problems with port upgrade consistency using portsnap

2013-05-19 Thread fddi
Hello, I am using portsnap to update my port collection on FreeBSD 9.1 the first time I ran it a few weeks ago I did| || |||portsnap fetch| || |and then portsnap exctract then I did a crontab script to update ports every night 0 3 * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap -I cron update pkg_version -vIL=

Re: check variable content size in sh script

2013-05-19 Thread Quartz
I say this from a FreeBSD context. It may entirely be possible that a Linux distro uses bash in /bin/sh Yes. For most (all?) linux distros as well as osx, /bin/sh is actually bash. When I say emulation mode I mean running a script with a #!/bin/sh header on a system that doesn't have a real

Re: problems with port upgrade consistency using portsnap

2013-05-19 Thread Shane Ambler
On 19/05/2013 15:49, fddi wrote: Hello, I am using portsnap to update my port collection on FreeBSD 9.1 the first time I ran it a few weeks ago I did| || |||portsnap fetch| || |and then portsnap exctract then I did a crontab script to update ports every night 0 3 * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap -I

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 2013-05-18 19:13, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a 4x16=64 core server running FreeBSD 8.4-P but only two of the CPUs (2x16=32) are enabled. Enabling the other 32 isn't as simple as changing MAXCPU in param.h (apparently) and recompiling. What do I need to do to enable the other 32 cores?

9.1 - new install questions

2013-05-19 Thread Mike.
I just installed 9.1 on a clean disk. The dmesg is at the end of this message. For the network configuration, I selected DHCP for IPv4 and SLAAC for IPv6. When I boot the PC, it appears that dhclient tries to load twice. Why does it try to load the second time? From the console log: May

does ifconfig see netgraph bridges?

2013-05-19 Thread Joe
I create a ng bridge but issuing ifconfig does not show the bridge. Running 9.1-RELEASE. Is this a bug? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 11:48 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On 2013-05-18 19:13, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a 4x16=64 core server running FreeBSD 8.4-P but only two of the CPUs (2x16=32) are enabled. Enabling the other 32 isn't as simple as changing MAXCPU in param.h (apparently) and

Re: problems with port upgrade consistency using portsnap

2013-05-19 Thread fddi
hello, here is from portsnap.conf # PORTSDIR=/usr/ports so it is /usr/ports instead in my environment $PORTSDIR is undefined. Here is /usr/ports/lang/python27/Makefile PORTNAME= python27 PORTVERSION=2.7.3 PORTREVISION= 6 after I did portsnap fetch update everythign looks

Re: does ifconfig see netgraph bridges?

2013-05-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, On 05/19/2013 04:57 PM, Joe wrote: I create a ng bridge but issuing ifconfig does not show the bridge. Running 9.1-RELEASE. Is this a bug? ifconfig is not supposed to know about a netgraph bridge. So this is by design. Also, since the bridge is supposed to be transparent to the network i

Acer Aspire One D250 special function keys

2013-05-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm running a 10-CURRENT r250588 on that laptop, which has some special function keys, for example Fn+Down and Fn+Up to control the sound volume; how could I manage to get them to work? On my other netbook, an Asus EeePC 900, I have to load the kmod acpi_asus.ko to get the corresponding

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 special function keys

2013-05-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 May 2013 20:33:14 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm running a 10-CURRENT r250588 on that laptop, which has some special function keys, for example Fn+Down and Fn+Up to control the sound volume; how could I manage to get them to work? On my other netbook, an Asus EeePC

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 special function keys

2013-05-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, May 19, 2013 a las 08:42:51PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: Did you use xev to check if those keys generate a unique code or symbol? If not, try loading one of the present /boot/kernel/acpi_*.ko modules to see if one of them can enable the functionality. Of course none of the

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/19/2013 10:51 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 11:48 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On 2013-05-18 19:13, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a 4x16=64 core server running FreeBSD 8.4-P but only two of the CPUs (2x16=32) are enabled. Enabling the other 32 isn't as simple as

Unkillable processes

2013-05-19 Thread David Demelier
Hello there, I've had a process on state pfault and it was just unkillable, kill -9 had no effects and because the script was doing an infinite loop the machine was slower and slower so the only way to fix that was a reboot. Why kill -9 has still no effects on some bad processes? Regards, --

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-19 Thread Paul Kraus
On May 18, 2013, at 10:16 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 01:29:58PM +, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Not sure about your calculations, hope you trust them, but in my previous company we have a 3-4 months period when a disk fails almost every day on 2 year old servers, so

Re: problems with port upgrade consistency using portsnap

2013-05-19 Thread Michael Powell
fddi wrote: [snip] so ther is something wrong in my crontab 0 3 * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap -I cron update pkg_version -vIL= See man portsnap, section TIPS - it shows example of correct way: 0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/portsnap cron The TIPS section contains more details. [snip] -Mike

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Paul Kraus
On May 19, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dennis Glatting free...@pki2.com wrote: ZFS hangs on multi-socket systems (Tyan, Supermicro) under 9.1. ZFS does not hang under 8.4. This (and one other 4 socket) is a production system. Can you be more specific, I have been running 9.0 and 9.1 systems

Re: Unkillable processes

2013-05-19 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/19/2013 3:00 PM, David Demelier wrote: Hello there, I've had a process on state pfault and it was just unkillable, kill -9 had no effects and because the script was doing an infinite loop the machine was slower and slower so the only way to fix that was a reboot. Why kill -9 has still no

Re: does ifconfig see netgraph bridges?

2013-05-19 Thread Teske, Devin
On May 19, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, On 05/19/2013 04:57 PM, Joe wrote: I create a ng bridge but issuing ifconfig does not show the bridge. Running 9.1-RELEASE. Is this a bug? ifconfig is not supposed to know about a netgraph bridge. So this is by design. Also,

ngctl list ?

2013-05-19 Thread Joe
When I issue ngctl list command on the host it only shows the socket for ngctl. I thought it would also show the real NIC interface device names. Am I wrong in thinking that? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

How to get kernel source code of free-BSD release 9.1

2013-05-19 Thread Chou, David J
Hi, I have created a virtual machine of PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit in VMware Player Version 5.0.0 build-812388 based on PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso downloaded from ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9.1/amd64/PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso , and setup network configuration and installed Firefox 20.0 by AppCafe,

Re: How to get kernel source code of free-BSD release 9.1

2013-05-19 Thread Michael Powell
Chou, David J wrote: Hi, I have created a virtual machine of PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit in VMware Player Version 5.0.0 build-812388 based on PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso downloaded from ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9.1/amd64/PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso , and setup network configuration and installed

Re: How to get kernel source code of free-BSD release 9.1

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Chou, David J david.j.c...@intel.com wrote: Hi, I have created a virtual machine of PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit in VMware Player Version 5.0.0 build-812388 based on PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso downloaded from

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 16:28 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: On May 19, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dennis Glatting free...@pki2.com wrote: ZFS hangs on multi-socket systems (Tyan, Supermicro) under 9.1. ZFS does not hang under 8.4. This (and one other 4 socket) is a production system. Can you be

Re: ngctl list ?

2013-05-19 Thread Teske, Devin
On May 19, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Joe wrote: When I issue ngctl list command on the host it only shows the socket for ngctl. I thought it would also show the real NIC interface device names. Am I wrong in thinking that? No, you're not wrong, however one wrinkle is that ng_ether(4) has to be

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Dennis Glatting
Minutes after I typed that message 2x16 the system paniced with the following back trace: kdb_backtrace panic vdev_deadman vdev_deadman vdev_deadman spa_deadman softclock intr_event_execute_handlers ithread_loop fork_exit fork_trampoline I had just created a memory disk when that happened: