Re: Fwd: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-15 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:00:13PM -0500, Joe wrote: Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR AMD Features=0xc0440800SYSCALL,b18,MMX+,3DNow+,3DNow There is an option CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK which

ntpd vs nss_ldap: Crashing in getaddrinfo

2006-11-15 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Hi, I needed to test the ntpd from ports (net/ntp, net/ntp-devel, net/ntp-stable), but they always crashed with a SIGBUS error. Investigation lead to nss_ldap being the culprit. With nss_ldap installed and NO keyword ldap in /etc/nsswitch.conf, ntpd will run fine. If you either add ldap to

Re: Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ian Smith wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Just set $PAGER appropriately. By the way, the default (if not set) is more -s, which is the same as less -s. Therefore, piping output from man(1) through less(1) doesn't really make sense. Maybe this should

dump(8): how many bytes written to tape?

2006-11-15 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how much bytes were written to a tape by dump(8). I'm using a blocksize of 64kB to maximize throughput to the tape drive. Initially, I thought I could just add up the number of tape blocks written by dump and multiply by 64kB. But it looks like dump is still

Re: dump(8): how many bytes written to tape?

2006-11-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I'm trying to figure out how much bytes were written to a tape by dump(8). I'm using a blocksize of 64kB to maximize throughput to the tape drive. Initially, I thought I could just add up the number of tape blocks written by dump and multiply by 64kB. But it looks

Re: Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-15 Thread Tom Evans
Not strictly on-topic, but I have become accustomed to reading my man pages in vim, beautifully colourised. This my alias/function for bash, rewrite according to taste: vman() {     /usr/bin/man -w $@ /dev/null /usr/bin/man $@ | /usr/bin/col -b | /usr/local/bin/vim -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist

Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-15 Thread Julian Stacey
Oliver Fromme wrote: Using a normal UDP mount I had eratic come go problems with amd until I added to rc.conf nfs_server_flags=-u -t -n 10 Turns out I had too few. 10 fixed it. Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think it applies here. I'm using the default (-n 4), but

Re: Fwd: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-15 Thread Joe
i'm currently attempting to emulate the appropriate cpu with qemu. i'll keep yall posted. On 11/15/06, David Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:00:13PM -0500, Joe wrote: Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2

rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hello List, I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at startup. 1) set apache_start=ask in rc.conf 2) at boot, you'll be prompted with RC_ASK - Enable apache? [yes|no] 3) the daemon is started depending on the decision 4) the decision is stored until the next boot, so

Installing/Upgrading Ports

2006-11-15 Thread Suhail Choudhury
Hi, Why trying to install ports via sysinstall - customise - ports, whichever location I try, I get the following message: Warning: Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this │ x │ │ │ │ FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for │ x │ │ │ │

Re: Installing/Upgrading Ports

2006-11-15 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:59:38PM +, Suhail Choudhury wrote: Hi, Why trying to install ports via sysinstall - customise - ports, whichever location I try, I get the following message: Warning: Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this ? x ? ? ? ? FTP server.

Re: Installing/Upgrading Ports

2006-11-15 Thread Eric
Suhail Choudhury wrote: Hi, Why trying to install ports via sysinstall - customise - ports, whichever location I try, I get the following message: Warning: Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this │ x │ │ │ │ FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for

Re: Installing/Upgrading Ports

2006-11-15 Thread Dominic Marks
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:59:38 + Suhail Choudhury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Why trying to install ports via sysinstall - customise - ports, whichever location I try, I get the following message: Most people avoid sysinstall where possible :-) How can I install the ports directory

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:27 AM 11/14/2006, Spartak Radchenko wrote: How do you switch it from sio to uart on RELENG_6 ? Build a new kernel with device uart, change sio to uart tn the /boot/device.hints file. Maybe rebuilding a kernel is not needed, I never checked it. Thanks, For me, sio on the

Re: Fwd: SSE support in 6.1?

2006-11-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe wrote: i'm currently attempting to emulate the appropriate cpu with qemu. i'll keep yall posted. You'll probably have a hard time accessing a server inside qemu, especially if it uses UDP. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

2006-11-15 Thread Dmitriy Kirhlarov
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:53:45PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: From alc@: --- I've never seen anything like this before. UMA is failing to allocate the zone structure. This is unrelated to the large-swap scenario that you ran into. Ask him to uncomment all of the UMA debugging #define's

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Ingo
Am 15.11.2006, 14:31 Uhr, schrieb Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello List, I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at startup. 1) set apache_start=ask in rc.conf 2) at boot, you'll be prompted with RC_ASK - Enable apache? [yes|no] 3) the daemon is started

kernel crash ...

2006-11-15 Thread Vincent Blondel
Hello all, -- System: FreeBSD-6.2-BETA3 | Tyan S2468GN -- I got a kernel crash on my web server this evening. I am now trying to debug the crash image generated on /var/crash/vmcore.0 but I am not comfortable with this procedure. As far as I can see it seems process httpd crashed but I do not

linux locales to freebsd: symlink to make php setlocale() happy ?

