make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Colin
hine but I do need some of the other options in the kernel hence using custom. I am currently running another csup and will try building a generic kernel to see if that works but I can't really install a generic. Anyone got any pointers? Cheers, Colin.

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Colin
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Colin wrote: Anyone got any pointers? Could you post your /etc/make.conf? That said, I recon you build your kernel in a rather wierd way. Delete /usr/obj/* and run "make cleandir && make cleandir" in /u

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Colin
N.J. Mann wrote: In message <4b596838.9020...@southportcomputers.co.uk>, Colin (free...@southportcomputers.co.uk) wrote: [snip] It goes for a while and then the buildkernel fails with this: cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DFREEBSD_NAMECACHE -DBUILDING_ZFS -D_

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-23 Thread Colin
n any other logfiles, are there any tools or other things that I can use to figure out why the system is so sluggish now? Cheers Colin. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, sen

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-23 Thread Colin
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 03:27:12PM +, Colin wrote: There's nothing obvious that I can see in any other logfiles, are there any tools or other things that I can use to figure out why the system is so sluggish now? A couple things I can think of: vmstat

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-24 Thread Colin
Colin wrote: Thanks for the reply. I must admit that the ins and outs of paging and interrupts are something I don't have much expertise in. I've asked the colo company to look into it but I've put the output of those commands into pastebin incase anything stands out. http://w

Re: speaking of 3.4...

1999-11-25 Thread Colin
y, look around the industry. How many "patch sets" from the other *ix vendors (released monthly to quarterly) include new features? Cheers, Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

RE: Install problems

2000-01-06 Thread Colin
lue as to what is going wrong. ALT-F2 seems to > be giving good message results, although I had never looked at it when > things were working. > This, unfortunately, I can't help with given that error message. Maybe netmask? -- E-Mail: Colin &

Re: codecrusader and ntp

2000-03-05 Thread Colin
other issues I might find. I also built from the sources on the FreeBSD site, seemed slightly safer ;) All I can say at this point, though, is that it starts without any real difficulties. Cheers, Colin -- -- E-Mail: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time

2000-04-03 Thread Colin
change, and > then displayed a **2-hour** leap ahead. > > At least the 4.0-STABLE side, despite the error reported by > several on this list, managed to get the time right. > cheers, Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

natd inconsistencies

2000-07-09 Thread Colin
o the internet. The simple ruleset was completely unuseable (I couldn't connect doodle to squirt from the internal network) and the open approach was just silly. I'll post it here for comment in a day or two. In the interim, any comments on why natd and ipfw don't work the intui

Re: natd inconsistencies

2000-07-10 Thread Colin
On 10-Jul-00 Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Colin wrote: > >> The man page recommends putting the divert rule as close to the >> beginning >> of the rule set as possible, and the default rule sets seem consistent >> with this. I noticed, though,

Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Legendre
Hey All, I'm having an odd issue, and the only thing I can imagine is that there has been a major change between 8.1 and 8.2. Using the 8.1 kernel everything is dandy. But when I try to use a newly compiled kernel from 8.2(GENERIC) I have no luck. Root will not mount. Here are relevant k

Re: Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Legendre
On 2/1/2011 6:22 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 05:34:18PM -0500, Colin Legendre wrote: Hey All, I'm having an odd issue, and the only thing I can imagine is that there has been a major change between 8.1 and 8.2. Using the 8.1 kernel everything is dandy. But when

(8.2|7.4)-RC3 amd64 bits in place now

2011-02-06 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, I forgot to upload some of the amd64 RC3 bits to the mirrors earlier. They should be in place now. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.3 EoL coming soon

2012-03-06 Thread Colin Percival
RELENG_9_0 |9.0-RELEASE |Normal |January 10, 2012 |January 31, 2013 | +-+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the trul

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-10-31 Thread Colin Percival
, 2010|July 31, 2012| +-+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Colin Percival
't agreed to anything yet. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-10-18 Thread Colin Percival
best solution here is to make FreeBSD Update realize that you're running 7.1-BETA: # env UNAME_r=7.1-BETA freebsd-update [...] Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubsc

FreeBSD Update slow right now, please be patient

2009-01-06 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, FreeBSD Update is being slow right now due to server load issues. It will improve. Please be patient. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
to pick a different mirror. 3. Assuming that the second mirror works, send me an email telling me which mirror failed and which one worked so that I can have the load balancing adjusted. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsna

