RE: What to do when panic?

2005-07-22 Thread Norbert Koch
I've never debugged FreeBSD, but now I've decided to help the testing process of FreeBSD 6. I installed it, and then I had a panic. I got a debugger prompt, but I don't know what to do with that. I don't know the debugger commands. Please let me know what should I do when I have an

RE: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Scott, Brian
For what its worth I use Norton Ghost to regularly set up a classroom of machines with FreeBSD 5.3, mostly because other teachers put Windoze stuff on the same boxes so the Ghost setup makes sense. Ghost doesn't understand UFS but doesn't need to. It just takes a block by block copy of the whole

FreeBSD IO Performance (was Re: Quality of FreeBSD)

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I happened to have received a 'new' machine, and wanted to see what its IO system was capable of. So took the opportunity to run 4.10 and 5.4 against each other a few times. (fresh re-installs each time). Its documented at: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/markir/freebsd/ I wanted to play with

Re: RELENG_6 scroll wheel

2005-07-22 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej jonguk, Jonguk Kim wrote: Marian Hettwer wrote: from /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse I think 'Option Buttons 5' can help you. nope, didn't do the

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2005-Jul-21 17:46:13 +0200, Martin wrote: One more thing about cheap hardware: if you know that a piece of hardware is potentially buggy (I mean real BUGS and not missing support), please publish your opinion, because I will buy hardware FOR FREEBSD, so I avoid major problems. How about

Re: Mail System Error - Returned Mail

2005-07-22 Thread Stephanie da Silva
To send mail to me, you need to add [laundry] to the end of the subject line (eg: Subject: Random message [laundry]). ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2005-07-21 19:20:34+, Eli K. Breen writes: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd(Slow, not

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Danny Howard([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2005.07.21 15:10:54 +: machine-specific customization. Then PUBLISH your work before you get laid off. (That is how my last efforts were concluded.) Oh, yeah :-) http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/sys/os/freebsd/ the page is in german, sorry...

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Danny Braniss
Just as a point of note, I'm not trying to roll out squeeky-clean new machines. Let's say I've got ten-fifteen sets of clusters, I need to be able to just rip a copy and blast it to another machine. Thanks for all the responses so far. you should invest some time to set up a diskless/pxe

Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors

2005-07-22 Thread Pertti Kosunen
Steve wrote: If anyone has that link handy, please post. (for the patch) http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ATA/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Resize UFS2

2005-07-22 Thread Marcus Grando
Hi List, Is possible resize UFS2? For example. I have 5 disks with RAID5, and reconstruct to 6 disks with RAID5, after that FreeBSD mount RAID perfectly, but with the same space before reconstruct RAID5. Exists one method to FreeBSD recognize more space? Hardware is: Dell PV220S + PERC4/DC

make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD)

2005-07-22 Thread Angelo Turetta
Karl Denninger wrote: As I pointed out in my PR, make -j4 buildworld is more than sufficient to demonstrate the problem. ( ... ) I'll pull over 6.0-BETA1, rebuild the array (that is the time-consuming part of this test - takes 6-8 hours for the rebuild to run) and see if it fails during a

ATA and SATA problems (timeouts/resetting)

2005-07-22 Thread Josh Endries
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, I hope this goes through. For some reason I get bounces saying it can't reverse my IP, though I see no problems. I'm having major issues getting FreeBSD to install on a server. It's been a couple weeks now and nothing I've tried has

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Scot Hetzel
Just to clarify the ATA code that is in FreeBSD 5.x is ATA-ng, the ATA code that is in FreeBSD 6.x+ is the ATA mkIII code. ATA-ng Preview1 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2003-August/008351.html ATA-ng Preview2

Re: OS suddenly VERY busy

2005-07-22 Thread Mikhail Teterin
середа 20 липень 2005 01:34, John-Mark Gurney Ви написали: This is a single-CPU Opteron running:   FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 10 09:11:30 EDT 2005 amd64 The box has 2Gb of RAM, but NO SWAP. run ps lax a few times, and notice which process is fork bombing your box by seeing

dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available

2005-07-22 Thread Pertti Kosunen
What could cause dhclient sometimes to fail renew the lease? I updated world and moved to pf from ipfw same time so i don't know which to blame. This happens from twice a day to every few days. Jul 21 03:44:55 myserver dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available Jul 21 03:44:55 myserver

FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2005

2005-07-22 Thread Scott Long
March-June 2005 Status Report Introduction The second quarter of 2005 has again been very exciting. The BSDCan and MeetBSD conferences were both very interesting and and the sources of very good times. I highly recommend attending them again next year.

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-22 Thread Karl Denninger
It is definitely NOT fixed in 6.0-BETA1 Within SECONDS of starting a buildworld after the provider rebuild completed, I got this... GEOM_MIRROR: Device boot: provider ad4s1 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device boot: rebuilding provider ad4s1. GEOM_MIRROR: Device boot: provider ad6s1 detected.

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2005 22:06 CEST schrieb Matthias Buelow: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My main problem, and to others after seeing the question from times to times, is to know which is a good (not necessarly the best) hardware to run FreeBSD on? When I buy a new motherboard, which chipset

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:40:09PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: It is definitely NOT fixed in 6.0-BETA1 Within SECONDS of starting a buildworld after the provider rebuild completed, I got this... GEOM_MIRROR: Device boot: provider ad4s1 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device boot: rebuilding

SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-22 Thread Brandon Fosdick
SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-22 Thread Frank Mayhar
Brandon Fosdick wrote: SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is slightly

HEADS-UP: ABI compatibility of getaddrinfo(3) was lost.

2005-07-22 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, I've nuked the padding for ai_addrlen member of struct addrinfo on RELENG_6. It broke ABI compatibility of getaddrinfo(3) on 64 bit architecture. You have to recompile userland programs that use getaddrinfo(3) on 64 bit architecture. Sincerely, ---BeginMessage--- ume 2005-07-22

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-22 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 22 July 2005 04:06 pm, Brandon Fosdick wrote: SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine if I should go with dual procs or just a

ATA issue on 5.4

2005-07-22 Thread Ray Rogers
Greetings all. I would appreciate any incite that you can give me with this problem. I am sure that you have visited this issue in the past, but I have been unable to find a resolution. The symptoms are ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=10027551

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-22 Thread Danny Howard
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:53:57PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: [...] Note carefully from this that there is NO ERROR INDICATION AS TO WHY THE DISK DETACHED! At least with the 5.x problems you'd SEE an error before it went BOOM. This time around, nope - just death. What's worse, the

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0700 I heard the voice of Frank Mayhar, and lo! it spake thus: Sigh. You know, I've been running with two processors since 4.1 or thereabouts. Sure, the BGL scheme is inefficient as far as the kernel itself is concerned, but for compute-bound user

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:53:00PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:53:57PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: [...] Note carefully from this that there is NO ERROR INDICATION AS TO WHY THE DISK DETACHED! At least with the 5.x problems you'd SEE an error before it went

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-22 Thread Vinny Abello
At 04:27 PM 7/22/2005, Frank Mayhar wrote: Brandon Fosdick wrote: SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine if I should go with dual procs