2006-11-15 Thread Olivier Mueller
Bonjour, While moving some more customers from a linux to a freebsd-based hosting, like some others I had a problem with php pages using setlocale(). According to 'locale -a', it looks like that for de_DE (german): Linux (suse): de_DE de_DE.utf8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD (6.1):

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 11/15/06, Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello, There should be an tiemout so that the system boots even if I forget to choose Yup, great idea. The new patch [attached] permits you to set: DAEMON_ask_timeout={0-9}[s|m|h] and DAEMON_ask_default=[yes|no] in rc.conf Default

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome! [here's the patch]

2006-11-15 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Ouch... here's the patch ;-) On 11/15/06, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello, There should be an tiemout so that the system boots even if I forget to choose Yup, great idea. The new patch [attached] permits you to set:

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should probably consider discussing this on the freebsd-rc@ list as well. Doug - -- This .signature sanitized for your protection -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.0 (FreeBSD)

Re: RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

2006-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:24:21PM +0300, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:53:45PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: From alc@: --- I've never seen anything like this before. UMA is failing to allocate the zone structure. This is unrelated to the large-swap scenario

Re: help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-15 Thread George Hartzell
Miroslav Lachman writes: George Hartzell wrote: I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some feedback. The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a Tyan S2865G2NR motherboard. It has two drives: ad4: 286188MB

adaptec utilities on amd64?

2006-11-15 Thread Vivek Khera
Does anyone have any hints on monitoring adaptec RAID's (particularly aac devices such as 2230SLP) on FreeBSD 6.2/amd64? I don't need to reconfigure anything, just know when and which drives have failed, if any. The latest card I got apparently has firmware too new for use with the

Re: adaptec utilities on amd64?

2006-11-15 Thread Bruce Burden
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:14:18PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: Does anyone have any hints on monitoring adaptec RAID's (particularly aac devices such as 2230SLP) on FreeBSD 6.2/amd64? I don't need to reconfigure anything, just know when and which drives have failed, if any. I

Re: help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:43:10PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: Just to follow up on this, Maxtor asked if the board used an Nvidia controller (it does...) and then claimed that a newer rev. of their firmware for these drives would work better. They're shipping a replacement drive. We'll

kernel build on RELENG_6 (as of 15:00 GMT on 16.November.2006)

2006-11-15 Thread Patrick Okui
Fails with something along the lines of.. ...In function `ASR_failActiveCommands': /usr/src/sys/dev/asr/asr.c:840: error: `bcb' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/sys/dev/asr/asr.c:840: error: (Each undeclared identifie changing bcb to ccb on that line fixes that... then

Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-15 Thread Atanas
Mark Dotson said the following on 11/14/06 1:18 PM: I've had continued problems with the 3ware series SATA cards and the Tyan boards. Specifically, I have a Tyan S5360-1U and both a 9500S-4LP and a 8506 series 3ware cards. In my case the first error is different, but the 'resetting' over and

Re: kernel build on RELENG_6 (as of 15:00 GMT on 16.November.2006)

2006-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:06:16AM +0300, Patrick Okui wrote: Fails with something along the lines of.. ...In function `ASR_failActiveCommands': /usr/src/sys/dev/asr/asr.c:840: error: `bcb' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/sys/dev/asr/asr.c:840: error: (Each undeclared

Re: kernel build on RELENG_6 (as of 15:00 GMT on 16.November.2006)

2006-11-15 Thread Patrick Okui
On Thursday 16 November 2006 05:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:06:16AM +0300, Patrick Okui wrote: Fails with something along the lines of.. ...In function `ASR_failActiveCommands': /usr/src/sys/dev/asr/asr.c:840: error: `bcb' undeclared (first use in this function)

Re: kernel build on RELENG_6 (as of 15:00 GMT on 16.November.2006)

2006-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:34:44AM +0300, Patrick Okui wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 05:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:06:16AM +0300, Patrick Okui wrote: Fails with something along the lines of.. ...In function `ASR_failActiveCommands':

Re: kernel build on RELENG_6 (as of 15:00 GMT on 16.November.2006)

2006-11-15 Thread Patrick Okui
On Thursday 16 November 2006 05:38, Kris Kennaway wrote: Interesting... the bad RAM would cause cvsup to write a 'b' rather than a 'c' as well as insert that funky character? Yep, they're both single bit flips. I see. Well, thanks. Memtest should catch it (I hope) so I can complain to the

Re: ath0 issue

2006-11-15 Thread Sam Leffler
Lamont Granquist wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Sam Leffler wrote: If tx stops in ap mode you need to figure out whether the h/w tx q is stalled or something else above is blocking outbound traffic. The usual things to check are: 1. are there resources in the driver to send a packet (e.g.

Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-15 Thread Clayton Milos
- Original Message - From: Atanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Dotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:07 AM Subject: Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller... Mark Dotson said the following on 11/14/06 1:18 PM: