Experiences with 12-BETA3

2018-11-11 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi, I thought I'd share some difficulties I've had upgrading from 11 to 12. * Java 1.8 seems unstable - I've been doing a bit of Scala dev today, and the JVM seems somewhat unstable. SBT is crashing with the following fairly regularly. I'm pretty sure I've rebuilt it since the upgrade. # # A fat

Re: FreeBSD 12.0-BETA2 Now Available

2018-10-29 Thread Mark Dixon
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 13:24, Lars Engels wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 07:59:32AM +0000, Mark Dixon wrote: > > Same, FreeBSD update doesn't seem to be working: > > > > $ sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.0-BETA2 > > IIRC freebsd-update only works for RCs, not

Re: FreeBSD 12.0-BETA2 Now Available

2018-10-29 Thread Mark Dixon
Same, FreeBSD update doesn't seem to be working: $ sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.0-BETA2 Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-uns

11.1-RC2 won't mount zfs

2017-07-08 Thread Mark Dixon
I did a freebsd-update to RC2 yesterday evening. On rebooting with the new kernel, my zfs mounts were not present. In single user mode, the zfs command was core dumping. Fix was to copy /boot/kernel.old to /boot/kernel Backtrace is not super useful I think: lldb) bt * thread #1, name = 'zfs',

Re: iicsmb

2016-10-06 Thread Mark Dixon
If I load the module on my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon), I get: iicsmb0: on iicbus0 iicsmb1: on iicbus1 iicsmb2: on iicbus2 iicsmb3: on iicbus3 iicsmb4: on iicbus4 iicsmb5: on iicbus5 iicsmb6: on iicbus6 iicsmb7: on iicbus7 iicsmb8: on iicbus8 iicsmb9: on iicbus9 iicsmb10: on iicb

Re: aibs(4) / atk0110 support for newer systems

2016-09-30 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi Andriy, I tried your patch on an Asus Z170-Deluxe on 11-RELEASEt and aibs did not seem to pick up anything before or after. Not 100% what sensors this board has. Regards, Mark signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Dixon
Will Green sundivenetworks.com> writes: > > I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that helps. If you want more details on the > motherboard/system I have started a post on it at http://buildwithbsd.org/hw/skylake_xeon_server.html > I've made the UEFI switch which worked f

Re: net-im/skype4 under FreeBSD 10.3

2016-02-22 Thread Mark Dixon
Pavel Timofeev gmail.com> writes: > > Hi! > Has anybody tried net-im/skype4 under FreeBSD 10.3(-BETA[0-9])?? > Seems like net-im/skype4 missing some dependencies and if it's > satisfied net-im/skype4 hangs after start. > linprocfs mounting doesn't help. > I installed them all from the ports tree

Re: Is UEFI required for ZFS?

2016-02-14 Thread Mark Dixon
Konstantin Belousov gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 03:46:16PM +, Mark Dixon wrote: > Might be, try the following (mostly debugging) change. > Tried it, the only thing I saw different is after the menu I got: rd eef611d6 Hope that

Re: Is UEFI required for ZFS?

2016-02-13 Thread Mark Dixon
Konstantin Belousov gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:15:49PM +0000, Mark Dixon wrote: > > > Can you put a dmesg.boot from the server ? An pciconf -lvb ? > > > > > > > I have the exact same issue on the forum, so I can: > As a blind s

Re: Is UEFI required for ZFS?

2016-02-12 Thread Mark Dixon
Kurt Jaeger opsec.eu> writes: > > Hi! > > > I have a new Asus H170-Plus-D3 motherboard that will be used for a DOM0 Xen > > Server. It uses an Intel i5-6300 processor and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. I > > would like to use ZFS on this new installation. The Xen Kernel does not have > > UEFI sup

Re: Is UEFI required for ZFS?

2016-02-12 Thread Mark Dixon
Thomas Laus acm.org> writes: > > I have a new Asus H170-Plus-D3 motherboard that will be used for a DOM0 Xen > Server. It uses an Intel i5-6300 processor and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. I > would like to use ZFS on this new installation. The Xen Kernel does not have > UEFI support at this time,

Net crash in ath on FREEBSD-7 STABLE

2008-07-05 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi, I get the following when I run portupgrade and it tries to hit the network for a package on stable. It looks like something has been broken in ath? Seeing as I don't update very often it could have been around for a while. Kernel is GENERIC. Modules are kernel, snd_ich, sound, aio and

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Dixon
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 22:25, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > > My attitude is that if you don't boot -s, you are simply playing > > Russian-roulette with your system. Some day, it will bite you. > > > > Kent > > Not if your update procedure saves the old kernel. > > Yes, you will have to get there t

bktr and Interlacing

2005-04-10 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi, As I'm without a TV at the moment, I decided to plug my XBox into my TV card (via bktr driver) and attempt to play the brilliant Burnout 3 via my monitor and mplayer. Unfortunately, as soon as things get busy (as they inevitably do in this game), the screen started to show signs of interlac

Re: SATA RAID Support

2005-02-27 Thread Mark Dixon
On Thursday 24 February 2005 16:14, Uzi Klein wrote: > > True, > I couldn't find anything has to do with SATA Raid @ > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html > > > Regards Björn Anything with a Silicon Image 3114 chip seems to work atapci1: port 0xcc00-0xcc0f,0xd000-0xd003,0xd4

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Dixon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Dec 2004, at 18:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: It seems to me that its a product of gnome being so many ports. Why not just have a few, like KDE (although it appears KDE is going the way of gnome - if this results in portupgrade not working there either,

Re: Beastie/ how about Mozilla?

2004-11-29 Thread Mark Dixon
On Monday 29 Nov 2004 18:20, Sam wrote: > > And here I thought it was just a T-Rex dinosaur. 'Buncha sinners. Dinosaurs are offensive too you know. God created man, woman, and animals and all that. No mention of dinosaurs. Must be the devils work. Fscking christians -- Mark 'If it compil

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-11-25 Thread Mark Dixon
On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 17:52, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > The NVIDIA drivers are completely crap! They do not work and contain > countless errors which will cause system failures on every single > machine I have tried to use them with. Do not ever buy or attempt to > use anything made by NVIDIA. They

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-11-25 Thread Mark Dixon
On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 16:13, alex bustamante wrote: > Yes, i know i can check out what cards are supported. I have a Nvidia card > now, it works ok. I was just curious to know of other cards that maybe > runs faster or some like that. Nvidia are a good option. They supply their own (binary only)

Re: Build of RELENG_5 fails in libmagic

2004-11-14 Thread Mark Dixon
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 21:01, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:17:31PM +0000, Mark Dixon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to build 5-STABLE, I have cvsuped the latest source, cleared > > out /usr/obj and I still get this problem. Any idea what co

Build of RELENG_5 fails in libmagic

2004-11-13 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi, I'm trying to build 5-STABLE, I have cvsuped the latest source, cleared out /usr/obj and I still get this problem. Any idea what could be causing it? Mark ===> lib/libmagic cat /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/Header /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/Localstuff /usr/src/lib

Build of RELENG_5 fails in libmagic

2004-11-13 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi, I'm trying to build 5-STABLE, I have cvsuped the latest source, cleared out /usr/obj and I still get this problem. Any idea what could be causing it? Mark ===> lib/libmagic cat /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/Header /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/Localstuff /usr/src/lib