Re: kern/94278 (was: threads/80435: panic on high loads)

2006-03-14 Thread David Xu
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:27, Martin wrote: David Xu wrote: Can anyone add this to 6.1 todo list ? this definitely should be fixed before 6.1R. One of my friends also has found kern/94278: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94278 There is no comment on it so far. This

Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap

2006-03-14 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! I won't reply to the overcommit part of your letter, since my concern is rather local: I'm just not sure whether FreeBSD does it's best during the DoS-attack in swapless environment. On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Jon Dama wrote: Also, when the system is page-starved it kills the largest

Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap

2006-03-14 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:48:06AM -0800, Jon Dama wrote: If you feel this situation is undesirable, the first thing to do is to put together the patches necessary to allow the kernel to actually track how much ram+swap might be needed to cover the address-space allocations that have been

Re: panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc

2006-03-14 Thread Uwe Doering
Eric Anderson wrote: I get the above panic after nfs clients attach to this nfs server and being read/write ops on it after an unclean shutdown. I've fsck'ed the fs, and it marks it as clean, but I get this every time. It's an NFS share of a GEOM stripe (about 2TB). mode = 0100600, inum =

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-14 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I have seen a lot of Thinkpad recommendations and I'd like to give you a warning here. I'm owning an R40 and it works well driver-wise. But the USB- and PCMCIA-controller have broken 3 times and the mainboard has been replaced twice because of this. Now I am out of warranty and a replacement board

Re: Required audit group is missing...

2006-03-14 Thread Chris Howells
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 05:37, Andrew Reilly wrote: When I bumped into this error (I usually mergemaster after installworld, in contravention of the UPDATING recommendation,) I went to run Note that mergemaster should be ran twice during an upgrade; first as 'mergemaster -p' (pre-build

Re: Kernel INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE workaround?

2006-03-14 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:32:24AM -0600, Alan Amesbury wrote: Jorge Aldana wrote: I'm on 6.1PreRelease and this works: strings -n 3 /boot/kernel/kernel | grep -v | sed -n 's/^___//p' There was a minor tweek in this line back in 5.X transition form 4.X but my script works fine for

[patch] Re: kern/94278: Crash with FIFOs and ktrace

2006-03-14 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:41:32PM +0800, David Xu wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:27, Martin wrote: David Xu wrote: Can anyone add this to 6.1 todo list ? this definitely should be fixed before 6.1R. One of my friends also has found kern/94278:

Cannot boot 6.1-PRERELEASE in SMP mode

2006-03-14 Thread Pete French
I have an MSI K8D Master, wth an Opteron 242 installed, on which I have been happily running 6.0-RELEASE. I did have one problem wuth the board, which was that if I had ACPI enabled then the operating system would not boot, it froze at the point where it waited for the SCSI devices to settle. I

Re: [patch] Re: kern/94278: Crash with FIFOs and ktrace

2006-03-14 Thread Kostik Belousov
Sorry for garbled patch. I do not know why mutt decided to encode some = as =3D. Index: compat/linux/linux_misc.c === RCS file: /usr/local/arch/ncvs/src/sys/compat/linux/linux_misc.c,v retrieving revision 1.172 diff -u -r1.172

Re: [patch] Re: kern/94278: Crash with FIFOs and ktrace

2006-03-14 Thread David Xu
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 21:02, Kostik Belousov wrote: Sorry for garbled patch. I do not know why mutt decided to encode some = as =3D. Index: compat/linux/linux_misc.c === RCS file:

Re: panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc

2006-03-14 Thread Eric Anderson
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:48 PM 13/03/2006, Eric Anderson wrote: I get the above panic after nfs clients attach to this nfs server and being I do have dumps from two crashes so far. This is FreeBSD-6.1-PRERELEASE from Friday-ish. Dont know if it was fixed or not, but there were a lot of VM

Re: [patch] Re: kern/94278: Crash with FIFOs and ktrace

2006-03-14 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:17:49PM +0800, David Xu wrote: I know, someone will work out such a messy patch, but is it reasonable ? why does not the fifi code suddenly work with well defined vnode interface ? why did someone want to break the well defined FILE-vnode-fs-device layers ? sigh.

Re: When is the 6.1 branch going to be cut?

2006-03-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we're going to see another BETA (BETA4) shortly. The hold up is that there's still enough problems that need to be fixed that the release isn't near enough to do the branch. [...] Thanks for

Re: Cannot boot 6.1-PRERELEASE in SMP mode

2006-03-14 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Pete French wrote: But FreeBSD will not boot SMP with the second processor installed. It behaves exactly as it did with a single processor and ACPI enabled - i.e. it stops at the 'Waiting for SCSI devices to settle point and does not get beyond this. when

Re: Cannot boot 6.1-PRERELEASE in SMP mode

2006-03-14 Thread Pete French
when you boot, at the FreeBSD menu, break to the command prompt and type this: debug.acpi.disabled=timer boot O.K., I will give this a try - that might fix theoriginal problem with ACPI booting too I guess ? Cant try this for a few hours though as the machine is remote, thanks for the

[releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-03-14 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2006-03-14 15:04:30 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2006-03-14 15:04:30 - starting RELENG_6 tinderbox run for sparc64/sparc64 TB --- 2006-03-14 15:04:30 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2006-03-14 15:04:52 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2006-03-14

FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, I'll be getting a few new machines for a customer soon. They will be SMP (dual processor Pentium-IV) with 4 GB RAM, and I plan to install FreeBSD/i386 6-stable on them. What's the current status of running with that amount of memory? I'm not completely up to date in that regard, and

