Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
top that the next one wouldn't behave the same way. This is why I recommend trying out another OS to see if it exhibits the problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Adm

Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
wish I knew what else to recommend too, or what else to check. :-( Folks familiar with ACPI tables might be able to shed some light on the situation, if it is indeed a problem there. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Netwo

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n the case of the latter on our SCSI systems at work, we change the physical SCSI cabling in our systems to remove the GEM from the bus entirely, otherwise it does odd things like tries to renumber the SCSI IDs on devices during a failure, and more often than not locks the entire SCSI control

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nd I found it fixes certain performance problems with > SuperMicro backplanes! In another thread, or a PR, if you could provide those technical details that would be beneficial. There are a very large number of FreeBSD users who use Supermicro server-class hardware, and I'm certain the

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
reebsd-stable/2011-February/061642.html Finally, when was the last time this FreeBSD machine was rebooted? Some people have seen horrible performance that goes away after a reboot. There's some speculation that memory fragmentation has something to do with it. I simply d

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:27:04PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:56:01 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:33:22PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > Does anyone else use ZFS to store TM backups? > > > > >

Re: [releng_8 tinderbox] failure on arm/arm

2011-04-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/usbdump/usbdump.c Relevant code bits: 290: static void 291: print_apacket(const struct bpf_xhdr *hdr, const uint8_t *ptr, int ptr_len) 292: { ... 349:const struct usbpf_framehdr *uf; ... 353:

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:43:47AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 29/04/2011, at 5:26, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> I have the following ZFS related tunables > >> > >> vfs.zfs.arc_max="3072M" > >> vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1&q

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:25:03AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:59:54 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I've seen cases where entries in /boot/loader.conf throw parser errors > > during loader(8) when quotes aren't used. The man page denotes tha

Is machdep.cpu_idle_hlt deprecated?

2011-04-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
correlate with what's shown in machdep.idle_available. If I'm correct, I believe that means we can safely remove the last line of text in the acpi(4) man page? There's also a mention of this variable in a file called src/tools/tools/sysdoc/tunables.mdoc, but I'm not sure what that is. -- | J

RELENG_8 pf stack issue (state count spiraling out of control)

2011-05-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
f anyone has advice (or has seen the above problem), or is interested in debugging it -- as I said, I have a vmcore -- I'm happy to assist in any way I can. I would hate for someone else to get bit by this, and really am hoping its something that has been fixed between February and now. -

Re: RELENG_8 pf stack issue (state count spiraling out of control)

2011-05-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 01:06:34AM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:58:54PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >(Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to freebsd-pf. And apologies > >for cross-posting, but the issue is severe enough that I want

Re: RELENG_8 pf stack issue (state count spiraling out of control)

2011-05-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:22:10AM +0200, Vlad Galu wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to freebsd-pf. And apologies > > for cross-posting, but the issue is severe enough that I wanted

Re: RELENG_8 pf stack issue (state count spiraling out of control)

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ame time, pf's state counter started gradually incrementing for reasons unknown -- an indicator that something bad was happening, almost certainly within pf itself, or somewhere within the kernel. I'm inclined to believe pf, because existing/ESTABLISHED stateful entries continued to

Re: RELENG_8 pf stack issue (state count spiraling out of control)

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:48:00AM +0200, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:58:54PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Status: Enabled for 76 days 06:49:10 Debug: Urgent > > > The "pf uptime" shown above, by the way, matche

Re: Automatic reboot doesn't reboot

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
der.conf settings aren't taking -- they should be for sure. Maybe provide us a full dmesg and XXX out things you consider sensitive. If i386, I'm not too surprised that some automatic defaults get chosen instead of what you ask. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Automatic reboot doesn't reboot

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Olaf Seibert wrote: > On Tue 03 May 2011 at 02:21:13 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > There are two things you might try fiddling with. These are sysctls so > > you can try them on the fly: > > > > hw.acpi.disable_on_reboo

Re: RELENG_8 pf stack issue (state count spiraling out of control)

