Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2006-04-05 Thread Rutger Bevaart
It doesn't look like a power problem. We have it with several systems in different datacenters. I've tried the "giantlock" setting, let's hope it works! Am I safe to assume that it can (negatively) impact performance of the system? What can be the cause of "fine grained locking" causing the

Re: new feature: private IPC for every jail

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Apr-04 12:46:58 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>By merging the prison ID into the IPC ID, a non-jailed process can be >>allowed to see (and control) jailed IPC without needing any changes to >>ipcs/ipcrm. A non-jailed process won't be able to a

sunix rs-232 pcmcia card

2006-04-05 Thread Ondra Holecek
hello, i have this pcmcia card with two rs-232 connectors - http://www.sunix.com.tw/ipc/sunix_en/detail.php?class_a=16&prod_id=57#spec it is sunix CBS2000X with Oxford CF950 UART (16C950 compatible) host controller. but it doesn't seem to work with fbsd, i have added this record do pucdata.

"smb_maperror: Unmapped error 1:158"----[FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, samba-3.0.10, 1 , samba-libsmbclient-3.0.10_1]

2006-04-05 Thread 163
Sir: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE samba-3.0.10,1 samba-libsmbclient-3.0.10_1 windows 2003 1. a share-folder is in windows-2003. 2. mount_smbfs -I windows-2003-ip //hostname/folder /usr/home/alan/zfsbackup 3. about 60 servers have same crontab to make ftp connect to the Freebsd server,an

GEOM_RAID3: Device datos is broken, too few valid components

2006-04-05 Thread José M. Fandiño
Hello list, Last night one disk of my desktop machine dead causing a hard lock of the computer. It was a component of a mirror volume so it wasn't as serious as it initially looked. Unfortunately, the metadata structure of my data partition (a geom raid3 array with tree components ) see

cron jobs running 6 times

2006-04-05 Thread jason
Something odd happened to my 5.4-RELEASE system a few weeks ago. My cron jobs are running 6 times. Everything else looks ok but I'm getting six copies of my rk sweep, index update, etc. Any ideas why? -- -Jason - --- There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS I'm very probably wrong. --- "

something changed with 'ps' ?

2006-04-05 Thread Michael Butler
In particular, the command-line used by the nagios plug-in check_procs produces: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/imb> /bin/ps axwo 'state uid ppid vsz rss pcpu ucomm command' Segmentation fault (core dumped) Removing 'ppid' stops it from dumping core, -- Michael Butler, CISSP Security Architect Prot

serial console installation of 6.1-BETA4

2006-04-05 Thread Harti Brandt
Hi, is the above supposed to work? I tried to follow what is written in the installation manual: unplugging the keyboard does nothing, booting with 'boot -h' gives me all the kernel's device probing messages on both the serial console and the normal console, but after 'mounting root from ...

Re: something changed with 'ps' ?

2006-04-05 Thread Michael Butler
I wrote (in too much of a hurry :-(): In particular, the command-line used by the nagios plug-in check_procs produces: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/imb> /bin/ps axwo 'state uid ppid vsz rss pcpu ucomm command' Segmentation fault (core dumped) Removing 'ppid' stops it from dumping core, That sho

Re: something changed with 'ps' ?

2006-04-05 Thread Michael Butler
James Raftery wrote: Hmm. This is the only commit that jumps out at me as being related to ps: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=347962+0+current/cvs-src Might be worth a shot to retry with the previous revision. It is definitely related - 'pcpu' doesn't work, '%cpu' does .. -- M

Re: serial console installation of 6.1-BETA4

2006-04-05 Thread Dmitriy Kirhlarov
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 05:46:59PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > > > is the above supposed to work? I tried to follow what is written in the > installation > manual: unplugging the keyboard does nothing, booting with 'boot -h' gives me > all the > kernel's device probing messages on both the s

Re: something changed with 'ps' ?

2006-04-05 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:29:45AM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: > In particular, the command-line used by the nagios plug-in check_procs > produces: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/imb> /bin/ps axwo 'state uid ppid vsz rss pcpu ucomm > command' > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Removing 'ppid'

Re: something changed with 'ps' ?

2006-04-05 Thread Michael Butler
Kostik Belousov wrote: This is result of MFC of rev. 1.73, 1.74 of bin/ps/keyword.c. Try the following fix: [ .. snip .. ] That fixes it, thanks! -- Michael Butler, CISSP Security Architect Protected Networks http://www.protected-networks.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Sig

Re: something changed with 'ps' ?

2006-04-05 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 7:14 PM +0300 4/5/06, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:29:45AM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: > > Removing 'pcpu' stops it from dumping core, This is result of MFC of rev. 1.73, 1.74 of bin/ps/keyword.c. Try the following fix: Index: bin/ps/keyword.c

Re: cron jobs running 6 times

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 11:24:29 -0400, jason wrote: >Something odd happened to my 5.4-RELEASE system a few weeks ago. My cron >jobs are running 6 times. Everything else looks ok but I'm getting six >copies of my rk sweep, index update, etc. Any ideas why? It's fairly obvious but you have checked

Re: cron jobs running 6 times

2006-04-05 Thread jason
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 11:24:29 -0400, jason wrote: Something odd happened to my 5.4-RELEASE system a few weeks ago. My cron jobs are running 6 times. Everything else looks ok but I'm getting six copies of my rk sweep, index update, etc. Any ideas why?

smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
smartd stopped working here after I cvsuped to the latest 6.1 pre-release: »smartd[4109]: Device: /dev/ad4, not ATA, no IDENTIFY DEVICE Structure« Any hints? -- Markus ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:46 PM 05/04/2006, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: smartd stopped working here after I cvsuped to the latest 6.1 pre-release: »smartd[4109]: Device: /dev/ad4, not ATA, no IDENTIFY DEVICE Structure« Same here on 2 different chipsets. However, rebuilding smartmontools seems to fix it! [gp-kit

Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I'm disappointed by the stablity of FreeBSD 6-stable (I known it's developpement branche). I'm using FreeBSD from 3.4 and using regulary 5-stable in production. Now on my central server (nfs server) I make big update, and running 6-stable from 02/2006. From this date until today I've 4

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > I'm disappointed by the stablity of FreeBSD 6-stable (I known it's > developpement branche). You forgot to provide pointers to your PRs. Kris pgpNutCgTrwLq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:07:27PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm disappointed by the stablity of FreeBSD 6-stable (I known it's > > developpement branche). > > You forgot to provide pointers to your PRs. By this

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Albert Shih
Le 05/04/2006 à 16:07:27-0400, Kris Kennaway a écrit > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm disappointed by the stablity of FreeBSD 6-stable (I known it's > > developpement branche). > > You forgot to provide pointers to your PRs. Well... I don't

Re: smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:01:00PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 03:46 PM 05/04/2006, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >smartd stopped working here after I cvsuped to the latest 6.1 pre-release: > > > >»smartd[4109]: Device: /dev/ad4, not ATA, no IDENTIFY DEVICE Structure« > > Same here on 2 differen

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:00PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 05/04/2006 ? 16:07:27-0400, Kris Kennaway a ?crit > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I'm disappointed by the stablity of FreeBSD 6-stable (I known it's > > > developpement bran

Re: smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:19:56PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:01:00PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 03:46 PM 05/04/2006, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > >smartd stopped working here after I cvsuped to the latest 6.1 pre-release: > > > > > >?smartd[4109]: Device

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Albert Shih
Le 05/04/2006 à 16:21:00-0400, Kris Kennaway a écrit > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:00PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > Le 05/04/2006 ? 16:07:27-0400, Kris Kennaway a ?crit > > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > > > > > I'm disappointed by the s

Re: cron jobs running 6 times

2006-04-05 Thread Chris
Quoting jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 11:24:29 -0400, jason wrote: Something odd happened to my 5.4-RELEASE system a few weeks ago. My cron jobs are running 6 times. Everything else looks ok but I'm getting six copies of my rk sweep,

Re: smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:23 PM 05/04/2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: If this was necessary then you didn't completely upgrade (e.g. buildworld); your kernel was out of sync with your userland. I did a full buildworld / buildkernel. Still had to rebuild the port. Perhaps a note in UPDATING ? ---Mike __

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Claus Guttesen
> As a general rule: unless you can explain your problem in sufficient > detail, preferably including either how to reproduce it, or at least > an exact description of what happens when it fails, it's unlikely that > anyone can help you. What type of hardware is the nfs-server running on? What typ

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:37:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > OK I just do it. I just hope the maintainer can understand me... > > > > > As a first step: you say your server crashed. Did it panic? Do you > > have debugging settings (INVARIANTS, WITNESS) enabled? Do you have > > DDB enabled?