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Eric Anderson
Oliver Fromme wrote: Hi, I'll be getting a few new machines for a customer soon. They will be SMP (dual processor Pentium-IV) with 4 GB RAM, and I plan to install FreeBSD/i386 6-stable on them. What's the current status of running with that amount of memory? I'm not completely up to date in

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Ivan Kolosovskiy
Eric Anderson wrote: The base install, running GENERIC will only use 3GB. :[ ]. Why so?! How make FreeBSD to use 4GB? it is possible? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Eric Anderson
Ivan Kolosovskiy wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: The base install, running GENERIC will only use 3GB. :[ ]. Why so?! How make FreeBSD to use 4GB? it is possible? Sure, as the rest of my email said. man pae Eric --

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Atanas
Oliver Fromme said the following on 03/14/06 08:30: Will FreeBSD/i386 6-stable run on a 4 GB machine out of the box? Do I have to apply special tuning (kernel config or sysctl or whatever)? Using PAE shouldn't be necessary, I assume. All it depends is what size of memory address space the

Re: cvsup - TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed

2006-03-14 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
That would mean that ipw is broken. I never had such problems when I was using 5-stable with ipw from the ports. Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:13:31AM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: When using cvsup to update my sources over a wireless connection I often get the error message:

Re: cvsup - TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed

2006-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:37:56PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: That would mean that ipw is broken. I never had such problems when I was using 5-stable with ipw from the ports. OK. Kris pgpWcFJk4Mbcn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Question on protocol drain routines

2006-03-14 Thread Herve Boulouis
Hi, I'm starting to deploy 6.0-STABLE (from mid january) to progressively replace all the 4.9 servers we have here and I'm seeing a curious thing : On all 6.0 which get moderate to high network activity (ie webmail to inn), I see that the 'calls to protocol drain routines' statistic given by

Re: Segfaults from gcc, awk and Zend; advice needed

2006-03-14 Thread Alban
On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Alban wrote: For some reason I'm getting more or less random segfaults compiling kernels, world or PHP5 on BETA-3 (Python and perl went ok). So far I haven't succeeded building a fresh kernel or world. This system is an Athlon XP with 1MB RAM

Re: Cannot boot 6.1-PRERELEASE in SMP mode

2006-03-14 Thread Pete French
debug.acpi.disabled=timer and see if it works. I have one system on which 5.4 works flawlessly, but anything from 6.0-REL and up requires I disable the ACPI timer. Thanks - that does make it work with ACPI enabled, which is good. It still won't boot SMP however - and despite the fcat it

Adaptec AIC9410

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Grant
Can anyone tell me if/when the Adaptec AIC9410 SAS/SATA controller will be supported? Michael Grant ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to make sshd not log invalid user login attempts?

2006-03-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
In 4.x, I can make sshd not log this noise by using the Deny/Allow Users/Groups options. In 6.x, the same configuration doesn't stop the logging, so my logs get overrun with thousands of Failed password for invalid user messages. What do I need to do to make sshd not log this information?

Still can't boot on 6.0-STABLE Nov 2005 or 6.1-BETA

2006-03-14 Thread James Seward
Hello folks, A while back (January) I posted to the list about a problem I had booting 6.0-STABLE built with sources after about November 2005 on my workstation. Since that point, and including (I have now discovered) 6.1-PRERELEASE (as my freshly built kernel identified itself just now), I

Adaptec 1200A No longer supported?

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Seeman
Just booted from a 6.1BETA4 CD and it does not recognize the Adaptec 1200A raid card. Is there a work around for this? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Henri Hennebert writes: | Glenn Dawson wrote: | At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: | Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source | code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on | FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am |

Re: Adaptec AIC9410

2006-03-14 Thread Scott Long
Michael Grant wrote: Can anyone tell me if/when the Adaptec AIC9410 SAS/SATA controller will be supported? Michael Grant It's on my TODO list, but realistically I won't even be able to think about starting it until this summer at the earliest. The MPT driver has prototype support for SAS

FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2/FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2 Available

2006-03-14 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA4. Both FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 are meant to be a refinement of their respective branches with few dramatic changes. A lot of bugfixes have been

BETA4! [Re: FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2/FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2 Available]

2006-03-14 Thread Scott Long
Sorry, I accidentally sent out an incomplete draft. This announcement is for BETA4, of course. Also, the note about VFS changes below should stress that the changes were made for stability, not performance. Sorry for the confusion. Scott Long wrote: Announcement The FreeBSD

Re: Adaptec AIC9410

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Grant
I just bought a Supermicro X6DH3-G2 with some Maxtor 500gig SATA drives. The box sees the SATA drives in the bios but of course not in Freebsd. Do you think I can use the MPT driver from 7-current and use in 6-stable with these SATA drives? Michael On 3/15/06, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adaptec AIC9410

2006-03-14 Thread Scott Long
Sorry, I should have been more specific. The MPT driver has prototype support for SAS enabled LSI Logic chips. Scott Michael Grant wrote: I just bought a Supermicro X6DH3-G2 with some Maxtor 500gig SATA drives. The box sees the SATA drives in the bios but of course not in Freebsd. Do you

Kernel borked? (fsck stuck in g_waitidlel)

2006-03-14 Thread Josef Karthauser
Yesterday's kernel appears to be broken, in as much as my g_mirror enabled machine boots, but g_mirror doesn't start mirroring! This is after a crash; the machine reboots, kernel comes up, and then instead of g_mirror starting to recover the degraded mirror pair, nothing happens, and fsck sits