Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-10 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Robert Noland wrote: ... Ok, lets try another test... There is a scanpci util in the libpciaccess port. We don't install it, but it does get built. Build the port and run scanpci -v as root from the console. That should poke all the pci devices on the box and tell you about them. See if that

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Robert Noland wrote: ... Ok, that is odd... Once drm is loaded and X opens it, the ddx driver should request that the irq handler be installed. At that point, dmesg should show something resembling the following. vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster info: [drm] AGP at 0xc000 2

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Robert, First, thanks for all your dedicated work so far on the Xorg ports. I realize this upgrade has been somewhat fraught with unexpected issues. FWIW, things are not greener on the Linux side of the fence; many Ubuntu and Debian users have reported issues with the newer Xorg and in partic

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-08 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: S.N.Grigoriev wrote: I thank you for your response. I've applied the patch to pci.c from kern/130957. Unfortunately there are no positive results. USB is still unreachable with X. Just following up to confirm that you are seeing exactly the same symptoms with US

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
S.N.Grigoriev wrote: I thank you for your response. I've applied the patch to pci.c from kern/130957. Unfortunately there are no positive results. USB is still unreachable with X. Just following up to confirm that you are seeing exactly the same symptoms with USB and Xorg 7.4 as I see on my am

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Chris H wrote: ... I know Peter Grehan was looking at getting FreeBSD onto the Cisco 827 a while back. That's good news. I'll have to see if I can get more info on that. I just purchased a "lot" of cisco *DSL/routers on ebay, in an effort to push this project forward (I can experiment on the

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
SDH Support wrote: Seconded for Pfsense -- although I doubt the Cisco hardware would be compatible with FreeBSD, and even if it is , I wouldn't want to use it in a production environment without thorough testing. If someone can provide more detailed hardware specs, including the chipsets and pro

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-29 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Alex Goncharov wrote: I hate to say this, but the new X (as exists in the current FreeBSD ports) sucks and gets in the way of work big time. There are definitely issues with xorg-7.4 at the moment. The root issue seems to be that USB mice simply don't work for me, and running Xorg appe

Re: panic in destroy_devl: null si_devsw

2009-01-24 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Andriy Gapon wrote: ... About the code that called destroy_dev(): it created cdev probably too early, failed to allocate some system resource, so it went to destroy the newly created cdev. Non-null cdevsw was definitely provided to make_dev. I saw a very, very similar panic with 7.1 sources

A nasty ataraid experience.

2009-01-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi there, I had a bit of a nasty experience this week with ataraid(4). I thought I would summarize the issues I ran into so hopefully others can benefit from my nasty experience, should they experience catastophic failure of a Pseudo-RAID. I was surprised that I was unable to find much in the

Re: SATA hotplug and AHCI

2008-12-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: ... Linux's libata driver has a quirk for VIA AHCI: /* vt8251 doesn't clear BSY on signature FIS reception, * request follow-up softreset. */ If i right understand it issues softreset for VIA controllers just after hardreset. And after softreset it is trying to read d

Re: ext2fuse: user-space ext2 implementation

2008-12-13 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Paul B. Mahol wrote: Can you please relay this feedback to the authors of ext2fuse? As mentioned earlier in the thread, the ext2fuse code could benefit from UBLIO-ization. Are you or any other volunteers happy to help out here? Well, first higher priority would be to fix existing bugs. It

Experience with RDX removable backup drives?

2008-12-08 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Are these any good? Has anyone tried them with FreeBSD and/or bacula? For small office, these look like where the price point is for backups... cheers BMS ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-st

Re: ext2fuse: user-space ext2 implementation

2008-12-08 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
I have rolled a port for ext2fuse: http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/fusefs-ext2fs.tar I look forward to your feedback. thanks, BMS ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: ext2 inode size patch - RE: PR kern/124621

2008-12-06 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
FYI:The ext2 IFS driver for Windows v1.11a also appears to have the inode size issue: http://www.fs-driver.org/ I was not able to mount an ext2 filesystem with 256 byte inode size using this driver. Its installer will see that the filesystem exists, that it's ext2, but whenever you try

