Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 02:17:21PM +0100, Alex Samorukov wrote: > On 11/07/2011 02:06 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:53:36PM +0400, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: > >>>>btw, 3dm can tell about reallocated sector count on sas somehow, > >>

Re: em0 watchdog timeout

2011-11-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
xd: 206 > dev.em.0.mac_stats.tx_frames_64: 0 > dev.em.0.mac_stats.tx_frames_65_127: 0 > dev.em.0.mac_stats.tx_frames_128_255: 0 > dev.em.0.mac_stats.tx_frames_256_511: 0 > dev.em.0.mac_stats.tx_frames_512_1023: 0 > dev.em.0.mac_stats.tx_frames_1024_1522: 0 > dev.em.0.mac_stats.tso_txd: 36

Re: pkg_add -r does not find packages FreeBSD 9.0 rc1

2011-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
up doesn't have, please tell us what that is so someone can implement it or provide a workaround; the less crap you have to install on your system the better (and I for one do not care for the language cvsup is written in, while csup is purely C). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: question on netstat statistics.

2011-11-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
iterations. I don't particularly care what the man page says, I just know what works. :-) If you're wanting "netstat -s" output but on a per-interface basis, those statistics are not tracked per-interface. Maybe netgraph can do that for you, I do not know. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: question on netstat statistics.

2011-11-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:56:07PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't particularly care what the man page says, I just know what > > works. :-) > > If there is something in the man page that is not precise,

Re: 8.2 + apache == a LOT of sigprocmask

2011-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t repeated hundreds of times in a row. > > The calls cannot come from rtld, they are generated by some setjmp() > invocation. If signal-safety is not needed, sigsetjmp() should be used > instead. > > Quick grep of the apache httpd source shows a single setjmp() in their > copy

Re: SIOCGIFADDR broken on 9.0-RC1?

2011-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
DHCP > is added at the end of the tail. > > Is that a wanted behaviour? I find it dangerous (i.e. not exactly what a user > is expecting). > > Note: my aliases are attributed to jails. I would recommend adding synchronous_dhclient="yes" to /etc/rc.conf. This will cause dhclien

Re: Possible to build 9-stable kernel on 8.2?

2011-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ain (e.g. the stuff in /usr), which may not be compatible with the version of the kernel source you're trying to build. Hope this makes sense to readers. Two "extra steps" which I do: - Before step 1, I do rm -fr /usr/obj/* - Before step 7, I do rm -fr /usr/share/man/*

Re: 8.2 + apache == a LOT of sigprocmask

2011-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:12:10AM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:59:06PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > On 11/16/2011 23:49, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:46:27PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > >> On 11/15/201

Re: Trouble with SSD on SATA

2011-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
me light on the confusion. Generally speaking you want to be using ahci.ko, mav@ and many others have spent a lot of time working on that and getting it to play nice with CAM -- it's beautiful, and hot-swapping works perfectly on all the Intel ICHxx systems I've tried it on (ICH7R, ICH9R).

Re: mount GPT from Windows 7 in FreeBSD 9

2011-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
2eb2b4ae25102c.squir...@eternamente.info> 3910 11/19 03:20 Nenhum_de_Nos (1.1K) mount GPT from Windows 7 in FreeBSD 9 Message-ID: <1c312a399e23d546f05f5e8396763323.squir...@eternamente.info> -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius N

Re: panic: make_dev_credv: bad si_name (error=17, si_name=pass2)

2011-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> ada1: ATA-6 SATA 2.x device > ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) > ada1: Command Queueing enabled > ada1: 20480MB (41943040 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) > ada1: Previously was known as ad4 My recommendation is to remove VirtualBox from the pict

Re: panic: make_dev_credv: bad si_name (error=17, si_name=pass2)

2011-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 04:32:33PM +, Johannes Totz wrote: > On 20/11/2011 16:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 03:34:36PM +, Johannes Totz wrote: > >>(Sent twice, first one bounced...) > >>Just got a panic on 9-stable, running inside Virtua

Re: kernel: deget(): pcbmap returned 6

2011-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t you were doing at the time. If it happened when you weren't at the computer, possibly a cron job or periodic job iterated over the filesystem and tickled the error message in question. I do not know who is responsible for msdosfs at this time. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: TCP Reassembly Issues

2011-11-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
mediate attention. I would strongly recommend a developer or clueful end-user begin tracking down who committed all of these bits and CC them into the thread. I would start by looking who implemented the net.inet.tcp.reass.cursegments sysctl, because that isn't in RELENG_8 at all. -- | J

Re: TCP Reassembly Issues

2011-11-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:05:06PM -0500, George Mitchell wrote: > On 11/24/11 21:00, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >[...] > >If none of this solves the problem, then I consider this a priority 0 > >blocker (read: "all hands on deck") issue with the IP stack in FreeBSD

Re: TCP Reassembly Issues

2011-11-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ELENG_9!"; that is completely backwards and I refuse to get into a flame war about it, because it's this simple: 90%+ of those running FreeBSD on servers need something that's stable, we can't risk wonkiness (especially of this degree!) on systems taking production traffic. Did

Re: TCP Reassembly Issues

2011-11-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:56:47PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:49:24AM -0600, Kris Bauer wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Lawrence Stewart > > wrote: > > > > > On 11/25/11 13:01, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > > > >

Re: Sporadic 9.0-RC2 boot-time panic

2011-11-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
p = 0xff8000329d00, rbp = 0 --- > Uptime: 46s > Dumping 657 out of 12263 MB:..3% We need the following things: * uname -a output * dmesg output (only details specific to emX NICs please) * pciconf -lvcb output (only details specific to emX NICs please) CC'ing Jack Vogel (drive

Re: Low nfs write throughput

2011-11-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rnel. > > If you can test the patch then it is something I will likely put into the > next release. I have already tested it as far as robustness locally, what > I don't have are good performance tests. It would really be helpful if you > were able to test it. John, We'd like to test

Re: ps, systat vs top shows different process owner?

2011-12-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s running as UNIX user jdc: $ ps -a -U jdc | grep smbd jdc 28599 0.0 0.0 9100 1500 1 S+7:21AM 0:00.00 grep smbd I use smbpass/pdbedit for my SMB<-->UNIX correlation database: # pdbedit -u jdc jdc:1000:Jeremy Chadwick Versions of things: $ pkg_info | grep samba samba36-3.6.1

Re: r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of a completely different name) probably on Saturday, but I do not have time today or on Sunday to do it. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:32:20PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > There are multiple places where this needs to get defined for it to > work. Sorry I should be more clear (I woke up ~15 minutes ago). I'm referring to the fact that OpenSSH build points in FreeBSD are ""scat

Re: r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 05:51:03PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > If the WARNING message that is output to stderr > > bothers you, use -T. > > > > This says -T disables the NONE cipher: > >

Re: r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t) that adds the WITH_OPENSSH_NONE_CIPHER src.conf knob. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=163095 Read PR for patch download URL. :-) HTH! -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/

Re: Two problems still present in RC3

2011-12-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in mind the possibility that both of you are experiencing different problems. I have no evidence at this point to support or refute that claim, but it's something that needs to be considered. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in as they see fit. I know folks were focused mainly on buildworld. I personally would find it interesting if someone with a higher-end system (e.g. 2 physical CPUs, with 6 or 8 cores per CPU) was to do the same test (changing -jX to -j{numofcores} of course). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n 7.1-RELEASE came out on 2009/01/05. "All of the answers", in a roundabout and non-user-friendly way, are available by examining the commit history for src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c. It's hard to follow especially given that you have to consider all the releases/branchpoints th

Re: directory listing hangs in "ufs" state

2011-12-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
try booting the machine in single-user mode and using "fsck -f" on the filesystem in question. Can you verify there's no problems with the disk this file lives on as well (smartctl -a /dev/disk)? I'm doubting this is the problem, but thought I'd mention it. -

Re: Hot-changing a failed HDD with ahci.ko

2011-12-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, PIO 8192bytes) > ada1: Command Queueing enabled > ada1: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) You might try booting RELENG_9 (which has ahci.ko as the default, so no need to mess about) on a LiveCD or equivalent and attempt the same thing. I'm left wonderin

Re: directory listing hangs in "ufs" state

2011-12-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ne of mongodb thread is in "biowr" state for a long > time. It periodically calls msync(MS_SYNC) accordingly to ktrace > out. > > If I'll remove msync() calls from mongodb, how often data will be > sync by OS? > > -- > Andrey Zonov > > On 14.12.2011 2

