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

et me know if I can provide more details etc! -- Adam Strohl A-Team Systems ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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

On 2/3/2012 15:45, Marcel Bonnet wrote: Hi, what would be the best choice? 1. turn off SUJ and dump using -L flag and the turn it on again (but I'm affraid to destroy the system this way - is this possible?) Yes, this is what I have done for my 9.0 servers. Unfortunately you need to be in si

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

On 2/3/2012 17:15, Adam Strohl wrote: After doing this I have been using dump(8) nightly via cron(8) for about a week now under 9.0 without issue. Running it on 11 servers currently. P.S. To be clear, I am using dump with -L (snapshots) without issue.

FreeBSD 9: Group quotas increase but don't decrease automatically

t me know if anyone wants more info, etc. I can also paste the work around "smart" cron script if anyone is interested (and I'm not missing something silly :P). -- Adam Strohl A-Team Systems http://ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-s

Re: FreeBSD 9: Group quotas increase but don't decrease automatically

On 2/3/2012 21:48, Konstantin Belousov wrote: This is a bug in +J code (even if you do not use +J). Do you have softupdates enabled on the volume ? If yes, try the following patch. diff --git a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c index 5b4b6b9..ed2db79 100644 --- a/sys/ufs/ffs/

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

On 2/24/2012 1:39, Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:25, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Now, I find the number of problem reports regarding 9.0-RELEASE alarming and I'm growing more and more fearful towards it. In the current state of things, I have *absolutely* no wish to run it in produc

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

On 2/24/2012 1:39, Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:25, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Now, I find the number of problem reports regarding 9.0-RELEASE alarming and I'm growing more and more fearful towards it. In the current state of things, I have *absolutely* no wish to run it in produc

Re: flowtable usable or not

On 3/3/2012 22:32, H wrote: then you tell us today that ports is the best ever happened to you It definitely is for me, and is a major reason why I love FreeBSD. Yum/RPM/etc are not without their own issues, and definitely is not fool proof nor 100% reliable in my experience.

Re: Request for flowtable testers and actionable feedback RE: flowtable usable or not

On 3/5/2012 15:00, Daniel Kalchev wrote: I happen to share the opinion and the experience of Mark Linimon in situations like this and yes, I do believe you have been rude here. For no reason whatsoever. I agree. This "H" person has been hijacking threads over the last week or so, and all of

Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

this brings (again though I am running NTPd and OpenVMTools on all the other VMs which have yet to show this issue). Anyone seen anything like this? Ring any bells? -- Adam Strohl A-Team Systems http://ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebs

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

On 3/10/2012 17:10, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 10. Mar 2012, at 08:07 , Adam Strohl wrote: I've now seen this on two different VMs on two different ESXi servers (Xeon based hosts but different hardware otherwise and at different facilities): Everything runs fine for weeks then (seem

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

On 3/12/2012 0:01, Ian Lepore wrote: > It seems unlikely to me that ntpd and the vm tools would be fighting in > a way that caused this symptom. The way ntpd affects timing is to step > the clock (which gets logged), or to numerically steer the kernel's > timekeeping routines. The steering is cl

FreeBSD 9 "gptboot: invalid backup GPT header" error (boots fine though)

60992MB (5859311616 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364725C) Let me know anyone wants to see anything else/has seen this/has any theories! -- Adam Strohl A-Team Systems http://ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: FreeBSD 9 "gptboot: invalid backup GPT header" error (boots fine though)

Thanks Andrey, I've just recompiled /boot/gptboot after updating gpt.c and installed it via: gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 I still see "gptboot: invalid backup GPT header" on boot (but it does still boot). On 5/2/2012 12:58, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 30.04.2

Re: FreeBSD 9 "gptboot: invalid backup GPT header" error (boots fine though)

On 5/2/2012 20:46, Mark Saad wrote: Did you try to repair the header ? I saw a similar issue on upgraded boxes that were 7-STABLE upgraded to 9-STABLE. and recovering made the warning go away . I may be way off here but just my 2 cents . % gpart recover da0 Good thought, but no dice: $ gp

Re: FreeBSD 9 "gptboot: invalid backup GPT header" error (boots fine though)

On 5/2/2012 23:08, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 02.05.2012 17:53, Adam Strohl wrote: % gpart recover da0 Good thought, but no dice: $ gpart recover da0 da0 recovering is not needed I already saw several reports about gptboot's complains on 3ware controllers, but don't know w

