Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-22 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam McDougall wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:36:43AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: > > Randy Bush wrote: > > > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it cr

Re: 8.0-RC USB problem -- how to recover a damaged USB stick

2009-11-22 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Sunday 22 November 2009 04:40:27 Guojun Jin wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to revocer such damaged USB stick? Hi, There are several recovery tools in /usr/ports for this kind of task. For example photorec . --HPS ___ freebsd-stable@fr

Re: 8.0-RC USB/FS problem

2009-11-22 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Sunday 22 November 2009 05:38:13 Guojun Jin wrote: > Tried on the USB hard drive: > > Deleted slice 3 and recreated slice 3 with two partitions s3d and s3e. > Was happy because successfully did dump/restore on s3d, and thought it just > partition format issue; but system crashed during dump/rest

BIOS resource allocation and FreeBSD ACPI

2009-11-22 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi, I see this problem over and over again... some time ago I created this PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/135070 and I just saw it has been duplicated: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140751 maybe the later one should be closed as a duplicate... anyway I think I s

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-22 Thread Adam McDougall
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:00:03AM +0100, Svein Skogen (listmail account) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam McDougall wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:36:43AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Johan Hendr

HEADS UP: removal of PECOFF support in RELENG_[67]

2009-11-22 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
Hi, I'd like to give you a heads up that I intend to also remove PECOFF support from the stable/7 and stable/6 branches. PECOFF support is non-working and unmaintained in those FreeBSD releases and has lately still seen public security problems. PECOFF support is already gone in the upcoming 8.

openoffice stuck in _umtx_op

2009-11-22 Thread Mikhail T.
Hello! I'm trying to start OOo, and it hangs at start-up -- after popping up its banner page. ktrace shows the following, slowly repeating, sequence of events: [...] 32726 soffice.bin CALL _umtx_op(0x805d09060,0x8,0x1,0x805d09040,0x7fbfeef0) 32726 soffice.bin RET _umtx_o

Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950

2009-11-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > This 1950 may predate that a bit, but I'm not sure how to nail it down > > exactly, other than by it's hardware components. Anyways, 7.0 does the > same > > thing --- still wedged. > > I haven't seen anyone recommend this as a test met

RE: 8.0-RC USB/FS problem

2009-11-22 Thread Guojun Jin
>From more intensive diagnose, it looks like more related USB layer. repeated a few time on following process and ithe crash happened at different USB access phase at each time. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=1000 bs=4k sysinstall partition slice 1 (da0s1) 18GB ID=12

Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950

2009-11-22 Thread Brian Seklecki
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:56 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > I've now verified that 8.0-RC3 does the same thing, BTW. > > Anyways... no. There is no floppy option in the BIOS. It's not in Dell BIOS absolutely sucks. You get what you pay for. We have 25+ 9th gen systems. Revision 1, with

Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950

2009-11-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > >> >> > This 1950 may predate that a bit, but I'm not sure how to nail it down >> > exactly, other than by it's hardware components. Anyways, 7.0 does the >> same >> > thin