Re: directory listing hangs in "ufs" state

2011-12-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:47:10PM +0400, Andrey Zonov wrote: > On 14.12.2011 22:22, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:11:47PM +0400, Andrey Zonov wrote: > >>Hi Jeremy, > >> > >>This is not hardware problem, I've already checked that. I

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ised by the worse > performance of FreeBSD when it comes to threaded I/O. The differences > between Linux and FreeBSD of the same development maturity are > tremendous and scaring! Agreed. Linux has the upper hand in many areas, and this is one of them. Please do not think this

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ems. Nor do I find any references to it in /usr/src (on any system). Is this a RELENG_9 setting? Please explain where it comes from. I hope it's not a custom kernel patch... > kern.sched.preemption: 0 This differs; default value is 1. > kern.sched.name: ULE > kern.sched.slice: 1

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rbour a community of folks who are more argumentative/aggressive than, say, Linux (generally speaking). In this thread though, I think all of us really want to assist in some way to figure out what exactly is going on here, scheduler-wise, and see if we can put something together to han

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ies and provide the data somewhere central for devs to review. I only mention this because so far I haven't seen anyone really say "okay, this is what we should be using for these kinds of tests". Yay nature of the beast. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at p

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:26:27PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote: > 2011/12/13 Jeremy Chadwick : > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:47:57PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> > Not fully right, boinc defaults to run on idprio 31 so this isn't an > >> > issue. And yes, ther

Re: swi4: clock taking 40% cpu?!?

2011-12-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
kely but possible)? Sort of grasping at straws here. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for other

Re: swi4: clock taking 40% cpu?!?

2011-12-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:35:39PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 15), Jeremy Chadwick said: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:51:28PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > > Web server under heavy'ish load (7 on a 2 cpu system) running > > > 8.2

Re: net/samba36 winbindd core dump on group lookup

2011-12-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
os, somewhere down at the bottom there is something remotely coherent. Keep in mind, however, that a software crash can sometimes completely smash the contents of the calling stack, which makes after-the-fact debugging very difficult. I would strongly advise opening up a ticket with the S

Re: 8.2->9.prerel: gmirror failed with error 19

2011-12-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
your old rc.conf, make.conf, config files that reference ATA devices (/dev/adXX) etc. are all updated to reflect the new device naming convention. Finally, please be aware that when transitioning between FreeBSD versions, you cannot 100% reliably/safely copy your old kernel configuration file. You

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ystem to store logs/data results. The KTR stuff Atillio and many others have requested, I think, will be the most beneficial way to get the developers the data they need. I had no idea about it until I found out that KTR was something completely different than ktrace. I still haven't found

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
clear: > > man make.conf(5) says, that MALLOC_PRODUCTION is a knob set in > /etc/make.conf. > The WiJi says, MALLOC_PRODUCTION is to be set in /etc/src.conf. > > What's right and what's wrong now? I can say with certainty that this value belongs in /etc/make.conf (on RE

Re: Mystery panic, FreeBSD 7.2-PRE

2011-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
hould actually read (I think): > devfs_lookup() at 0x802a7824 = devfs_lookup+0x264^M > VOP_LOOKUP_APV() at 0x804d5995 = VOP_LOOKUP_APV+0x95^M > [24165][irq261: plx0] DEBUG (hasc_sv_rcv_cb): rcvd hrtbt ts 24051, 7/9, rc 0^M -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:00:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:58:46 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > Hi, > &g

Re: PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=4096?

2011-12-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
clever (well I thought so anyway): http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt Other info: http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-4-sect-2 > On 12/22/2011 05:07 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >Also, be aware that the above stack trace is interspersed. Ultimately > >

Re: PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=4096?

2011-12-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rces to help with upgrading. But for sake of example, we have a FreeBSD RELENG_6 box (6.4-STABLE) in our cluster that has actively been up for 385 days (went down a year ago because of co-lo maintenance I was doing on power conduits). If this machine suddenly panic'd, would I report the bug t

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s. I would have summed it up as: "responsibility's a bitch". Try to remember: Damien admitted point blank, up front, that his Email was a rant. You know what they say about opinions, right? ;-) All in all, I do hope everyone here has a good holiday season, regardless if that's u

Re: stuck /etc/rc autoboot processes

2011-12-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
lled the world > - run mergemaster -FiPU > - rebuild ports This doesn't look correct. The process you should be following is documented plainly in /usr/src/Makefile. You're missing some steps. Try doing what I recommended above, and following what's in /usr/src/Makefile

Re: stuck /etc/rc autoboot processes

2011-12-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:45:37AM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 12/28/11 10:46 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 12/27/11 10:22 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 07:46:52PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > > The "upgrade" tha

Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9

2011-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
his task, as the amount of text will be too much to type in (many, many screens worth). Simply showing a photo of the last screen where it locks up may not be sufficient. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9

2011-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
output from the system when it was running RELENG_8? I'm looking specifically for the exact time when the kernel was built, because there may have been fixes (that broke things for you) between the above commit and present-day RELENG_8 (I have not examined all commits).

Re: Performance problems with pagedaemon

2012-01-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
0,0,0,0 pfiaddrpl:120,0,0,0,0, 0 pfospfen: 112,0, 700, 92, 2800,0 pfosfp:40,0, 410, 178, 1640,0 -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: [releng_9 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2012-01-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
#x27;struct > > g_multipath_softc' has no member named 'cp_active' > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /obj/powerpc.powerpc/src/sys/LINT. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /src. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /src. > &

Re: FTPS Server?

2012-01-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sn't like some of your sshd_config adjustments, I recommend running a separate instance on a separate port (if firewalls are involved deal with that too) so you have a way to get in, in the case standard port 22 stops working. (This did happen during the aforementioned story, and my frie

Re: Keyboard LEDs stay on after shutdown -p

2012-01-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
multi OS system has frobbed something > somewhere, but when I "shutdown -p" the three keyboard LEDs Num, Caps & Scroll > remain lit... pulling the plug of course does fix it :-) > > In order to have the LEDs out, > do I have to add a new kernel option? > Tune some

Re: gmirror not synced

2012-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
disk" and I'll review it for you. [1]: http://www.storagereview.com/guide/error.html (read all subsections too) [2]: http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_disk_sector_structures.htm -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system

2012-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
blah. What amused me was that nobody looked at the CPU: Intel Core i3-550, which contains an on-die MCH. Chances are the MCH is going bad, which means time to replace the CPU. CPUs rarely go bad, but now with on-die MCHs, on-die VGA, etc. it's becoming much more plaus

Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system

2012-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
x27;s a bug report I submit to Shuttle regarding how disabling the Firewire controller on their system resulted in a box that wouldn't even start up: http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/shuttle-sg45h7-firewire-bug-in-bios-sg45u10o/ -- | Jeremy Chadwickjd

Re: Upgrade to 9.0 and Fan kick to high speed

2012-01-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
arters: sysctl -a | grep freq sysctl -a | grep acpi And are you using powerd(8) at all? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View,

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
do it the Right Way(tm) please. Otherwise you're creating a lot of support hassle when it comes to trying to diagnose why some program on your system "behaves oddly" -- weeks go by, "oh, libmap.conf..." -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.co

Re: GENERIC make buildkernel error / fails - posix_fadvise

2012-01-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
cvsup mirror you were using? This kind of problem may be affecting other people, so you may want to report it to freebsd-h...@freebsd.org to make the maintainer of the mirror aware. Otherwise, ""corruption"" (for lack of better term) between what's in /var/db/sup and w

Re: dumpdev default

2012-01-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sd-stable/2011-August/063543.html And the entire thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-August/063535.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrat

Re: about thumper aka sun fire x4500

2012-01-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
th HyperTransport. If you want my advice? Bring the issue up to Sun. They will almost certainly be able to assign the case to an engineer, who although may not be familiar with FreeBSD, hopefully WILL be familiar with the bus interconnects described above and might be able to help you out. -- | J

Re: 'make installworld' fails while upgrading from 9.0-CURRENT to 9.0-RELEASE

2012-01-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
did was change your supfile's tag line to match RELENG_9_0 (for example), but you didn't nuke /var/db/sup/src-all (or /usr/sup stuff if you use cvsup -- hope not) AND did not nuke /usr/src/*, then there could be src vs. sup database mismatches. This doesn't apply if you used svn

Re: Serial port stops working after upgrade to 9-CURRENT

2012-01-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t(4) and sio(4) talk about "/boot/device.hints", while things like ahci(4) talk about how you can modify variables via loader(8), while cam(4) says you can use either (how wonderfully consistent, eh?). Both methods functionally work, yes, but /boot/device.hints is a file that will get

