Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > Put ipv6_enable="YES" into your /etc/rc.conf > > > > Yeah but I need to reboot to have it work it's magic.. > > > > I'd like to know what goes on behind the mask. > > It works like this: > > If ipv6_enable="YES", then you have a "true" from > /e

Re: Single user mode behaviour with serial console in 7.0RC2

2008-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:51:46PM +1100, Geoff Roberts wrote: > Hi, > > I have built a FreeBSD 7.0RC2 system to use both the serial and video > consoles. > > I find that when I drop into single user mode (shutdown now) on the terminal > connected to the box itself I do not see the single user

Single user mode behaviour with serial console in 7.0RC2

2008-02-16 Thread Geoff Roberts
Hi, I have built a FreeBSD 7.0RC2 system to use both the serial and video consoles. I find that when I drop into single user mode (shutdown now) on the terminal connected to the box itself I do not see the single user mode prompt on the serial console terminal. Likewise, when I drop to single

ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Is anyone aware of the situation where FreeBSD behaves erratically when a disk is physically removed without "atacontrol detach ataX" being run prior to removal (at least on RELENG_7)? Below are my notes from said situation. I can provide remote access to this machine (serial-level) to whoever wa

Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-16 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Feb 16, 2008 7:07 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone aware of the situation where FreeBSD behaves erratically when > a disk is physically removed without "atacontrol detach ataX" being run > prior to removal (at least on RELENG_7)? Yes, I have seen this since 4.5, IIRC.

7.0-RC2 package glitch

2008-02-16 Thread Wayne Chapeskie
I maintain a cluster of FreeBSD machines, and for various reasons tend to do clean installs or re-installs on my machines with each new release. As a result, I've been doing some testing involving clean installs from the 7.0-RC* releases, and noticed a small glitch in the initial package installat

Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:08:38PM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008 7:07 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone aware of the situation where FreeBSD behaves erratically when > > a disk is physically removed without "atacontrol detach ataX" being run > >

Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-16 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
17.02.08, 02:08, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > precautions prior to yanking the disk. Upon reinsertion, the system > > found the disk and I could continue I/O operations on it as if it had > > never been removed. Only reason I'm pointing this out is that it > > confirms the i

tmpfs: strange behaviour (was: broken buildkernel (scsi_low and -Os) and duplicate manpages)

2008-02-16 Thread David Naylor
On 14/02/2008, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Naylor wrote: > > It is a strange problem, normal installworld works fine, but somehow > > the duplicate manpages result in a failure when installing with > > DESTDIR=, here are some possible reasons: > > > > 1) I use tmpfs when u