Re: FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
Aristedes Maniatis wrote: 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? The list of is distributed via DNS SRV records: # host -t srv _http

Re: 6.3-RELEASE panic

2008-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
t; or .debug for that kernel? (See my previuous email with more detailed >> info). > > Ah, I missed that, sorry. Colin hopefully will have the kernel.debug > handy. I'm afraid not -- FreeBSD Update is just distributing the bits from the release ISO image, and the release ISO doesn&

Re: FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Now Available

2021-04-05 Thread Colin Percival
he new location. Where is it? I think the freebsd-update build code might be homeless right now. I know I have seen emails mentioning that it needs to land somewhere but I don't recall any decision being reached. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder

Re: [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...

2013-04-28 Thread Colin House
On 29/04/2013 3:48 AM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: Hi, I'm having issues connecting Garmin GPS 18 to COM1 on 9.1, I get nothing but silence. Identical setup works absolutely fine with Linux. I've got PPS wire connected to DCD, but that seems to make no difference on Linux, so I presume it shouldn't af

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/

2007-10-18 Thread Colin Percival
ither FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 > once > those have been released (hopefully by the end of December). FreeBSD 6.3 will > be supported until the end of 2009, while FreeBSD 7.0 will be supported until > the end of 2008. > > Colin Percival > FreeBSD Security Officer _

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-BETA1 available

2007-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
s running FreeBSD 6.x to 6.3-BETA1 are now available: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to upgrade to 7.0-BETA2 should be here within 24 hours. Colin Percival FreeBSD Securit

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 Available

2007-11-11 Thread Colin Percival
ETA2 will be provided > via the freebsd-stable list when available. As promised, instructions on upgrading from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA2 are now available: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html Colin Percival FreeBSD S

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R -> 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Percival
t the FreeBSD Update code thinks that it has rolled back its updates, but I might be able to find a way to do that for you -- is it a disaster if this system ends up stuck at 6.3-BETA1? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

[HEADS UP] "freebsd-update rollback" broken on minor version upgrades

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Percival
currently broken and will make your system unbootable. I should have this fixed within the next couple of days. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [HEADS UP] "freebsd-update rollback" broken on minor version upgrades

2007-11-16 Thread Colin Percival
Colin Percival wrote: > A quick heads-up to everyone here using my new FreeBSD Update "upgrade" > code: If you have performed a minor version upgrade (e.g., 6.2-RELEASE -> > 6.3-BETA1 or 7.0-BETA1.5 -> 7.0-BETA2) please do not attempt to roll it > back using "fr

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R -> 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-16 Thread Colin Percival
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> I believe that your system is now 6.3-BETA1 with a few shared libraries >> from 6.2-RELEASE mixed in. If you can get a copy of /lib/*.so.* and >> /usr/lib/*.so.* from a 6.3-BETA1 system and install those into place >

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R -> 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-17 Thread Colin Percival
ou can use to tell FreeBSD Update not to touch some files (even if they haven't been modified locally). FreeBSD Update will never produce mangled files as a result of applying a bsdiff patch to the wrong file -- it checks file hashes before and after applying patches and gracefully falls back to

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 Available

2007-11-19 Thread Colin Percival
daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html for upgrading from 7.0-BETA1.5 or 7.0-BETA2 to 7.0-BETA3. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer & FreeBSD Update wrangler ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-11-28 Thread Colin Percival
fact that /etc/pf.conf disappeared is due to it being removed from the release (it is now in /usr/share/examples/etc). The fact that /.cshrc was upgraded in spite of having been locally modified is probably a bad idea -- I'll change the default freebsd-update.conf to deal

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 02:47:11 pm Colin Percival wrote: >> Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> I am not 100% sure, maybe I overlook something in binary major version >>> upgrade procedure, but after upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0-BETA3 my roots >

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-12-05 Thread Colin Percival
Max Laier wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Colin Percival wrote: >> John Baldwin wrote: >>> Considering that /etc/pf.conf is a file that users edit to configure >>> pf(4), removing it out from under them is probably a very bad idea. >> >> The heurist

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Available

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Percival
's irritating to have to rebuild all of the installed ports, but (unless some disaster strikes) this should be the last time it is needed until FreeBSD 8.x happens ~2 years from now. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE

