Re: Excessive delays due to syncer kthread

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2005-Feb-26 19:28:29 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: I don't think there are known problems with use of PREEMPTION on RELENG_5. Thanks for that. How about RELENG_5_3? Do I need to move to -STABLE (and traditionally, this point of the release cycle is not a good time to be running -STABLE).

Re: Excessive delays due to syncer kthread

2005-02-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:24:04PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2005-Feb-26 19:28:29 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: I don't think there are known problems with use of PREEMPTION on RELENG_5. Thanks for that. How about RELENG_5_3? Do I need to move to -STABLE (and traditionally, this

Re: [lists] Re: Extended msdos partition

2005-02-27 Thread Jan Sebosik
Hi, So, after yesterday I`ve succesfully solved the problem with: mount -t msdos /dev/ad1sX /mnt/X (x = 5) thank you 4 your help, Jan Sebosik Remo Lacho wrote: On 2/27/2005 at 2:40 AM Jan Sebosik wrote: Hi When I disklabel -r /dev/ad1s2 (the first extended slice), i get :a: 13518691262

Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

2005-02-27 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running 5.3 STABLE. I need to change the MAC address of my PC. I know it can be done like this: ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 So I guessed I could make life a little easier by adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as: ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-27 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday, 27. February 2005 02:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:12, Gary Kline wrote: How about adjusting the configuration then? There is utterly no xorg.conf file; the xorg probes set the resolution to the max (1600x1200), and the display `quivers' --for

Re[2]: [lists] Re: Extended msdos partition

2005-02-27 Thread Remo Lacho
On 2/27/2005 at 12:31 PM Jan Sebosik wrote: Hi, So, after yesterday I`ve succesfully solved the problem with: mount -t msdos /dev/ad1sX /mnt/X (x = 5) thank you 4 your help, Jan Sebosik *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Your welcome! Just remember that in the land of the blind the

Re: SATA RAID Support

2005-02-27 Thread Mark Dixon
On Thursday 24 February 2005 16:14, Uzi Klein wrote: True, I couldn't find anything has to do with SATA Raid @ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html Regards Björn Anything with a Silicon Image 3114 chip seems to work atapci1: SiI 3114 SATA150 controller port

Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

2005-02-27 Thread J65nko BSD
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:54:49 -0800 (PST), Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running 5.3 STABLE. I need to change the MAC address of my PC. I know it can be done like this: ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 So I guessed I could make life a little easier by adding this in

patch: fix ata panic with Thinkpad CD and DVD drives

2005-02-27 Thread Nate Lawson
If you've been having memory modified after free panics on -current and have a Thinkpad, the attached patch should fix things for you. A quick check of RELENG_5 indicates that the bug is probably there also but I haven't tested for it there. The bug is triggered by timeouts in the

Re: patch: fix ata panic with Thinkpad CD and DVD drives

2005-02-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2005.02.27 11:56:06 -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: If you've been having memory modified after free panics on -current and have a Thinkpad, the attached patch should fix things for you. A quick check of RELENG_5 indicates that the bug is probably there also but I haven't tested for it there.

Xorg 6.8.1 and SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD

2005-02-27 Thread Godwin Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:49:00 +0100, Michael Nottebrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using that for a long time now, since Xorg 6.8.1 breaks vt- switching for me. Well, I decided to bite the bullet and upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 anyway. It didn't

Re: Any hosting companies offering FreeBSD 5.3 yet?

2005-02-27 Thread Sam Nilsson
John Nielsen wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 06:38 pm, David J. Hughes wrote: On 26/02/2005, at 7:28 PM, John Pettitt wrote: I'm thinking about moving one of my servers to a new home (it's currently at servepath.com on a FreeBSD 5.0 box) - does anybody know of a reputable hosting company

patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Nate Lawson
My system hangs a long time in ata_generic_reset() while resuming. I did some hunting and found that the loop was running for the full 310 * 100 ms (31 seconds). The bug is that the loop never exits when mask goes to 0 even though this is a termination condition (see end of the loop where

Re: Any hosting companies offering FreeBSD 5.3 yet?

2005-02-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
From: John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking about moving one of my servers to a new home (it's currently at servepath.com on a FreeBSD 5.0 box) - does anybody know of a reputable hosting company that's offering 5.3 boxes? ... So, hosting with servepath.com may well lead to restricted

nice: Badly formed number

2005-02-27 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Is nice broken? FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 # nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: nice: Badly formed number

2005-02-27 Thread Godwin Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:54:55 +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is nice broken? FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 # nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number. $ uname -v FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sun

Re: nice: Badly formed number

2005-02-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:54:55AM +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: Is nice broken? FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 # nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number. nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number. which nice nice: shell built-in command. /usr/bin/nice -n 5

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Lawson writes: My system hangs a long time in ata_generic_reset() while resuming. I did some hunting and found that the loop was running for the full 310 * 100 ms (31 seconds). Have you tried sos@ new ATAng mk III patches ? As far as I know he plans to

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Nate Lawson
Nate Lawson wrote: My system hangs a long time in ata_generic_reset() while resuming. I did some hunting and found that the loop was running for the full 310 * 100 ms (31 seconds). The bug is that the loop never exits when mask goes to 0 even though this is a termination condition (see end of

Re: nice: Badly formed number

2005-02-27 Thread Godwin Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:02:28 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ uname -v FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Feb 27 10:36:40 CET 2005 {snip} $ nice -n 5 date Sun 27 Feb 2005 23:59:37 CET Yes, but you weren't using the

Re: nice: Badly formed number

2005-02-27 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday, 27. February 2005 23:54, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: Is nice broken? FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 # nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number. csh has a builtin nice command, with a different syntax than nice(1). -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Nate Lawson
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Lawson writes: My system hangs a long time in ata_generic_reset() while resuming. I did some hunting and found that the loop was running for the full 310 * 100 ms (31 seconds). Have you tried sos@ new ATAng mk III patches ? As far as

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Lawson writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Lawson writes: My system hangs a long time in ata_generic_reset() while resuming. I did some hunting and found that the loop was running for the full 310 * 100 ms (31 seconds).

Re: Any hosting companies offering FreeBSD 5.3 yet?

2005-02-27 Thread Gary
On 26/02/2005, at 7:28 PM, John Pettitt wrote: I'm thinking about moving one of my servers to a new home (it's currently at servepath.com on a FreeBSD 5.0 box) - does anybody know of a reputable hosting company that's offering 5.3 boxes? aplus.net has 5.3 dedicated servers

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I think you can trust sos@ to not do anything to the stuff in the tree until he sticks the new stuff in there, so testing his patches like he asked for is better use of your time. Nate's patch looks straightforward enough to me. I'd like to see it

Re: Any hosting companies offering FreeBSD 5.3 yet?

2005-02-27 Thread David J. Hughes
I know www.johncompanies.com will be offering 5.x soon. I've had a 4.x jail with them for quite some time and am very happy with the service and support. I second that. Their service is hands-down the best I've ever had for anything technology-related. And from the social conscience point of

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-27 Thread Freddie Cash
No, the problem's the other way round. Every time I want to portupgrade something else, portupgrade also wants to upgrade Xorg. I don't want the latest Xorg after the horror stories I heard. That's why I'm building firefox-1.0.1 independently of the ports system, so that I don't have to go

putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks

2005-02-27 Thread Brandon Fosdick
I'm working on a small app that talks to a device with a FTDI USB to 232 chip in it. ucom and uftdi seem to detect it just fine. But calls to read() hang and I'm getting messages like putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks in my kernel logs. Any idea what this is? In a previous post (subject:

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:19 PM -0800 2/27/05, Nate Lawson wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Have you tried sos@ new ATAng mk III patches ? As far as I know he plans to commit those shortly. One minor point: Søren is on vacation right now. I *think* he will be getting back around March 5th (assuming I understand what

Re: putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks

2005-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:14, Brandon Fosdick wrote: I'm working on a small app that talks to a device with a FTDI USB to 232 chip in it. ucom and uftdi seem to detect it just fine. But calls to read() hang and I'm getting messages like putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks in my kernel logs.

Re: putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks

2005-02-27 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:14, Brandon Fosdick wrote: I'm working on a small app that talks to a device with a FTDI USB to 232 chip in it. ucom and uftdi seem to detect it just fine. But calls to read() hang and I'm getting messages like putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks

Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

2005-02-27 Thread Rob
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Rob wrote: I'm running 5.3 STABLE. I need to change the MAC address of my PC. I know it can be done like this: ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 So I guessed I could make life a little easier by adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as:

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Nate Lawson
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 3:19 PM -0800 2/27/05, Nate Lawson wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Have you tried sos@ new ATAng mk III patches ? As far as I know he plans to commit those shortly. One minor point: Søren is on vacation right now. I *think* he will be getting back around March 5th

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:36:43AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:12, Gary Kline wrote: How about adjusting the configuration then? There is utterly no xorg.conf file; the xorg probes set the resolution to the max (1600x1200), and the display `quivers'

Re: patch: fix 30 second hang while resuming

2005-02-27 Thread Randy Bush
Have you tried sos@ new ATAng mk III patches ? yes. they break resume on a thinkpad t41 and now seem to break my pcmcia cf insert (see other email). but otherwise, i like them a lot! randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS: new candidate for libusb port

2005-02-27 Thread Peter D. Quilty
This seems to work well. I used it with audio/ifp-line for my MP3 player and with graphics/gphoto2 for my camera. No problems at all. It was a perfect drop in replacement for 0.1.7. All I had to do was add a symlink because of the version number differences. PDQ On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 16:57

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:55, Gary Kline wrote: FYI X.Org should have just used your XF86-4 config file by default. XF86Config bombed instantly, even with startx. This afternoon after hours of testing one-change-at-a-time I found that the DefaultDepth of 8 is at least one

IPFW2 verrevpath versrcreach antispoof

2005-02-27 Thread abu khaled
Greetings... I recently build world and kernel with ipfw support. Can someone provide examples on how to use these options (verrevpath, versrcreach and antispoof). What can they be used for and can't! and how to use them (proper syntax). Execuse my poor english! I am knew to FreeBSD and UNIX /

Re: IPFW2 verrevpath versrcreach antispoof

2005-02-27 Thread abu khaled
I hope I am sending this post to the right mailing list !!! On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:06:58 +0200, abu khaled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings... I recently build world and kernel with ipfw support. Can someone provide examples on how to use these options (verrevpath, versrcreach and

Re: Xorg 6.8.1 and SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD

2005-02-27 Thread Mateusz Jdrasik
Godwin Stewart napisa(a): On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:49:00 +0100, Michael Nottebrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using that for a long time now, since Xorg 6.8.1 breaks vt- switching for me. One of the things I've been doing is to record some of my old cassettes (you know, those old plastic

Re: stable sata patch: panic at kernel boot (can't dump)

2005-02-27 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Doug Ambrisko wrote: DA I haven't tried using vinum with my patch set. That might be a problem. DA I'm not sure if anyone has tried vinum with my patch set most people use DA ata-raid if anything at all. I missed: the first machine I tried your patchset at uses vinum for