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nd ESXi is free -- though there have been problems posted to the list about FreeBSD on ESXi as well). Xen gets praise here on the lists, but I haven't tried it myself. I stick with bare metal for everything, sans "tinkering around". -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: buildworld: don't know how to make iterator.cc

2012-01-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e doing the csup? More explicitly, this is what you should do when going from one release to another: rm -fr /usr/src rm -fr /var/db/sup/src-all rm -fr /usr/obj/* csup ... -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: buildworld: don't know how to make iterator.cc

2012-01-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
hate to tell you that, but it's possible. You may have some src.conf or make.conf "tweaks" (e.g. WITHOUT_xxx) that may be causing problems in the 9.x build infrastructure which didn't break on 8.x. I'm hoping this isn't the case, but it's possible. -- | Jeremy

Re: buildworld: don't know how to make iterator.cc

2012-01-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
bits are breaking it for you though), or a problem with the cvsup mirror. I'm not sure how to debug it past this point (mainly because I don't have RELENG_9 systems). Thanks for at least ruling out the possibility of version mismatch bits within cvs/csup, Randy. Sorry for wasting your

Re: buildworld: don't know how to make iterator.cc

2012-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 09:09:03AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 22/01/2012 05:32, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > csup then pulls down src/some/Makefile (for RELENG_9), where the version > > number is different; say, version 1.14.3.0. Note that the version > > number is not &

Re: zpool detach pool device

2012-01-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ition on this thing, right..."). I speak from personal experience on this matter. As such, I always advocate people zero their drives and not to pick the defaults. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.

Re: AHCI powersaving issue

2012-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
like "camcontrol setfeature disable-apm /dev/XXX", but someone would need to write the code. I could implement this , except in the case of SET FEATURES, FreeBSD is missing proper definitions for the subcommand values in src/sys/sys/ata.h (for example 0x85 is not there). This makes it mor

Re: Problem with USB keyboard during boot screen

2012-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e Logitech keyboard attached, and let the FreeBSD kernel load, can you successfully type at the login: prompt? - If you power on the system with the Apple keyboard attached, and let the FreeBSD kernel load, can you successfully type at the login: prompt? Yes/no answers to these 4 questions will

Re: kernel: panic: softdep_sync_buf: Unknown type jnewblk

2012-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ebsd.org home page about these issues. For the snapshot issue, I believe not using SU+J (and only SU) works around the problem, so possibly that would be the best choice of recommendation at this time. I urge key members of the community and (as always) kernel developers to chime in here with advi

Re: Panic on 7.4-RELEASE-p5

2012-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.conf. I can dig up the (very long and semi-heated) thread discussing this if you want, but I probably won't get to it until next week. I have too much going on with job-related things outside of FreeBSD to spend a lot of time with it now. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Panic on 7.4-RELEASE-p5

2012-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:09:06PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:48:15PM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My Soekris firewall just panic'd > > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > > fault

Re: Make Buildworld Fails

2012-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ars: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/kerberos5/tools/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/kerberos5/tools/asn1_compile/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/kerberos5/tools/make-print-version/ Also, please do not rely on "cleandir" to remove all old /usr/obj objects. Plea

Re: Make Buildworld Fails (Broken Servers)

2012-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
kerberos5/tools/asn1_compile/../make-print-version && make > make: don't know how to make /usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/lib/libegacy.a. Stop No, this is a different error, which could ALSO be caused by a bad cvsup server. You should post these problems to freebsd-hubs; the owners o

Re: FreeBSD 9 crash/deadlock when dump(8)ing file system with journaling enabled.

2012-01-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
veryone's mail clients support Reference headers thus replies are scattered all over: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-January/thread.html The most important thing to note is probably this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-January/013573.html -- | J

Re: Troube with SSD

2012-02-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
? You will need to install ports/sysutils/smartmontools for this (please make sure it's version 5.42 or newer). * smartctl -a /dev/whatever * smartctl -l devstat /dev/whatever * smartctl -l sataphy /dev/whatever * smartctl -l ssd /dev/whatever Thank you. -- | Jere

Re: Troube with SSD

2012-02-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:56:23PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 2012-02-01 15:39, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 02:40:17PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > >> The device is a Corsair 60Gb Force GT. And thusfar I have not found any > >>

