RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi! 7.0-RELEASE images came out with FIVE disks - disc 1 to 3 and separate LiveFS and docs. What do they contain? I can guess that 2 and 3 are pure packages so I don't need to download them if I want to compile out from ports. And in previous releases I had to download the disc1 ONLY as it had Liv

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested the howto from http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3 FreeBSD release which boots on my pc but doesn'

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:17AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: >>> I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested >>> the howto from >>> http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:17AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all systems > works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later stage. Uh, no. amd64 kernels rely on information that only the loader supplies, such as the mem

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:37:03PM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: > Last time I looked (in FreeBSD 4.x) these were connections that got > stuck in an early stage, that is, before the HTTP request had been > received. The 'accf_http' filter which wants to parse said request > waits forever in this si

Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)

2008-03-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org This sybject has nothing to do with [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posting to 2 FreeBSD lists is deprecated. hackers@ is for releases. Attempting to shrink to one list, this posted with: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc: freebsd-sta

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all > > systems works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later > > stage. > > All of what you've said is correct. I'm not sure who's having > problems with GRUB on USB sticks, be

[kern/sys_pipe.c] PIPE_NODIRECT and pipe throughput

2008-03-07 Thread Dmitry Antipov
Hello all, recently I've tried a few benchmarks around pipe throughput on Linux vs. FreeBSD. Everyone interesting can see my stuff at http://213.148.29.37/PipeBench, and initial post to Linux kernel developer mailing list at http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0803.0/1837.html It was

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Michael Gratton! On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:52 +1100; Michael Gratton wrote about 'Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it': >> * I have never liked how IPv6 denotes its addresses by using colon- >> delimited hexadecimal strings. > The glib answer would be "and this is why we have the DNS". Yes i

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Jeremy Chadwick! On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:01:43 -0800; Jeremy Chadwick wrote about 'Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it': >> Makes it harder to debug, etc. Don't want to see anything IPv6 related in >> command output, to let programs to bind on IPv6 addresses, etc. > Changing the Subject (but k

FreeBSD 6.2/6.3/7.0 install CD boot panic

2008-03-07 Thread Balgansuren Batsukh
Hello, I tried to install FreeBSD-6.2/6.3/7.0 on Dell E520. When it get boot install CD, ask me language selection then panic. I mean keyboard, mouse no response, only can power off. Dell hasn't any serial port for debug. Only I use digital camera to capture screen. I tried to all boot opti

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: > > I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested > > the howto from > > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u > >sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Vincent Mialon wrote: > The boot selector is shown and I can choose between the two images that > nanobsd generated. When it times out BTX crash with very fast scrolling > lines. When I shutdown I can see "BTX Halted" with processor registers > written on the screen. I tried different ways to b

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 04:53:55 pm Pete French wrote: >> I want to take a disc partition on one box and make it available to >> another box to be mounted. Under 7.0 it looks like I have a choice >> of using either ggated to do this, or the new iscsis initiator. Does >> anyo

Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
07.03.08 @ 16:10 Julian H. Stacey wrote: To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org This sybject has nothing to do with [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has because 6.3-RELEASE is also affected with docs issue, and future releases 6.4 and 7.1 will be in both branches, as ell as 8.0. Cc: [EMAIL P

RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-07 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, We have been building RELENG_6_x source trees from read only NFS file systems for well over a year now with out any problems. However I have just tried to do "make buildworld" on a RELENG_7_0 source tree from yesterday and it failed to build with the following error: ===> gnu/usr.bin/c

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
> Last time I used it the iscsi-target port had some significant bugs, but > looking through cvs it looks like those may have been addressed. I can't > really speak to performance. Reliability should be all right as long as > you don't have frequent network issues. Thanks for the warning - do y

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
> According to at least two reports, iSCSI initiator in 7.0-RELEASE is > buggy and has problems that manifest in very low performance. There are > patches for it which should be committed soon. > > See this thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-February/003383.html Thanks

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua Coombs
Derek Taylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 09:50 PM Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS, and if present remove it. This fixed the problem. Thank you. -Derek. I can confirm a failure in the same spot. What concerns me is in both my failure, and Derek's, the mallo

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Oertel
David Malone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:37:03PM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: > >> Last time I looked (in FreeBSD 4.x) these were connections that got >> stuck in an early stage, that is, before the HTTP request had been >> received. The 'accf_http' filter which wants to parse said reque

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread David Malone
> So having the queue showing full in the netstat should be normal, and > not have any side effects? btw, i tested this on 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and 7.x, > they all appear to behave in the same fashion. I must admit that I did not check netstat, but I believe you would always see a full queue in netstat o

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Oertel
David Malone wrote: > I must admit that I did not check netstat, but I believe you would > always see a full queue in netstat once the machine had been running > for a while. My test was to open a large number of connections, and > check that once I exceded the backlog that previous connections > w

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 March 2008 11:25:39 am Pete French wrote: > > Last time I used it the iscsi-target port had some significant bugs, > > but looking through cvs it looks like those may have been addressed. > > I can't really speak to performance. Reliability should be all right > > as long as you don't

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 March 2008 10:08:59 am Ivan Voras wrote: > John Nielsen wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2008 04:53:55 pm Pete French wrote: > >> I want to take a disc partition on one box and make it available to > >> another box to be mounted. Under 7.0 it looks like I have a choice > >> of using eit

FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Darran
Hello all, I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? Do i have to do a degree in configuration to allow it to face the wild west (internet) ? I also want to use it for storage of media and serving of media .

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Jason Evans
Joshua Coombs wrote: Derek Taylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 09:50 PM Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS, and if present remove it. This fixed the problem. Thank you. -Derek. I can confirm a failure in the same spot. What concerns me is in both my failure,

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:02 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: Hello all, I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? Yes, today it is. But that does not necessarily mean you will not need to do updates, apply patches, perhaps change

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua Coombs
Jason Evans wrote: cc1 was only trying to request 130MB, my datasize is 512MB, why did it fail? It looks to me like gcc is trying to allocate a single 130MiB object, but you don't say anything about how much memory is already in use. It may well be that there are no remaining places in the m

[PATCH] Update pkg_add -r

2008-03-07 Thread walt
Looks like pkg_add -r is failing on RELENG_7: --- main.c.orig 2008-03-07 10:20:00.0 -0800 +++ main.c 2008-03-07 09:58:56.0 -0800 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ { 502100, 502128, "/packages-5-current" }, { 503100, 599000, "/packages-5-stable" }, { 600100, 699000, "/

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:54:53AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > Joshua Coombs wrote: >> Derek Taylor wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 09:50 PM Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS, and if present remove it. >>> >>> This fixed the problem. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>>

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Darran
Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:02 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and > >wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? > Yes, today it is. But that does not necessarily mean you will n

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:43 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: building the world etc etc, i think the question really boiled down to is it safe to run it after an install and minor configuration and i believe that at this point it is .. We have a number of busy production boxes running 7.0 (spam/virus scanning of email

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 March 2008 09:13:12 am John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: > > > I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested > > > the howto from > > > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/03/2008, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 10:08:59 am Ivan Voras wrote: > > According to at least two reports, iSCSI initiator in 7.0-RELEASE is > > buggy and has problems that manifest in very low performance. There are > > patches for it which should be c

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread security
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:02 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: Hello all, I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? Yes, today it is. But that does not necessarily mean you will not need to do updates, apply pa

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/6/08, Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In other words; if I have machines with ipv6 adresses that I can reach > globally, but don't have a dns name for them, the usefulness is very > limited. > > Is that challenge solved somehow with ipv6? > It doesn't look like dyndns.org suppor

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote: > Try this instead: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch Hi John, I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with the regular btx loader... :( Might it not be a nice idea to put out a RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_0 b

[Panic] Removing of the Palm during select syscall causes panic

2008-03-07 Thread Oleg Sidorkin
Hello, I'm running 7.0-Stable on the ASUS P5K-VM + Intel Q6600 box. If Palm device is disconnected after synchronization, system crashes with following stacktrace: #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:194 #1 0x0004 in ?? () #2 0x802bea49 in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_s

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote: > > Try this instead: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch > > Hi John, > > I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with > the regular b

Re: RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-07 Thread Xin LI
Tom Judge wrote: Hi, We have been building RELENG_6_x source trees from read only NFS file systems for well over a year now with out any problems. However I have just tried to do "make buildworld" on a RELENG_7_0 source tree from yesterday and it failed to build with the following error:

musicpd segfaults on run - was advised that it's an issue with the system

2008-03-07 Thread Ross Penner
Hi, I've recently run the upgrade gamut and moved from 6.3 to 7.0. I've had a few hick ups but this one I can't resolve. I used musicpd (http://www.freshports.org/audio/musicpd/) on 6.3 to stream to a shoutcast server. When I start mpd on 7.0, it immediately has a segmentation fault and dumps its

[releng_7 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2008-03-07 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:14 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:14 - starting RELENG_7 tinderbox run for powerpc/powerpc TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:14 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:32 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:32 - /