2009-04-24 Thread Colin Percival
(the buggy phttpget dies if a connection is reset instead of retrying it properly). Since I'm sure people will ask: I'm not looking for extra permanent mirrors at the moment. The FreeBSD Update mirroring code currently consists of "Colin sshes into servers and copies bits ar

FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 available via FreeBSD Update

2009-07-11 Thread Colin Percival
ounter any problems -- I'm aware of two systems already which didn't manage to reboot after installing 8.0-BETA1 kernels, so this is definitely a case of "here be dragons". -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap

HEADS UP: Do not upgrade EC2 instances from 10.x to 11.x yet

2016-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
ase engineering team. Thanks to Peter Ankerstål, Allan Jude, Warner Losh, and Glen Barber for their help in tracking down this problem. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the

Re: Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

2017-07-28 Thread Colin Percival
chine hangs > in the loader. Do you know what version of FreeBSD this system was originally running? It may be that there are other oddities in the old partitioning which cause problems for the newer loader code. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Foun

FreeBSD 6.0->6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
he process is entirely secure. The script can be obtained from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ and the SHA256 hash of the download is 29075fc5711e0b20d879c69d12bbe5414c1c56d597c8116da7acc0d291116d2f . Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: FreeBSD 6.0->6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-Jul-09 00:42:31 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >> I have written an automatic script >> for performing binary FreeBSD 6.0 -> FreeBSD 6.1 upgrades. > > That sounds useful. Are you intending to provide this for future > FreeBSD minor-rev

Re: 6.2 ETA

2006-08-30 Thread Colin Percival
that these dates are > no longer accurate. > > What is a valid ETA for starting the 6.2R releng process? I'm not part of the release engineering team, but I'm not aware of anything which they're waiting for before starting the freeze. I'd be surprised if RELENG_

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Percival
ystem to the latest updates on RELENG_n_m. > RELENG_n (RELENG_6 at the moment) > Has somebody just said that RELENG_6 = STABLE? Yes. > I'm going to guess then that RELENG_7 is CURRENT. > No, this doesn't make sense to me at

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1 Available

2006-09-20 Thread Colin Percival
i386 running FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1, FreeBSD Update should be able to fetch the updates right now. If it doesn't, something is broken, and I'd like to hear about it. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Percival
an updated dh.h yet. Try running cvsup again, maybe from a different mirror. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Percival
Christer Solskogen wrote: > I've tried norway's mirror (my default), the danish, the swedish mirror > and the mirror in holland. No change. > Just to be sure I also deletet src/crypto before I tried the different > mirrors. Exactly what command did you run to try to compile

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Colin Percival
EV1Servers has never been a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people before they started offering FreeBSD at all. I wonder if they'll start offering more recent FreeBSD releases next month after FreeBSD 5.4 becomes uns

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
y personal website, I haven't had any complaints. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: daemonology.net instructions - binary upgrade 5.3 to 6.1

2006-10-19 Thread Colin Percival
Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > At daemonology.net Colin Percival has some excellent instructions on > how to do binary upgrades - he has even written a script to do a 6.0 > to 6.1 upgrade. My question is: Can I do a 5.3 to 6.1 upgrade using > the instructions for "5.4 system to F

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-21 Thread Colin Percival
release. I haven't worked out all the details yet as to how this should be done to minimize the chance that my script will accidentally break things, but I'm not going to release anything until I think that accidental breakage is very unlikely. :-) Colin Percival _

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-26 Thread Colin Percival
Colin Percival wrote: > Petr Holub wrote: >>> I'm working on it. >> If I install RC1 now, would it be possible to upgrade to RC2 >> and RELEASE, or is it not ready yet? > > My intention is that anyone running 6.1-RELEASE, 6.2-BETA*, or > 6.2-RC* will be

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-28 Thread Colin Percival
e fine to have the files at least ready so that user can diff them > and decide what to do. I'm planning on adding automatic merging of configuration files soon. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

5.3 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2004-12-09 Thread Colin Percival
RITY SMP". Note again that this does not apply to any FreeBSD releases other than 5.3. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-19 Thread Colin Percival
Brett Glass wrote: Would anyone else besides me like to see a 5.3.1 minor release sometime around, say, February? No, but quite a few people would like to see a 5.4 minor release sometime around, say, late February or early March. Colin Percival

Re: Any hosting companies offering FreeBSD 5.3 yet?