Re: smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:45:00PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:23 PM 05/04/2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >If this was necessary then you didn't completely upgrade > >(e.g. buildworld); your kernel was out of sync with your userland. > > I did a full buildworld / buildkernel. Still had to

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:37 PM 05/04/2006, Albert Shih wrote: NB: Why this kind of problem can happen ? I ask this because until 6. I never have this kind of problem. Think about it this way, if one of your users came to you and said, "its not working. I need you to fix it"... You would start by getting your

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:00PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 05/04/2006 à 16:07:27-0400, Kris Kennaway a écrit > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I'm disappointed by the stablity of FreeBSD 6-stable (I known it's > > > developpement bran

Re: smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Jakubik
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:23 PM 05/04/2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: If this was necessary then you didn't completely upgrade (e.g. buildworld); your kernel was out of sync with your userland. I did a full buildworld / buildkernel. Still had to rebuild the port. Perhaps a note in UPDATING ? C

Re: smartmontools and latest 6.1 prerelease

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:15 PM 05/04/2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:23 PM 05/04/2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: If this was necessary then you didn't completely upgrade (e.g. buildworld); your kernel was out of sync with your userland. I did a full buildworld / buildkernel. Still had to rebuild

bind() fd 6, family 28, port 123 at boot time

2006-04-05 Thread Miguel
Hi, looking at the messages i see errors with ntp everytime i reboot my server: shiva2# tail /var/log/messages Apr 5 15:32:46 shiva2 kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a Apr 5 15:32:46 shiva2 ntpd[385]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Tue Mar 14 04:43:54 UTC 2006 (1) Apr 5 15:32:46 shiva2 ntpd[385

Re: cron jobs running 6 times

2006-04-05 Thread jason
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Chris wrote: Some possible clarity? Are there other user crontabs running? Nope. It's basically a single-user system. -- -Jason - --- There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS I'm very probably wrong. --- "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has i

Frustrating inability to boot amd64

2006-04-05 Thread David Gilbert
At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards. On this latest board, it can turn off APIC. If I do that, FreeBSD hangs after detecting the disks. The only "wrong"

Re: cron jobs running 6 times

2006-04-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 5, 2006, at 16:28, jason wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Chris wrote: Some possible clarity? Are there other user crontabs running? Nope. It's basically a single-user system. You might want to check the start times for those processes with the cron log. That may give some clues. _

Re: Frustrating inability to boot amd64

2006-04-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/5/06, David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, > AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system > --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards. On this latest board, > it can turn off APIC. If I do that

Re: bind() fd 6, family 28, port 123 at boot time

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Andrews
> Hi, looking at the messages i see errors with ntp everytime i reboot my > server: > > shiva2# tail /var/log/messages > Apr 5 15:32:46 shiva2 kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > Apr 5 15:32:46 shiva2 ntpd[385]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Tue Mar 14 04:43:54 UTC > 2006 (1) > Apr 5 15:32:46

Re: Frustrating inability to boot amd64

2006-04-05 Thread David Gilbert
> "Jack" == Jack Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jack> On 4/5/06, David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, >> AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system >> --- this has happened on 3 out of four boa

No drives detected with TX4000

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I swapped out a TX2000 for a TX4000 today, and naively thought that I'd just be able to plug in the new card and reboot. Unfortunately, it does not detect the 4 drives (Maxtor 6E040L0). Booting off the 6.0R install cd shows the card detected ok, and 6 ATA channels - 2 on-board + 4 on-card. Run

ps column header case changes

2006-04-05 Thread Rong-En Fan
Hi, I just updated my world from Feb's RELENG_6 as of today. I noticed that the column header of ps's output is changed from upper to lower case. $ ps awx -r -o user|head -1 user This is used to be USER. I found that changes in ps/keyword.c rev 1.75 causes this (this is already MFC'ed). Regards

Re: ps column header case changes

2006-04-05 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:08 PM -0400 4/5/06, Rong-En Fan wrote: Hi, I just updated my world from Feb's RELENG_6 as of today. I noticed that the column header of ps's output is changed from upper to lower case. $ ps awx -r -o user|head -1 user This is used to be USER. I found that changes in ps/keyword.c rev 1.7

Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all, I will be getting my very first 64-bit x86 system tomorrow and I don't know anything about the platform at the software level. The last time I touched an AMD based system was in the socket 7 days. HELP!, what do I do with the extra 32-bits of CPU goodness? :-) $200 bucks got me a Athl