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:31:57AM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 03/05/2011 10:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > Sadly I don't see a way with bsnmpd(8) to monitor things like interrupt > > usage, etc. otherwise I'd be graphing that. The more monitoring

Re: Automatic reboot doesn't reboot

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:30:15PM +0200, Olaf Seibert wrote: > On Tue 03 May 2011 at 05:20:52 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > To be on the safe side, pick something that's small at first, then work > > your way up. You'll need probably 1+ weeks of heavy ZFS I/O betw

Re: Daily backups of pkgdb failure

2011-05-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t a PR I just created tonight for RELENG_7, since this periodic script did get backported to that branch. PR pertains to tar(1) on RELENG_7 complaining about leading slashes on stderr, while RELENG_8 and newer do not due to differences in each respective branches' util.c: http://www.free

Re: syslogd spinning the CPU, not logging...

2011-05-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
gging). I've never seen syslogd spiral out of control on any of our systems, but all logging destinations in syslog.conf on our systems are files on local disks. If you can find a way to reliably reproduce the issue that would be useful, otherwise this sounds like one of

Re: Double installation of liblzma.so.5 breaks libarchive.so.5

2011-05-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
it shouldn't have; it should have used ldconfig(8) to do things correctly. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain Vie

Re: a bunch of dumb questions about freebsd installing

2011-05-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ble (floppy, hard disk, flash drive, ZIP drive, JAZ drive, and many others). Which your vendor chose to implement, or how to make it work how you need it to, is unknown to me; please discuss this with your IP KVM vendor. Bottom line: IP KVM's "virtual media" feature sounds g

Re: 8-STABLE and swap

2011-05-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ied about swap usage, try limiting the ARC size more using /boot/loader.conf. You do not need to adjust vm.kmem_size or vm.kmem_size_max if the machine is running 8.2-RELEASE or newer. I only mention this because all the online docs you'll find mention tuning one or both of those two; th

Re: can't update libzip-0.9.3 to libzip-0.10

2011-05-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rts, or a GNU autoconf script that is detecting something incorrectly). Thank you. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain Vi

Re: can't update libzip-0.9.3 to libzip-0.10

2011-05-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
d this is indeed important!), the types it detects/uses are completely different. I'm not sure what's going on with your system, but it almost implies that you have a separate set of include files that are "trumping" or "overriding" the FreeBSD base system defaults. --

Re: Unstable ARP responses times

2011-05-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ea what does mean ? Can you try turning off flowtable to see if that makes any difference? This is a sysctl and can be adjusted in real-time. net.inet.flowtable.enable=0 Thanks. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: RELENG_8 does not build with CPUTYPE=core2

2011-05-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.2.2 date 20070831). However, we use WITHOUT_KERBEROS=true in /etc/src.conf so there may be some "weirdness" with the kerberos stuff; unknown to me. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.par

Re: Heads up: you'll need to do a fresh "config KERNEL" etc

2011-05-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
config required if only the NFS code itself changed? A buildworld/buildkernel should be sufficient, no? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: MCA: CPU 0 UNCOR PCC DTLB L1 error

2011-05-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
atches for patches, basically; no I haven't put them up anywhere). "mcelog --ascii" will read data from stdin, specifically the messages you see from the kernel, and it outputs something a little more friendly. In your case, however, mcelog does not have support for your specific mode

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
this page? > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS The freebsd-fs and freebsd-stable mailing lists are pretty much the source of truth these days. Basically if you use ZFS you're sort of expected to be subscribed to them and following them daily. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 17/05/2011 10:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:43:44AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >> Does this sound familiar to anyone running ZFS with snapshots? > > >

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:55:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 17/05/2011 14:29 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 17/05/2011 10:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > >>> On Tue, Ma

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 and Lenovo X300 WWAN Modem

2011-05-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> AT OK-AT-OK \ > AT+CFUN=1 OK-AT-OK \ > AT+CMEE=2 OK-AT-OK \ > AT+CSQ OK \ > AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\"IP\\\",\\\"internet\\\" OK \ > AT+CGACT? OK-AT-OK \ > AT+CGATT? OK \ > AT+CGCLASS? OK

