Porting FreeBSD to a new Architecture?

2007-04-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello, I'm looking for documentation that could possibly help me port FreeBSD to a new architecture. I'm mainly interested in how you guys did the xbox and amd64 ports. i.e. x86 instruction set. Thanks! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Apr-03 14:27:00 -0300, JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simply consider RH graphical boot in 1024x768 has a very professional look while Freebsd still looks like Gate's MsDos before selling it to IBM I don't understand why displaying a silly graphic whilst hiding the boot messages is

Re: Porting FreeBSD to a new Architecture?

2007-04-04 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Nikolas, On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:23:44AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: I'm looking for documentation that could possibly help me port FreeBSD to a new architecture. I'm mainly interested in how you guys did the xbox and amd64 ports. i.e. x86 instruction set. I can answer the Xbox

NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
# uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? I haven't been able to /safely/ use it from 4.8 on. I remember some talk on the list sometime ago and then it seemed to

make buildworld error on am64

2007-04-04 Thread zen
hi , sorry to bother you again, i'm trying updating my machine to 6.2STABLE, but during make buildworld the process stop with these error messages: -- stage 4.2: building libraries

sun x2100 gmirror problem

2007-04-04 Thread andrej
Hi, We're using gmirror on our sun fire x2100 and FreeBSD 6.1-p10. Some days ago I found this in the logs: Apr 1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=612960533 Apr 1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR

Re: make buildworld error on am64

2007-04-04 Thread zen
Niclas Zeising wrote: On 4/4/07, zen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , sorry to bother you again, i'm trying updating my machine to 6.2STABLE, [snip error log] the box was fresh install from 6.2RELEASE, and was build on am64 arch. it has 4Gigs RAM and amd64 X2 AM2 socket. could you tell

Re: make buildworld error on am64

2007-04-04 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 4/4/07, zen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niclas Zeising wrote: On 4/4/07, zen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , sorry to bother you again, i'm trying updating my machine to 6.2STABLE, [snip error log] the box was fresh install from 6.2RELEASE, and was build on am64 arch. it has 4Gigs RAM

Re: make buildworld error on am64

2007-04-04 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 4/4/07, zen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , sorry to bother you again, i'm trying updating my machine to 6.2STABLE, [snip error log] the box was fresh install from 6.2RELEASE, and was build on am64 arch. it has 4Gigs RAM and amd64 X2 AM2 socket. could you tell me how to resolve this

Debug question

2007-04-04 Thread Mipam
Hi All, Forgive me if this question is off topic, i don't know what other mailing list would be good for this one. Suppose the following: I experience a hang and the system reboots. After this i'll look in /var/crash and find a nice core file. My swap is large enough to cover the whole memory

Re: Debug question

2007-04-04 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:56:00AM +0200, Mipam wrote: My swap is large enough to cover the whole memory and more so it should be okay. However, gdb kernel vmcore.0 tells me that vmcore.0 is not a core dump :-( Try 'kgdb kernel -c vmcore.0'; more information can be found in the

Re: Debug question

2007-04-04 Thread Mipam
Thanks, when i do what you suggested i get: kgdb: bad namelist. Is the corefile unusuable? Regards, Mipam. On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Rink Springer wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:56:00AM +0200, Mipam wrote: My swap is large enough to cover the whole memory and more so it should be

[releng_6 tinderbox] failure on i386/pc98

2007-04-04 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2007-04-04 09:22:05 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2007-04-04 09:22:05 - starting RELENG_6 tinderbox run for i386/pc98 TB --- 2007-04-04 09:22:05 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2007-04-04 09:22:29 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2007-04-04 09:22:29 - cd

Re: make buildworld error on am64

2007-04-04 Thread zen
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:00:09PM +0700, zen wrote: Niclas Zeising wrote: On 4/4/07, zen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , sorry to bother you again, i'm trying updating my machine to 6.2STABLE, [snip error log] the box was fresh install

Re: make buildworld error on am64

2007-04-04 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:00:09PM +0700, zen wrote: Niclas Zeising wrote: On 4/4/07, zen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , sorry to bother you again, i'm trying updating my machine to 6.2STABLE, [snip error log] the box was fresh install from 6.2RELEASE, and was build on am64 arch.

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Ruben van Staveren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? I haven't been able to /safely/ use it from 4.8 on. I

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Ruben van Staveren
Chris H. wrote: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? I haven't been able to /safely/ use it from 4.8 on. I remember some talk on the list sometime ago and

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I have found that if I kill rpc.lockd on the NFS server, most of the NFS issues I have (including a similar lock-up on 6.1-RELEASE) go away. Just wanted to throw that out there. - Dave Rivers - Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? I haven't been

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have found that if I kill rpc.lockd on the NFS server, most of the NFS issues I have (including a similar lock-up on 6.1-RELEASE) go away. Ah hah! I wondered about this. Funny you mention it. The interesting thing was that my most problem boxen

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Hi Chris, Well - the NFS server is 4.5-RELEASE - a rather old box. Everything worked fine when the shop was all 4.x boxes, but as soon as we put in a 5.x or 6.x box - the NFS clients on those (5.x/6.x) boxes locked up hard if rpc.lockd was running on the 4.5-RELEASE server. On 4.x,

Re: Sun Fire X2100 SATA problem [was - sun x2100 gmirror problem]

2007-04-04 Thread Miroslav Lachman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We're using gmirror on our sun fire x2100 and FreeBSD 6.1-p10. Some days ago I found this in the logs: Apr 1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=612960533 Apr 1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: FAILURE -

Re: Sun Fire X2100 SATA problem [was - sun x2100 gmirror problem]

2007-04-04 Thread Gót András
On Sze, Április 4, 2007 3:21 pm, Miroslav Lachman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We're using gmirror on our sun fire x2100 and FreeBSD 6.1-p10. Some days ago I found this in the logs: Apr 1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Chris, Well - the NFS server is 4.5-RELEASE - a rather old box. Everything worked fine when the shop was all 4.x boxes, but as soon as we put in a 5.x or 6.x box - the NFS clients on those (5.x/6.x) boxes locked up hard if rpc.lockd was

Panic on reboot with gmirror+gjournal

2007-04-04 Thread Guy Brand
Hi all, I have a setup on 6-STABLE from today with two identical disks in a gm0 provider and 3 gjournal providers on it: Geom name: gm0 State: COMPLETE Components: 2 Balance: round-robin Slice: 1 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2763081532

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas David Rivers wrote: I have found that if I kill rpc.lockd on the NFS server, most of the NFS issues I have (including a similar lock-up on 6.1-RELEASE) go away. FWIW, I also had problems with running rpc.lockd and rpc.statd (no panics, though).

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas David Rivers wrote: I have found that if I kill rpc.lockd on the NFS server, most of the NFS issues I have (including a similar lock-up on 6.1-RELEASE) go away. FWIW, I also had problems with running

Re: Sun Fire X2100 SATA problem

2007-04-04 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Gót András wrote: On Sze, Április 4, 2007 3:21 pm, Miroslav Lachman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We're using gmirror on our sun fire x2100 and FreeBSD 6.1-p10. Some days ago I found this in the logs: Apr 1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Hi Chris, Well - the NFS server is 4.5-RELEASE - a rather old box. Everything worked fine when the shop was all 4.x boxes, but as soon as we put in a 5.x or 6.x box - the NFS clients on those (5.x/6.x) boxes locked

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:46AM -0700, Chris H. wrote: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? It works for the rest of us, so any problems you are seeing

single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
i didn't know what was happening when i dropped to single user mode i got all these different prompts and i didn't know how to answer the questions. i have posted information on experts exchange: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Q_22484972.html

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:46AM -0700, Chris H. wrote: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? It works for the

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
i don't know what all the prompts where because i was in single user mode. i need diagnostic advice There should be a backup of your old /etc dir here: /var/tmp/etc Boot in single user mode, do a mount -a and copy the backup passwd file to /etc This should enable you to login again. There

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
install WORLD failed. usage message.. then cd /usr/src; make installwerld also failed. it said required audit group is missing.. see /usr/src/UPDATING i am going to reboot into single user mode and follow these instructions from /usr/src/UPDATING now: To rebuild everything and

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
there were so many steps they didn't seem obvious.. i got halfway thru and realized i was in some prompt for mergemaster -p, or so i thought, so i started over. i had no idea what was happening. i can't log on now. /etc/passwd is gone. i used a freeBSD disk that is certainly old to go to a

