5.4-RC2 Cannot Boot boot-only iso (Tyan Tiger Again)

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Thought I would see if my Tyan S1834 + Promise TX2000 makes trouble for the BXT Loader in 5.4-RC2. Unfortunately it seems to - locks up immediately after printing (note - hand transcribed) FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader... ([EMAIL PROTECTED] The unusual factors with the machine are (guessing): 1

Re: NFS defaults for read/write blocksize....(Was: Re: 5.4/amd64 console hang)

2005-04-18 Thread Claus Guttesen
> >>By the way, I'm thinking that more frequently hang might related with > >>large read/write block in mount_nfs -r/-w (I use 8192, original is 1024). > > > > > > That's certainly possible since non-default settings don't get as much > > testing. It would be good to get a traceback. > > Has it e

tcpwrappers problem

2005-04-18 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, (using freebsd5.4-stable) I'm trying to display a ftpd banner with hosts.allow, but it doesn't work. I'm using ftpd (/usr/libexec/ftpd) started through inetd. Ined is started with standard flags: /usr/sbin/inetd -wW -C 60 In hosts.allow I have: ALL : ALL : allow ALL : ALL : banners /usr/loc

Re: tcpwrappers problem

2005-04-18 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Didier Wiroth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 6:26 AM Subject: tcpwrappers problem Hi, (using freebsd5.4-stable) I'm trying to display a ftpd banner with hosts.allow, but it doesn't work. I'm using ftpd (/usr/libexec/ftpd) starte

RE: tcpwrappers problem

2005-04-18 Thread Didier Wiroth
Damm ... ;-)) yes that's it thanks a lot didier >At first glance, I would say because you have an "ALL : ALL : allow" >before you have your "ALL : ALL : banners /usr/local/etc/banners/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

FTP insall booting from disc not floppies

2005-04-18 Thread Pete French
I want to do a clean (i.e. wipe the disc) install of FreeBSD 5.4 onto a set of remote machines. I have access to the consoles of these machines, but no access to the media (CD or Floppy). When you isnall from floppies they bopot a bare minimum system on a memory disc which then does an FTP install

5.4-RC2 keyboard problem on Dell PowerEdge 2850

2005-04-18 Thread Sławek Żak
Hi, After install from CD the keyboard doesn't work on this machine. Has anyone else seen it? /S -- Sławek Żak / UNIX Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscr

Re: 5.4-RC2 keyboard problem on Dell PowerEdge 2850

2005-04-18 Thread c0ldbyte
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-2] S³awek ¯ak wrote: Hi, After install from CD the keyboard doesn't work on this machine. Has anyone else seen it? /S Select the correct key map screen map etc... ? -- ( When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson 1998 )

MySQL signal 11

2005-04-18 Thread Uzi Klein
Hi I got this message from mysql-error log. Nothing visible on system log, but after it happens, mysql starts acting strange (shoes double fields values as 0 while is still contains the data - visible after restarting mysql) Hardware should be OK, nothing wrong in boot message and its a brand ne

Re: MySQL signal 11

2005-04-18 Thread Uzi Klein
Uzi Klein wrote: Hi I got this message from mysql-error log. Nothing visible on system log, but after it happens, mysql starts acting strange (shoes double fields values as 0 while is still contains the data - visible after restarting mysql) Hardware should be OK, nothing wrong in boot message a

Re: MySQL signal 11

2005-04-18 Thread Uzi Klein
Uzi Klein wrote: Uzi Klein wrote: Hi I got this message from mysql-error log. Nothing visible on system log, but after it happens, mysql starts acting strange (shoes double fields values as 0 while is still contains the data - visible after restarting mysql) Hardware should be OK, nothing wrong

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Steve Ames
- Original Message - From: "Brett Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:22 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote: > > >Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the > >salaries of the release engineering team for a few months, > > The same way they're being paid for their work o

Re: 5.4-RC2 keyboard problem on Dell PowerEdge 2850

2005-04-18 Thread Sławek Żak
On 4/18/05, c0ldbyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-2] SÂawek Âak wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > After install from CD the keyboard doesn't work on this machine. Has > > anyone else seen it? > > > > /S > > Select the correct key map screen map etc... ? Erm. When I say keyb