Re: FreeBSD mail was down for a few hours

2011-05-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
his mail is primarily sent to stable@ so non-committers can also get the > information. Simon, I'm curious -- what brand of RAID controller and what driver on FreeBSD? Not that I have any solutions, just curious about what's in use. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Fwd: [releng_7 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-05-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
' > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /obj/src/sys/LINT. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /src. > TB --- 2011-05-19 21:09:48 - WARNING: /usr/bin/make returned exit code 1 > TB --- 2011-05-19 21:09:48 - ERROR: failed

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e someone, who can help me to get this modem to work? It would be helpful if you could specify what FreeBSD version you're using. Assuming 8.2 or RELENG_8: no promises, but puc(4) is probably what you're looking for. I would try adding: puc_load="yes" To your /boot/loader.conf,

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ittle to nothing about CD ripping so I can't tell you why abcde was able to somehow trigger this. Possibly some device read routines that abcde uses get translated directly into GEOM requests and therefore indirectly trigger the assertion? I'm CC'ing phk@ in case he happens to

Re: mountlate not late enough for nfe0 with dhcp

2011-05-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ht solve this problem for you as well, but I tend to recommend folks use netwait in more complex situations. A "simple sleep" is not 100% reliable and makes a lot of (bad) assumptions. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Paro

Re: mountlate not late enough for nfe0 with dhcp

2011-05-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:14:47PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > synchronous_dhcp might solve this problem for you as well, but I tend to This should have read synchronous_dhclient, sorry. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parod

Re: snd_hda : sometimes sound sometimes not

2011-05-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
l continue until 9.0-RELEASE comes out. Does any developer/committer have familiarity with this issue and have some ideas as to what may have changed in CURRENT that addresses David's issue? And if so, can that code be MFC'd safely or patches provided to David for RE

Re: ICH9 panic/instability on recent kernel

2011-05-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
" from the loader "ok" prompt, or ahci_load="yes" in /boot/loader.conf) to see if things improve. Your CD drive will then appear as a SCSI-esque CD drive (e.g. cd(4) driver instead of atapicd), so be aware. This would be a workaround for your issue, assuming it works. I&#

Re: ZFS I/O errors

2011-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ne device). What you didn't disclose is what the disks are attached to. "camcontrol devlist -v" would have been a good start, followed by any details of controller/driver/etc. you're using. Possibly it's an underlying (silent) storage driver bug. Finally, and leaving t

Re: ZFS I/O errors

2011-05-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
problems (older systems) or on-die MCH (newer CPUs, e.g. Core iX and recent Xeon) problems could manifest themselves like this. However, in those situations I'd imagine you'd be seeing a lot of other oddities on the system and not limited to just ZFS. Newer systems which support MCA (aga

Re: [ZFSv28]gtpzfsboot fails to boot ZFSv28 0511

2011-05-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is this: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ Except: 1) The ISOs there don't claim to be "LiveFS"; I don't know if they are. 2) There's no memory stick image available, only ISOs, 3) They're 8.2-RELEASE with ZFSv28 patches, not 9.0-CURRENT. I don't know th

Re: PCIe SATA HBA for ZFS on -STABLE

2011-06-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of monetary limitations you have, then make a decision based on that. Remember: a good, solid controller will probably be a one-time purchase. But also think about the future and if in 2-3 years you want to go about buying another controller (likely costing more than whatev

Re: 8-STABLE won't boot with ZFSv28

2011-06-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
le). ataahci.ko will be used (which is AHCI via ATA) and your device names probably won't change. Alternatively you could enable AHCI and use ahci.ko (ahci_load="yes" in /boot/loader.conf) to get AHCI via CAM, which provides NCQ and other features, but your device names will change. M

Re: 8-STABLE won't boot with ZFSv28

2011-06-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:26:05AM +, Holger Kipp wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick [free...@jdc.parodius.com] wrote on 01 June 2011 10:54 > > >On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:23:19AM +, Holger Kipp wrote: > >> I have a very irritating problem with 8-STABLE and ZFSv28 > >&g

