Problem with aac0 on FreeBSD 6.1R/amd64

2006-09-03 Thread Huang wen hui
hi, I have Dawning A950(4 CPUs) with raid card " Adaptec SCSI RAID 2230SLP". when install FreeBSD 6.1R/amd64, everying is fine except probing aac: aac0: COMMAND 0x TIMEOUT AFTER XXX SECONDS kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled. This machine can install TurboLinux. Thankfull f

6.X wont boot on Dell XPS 700

2006-09-03 Thread Frank
I have a new XPS 700 Pentium D 3.6 Dual Core with 2 gigs RAM, 2 250 GB SATA drives, and 2 NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS video cards. So far I have tried: 6.0-RELEASE - will boot to sysinstall but finds no drives. 6.1-RELEASE - hangs after probing md0 and first hard drive. 6.1-STABLE - hangs after pro

FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC?

2006-09-03 Thread Johan Ström
Hi I'm about to get a "new" server... In this case what I'm looking at is a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC mobo with nForce3 250Gb chipset, and a AMD 64 3200+ Venice S939. Does anyone have any experience with FreeBSD (6.1) and this mobo/ chipset? Does the network work? How good? SATA? Any stability/ p

Re: LSI/amr driver controller cache problem?

2006-09-03 Thread Bob Willcox
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Patrick M. Hausen wrote: [snip] > > It is very arguably a bug in the LSI firmware if it is actually dumping > its cache when a PCI reset occurs, especially if a battery unit is > present. However, I seriously doubt that you will get an

FreeBSD bemused by USB card reader

2006-09-03 Thread Michael Abbott
I was playing with a USB card reader and FreeBSD, and I've discovered some quirks that I imagine need attention. The driver involved is umass(4). The card reader itself has four slots in which various formats of flash card can be inserted, and is a USB device. The quirks are as follows: 1.

Re: atheros driver: countrycode and athdebug

2006-09-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Daniel Dvoøák wrote: >> You can override the country code but the potential values >> depends on the regdomain. I thought hw.ath.countrycode was >> r/w but it appears you can only set via the tunable api (kenv >> hw.ath.countrycode=XXX). The dev.ath mib must be r/o since >> you cannot (yet) c

cron abuse

2006-09-03 Thread Don Wilde
I reinstalled my crontab (with crontab -e) after a user edited the crontab directly and nothing appears to be working now. The mails I get suggest that it's trying to find 'root' and 'operator' as programs. Would somebody kindly help me recover from this copilot error? I can't find anything in cro

Re: atheros driver under high load, panics and even more freezes

2006-09-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Daniel Dvořák wrote: > Ok, I will upgrade my boxes and I will do simple ping tests again. > > Did you see my sysctl.conf file ? > > I mean these options: > > kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 > net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1 > net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 > > Could be this connected with increasing lat

Re: cron abuse

2006-09-03 Thread Don Wilde
On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Formats for /etc/crontab & user-specific crontabs are different; the former contains a field for the user under whose auspices the command should be run, while the latter does not (as it's implied by the owner of the crontab in question). Pea

Re: cron abuse

2006-09-03 Thread Don Wilde
On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > ... > Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. Sure thing. > Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab back into > /etc/crontab. OK. > This is what's driving me

Re: cron abuse

2006-09-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:57:44AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > >> ... > >> Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. > > > >Sure thing. > > > >> Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling t

Re: FreeBSD bemused by USB card reader

2006-09-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:29:06 + (GMT) > From: Michael Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. > > --0-817021360-115729

Re: cron abuse

2006-09-03 Thread Don Wilde
One good thing about your problem is it reminded me I'd forgotten to MFC the anti foot shooting measure I added a while back which causes crontab to refuse to load /etc/crontab as a user crontab. It doesn't try very hard, but it does prevent the most common error. -- Brooks Which is what happe

Re: FreeBSD bemused by USB card reader

2006-09-03 Thread Michael Abbott
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Michael Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # ls /dev/da* /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da2 /dev/da3 /dev/da3 How very very strange. Strange, yes. Surprising, no. umass (and USB support) is not in the best of shape in FreeBSD.

Recovering Swap Partition

2006-09-03 Thread Ron Tarrant
Hi all, After a random power outage, my FreeBSD 6.1 box failed to reboot because the swap partition is toast. The disklabel looks to be intact. I've been researching all afternoon trying to find out how to recover the swap with something like newfs, but I haven't found any examples of how to d

malloc(): warning: recursive call

2006-09-03 Thread Stefan Bethke
Just got this while running a script that uses mail(1) to send mail: mail in malloc(): warning: recursive call mail: Out of memory: Programming error $ uname -a FreeBSD schoner 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #11: Tue Aug 29 09:46:29 CEST 2006 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EISENBOOT i386 $ ls

Re: Recovering Swap Partition

2006-09-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 03), Ron Tarrant said: > After a random power outage, my FreeBSD 6.1 box failed to reboot > because the swap partition is toast. The disklabel looks to be > intact. I've been researching all afternoon trying to find out how to > recover the swap with something like newfs, b

Re: FreeBSD bemused by USB card reader

2006-09-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
> > On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> From: Michael Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >># ls /dev/da* > >>/dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da2 /dev/da3 /dev/da3 > >> How very very strange. > > Strange, yes. Surprising, no. > > > > umass (and USB support) is not in the best o

Re: malloc(): warning: recursive call

2006-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Stefan Bethke wrote: > mail in malloc(): warning: recursive call > Cosmic rays? Anything I could try to find the cause? I know what it is, but you won't going to like it. As far as I understand this happens when a process gets a signal in the middle of using malloc(), and the signal handler also

cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=400?????

2006-09-03 Thread Paul Mather
I have a Netgear FA511 Cardbus NIC that I am trying to use in a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop running 6.1-STABLE, but with limited success. When I insert it, I get the message "cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=400" appear as part of the cardbus probe. The card superficially "works

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-03 Thread Morten A. Middelthon
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:23:21AM -0500, Alex Salazar wrote: > Apologies for the long message, and thanks in advance for any response. > > I've just bought one of those new generation Dell servers, specifically, > the PowerEdge 1950. > > This is a dual Intel Dual Core Xeon 5050, 3.0 GHz, 667MHz

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-03 Thread Morten A. Middelthon
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:47:21AM +0200, Morten A. Middelthon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:23:21AM -0500, Alex Salazar wrote: > > Apologies for the long message, and thanks in advance for any response. > > > > I've just bought one of those new generation Dell servers, specifically, > > the

Re: malloc(): warning: recursive call

2006-09-03 Thread Sean Winn
On 04/09/2006, at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Stefan Bethke wrote: mail in malloc(): warning: recursive call Cosmic rays? Anything I could try to find the cause? I know what it is, but you won't going to like it. As far as I understand this happens when a process gets a signal in the middle