Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?

2009-01-28 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi All, Any body find a solution to this? I have run into the same problem as John Rushford, installing on a HP Compaq DX2300 Microtower. After a make kernel, I boot into single user mode and end up this: atkbd0: [ITHREAD] Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec I expect to see my disk, ad0 being de

problem with "cold" hardware? [Was: panic in callout_reset: bad link in callwheel]

2009-01-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 24/01/2009 13:00 Andriy Gapon said the following: [snip] > Additional info: > I recently added some new memory to this system. > The memory survived several passes of memtest86 before booting to > FreeBSD. It also survived one pass after the incident. > Still I wouldn't exclude a possibility of

HEADS UP: multi-IPv4/v6/no-IP jails merge to 7-STABLE ahead

2009-01-28 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
Hi, I have a possible MFC candidate patch at: http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20090128-02-jail7-mfc.diff to merge the multi-IPv4/v6/no-IP jails to 7-STABLE. My plan would be to do so during the weekend of 6-8th February 2009. In addition to what the patch says at the beginning

Mount cryptsetup-luks partition on 7.x?

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Has anyone seen any information on accessing a common cryptsetup-luks container created on Fedora from FreeBSD 7.x? Are there any other cross-platform (linux/freebsd) strategies that might work better? -Nick ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

smp_tlb_shootdown bottleneck?

2009-01-28 Thread pluknet
Hi. Sometimes I see much contention in smp_tlb_shootdown while running sysbench: sysbench --test=fileio --num-threads=8 --file-test-mode=rndrd --file-total-size=3G run kern.smp.cpus: 8 FreeBSD 7.1-R CPU: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 93.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 5.4% idle Mem: 11M Active, 2873M In

Re: HEADS UP: multi-IPv4/v6/no-IP jails merge to 7-STABLE ahead

2009-01-28 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, I have a possible MFC candidate patch at: http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20090128-02-jail7-mfc.diff to merge the multi-IPv4/v6/no-IP jails to 7-STABLE. My plan would be to do so during the weekend of 6-8th February 2009. In addition to

Solved: Reproducible panic (page fault) in poll on 6.3-RELEASE-p4

2009-01-28 Thread Stef
Stef Walter wrote: > I have a kernel panic that I can consistently trigger. After a short > while (5 to 30 minutes) with a certain connection pattern of UDP openvpn > connections the server crashes. > > I have a crash dump, and stack trace. It seems td->td_selq has been > corrupted (see below). S

Re: problem with "cold" hardware? [Was: panic in callout_reset: bad link in callwheel]

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Snow
Andriy Gapon wrote: Previously I heard about problems with hardware running hot, but not with it being "cold". I put the word in quotes, because the system is in a room with normal room temperature. Any guesses what hardware part might be acting up like this? Power supply. Give all the capaci

Re: problem with "cold" hardware? [Was: panic in callout_reset: bad link in callwheel]

2009-01-28 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:22:26AM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: > >Previously I heard about problems with hardware running hot, but not > >with it being "cold". I put the word in quotes, because the system is in > >a room with normal room temperature. > > > >Any guesses what hard

jail: external and localhost distinction

2009-01-28 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
Dear colleagues, am I right concluding that under FreeBSD jail there is no way to attach two processes to the same port of external interface address and localhost? I tried to move rather standard two-tier nginx(ip:80)+apache(127.1:80) scheme into a jail and on apache start got [Thu Jan 29 00:

Re: jail: external and localhost distinction

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Snow
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: am I right concluding that under FreeBSD jail there is no way to attach two processes to the same port of external interface address and localhost? I tried to move rather standard two-tier nginx(ip:80)+apache(127.1:80) scheme into a jail and on apache start got In Fr

Re: jail: external and localhost distinction

2009-01-28 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > am I right concluding that under FreeBSD jail there is no way to attach two > processes to the same port of external interface address and localhost? It depends. Do those jailed processes have to communicate with each other, or only with the host system? If they do

How about a 5-foot pencil?

2009-01-28 Thread Motivate Kids!
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RE: cheap usb ethernet

2009-01-28 Thread SDH Support
> hail, > > I need an usb ethernet, but found just one from aue and axe from 7.1 > hardware list. is there any apart from those there ? I looked on ebay > for > my search. > > thanks, > > matheus D-link's usb 2.0 ethernet devices work fine and are ~$30 : http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=133

NFS writes calling FSYNC and ASYNC not consistent

2009-01-28 Thread Brent Jones
Hello FreeBSD users, I am running into some performance problems with NFSv3/v4 mounts. I have a Sun X4540 running OpenSolaris 2008.11 with ZFS exporting NFS shares The NFS clients are a FreeBSD 6.3 32 bit, quad core xeon with 4GB ram and a FreeBSD 7.1 32bit with same hardware. The issue I am seein

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-28 Thread Dan Allen
While this enabled the mouse (without HAL), it did nothing good about: a. The bogus keyboard scans. Everyone is talking about an xorg.conf The new X.org 7.4 upgrade hit me too: no keyboard & no mouse! Bummer. I found that if I simply added to /etc/rc.conf: hald_enable="YES" that things now

7.1 new install halts on BTX error

2009-01-28 Thread David Adam
I upgraded my 7.0 system to 7.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update only to find that it no longer boots correctly, instead crashing with a BTX backtrace. If I break to the loader prompt and use 'ls /boot', I also get a backtrace. A new install of 7.1 on this hardware using a separate SCSI card and dri

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-28 Thread Dan Allen
Although the hald_enable in /etc/rc.conf worked, I noticed that a lot of other demons get running. I needed to add dbus_enable as well. That fix is too intrusive in my book. In any event Firefox is now broken and does not run at all. I backed out the /etc/rc.conf changes and generated an x

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-28 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 21:11 -0700, Dan Allen wrote: > Although the hald_enable in /etc/rc.conf worked, I noticed that a lot > of other demons get running. I needed to add dbus_enable as well. > That fix is too intrusive in my book. > > In any event Firefox is now broken and does not run at a

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-28 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Dan (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:39:10 -0700) * | > While this enabled the mouse (without HAL), it did nothing good about: | > | >a. The bogus keyboard scans. You are quoting me and I need to clarify... | Everyone is talking about an xorg.conf | The new X.org 7.4 upgrade hit me too: no k

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-28 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Robert (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:11 -0500) * | > Now I can use X again BUT... Firefox 3.0.5 is still broken. It has =20 | > worked fine until this new Xorg. | | Firefox not working is one of the symptoms of a botched upgrade. If you | ldd firefox-bin you will likely find that it is li

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-28 Thread Larry Baird
In article you wrote: > ,--- You/Robert (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:11 -0500) * > | > Now I can use X again BUT... Firefox 3.0.5 is still broken. It has =20 > | > worked fine until this new Xorg. > | > | Firefox not working is one of the symptoms of a botched upgrade. If you > | ldd firefox-bin