Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Simon Ironside
Hi, /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g Cheers, Simon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-11-14 Thread Jacques Garrigue
I've got a strange problem with my IBM T42 / Radeon M10 setup. When using the 6.0-RELEASE kernel (including GENERIC), I cannot go to sleep when X11 is running: the machine freezes, display still on. I tried disabling DRI, but this does not seem to be the problem: I have no DRM anyway. On the

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Xin LI
Hi, Simon, On 11/14/05, Simon Ironside [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g I think this is intentional. Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Simon Ironside
Hello, I think this is intentional. Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a kernel.debug which contains debugging symbols, which is quite useful if you get a kernel panic and want to report it back. On the other hand, debugging symbols would be stripped before you install a new kernel so it

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Xin LI
On 11/14/05, Simon Ironside [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This has changed since 5.4 - I just wondered why and whether I would be best leaving it as is or commenting it out. My personal suggestion would be that you keep it as-is, since it saves your time when you have kernel panics and wants

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Dev Tugnait
safe to leave un-commented no hindrance in performance. On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:53 +, Simon Ironside wrote: Hello, I think this is intentional. Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a kernel.debug which contains debugging symbols, which is quite useful if you get a kernel panic and

Re: 6.0 freezes shortly after logging in (and at install)

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Popa
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:50:29PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: Hi list, I get some strange freezes with my fresh 6.0 installation. After booting for a several times now i got 2 more freezes in not coherent periods of time after logging in. It is a complete freeze as far as i can

Re: Consistent 6.0-STABLE Hang.

2005-11-14 Thread Julien Gabel
Running the Citrix ICA wfcmgr (from ports) to change settings, e.g. password, for connection to a Windows terminal server hangs FreeBSD 6.0 (as of Nov 4) quite consistently. I've tried this on one of my 6.0 systems at home and a 6.0 system here at work. I suspect it may have something to do

Re: Consistent 6.0-STABLE Hang.

2005-11-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Julien Gabel wrote: Running the Citrix ICA wfcmgr (from ports) to change settings, e.g. password, for connection to a Windows terminal server hangs FreeBSD 6.0 (as of Nov 4) quite consistently. I've tried this on one of my 6.0 systems at home and a 6.0 system here at work.

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-14 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Last friday I did a cvsup src/buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld/mergemaster on my laptop from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE and since the performance of my laptop (Dell Precision M70 with a Pentium M 2GHz) is not good. It behaves like if the bus was

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-14 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
I had this as well. It means that your DHCP server returns an invalid search domain. The easy way to solve it (if you have access) is to set the search domain to something valid in your DHCP server (Linksys router by any chance?). I couldn't find a flag on dhclient to tell it to ignore

Re: Hyperthreading issues.

2005-11-14 Thread kama
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, kama wrote: Just upgraded from 5.4 to 6.0 and hyperthreading stoped working. Everything looks ok, but it doesn't use two of the logical CPU's. This is disabled by default due to a information-leak vulnerability across the

FBSD 6.0: mgetty - Bad file descriptor (PR i386/87208)

2005-11-14 Thread Holger Kipp
Hello, is there a solution at hand for the dreaded mgetty-problem on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE? I couldn't find anything on the net except that some people have the same problem, and that PR i386/87208 contains some interesting insight. It is ok for me to 'kill -HUP 1' to get mgetty running (see

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-11-14 Thread Bakul Shah
When using the 6.0-RELEASE kernel (including GENERIC), I cannot go to sleep when X11 is running: the machine freezes, display still on. I tried disabling DRI, but this does not seem to be the problem: I have no DRM anyway. I upgraded my T42 to -current from the 6.0 release kernel but from

RE: a few problems with 6.0-RELEASE on IBM T41p

2005-11-14 Thread Petr Holub
Not if you're using any third party modules. What does 'kldstat' tell you? kernel + acpi.ko + linux.ko, as I already mentioned in another email. Petr ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-14 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Last friday I did a cvsup src/buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld/mergemaster on my laptop from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE and since the performance of my laptop (Dell Precision M70 with a Pentium M 2GHz) is not good. It behaves

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:14:00PM -0800, Mark Space wrote: Hi all, I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the DHCP client. Trying to pull a network address during start up, I get: Bogus domain search list 15: domain_not_set.invalid This repeats several

Strange boot messages under 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-14 Thread Ales
During boot process under 6.0-STABLE I spoted some strange messages. ... ... Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek kernel: cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek kernel: cd0: SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A KYS1 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek kernel: cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers Nov

Re: Second SATA drive not detected on 6.0-Release and 6.0-Stable.

2005-11-14 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Richard Lee wrote: I even downloaded 6.0R ISO image and booted, and there too, the second disk is not detected. I tried disabling ATA_STATIC_ID, which causes ad4 to become ad0, but no other effect. I have no IDE hard drives, only two SATA drives. I don't consider this set up to be anything

6.0-RELEASE Dell PE 850

2005-11-14 Thread Johan Kooijman
Morning all, After ordering a stack of Dell PE 850 boxes I found out, by experience, that 6.0-RELEASE doesn't work with it. It does recognize the S-ATA controller, but install says it can't find any disks. The disk is a standard Maxtor 80GB S-ATA disk (although a Seagate didn't work either). The

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Simon Ironside wrote: /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g This was by accident, but actually isn't a bad idea. We discovered the problem at the last minute, after

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-14 Thread Mark Space
Thanks to Sebastian and Brooks for their quick replies. I took the easy way out and installed the ISC client which works just fine. The problem is my DHCP server is a DSL modem. I don't see any way to set the domain field. In addition, this interface is really not on a network but a

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-11-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:50:31 +0900 (JST) From: Jacques Garrigue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a strange problem with my IBM T42 / Radeon M10 setup. When using the 6.0-RELEASE kernel (including GENERIC), I cannot go to sleep when X11 is running: the machine

Re: November Monthly Snapshots

2005-11-14 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:31:38PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote.. The November Monthly Snapshots except for sparc64 (still building) are posted to ftp-master and should appear on the mirror sites soon. This month we've got RELENG_5 and HEAD snapshots. Since 6.0 just came out it didn't make

Re: 6.0-RELEASE Dell PE 850

2005-11-14 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Johan Kooijman wrote: After ordering a stack of Dell PE 850 boxes I found out, by experience, that 6.0-RELEASE doesn't work with it. It does recognize the S-ATA controller, but install says it can't find any disks. there was some discussion about this on the

Re: Strange boot messages under 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Ales wrote: During boot process under 6.0-STABLE I spoted some strange messages. ... ... Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek kernel: cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek kernel: cd0: SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A KYS1 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:40:36PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. acpiconf -i loop reproduces the problem for me too. So it looks like there is something

RE: (i386/88610) Problem with booting FreeBSD 6.0 bootonly.iso -5.4works fine

2005-11-14 Thread Mitch \(Bitblock\)
Can someone confirm what more information I should follow up with? I haven't seen any traffic except my own on this thread - wondering if I'm missing something or doing something wrong... please advise? I'm trying to figure out how to capture a crash dump from the kernel while booting, or how to

em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
There is a problem with the latest 4-STABLE where when you move an IP from one server on the network to a new one, a proper arp packet isn't being sent upstream, so the router isn't getting the change ... It only appears to affect the new em driver, as I have other servers on the network

Re: em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/14/05, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a problem with the latest 4-STABLE where when you move an IP from one server on the network to a new one, a proper arp packet isn't being sent upstream, so the router isn't getting the change ... It only appears to affect the

Re: em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/14/05, David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've had this problem too. Some have suggested turning on portfast on the Cisco switches, but that doesn't resolve it. It causes severely long delays when doing net installs (sysinstall has a very long retry time for DNS lookups, measured

Re: em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread Colin Farley
I have this same problem on some production servers running 4.10-RELEASE-p16. My work around is to set the arp cache timeout on our 2811 router to 10 seconds. Colin David Kirchner

Fw: em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread Colin Farley
I forgot to add this isn't specific to the em driver, as I use the lnc. Also, it's not a problem all the time, only sometimes the boxes fail to send out Gratuitous ARP packets. I have verified by capturing packets and trying to readd an alias a short period after the failure. Colin -

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-14 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:40:36PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. acpiconf -i loop reproduces the problem for me too. So it looks like

Re: 6.0 freezes shortly after logging in (and at install)

2005-11-14 Thread Timm Florian Gloger
* On 11/14/2005 10:15 AM Alex Popa wrote: The solution (as suggested in the Undernet #FreeBSD channel) was to boot with ACPI disabled. The system works now with no problems (ACPI still disabled). I tried that, this evening and the machine runs fine for now. Thanks so far. But this is not

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-14 Thread Mark Andrews
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Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:48:09AM -0800, Mark Space wrote: Thanks to Sebastian and Brooks for their quick replies. I took the easy way out and installed the ISC client which works just fine. The problem is my DHCP server is a DSL modem. I don't see any way to set the domain field. In

Re: Consistent 6.0-STABLE Hang.