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

On 5/14/2012 22:18, Larry Rosenman wrote: Is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 VMWare Workstation? Since nobody has chimed in I felt I should: I use FreeBSD 9.0 routinely under VMWare Workstation without issue (my current VMWare Workstation version is 8.0.0 which is slightly out o

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

On 5/15/2012 21:49, Larry Rosenman wrote: This is VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 booting off the release ISO. Ideas? Is this the installer that doesn't boot or is it the OS after you've installed? If its the former you might just have a bad ISO download. Have/did you verified the checksum of the

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

On 5/16/2012 8:12, Larry Rosenman wrote: Ok, I'm just impatient. I let it sit, and it eventually came up. Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set hw.memtest.tests="0" when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid doing the tests? (or default it to 0 in the installer kernel?)?

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

On 5/16/2012 22:05, Larry Rosenman wrote: I believe this is due to the 8G of memory I put on it. (I like to build big VM's. It's directly proportional to the size of the VM. Ahh! Yeah I rarely build a VM with more than a gig or two here in the office (ie; where I use Workstation).

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

On 5/31/2012 1:20, David Chisnall wrote: I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before I do I'd like to get a better feel for why the rest of you are using FreeBSD. If you had to list the three things you

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

On 5/31/2012 21:22, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: To add others, in no particular order: Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a locally compiled system. Many Linux distros ha

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

On 5/31/2012 21:47, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Regarding packages, I've never really explored it, would you detail a bit ? Well, I really mean the resulting pkg info from a port. A good example is PHP, sometimes you have to say "everyone out of the pool" because of an upgrade: cd /var/db/pkg

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

On 6/1/2012 17:19, Katinka wrote: There's a nice discussion going on, over at Phoronix. For some reason, they don't seem to like us very much. Lots of the comments remind me about Linux vs. Windows in the late 90s, and taken with a grain of sa

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

On 6/1/2012 18:03, Jason Leschnik wrote: I may be totally incorrect with my above ideas, but it's what i would like to see from FreeBSD *again*... This is the reason in the first place most people used FreeBSD, stability/scalability/performance are the hallmarks of FreeBSD. If we have these hard

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

On 6/3/2012 10:09, Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 01:43:43AM +0200, Fritz Wuehler wrote: So there could be lots of overlap and just looking at the two numbers you posted doesn't really tell the whole story. No, I agree that it doesn't. I was just trying to add an aside, and point

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

On 6/3/2012 11:14, Erich wrote: What I really do not understand in this whole discussion is very simple. Is it just a few people who run into problems like this or is this simply ignored by the people who set the strategy for FreeBSD? I mention since yeares here that putting version numbers on

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

On 6/3/2012 17:51, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Always I am stressing that to manage FreeBSD, a fair amount of expertise is required which I think this level may be reduced by improving the FreeBSD management by transferring knowledge to its managing parts ( for example : package management , re

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

On 6/3/2012 19:24, Erich wrote: yes, you miss a very simple thing. Updated this morning your ports tree. Your client asks for something for Monday morning for which you need now a program which needs some kind of PNG but you did not install it. Do you have a machine that is fast enough to up

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

everything just for the heck of it, though I don't get how even that takes 48 hours. Even make buildworld is done in multi-user mode and so you could use your workstation during the build. And we're talking about ports here so ... Just curious! -- Adam Strohl http://

Re: su problem

On 6/9/2012 20:29, Sami Halabi wrote: Hi, /var/log/messages - no new logs Sorry if this has been asked, anything in dmesg? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: su problem

en to have another box there cross-patching their serial consoles to each other so if one goes down you can serial via the other one (ie; server1's com1 to server2's com2, and server2's com1 to server1's com2). You need to set this up as root though so no

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

On 6/9/2012 14:50, O. Hartmann wrote: Lucky man! We are "off" from some desktop services (like LibreOffice and Firefox) for more than a week now! Why did you update to begin with? Bug/security fix? -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateams

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

something extraordinarily weird and I'm just at a loss as to what they're doing and why. I get the feeling people are updating their ports tree and then recompiling/reinstalling everything "just because" and then are complaining when one thing breaks (its the only

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

le a port which was just released? Is it a security thing or is it "I want the latest" ? I'm just curious (and totally uninterested in how this ranks in your "worse question" list). -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ __

Re: Backups with 9-STABLE -- Options?

efficient. And as neat as journals are, backups using dump with snapshots is way more valuable and important in my book. My .02. -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Backups with 9-STABLE -- Options?

is doing. There is also a consistency issue too, using snapshots makes it so that all the files make sense together, instead of the files getting more and more recent as the end of the backup block approaches. -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ _

Re: IPv6 and CARP crashes boxes

peers end up thinking they're MASTER). In 9.x it all works as expected at least for IPv4 (rc.conf carp_alias entries, aliases, on the fly reconfiguring). -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: IPv6 and CARP crashes boxes

caught this just as I hit send :P -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

anything: memory driver, OS control (ie; shutdown), etc. I manage dozens of FreeBSD VMs under ESXi 3.5, 4.x and 5.0 ... most of them using OpenVM tools (ie; the 9.x hosts), works great. -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@f

Re: SOLVED: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

ctl.conf Under 9.x: kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-fast Pre 9.x: kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-safe Hope this helps anyone running across this issue. -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: SOLVED: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

Doh, correct URL for the forum post is: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31929&page=2 On 8/3/2012 14:38, Adam Strohl wrote: Just a heads up on the original issue, which is FreeBSD's timer/clock stopping under ESXi 5.0 and some later versions of VMware Workstation. I'v

No buffer space available / tcp_inpcb value

;m not turning anything up. Any thoughts/ideas appreciated! -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: No buffer space available / tcp_inpcb value

d by sendfile 0 calls to protocol drain routines Adrian On 30 October 2012 06:21, Adam Strohl wrote: Hey -STABLE, I've got a client who we've setup a FreeBSD cluster for with about a dozens servers, all behind two front end proxies/LBs/firewalls which also act as NAT gateways for

Re: SU+J on 9.1-RC2 ISO

On 11/2/2012 23:47, Bas Smeelen wrote: Hi Why are journaled soft updates the default when installing a new system from a 9.1-RC2 ISO? I admit I did not pay too much attention when installing a new system from an 9.1-RC2 ISO and found out when taking a snapshot with dump (dump -0Lauf) to clone t

Re: SU+J on 9.1-RC2 ISO

erver. Getting burned by a known bug like this shouldn't be "SOP" for users of FreeBSD. If anything it should be turned off by default, and people can turn it on if they want given the landmine it plants. If they know how to turn it on they're much more likely to be aware of the

Re: SU+J on 9.1-RC2 ISO

ns with enabled it means booting up in single user to undo it which is a hassle for a server if it's in production (I realize that's a bit whiny :P). -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Why is SU+J undesirable on SSDs?

On 11/4/2012 5:32, Karl Denninger wrote: It is utter insanity to enable, by default, filesystem options that break _*the canonical backup solution*_ in the handbook ("dump", when used with "-L", which it must be to dump a live filesystem SAFELY.) Exactly.

shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

thoughts? Let me know if I can provide more details etc. -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

On 6/19/2013 19:21, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 06:35:57PM +0700, Adam Strohl wrote: Hello -STABLE@, So I've seen this situation seemingly randomly on a number of both physical 9.1 boxes as well as VMs for I would say 6-9 months at least. I finally have a physical box

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

On 6/19/2013 19:53, Adam Strohl wrote: sync(8) does not do what you think it does. Please read (not skim) this entire thread starting here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-April/thread.html#16982 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-April/016982.html Groking

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

bug on boot obviously but not much different on shutdown/hang: http://i.imgur.com/SgzSsoP.jpg It looks to me like the ACPI layer is still actively working at the time "all buffers are synced", meaning the actual reboot phase itself never happens. This to me starts to smell of an ACPI problem, but I do not have the skill set to debug this, and I'm also grasping at straws. There are many things that happen during that phase of operation, particularly the "USB shutdown" phase. Yeah. Originally I had even my UPS (APC) disconnected, the only USB device (via a port -- I realize there might be MB virtual ports) was a Dell KB. But it all depends on your kernel config, which I've now asked for. Yeah -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

On 6/19/2013 21:21, Steven Hartland wrote: You still need to test if stable/9 fixes your issue though as otherwise you don't know if the issue your seeing has already been fixed, and if its the old know ZFS vfs hang on shutdown, it has. Thanks Steve, understood but probably not going to happen

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

On 6/19/2013 22:04, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:15:18PM +0700, Adam Strohl wrote: On 6/19/2013 20:35, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I've snipped out portions which aren't relevant at this point in the convo. I'm trying to be terse as much as possible here (hon