Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-23 Thread Dick Davies
* Dan Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0705 21:05]: > Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), > or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? > > If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up > custom network images that I could blast to a

Trouble with PHP4-extensions

2005-07-23 Thread Jack Raats
I had installed Apache, PHP4.40 and imap on a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE server. It worked OK. I had to recompile IMAP and after this apache refuses to start. I have to recompile the php4-imap part of php. How to do this? Deinstall php4 completely and then reinstall it or Can i use the extensions to rec

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-23 Thread Pete French
> if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is > slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so I'm leaning that way, but it > would be a rather pointless savings if SMP isn't well supported. Well, I've not triied it under amd64, but i386 SMP has been rock stable for me since I upgraded to

FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies

2005-07-23 Thread Alex Burke
Hi All, I was trying to boot a system from the installation floppies, and after the kernel booted it dropped me out into a mountroot prompt. I am posative its not meant to do this, it should start sysinstall. I am not exactly sure what to do from here on, should i specify ufs:da0s1a...would that

Re: FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies

2005-07-23 Thread Matthias Buelow
Alex Burke wrote: >I was trying to boot a system from the installation floppies, and >after the kernel booted it dropped me out into a mountroot prompt. I >am posative its not meant to do this, it should start sysinstall. >I am not exactly sure what to do from here on, should i specify >ufs:da0s1a

Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors

2005-07-23 Thread Steve
Ok, I applied the ata mkiii patches onto my freebsd 5.4 on our least important machine that I was speaking of in my first email here, and, so far, for an hour, no read or write dma errors! Running udma now instead of pio4 which I had to use before. Massive speed difference of course. This is t

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Danny Howard wrote: While I agree with Karl that introducing instability is a very bad thing, I guess we now have an answer to Karl's vexation yesterday: [ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-July/017210.html ] "What I don't understand Robert is w

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: It is definitely NOT fixed in 6.0-BETA1 Within SECONDS of starting a buildworld after the provider rebuild completed, I got this... Could you file a PR based on this report? Specifically, if you could include: - The error output below. - If po

Re: Trouble with PHP4-extensions

2005-07-23 Thread Abu Khaled
On 7/23/05, Jack Raats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had installed Apache, PHP4.40 and imap on a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE server. It > worked OK. I had to recompile IMAP and after this apache refuses to start. I > have to recompile the php4-imap part of php. > > How to do this? > Deinstall php4 compl

Re: Trouble with PHP4-extensions

2005-07-23 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
On 7/23/05, Jack Raats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had installed Apache, PHP4.40 and imap on a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE server. It worked OK. I had to recompile IMAP and after this apache refuses to start. I have to recompile the php4-imap part of php. How to do this? Deinstall php4 completely and

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:53:02PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Danny Howard wrote: > > >While I agree with Karl that introducing instability is a very bad > >thing, I guess we now have an answer to Karl's vexation yesterday: [ > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freeb

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
Done. Note that the Bustek and Adaptec cards which exhibit the problem BOTH identify the same (on two different machines) as SII 3112 boards, and BOTH fail. There are minor differences in the interrupts and memory mapping used (which is to be expected, as there are peripherals in the production

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:01:36PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > Done. > > Note that the Bustek and Adaptec cards which exhibit the problem BOTH > identify the same (on two different machines) as SII 3112 boards, and > BOTH fail. > > There are minor differences in the interrupts and memory mapp

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:43:34AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:01:36PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > Done. > > > > Note that the Bustek and Adaptec cards which exhibit the problem BOTH > > identify the same (on two different machines) as SII 3112 boards, and > > BO

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500? 3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series) th

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:22 PM 21/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: ATA-NG (Soren's new code) is not (from what I understand) in the 5.x codebase. No, but its quite different from what was in 4.x. My understanding is that the 5.x code is a half-baked version of ATA-NG, and IMHO it had no business going into a P

My Seagate Baraccuda doesnt PROBE on version 5.x

2005-07-23 Thread James
Hi! I was using version 4.x of freeBSD and it works fine. In a following days, I decide to change on version 5.4. During on booting process and detecting hardwares, in a bit of portion my two (2) Seagate 40G Baraccuda ( Primary Master and Secondary Master) was not been successfully detected and I

Re: My Seagate Baraccuda doesnt PROBE on version 5.x

2005-07-23 Thread Graham Menhennitt
James wrote: I was using version 4.x of freeBSD and it works fine. In a following days, I decide to change on version 5.4. During on booting process and detecting hardwares, in a bit of portion my two (2) Seagate 40G Baraccuda ( Primary Master and Secondary Master) was not been successfully dete

Stupid question: 6.0b1 LORs - who wants 'em?

2005-07-23 Thread Marc Ramirez
I'm running 6.0-BETA1 to help out the effort, and I got a lock order reversal. I assume I'll get more. Should I be filing PRs for these? Posting them here? Is there better debugging info I can turn on? Which is better, salmon or tuna? Jul 23 21:41:25 devel kernel: lock order reversal Jul 23 2

Re: make -j as a stress test

2005-07-23 Thread Rommell Barcela
Karl Denninger wrote: Near as I can find out, the 3114's only difference is that it has 4 ports instead of 2 (which seems obvious, but if you look around, that's what it looks like) I bet this problem bites anyone with a 3114 chipset too - can someone test and confirm? I have a Tyan Transport

Re: make -j as a stress test

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
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"Save as page..." freezes firefox for 15 minutes

2005-07-23 Thread manfred
When the first time after loading firefox I choose File/Save Page as... firefox freezes for 15 minutes. Then the "Save as" window opens and all works fine. After newly choosing File/Save Page as... the "Save as" windows opens up instantaneously. The problem doesn't disappear even after deleting ~

Re: "Save as page..." freezes firefox for 15 minutes

2005-07-23 Thread Ben Kaduk
On 7/24/05, manfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the first time after loading firefox I choose File/Save Page as... > firefox freezes for 15 minutes. Then the "Save as" window opens and all > works fine. > > After newly choosing File/Save Page as... the "Save as" windows opens up > instantane

Re: "Save as page..." freezes firefox for 15 minutes

2005-07-23 Thread manfred
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:00:04 +, Ben Kaduk wrote: > I can't say that I'll be able to help you, but whoever can will want to see > the output of 'ps -axl' for the firefox process, and perhaps what 'top' has > to say as well. Can you send this information to the list? > Thanks for your repl

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-23 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > Personally I don't have the first clue what people have found to gripe > about. It has been good, it got a _lot_ better in 5.x, and it's continuing > to improve. I agree. At work I have a couple of very old 4-way servers (one wit