Issues with mount(8) and FUSE in 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi all, I noticed when porting ext2fuse to run on 7.1-PRERELEASE, that the port sysutils/fusefs-ntfs needs some additional steps in order to mount user-space FUSE filesystems on startup. These steps weren't necessary in 6.x. It seems mount(8) can't deal with new mount binaries unless it h

Re: ext2fuse: user-space ext2 implementation

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: ... Performance seems quite slow, it could probably benefit from being ported to use UBLIO as ntfs-3g for FreeBSD has. I'm going to leave this thing for others to play with, this was a 20 minute bunk-off from other work. It shouldn't take much effort to cre

ext2fuse: user-space ext2 implementation

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Hi, I just tested the ext2fuse project on FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE as of today and found that it works for read/write on an ext3 filesystem. The inode size was 128 -- I haven't exercised dynamic inode sizes. ext2fuse project:http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fuse Required FreeBSD

Re: ext2 inode size patch - RE: PR kern/124621

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Kostik Belousov wrote: ... Bruce, feel free to commit the patch. I do not want to spend time on ext2 in any form, and due to our (only partly jokingly) rule of the "last committer is the owner", I do not want to analyze ext2 bug reports after. Yes, development resource is limited here to

Re: ext2 inode size patch - RE: PR kern/124621

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Hi, The inode size for the ext3 filesystem which Gentoo created for my last install defaulted to 256 bytes, so I got bit by this problem. I can't speak for the write path. but the read path looks just fine to me, and the patch should go in ASAP. Josh Carroll wrote: Ok, I describe my concer

Re: smbmsg(8): slave address confusion?

2008-11-22 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Gavin Atkinson wrote: I believe this is the case, yes. See for example, PR kern/100513. It appears that some frivers treat the adfdress one way, and others treat it the other. I can confirm this from recent commercial work I had to do involving smb(4). thanks, BMS

Firefox 3 fraks postscript fonts

2008-11-06 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I've noticed that with Firefox 3, output on my venerable PostScript printer uses the wrong fonts. A garbled bitmapped font is being substituted. If I revert to Firefox 2, printed output is fine. Haven't seen this with other apps. Seen with a networked cups driven printer, specifically

[Fwd: Profiling on FreeBSD]

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce M Simpson
I got this response from Robert, the root cause sounds plausible (amd64 vs i386 not preserving ecx). Any chance of an MFC? I see one is pending in the PR. If I can test and verify the change I could MFC. Original Message Subject:Profiling on FreeBSD Date: Wed, 5 Nov

GCC profiling broken with C++ exceptions on FreeBSD 7.1

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I just noticed this in testing over last week, it seems to be specific to FreeBSD 7.1: http://bugzilla.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=811 Does anyone have any information we could use to further track this down? Other platforms don't seem to be affected. cheers BMS ___

7.0-RELEASE panics when loading USB modules x2

2008-10-08 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I just had 7.0-RELEASE crash again, whilst kldloading the uplcom.ko module in multi-user mode with X running, and no USB serial devices plugged in. The T43 immediately resets, I don't get a chance to drop into a debugger. This seems like a pretty serious USB regression. Is anyone looking in

USB detach/attach hangs with 7.0-RELEASE and 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-09-28 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I've noticed some general instability with plugging in or removing USB devices with FreeBSD 7.x, even when the devices are not actively in use. I had this happen with umass and ucom devices 3 times today. The machine hangs solid, there are no obvious signs of a panic or trap to DDB. I ca

fxp multicast forwarding problems

2008-09-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, Whilst doing some QA work on XORP on my desktop, which has fxp0 and msk0, fxp0 got totally hosed. I was running PIM-SM and IGMPv2 router-mode on the box at the time. I wonder if this is related to the problems with fxp multicast transmission I saw back in April. I'm a bit concerned about

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-18 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
You could try formatting the floppy in a USB drive. Someone was going to pick this up, finish it off, and commit it, but I haven't heard back from them: http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/tools/ufdformat/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: alpm(4) I/O range is claimed by ACPI

2008-09-14 Thread Bruce M Simpson
John Baldwin wrote: But surely if alpm(4) were to attach to such a range in this way, it would need to be a child of the acpi bus device, yes? No, the code in acpi_alloc_resources() does _not_ check for that. Any child device with a specific allocation that falls in a system resource ran

Re: alpm(4) I/O range is claimed by ACPI

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce M Simpson
John Baldwin wrote: Umm, ACPI will allow children devices to allocate their resources out of the "sysresource" pool. IPMI has to do this on some systems where ACPI claims the IPMI I/O ports as a system resource. But surely if alpm(4) were to attach to such a range in this way, it would need

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M Simpson wrote: I fished out the A/Open MX3S board I have. ... So I can confirm SMBus works on the MX3S from Linux 2.6.x. I'll blow it away with 7.1-BETA and see what happens next. I can confirm that SMBus appears to work on the A/Open MX3S under FreeBSD 7.1-BETA. After kl

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I don't consider this a "dependency issue" at all. These are all literally separate things; you do not meed smbus(4) and smb(4) if you just simply want to tie a driver to a feature/device that's on the PCI bus (e.g. ichsmb(4)). Besides, does kldload or kernel modules in g

Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Eugene Grosbein wrote: I also always use boot0 for my NanoBSDs as I need safe way for remote upgrades, so have two code slices. And I always use these knobs: NANO_BOOTLOADER="boot/boot0" NANO_BOOT0CFG="-o packet -s 1 -m 3 -t 36" ... Good p

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Chris Ruiz wrote: Error: attack:~ root# smbmsg -p smbmsg: Cannot open /dev/smb0: No such file or directory Looks like the smb.ko module ain't loaded. cheers, BMS ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'm trying my best to make things better, doing things purely from a userland perspective and using SMBus exclusively (since the interface is quite reliable, assuming the SMBus driver used on FreeBSD is working correctly). I understand-- Bruce is having problems with ichsm

Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Woops, I noticed right after I sent this message, that there was an I/O error writing to the USB key from dd in my shell -- I think I was using a 32768 block size instead of 16384 which might account for the problem. I'll be sure to try this all again after I&#

Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Woops, I noticed right after I sent this message, that there was an I/O error writing to the USB key from dd in my shell -- I think I was using a 32768 block size instead of 16384 which might account for the problem. I'll be sure to try this all again after I've had some sleep. cheers BMS

Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Eugene Grosbein wrote: For me, it helps to include these knobs to Nano config file: CONF_WORLD=' BOOT_MBR_FLAGS=0x0 BOOT_BOOT1_FLAGS=0x0 ... ' I added this to the CONF_WORLD in my config

Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
[Ccing to list to track up thread] Douglas Berry wrote: Perhaps this doesn't help... I do RELENG_7 based images for USB keys/CDROM using the FreesBIE toolkit, and haven't noticed such delays. I do fill the stick 'tho. Here's fdisk output... *** Working on device /dev/md4 *** paramete

Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Bruce M Simpson wrote: ... During testing I noticed that whilst the images eventually boot, there is an extremely long delay before doing so, between when the BIOS reads the boot sector and when the BTX loader messages appear. I can reproduce the boot delay condition

viapm(4) does not see VT8237A on Gigabyte GA-VM900M

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M Simpson wrote: Does anyone have ichsmb(4) actually seeing SMBus devices? e.g. you run "smbmsg -p" on your FreeBSD-STABLE system and see something. I just tried to port over some of the hardware IDs from OpenBSD 4.3's viapm(4) driver to the driver in 6.3-RELEASE, as I

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Richard, Thanks for this. Richard Tector wrote: I have an ICH9 machine, Tyan motherboard: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 1 14:57:33 BST 2008 ichsmb0: port 0x18e0-0x18ff mem 0xf4a03000-0xf4a030ff irq 17 at device 31.3 on pci0 ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ichsmb0: [ITHREAD] daffy# smbmsg -p Prob

Re: Intel ICH7 SMBus support, ichsmb(4)

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I suppose a lot of these could be addressed if I released the code in a preliminary fashion (providing folks the ability to help me with documentation, etc.). Hmm... Yeah, I should really get a beta tarball up, and/or make a FreeBSD port for it alr

Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Does anyone have ichsmb(4) actually seeing SMBus devices? e.g. you run "smbmsg -p" on your FreeBSD-STABLE system and see something. I just tried it again on my IBM ThinkPad T43 and saw nothing, all I get is: ichsmb0: device timeout, status=0x41 ...in dmesg. cheers BMS

Re: alpm(4) I/O range is claimed by ACPI

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... Might mention this to jhb@ to see if it's related to the SMBus changes made 1.5 years ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/alpm.c Thanks for the pointers. The other reports sound like duplicate reports of the same issue. I'm not sure that backi

Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M Simpson wrote: ... During testing I noticed that whilst the images eventually boot, there is an extremely long delay before doing so, between when the BIOS reads the boot sector and when the BTX loader messages appear. P.S. It appears none of QEMU, VMware 3.0, or VirtualBox 1.6.6 are

Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I have hacked NanoBSD locally to deal with generation of images for booting off USB keys. I am using the RELENG_7 branch as real-mode BTX support is necessary to support USB boot. During testing I noticed that whilst the images eventually boot, there is an extremely long delay before doi

alpm(4) I/O range is claimed by ACPI

2008-09-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, How can I load the alpm(4) module for SMBus support on my ASUS Vintage AH-1 system? It appears the I/O range it uses is claimed by the acpi(4) driver. Can I override the mapping in some way i.e. tell ACPI not to claim the range? I don't see anything obvious about this in the acpi(4) man

Intel ICH7 SMBus support, ichsmb(4)

2008-09-10 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi there, I have been looking at a system which has the Intel ICH7 south bridge. Whenever I try to probe the SMBus on this system with 'smbmsg -p', I get a lot of status=41 timeout messages in dmesg from the ichsmb(4) driver. I have been given the addresses of the SMBus peripherals and have t

Panic when detaching Vodafone 3G card

2008-09-09 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I just acquired one of these cards, it attaches as a USB cardbus device. This is just to say that I can reproduce the problem described here: http://www.rinta-aho.org/docs/option3g/option.html The driver support was originally committed here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr

ACPI sleep broken on ASUS Vintage AH-1

2008-09-04 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, Just noticed that when I try to ACPI-sleep an ASUS Vintage AH-1 based desktop system, that I get the following message: acpiconf: request sleep type (3) failed: Operation not supported Supported sleep states in sysctl: hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S3 S4 S5 This is an amd64 unip

Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Jo Rhett wrote: I am suggesting that given that the current bug list for 6.3-RELEASE is both (a) too large and (b) breaks things that work fine in 6.2 ... that I think pushing 6.2 (the real stable release) into EoL is a bit rushed. I sympathize with the development costs of maintaining old

Re: how much memory does increasing max rules for IPFW take up?

2008-05-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: I had a box run out of dynamic state space yesterday. I found I can increase the number of dynamic rules by increasing the sysctl parameter net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max. I can't find, however, how this affects memory usage on the system. Is it dyanamica

Automounting USB sticks - questions

2008-05-11 Thread Bruce M Simpson
I got this working quite easily with the amd daemon. Thanks to Alfred for your excellent work on this. I wonder what the status of autofs is? It would be great if we could ship FreeBSD out of the box, ready to automount removable media. This would be useful to all users, but particularly for

Re: Fails to build new gcc

2008-04-24 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
R.Mahmatkhanov wrote: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1) Please submit a full bug report. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. *** Error code 1 Others have said this is down to not having enough memory; also it can indicate a problem with the memory you already have.

Re: panics on 6.3-RELEASE in IP stack

2008-04-18 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: I started to play with RAT application (ports: mbone/rat + an SVN version) and it seems to crash my 6.3-RELEASE-p1 box in rather deterministic way. Crash details are shown below. Has anyone seen a problem like this? Yes, there's an off-by-one reference

Re: panics on 6.3-RELEASE in IP stack

2008-04-08 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 12:16:53 pm Petr Holub wrote: Hi all, I started to play with RAT application (ports: mbone/rat + an SVN version) and it seems to crash my 6.3-RELEASE-p1 box in rather deterministic way. Crash details are shown below. Has anyone seen a problem like

Re: Missing manual pages (e.g. aio_fsync)

2008-03-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: Hello, It seems that the manual page of aio_fsync is missing, at least in FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE. I have some questions regarding this: 1. Is there somebody working on a man page for aio_fsync? 2. Is there a list of missing manual pages? 3. What is the current statu

Re: lpbb broken in 6.x?

