Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot

2008-09-11 Thread Douglas Berry
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:49:56 BST, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Interesting, that's classic USB-HDD geometry (255H, 63S). Can you > tell me what make, model of stick this is? It's Kingston DTI/512 # diskinfo -v da0 da0 512 # sectorsize 512753664 # mediasize in bytes (

PR kern/109152 -- RocketPort panics

2007-04-19 Thread Douglas K. Rand
We have 3 of the 32 port Comtrol PCI cards, the original 5v only cards, not the newer universal PCI cards, and we are trying to upgrade the system with all these serial ports from FreeBSD 4.8 (ya, kinda old) to FreeBSD 6.2. And we are running into what seems like a common problem with these cards:

Re: ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 5 (2432 Mhz, flags 0x3e0 hal flags 0x140)

2006-04-25 Thread Douglas Berry
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:36:56 PDT, Sam Leffler wrote: > flags 0x3e0 = Passive+5Ghz+2Ghz+OFDM+CCK > hal flags 0x140 = 5Ghz+OFDM > Both of these make no sense for a frequency of 2432 Mhz, hence the hal > got upset. Thanks for the interpretation. > What are the regulatory domain settings for the car

ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 5 (2432 Mhz, flags 0x3e0 hal flags 0x140)

2006-04-25 Thread Douglas Berry
Dlink DWL-AG530 can't scan, can't connect. ifconfig ath0 up ; ifconfig ath0 list scan returns nothing. On the same machine, same 'net, a different ath card works (TRENDnet TEW-503PI). Does anyone have this Dlink card working on RELENG_6? pciconf output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:14:0: class=0x02 card

Re: iir + Tyan S2460 + SMP problems

2006-04-22 Thread Douglas K. Rand
John-Mark> How about drop iir? Doug> But your suggestion does have merit, especially as recent PCI-X Doug> and PCI-E ICP cards have no FreeBSD driver in sight. Scott> My understanding is that the ICP division is switching over to Scott> the architcture supported by the 'aac' driver. Adaptec Scot

Re: iir + Tyan S2460 + SMP problems

2006-04-21 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Doug> We're having problems with FreeBSD 5.4, 6.0, and 6.1 and an ICP Doug> Vortex GDT8546RZ 4 port SATA RAID John-Mark> We've had very similar experiences on 4.7-R. The box would John-Mark> hang on one partition waiting for IO to come back, but John-Mark> direct access to the disk, or accessing

iir + Tyan S2460 + SMP problems

2006-04-21 Thread Douglas K. Rand
We're having problems with FreeBSD 5.4, 6.0, and 6.1 and an ICP Vortex GDT8546RZ 4 port SATA RAID card in a Tyan S2460 system with dual AMD Athlon MP 1600+ CPUs. We do not have any problems with this configuration under FreeBSD 4.11, and we have the same ICP cards in Tyan based Opterion system (S28

Re: indefinite wait buffer: Does this indicate hardware issue?

2005-12-23 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Xin> Hi Hi. On 19 Dec 2005 14:32:31 -0600, Douglas K. Rand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug> Tracing command swapper pid 0 tid 0 td 0xc0698e20 Doug> sched_switch(c0698e20,0,1) at sched_switch+0x14b Doug> mi_switch(1,0) at mi_switch+0x1ba Doug> scheduler(0,81ec00,81e000,0,c

Re: indefinite wait buffer: Does this indicate hardware issue?

2005-12-19 Thread Douglas K. Rand
** On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:49:48 +0800, Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Xin> I have a box indicating the following sometimes: Xin> "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 262169, size: 4096" We are having a very similar problem that we've been trying to diagnose off and on for a wh

5.4 hangs on disk IO

2005-10-07 Thread Douglas K. Rand
I've got 2 FreeBSD 5.4 systems that seem to get stuck doing disk IO. When the system gets hung, it seems to refuse to do any disk io. It will continue to respond to pings, and the tty driver on the serial console continues to work and echo characters. But all the processes seem to get stuck in the

Re: What is considered "the best supported" RAID controller for 5.x?

