Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:25:38PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > On 26/07/2011 15:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > >>[very large snip] > >> > >>So here I am starting to think that my disklabel and fsc

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a non-VGA-adapter in their PCIe x16 slot. Some Supermicro boards do have PCIe x16 slots that can be used by non-VGA adapters, but I haven't seen this on, say, Asus/Gigabyte/Dell/Intel motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networ

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:38:36AM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > > And before someone asks: in most cases you *cannot* use this card in a > > PCIe x16 connector on a motherboard. ??Most generic motherboard &

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:31:20AM +1000, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: > On 27/07/2011, at 8:12 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:38:36AM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > >> wrote: > >>&g

Re: UDP Packet reassembly

2011-07-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e/2011-July/thread.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977.

Re: running newsyslog fiveminly

2011-07-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ug mode and/or verbose mode. 5) Why do you need to rotate logs every 5 minutes? Why do you need such extreme levels of granularity in your rotated logs? Just how much data are you logging via syslog? If a lot, why so much? It might be more effective to consider expanding your logging infrastruct

Re: em0 timeout disconnects server

2011-08-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ith -lvcb and include only the Intel NIC (em0). Also please provide output from command "sysctl dev.em.0". Thanks. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX System

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
avoid this problem regardless of what filesystem is used? I just don't get it. [1]: Applies to any filesystem, not just ZFS. There was a UFS one a month or two ago too... -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:16:35AM +0100, seanr...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:39:03AM +0100, seanr...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On my FreeBSD 8.2-S machine (built circa 12th June), I created

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
w much ARC uses, some ARC stats. > > Which sysctl's would you like? Output from "sysctl vfs.zfs kstat.zfs" would be sufficient. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | |

Re: ATA_IDENTIFY requeued due to channel reset LBA=0

2011-08-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
it in Compatible mode (which makes SATA devices appear as classic PATA). Alexander (mav@) should act as a more authoritative source for this. However, I can tell you up front that booting verbose is your best choice of option here, as it gives significant controller status/state debug informa

Re: 32GB limit per swap device?

2011-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t into a 32GB swap slice? I think what folks are saying is that if you use multiple swap slices (e.g. two of 32GB each), you can achieve what you need. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.c

Re: 32GB limit per swap device?

2011-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:27:27AM +, Holger Kipp wrote: > > Am 10.08.2011 um 10:09 schrieb Daniel Kalchev: > > > On 10.08.11 10:47, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:13:14AM +0300, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > >>> I am more concerned that

Re: 32GB limit per swap device?

2011-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:42:11PM +0300, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > > On 10.08.11 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >So we're back to where we started: swap slices/partitions can be > >greater than 32GBytes in size, but "something" is limiting the > >maxim

Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
# Support DDB options GDB # Support remote GDB In combination with this, we use the following in /etc/rc.conf (the dumpdev line is important, else savecore won't pick up anything): dumpdev="auto" ddb_enable="yes"

Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
mpdev="NO" is the default, not "auto", since on a system with no swap devices in /etc/fstab dumpdev="auto" should behave the same. Possibly the idea of the default is to ensure that savecore(8) never gets run (e.g. there's no guarantee someone has /var/crash, or a /

Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:26:27PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Chadwick" > free...@jdc.parodius.com > > >>>In combination with this, we use the following in /etc/rc.conf (the > >>>dumpdev line is impo

Re: Recent STABLE unable to start process in background

2011-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(But why has it changed...?) On all our RELENG_8 systems (though I use bash), -tostop is default. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ot; from August 2009 is not necessarily the same thing as "SKU ABCXYZ-1" from May 2010. ;-) This is also why I prefer to buy/build my own systems, since I cannot trust vendors to not mess about with settings w/out changing SKUs, P/Ns, or revision numbers. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

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

2011-08-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ars ago -- still seems valid) and just how badly they can "wedge" a system. This is one of the many (MANY!) reasons why we use rsnapshot/rsync instead. The atime clobbering issue is the only downside. I don't see what this has to do with "heavy WAN I/O" unless

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

2011-08-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:01:05PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Jeremy Chadwick on Wednesday, 17 August 2011: > > > > > > I'm also getting similar panics on 8.2-STABLE. Locks up everything and I > > > have to power off. Once, I happened to be looking at

Re: WD Advanced Format: do I need to do something special?