2008-03-25 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Ian Smith wrote: To finish off completely hijacking your thread :) does anyone know of anything that can run a master/slave interface like pcf(4) which appears to have been an ISA bus only device? I don't have C skills to write one, though 400kHz master and slave routines in AVR asm were fun :)

Re: lpbb broken in 6.x?

2008-03-24 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bruce M Simpson wrote: I used devinfo to check if other devices were attached to the ppbus parent. ppc0 always has a single child ppbus0. In the first case ppi0 was attached. In the second case only lpbb appeared to be attached, no other direct children of ppbus0, printing the same message

Re: lpbb broken in 6.x?

2008-03-24 Thread Bruce M Simpson
John Baldwin wrote: What other devices do you have on your ppbus? Do you have lpt0, etc.? Are your running lpd? The way that ppbus works is that only one child driver (ppi0, lpt0, etc.) can "own" the actual ppc device at a time, so when a child driver wants to do something, it requests owner

lpbb broken in 6.x?

2008-03-24 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, Just for giggles, I decided to solder up the circuit in lpbb(4) and try to use it to talk to a 24LC64 EEPROM with its i2c address set to 0. (Yes, I am using 74LS05s specifically for this circuit.) Imagine my surprise and dismay, when I try to test out the i2c bus using this tool: htt

Re: PAUSE support for Ethernet interfaces ?

2008-03-03 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Tom Samplonius wrote: FreeBSD does not send PAUSE frames, but most of the NICs out there will process received PAUSE frames. However ethernet flow control is mainly useful on the switches anyways. Switches these day (*) have small buffers (sometimes just a shared 3MB buffer for 24 ports)

Re: kevent on UDP sockets

2008-02-08 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Paul wrote: I'm having trouble with kevent() in connection with UDP sockets (6.2-STABLE). Registering an event seems to work, but when UDP packet arrives on the socket, kevent returns with 0. Is there currently a working support for UDP sockets in kqueue/kevent, or does it only apply to

Re: kldload: Unsupported file type

2008-01-30 Thread Bruce M Simpson
John Baldwin wrote: It is printed whenever a kernel module is loaded. The modules load OK. Nothing special or different about them. ... The kernel is a link_elf type object I believe, so you have to have it. That follows (I was reading this the other day 'cause we don't support w

kldload: Unsupported file type

2008-01-29 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Since updating to 6.3-RELEASE on two machines I see this message a lot. It is printed whenever a kernel module is loaded. The modules load OK. Nothing special or different about them. It seems to be harmless, but any idea why it's started happening since the release? Cheers BMS __

Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

2007-09-16 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Karl Denninger wrote: Is there something that I can do (e.g. what registers/info would help if I wrote them down?) since it would have to literally be transcribed manually. More of the same. Most likely your RAID BIOS wants to enter protected mode. BTX normlly runs in vm86 mode. Please

Re: 6.2-STABLE panic in network multicast-address related cleanup code

2007-09-10 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Please try the fix I provided you with last week. BMS ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Static linking and memory usage

2007-08-14 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: This reminds me: it sure would be useful if we had something like Solaris's pmap(1) on FreeBSD. In response to the original post: The kernel's ELF linker/loader for executables will share the text and read-only segments for static executables. We already have someth

Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Thanks for everyone's responses. Given that this drive may well be lying in its SMART registers, I've just ordered a new drive. Newer IBM/Lenovo machines appear to complain if you don't use Hitachi GST drives, so I ordered one of those to be on the safe side, as well as to preserve the resale

Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-22 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, My laptop drive might be dying. It is a Samsung MP0804H which I have used for around 28 months without issue. Every now and then it will click and sound as though it is thermally recalibrating itself. I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own diag tools which all re

Re: FYI: ULi/ALi SATA fix committed on HEAD

2007-07-04 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
This change has now been MFCed. cheers, BMS Bruce M Simpson wrote: I have just committed a change (with soren's blessing) for the upcoming 7.0 branch which resolves the regression with ALI/ULI sata controllers introduced in 6.2-RELEASE. This affected a number of systems in particula

Re: Have some troubles after deleting group of packages...

2007-06-22 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Oliver Fromme wrote: > After it I've deleted those packages by "pkg_delete" command. Firstly > it seemed all OK, but later I have collided with such problems: > > $ sudo tcpdump > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libpcap.so.4: S

Re: how much beer do I need to get this patch applied?

2007-06-21 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:56:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: On 6/20/07, Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I get a message every day saying "No output", how do I know when a failure has occurred? This patch changes nothing about that behavior. Getting no mes

FYI: ULi/ALi SATA fix committed on HEAD

2007-06-13 Thread Bruce M Simpson
I have just committed a change (with soren's blessing) for the upcoming 7.0 branch which resolves the regression with ALI/ULI sata controllers introduced in 6.2-RELEASE. This affected a number of systems in particular the ASUS Vintage series of barebones boxes. Some folks on stable were affect

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Daniel O'Connor wrote: I believe this is most likely this issue... http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t3047441.html Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected

Strange ACPI messages on Core 2 Duo system

2007-05-23 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Hi, I noticed the following in dmesg output should I be concerned? this is with 6.2-RELEASE SMP kernel. This is a Gigabyte GA-VM900M with Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 CPU. Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Th

Re: AcerLabs/ULi SATA woes

2007-05-23 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Just for reference: Soren has gotten back to me about this and has a patch pending. In the meantime here is the style(9)-ified patch from Sven which I am currently using (in 6.2-STABLE, CURRENT , and p4 branches). Regards, BMS --- ata-chipset.c.orig Wed May 23 17:59:28 2007 +++ ata-chipset.c

Re: AcerLabs/ULi SATA woes

2007-05-23 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
A workaround for this issue posted here works for me with 6.2-STABLE: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg87083.html I plan to commit it on HEAD and RELENG_6 as soon as possible, as it fixes the regression introduced last year. It seems acceptable that the AHCI controll

AcerLabs/ULi SATA woes (was: Re: Gigabyte GA-VM900M caveats)

2007-05-23 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
The affected Gigabyte motherboard boots fine with a JMicron card -- the hard workaround was to disable the VIA onboard SATA and IDE controllers completely and swap in the spare PCI-e card. However, the machine I swapped this card out of does not boot now: atapci1: port 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0

Re: Gigabyte GA-VM900M caveats

2007-05-22 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Daniel, Thanks for the affirmation that I'm not alone in this. The whole point of RAID being supported by platform firmware is to facilitate booting from it even if disks fail. Daniel O'Connor wrote: On a somewhat related note.. In my experience V-RAID is utter crap - if one of your disks fa

Gigabyte GA-VM900M caveats

2007-05-22 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, It seems in order to boot the 6.2-RELEASE cdrom on this system I need to disable the USB2/ehci controller in the BIOS, otherwise it panics after umass is detached during probe (I am attempting to boot from USB CDROM). I was surprised that it didn't fail due to the protected mode boot2 is

Re: carp patch - will this ever be in releng_6?

2007-05-19 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Stefan Lambrev wrote: Are there any chances for this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/ip_carp.c.diff?r1=1.46;r2=1.47 to be MFCed to RELENG_6 before 6.3-release ? It fixes quite annoying bug - destroying carpX (when having at least 2 carp interfaces) will panic immedia

Re: socketpair: No buffer space available

2007-03-25 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Mar 20 07:59:26 mars sshd[717]: error: reexec socketpair: No buffer space available If I have a login session on the machine, I can easily do a reboot of the machine, and it seems to come up clean every time (ie. no fsck's need to be run) ... Does anyone have any ideas o

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-16 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Emile Coetzee wrote: Okay I finally have a ktrace of the offending process. You can view it here: http://www.clarotech.co.za/dump/openvpn2.txt Thanks for this. If this is the correct trace, of the correct process, then it looks like OpenVPN is hanging immediately on opening the tap device.

