Re: MFC requests for 6.3
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Brett Glass wrote: I would like to request that some useful work on networking be MFCed from -CURRENT to -STABLE in time for the release of FreeBSD 6.3. The thing that's worried me, following only [EMAIL PROTECTED] traffic, were the reports about the new em driver (6.6.6?) causing hangs and other problems with people who have been updating RELENG_6 - have those who had those problems seen their issues resolved? I've got remote boxes using em that I can't risk making inaccessible and can't test locally. All my problems with watchdog timeouts and em 6.6.6 occurred when em shared interrupt with USB but I don't know if it's MB, em or usb that's the problem. Removing USB from the kernel or switching to polling and the driver works just fine. The fact that one of my test machines didn't have any problems was because it had no USB in it's kernel. I had removed USB as I had problems with watchdog timeouts with the bge driver when I first upgraded to the D915GAV MB ages ago. The bge also shared interrupt with USB. Thanks. /var/run/dmesg.boot says my em0 and em1 don't share an IRQ with USB or anyone else, so sounds like I'm in the clear, yay. But it still seems like something the vendor (Intel?) should be looking into before a another release on RELENG_6 is cut - even if USB is the culprit, it sounded like the problems started for em users when the driver was updated from 6.2.9 to 6.6.6. Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MFC requests for 6.3
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Brett Glass wrote: I would like to request that some useful work on networking be MFCed from -CURRENT to -STABLE in time for the release of FreeBSD 6.3. The thing that's worried me, following only [EMAIL PROTECTED] traffic, were the reports about the new em driver (6.6.6?) causing hangs and other problems with people who have been updating RELENG_6 - have those who had those problems seen their issues resolved? I've got remote boxes using em that I can't risk making inaccessible and can't test locally. Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM eServer 346 ServeRaid is too slow
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: I'd say you are seeing the same as I am with the same card in a Dell 1855. There is something wrong with the mpt driver and the disks when they are setup in a raid0 set. If you split the disks and use them as individual drives then you will get full performance. It's also a known problem, though not being tracked very well. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2004-December/001577.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2004-December/001578.html Doesn't look like (from viewcvs.cgi) there's been any recent work on this. Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can not surf on Flash powered sites.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Daniel Eischen wrote: Is it that hard to type 'firefox -g', alias firefox=firefox -g, or whatever, and use it that way for a few days to see if you can get a trace? The only thing I hate more than complaining about something I can't spend the time to try to fix is spending time writing to justify my laziness. :) I did try to get a stace trace before, rebuilding all of firefox with debugging, and got a trace that indicated the problem was elsewhere with other libraries I'd have to also go off and rebuild with debugging, and so that cute flash animation my friends said I had to go see suddenly seemed that much less interesting to me, and I didn't look back. This was also on RELENG_4, and the issue appeared to be threading-related, and since everyone was saying that threading in 4 was broken anyways and would be fixed in 5, I punted; I just haven't had time since upgrading to 5 a few weeks ago to look at it again. Most folks I know use the linuxpluginwrapper so we don't have any experience with the native flash player. I think I recall trying it and it not working, hence the use of linuxpluginwrapper. /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/pkg-message says: Firefox has a double free problem wih Flash7. So I don't support it. Please don't send me a report about firefox. Of course, I always welcome to recieve fixed problems report. That's kept me away from trying it. Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can not surf on Flash powered sites.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ruben van Staveren wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:23:42AM +0200, Ege Mukan wrote: Nowavadays whenever I want to surf on websites which contains flash things my firefox or mozilla shuts itself. Did you ever encounter this problem. And if you'd how did you eliminate ??? Are you using Xorg6.8.1 and have enabled the Composite extension ? (as in Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection ) Then add this line to /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox, just beneath the #! /bin/sh export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 Didn't make a difference with native builds of www/firefox v 1.0.1 and www/flashplugin-firefox 0.4.12. Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can not surf on Flash powered sites.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ruben van Staveren wrote: Are you using Xorg6.8.1 and have enabled the Composite extension ? (as in Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection ) Then add this line to /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox, just beneath the #! /bin/sh export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 Didn't make a difference with native builds of www/firefox v 1.0.1 and www/flashplugin-firefox 0.4.12. Why don't you run firefox with -g and get a dump and backtrace out of it? Because, as I said earlier this thread: I do try it every couple of weeks to see if it works, but the best it gets is two-three web sites and then the seg fault. I realize until I sit down with a stack trace I haven't earned the right to complain, so I haven't yet, figuring it'll be important enough someday to someone clueful enough. Or, Macromedia will some day lighten up and let Mozilla include it as part of the web browser by default. Or something. ...and that I've got nowhere near the chops to do anything useful with a stack trace that I'm sure others do. I thought I'd pipe up in response to Ruben's message to provide a data point. Am I the only one for whom Firefox and www/flashplugin-firefox doesn't work? Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vacuuming... in nightly report