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Percival
it up initially (about 80 hours -- but 48 hours of that was over a weekend), but aside from that I have no complaints. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: 2 ntpd (5.3-STABLE-SNAP001)

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Percival
makes one attempt to look up names in DNS and then goes into an infinite loop. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: KDE refuses new processes when network goes away

2005-03-30 Thread Colin Percival
? Is your /etc/hosts correct? I've seen this happen when the local hostname (i.e., the output of `hostname`) cannot be resolved. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To u

Re: MNT_NOEXEC on root filesystem with diskless PXE boot?

2005-03-31 Thread Colin Percival
Yes, that's quite correct -- although I can't imagine how a bug which caused / to be labelled as "noexec" managed to avoid causing major problems until now. I don't know anything about NFS, but hopefully someone on -stable will be able to work out what's going on from

Re: Ready for dual core Opterons?

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Percival
processors to the operating system, so there should be no problems. For that matter, my understanding is that dual core opterons *are* separate processors, connected only via their normal external interface. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Colin Percival
id-January. This does not give > much time for people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD release. I think it > would be fair if support is extended for a few more months especially since > 6.2 is so late in coming. Your opinion has been noted. Colin Percival ___

Re: 6.2 Release

2007-01-10 Thread Colin Percival
ing upon your time zone. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

HEADS UP: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

2007-01-11 Thread Colin Percival
e, as well as the release engineering team for being very patient with us and delaying the upcoming release to give us time to fix this. Sincerely, Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: > =

Re: HEADS UP: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

2007-01-11 Thread Colin Percival
Philipp Wuensche wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> In the end we opted to reduce functionality (the jail startup process is >> no longer logged to /var/log/console.log inside the jail) > > Thats a bummer, when Dirk showed me this problem the first time my ideas > for fix

Re: freebsd-update from 6.1 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE: directory creation caused failure.

2007-01-19 Thread Colin Percival
directory instead. > Suggestion for the developer: either permit directory creation in > /usr/upgrade, or document that it's a no-no. It will be documented. :-) Thanks, Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: 6.1 to 6.2 freebsd-update binary upgrade on amd64

2007-02-04 Thread Colin Percival
ack run should be sufficient. Downgrading is easier than upgrading, since you don't start running the new kernel until you reboot. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-update ignores /boot/kernel/kernel sometimes!?

2007-03-01 Thread Colin Percival
t/kernel, the kernel will be replaced with a GENERIC (non-SMP) kernel. I'm working on a patch for this and will be talking to re@ about having an Errata Notice sent out about this. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: ANNOUNCE: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update

2007-03-16 Thread Colin Percival
s/conf/newvers.sh 1.69.2.13.2.5 > + src/UPDATING 1.416.2.29.2.6 > + src/sys/conf/newvers.sh 1.69.2.13.2.6 I guess I ought to update my CVS tree before using it to figure out the RCS numbers

Re: freebsd-update changes kernel to SMP-GENERIC

2007-03-25 Thread Colin Percival
t; > Did something go wrong? What does `sysctl kern.bootfile` say? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-update problem (on 6.2)

2007-03-28 Thread Colin Percival
nloaded because the files have been modified locally: > /etc/rc.d/jail This is correct. The version you have here is not the version which was distributed with the release -- it's the version in the latest RELENG_6_2. Colin Percival

Re: freebsd-update problem (on 6.2)

2007-03-28 Thread Colin Percival
o a buildworld. There isn't any good solution here, yet. I might add support for the snapshot ISOs at some point (at least for upgrading to/from them -- there will not be security updates built for them). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebs

Re: freebsd-update weirdness

2007-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
GENERIC i386 > > C3# freebsd-update fetch > [...] > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3. This may look odd, but it's actually correct. The version number reported by `uname` is the version number of the kernel, and the change from 6.2-RELEASE-p2 to 6.2-RELEA

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-28 Thread Colin Percival
e fairly typical symptoms of gnutar being broken. What makes you think that the archive created by BSD tar was invalid? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-28 Thread Colin Percival
Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Colin Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> tar -xvzf test.tar.gz >>> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' >>> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
lease. > PS. This having been said I know there are some kernel fixes that were > candidates for errata against 6.2-RELEASE...I'm not sure what their > current state is. Don't ask me, I just approve the errata which you send to me. Which hasn't been anything at all latel

