ootloader from 8-CURRENT or convert your partitions over to
GPT if you hit that particular bug. But you aren't up to hitting that bug
yet... you haven't installed the newer bootloader at the point you are up to.
Ari
[1]
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=153552
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Not only do you have to get the boot loaders installed properly [1] but also
there is a breakage in the FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE code [2]. The MBR bootloader is
broken in 8.2 and will not work with ZFS under at least some circumstances (2
of our boxes
Base board information
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Product Name: P6X58D-E
BIOS information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 0502
Release Date: 11/16/2010
BIOS Revision: 8.15
CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz
Thanks in advance for any help.
Ari
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y system and never be able to use
freebsd-update again? Is there a trick to fool freebsd-update into overwriting
this file which I don't think I touched?
It would be nice if freebsd-update could be more helpful about what the user
should do next when it finds an error.
Thanks
Ari
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On 7/01/12 9:17 PM, Gianni Vialetto wrote:
2012/1/7 Aristedes Maniatis:
[...]
1. I am clearly running 8.2-p5, but the final message says "no updates
needed". That's clearly not correct since p5< p8. And running uname again
after this results in still seeing p5.
That's
t read about any side effects,
but it seems to be off by default for some reason.
Please cc me on any responses since I'm not currently subscribed.
Cheers
Ari
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
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On 17/01/12 7:10 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:37:34PM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
The manual states that dumpdev "AUTO is the default as of FreeBSD 6.0" [1]
However:
# uname -a
FreeBSD xx 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2
On 18/01/12 2:07 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 18:37 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
The manual states that dumpdev "AUTO is the default as of FreeBSD
6.0" [1]
However:
# uname -a
FreeBSD xx 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30
UTC
't see anything called sbase.txz in my searching.
This might work fine from CD, but this server is in the colo without an easy
way for me to insert a CD.
Cheers
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On 26/01/12 3:48 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
On Monday, January 23, 2012 4:27:26 am Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
I wanted to install src onto an existing RELEASE-9.0 box (that is maintained
using freebsd-update), since I needed to build lsof. I then used sysintall as
follows:
* Media
On 21/09/2008, at 10:34 AM, netgeek wrote:
Perhaps there is a middle ground here? What about a statement that
each major branch (6.x, 7.x) will be supported for at least 24+
months from its last production release? Smaller periods of support
could be given to minor releases along the way
By default FreeBSD 7.0 shipped with the sysctls set to:
kern.maxfiles: 12328
kern.maxfilesperproc: 11095
We recently bumped up against these limits in an unfortunate way and
we are going to raise them. I have some questions:
* why are the numbers set the way they are? They aren't round numb
On 27/09/2008, at 1:02 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Anyway, I'd like to know why you have so many fds open
simultaneously in
the first place. We're talking over 11,000 fds actively open at
once --
this is not a small number. What exactly is this machine doing? Are
you absolutely certain tu
On 28/09/2008, at 8:18 AM, Gary Palmer wrote:
At least one port recommends you set
kern.maxfiles="4"
in /boot/loader.conf. I think its one of the GNOME ports. I'm pretty
confident you can run that without too many problems, and maybe go
higher,
but if you really want to know the limit
On 04/11/2008, at 8:35 AM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
At first approach I've thought in rsync+cron, but
unison [1] works really well for us. In some ways it is better than
some sort of shared SAN type solution since there is no single point
of failure at the SAN or link to the SAN. Uniso
On 05/12/2008, at 12:14 PM, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:
Hi,
Apparently 7.1-PRERELEASE has been pulled from freebsd-update's server
while I was being lazy:
calvin% sudo freebsd-update --debug upgrade -r 7.1-BETA2
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signa
I've resisted sending this email for a while since I really don't want
to start a bikeshed nor a flame. However there comes a time to express
my thoughts over the lack of visibility of the release process for
FreeBSD 7.1. Here are the resources I am aware of:
* release timeline [1]. This pa
On 09/12/2008, at 5:21 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
What do you mean as "news source"? Commits are inherently low level
and it's difficult to see how a commit could be massaged into some
sort of press release without a fair amount of meta information in
the commit log.
Well, I use this as a way o
On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick
a different
mirror.
Where can we find a list of mirrors?
Ari Maniatis
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FreeBSD 7.2 amd64. Running Apache httpd application (MPM worker threads) and
other applications. ZFS file system.
