Re: Problems with FreeBSD 7.1 Pre-Release after Upgrade from 7.0

2008-09-26 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After cvsuping the source and recompiling the kernel from 7.0 pid 971 (kldstat), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) fuse4bsd: version 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.8 pid 977 (mdconfig), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) pid 978 (mdconfig), u

ssh problems when upgrading 5.5 to 6.3

2008-09-26 Thread Christopher Arnold
Hi all, i'm trying to remotely upgrade a 5.5 system to 6.3 and have run into an issue with userland not matching my kernel. (Yes i know i am a bad guy for even trying to do a upgrade remote, but this is a dress rehersal for future such scenarios.) Symptoms: When trying to ssh to the machine

Re: FreeBSD6.2 to 7.1 Remote update

2009-01-05 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, l1nyx...@googlemail.com wrote: , FreeBSD-stable. It's real? I have one server with hard to access physically. Can I update him to new release over ssh only? Be carefull... I did such an update some time ago and had some problems with ssh not working. And t

Re: freebsd-update painfully slow - slower than source code build of world and kernel

2009-01-06 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Daniel Bond wrote: I'm not sure where to post this, I had trouble finding a suitable mailing-list. Please point me in the right direction, if this is the wrong place to post this message. I think freebsd-ports would have been the place. Yesterday I was struck by happin

Re: freebsd-update painfully slow - slower than source code build of world and kernel

2009-01-06 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Daniel Bond wrote: Regarding portsnap in my previous post, I think you misunderstood me. This is not a new "one time" problem regarding a specific case, portsnap is allways slow. This is observed from heavy usage of it, over a long period of time. This is not my experie

Re: freebsd-update painfully slow - slower than source code build of world and kernel

2009-01-06 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Daniel Bond wrote: reading your answer, you are obviously confusing what I am saying about freebsd-update with the portsnap program. Also, I also wrote in my first post No i'm not confusing them, just trying to follow two subjects at the same time. Sorry if that is confu

Re: top for IO stats

2007-08-28 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Decibel! wrote: Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't turned up anything... Maybe you are looking for "gstat"? /Chris -- http://www.arnold.se/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports

2009-04-07 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Julian Stacey wrote: Some servers for ports/ fetch are also incredibly slow, but fetch will hang in there trying, even if another site lower in the list might be nearer &/or faster. There is a tool called fastest_sites that uses round trip for the tcp hanshake wich is a l

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Volker wrote: For my dentist I'm currently in the process of destroying some tape cartridges (SLR7) and also two hard disks (147G SCSI). The tape sits there since 48 hours writing a block of data every other minute and still didn't fill up the tape completely. The system

Intel watchdog timer

2006-02-08 Thread Christopher Arnold
Hi, does anyone have any info on how to disable the watchdog timer on an intel serverboard model SE7501WV2? I have found the userland application to disable the watchdog in the ICH but that dosnt help much when i cant even get 6.0 installed before the timer goes off... Wouldnt it be a goo

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Alexey Karagodov wrote: 2006/4/6, Chris H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [ ... ] and again. if *NIX developers can't answer user's question, they say "get out" or "it's your problem" or "try something else" or "For that matter; you're not required to use it a