Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Hi! I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.x onto old Packard Bell machine, it is Pentium-166 with 80Mb RAM and 10Gb HDD ("Orlando" motherboard). 6.2-BETA3 boot-only CD is no-emulation one and CD loader cannot boot this machine. I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. It successfu

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:26:22PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.x onto old Packard Bell machine, > it is Pentium-166 with 80Mb RAM and 10Gb HDD ("Orlando" motherboard). > > 6.2-BETA3 boot-only CD is no-emulation one and CD loader > cannot boot this machine. > >

Re: audit and quota don't get along

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Steve Wills wrote: I thought I'd try out the new audit support in 6.2-PRE and discovered that having quota enabled causes: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction p

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Olivier Mueller
Bonjour, On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:59 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > But of course if you (and Mike Jakubik) strongly suggest it would be a > > good idea, why not, I will give a try asap :-) Any special thing I > > should take care of when switching from the i686 kernel to the amd64 > > one?

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-14 Thread Spartak Radchenko
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 06:36 AM 11/13/2006, =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= wrote: O. Hartmann ÐÉÛÅÔ: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a nightmare. There was a

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:43:41PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. > > It successfully loads kernel and acpi.ko and shows menu > > formerly known as 'Beastie' (now draws 'FreeBSD' instead of Chuck). > > The menu shows that FreeBSD det

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Olivier Mueller wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > And you absolutely have no option of running FreeBSD/amd64 on > > them? What a PITA! :-) > > Ehm well, I must admit I never tried that, for a simple (and silly?) > reason: freebsd installation selects the i386 SMP kernel by default... >

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Olivier Mueller wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > The easiest way is to re-install with an /amd64 ISO. > > On new servers, sure. But on already active (and in production) > systems? I guess a make buildkernel is not enought, and > that at least a make buildworld would be necessary? Or even

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.x onto old Packard Bell machine, > > it is Pentium-166 with 80Mb RAM and 10Gb HDD ("Orlando" motherboard). > > [...] > > However, timer does not 'tick' and there is always 10 seconds left. > > I choose verbose

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:43:41PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > > I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. > > > It successfully loads kernel and acpi.ko and shows menu > > > formerly known as 'Beastie' (now draws 'FreeBSD' instead of Chuck). >

Re: em interrupt storm

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Jack Vogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/13/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just experienced an "interrupt storm" on an em device that disabled a > > server until I could reboot it. > > > > My initial research turned up this thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pi

128 Bucket Free Count

2006-11-14 Thread Chris
I asked this question of Freebsd questions yesterday but realize it probably needs to go to this list. I have a Tyan S4882 quad opteron with 8GB RAM on 6.2 PR running a healthy load of webserver traffic. This machine is hanging occasionally (it was able to make 4 days this time we put it in, we ar

Re: Frequent VFS crashes with RELENG_6

2006-11-14 Thread Vlad Galu
On 11/1/06, Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/31/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:34:59PM +0200, Vlad Galu wrote: > > >Yes, but for objective reasons I can't publish it :( > > The only > > debugging option that I didn't use was INVARIANTS. > >

Re: panic in swap_pager_swap_init (amd64/smp/6.2-pre)

2006-11-14 Thread Alex Vasylenko
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:06:22AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > - GENERIC (UP) kernel works fine; > > - SMP kernel fails in the same way; > > - my kernel (a stripped down SMP) with "options SMP" removed works; > > - my kernel with SMP enabled and either -v or -d (followed by cont) > > works. >

Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sorry for the late answer, but I was offline (deliberately) during the weekend, and hadd too much work yesterday. Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Using a normal UDP mount I had eratic come & go problems with amd > until I added to rc.conf > nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 10" > Turns out I had too f

Re: audit and quota don't get along

2006-11-14 Thread Steve Wills
On Nov 14, 2006, at 4:31 AM, Robert Watson wrote: A backtrace would be helpful. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06a1728 stack pointer = 0x28:0x

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't > > need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci > > and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is > > quite heavy-weight, so it can have a noticeable impact if >

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: Will the systems be quicker this way, or will it "just" help with this 4GB memory limit? Quicker - probably not. Will certainly help with the 4G limit. On a low level sort of way amd64 actually might be

Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-14 Thread Philipp Ost
Hi list, I just stumbled across a oddity when I use the `man'-command piped through `less' or `more'. What I do is the following: 1. $ man $some_program This works without problems. 2. $ man $some_program | less or: $ man $some_program | more This works without problems until I type

init can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: operation not permitted

2006-11-14 Thread Jacques Brouwers
Hi All, After upgrading (make buildworld ...) I do not receive the logon prompt anymore. I get the following message repeated on the screen numerous times. "init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: operation not permitted" Then every 10 minutes I get "last message repeated 20 t

Re: audit and quota don't get along

2006-11-14 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:02:43PM -0500, Steve Wills wrote: > On Nov 14, 2006, at 4:31 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > >A backtrace would be helpful. > > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0x0 > fault code = supervisor read, page not pres

Re: Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Philipp Ost wrote: > I just stumbled across a oddity when I use the `man'-command piped > through `less' or `more'. > > What I do is the following: > 1. $ man $some_program > This works without problems. > 2. $ man $some_program | less or: $ man $some_program | more > Thi

Re: RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

2006-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:50:21AM +0300, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:45:05PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:44:31AM +0300, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: > > > Hi, list. > > > > > > One from my monitoring servers running with > > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERE

Re: Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:03:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Just set $PAGER appropriately. By the way, the default > (if not set) is "more -s", which is the same as "less -s". > Therefore, piping output from man(1) through less(1) > doesn't really make sense. Maybe this should be done by the

Re: RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

2006-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:50:21AM +0300, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:45:05PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:44:31AM +0300, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: > > > Hi, list. > > > > > > One from my monitoring servers running with > > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERE

Re: Frequent VFS crashes with RELENG_6

2006-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:10:23PM +0200, Vlad Galu wrote: > On 11/1/06, Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 10/31/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:34:59PM +0200, Vlad Galu wrote: > >> > >> >Yes, but for objective reasons I can't publish it :(

Re: audit and quota don't get along

2006-11-14 Thread Steve Wills
On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: I'm wondering how many people are tripped over this feature of vn_open. Please, try the patch: That fixes it, thanks. Steve ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-14 Thread Atanas
Has anyone experiencing this: twa0: ERROR: (0x05: 0x2018): Passthru request timed out!: request = 0xca839d20 twa0: INFO: (0x16: 0x1108): Resetting controller...: twa0: INFO: (0x04: 0x005E): Cache synchronization completed: unit=0 ... twa0: INFO: (0x04: 0x005E): Cache synchronization complet

Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-14 Thread adam radford
Atanas, Are you running the latest 3ware firmware on that controller? -Adam On 11/14/06, Atanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone experiencing this: twa0: ERROR: (0x05: 0x2018): Passthru request timed out!: request = 0xca839d20 twa0: INFO: (0x16: 0x1108): Resetting controller...: twa0: I

help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-14 Thread George Hartzell
I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some feedback. The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a Tyan S2865G2NR motherboard. It has two drives: ad4: 286188MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 286188MB at ata3-master SATA300 A while back I n

Re: help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-14 Thread Clayton Milos
Some advice here from a guy that's been doing professional data recovery for years... Don't touch Maxtor. Ever. Luckily Fujitsu don't make ide drives any more. They were worse than Maxtor. If you have existing Maxtor dirves and can't change them make sure you keep them as cool as possible. I

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-14 Thread martinko
Aaron Burke wrote: > SNIP >>>(FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) >>>(FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) >> iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar >> missing something? > Well, technically no, but it requi

Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-14 Thread Atanas
adam radford said the following on 11/14/06 11:56 AM: Are you running the latest 3ware firmware on that controller? Yep. It's in dmesg.boot: twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: Model 9550SX-8LP, 8 ports, Firmware FE9X 3.04.01.011, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002 That's the latest one re

Re: help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-14 Thread Miroslav Lachman
George Hartzell wrote: I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some feedback. The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a Tyan S2865G2NR motherboard. It has two drives: ad4: 286188MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 286188MB at ata3-master

Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-14 Thread Mark Dotson
I've had continued problems with the 3ware series SATA cards and the Tyan boards. Specifically, I have a "Tyan S5360-1U" and both a 9500S-4LP and a 8506 series 3ware cards. In my case the first error is different, but the 'resetting' over and over is VERY familiar. This could be triggered by

SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-14 Thread Joe
Trying to get steam working properly on 6.1. Cant seem to comfirm/enable the SSE support. Tried the CPU_ENABLE_SSE option, but its "unknown". How do I enable this into my kernel? uname -a = FreeBSD ### 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006###:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/

Re: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-14 Thread Steven Hartland
Joe wrote: Trying to get steam working properly on 6.1. Cant seem to comfirm/enable the SSE support. Tried the CPU_ENABLE_SSE option, but its "unknown". How do I enable this into my kernel? uname -a = FreeBSD ### 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006###:/usr/obj/

Re: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-14 Thread Joe
is there some way to test to make sure its working properly. the guys from steam say that its not enabled and thats why my steam server wont start. so if i could prove that SSE is enabled and working i could send it to them. On 11/14/06, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe wrote: > T

Re: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:42:03PM -0500, Joe wrote: > is there some way to test to make sure its working properly. the guys from > steam say that its not enabled and thats why my steam server wont start. so > if i could prove that SSE is enabled and working i could send it to them. Check whether

Re: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-14 Thread NIIMI Satoshi
2006/11/15, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: is there some way to test to make sure its working properly. the guys from steam say that its not enabled and thats why my steam server wont start. so if i could prove that SSE is enabled and working i could send it to them. Try to check "hw.instruction_sse"

Fwd: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-14 Thread Joe
-- Forwarded message -- From: Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 14, 2006 8:59 PM Subject: Re: SSE support in 6.1? To: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor (1000.04-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff

Re: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-14 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:42, Joe wrote: > is there some way to test to make sure its working properly. the guys from > steam say that its not enabled and thats why my steam server wont start. so > if i could prove that SSE is enabled and working i could send it to them. Im guessing you're

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, November 14, 2006 01:39:04 +0300 Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> > > Btw, when will we see

Re: Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:03:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Just set $PAGER appropriately. By the way, the default > > (if not set) is "more -s", which is the same as "less -s". > > Therefore, piping output from man(1) through less(1) > > d