After some weeks of uptime, we are seeing these errors repeated many times:
vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 69
vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 16384 at 0
After that, httpd
# AMD64, Supermicro hardware. ZFS filesystem (booting to UFS, then rest of the
file system /usr /var /tmp on ZFS).
I used "freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE" and all went well for the usual first
install of the kernel with "freebsd-update install". After rebooting into single user
mode, I
On 4/01/10 5:02 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
# AMD64, Supermicro hardware. ZFS filesystem (booting to UFS, then rest
of the file system /usr /var /tmp on ZFS).
I used "freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE" and all went well for the
usual first install of the kernel with "
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On 29/03/10 1:15 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
portmaster -r png-
Is that correct? I haven't seen that notation before (although I might just
have missed it in the docs).
I would have used
portmaster -r graphics/png
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directory patterns to be more consistently available, but in the meantime
readers of UPDATING are going to be confused.
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But it hasn't been quite
robust enough for my liking.
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On 7/04/10 5:00 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 07/04/2010 09:05 Aristedes Maniatis said the following:
Until we get to 'database' everything is HA and quite easy to build and
manage. Having a clustered database solution is expensive and beyond
most smallish budgets. mysql and postgresql
FreeBSD dash.ish.com.au 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #10
i386 with PAE (5Gb RAM)
We've had fairly reproducible freezes. After several hours of stress
testing or even overnight not doing anything, everything locks up
including the console.
We then installed a debugging kernel (without IN
On 08/04/2008, at 11:59 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 04:06:24 am Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
FreeBSD dash.ish.com.au 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #10
i386 with PAE (5Gb RAM)
We've had fairly reproducible freezes. After several hours of stress
testing or even over
http://www.ish.com.au/s/LOR/1.jpg
http://www.ish.com.au/s/LOR/2.jpg
http://www.ish.com.au/s/LOR/3.jpg (this overlaps with [2])
These are all garbage in kuickshow. :(
They work fine for me in Firefox. But don't know what sort of jpegs
the Sony camera saves. Anyhow I've also now resaved them
On 08/04/2008, at 6:06 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
LOR:
1st 0x807d3d90 sleepq chain (sleepq chain) @/usr/src/sys/kern/
subr_sleepqueue.c:773
2nd 0x807c8110 scrlock (scrlock) @/usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c:
2526
Is there anything I can do at my end to assist in the debugging of
this
On 19/04/2008, at 3:14 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008 06:33:40 pm Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
http://www.ish.com.au/s/LOR/1.jpg
http://www.ish.com.au/s/LOR/2.jpg
http://www.ish.com.au/s/LOR/3.jpg (this overlaps with [2])
These are all garbage in kuickshow. :(
They work
On 23/04/2008, at 3:34 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
The
real problem at the bottom of the screen though is a real issue.
It's a LOR
of two different sleepqueue chain locks. The problem is that when
setrunnable() encounters a swapped out thread it tries to wakeup
proc0, but
if proc0 is asleep (whic
On 15/07/2008, at 3:54 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
We moved all of our production systems off of using dump/restore
solely
because of these aspects. We didn't move to ZFS though; we went with
rsync, which is great, except for the fact that it modifies file
atimes
(hope you use Maildir and
How do I get in touch with FreeBSD infrastructure people about mailing
list set up? Sorry to post here, but I've scoured the web site and
cannot find anything more appropriate. Is there a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or something similar?
I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] in relation to the specific question
s to enlist my assistance, but I don't
currently have any commit rights on this project.
Cheers
Ari
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
Could I ask that someone with appropriate access rights review the state of
release documentation for 9.1 beta. It is very confused.
1. This page is the best information available:
http://www.freebsd.org
#x27;s leave aside why the diff shows an
upgrade from 10.0 to 10.2 when actually this was from 10.1 to 10.2.
Can't some merge tool inside freebsd-update just sort this out for me? Please?
Not only does it take over 45 minutes to go through all those files, but I feel
sure I missed s
Hi everyone
With the Java FreeBSD mailing list pretty quiet, I thought I might ask
here whether anyone was working on porting the latest Java versions over
to FreeBSD. There is of coursethe https://adoptopenjdk.net/project, but
there is little activity immediately obvious on porting there [1].
On 21/2/19 9:18pm, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
Are there plans for the Foundation to sponsor some work in this area?
Your point is, that the FreeBSD community should do regular testbuilds for
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk9u/
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk10u/
https://github.c
On 22/2/19 4:12pm, Charlie Li wrote:
I don't think this is beyond the open source community's capabilities at
all; quite the opposite. The real crux is individual priorities.
