Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
I appear to have a machine which will not run RELENG_6_2, though it runs the released code quite happily. Is there a CVS tag I can use to revert the sources back to the way they were on RELEASE? I want to be able to verify that this is and track down what changed! I don't think it should ever be

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread LI Xin
Pete French wrote: I appear to have a machine which will not run RELENG_6_2, though it runs the released code quite happily. Is there a CVS tag I can use to revert the sources back to the way they were on RELEASE? I want to be able to verify that this is and track down what changed! I don't

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Dominic Marks
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:31:54 + Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appear to have a machine which will not run RELENG_6_2, though it runs the released code quite happily. Is there a CVS tag I can use to revert the sources back to the way they were on RELEASE? I want to be able to

Re: Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

2007-03-19 Thread Marko Lerota
Martin Blapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just fixed those issues with the port. Thanks for reporting ! So we can safely use libpthread.so again? No need to use libmap.conf? -- One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk Tacunka

Re: disable swap discovery?

2007-03-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Krassimir Slavchev wrote: After detecting HDD I have Fatal trap 12: page fault ... and current process 0 (swapper). Process 0, which is accidentally swapper is a special thing - it's unlikely your fault is swap-related. ___

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
I think you will want RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE. thanks (and to the others who responded) What happens with RELENG_6_2, IIRC there was only very limited changes to kernel which should only affect IPv6... Indeed! Part of the reason I want to do the revert is to make absolutely sure that it runs

Re: Progress installing on IBM LS21 Blade machine

2007-03-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Tom Samplonius wrote: The one thing about IBM blades, is that the various controllers for all kinds of IO devices may exist, but are simply not wired. FreeBSD is quite picky (or stupid) about device probing. If it finds a device, it basically demands that it works. It would be great if

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread LI Xin
Pete French wrote: I think you will want RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE. thanks (and to the others who responded) What happens with RELENG_6_2, IIRC there was only very limited changes to kernel which should only affect IPv6... Indeed! Part of the reason I want to do the revert is to make

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Steven Hartland
I think this is a very good idea, I've been caught at least once not being able to recreate a working kernel due to the loss of the original config file. Steve - Original Message - From: LI Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I always use options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE for my kernel :-) Maybe we

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:33:44PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: I think this is a very good idea, I've been caught at least once not being able to recreate a working kernel due to the loss of the original config file. Steve - Original Message - From: LI Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread LI Xin
Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:33:44PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: I think this is a very good idea, I've been caught at least once not being able to recreate a working kernel due to the loss of the original config file. Steve - Original Message - From:

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Wojciech A. Koszek [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did some work in this area, as several system administrators I've met also seem to have problem with kernel configuration recovery. In my case I came with a method of obtaining a configuration of a running kernel via

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:32:48PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Wojciech A. Koszek [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did some work in this area, as several system administrators I've met also seem to have problem with kernel configuration recovery. In my case I came

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Wojciech A. Koszek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it does. You get full configuration file from sysctl(8) or from config -k kernel, and config(8) is modified in a way, that lets you to use this file without additional trimming. Sounds like a very worth while

time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Hello. I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows 2003 host. Time is a hour slow for a day. I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf I've tried all possible values in kern.timecounter.hardware. Nothing helps. I've found it's not only my problem:

Re: disable swap discovery?

2007-03-19 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
Ivan Voras wrote: Krassimir Slavchev wrote: After detecting HDD I have Fatal trap 12: page fault ... and current process 0 (swapper). Process 0, which is accidentally swapper is a special thing - it's unlikely your fault is swap-related. Yes, it isn't. The fault is in the

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Pete French wrote: I appear to have a machine which will not run RELENG_6_2, though it runs the released code quite happily. Is there a CVS tag I can use to revert the sources back to the way they were on RELEASE? I want to be able to verify that this is and track

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Va'clav Haisman
Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hello. I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows 2003 host. Time is a hour slow for a day. I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf I've tried all possible values in kern.timecounter.hardware. Nothing helps. I've found it's

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:24 AM, LI Xin wrote: I always use options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE for my kernel :-) Maybe we should add it to DEFAULTS some day... ew yucky What I do is keep my kernel configs in subversion. I have a common component which applies to all systems under my control,

Re: [PATCH] bge(4) patch for -STABLE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
I have made bge(4) patch for -STABLE (sorry, not suitable for RELENG_6_2): What dates stable is this relative to ? I am trying to apply your patch to a cvsup of stable pulled on the day/time you sent your email, but parts of it are failing for me unfortunately. I would like to test this as I

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Frank Behrens
Sergey Matveychuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19 Mar 2007 17:15: I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows 2003 host. Unfortunately I can't help you, but I observed the same problem on a GSX 3.2.1 on Linux. Time is a hour slow for a day. I have

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Einstein Oliveira
Va'clav Haisman wrote: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hello. I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows 2003 host. Time is a hour slow for a day. I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf I've tried all possible values in kern.timecounter.hardware. Nothing helps.

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Holden
Einstein Oliveira wrote: Va'clav Haisman wrote: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hello. I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows 2003 host. Time is a hour slow for a day. I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf I've tried all possible values in

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:23:53PM +0800, LI Xin wrote: Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: [..] I always use options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE for my kernel :-) Maybe we should add it to DEFAULTS some day... I did some work in this area, as several system administrators I've met also seem to have

Re: 6.2-amd64 Hang at reboot on Supermicro X7DBR-i+

2007-03-19 Thread Guy Helmer
Guy Helmer wrote: (reposting since this involves 6-stable) I'm investigating a problem where a pretty much stock 6.2 SMP kernel randomly hangs on multiple Supermicro X7DBR-i+ and X7DBR-8+ systems. The system syncs the filesystems and prints Uptime: ..., then hangs. So far, I've narrowed it

Re: [PATCH] bge(4) patch for -STABLE

2007-03-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:28 PM 3/19/2007, Pete French wrote: I have made bge(4) patch for -STABLE (sorry, not suitable for RELENG_6_2): What dates stable is this relative to ? I am trying to apply your patch to a cvsup of stable pulled on the day/time you sent your email, but parts of it are failing for me

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Dotson
I found that the solution here: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/07/slow-time-with-freebsd-61-guest-on.html; (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz=100) Worked well for me. I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after a week) but it can easily be handled by ntp

Re: [PATCH] bge(4) patch for -STABLE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
Mine applied cleanly to sources from last Friday. O.K., that works (now I have the correct date in my supfile). Will give it a shot... -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
regression that was introduced late in the 6.2 release cycle. I'm personally pretty skeptical that this could cause a problem, although I'm admittedly a little biased, plus there weren't a lot of details in your email as to what the problem is. Well, you are right - it wont run a stock

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Frank Behrens
Mark Dotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19 Mar 2007 9:50: (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz=100) Worked well for me. I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after a week) but it can easily be handled by ntp at that point. I'd give that a try. :-) As I wrote

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Proto
Frank Behrens wrote: Mark Dotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19 Mar 2007 9:50: (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz=100) Worked well for me. I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after a week) but it can easily be handled by ntp at that point. I'd give that a

[REMINDER] how to get the best use out of GNATS

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Linimon
Recently the bugbusting team has been seeing a few cases where PRs are being submitted without a clear understanding of how best to do so. Although there is a document that references this*, please let me reiterate a few points: - Please only send one PR for a particular problem. The mail queue

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
This is the most often asked question with virtualisation of PC hardware. The question was finally answered, but here's the reasoning: * The operating system expects the clock/timer hardware to be consistent * The timer hardware in a VM isn't that consistent as the virtualisation environment is