2005-06-30 Thread Douglas K. Rand
JM> Basicly a process will hang in either ffsfsn (fsync induces this JM> write) or getblk (a read), and as far as I can find out, the io JM> just never returns even though the underlying block device JM> continues to work fine.. I know this is probably a stupid answer, but ... Have you upgraded t

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's vacuumdb fails to allocate memory for non-root users

2005-06-29 Thread Douglas McNaught
Sven Willenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Again, if I log in as myself and try to run > the command vaccumdb -a -z it fails; if I su to root and repeat it works > fine. I am trying to narrow this down to a PostgreSQL issue vs FreeBSD > issue. That's really weird, b

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's vacuumdb fails to allocate memory for non-root users

2005-06-29 Thread Douglas McNaught
Sven Willenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FreeBSD 5.4-Release > PostgreSQL 8.0.3 > > I noticed that the nightly cron consisting of a vacuumdb was failing due > to "unable to allocate memory". I do have maintenance_mem set at 512MB, > and the /boot/loader.conf file sets the max datasize to 1G

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-29 Thread Douglas G. Allen
Anton, Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing pollution of

internet connects but no make in ports

2003-07-26 Thread Douglas
I upgraded to 4.8 via cvsup, but I never setup networking on the original install. I could connect to the internet with ppp but could not use a browser or use make in ports or use ftp; but I'm connected to the internet? What entry do I make/ where could I look? I have the freebsd handbook, the c

Error on installworld

2002-08-01 Thread Douglas Denault
be 4.6.1 2) ls -l /usr/src/UPDATING -rw--- 1 root wheel 41124 Jul 5 08:48 /usr/src/UPDATING I would have expected a later date. _ Douglas Denault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: 3Ware, Western Digital disks, and stray interrupts

2002-03-19 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Albert> We're running a 6410 with four WD1000 disks and have had only Albert> one failure so far. Anyway, according to the author of the twe Albert> driver, Michael Smith, a firmware upgrade for the 7xxx series Albert> controllers should be available by now. Thanks, I had missed that post. We mig

3Ware, Western Digital disks, and stray interrupts

2002-03-17 Thread Douglas K. Rand
We have two pretty much identical systems: Both are Tyan Tiger MP S2469 boards with a 3ware 7450 controller and Western Digital WD1000 100GB disks. One system has 4 disks in a RAID 10 configuration, and the other has 2 disks in a RAID 1 configuration. One system only has a single Athlon MP CPU, wh

ipfw question this time

2001-08-07 Thread Douglas G. Allen
Now that the problem with the machine with two physical cards is solved, by downing one card and using an alias and leaving the extra card in for a quick fix should the active one fail, I have another problem. This may have been in the back of my addled thinking when I decided to put two NIC's

Re: 3ware problems

2001-03-15 Thread Douglas K. Rand
> Drat. There it is; you've got a command that looks like it's stuck in > the adapter. > > try changing the value of TWE_Q_LENGTH in /sys/dev/twe/twereg.h to 100 and > see if you can reproduce it. Well, I just woke up and mysqd was stuck again in getblk, this time with a TWE_Q_LENGTH of 100: db

Re: 3ware problems

2001-03-14 Thread Douglas K. Rand
> Drat. There it is; you've got a command that looks like it's stuck in > the adapter. I'll go grab the can of WD-40. :) > I didn't see you respond to Mike T - are you using 64k or 128k stripes? I didn't get his query until I had already started the mysqd trying to break things. And now I'm

pam_ssh problems

2000-11-21 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Sometime between 4.1.1-STABLE and 4.2-BETA we started having difficulities with using pam_ssh and wdm. Here is a piece of our /etc/pam.conf: wdm authsufficient pam_ssh.so wdm authrequiredpam_unix.so wdm account requiredpam_unix.so try_first_p

Re: how to get sendmail to handle hyphenated names

2000-11-20 Thread Douglas G. Allen
Cy, >> How do I get sendmail v.8.9.3 to accept names of the type first_name or my.na >> me? I think I just need to adjust a rule in sendmail.cf, but am not certain >> which rule or how specifically to adjust it. Can someone point me in the cor >> rect direction ?? > >Userdb. Take a look at pag

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Douglas G. Allen
Matt, >Interesting, I've always personally thought ECC to be somewhat overrated >and certaintly overpriced. Granted I do not have that much expierence in >comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for >over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once

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