Right now there is no publicly visible work on porting Java 11 (the only
version worth working on at this time I think
On 14/09/2007, at 12:23 PM, Ian Smith wrote:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_extinction_evolution_or_revolution/
The author of that interesting article is one of the speakers at a
summit in Canberra, Australia in November this year discussing the
migration to IPv6. Geoff Huston was res
On 15/01/2008, at 8:52 PM, Johan Ström wrote:
I'm looking to invest in some new hardware for backup. probably some
kind of NAS (a 4-disk 1U NAS or something in that size). The thing
is that I won't be the only one with access to this box, thus I
would like to secure my data.
What I would l
On 21/03/2009, at 10:49 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, kama wrote:
What I meant was the todo page on www.freebsd.org.
Like: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/TODO.html
Where problems and showstoppers where brought up. I found that
information very valueble. Especially w
On 31/05/2009, at 4:41 AM, Dan Naumov wrote:
To top that
off, even when/if you do it right, not your entire disk goes to ZFS
anyway, because you still do need a swap and a /boot to be non-ZFS, so
you will have to install ZFS onto a slice and not the entire disk and
even SUN discourages to do th
On 18/07/09 1:29 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-BETA2
During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging some
configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging
was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be
On 14/08/09 11:12 AM, Dan Allen wrote:
I cvsup and build RELENG_7 many times a week. This has served me well
(except for the ZFS boot problem I had that went in and was backed
out) for quite a while.
I like to track a STABLE release. When BSD 7 went to 7.1 and to 7.2,
it all just happened auto
This is a FreeBSD 7.2 machine in production. I'm not an expert at debugging
kernel problems, but I've still got the vmcore if there is anything else I
should run on it to extract more information.
Thanks
Ari Maniatis
# uname -a
FreeBSD dash.internal 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0:
tructure in /var/tmp/temproot
make: don't know how to make distrib-dirs. Stop
make: don't know how to make distrib-dirs. Stop
*** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to and install files to
the temproot environment
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pdate or make installworld?
freebsd-update from 10.1 to 10.2.
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ing downloading them
again?
phttpget has no man pages, so I've been unable to get it to spit out any more
verbose options.
Thanks
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On 24/12/2015 12:22am, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
> Am 2015-12-23 13:25, schrieb Aristedes Maniatis:
>> I've had problems with freebsd-update for many years now. It is by far
>> the least reliable component of FreeBSD since I started with the
>> operating
sd.org/diffusion/P/browse/head/databases/mysql57-server/files/
[2]
https://reviews.freebsd.org/diffusion/P/browse/head/databases/percona56-server/files/
[3]
https://reviews.freebsd.org/diffusion/P/browse/head/databases/mariadb101-server/files/
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4. Will support be added to freebsd-update to warn users BEFORE they try to
upgrade and kill their system?
Please cc me, I'm not subscribed.
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de the boot code. I don't want to
restart the machine... ever. That's possibly unrealistic, although I could boot
from USB in an emergency I guess.
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hese pages: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/
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r is one command per interface which has got
me in trouble before as I manage to accidentally remove my own access to the
box before I'm done.
Cheers
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ill fail-over all carp
> interfaces when any one fails.
>
> "sysctl -a | grep carp"
>
> I'm pretty sure there's also an ifconfig command to force the state as either
> master or backup. Check the man page.
>
>
> On Feb 28, 2017 5:01 PM, &qu
nt? It forces that vhid
> over to master, which should preempt the other interfaces to switch as well.
>
> One command.
>
> On Feb 28, 2017 5:10 PM, "Aristedes Maniatis" <mailto:a...@ish.com.au>> wrote:
>
> Yes, the automatic failover is great and
sewhere for the TSC issue?
This is a server, not a laptop.
Thanks
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'large' and 'many cores' mean here? Is 24 cores large or small? For a
server do we ever want the CPU to enter states other than C1?
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eebsd.org/freebsd:11:x86:64/latest/All/ has been built on 11.1,
not on 11.0 (I just tested it with csync2 which I know fails). Packages there
may fail to run on 11.0, but there is no clear indication, just random failures
at runtime.
Maybe we'd need specific 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 releases instead of
11.0:x86:64
d. Wait for some new base packaging magic to solve things.
Have I summarised this effectively?
Ari
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every one of my
servers has been upgraded (which is rarely before the new accelerated EOL for
machines that don't face the internet).
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Hi all
pf has rules that can operate either 'in' or 'out'. That is, on traffic
entering or leaving an interface. I'm trying to consolidate my rules to
make them easier to understand and update, so it seems a bit pointless
to have the same rules twice.
Are there any best practices on whether
king how you'd do it if
you were coming from Linux). Incoming will manipulate where required
when rdr etc. Only outbound needs NAT binding.
Cheers,
Jason.
On 25 June 2018 at 14:12, Aristedes Maniatis <mailto:a...@ish.com.au>> wrote:
Hi all
pf has rules that can operate
On 25/6/18 5:30pm, Walter Parker wrote:
The use case for pass out rules would be to block local processes on
the box from making external connections to other servers.
This is useful if you don't fully trust users or software running on
your equipment. Also, this would useful to preemptively blo
I'd like to use "freebsd-update IDS" as a simple intrusion check. I have
a separate mechanism to test that
freebsd-update itself hasn't been modified.
However I get lots of lines like this:
/usr/share/man/man4/if_ixgbe.4.gz has SHA256 hash
859cc19faf7a511755409aa143b24ccb2c998bbc99a5972d1d7aa7
Sorry to butt in on your thread, but it seems relevant. I am having
problems with gvinum under 5-STABLE and a RAID 0 array of two disks.
The array works perfectly until reboot. Then, when the machine comes
back up the plexes are marked as stale. Issuing these commands fixes
the problem until th
On 05/03/2005, at 7:00 PM, Doug White wrote:
The amr(4) manpage in -CURRENT lists the 320 variants, the -2E
specifically (is that a PCI Express version?). We have a amr(4)
driver
update coming in shortly to -CURRENT and then RELENG_5; keep an eye out
for that and test it if you can.
* will that
We have a motherboard (Supermicro X6DHT-G) with an Adaptec 2020SA SATA
RAID controller. We have been unable to get any drives recognised by
the FreeBSD 5.3 release installation CD, and we've been unable to find
much discussion about the status of the AAC device and support for this
chipset. Sev
On 19/04/2007, at 9:05 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
RELEASE_4_EOL is the tag where the 4.X support was not yet removed.
We only started to remove the 4.X support after the tag, thus you
should still be able to build ports from the tag on 4.X.
My installations use portsnap and so automaticall
On 20/04/2005, at 6:05 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
(And of course the obvious--DO NOT shut down the sshd daemon.) :)
Ok, everyone who has NEVER ever made that mistake (or locked themself
out with a firewall rule, accidentally putting it into effect before
testing) raise their hand. :)
Yes, that woul
On 03/11/2005, at 9:09 AM, David Wolfskill wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Ken Menzel wrote:
...
If I include GENERIC can I comment out the following?
#cpuI486_CPU
#cpuI586_CPU
Well, it's your (copy of) the file; I suppose you can do whatever you
wan
On 21/12/2005, at 7:23 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
As has been discussed for a couple weeks now, I have MFC'ed to
RELENG_6 the changes in /etc/rc* that bring new-style boot scripts
from the local_startup directories (by default /usr/local/etc/rc.d
and /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d) into the base rcorder.
On 01/01/2006, at 9:38 AM, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
Isn't this supposed to tell FreeBSD not to start up the sendmail
daemon processes?
Have a read of /etc/defaults/rc.conf and try the
sendmail_enable="NONE" flag.
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I'm new here, and I've been lurking to look for answers. You seem like
a friendly bunch, so I'll ask my question.
It appears that there are two strategies for updating FreeBSD systems:
* cvsup the latest STABLE release on a regular basis
* get the CD release (4.6, 4.7, etc) snapshots periodicall
OK. This is where I get confused. I thought that the point of putting
these applications into the base FreeBSD distribution was that they
need to be tightly integrated into the OS. I understand that this is
critical for basic system tools like "adduser". It appears this makes
it important to bu
From the 4.8 changes page I found this:
FreeBSD now has rudimentary support for HyperThreading (HTT). SMP
kernels with the HTT kernel option will detect and start up the
logical processors on HTT-capable machines. The logical processors
will be treated like additional physical processors for t
Last night I needed to reboot switches connected to a FreeBSD server.
There are two igb interfaces, bound via lagg0 as an LACP pair. Each is
connected to a different switch and those switches support mlag (LAG
distributed across more than one switch unit). One of the interfaces
came back fine when
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