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread doug
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: i didn't know what was happening when i dropped to single user mode i got all these different prompts and i didn't know how to answer the questions. i have posted information on experts exchange:

Re: Sunfire X2200 ipfw and bge issues

2007-04-04 Thread Lisa Besko
Paulius Bulotas wrote: Now any ideas on why they system reboots every time the ethernet cable is plugged in to the bge0 port? or why the nve ethernet ports are not recognized? I am getting an error the next time it reboots that says something like hyper transport sync flood error and I

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-04 Thread JoaoBR
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 00:05, you wrote: Console is not intended for everyday use! You should login to your FreeBSD box with ssh-client of your choise and from the OS of your choise (preferably from graphic mode). please stay on topic the question is not what one should or not but to

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread Christian Walther
On 04/04/07, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there were so many steps they didn't seem obvious.. i got halfway thru and realized i was in some prompt for mergemaster -p, or so i thought, so i started over. i had no idea what was happening. i can't log on now. /etc/passwd is gone. i used

Re: No buffer space available

2007-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiago ... What version of kernel did you end up going back to? - --On Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:15:48 -0300 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm seeing the same effect (haven't

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:46:37AM -0700, Chris H. wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:46AM -0700, Chris H. wrote: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know

Re: Porting FreeBSD to a new Architecture?

2007-04-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/4/07, Rink Springer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nikolas, On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:23:44AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: I'm looking for documentation that could possibly help me port FreeBSD to a new architecture. I'm mainly interested in how you guys did the xbox and amd64 ports.

Installing FreeBSD on AMD64 - system freezes during boot

2007-04-04 Thread Cláudio Henrique
Hi, all, I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 Stable on my machine (AMD X2 AM2 4200 64bits, Asus M2N SLI Deluxe, nVidia 7950GS, 1 HD IDE, 1 HD SATA2, 1 DVDRW), but FreeBSD freezes right after detecting my HDs. I do not see the install screen. Does anyone know how to fix this? Is there a boot

Re: Installing FreeBSD on AMD64 - system freezes during boot

2007-04-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Cláudio Henrique wrote: Hi, all, I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 Stable on my machine (AMD X2 AM2 4200 64bits, Asus M2N SLI Deluxe, nVidia 7950GS, 1 HD IDE, 1 HD SATA2, 1 DVDRW), but FreeBSD freezes right after detecting my HDs. I do not see the install screen. Can you post the last few

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-04 Thread JoaoBR
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 04:49, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Apr-03 14:27:00 -0300, JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simply consider RH graphical boot in 1024x768 has a very professional look while Freebsd still looks like Gate's MsDos before selling it to IBM I don't understand why

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-04 Thread JoaoBR
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 19:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/04/07, JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't try to be smart with me nobody said that RH is professional because of it's graphics in console I said that for example RH looks professional with the graphic boot they offer

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 04/04/07, JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 00:05, you wrote: Console is not intended for everyday use! You should login to your FreeBSD box with ssh-client of your choise and from the OS of your choise (preferably from graphic mode). please stay on topic the

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread kayve
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 04/04/07, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Secondly, it appears that you messed up your system pretty badly, I'm not sure that it can be fixed. On the other hand, it just might be that you missed a few

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread kayve
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 04/04/07, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there were so many steps they didn't seem obvious.. i got halfway thru and realized i was in some prompt for mergemaster -p, or so i thought, so i started

Re: No buffer space available

2007-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiago ... I'm just curious here, but are you by any chance using geom at all? The only machine I have that seems to be affected like this (where netstat -m doesn't seem to indicate a problem with mbufs) is using gmirror ... the rest all use

Re: rpc.lockd brokenness (2)

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:16:43PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: At Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:57:22 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: No, no, you got me wrong. The pidfile is left locked after cron stopped running (with /etc/rc.d/cron stop). This behaviour must be wrong. OK, I misunderstood. The

Re: rpc.lockd brokenness (2)

2007-04-04 Thread Jun Kuriyama
At Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:57:22 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: No, no, you got me wrong. The pidfile is left locked after cron stopped running (with /etc/rc.d/cron stop). This behaviour must be wrong. OK, I misunderstood. The rc.d script will signal cron to kill it, which should be closing the