Re: 8-STABLE won't boot with ZFSv28

2011-06-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
can change this default value, but we don't seem to print it anywhere in ata_intel_chipinit() during a verbose boot. Looking at chipsets/ata-intel.c, it looks like we only touch PCS in ata_intel_chipinit() and ata_intel_reset(). In the former, we avoid touching bits 4 through 15, and in the

Re: Fileserver panic - FreeBSD 8.1-stable and zfs

2011-06-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
literally cannot remember all of the different situations/conditions/tunings for each FreeBSD kernel build, release, date, type, etc., so I tend to focus on the most recent RELENG_8 build. Then someone comes along with an older build. Hehe. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Fileserver panic - FreeBSD 8.1-stable and zfs

2011-06-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 12:39:40AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:50:26 -0700 > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > This is a well-known thing with ZFS on FreeBSD. Because you're running > > 8.1-STABLE, this makes figuring out all the tuna

Re: cannot install textproc/py-libxml2

2011-06-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ib/pth install > ... I don't know if this will work, but what you want is: make CFLAGS+="-I/usr/local/include/pth -L/usr/local/lib/pth" install Also, this looks to be a freebsd-ports topic, not freebsd-stable. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@paro

Re: HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE

2011-06-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ong_t)current_vers, spa_name(spa), SPA_VERSION); 507 #endif 508 } A "zpool destroy", etc. does not print any similar message. It only happens on pool creation. Is this intentional behaviour? What does "Solaris(cont)" represent in the context of FreeBSD? -- | Jeremy Chadwic

Re: [SOLVED] Re: labelling root file system (RELENG_8)

2011-06-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e /dev/ada0s1a --- fails - sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 - tunefs -t enable /dev/ada0s1a --- works - tunefs -p /dev/ada0s1a -- shows TRIM enabled - reboot - Boot into single-user, multi-user, whatever - tunefs -p /dev/ada0s1a -- shows TRIM disabled -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: [SOLVED] Re: labelling root file system (RELENG_8)

2011-06-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:40:03PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 08/06/2011 19:26 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > I have the exact same question except not with regards to labels but > > toggling TRIM capability on the root filesystem. > > > > - Start system &

Re: [SOLVED] Re: labelling root file system (RELENG_8)

2011-06-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:55:15AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:40:03PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 08/06/2011 19:26 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > > I have the exact same question except not with regards to labels but > > >

Re: Panic during kernel booting on HP Proliant DL180G6 and latest STABLE

2011-06-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
provide output from "pciconv -lvcb" that pertain to your igb NIC(s), as well as relevant dmesg info that pertains to them (driver, etc.). You can XXX out MAC addresses if you're worried. Jack, original thread starts here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/201

Re: HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE

2011-06-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ho participated in this MFC have donation links (PayPal, etc.), please give them to me. You absolutely will see some worthwhile kick-backs for your efforts, with no strings attached. Just my way of saying "thank you". -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@p

Re: Unable to boot Lenovo T520

2011-06-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
values not mentioned), and expecting a developer to dig through commits/annotations to determine what this piece of code is for is unreasonable. No I'm not in a bad mood (honest!), I just find this kind of thing infuriating the more I dig through kernel source code. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Unable to boot Lenovo T520

2011-06-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:48:31PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:15:56PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On

Re: Unable to boot Lenovo T520

2011-06-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:24:51PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:48:31PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > >> wrote: > >> > On

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts on 8-STABLE

2011-06-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.2.%desc: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter > dev.mpt.2.%driver: mpt > dev.mpt.2.%location: slot=0 function=0 > dev.mpt.2.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1000 device=0x0058 subvendor=0x1000 > subdevice=0x30a0 class=0x010000 > dev.mpt.2.%parent: pci6 > dev.mpt.2.debug: 3 > dev.mpt.2.role: 1 Please prov

Re: doscmd under 8-stable, anyone?

