Re: gvinum / FreeBSD 6.1 / stale subdisks

2006-08-18 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Steve Peterson wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on i386 with a stock kernel, and am trying to build a 4 disk RAID5 array using vinum. The issue is that, once the system is rebooted after initially creating the array, the subdisks come up as stale. 1

Q about gmirror's metadata sector

2006-08-18 Thread Johan Ström
Hi If i've understood correctly gmirror uses the last sector on the provider for a metadata. If one uses http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/ FreeBSD_Basics.html to setup a gmirror'ed system, that is haveing a fully used disk where the last sector is used (right?) and converting it

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2006-Aug-17 10:57:04 -0400, Bill LeFebvre wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: I just built top-3.6 on such a system, though, and it does report a simple main(){for(;;);} process as consuming 100 %CPU. Maybe you're thinking of Solaris's own prstat command? Heh. I released 3.6 with new SunOS code

Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE)

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2006-Aug-17 15:18:21 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:48PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:20, Peter van Heusden wrote: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 151698, size: 28672 This can indicate that your swap

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:16:43PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:22:56PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Pyun YongHyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all! On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured manually on both, switch and the FreeBSD box, ifconfig shows the interface status

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured manually on both, switch and the FreeBSD

Re: make buildworld does nothing

2006-08-18 Thread Tom Hummel
I don't know if fixing your broken shell is within its list of powers :-) Kris alright, it was bash :( stupid shell. I'll just keep csh for root's shell - it's a bit annoying sometimes, but still good enough to do the little what needs to be done sometimes :D thanks a bunch tom

Re: make buildworld does nothing

2006-08-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:02:19PM +0200, Tom Hummel wrote: I don't know if fixing your broken shell is within its list of powers :-) Kris alright, it was bash :( stupid shell. I'll just keep csh for root's shell - it's a bit annoying sometimes, but still good enough to do the little

Re: make buildworld does nothing

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hummel wrote: | alright, it was bash :( stupid shell. | I'll just keep csh for root's shell - it's a bit annoying sometimes, but | still good enough to do the little what needs to be done sometimes :D FWIW I use /bin/tcsh as the root shell since

Re: make buildworld does nothing

2006-08-18 Thread Tom Hummel
FWIW I use /bin/tcsh as the root shell since it includes command-line editing and my fingers are often dyslexic before a sufficient caffeine intake ;-) 'buildworld' works with it, I dont want to use anything not in base for root's login shell tom

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Danny Braniss
2006/8/18, Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured manually on both, switch and the

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! This is a little off-topic (and I'm no Cisco specialist) but I'm afraid that the loop detection won't happen with portfast. Cisco.com says (the first page that Google gave me): [ Cisco documentation ] As always: it depends. In this case, what you imply by loop detection. If the loop is

Data send to printer via /dev/lpt0 in 6.1-STABLE hangs

2006-08-18 Thread Kees Plonsz
A bitmapfile for a printer send to /dev/lpt0 doesn't do anything, it just hangs: # cat bitmapfile /dev/lpt0 No error reports anywhere. Cannot be interrupted with ^C or ^Z Any other mode with lptcontrol does not have any effect. Same configuration in 6.1-Release works o.k.

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using them to allow the disks to map out any bad spots early on? Note: if you once you actually start seeing bad sectors, the drive is almost dead. A drive can remap a

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using them to allow the disks to map out any bad spots early on? Note: if you once you actually start

Re: Q about gmirror's metadata sector

2006-08-18 Thread Vivek Khera
On Aug 18, 2006, at 3:29 AM, Johan Ström wrote: If i've understood correctly gmirror uses the last sector on the provider for a metadata. If one uses http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/ FreeBSD_Basics.html to setup a gmirror'ed system, that is haveing a fully used disk where the

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Vivek Khera
On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Alan Amesbury wrote: adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware. FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead. See

Re: make buildworld does nothing

2006-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:24:05 +0200 From: Tom Hummel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW I use /bin/tcsh as the root shell since it includes command-line editing and my fingers are often dyslexic before a sufficient caffeine intake ;-) 'buildworld' works with it, I

Support for Adaptec 2005S ZCR RAID ?

2006-08-18 Thread Pete French
As I seem to recallt sme discussion of Adaptec RAID in the not so disatnt past, could anyone let me know if these cards work well under FreeBSD 6 or not ? I've just inherited a server which needs RAIDing and it has a slot for one of these on the board. I only have expereience of Compaq SMART RAID

Re: Data send to printer via /dev/lpt0 in 6.1-STABLE hangs

2006-08-18 Thread Kees Plonsz
On Friday 18 August 2006 14:50, Kees Plonsz wrote: A bitmapfile for a printer send to /dev/lpt0 doesn't do anything, it just hangs: # cat bitmapfile /dev/lpt0 No error reports anywhere. Cannot be interrupted with ^C or ^Z Any other mode with lptcontrol does not have any effect. Same

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Alan Amesbury
Thanks for the feedback and discussion! Alas, in terms of network configuration, I'm just a tenant; I have no direct control over the networking gear, nor direct visibility into how the switch is configured. A couple people wrote to me directly and suggested I 'send-pr' this, so I'll do so

RocketRAID 2224

2006-08-18 Thread Dave Kingsley
I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. FreeBSD doesn't see it at all. I've noticed that the kernel config has options built in for the RocketRAID 182x. Are there options I can add

Re: identity crisis of 6-STABLE in ipfw ipv6 ?

2006-08-18 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:57:02AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 16 August 2006 04:53, David Malone wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:13:20AM +0200, Kees Plonsz wrote: I just updated to 6-STABLE but my ipfw rules stopped working. It seems that me6 is vanished into thin air.

Re: RocketRAID 2224

2006-08-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/18/06, Dave Kingsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. FreeBSD doesn't see it at all. I've noticed that the kernel config has options built in

Re: make buildworld does nothing

2006-08-18 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Tom Hummel wrote this message on Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 17:17 +0200: Where did bash come from? It's not part of FreeBSD; I guess you somehow replaced /bin/sh with bash. gosh, no. Bash should be located in /usr/local/bin/ and I invoke it at login for root in chase of an interactive session

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread Antony Mawer
On 18/08/2006 4:29 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using them to allow the disks to map out any bad spots early on?

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Koch
On Saturday 19 August 2006 03:12, Alan Amesbury wrote: Thanks for the feedback and discussion! Alas, in terms of network configuration, I'm just a tenant; I have no direct control over the networking gear, nor direct visibility into how the switch is configured. A couple people wrote to me

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:41:27PM -1000, Antony Mawer wrote: On 18/08/2006 4:29 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread jonathan michaels
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:52:02PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:41:27PM -1000, Antony Mawer wrote: On 18/08/2006 4:29 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote:

FreeBSD on Compaq

2006-08-18 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hi, I obtained a Compaq(COMPAQ PROLIANT 5500) machine by chance. By the way, is possible install FreeBSD this machine? If possible, which version I try installation? Sincerely, -- Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] You... really do... make it rain blood. -- Tomoe YUKISHIRO