2011-08-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ith existing and legacy OSes. I'm dreading the day the WD Caviar Black models succumb to all this nonsense. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: crash on 8.2-RELEASE amd64, high-traffic squid server

2011-08-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
de, however, has been (since 8.2-RELEASE for sure). I think em(4) has as well. This may end up being a case where running RELENG_8 is the fix, but I'd love to be able to say that for certain. "bt full" would be helpful but the above indicates the kernel might not have debugging

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is time and time again for folks on forums with varying success. I've also found some models of drives which claim there's suspect LBAs yet an internal surface scan passes with no issues (and these are drives which I myself have, the only difference between my drives and the individuals&#x

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
I can accept that. If I have a drive that's been in operation for 48 hours and it has 30 errors, that drive is getting RMA'd. When I get new or RMA'd/refurbished drives, I test them before putting them to use. I do a read-only surface scan using SMART ("smartctl -t select,0-max /

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:39:17PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:50:01PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > >> System in question: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #3: Thu Mar 3 04:52:04 GMT 2011 > &g

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e data smartd gives you for it to be useful. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for ot

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Dan, I will respond to your reply sometime tomorrow. I do not have time to review the Email today (~7.7KBytes), but will have time tomorrow. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
test and report LBAs it couldn't read, but as I said, it's rare and varies from vendor to vendor, drive to drive, and firmware to firmware. When it happened I was very, very surprised (and delighted). The only thing I can trust 100% of the time when it comes to surface scans is SMART selecti

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
wrote: > On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > The SMART error log also indicates an LBA failure at the 26000 hour mark > > (which is 16 hours prior to when you did smartctl -a /dev/ad2). Whether > > that LBA is the remapped one or the suspect one is unknown. Th

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
se what we're seeing is just a batch of LBAs in a small region that are getting worse the more they're read from (possible). No idea if LBA 5566440 and LBA 786767 are anywhere near one another on the physical media. I don't have a way to determine that (way too complex). T

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 02:00:33AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > ... using dd to find the bad LBAs is the only choice he has. > > or sysutils/diskcheckd. It uses a 64KB blocksize, falling back to > 512 -- to identify the bad LBA(

Re: Serial multiport error Oxford/Startech PEX2S952

2011-08-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
y with uart(4). Does stty(4) throw up > "isn't a terminal" errors against the .init and .lock devices > relating to those ports? I would try this myself, but am very short > of time at present. > > > Though there is probably little more that I can add, please keep

Re: FreeBSD 8.2r amd 64 problem when compiling 32bit applications

2011-08-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rebuilding the **kernel** would not solve anything. You would need to build world. But again, there is no WITH_LIB32. If you build world on amd64 it will, by default, attempt to build 32-bit versions of libraries so that you can compile i386 binaries on amd64. The kernel shims for 32-bi

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t "sleep" and "standby" are two very different things (they're separate ATA commands too). So if you're using "camcontrol sleep" you probably should be using "camcontrol standby". The man page is quite clear about the repercussions of the former

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:10:13PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:29:02PM -0400, David Magda wrote: > >> On Tue, August 30, 2011 11:50, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> [...] > >&

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:04:43PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > >> wrote: > > instead use UFS2 and see if the problem disappears? ?This is in no way a > > permanent solution. ?If this workaround fixes the pro

Re: running newsyslog fiveminly

2011-09-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 03:45:34PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 01.08.2011 00:31, Jeremy Chadwick ?: > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:51:40PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> Suppose, there is a machine which writes two kinds of log files

Re: problem with LSI MegaRAID on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-09-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-September/063821.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-September/063823.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admi

Re: System freeze: Adaptec (aac) timeouts (releng 8)

2011-09-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
enoted in the man page? I'm actually very surprised to hear there's an official FreeBSD driver on Adaptec's site that's actually intended for FreeBSD 8.x. Last I knew they had basically blown off FreeBSD support. I wonder who at Adaptec is responsible

Re: R: make installworld fails (touch not found)

2011-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
means starts behaving oddly. There is confirmed evidence of this happening -- it doesn't affect "PATH problems" (for lack of better phrasing; I hope folks know what I mean by this, I'm not implying one's dot-files are wrong, etc.), but it does show up as files

Re: R: make installworld fails (touch not found)

2011-09-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(such as the need to rm -fr /usr/share/man/* before doing the installworld phase, else you can end up with stale man/catman pages), but the existing method works reliably. So what part of the picture am I missing? :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | |

Re: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

2011-09-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n't compatible, ruby shims, and other crap = not worth it. Think the database ordeal is long over with/fixed/whatever? It isn't[2]. [1]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-June/063052.html [2]: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r26304856-FreeBSD-defining-po

Re: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

2011-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:39:01 +0200, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > >On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:54:13AM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >>On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:49:15AM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote: > >