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Emile Coetzee wrote: No worries below is the last part of the first ktrace. I have dropped a full copy on our webserver: http://www.clarotech.co.za/dump/openvpn.txt Hi, Still no diagnostic info I'm afraid. What is needed is for the problem to be reproduced, with the openvpn process which is

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Willy Offermans wrote: Thank you for your response, but unfortunately adding cloned_interfaces="tap0" to my rc.conf did not solve the issue. The tap0 device only appeared after I started the openvpn daemon. Is there a way to determine the order to start the daemons. Maybe I can solve the problem

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Emile Coetzee wrote: I then ran ktrace -p 1083 -f openvpn2.dump This produced no data at all. Shouldn't. :-) You need to run ktrace then kdump to dump the trace. Correlate the cpu spin with the wallclock time in the kdump output, and paste an excerpt of what you get -- it sounds like

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Emile Coetzee wrote: I have done some more investigation. Rolling back to RELENG_6_2 solves the problem. I have now had this problem on 3 boxes in 2 days and have been able to reproduce it on a 4th in our lab. Starting openvpn with full debug it stops just before the point where the TAP devices

Re: RT2561 does not work (was: [CALL FOR TESTERS] (was: ral(4) and second/third gen devices))

2007-03-08 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Some searching led me to: http://samodelkin.net/~fjoe/if_ral.diff -- which compiles on 6.2-RELEASE and, loaded as module, makes the card available. I was under the impression this code had been merged to -STABLE already. Sorry to hear about the problems you're havi

Re: ALi SATA controller

2007-02-27 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Søren Schmidt wrote: The problem is that your BIOS registers the resources used for AHCI operation but apparently hasn't really enabled them. Look for an option in the BIOS to turn on/off AHCI mode. There is no such option in the BIOS on this machine, as stated in the original thread. BMS

Re: ALi SATA controller

2007-02-26 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Hi, I have experienced the same regression since 6.2 was branched on an ASUS amd64 Vintage-PE1 box. Juraj Lutter wrote: Feb 26 21:45:25 river kernel: atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xff00-0xff0f at device 31.0 on pci0 Feb 26 21:45:25 river kernel: ata0: on atapci0 Feb 26

Re: Pleading for commit

2007-02-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Steve Hodgson wrote: Could you use "objcopy --redefine-sym" to rename the symbol in the flash library? I've not tried it of course. I just ran into this issue again. I tried this suggestion. It doesn't change the dynamic reference. I see the linuxpluginwrapper port has now been updated to de

Re: Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"

2007-02-13 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
JoaoBR wrote: The only correct thing you say here is that all IPs are equal - and - nobody EVER said something different. Aliasing does not say anything about priority of the Ip it is simply related to the time the interface was set with the IP so the first IP is the one which was set first

Re: java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Jeffrey Williams wrote: Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Yes. I used diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 since November to do some Swing development with SwingWorker, and it worked just fine. BMS __

Re: PXEboot fails at kernel (text) loading

2007-02-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Rob wrote: Is it OK to have a double kernel read at the last two lines? Any idea what's wrong here or what I could do to further test what the actual problem is? Argh. I had this same problem as recently as October, but I can't remember exactly what caused this. When I went back and re-did thin

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-10 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Michael Nottebrock wrote: And yes, if pppd is broken and won't be fixed, it should disappear. And when that happens, so will kppp (it won't build once the if_ppp.h header is gone). Which of course would solve the problem in a way. In any case: I dragged this issue onto -stable precisel

Re: Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"

2007-02-10 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Ian Smith wrote: Does not 'remove the network address specified' imply that this should fail if a) there is no network address specified or b) the address that is specified is not an existing alias address for the interface? I tend towards disallowing -alias without argument for reasons of co

Re: Problems with IPv6-less kernel and world

2007-02-10 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Hello, I'm afraid I disagree with a few of the points you raise. JoaoBR wrote: even if ipv6 is a real situation it is not the standard, ipv4 is, then, even if ipv6 is some network's standard it is not a global standard, ipv4 is certainly then, it makes no sense that ipv6 is the default, nei

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Hi, This isn't the answer, but I'm attempting to provide triage for jhb who will probably look at it. This is a GPF, but it's not being caused by an attempt to enter protected mode, so it isn't the most-often reported BTX issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6.2R cd boot failed with follow erro

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