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
Scott Long wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> I point releases have been obsoleted by errata notices. In the past when >> X.Y.Z-RELEASE has happened, it has been because of critical bugs in the >> X.Y-RELEASE which there wasn't any other mechanism to fix. Now that we

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
27;s breakage by explicitly telling it to ignore these options via --pax-option="delete=SCHILY.*" . Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
developed ? > This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? > Is there any special reason for this ? Look at the date on Scott's email. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 Available

2006-04-13 Thread Colin Percival
ease images with the number set to "6.1-RC1"? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
uld be an .eu mirror? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-21 Thread Colin Percival
default server for pre-1.0 versions of portsnap from the ports tree). Given that most systems running portsnap are FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, this doesn't cause much differential loading. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
If you absolutely must run FreeBSD 4.11, install the RELEASE and then run FreeBSD Update. Personally, since FreeBSD 4.11 will reach its EoL about 8 months from now, and the 4.x->[56].x upgrade path is non-trivial, I recommend installing FreeBSD 6.1 instead. Colin Perci

FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Colin Percival
se visit http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html and complete the survey below before May 31st, 2006. Thanks, Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

Re: FreeBSD 5.5 Released

2006-05-25 Thread Colin Percival
Ken Smith wrote: > BitTorrent > -- > > 5.5-RELEASE ISOs are not available via BitTorrent at this time. They > may be made available in the future on an on-demand basis. Thanks to ps, torrents are now available for 5.5-RELEASE: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
ienced FreeBSD users I decided that some anti-foot-shooting mechanisms were a good idea. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available

2005-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
t). Should I upgrade to -RC3? I'm not sure if it's worth burning another few hundred megabytes of ftp mirror bandwidth. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsub

Re: MNT_USER?

2005-05-03 Thread Colin Percival
g for something which should Never Happen. :-) Colin Percival PS. Bravo to Ian for tracking down the bug in NFS -- I spent a while looking for this, but got hopelessly lost. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Apache + Caching DNS: conflict at bootup? (DNS runs too late)

2005-05-09 Thread Colin Percival
Rob wrote: > Some time ago, there was (or still is) a similar > conflict with hostname resolution at bootup when > using ntpd. Yes, but not with named -- the problem was only when using a dns cache from the ports tree, since those are started later in the boot sequence. Colin

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Percival
FreeBSD 5.x is expected to be supported until late 2007 (FreeBSD 5.5 plus two years), and FreeBSD 6.x will probably be supported until early 2009 (the last FreeBSD 6.x release plus two years). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-26 Thread Colin Percival
llowed on a stable branch). > Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years? Something like that, yes. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Percival
e added it to the stable branches, but not to -current, since hyper-threading is still enabled by default in HEAD. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Percival
ernel/SMP # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # echo 'bootfile="SMP"' >> /boot/loader.conf and reboot. You should now find that `uname -ri` outputs "5.4-SECURITY SMP". Colin Percival ___ fre

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Percival
Billy Newsom wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> It sounds like the SMP kernel I provided for FreeBSD 5.3 was quite >> popular [...] > > I'm curious how popular. Would you like to report some statistics here > on the list? As in, how many SMP downloads did you get

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-16 Thread Colin Percival
Mipam wrote: > Thanks for the kernel. > What parameters did you change in your SMP kernel. > Just curious, surely gonna try your kernel. :-) I didn't change any parameters, I just used the SMP kernel configuration from the source tree (i.e., GENERIC plus "options SMP

Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
sys/netinet/tcp_input.c:2706: warning: nested extern > declaration of `TSTMP_GT' What version of /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h do you have on that system? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: [Fwd: Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel]

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
> Colin Percival wrote: >> What version of /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h do you have on that >> system? Oops. I meant to ask about src/sys/netinet/tcp_seq.h of course... Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
mpile much happier. Yeah, it looks like the mirrors managed to update at exactly the wrong time and got one patch but not the other. Fortunately, this doesn't happen very often. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Colin Percival
at > this time wouldn't be prudent? If I was deploying a new server today, I'd install FreeBSD 5.4. If I were planning on installing a new server next month, I'd install FreeBSD 6.0-BETA-whatever-number-we're-up-to-by-then. Colin Percival __

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