Re: 5.4-RC2 keyboard problem on Dell PowerEdge 2850

2005-04-18 Thread c0ldbyte
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-2] S³awek ¯ak wrote: On 4/18/05, c0ldbyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-2] SÂawek Âak wrote: Hi, After install from CD the keyboard doesn't work on this machine. Has anyone else seen it? /S Select the correct key map screen map etc... ? Erm

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:39 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: >Nothing stops someone other than the normal RE team from rolling something >release-esque (like a 4.X snapshot) and requesting that it be made available >for download on the FreeBSD sites or rolling your own release for >internal use. Perhaps. But

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Steve Ames
- Original Message - From: "Brett Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:39 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >Nothing stops someone other than the normal RE team from rolling something > >release-esque (like a 4.X snapshot) and requesting that it be made available > >for download on the Fre

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:00 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: >> Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases >> and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. > >It would recognize it as 4.11. Actually, it tends not to recognize it at all. If the string doesn't say "4.11-RELEAS

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:02:14AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote.. > At 10:00 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >> Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases > >> and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. > > > >It would recognize it as 4.11. > > Actuall

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Steve Ames
- Original Message - From: "Brett Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 10:00 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >> Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases > >> and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. > > > >It would recognize it as 4.11. > > Ac

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
Brett Glass wrote: > Actually, it tends not to recognize it at all. If the string doesn't > say "4.11-RELEASE", the software reports that ports, packages, etc. > can't be found. Try installing packages with /stand/sysinstall on > a snapshot and you'll see what I mean. Colin's "FreeBSD-update" seems

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:20 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: >Ah. Packages and /stand/sysinstall. Yeah. I haven't installed a package from >sysinstall in YEARS so I probably wouldn't have noticed that. Getting >security updates for packages using sysinstall is a total lose. cvsup and >portupgrade are my tools of choi

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:24 AM 4/18/2005, Colin Percival wrote: >I usually choose to allow users to shoot their own feet if they want, but >since I wrote FreeBSD Update primarily for the benefit of less experienced >FreeBSD users I decided that some anti-foot-shooting mechanisms were a >good idea. I understand. How

Re: PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ...

2005-04-18 Thread Joe Greco
> try what is used in the CD install boot: mount a kernel and use a > mfsroot. This maybe even more easy to setup. Take a look into boot/ > of CD1. Hmm. Closer. Actually it's a bit less easy to set up, since it involves downloading 650MB which is a bit much. I actually tried the "bootonly"

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0428 18:28]: > At 11:20 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >Ah. Packages and /stand/sysinstall. Yeah. I haven't installed a package from > >sysinstall in YEARS so I probably wouldn't have noticed that. Getting > >security updates for packages using sysinstall is

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Jean-Simon
Brett Glass wrote: > Yes, this works most of the time. But, as mentioned above, you can be > surprised when you update your ports and suddenly find that (a) you > can't even deinstall because of changes to a port, or (b) you go back > to a port to compile it with different options and find that the

Re: NFS defaults for read/write blocksize....(Was: Re: 5.4/amd64 console hang)

2005-04-18 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Claus Guttesen wrote: By the way, I'm thinking that more frequently hang might related with large read/write block in mount_nfs -r/-w (I use 8192, original is 1024). That's certainly possible since non-default settings don't get as much testing. It would be good to get a traceback. Has it even be

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
Dick Davies wrote: >All the grief with 'x depends on y and z, z needs i' and all that rubbish go >away with portupgrade in my experience - I tend to hook openldap into >everything, >and that gets upgraded fairly regularly. On netbsd it takes an afternoon to >clean >up the mess - portupgrade was

Re: Misleading security message output

2005-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Joel wrote: [ ... ] Maybe it's because I'm such a newb, but I'm wondering which program has what bug? Is it that the default configuration files for the login logs doesn't put on age limit on the rotation? Is it that the log lines don't conain a full 4-digit year in the timestamp? This last one is

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0401 21:01]: > Dick Davies wrote: > > >All the grief with 'x depends on y and z, z needs i' and all that rubbish go > >away with portupgrade in my experience - I tend to hook openldap into > >everything, > >and that gets upgraded fairly regularly. On netbsd