In my nightly status report, towards the end, I see the word vacuuming..., by itself, with no context. I don't see mention of it in anything under /etc or /usr/src, except games/fortune or share/dict. Google suggests this is something Postgres does, and while Postgres is installed and running it's not in production use, nor does anything related to PG appear to be called by the periodic scripts. Very strange. Daily scan included below, with sensitive data elided with a [...]. Thoughts? Brian -- Forwarded message -- Date: 1 Mar 2005 11:19:27 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: taz3.hyperreal.org daily run output Removing stale files from /var/preserve: Cleaning out old system announcements: Removing stale files from /var/rwho: Backup passwd and group files: Verifying group file syntax: Backing up mail aliases: Rotating accounting logs and gathering statistics: Disk status: [...] Last dump(s) done (Dump '' file systems): UUCP status: Network interface status: NameMtu Network Address Ipkts IerrsOpkts Oerrs Coll [...] Local system status: 3:01AM up 354 days, 6:19, 16 users, load averages: 0.76, 0.69, 0.72 Mail in local queue: messages in queue: 868 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Security check: (output mailed separately) Checking for rejected mail hosts: Checking for denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR): 1 apache.org from 194.159.246.198 (no-dns-yet.demon.co.uk) vacuuming... -- End of daily output -- ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vacuuming... in nightly report
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: check for /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql installed by PostgreSQL port... There ya go. Thanks. Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can not surf on Flash powered sites.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Phil Schulz wrote: On 03/01/05 23:23, Ege Mukan wrote: Hi All, I am the Freebsd+Xfce4 user from Turkey. Recently (on 26th of Feb 2005), I've CVSUP my system using stable-suppfile and ports-suppfile. And un expectedly my system became 5.4 Prelease. I've installed firefox 1.0 and mozilla 1.7, and also flashplugin for them from the ports directory. Nowavadays whenever I want to surf on websites which contains flash things my firefox or mozilla shuts itself. The reason for mozilla/firefox to exit with signal 6 is a MFC from three weeks ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c?f=h#rev1.45.2.1 It's been something I've noticed for a long, long time, not just within the last three weeks. I do try it every couple of weeks to see if it works, but the best it gets is two-three web sites and then the seg fault. I realize until I sit down with a stack trace I haven't earned the right to complain, so I haven't yet, figuring it'll be important enough someday to someone clueful enough. Or, Macromedia will some day lighten up and let Mozilla include it as part of the web browser by default. Or something. The commit message suggests that www/linuxpluginwrapper needs to be rebuild, which will not be easy until you have followed the instructions from the 20041231 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING How is www/linuxpluginwrapper involved when using /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox or www/flashplugin-mozilla? If you're using the www/linux-flashplugin port, maybe, but that's proven just as prone to crashes for me. The most stable attempt has involved running linux-firefox (or linux-mozilla) with linux-flashplugin. Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GThread_ERROR | glib2 | gthread-posix.c
Is this on RELENG_4? I got the same thing after I got past X coredumps with the i810 driver (fixed by either downgrading to 8 or 16 bits, or using Options NoAccel). It was suggested on gnome@ that I rebuild freetype and every port it depends upon, but that didn't help. De-installing all ports that depend upon freetype and rebuilding/reinstalling from scratch also did not help. I'd give up on RELENG_4 and move to RELENG_5, but on both laptops I've tried it on RELENG_5 still doesn't successfully suspend/resume from X (whether under ACPI or APM), and since the freebsd-gnome people claim to not support RELENG_4, I'm spending xmas break trying out various Linux distros. Sorry I couldn't help, just wanted to say I see the same problem, but haven't seen a way out. Brian On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Richard MAHONEY wrote: Dear Listmembers, I've just upgraded to `xorg-6.8.1' and have begun to experience seg. faults and core dumps with apps that rely on `glib-2.4.8'. The standard error is noted below. `gnome2-2.8.2' no longer works and I've had to revert to `pwm-2003.06.17'. A recompile of `glib', `gtk', all of `Gnome2' c. has failed to resolve the problem. Does it have something to do with the following? : /usr/home/ports/devel/glib20/files/patch-gthread_gthread-posix.c Any help would be very much appreciated. Best regards, Richard Mahoney the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/rbm49/pkg $ uname -a FreeBSD 131-203-240-72.remote.comnet.co.nz 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD \ 4.11-STABLE #0: Sun Dec 19 21:29:45 NZDT 2004 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC \ i386 the problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/rbm49/pkg $ firefox GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 137 \ (g_thread_impl_init): error 'Invalid argument' during \ 'pthread_getschedparam (pthread_self(), policy, sched)' aborting... Abort trap (core dumped) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/rbm49/pkg $ rm -f *core firefox-bin.core ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:50 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5 for yourself. -Mike correction: run make fetchindex not make fetch index from /usr/ports Out of curiosity, why isn't the index included in the update normally? Brian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 STABLE for production server?
