Problem with USB keyboard during boot screen

2012-01-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Hi. I recently installed 9.0-release on a brand new PC which has an i3 chip. During the initial install I happened to use a USB keyboard from Apple. I installed freebsd/amd64. Everything that I tried worked okay with it. After testing a variety of things, I put the machine in a small rack I hav

Re: Problem with mxge on RELENG_8_1

2010-08-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:21 PM -0400 8/13/10, Robert Healey wrote: I recently updated the central file server/router systems for a pair of research clusters from RELENG_8_0 to RELENG_8_1. After following the proper procedures, the network throughput when pulling files from both machines via mxge0 is 200KB/s or les

Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

2009-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:58 AM + 1/9/09, Pete French wrote: I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0 perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1 in it's various incarnations for the last couple of months on our test server and it has performed perfectly. So the last two days I have been ro

Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

2009-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:39 PM -0500 1/9/09, Robert Blayzor wrote: On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Pete French wrote: I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0 perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1 in it's various incarnations for the last couple of months on our test server and it has perfor

Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

2009-01-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:55 PM + 1/12/09, Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 2:39 PM -0500 1/9/09, Robert Blayzor wrote: On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Pete French wrote: I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0 perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1

FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Some friends of mine are looking at the new "DroboPro", which makes a lot of disk space available via iSCSI (in addition to firewire 800), and they were wondering how well iSCSI works with FreeBSD. I haven't paid attention to iSCSI support. Is there anyone using it heavily for disk-storage under

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:13 PM -0400 7/1/06, Francisco Reyes wrote: John Hay writes: I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the server from 5.x to

Weird problems with 'pf' (on both 5.x and 6.x)

2006-07-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
It happens that I noticed two odd networking problems recently. One of them is easily reproducible, and I have it tracked down to one innocuous-looking line in my /etc/pf.conf. The other is a problem in a chat server that I run, with a few hundred people on it, and is much more of a hassle to rep

Re: Weird problems with 'pf' (on both 5.x and 6.x)

2006-07-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:07 PM -0400 7/27/06, Garance A Drosihn wrote: But if I restart pf after adding these lines to pf.conf: # Allow all outgoing tcp and udp connections and keep state pass out quick proto { tcp, udp } all keep state then I have the problem where the second 'lpq' from a r

Re: Weird problems with 'pf' (on both 5.x and 6.x)

2006-07-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:18 PM -0400 7/27/06, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:07 PM -0400 7/27/06, Garance A Drosihn wrote: But if I restart pf after adding these lines to pf.conf: # Allow all outgoing tcp and udp connections and keep state pass out quick proto { tcp, udp } all keep state then I have

Re: Weird problems with 'pf' (on both 5.x and 6.x)

2006-07-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:30 PM +0200 7/28/06, Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 28.07.2006 um 03:57 schrieb Garance A Drosihn: It occurred to me that it might be more informative to see the transaction from the *freebsd* side of things, since that's the machine running pf! So, here is a similar set of two lpq'

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:59 PM +0300 8/15/06, Android Andrew [:] wrote: Yes, nothing changed. Problem could be in anything: memory, raid controller, network adapter, power supply, bios and so on. But to test it all empirically will take too much time. The most annoying thing in this situation is absence of any syst

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:42 AM -0700 10/11/06, Jason Stone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Though I admit RELENG_4 is getting dusty, it is not rusty. I believe it is still used in many places because of its stability and performance. [...] Is it envisageable to extend the RELENG_4's and RELEN

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:42 AM +0200 10/12/06, Dan Lukes wrote: As I'm not commiter, I'm allowed to submit PR and speak. I'm trying both. This letter is "speak" part. Understood. But this has been announced for awhile. If the people who actually depend on 4.x can find the resources to support it, I am

Re: FreeBSD and "make -j# buildworld" usability

2006-10-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:31 PM +0200 10/13/06, Buki wrote: Hi, I searched the archives and web a little but found many different opinions on stability/usability of using make -j# with buildworld (and buildkernel). So I am asking if it is a good idea to use make -j on production boxes. It depends on the target.