2005-11-14 Thread Cy Schubert
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Watson writes: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Julien Gabel wrote: Running the Citrix ICA wfcmgr (from ports) to change settings, e.g. password, for connection to a Windows terminal server hangs FreeBSD 6.0 (as of Nov 4) quite consistently. I've tried this on

6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC

2005-11-14 Thread Rob
Hi, I have upgraded a Pentium-1 PC from 5 to 6-Stable, which went smoothly. Now I'm running 6 with GENERIC kernel, and I want to compile a new kernel. When I start a new kernel compilation, this process *always* freezes the PC (no crash) when reaching the point of linking kernel; this is 100

Re: em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Sweet, thanks ... just had to use that, and works like a charm ... :) On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Jon Simola wrote: On 11/14/05, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a problem with the latest 4-STABLE where when you move an IP from one server on the network to a new one, a proper

[HEADSUP] looking for regressions in 6-STABLE vs 5-STABLE

2005-11-14 Thread Mark Linimon
One of the things I would like to do in my role as one of the bugmeisters is to try to flag the PRs in GNATS that are regressions in the base system between 5.X and 6.X. There are a few already in there, to which I have tried to add the text '(regression)' into the Synopsis. If you feel that you

Re: Consistent 6.0-STABLE Hang.

2005-11-14 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Robert Watson wrote: I think you got it. After rebooting under a fresh 6.0-STABLE (build on Mon Nov 14 05:39:01 CET 2005), the problem didn't appear again... no more need for a serial console on this machine, i think :) Sounds like a good MFC candidate, assuming it

Re: Strange boot messages under 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-14 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: That reboot after panic message is strange, because the box is running normally. Can someone plese tell me why I'm geting those messages. Your system panicked at some point in the past, but it can't save the dump for the reason specified. Note

Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Rob
--- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have upgraded a Pentium-1 PC from 5 to 6-Stable, which went smoothly. Now I'm running 6 with GENERIC kernel, and I want to compile a new kernel. When I start a new kernel compilation, this process *always* freezes the PC (no crash) when reaching

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:52:42PM -0800, Rob wrote: --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have upgraded a Pentium-1 PC from 5 to 6-Stable, which went smoothly. Now I'm running 6 with GENERIC kernel, and I want to compile a new kernel. When I start a new kernel compilation,

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Rob
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:52:42PM -0800, Rob wrote: Problem kind of solved: As this PC has only 32 MB Ram, I add a swapfile. However, when I compile the new kernel without the swapfile, all goes well. Since the freeze is very

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:08:27PM -0800, Rob wrote: I left it overnight twice for performing this 'kernel linking' stage. In both cases the machine remained dead. Without the swapfile, this 'kernel linking' stage completes in just about less than a minute. So I think it's not my

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-11-14 Thread Jacques Garrigue
Thanks for answerring. (And thanks to Bakul too) From: Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jacques Garrigue [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a strange problem with my IBM T42 / Radeon M10 setup. When using the 6.0-RELEASE kernel (including GENERIC), I cannot go to sleep when X11 is

umounting overlapping mount panics

2005-11-14 Thread Doug White
Hey folks, I accidentally mounted a CDROM over itself when installing X. OK, no problem, umounted it and then started browsing the CD. Panic. The panic output: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor read, page not present

an unkillable process and a patch

2005-11-14 Thread Garry Belka
We see, not too often, that a Java process hangs and can't be killed even by SIGKILL. Apparently, one of the process threads forks. fork1() in kernel attempts to enter a single-threaded mode, but thread_single() fails to complete and hangs waiting until all threads but proc- p_singlethread

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Rob
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:08:27PM -0800, Rob wrote: I left it overnight twice for performing this 'kernel linking' stage. In both cases the machine remained dead. Without the swapfile, this 'kernel linking' stage completes in just about

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2005-Nov-14 22:38:59 -0800, Rob wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you can compile a kernel without it, add DDB, WITNESS and INVARIANTS support, then trigger the deadlock with the swapfile, break to DDB and examine the state of the machine. See the chapter on

kernel land ppp makes mage fault

2005-11-14 Thread Anatoli Marinov
Hi, I try to use pptp (pptpclient) and ppp connection to my ISP with FreeBSD 6-STABLE. If I compile pptp from ports after installation it works in user land and consume 50-60% from my CPU time (for 200 KB/sec). Before 6-STABLE with 6-TESTx and RCx my pptp, compiled to use kernel level ppp