The apache.org mail server has been happier since we updated to a point on RELENG_5 after the recent fixes for if_em. We still need to apply the patch floating around for mpt, as without it performance on a RAID 1 set of disks is reported by bonnie at 1 MB/s, with the patch it's 50 MB/s. Other than that, stability has been good, interactive performance while under load has been good, etc. Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FireFox crash on Print
Oh, ouch, yeah this is hitting me to, with firefox-1.0.1.p_4. mozilla-1.7.2_5,2 does not have this problem. On 4-STABLE compiled a few months ago, and xorg rather than XFree86 in case that matters. PR opened on it, don't have the # yet. Brian On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Warren Liddell wrote: Since Upgrading FireFox to 1.0 over the last weekend each time i press print or goto print something Mozilla either closes itself or re-loads it's program. I can re-create this bug by printing from any URL local or on hte internet. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/bin/cvs consumes 60MB of memory, freezes
I'd submit this as a bug through the web site, but http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html gives permission denied. I cvsup'd (from a 4.7-prerelease) and made-world last night apache.org's CVS server to RELENG4_7 to pick up the bind/resolver fixes, and now it's getting hit with CVS processes that consume 60MB of memory and spin CPU in a RUN state without limit. Not all CVS processes get into this state, but I can't discern a pattern to those who do. No /tmp file corresponding to a runaway process exists, as best I can tell. I tried using ktrace to see what it was doing, and nothing was captured. Has anyone else seen this? I know FreeBSD simply imports the CVS sources from cvshome.org, and this change was probably seen with the 1.11.2 update; my next step will be to backrev and try older tags (which shouldn't require backreving world, I'd hope), but I'm hoping I'm not the only one seeing this. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: odd kernel messages
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Erick Mechler wrote: :: Anyone ever seen this? From dmesg: :: :: spec_getpages:(#da/0x2000c) I/O read failure: (error=6) bp 0xd19152b8 vp 0xe0dbd840 ::size: 4096, resid: 4096, a_count: 4096, valid: 0x0 ::nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 1 :: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 81385 (httpd) Do you have NFS mounted filesystems on your machine? I've seen this problem when you remove (or otherwise modify) a binary from a NFS mount that's loaded into the systems' memory. Nope. Nothing special filesystem-wise. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: sshd in 4.2-STABLE
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:10:19AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: I have to agree - many of the changes mergemaster makes are to files that no one would recommend editing directly in regular use, like MAKEDEV and /etc/rc.network and all the stuff in /etc/defaults. Modifying mergemaster to only ask to merge files that have been changed sounds like a good idea to me... Have you read the mergemaster docs? It can already do this. Er, how? You mean the MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT and MM_EXIT_SCRIPT script hooks? It's been a long week and is only Tuesday, but I must be missing something... Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Bad IDE Drive
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: IMO, WD went to pot years back their choice on concentrating on the low end market doesn't help. Seagate's IDE drives seem to have been among the slowest around. Years back started having better results with Maxtor and then IBM came in with the best performance and price for *both* SCSI and IDE. Many have talked about their good experiences with the former, but can't say I recall much on the latter. I've had two recent IBM drives (both U2W 36G, out of four recently purchased) fail on me recently within weeks of purchase. I would hesitate to recommend them again, which is unfortunate because they used to be completely trustable. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