Re: 'ifconfig fxp0 -alias' wipes out all IPs on device

2004-11-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:02 AM -0400 11/7/04, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I hate to report an email, but after being laughed at by both Linux and Windows users, I'm kinda concerned at the lack of response to my originals ... is this truly the desired behaviour? And, if so ... can someone put some sort of warning/notice ab

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-12-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:08 PM +0900 11/23/04, Rob wrote: Hi, I have tested following with FreeBSD 5.3-Stable. On several different PCs I have used make -j$n buildworld with $n ranging from 1 to 9. Although people suggest "-j4" as optimal in general case, I have come to a very different conclusion... So, I finally

Re: names of supfiles in /usr/share/examples/cvsup

2004-12-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:36 PM +0100 12/6/04, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: El Lunes, 6 de Diciembre de 2004 08:39, Rob escribió: Hi, For 5.3 in /usr/share/examples/cvsup, there's: stable-supfile : for FreeBSD-stable standard-supfile : for FreeBSD-current I find this naming rather confusing. Why "stable" refers t

Re: DMA errors with SATA on 5.x [one fix]

2004-12-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:01 AM -0600 12/7/04, Tim Welch wrote: I'm getting NID not found/DMA errors on 5-STABLE with a Seagate 200gb sata drive: ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=10 LBA=268435455 This appears to be a result of 48-bit addressing. Any time a write is attempted to the sector above, I get mul

Re: DMA errors with SATA on 5.x [one fix]/ SATA DVD+RW

2004-12-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:49 PM +0100 12/9/04, Søren Schmidt wrote: I'm going to work on it soon thats for sure, however I have lots on the burner currently so its no rush. However all kinds of (S)ATA/ATAPI gear is always most welcome here in the lab, the levels of support I can provide is directly proportional to the

Re: NULL pointer deref in sioopen() suggests a close/open race on sio device?

2005-01-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:51 PM + 1/23/05, Robert Watson wrote: The ps list is a bit boring, but the primary interesting thing is that it looks like the close was going on in one thread just about when the sio swi was scheduled to run also: [...] This in turn suggests that something has called ttyrel/tty_close

Problem with CVSUP12

2005-02-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:31 PM -0800 2/21/05, Doug White wrote: cvsup12 is damaged. If you've checked out against it your checkout is corrupted and you'll need to blow away your src dir and checkouts.cvs file to recover. The administrator has been notified. Is there some way we could inform/re-direct the people who a

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:19 PM -0800 2/27/05, Nate Lawson wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Have you tried sos@ new ATAng mk III patches ? As far as I know he plans to commit those shortly. One minor point: Søren is on vacation right now. I *think* he will be getting back around March 5th (assuming I understand what h

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
re@ note: This might be important for 5.4-release At 5:59 PM -0800 2/27/05, Nate Lawson wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: One minor point: Søren is on vacation right now. I *think* he will be getting back around March 5th Augh. Not the most convenient circumstances. I'm happy to work

Re: Promise FastTrak Tx4200 & FreeBSD 5.3

2005-03-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:50 AM +1000 3/9/05, Simon Litchfield wrote: Hi folks Anyone have any ideas on the Promise PDC20319 (Fasttrak S150 TX4)? We intend to run 5.3 release on this machine. Hmm. Looking at sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c, it looks like that chipset is known by 5.3-release. I know Søren has said that he ha

Re: /sbin/nologin

2005-04-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:40 PM -0500 4/7/05, Frank Knobbe wrote: Greetings, I just noticed that the /etc/passwd files contains the shell "/usr/sbin/nologin" by default on many users. Shouldn't that be "/sbin/nologin" instead? It was moved from /sbin/nologin to /usr/sbin/nologin, for reasons that were tied to changing

Re: 6.2: maillog grows, newsyslog's misbehaving ?