2011-06-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in what libc/malloc uses. I'm not sure why a person would need or want MAP_FIXED in this situation; why can't they just take the result of mmap() (a void *) and use that as a base address offset instead of assuming zero in their software? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: csh Cannot open /etc/termcap after starting "screen"

2011-06-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the end of lines, which you now gloriously have to manually remove. I've also never seen terminal BCE work properly under screen, even with defbce on. The most common conversation I have with people (personally and professionally) about "terminal weirdness" always involves GNU scr

Re: ZFS raid1 crash kernel panic

2011-06-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:32:22PM +0400, Aleksey wrote: > Hello, > > [snip] You posted this issue to freebsd-fs two days ago. Let's continue the discussion there please? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-June/011775.html -- | J

MFC: graid(8) (RAID GEOM) support

2011-06-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
disks. For Intel and Promise formats there is support multiple volumes per disk set. Look graid(8) manual page for additional details. Co-authored by: imp Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc. and iXsystems, Inc. ===== -

Building your own FreeBSD USB memstick image

2011-06-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
since Martin's "make your own ISO image" stuff seems to do a heck of a lot more than that: https://box.vx.sk/wsvn/mfsbsd/trunk/Makefile -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UN

Re: Crashes with Promise controller

2011-06-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
actually "power down" fully (e.g. the attribute never gets incremented) but the loss of power can be just enough to cause them to start freaking out. Computers + power issues = expect random chaos. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: csh Cannot open /etc/termcap after starting "screen"

2011-06-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:14:32PM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 13:15 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Example: run mutt from within GNU screen while connected to > > the system with PuTTY, then copy some of the terminal con

Re: csh Cannot open /etc/termcap after starting "screen"

2011-06-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:37:07PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:14:32PM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 13:15 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Example: run mutt from within GNU scree

Re: MFC: graid(8) (RAID GEOM) support

2011-06-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:51:24PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Sorry for the cross-post, but I thought both lists would want to know > about this. > > Looks like mav@ just committed this ~17 hours ago: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/raid/g_raid.c >

Re: MFC: graid(8) (RAID GEOM) support

2011-06-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:02:50PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:51:24PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> Sorry for the cross-post, but I thought both lists would want to know > >> about this. > >> >

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
WD6401AALS-00J7B1 --> ata5-slave = ahci0 = Intel ICH7 on-board in AHCI mode --> ahcich0 = ada0 = ST3250410AS 3.AAA --> ahcich1 = ada1 = ST3250410AS 3.AAA --> ahcich2 = --> ahcich3 = If you can't get this situation solved, I'd recommend spending $40 (pocket ch

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e don't like top-posting, please try to avoid it if you can, thanks!". Otherwise all it does is irritate an already-irritated person who's in need of assistance. Remember: they took the time to ask for help, which in this day and age is practically a miracle. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: MFC: graid(8) (RAID GEOM) support

2011-06-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:37:03AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:02:50PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:51:24PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > >> Sorry for the cross-post, but I

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ed. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] > > > SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 > SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS > 100 Not_testing > 20 0 Not_testing > 300 Not_testing &

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

2011-06-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t "Just works (tm)". > > Can you boot a Linux ISO and see if that finds it? I would recommend you two compare comparing DIP switch or jumper settings, as well as firmware versions. Many tape drives have "compatibility" switches, and firmware versions play a

Re: arcmsr panic runnig 8.2 of 2011

2011-06-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
guess that there is still a coding error somewhere in the driver. > But I'm not into this enough to even know where to start looking for > tracing this. > > But perhaps somebody has a suggestion? Have you reported this problem directly to Areca? They do officially support

Re: arcmsr panic runnig 8.2 of 2011

2011-06-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
clature hasn't ever sufficed. Regardless of what convention you go with, always remember to include your kernel/world build date (the date shown in "uname -a" is usually sufficient as long as you haven't done something nonsensical like rebuilding kernel and not world). This is *especia