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

2012-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
know the implications of adding this, however, as there may be situations where (say on system shutdown) that you want things to "just end immediately" and not wait for the daemon to cleanly shut down. I say this because of devd's direct ties to devctl(4). Doug, any thoughts? -

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

2012-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:50:58PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 02/02/2012 13:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:22:22PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I thought this bug was fixed back in 2009? > >> root@

sentex tinderbox build cluster failures

2012-02-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ghts to this (not sure why that person thought that -- I have nothing to do with tinderbox :-) ). Let us know if you could. Thanks! -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administ

Re: FreeBSD 9 crash/deadlock when dump(8)ing file system with journaling enabled.

2012-02-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
with a live cd, per example > > Sorry for top posting, mobile mail client problem. > > Em 30/01/2012 12:56, "Ivan Voras" escreveu: > > On 30/01/2012 13:06, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > >> For now I've turned off journaling (soft updates see... > It&

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

2012-02-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
|mlx|mly|mpt|ncr|ncv|nsp|stg|sym|trm|wds)[0-9]+ > Parsing files in /etc/devd > Parsing /etc/devd/asus.conf > Parsing /etc/devd/uath.conf > Parsing /etc/devd/usb.conf > Parsing files in /usr/local/etc/devd > Parsing /usr/local/etc/devd/webcamd.conf > > Strange. Why is this strange

Re: ld: kernel.debug: Not enough room for program headers

2012-02-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
LINT kernel, and it appears to be specific to RELENG_8 on i386. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-February/thread.html Start from the bottom and search upwards for the string: "[releng_8 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386" Point being: the problem is not you.

Re: ld: kernel.debug: Not enough room for program headers

2012-02-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:54:58PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 10:48:16AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 10:57:40AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >>>Trying to

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
names being borderline ambiguous (depending on what you're looking for -- with VFS and so on it's spread all over the place), this becomes a very tedious task, where the user or admin have to continually ask developers on the mailing lists what it is they're looking at. -- | Jeremy Ch

Re: siisch1: Error while READ LOG EXT

2012-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at the GPLog sections of the disk to see if you can trigger the problem -- and I have a feeling you'll be able to, but I won't necessarily be able to tell you where the actual problem lies hardware-wise, nor will I be able to solve the problem. Regarding the repeated errors at semi-regu

Re: siisch1: Error while READ LOG EXT

2012-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 01:27:23PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 04:00:57PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Ever since I added a new PM, I have been seeing a new error (READ LOG EXT) > > along with a the odd slot timeout error. BTW, something I forgot to co

Re: siisch1: Error while READ LOG EXT

2012-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:22:40AM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > On 08.02.2012 23:27, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 04:00:57PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >>I have a 4 port eSata PCIe card with 3 external port multipliers attached > >>on an AMD

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
re in > different roles. This sounds like the... damn, what is it called... some kind of internal "counter" or "ticks" thing within the ZFS code that was discovered to only begin happening after a certain period of time (which correlated to some number of days, possibly 10

Re: siisch1: Error while READ LOG EXT

2012-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
dmesg (not just a snippet) would probably be helpful here. What you provided in your first post was too terse, especially given how many disks you have in this system. :-) I really see no problem with looking at all disks -- specifically disks ada0 through ada3, and ada4 through ada8 --

Re: siisch1: Error while READ LOG EXT

2012-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
mply just have a bad break-out cable, or a bad PM. Overall, this is just one of the many reasons why I avoid PMs, as well as avoid eSATA (especially eSATA). CRC errors are one of the most difficult and annoying things to track down because there are so many possibilities for root causes, and many are

Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?

2012-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
es or identification shims put in place for this in recent RELENG_8, which wouldn't be available in RELENG_8_2 or 8.2-RELEASE CD/DVDs. I could be remembering the wrong controller though. Hmm... -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Network

Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?

2012-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:02:12PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 2/9/12 1:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:48:29PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > >>does anyone know of problems with freebsd and this system? > >> > >>the k

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ealise for folks running remote/embedded environments these probably aren't what they want, but for the majority I see them as being needed more and more I watch the responses from developers. Finally, just throwing this out there: does anyone know if you can include ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER by

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:25:21PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 15:10 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > * Addition: device ichwd > > - Note: We do not use features of this driver given known problems > > with the watchdog firing during ddb> and

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