random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Scott Bennett
; >ugen1.2: at usbus1 >umass0: on >usbus1 >umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x4001 >umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2 >da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 >da0: < USB FLASH DRIVE PMAP> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device >da0: 40.000MB/s transfers &

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:56:24 -0800 Kevin Oberman wrote: >On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> =A0 =A0 On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky >> wrote: >> >>>I got a new thumb drive which was FAT formatted. I use this script t

11-STABLE system unbootable after update

2019-05-18 Thread Scott Bennett
her than get stuck with a logo on the screen that never goes away. Unfortunately, it includes no software to burn a CD or DVD, so I cannot make a new bootable disk for the time being. I will check email much later today or this evening. Thanks in advance for any helpful ideas!

Re: 11-STABLE system unbootable after update

2019-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 18 May 2019 08:02:20 -0500 Scott Bennett wrote: > I have been running 11.2-STABLE for a while at r345498. Last weekend it > crashed, >so I took the opportunity to install the most recent build I had lying around, >r347182. >I created a new boot environment an

Re: 11-STABLE system unbootable after update

2019-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
Matt Garber wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 9:00 AM Scott Bennett wrote: > > > > > Many, many thanks to the person who responded with the solution to > > get past the > > loader crash!! My system is now getting work done again, and the rest of > > th

Re: 11-STABLE system unbootable after update

2019-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
nd fixed yet, though, so I have temporarily returned to setting vm.kmem_size_max, which does seem to be honored. Anyway, thanks for bailing me out yesterday. The system is now somewhat usable while I satisfy my curiousity and should be fully usable upon reversion, which will probably

kernel bug in 11.3-STABLE causes frequent crashes

2019-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
complaining on this list and possibly -questions within the first few days after the release date. Thanks in advance for any help with this problem! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: kernel bug in 11.3-STABLE causes frequent crashes

2019-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
Eugene, Thank you very much for the fast reply! Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 09.11.2019 19:45, Scott Bennett ?: > > The rest of this message was posted a little while ago to the > > freebsd-questions list by mistake. It was intended for freebsd-stable, > > so I a

Re: Slow zfs destroy

2019-11-29 Thread Scott Bennett
you told it to do. If you want the data set destroyed in the background, you will need to include the "-d" option in the command. (See the zfs(1) man page at defer_destroy under "Native Properties".) Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG **

Re: Slow zfs destroy

2019-12-02 Thread Scott Bennett
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 30.11.2019 0:57, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 23:18:37 +0700 Eugene Grosbein > > wrote: > > > >> 28.11.2019 20:34, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> > >>> It may well depend on the extent of the d

Re: possible problem with pkg in FreeBSD11.4-BETA2

2020-05-17 Thread Scott Bennett
ory management bugs first caused big problems starting when 11.2 happened, so I may have missed some of the transition due to infrequent system updates. I only remember that it won't say it's 11.4-STABLE until the release happens and I've updated /usr/src and built and installed a new system.

buildworld errors at outset on fresh svn checkout

2016-10-06 Thread Scott Bennett
the buildworld failure. If anyone else can see what's wrong and clue me in, I'd be grateful. I'm subscribed to the digest for this list, so please Cc: me directly, so I'll get replies right away. Thanks in advance!

Re: buildworld errors at outset on fresh svn checkout

2016-10-07 Thread Scott Bennett
Kevin Oberman wrote: Thanks much for replying! > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > I'm running into a problem in updating my 10-STABLE system from > > source. > > A "make buildworld" quits immediately. I tried a fresh

Re: buildworld errors at outset on fresh svn checkout

2016-10-08 Thread Scott Bennett
"Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:13:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of > Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus: > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > > > "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 11

Re: buildworld errors at outset on fresh svn checkout

2016-10-08 Thread Scott Bennett
I wrote: >"Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:13:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of >> Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus: >> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> > >> > >

Re: zfs, a directory that used to hold lot of files and listing pause

2016-10-21 Thread Scott Bennett
d ZFS is that the two remaining entries in a formerly huge directory are likely to be in different directory blocks that could be at effectively random locations scattered around the space of a partition for one filesystem in UFS or over a

Re: huge nanosleep variance on 11-stable

2016-11-03 Thread Scott Bennett
r priority tasks are available to run for all CPU threads. The 4BSD scheduler handles this situation properly. Now I'm running 10.3-STABLE on a QX9650, and I haven't tested ULE on it to see whether it's still as flawed. If and when I get a machine with a multi-cored, hyperthreaded

make buildkernel does not respect KERNCONF or JOBS in /etc/make.conf

2016-12-11 Thread Scott Bennett
eviously. Try adding BUILDKERNELS=PUMPKIN GENERIC to your /etc/src.conf and removing the KERNCONF line from /etc/make.conf before you run it again. KERNCONF goes on the "make buildkernel" command, not into /etc/make.conf, but should not be necessary at all if /etc/src.conf contains the l

Swapping from a zvol results in a deadman panic

2017-02-05 Thread Scott Bennett
It's more likely a race condition elsewhere. > Those who try to create deadlocks should not complain when they succeed. Sigh. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: b

Re: arm64 fork/swap data corruptions: A ~110 line C program demonstrating an example (Pine64+ 2GB context) [Corrected subject: arm64!]