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

2011-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
d to set up serial console (both BIOS-level and bootloader-level) for remote debugging capability. Jack, John, or someone familiar with kernel debugging is probably going to need to get access to a machine which is experiencing this problem so they can figure out what's going on. The tri

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

2011-09-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
--- > E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, E1000_EIMC, que->eims); > ++que->irqs; > > + if (!(adapter->ifp->if_drv_flags & IFF_DRV_RUNNING)) { > + return; > + } > + > + more_rx = igb_rxeof(que, adapter->r

Re: Realtek integrated nic problem

2011-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
guess: it's probably a revision of card that 8.1 did not have proper code for. As such, I would strongly suggest running 8.2. If the card doesn't function correctly in 8.2, there are folks here on the mailing list who can help with that. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Realtek integrated nic problem

2011-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:44:20AM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > > On Sat, September 24, 2011 08:12, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:56:00PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >> > I have a box using this Realtek nic: > >> > > &g

Re: Realtek integrated nic problem

2011-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e. For example *I* have no idea what FreeBSD version they use, what custom modifications they have in place, etc.. I follow FreeBSD, I don't follow pfSense. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.paro

Re: NFSD hang

2011-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
? /data > > What should i look for to resolve it? What version of FreeBSD exactly, and what build date? Please provide output from "procstat -k -k 1666" (yes, two -k's). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.c

Re: non-responding processes after truss(1)ing

2011-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ars has been that truss on FreeBSD is extremely buggy and cannot be relied upon (case in point). Such is still the case on RELENG_8 as of today. Use ktrace(1) instead. You'll find it to work pretty much in every situation. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodiu

Re: NFSD hang

2011-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
: service??? mi_switch+0x176 > sleepq_catch_signals+0x309 sleepq_timedwait_sig+0x12 _cv_timedwait_sig+0x11d > svc_run_internal+0x939 svc_thread_start+0xb fork_exit+0x114 > fork_trampoline+0xe > ?1666 100446 nfsd nfsd: service??? mi_switch+0x176 > sleepq_catch_signals+0

Re: NFSD hang

2011-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:41:57AM -0700, Kirill Yelizarov wrote: > From: Jeremy Chadwick > To: Kirill Yelizarov > Cc: rmack...@uoguelph.ca; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:59 PM > Subject: Re: NFSD hang > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:

Re: non-responding processes after truss(1)ing

2011-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:28:56AM -0400, Mark Saad wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > On 9/27/2011 1:10 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> > >> kill -9 your truss processes; the underlying processes which you are > >> truss&#x

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin

2011-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
G **: getpwuid_r(): failed due > to unknown user id (2139) > ... > I haven't explored the getpwuid_r thing. Running "id 2139" should return something other than "no such user". If not, your environment is looking up something that has such ownership. I don

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin

2011-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > I did a make update and then compiled and installed, which took about 40 > minutes. The update was triggered by seeing the security fixes on the > RSS feed. > > I can grab new sources and reinstall if you think it's worth it. Did you

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin

2011-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:40:09PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:05:40PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:50:01PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > > > (npviewer.bin:5430): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due > > >

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin

2011-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nt FreeBSD > > version (of your branch), as in "with the recent security fixes"? > > There are reports that one of them may have caused what you see. > > > > Bye, > > Alexander. > > > > Hi list, > > it seems that > http://securit

Re: 7.3 + kqueue + apache/php + DNS lookup problem

2011-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e delays always 3 seconds? If so, that almost sounds like a timeout of some kind. That's the thing about the kevent() call: I wish I could see what's in the timespec struct, since that's what defines the timeout values. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at paro

Re: Interpreting MCA error output

2011-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ive would be for me to make a CGI version where you could just go my site and paste in the FreeBSD MCE and it would siphon it through mcelog and give you the output. Anyway now I'm rambling, but there ya go. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Paro

Re: 7.3 + kqueue + apache/php + DNS lookup problem

2011-10-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the lookups. > > > > > > Doug > > > > Check your bind/unbound logs to ensure the queries are actually > successful on their first try. > > Is your DNS using forwarders ? views ? How would this explain 100% quick/reliable lookups when done from tool

Re: Interpreting MCA error output

2011-10-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 09:37:43AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:23, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > So what should you do? ?Replace the RAM. ?Which DIMM? ?Sadly I don't > > know how to determine that. ?Some system BIOSes (particularly on AMD

Re: How disable ntpd on IPv6 adresses?