Re: NFS defaults for read/write blocksize....(Was: Re: 5.4/amd64 console hang)

2005-04-18 Thread Claus Guttesen
> By the way, I'm thinking that more frequently hang might related with > large read/write block in mount_nfs -r/-w (I use 8192, original is 1024). > >>Has it even been considered to up these values to something bigger?? > > Read- and write-size of 32768 seems to work optimal for me: > How

Re: NFS defaults for read/write blocksize....(Was: Re: 5.4/amd64 console hang)

2005-04-18 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Claus Guttesen wrote: How did you come to this conclusion? What kind of workload? To make a short story long ;-) Last year just after christmas I got a new storage system and had an opportunity to replace our Linux-nfs-server with FreeBSD. I searched the archives for nfs-related tuning-information

Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-18 Thread Jim Campbell
I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble. This afternoon I used the "Updating Sou

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-18 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 18 April 2005 04:51 pm, Jim Campbell wrote: > I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD > for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 > because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, > Red Hat Linux and NetBSD hav

5.4-RC2 kldload snd_driver crashes ums0

2005-04-18 Thread ryan
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 on an IBM Thinkpad T42. I am using a Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye which is detected when I boot and becomes ums0. However, when I do kldload snd_driver (the only way I have found to get sound going), it silently crashes ums0. Part of my question

FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available

2005-04-18 Thread Ken Smith
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, the third Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. Due to one major issue that crops up on large (4-processor) systems under heavy load that is still being debugg

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-18 Thread Jim Campbell
Many thanks to all of you who very promptly gave me the information necessary to progress beyond this point. Even at 70, I continue to learn. I never know when I subscribe to a new list how newbie questions will be received. Based on this small sample, I am quite favorably impressed. Thanks a

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available

2005-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
Ken Smith wrote: > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability > of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 [...] We encourage people to help with testing [...] I've been running 5.4-RC2 for the past week without problems (and -RC1 for a week before that, and -BETA before that). Should I

Re: 5.4-RC2 Cannot Boot boot-only iso (Tyan Tiger Again)

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The 5.4-RC3 boot-only works...I will try a complete installation. - Mark Mark Kirkwood wrote: Thought I would see if my Tyan S1834 + Promise TX2000 makes trouble for the BXT Loader in 5.4-RC2. Unfortunately it seems to - locks up immediately after printing (note - hand transcribed) FreeBSD/i386

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available

2005-04-18 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Mon, April 18, 2005 9:38 pm, Colin Percival said: > Ken Smith wrote: > >> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the >> availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 [...] We encourage people to help with >> testing [...] > > I've been running 5.4-RC2 for the past week without problems (a

usb cd burner not working

2005-04-18 Thread Low Kian Seong
Dear People, I am using a LITEON usb cd-rw model LTR-52327SX. I am trying to burn a cd using this cd-rw. The problem is when I connect it and boot up, there are a bunch problems regarding 'umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed' errors. I have tried googling around for a solution but most of the

Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : "kldload random" missing?

2005-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:48:37PM -0700, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > > I noticed that 'random.ko' module is required by ssh, > especially when running the server sshd. However, the > sshd script in /etc/rc.d does not verify the pressence > of the random.ko module and neither loads it if > necessary. Sh

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available

2005-04-18 Thread David Vastine
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:51:06PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > and worked out. At this point the only major problem has been the above > mentioned issue of large server (4 processors or more) hanging under extreme > load conditions (varied load of local processes like database and heavy > network

Re: discarded oversize frames

2005-04-18 Thread Kyle Mott
Have you found a solution to this? I am having the same problems on a machine very recently updated (cvsupped + buildworld on 4/14/2005): kernel.log:Feb 25 13:46:40 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 3db4 flags 3 len 8381 > max 1514) kernel.log:Apr 10 14:27:37 trinity kernel:

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-18 Thread Claus Guttesen
> Many thanks to all of you who very promptly gave me the information > necessary to progress beyond this point. Even at 70, I continue to learn. Very impressive! Good luck. regards Claus ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd