set? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[

Re: Data Loss with samba shared USB drive

2005-12-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
> > I should probably mention that this is with the drive formatted with > a FAT filesystem. Do you also know that nothing has /usb or a subdirectory of it open as a current working directory, and that no files are open? You're saying that the umount fails and t

Re: bsdtar / libarchive bug?

2005-12-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:45:40PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 08), Brian Fundakowski Feldman said: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:29:06PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: > > > It seems bsdtar can create files it cant read. i.e. it will happily create > &

Re: bsdtar / libarchive bug?

2005-12-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
ean the tar itself inside of the gz. {"/home/green" [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar cfv x.tar tar: no files or directories specified {"/home/green" [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar cfvz x.tar.gz tar: no files or directories specified {"/home/green" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l x.t

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
Make sure you use 6.0-RELEASE or later so that you have the fix for lock-ups in certain usage patterns and also configure it for performance with "graid3 label -r". -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ Fre

Re: permanent per month panic on 5.4-p4

2005-12-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
ua/dmesg.isc-cache > kernel config - http://www.dp.uz.gov.ua/kernel.isc-cache This is a samba server? It looks like you're using smbfs. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> [EMAIL PR

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-12-05 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:30:05PM +0100, kama wrote: > > The system crashed again this weekend, but nothing is created in > /var/crash. Try a serial console... -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]'''&

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
t; I got a 32MB coredump but the same lack of understanding applies. > > Please tell me if I can be of any help! This is fun. Do you have the ability to connect another computer by RS-232? It's easy to get a serial terminal console going (err that is if you find the right guide as opp

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
partition gets filled up, the build process failed and > the computer continued to work as normal. Yeah, it sounds like you're running into a buffer cache/VFS/VM deadlock. They're nasty, but generally no

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
swap space is OK right before the > freeze, but within 15 seconds from here, the kernel > locks up In my experience, fifteen seconds is enough to fill up 130+MB of swap, so a much smaller polling interval is necessary. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
r/src/sys/MYKERNEL. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. You may not have INVARIANT_SUPPORT -- I don't see that listed explicitly, but it's necessary as well. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ Fr

Re: Apache2, mod_python and nss_ldap: Coredump...

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
f2200 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/nss_ldap.so.1 Can you try making sure that nss_ldap gets built and linked with -g, and is not stripped, so that all symbols and debug info are preserved as well? Looks to be atexit(3)-related, from here, but the symbols should clear thing

Re: Tun and ALTQ

2005-11-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
you have suggestion on what would be good text to go into pf.conf(5) so that this particular case is documented? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]'''''''''

Re: Kernel Crash using GDB

2005-11-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
the crash every > time. Try running AbiWord using another computer as your X server, and make the FreeBSD 6 machine stay at the console so it can potentially hit DDB/KDB. A serial console is also helpful sometimes. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]'

Re: Sendmail not compiling with make world in 6.0

2005-11-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
/usr/local/lib > SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl > > Any clues on why this is failing with 6.0? It worked in 5.4 no > problem... You're still using your libsasl from 5.4. The warnings pretty unequivocally showed that it can't find the libraries it was orig

Re: Tun and ALTQ

2005-11-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
> 0 ] > [ qlength: 0/ 50 borrows: 0 suspends: 0 ] > [ measured: 199.0 packets/s, 146.71Kb/s ] No it isn't, it's em0. You probably want to be using ALTQ on tun0. I've done it; it works -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ F

Re: linking problems with heimdal in base (ports version works)

2005-10-17 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
> No, you missed my point. I mean that kerberos libs are dynamic but > > > linked against other libraries statically. > > > > If they were, there would be no problem in the first place. > > Sorry, it seems I missed a part of the thread. Either the ports that use li

Re: linking problems with heimdal in base (ports version works)

2005-10-14 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
} --configure`.scan(/'([^'=]*)(?:=?([^']*))'/) {|lhs, rhs| + if lhs == "LDFLAGS" + pldflags = rhs + end +} +if pldflags + $LDFLAGS += " " + pldflags + puts "Using PostgreSQL build flags: #{pldflags}" +

Re: Jails that won't die...

2005-06-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:53:56PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote: > > On 29. jun. 2005, at 20.58, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:28:09PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote: > > > >> > >>On 28. jun. 2005, at 16.58, Brian Fundakowski Fe

Re: background fsck can be dangerous!

2005-06-29 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
gt; >@400042c1badc250a9cd4 status: local 0/30 remote 0/20 > >@400042c1badc250c7d4c end msg 24087 > >@400042c1badc2510942c end msg 24040 The filesystem looks the same before, during, and after

Re: Jails that won't die...

2005-06-29 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:28:09PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote: > > On 28. jun. 2005, at 16.58, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:37:29AM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have, since upgrading to

Re: Jails that won't die...

2005-06-28 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
pertaining to the jail, though it has no processes running. I > have therefore force-started the jail again, which seems to work > nicely, but now 'jls' gives me two entries for this jail, with > different JIDs. > > What am I doing wrong here? You could just use ps to

Re: ATA DMA timeouts [NOT FIXED] (forget my last mail)

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
ause I'm not sure the problem is recognized. > > I have two separate Intel IHC5 based boxes affected by DMA TIMEOUTS, > both with SATA drives and I'd like to get to the bottom of this. The best thing to do is narrow down what kernel changes caused this (build kerne

Re: howto update freebsd 4.7 release to 4.7 stable

2005-06-21 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
elf without even updating libc or the kernel. No guarantees, but it's something I've always found to work alright. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

2005-06-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
never tried the IPFW-compatible bridge(4) before, but it is significantly broken (crashes bridging two fxp(4)). So caveat emptor using it as a firewall for the time being... The other problem I have had is that doing CD burning can sometimes crash the system, but I haven&#

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-05-03 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:47:00AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:08:57PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > Alright, this will do synchronous, instead of short, writes (also, > > of course, not deadlock the system) if you are trying to use an

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:19:38PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:06:27PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > How can I tell whether it uses transactions ? > > > > I am not sure -- it should with NFSv3 though. Does "mount -v" t

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:42:03PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 02:34:35PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > Alright, thanks for helping with this :-) Do you think you can find > > a way to tell if in 4.x you're actually using NFSv3/transa

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:15:23PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:08:57PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > Yes, a single writev(). Just like in the kern/79207 PR. > > > > > > It doesn't have to be superfast (why would I use

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:36:02PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > I'm still guessing that for whatever reason your writes on the FreeBSD > > 4.x NFS client are not using NFSv3/transactions. The seco

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:43:46PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > [changed cc: from standards@ back to stable@ again.] > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:25:49PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > You can assure that this happens in only two ways: > > > > 1. Make

Re: Snapshot corruption.

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
ries. Some stuff sometimes pops up in lost+found. Some > stuff can vanish (not 100% positive on that). But most worringly, is > that some files come back corrupted (ie berkley db files that db won't > read). Long strings of NUL bytes? Missing data? Spam (from the same file, or from

Re: 4.1 STABLE broken since today!

2000-08-31 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
;m going to test all major bugfixes for a lot longer to make certain there aren't problems that are easy to miss (triggering). -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Uns

"sbsize" path for testing!!

2000-06-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
g in the kernel memory, like pidentd, would need to be recompiled/modified, but pidentd itself (now uses the proper interface to get the data it needs. So, anyone who can, test it out and report back. I need to get this done within the week or so :) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ Fre