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, you're out of luck. It's extremely hit-or-miss on FreeBSD (mostly miss). The only alternative is to use pf(4) to block inbound IPv6 packets to port 123. This won't stop ntpd from talking to IPv6 peers, but would stop people from talking to it, if that's what you're tr

Re: serious packet routing issue causing ntpd high load?

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
4 1428 root1 440 11900K 2860K select 0 0:17 0.00% /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /conf/ME/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f And "route -n monitor" shows no anomalies here. Maybe you should tcpdump to find out if there is a client or peer which is constantly pounding ntpd

Re: serious packet routing issue causing ntpd high load?

2011-10-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:45:52PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Chadwick" > > > >1428 root1 440 11900K 2860K select 0 0:17 0.00% > >/usr/sbin/ntpd -c /conf/ME/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f > &g

Re: BETA3 not buildable

2011-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
behind", given that they only sync with cvsup-master every so often. What's "every so often?" It varies from public cvsup server to public cvsup server, and there's no way to know. Great isn't it? If you are syncing directly off of cvsup-master -- shame on yo

Re: BETA3 not buildable

2011-10-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 10:29:19AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > On 8 October 2011 03:25, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:36:25PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > >> Just a quick note the repo was synced about 15 mins before this > >> > >> O

Re: BETA3 not buildable

2011-10-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > > On 8 October 2011 03:25, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:36:25PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > >> Just a quick note the repo was synced about 15 mins before this > > >> > > >> On Fri,

Re: valgrind on FreeBSD?

2011-10-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n the system? Be sure to note if softupdates are in use or not too. * Has this system crashed recently or even many months ago? * If so, did you run fsck manually from single-user rather than rely on background fsck? (There are confirmed cases of background fsck not fixing everything) * I

Re: valgrind on FreeBSD?

2011-10-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
filesystem type, eh? Good thing I asked what your underlying filesystem types were. Don't ever think that "it'll all just work". :-) I believe there are other issues/stipulations with nullfs (some have been reported over the years), so I'm not too surprised by this

Re: rsync corrupted MAC

2011-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sr/obj/usr/src/sys/BORG-DTRACE amd64 > $ Can you please provide output from the following commands executed on the machine showing the problem? The above commands show nothing useful, other than the fact that one machine is at 100/full and the other is at 1000/full (I don't know your netwo

Re: unix browsers problem

2011-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t/net/NET-74-125-0-0-1 > > Considering that Firefox by default will open up the Firefox Google page, I > don't find this surprising at all. More useful details: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174717 http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-my

Re: re unix browser problem

2011-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
by lsof -i They aren't strange. Please see my explanation references: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064219.html This has absolutely nothing to do with FreeBSD. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Netw

Re: backup for /var/db/ports

2011-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
for that port will remain the same after N years passed? Or that there aren't others added/removed by then? I do see the justification in what you want, however. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.

Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3

2011-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
:) > > Anyway I found a "Rehook INT 19: disabled" setup option which, I > think, simply disables legacy BIOS booting. I'll give it a try in > the evening. It's more likely that it provides the interrupt hook to getting a RAID controller to boot from one o

Re: Interpreting MCA error output

2011-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
x27;s functional. Give it a try for yourself and see if it suffices. [1]: The committer changed a bunch of things which were labelled "minor" yet bother me enough that I'm forcing the OCD part of me to let them slide. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius

Re: Interpreting MCA error output

2011-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:26:49PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 18/10/2011, at 17:49, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> That would be absolutely helpful! After all, FreeBSD is primarily a > >> server OS, and where would one have ECC if not on servers. Being able > >

Re: Interpreting MCA error output

2011-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:31:37PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 18/10/2011, at 22:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> It would be _super_ neat if the mcelog port installed a devd rule which > >> emailed root@ with the human readable version of an MCA exception

Re: Setting coredumpsize on a running process?

2011-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
too given the path change. Worse, certain modules like either eAccelerator or ZendOptimizer (I forget which of the two) make the downright assumption that they are in use on a PHP system where debugging is not enabled, thus do not behave quite right when placed there. Having fun yet? -- | Jere

Re: Call for testers : ALi/ULi M5261/M5263 ethernet controller

2011-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rs, If you guys can't get a good development environment going for YongHyeon, let me know and I can invest in one of these motherboards and either send it to YongHyeon (back in South Korea?) or I can set it up locally and get him serial console access to boot. Just let me know if all o

Re: booting 8.2 on Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4

2011-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Finally, you can try disabling the "Onboard USB 3.0 Controller" to see if somehow that's causing problems (especially if you have a USB-based storage drive (Flash, etc.) hooked up at the time -- that might appear as a bootable device to the bootloader). All of this i