2007-05-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:08 PM +0200 5/28/07, Andreas Klemm wrote: Hi, discovered that the maillog file on my freebsd Desktop grows and grows (now at 50MB). According to the newsyslog.conf file it should be trimmed every night at midnight. /var/log/maillog640 7 *@T00 JC Is it a

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:03 AM -0400 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:43:32PM +, David E. Cross wrote: I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap performance under 6.x is slower then 4.X, and this is listed as "not done". > I noticed that 6.1 seemed to b

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:44 AM -0600 4/12/06, Scott Long wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:03 AM -0400 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: I didn't think this was a 6.1 regression compared to 6.0, but 6.x compared to 4.x. It would be good to try and quantify any performance differences here - so far it

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:06 PM +0200 7/16/05, Øystein Holmen wrote: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp-sites og mirrors. Where can I download it? It may have been taken down. There were a few problems with the iso'

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:50 AM -0400 7/21/05, MikeM wrote: On 7/21/2005 at 8:29 PM Daniel O'Connor wrote: | | I think the best way to rectify this is to test RC candidates | on YOUR hardware.. This finds the bugs you need fixed at a | time when people are very receptive to fixing them. | | It's not realistic for the

Re: ``shutdown -p now'' not working in 5.4 STABLE

2005-08-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:32 PM -0700 8/4/05, Mike Eubanks wrote: I have finished migrating my system from 5.1-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE. The system no longer powers down using either the `shutdown -p now' or `acpiconf -s 5' commands. Instead it always restarts. This won't help much, but I have a system running 5.4-ST

Re: ``shutdown -p now'' not working in 5.4 STABLE

2005-08-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:43 PM -0700 8/4/05, Mike Eubanks wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:14 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Hmm. The more I think about this, the more I think I tripped across something similar once. I think it was something like I turned on 'APM' somewhere, or I added it to

Re: Small patch to lpr - comments, review, commit ?

2000-10-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:33 PM + 10/30/00, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > I have found that lpr does not pass the -C parameters to >lpd unless burst header pages are being printed. Unfortunately >apsfilter (ab)uses the -C parameters for printer mode control. >The patch below moves pass through of the -C param

Re: Small patch to lpr - comments, review, commit ?

2000-10-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:38 PM -0500 10/30/00, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >In fact, I'm inclined to say both the 'C' and 'P' lines should >be moved out of that conditional block. The only thing that >really triggers a header sheet is the 'L' line, and there are >other

Re: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE delayed until November 20th.

2000-11-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:37 PM +0100 11/13/00, Marko Cuk wrote: >What is with the bridging code ?? It won't work from 4.0 !! >I wrote about that problem many times. Where did you write it to? I do not see any problem-reports (ie, as generated via send-pr) from you. You may have described them in previous messages

Re: FreeBSD 4.3-RC5 now on ftp.freebsd.org

2001-04-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:29 PM -0700 4/20/01, David Greenman wrote: >someone wrote: > > And even in "normal" situations, it's quite hard to actually > > get all the bit's from ftp.freesoftware.com ... > >You are right that the performance has sucked generally >for awhile, however. Lightning has been bandwidth l

Re: difficulty uninstalling ports

2001-07-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:52 PM -0700 7/12/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >And, as I'm sure others have pointed out by now, it's even easier >to do this with the -a flag. :) > >Of course, since pkg_delete also supports globbing now, one assumes >'pkg_delete *' from *any* directory would also work. watch out there. you wo

Minor issue with portmap=NO vs 'ypwhich'

2001-08-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
This will probably seem like a dumb thing to report, but I'll mention it in case someone who knows about yp/NIS would want to comment on it. My .bashrc file is (pretty much) the same on the many different platforms that I work on, and as a matter of trouble-shooting on SOME of those platforms I d

Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not

2001-09-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:38 PM -0400 9/15/01, Mike Tancsa wrote: >Should a parallel build always work ? I was just trying to stress >a new series of MB we are evaluating and to my suprise, -j4 works, >but not -j8 Well, in a philosophical sense, yes it "should" always work. Bugs creep into the process from time-to-

Re: AFS for FreeBSD?

2001-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:11 AM -0700 10/18/01, Gordon Tetlow wrote: >On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: > > > see www.openafs.org. I read that somebody has successfully ported > > the server. I haven't tried it yet but I hope it's working. AFS > > is THE solution for many problems. > >/usr/ports/net/

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:57 AM -0500 10/18/01, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > Must one supply any other arguments to newfs in order to enable > > > dirpref? A quick look at man newfs didn't make any mention of > > > dirpref. > > > > No, it's on by default in kernels that include the new code. > >Is there a

Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately?

2001-11-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
This is something odd I noticed when I did a buildworld. It may be due to something I did, but I thought I'd mention it in case other people start noticing the same thing. My system is working fine, so this is not a crisis for me. Just an oddity that I thought I'd mention. [and apologies if th

Re: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately?

2001-11-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:31 PM -0700 11/19/01, Chad R. Larson wrote: >On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 07:49:49PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> The comments for the commit include "which adds the ability to >> compile modules -g as well" (among other things). The original >> commit to

Re: I'm not going to finish my sysinstall changes before 4.5

2001-12-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:47 AM +1030 12/23/01, Greg Lehey wrote: >Somehow I'm nervous this close to a release. I suspect that this is >one area which gets almost no testing in -CURRENT. Can you summarize >(again?) what they do? The change is to what partition-sizes are chosen if a person does let 'disklabel' auto

Re: *_enable="YES" behavior is bogus

2002-02-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:36 PM +0100 2/1/02, Erik Trulsson wrote: >Consider that the actual code in the various rc* start scripts is >in most cases of the form: > >if foo_enable==yes > do stuff >else > do nothing The RC scripts are starting up in a "known" environment (loosely speaking). Enough is known about t

Re: *_enable="YES" behavior is bogus

2002-02-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:36 PM +0100 2/1/02, Erik Trulsson wrote: >Consider that the actual code in the various rc* start scripts is >in most cases of the form: > >if foo_enable==yes > do stuff >else > do nothing Let me approach this from a different angle. Several people have tried to argue this by proposing v

Re: *_enable="YES" behavior is bogus

2002-02-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Oh. Damn. Someone *added* freebsd-current to this thread without removing freebsd-stable. Several people have requested that we stop discussing this on freebsd-stable, and I *thought* I was only sending my recent messages to the one mailing list. I do not particularly care which mailing list t

Re: Is vmnet broken in 4.5?

2002-02-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:38 AM +0300 2/19/02, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: >Hi. > >My vmware2 use netgraph bridge to access the network. Under 4.4 all >work fine. But after upgrade to 4.5 I got some trouble. I can't see >my FBSD box under vmware, but all other boxes in network work fine. >I can't ping from FBSD box to v

Re: Heads Up: Accept filters fixed

2002-04-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:07 PM -0500 4/30/02, Mike Silbersack wrote: >Just a quick note for those of you using accept filters with >a 4.4+ kernel using the syncache: Your accept filters are >broken, and easily DoSable. > >The fix (attached) has now been committed to both 5.0 and 4.5, >so I recommend doing one of tw

Re: xargs broken

2002-07-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:08 PM +1000 7/1/02, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > # xargs ls -d < /tmp/p >> xargs: ls: Argument list too long > >You mean the warning "Argument list too long" ? >It's coming from your shell. Well, that's true, but it's coming from the shell because xargs built a command that was too long...

Re: two minor lpr gripes

2003-09-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:47 AM -0700 9/18/03, roger n. tospott wrote: /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/common_source/lp.local.h currently has #define DEFMX 1000 Given the size of files nowadays, shouldn't this be a little larger? This was recently changed to 0 in current, but not in stable. (zero meaning "n

Re: portsdb -Uu results in coredump

2004-09-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:49 PM -0400 9/6/04, Sahil Tandon wrote: kstewart wrote: There is a bug in ruby that shows up as a bus error. Follow the topic on [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are several ways to alter the INDEX[-5] so that it occurs less frequently. Occurs less frequently? That's not what I'm looking for. Is the

Re: NO! Re: [PATCHES] Two fixes for lpd/lpc for review and test

1999-12-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Note: I'm sending this to just the -current list, since it's pretty clear that this change won't be ready for -stable anytime this year... (hopefully Alfred is in -current?) At 3:02 PM -0800 12/9/99, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > On Tue, 07-Dec-1999 at

RE: Upgrading 3.5-STABLE to 4.0-STABLE

2000-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:40 PM -0400 7/16/00, Phil Rosenthal wrote: >Is it possible to ignore the "reboot in single mode" part? > >It is not possible to get this system into single mode, because >it has to be up, always. >it can have a maximum downtime of maybe 45 seconds, which is >too long to go into single mode an

Re: I'll be rolling a 4.1.1 release on September 25th

2000-09-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:19 PM -0700 9/16/00, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably said: > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > > > Can we _please_ get these two patches into at least -stable > > > > before or after this rele