2017-03-15 Thread Scott Bennett
t; > > On 2017-Mar-15, at 6:15 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:18:56 -0700 Mark Millard > >> wrote: > >>> On 2017-Mar-14, at 4:44 PM, Bernd Walter wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 03

Re: panic: Solaris(panic): blkptr invalid CHECKSUM1

2017-10-01 Thread Scott Bennett
se you need it unchanged again. Can zdb(8) see it without causing a panic, i.e., without importing the pool? You might be able to track down more information if zdb can get you in. Another thing you could try with an ad

automount usb msdosfs no partition table

2017-10-09 Thread Scott Bennett
ion table. Some USB Drives does not have valid > partition table, they appear as /dev/da0 and can be mounted with > mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt, but they are not recognised by > automounter.. how can I make it work with such devices? > Try newfs_msdos(8).

Re: automount usb msdosfs no partition table

2017-10-09 Thread Scott Bennett
rather than on a slice. Otherwise, create the partition table, create a slice, and proceed. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *xor* be

why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
don't even know what DIRDEPS_BUILD is. Anyway, I'm stuck. Can someone please tell me what is going wrong and how to fix it? I'd really like to be able to update my system, not only to keep it reasonably current, but also to be able to customize a kernel. Thanks in advance for any

Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Subject: Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ? On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:42:58 + lists wrote: >On 22/01/2018 09:17, Scott Bennett wrote: >> Anyway, I'm stuck. Can someone please tell me what is going wrong and >> how to fix it? I'd really like to be

Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Subject: Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ? I wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:42:58 + lists wrote: >>On 22/01/2018 09:17, Scott Bennett wrote: >>> Anyway, I'm stuck. Can someone please tell me what is going wrong and >>> how to fix it

Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 24 Jan 2018, at 09:51, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ? > > > > I wrote: > >>On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:42:58 + lists wrote: > >>> On 22/01/2018 09:17, Scott

Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
tech-lists wrote: > On 24/01/2018 08:51, Scott Bennett wrote: > > hellas# mv /etc/make.conf{,.save} > > hellas# mv /etc/src.conf{,.save} > > hellas# cd /usr/src > > hellas# make cleandir > > "/usr/src/share/mk/local.sys.mk", line 51: Mal

Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Ian Lepore wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 12:39 +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > On 24 Jan 2018, at 09:51, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ? > > > > > > I wrote: > &

Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-26 Thread Scott Bennett
Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 00:25 -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > > Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 12:39 +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > > > > > > > On 24 Jan 2018, at 09:51, Scott Bennett wrot

Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

2018-01-28 Thread Scott Bennett
Ian Lepore wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 09:52 +, Holger Kipp wrote: > > Dear Scott, > > > > Am 26.01.2018 um 09:07 schrieb Scott Bennett > > >: > > > > cd /usr/src; PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAKE_CMD=make > > /usr/obj/

Re: Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-04-06 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
keep it available as an option. At the same time, the poorly supported, obsolete, and incompatible-with- other-system-components stuff should rightly be eliminated from the source tree. The few known bugs with the native GEOM commands can and should be fixed. Scot

Re: Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-04-09 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 07.04.2021 12:49, Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable wrote: > > > At least w.r.t. gvinum's raid5, I can attest that the kernel panics > > are real. Before settling on ZFS raidz2 for my largest storage pool, I > > experimented with gst

Re: Deprecating base system ftpd

2021-04-10 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
w to FreeBSD to know about it? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *xor* bennett at freeshell.org * *

Re: swap space issues

2020-07-11 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
uction alternatives. FreeBSD used to do better and it should be doing better now. It is worth noting that a few years ago, FreeBSD project staff realized that an elderly Pentium II(?) machine running FreeBSD 2.something and still doing some simple, but necessary, task for the project had an u

Re: swap space issues

2020-07-12 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
Don Wilde wrote: > > On 7/11/20 11:28 PM, Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable wrote: > > I have read this entire thread to date with growing dismay, and I > > thank Donald Wilde for reporting his ongoing troubles, although they > > spoil my hopes that the kernel'