Re: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. 4) If replacing the Netgear product doesn't help, then your next step is to replace the 3Com NIC with something newer. Intel makes many PCI-based 100mbit and 1000mbit NICs that work wonderfully on FreeBSD via the em(4) driver. They are affordable and reliable. 5) The xl(4) driver is extre

Re: How to set interface description containing space in 8.x

2011-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rrier This is on RELENG_8 dated 2011/09/28. If you want me to test it on my em0 interface (which is what actually has an IP configured, etc.) and do a full reboot, I can do that. Let me know. So there may have been some rc.d framework changes that address your problem. Are you running -RELEASE

Re: How to set interface description containing space in 8.x

2011-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 05:55:28AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 02:11:17PM +0200, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > FreeBSD 8.x (well, at least 8.2) has the very nice feature of letting > > you set an interface *description* (just like you can on any Jun

Re: ntpd couldn't resolve host name on system boot

2011-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the time of FreeBSD 7.x. The problem is that the networking layer is not TRULY available by the time ntpd starts. This does have to do with NIC drivers, but the same behaviour can be seen on all NICs, including excellent ones like em(4). You can use the rc.conf netwa

Re: ntpd couldn't resolve host name on system boot

2011-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:36:56AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Chadwick" > > > >The problem is that the networking layer is not TRULY available by the > >time ntpd starts. This does have to do with NIC drivers, but th

Re: ntpd couldn't resolve host name on system boot

2011-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:20:12AM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:03:27PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > The one shortcoming of netwait is that it doesn't support waiting for > > multiple NICs. Some people have dual-homed environments where t

Re: From 8-stable to 9.0 RC1 iscsi panic

2011-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> need to break into the loader and type.. > unload > boot -s > (or whatever options you want) Yup, correct. The person who said "single-user mode doesn't read loader.conf!" is absolutely incorrect. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?

2011-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.html > > These may not be the same problem, but I think they are related (a not so well > documented change in the kerm interface). You want atapicam(4). This is not the same thing as "options ATA_CAM". See /sys/conf/NOTES. Whether or not it works with audio CDs is unknown to m

Re: mfi timeouts

2011-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
query the card using mfiutil, I currently have a cron > doing this every 2 minutes to see if this has been coincidence or not. > > > Any suggestions welcome and i'm happy to provide more info if i can but > I dont have a duplicate to do too much debugging on, I'm ha

Re: pf rdr rule question - corrected

2011-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g/message/ch6w5gwne7rfzfz5 On "older" FreeBSD, failure to include these directives will result in completely broken TCP socket behaviour: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.pf4freebsd/3990 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rson's system. Please run "gdb /usr/local/sbin/smartctl smartctl.core" and provide here the function call stack. This will help determine if it's a bug in smartctl or something FreeBSD-related. If it's a smartmontools problem, you will need to report the bug to them direc

Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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Fwd: Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Forwarding my reply to Frank to the list, because he did not reply-to-all when sending me the below mail. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Fwd: Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Sending original copy to the list. - Forwarded message from Frank Razenberg - > From: Frank Razenberg > To: Jeremy Chadwick > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:16:17 +0100 > Subject: Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1 > > Sorry, yes, there's actually a lot more, but there&

Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> segfaults. I'm glad this patch fixes things for people, but does anyone have insights to why the calling stack gets horribly corrupted on a segfault, even with WITH_DEBUG (no optimisations and uses -g)? It makes troubleshooting this kind of problem extremely diff

Re: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64: Weirdness with LOCALE settings: ghostswitching in csh?

2011-11-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(sort of). $ ls -ld /usr/share/locale/de_DE* drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Sep 28 14:36 /usr/share/locale/de_DE.ISO8859-1/ drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Sep 28 14:36 /usr/share/locale/de_DE.ISO8859-15/ drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Sep 28 14:36 /usr/share/locale/de_

Re: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64: Weirdness with LOCALE settings: ghostswitching in csh?

2011-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 07:49:52AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am 11/03/11 23:48, schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:17:08PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Hello. > >> I realised something weird in FreeBSD 10.-CURRENT/amd64 (CLANG > >

Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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Re: smartctl / mpt on 9.0-RC1

2011-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
o boot into a Linux LiveCD and install smartmontools (in RAM) and see if it provides the data. My point: don't be so quick to assume smartmontools is responsible when there are 4 (maybe even 5) "layers" to how SCSI I/O makes it to the actual drive. This is one of the many reaso

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