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
gt; Dell PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I > said, the firmware is quite old, it's from 2007. The answer is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/147572 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
html#58708 The user in that thread is using rsync, which relies on scp by default. I believe this problem is similar, if not identical, to yours. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.c

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 12:54:35AM -0400, jhell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 03:22:32PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > The user in that thread is using rsync, which relies on scp by default. > > I believe this problem is similar, if not identical, to yours. > > rsyn

Re: 8.2-STABLE: audio stopped working properly after upgrade to today's sources

2011-07-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
as well as -questions since I imagine more people follow -stable. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | M

Re: NFS related include files and make delete-old

2011-07-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
cified in > /usr/src/ObsoleteFiles.inc or the headers are installed in the wrong > directory during make installworld? I can confirm this problem on many (6-7) different systems. It's specific to RELENG_8. Rick, any insights? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
help. > >> > >> BTW: It looks as ARC only gives back the memory when I destroy the ZFS (a > >> cloned snapshot containing virtual machines). Even if nothing happens for > >> hours the buffer isn't released.. > >> > >> My machine was sti

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:23:39PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : > > >On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:03:20PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: > >>I'm running virtualbox 3.2.12_1 if that has anything to do with it. > >> > >>sysctl

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:07:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : > > >On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:23:39PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > >>Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : > >> > >>>On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:03:20PM -04

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:54:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : > > >On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:07:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > >>Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : > >> > >>>On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:2

Re: Builworld is broken for RELENG_8 when CPUTYPE?=core2

2011-07-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e over a month ago, titled "RELENG_8 does not build with CPUTYPE=core2". The answer to the problem is within there (absolutely 100% certain, trust me): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-May/thread.html#62655 -- | Jeremy Chadwickj

Re: system internal timer runs 10 times too slow

2011-07-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz Do you have anything like powerd(8) enabled, or EIST / Intel SpeedStep technology enabled in your system BIOS? If so, can you try disabling powerd and/or disabling EIST/SS? Alternately, and this isn't to say FreeBSD doesn't have a problem, do you h

Re: panic: spin lock held too long (RELENG_8 from today)

2011-07-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the index value that matches the tid in question (in the above spin lock panic, that'd be tid 100109). The index value will be the first number shown on the left 3. thread {index} 4. bt If this doesn't work, alternatively you can try (from the beginning) "thread apply all bt&q

Re: gpg-agent dont start automatically

2011-07-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
agent automatically? > > Thunderbird-5.0 > enigmail-1.2 > pinentry-gtk2-0.8.1_1 > > Thanks and Regards gpg-agent is 3rd-party (something that comes from ports), so this request should go to freebsd-po...@freebsd.org instead. Can you resend it? Thanks. -- | Jerem

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-- remember, all of this has to be done from within the installer environment (referring to "Emergency Shell"), which on FreeBSD lacks an incredible amount of usability, and is even worse to deal with when doing a remote install via PXE/serial. Fixit is the only dec

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:38:00PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > On 7/18/11 7:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read > >> a long threa

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger > wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick > > wrote: > > > >> But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
aw were external and caddy-based, so I mentally correlate them with NEC. Back then I wasn't looking at brands as much as I do today, though. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | |

Re: powernow regression in 8-STABLE

2011-07-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n the vendor BIOS to me, and you should contact the vendor or motherboard manufacturer to inform them of the bug. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: powernow regression in 8-STABLE

2011-07-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
int where we really don't have much of a choice. The more I read technical explanations from John the more hate x86 architecture. ;-) [2]: On a couple Gigabyte boards I have the default values for said option is enabled (for both keyboard and mouse). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rn.disks; this will require you install ports/sysutils/smartmontools first) I can assist with the disk analysis portion in particular. And with regards to smartctl, please try to ensure the output doesn't get munged (forced line wrapping, newlines injected, etc.). It makes it more difficult to

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t. Furthermore, could you please provide the data I asked for with regards to your storage devices? In this case, /dev/ad5, /dev/ad6, and /dev/ad7 (assuming those are all which are on the system)? Let's try to rule out ANY underlying disk issues first, otherwise

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