Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:48:35 +1100 Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pretty much everytime I'm getting a lockup, i'm either streaming music > from my music box or on a skype call. Not much to go by, but there > isn't any logs left at all of the crash. It is not a panic (no writing > dum

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Doug Poland
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 "freezing". There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:47:29PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > I've done serial console redirection before but this laptop has no > serial port. Can I get console redirection via firewire? Can you point > me at some docs? Check out http://wiki.freebsd.org/DebugWithDcons Brix -- Henrik Brix An

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 "freezing". There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:48:35PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:09 -0600 > Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 > > "freezing". There is no diagnostic information, nothing in > > /var

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:48:35 +1100 Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But i still get the occasional lockup. I have a feeling it is related to > using the sound card : > > $ cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) > Installed devices: > pcm0: at memory

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:09 -0600 Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 "freezing". > There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, > nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the machin

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 > > "freezing". There is no diagnostic information, nothing in > > /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh > > i

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:07:46PM -0800, Karol Mroz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 > > "freezing". There is no diagnostic information, nothing in > > /var/log/messages

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Karol Mroz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 "freezing". > There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, > nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the machine and it > a

Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 "freezing". > There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, > nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the machine and it > appears the box ceases to communicate on SSH. A

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-31 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Scot Hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mike Pumford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:56:58 AM Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-31 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/30/07, Mike Pumford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > > > > Previously I didn't mention that there are some functions missing from > > > > the FreeBSD's NDIS api. These are: > > > > With the help of NDIS reference and Linux ndiswrapper I have been able > > >

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
Robert Marella wrote: > It is looking like a hardware problem. I update portmaster to 1.24 and > it didn't help. When I tried with the -B option it froze in a different > place. I then csup the latest source rm'd /usr/obj and attempted a > buildworld. > > Lo and behold it froze up. It has been ve

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) > > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: > >> > >>> Aloha > >>> > >>> [

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it was -current. I have been updating at l

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: > > > Aloha > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a > > FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 > > 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Pumford
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Previously I didn't mention that there are some functions missing from the FreeBSD's NDIS api. These are: With the help of NDIS reference and Linux ndiswrapper I have been able to implement all but KeBugCheckEx (they are all rather simple but I Can help y

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it was -current. I h

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Yuri Lukin
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:34:12 +0100, Luis Neves wrote > > "ath" card > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:22:0:0: class=0x02 card=0xcb2114b9 > chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros > Communications Inc.' device = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g > Wireless Adapter' class

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Yousif Hassan
> There are no FreeBSD drivers for the included intel 4965AG card. > I've tried to use the ndiswrapper framework without success. The ndisgen > wizard > runs without issues, but kldloading the driver freezes and reboots the > machine. This occurs if the Windows driver contains function calls t

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message > From: Luis Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:24:40 PM > Subject: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure > > > Hi all. > So far I've failed to have a working wireless c

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Yuri Lukin
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote > Hi all. > So far I've failed to have a working wireless connection with this > combination. > > There are no FreeBSD drivers for the included intel 4965AG card. > I've tried to use the ndiswrapper framework without success. The > ndisgen wiz

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Luis Neves
Yuri Lukin wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote FWIW, I have a T61 (not the "p" version) with 7.0-PRERELEASE from Oct 15th and have an integrated IBM miniPCI card that uses the ath driver without any problems: ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112,

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Wayne Chapeskie wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:21 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > > The 7.0-BETA1 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD > > mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use > > I've been doing some install testing of the 7.0-BETA1 i386 ISO's,

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-25 Thread Wayne Chapeskie
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:21 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > The 7.0-BETA1 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD > mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use I've been doing some install testing of the 7.0-BETA1 i386 ISO's, and have found a small glitch or tw

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-24 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:21 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle which > also means the beginning of the FreeBSD-6.3 Release cycle. Because the > people who support the ports for FreeBSD also need to go through a > freeze cycle as part of rele

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
rihad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question was more a theoretical one: it's called BETA for some > reason, otherwise it'd still be in HEAD. To me BETA means that no major > architectural changes are expected in it any more, no? That's correct. In theory, if BETA had no bugs (and no new o

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:00:42PM +0500, rihad wrote: > >>rihad wrote: > >>>How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the > >>>intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. > My question was more a theoretical one: it's called BETA for some > reason, otherwi

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread rihad
Greg Byshenk wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: rihad wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. We've used 7-CURRENT since January on a couple of production b

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > rihad wrote: > >How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the > >intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. > We've used 7-CURRENT since January on a couple of production boxes and > ha

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-23 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
rihad wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. We've used 7-CURRENT since January on a couple of production boxes and had very few disasters, well, none, but a couple of issues. "Risky" is a relativ

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-23 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:57:52 +0200, rihad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. BTW, where can I find 7-STABLE release notes? It's not here: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.htm

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-23 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message > From: Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:21:00 AM > Subject: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon... > > > We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle which