Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-12-01 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:46:40 +0100 Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: PJD GK mclane# ll /tank/home/pt/.zfs/ PJD GK ls: snapshot: Bad file descriptor PJD GK total 0 PJD Is there a way for me to reproduce that? None that I could tell you

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-12-01 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:05:48 + Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: PF Here is what I am doing - this script is run with an argument '7am' or PF '7pm' once per day. the mysql database is a slave replication from a PF master, so there is a continuous

dhclient doing DISCOVER with bad IP checksum - bge

2008-12-01 Thread Jonathan Feally
Sorry for the cross-post, but this could be either lists problem. I have 2 boxes running 7-STABLE as of 20081130, both i386 SMP. One is running ISC DHCPD 3.0.x from recent ports, and the other dhclient from make world. The server is refusing to answer the DISCOVER request, as it thinks the

make distribution halts during install (7.1Prerelease today)

2008-12-01 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
The make distribution phase of a full build of 7.1 Prerelease, sourced today (Mon Dec 1 10:34:45 UTC 2008), unfortunately failed. make distribution DESTDIR=/differentplace failed (see below), however the following worked ok: buildkernel, installkernerl, buildworld, installworld. Two systems

7.1-PRERELEASE: arcmsr write performance problem

2008-12-01 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Hi, I am seeing extremely poor performance (~100kB/s) when untaring large tar files into fresh ufs filesystems. I see the problem with softupdates and without softupdates but with an async mount. This is a Supermicro X7DB8 board, 4GB, 2 x Xeon 5140. Sample gstat output: dT: 1.033s w:

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
On Nov 26, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Ken Smith wrote: Unfortunately no. As John indicated in the earlier thread BIOS issues tend to be extremely hard to diagnose and so far it seems like its specific to this one motherboard. Given this problem does cause issues with installs I'd be willing to provide

Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
Just FYI we are seeing the exact same problem with PS/2 keyboards and the 6.4 loader, so this may not be a USB-only issue. The complete lack of response to serious bug reports about 6.4-REL is fairly shocking. On Nov 28, 2008, at 5:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: I did more testing and it

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Ken Smith
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 10:20 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: On Nov 26, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Ken Smith wrote: Unfortunately no. As John indicated in the earlier thread BIOS issues tend to be extremely hard to diagnose and so far it seems like its specific to this one motherboard. Given this problem

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Ken Smith wrote: Both John and Xin Li have chimed in on the two threads I've seen that are related to this specific topic. John diagnosed it as a issue with the BIOS. That's what makes it a nebulous problem. When working on those sorts of things most people liken

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo Rhett wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Ken Smith wrote: Both John and Xin Li have chimed in on the two threads I've seen that are related to this specific topic. John diagnosed it as a issue with the BIOS. That's what makes it a nebulous

confirming bugs is bad behavior, etc.

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:59 AM, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: I have mostly stayed away from these threads because they've often devolved into unproductive finger pointing. Please leave the hyperbole out of your posts, or at least attempt to cut it back. People on these lists are working quite

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Xin LI wrote: What I proposed is, to *narrow down* the problem so we can diagnose further, since nobody has idea at the moment about how the problem was, we do need to have further information, or, to get the whole 6.3-6.4 diff reviewed, which is (in my opinion)

Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-12-01 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
At Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:22:31 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: Just FYI we are seeing the exact same problem with PS/2 keyboards and the 6.4 loader, so this may not be a USB-only issue. The complete lack of response to serious bug reports about 6.4-REL is fairly shocking. Jo, I have mostly

Re: confirming bugs is bad behavior, etc.

2008-12-01 Thread gnn
At Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:27:57 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: Now that Core has clearly spoken their mind on this issue, by refusing to ask freebsd developers to avoid violating the list charter and then publicly calling out someone for just saying yeah, it's a widely reported problem ... leaves

RE: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-12-01 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Hi, Just FYI we are seeing the exact same problem with PS/2 keyboards and the 6.4 loader, so this may not be a USB-only issue. [ ... ] On Nov 28, 2008, at 5:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: I did more testing and it seems that our loader does have something to do with the problem.

Re: no priority on the console?

2008-12-01 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Hi, As per my previous message, I've spent about 3 months trying to debug a problem that was causing all disk I/O to go very slowly. A first glance this sounds similar to the problem I am having with very slow I/O on the Areca controller. (see: 7.1-PRERELEASE: arcmsr write performance

Re: make distribution halts during install (7.1Prerelease today)

2008-12-01 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
My earlier post falls into the embarrassing, wish that I hadn't category. To prevent anyone wasting effort, I'm replying. make distribution DESTDIR=/newplace requires a make world DESTDIR=/newplace as a prerequisite. The earlier post, caused me to believe that there was an error in

Re: dhclient doing DISCOVER with bad IP checksum - bge (7.1 show stopper??)

2008-12-01 Thread Jonathan Feally
Can someone please confirm or rule out my issue with dhclient sending bad IP checksum packets. It would really suck if 7.1 was released with a broken DHCP client. Jonathan Feally wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, but this could be either lists problem. I have 2 boxes running 7-STABLE as of

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE: arcmsr write performance problem

2008-12-01 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Replying to my own post ... I have done a test on the same machine comparing 6.3-p1 to 7.1-PRE. The performance is the expected ~6MB/s (because of the lack of cache) on 6.3-p1, so the BIOS change doesn't seem to be at fault. This seems to be a regression somewhere between 6.3 to 7.1. The

exim 4.69 freebsd 7.0 locking issues

2008-12-01 Thread Andrew
Hi all, Running Exim 4.69 on 7.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD. The box has been recently upgraded from 6.3 (like 24 hours ago). Currently Exim is sending the following lines to the log files. 2008-12-01 19:02:35 Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/exim/db/callout.lockfile: Invalid argument

Re: dhclient doing DISCOVER with bad IP checksum - bge (7.1 show stopper??)

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 15:57:15 Jonathan Feally wrote: Can someone please confirm or rule out my issue with dhclient sending bad IP checksum packets. It would really suck if 7.1 was released with a broken DHCP client. I had 7.1-PRE (early Octover) send out DHCP requests without issue,