Re: Backup solution suggestions [ggated]

2008-01-17 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On Jan 17, 2008 1:31 AM, Johan Ström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Export the disk on the backup server with ggated. Bind it on the client with ggatec. Slap a GELI or GBDE encryption on top of it and then put a ZFS on top of it. You can mount/import this remote ZFS at will and do your zfs

Re: Kernel panic when kldunload acpi_video

2008-01-17 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:31:55 -0500 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please get a crash dump with matching kernel.debug and acpi_video.ko.debug. where do I read about creating a debug version of acpi_video.ko (or other .kos for that matter)? thx! B _

PCI MSI (was Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work)

2008-01-17 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Vivek Khera thusly... On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:09 AM, John Baldwin wrote: *: This is the default behavior for 7.0, I have not encountered the problem mentioned above on any 1950/2950 boxes so far I have tested. I will enable MSI by default on 6.x now

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-17 Thread Pete French
following up my own email here, but I have compiled the kernel debugger into my kerenal, and much to my surprise it dooes actualy drop into the debugger when it panics. so, what can I do from there to help sort this out ? a quick backtrace shows the following call sequence: madt_probe

Re: Dell PERC6?

2008-01-17 Thread Vlad GALU
On 1/17/08, Ferdinand Goldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i controller and

Re: Dell PERC6?

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Judge
Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: Hi! I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i controller and can confirm this? Sorry if

Dell PERC6?

2008-01-17 Thread Ferdinand Goldmann
Hi! I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i controller and can confirm this? Sorry if the question sounds stupid,

Re: Dell PERC6?

2008-01-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:59:36PM +0100, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i

cd(4) as compared to acd(4)

2008-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
It seems that cd driver lacks couple of useful features as compared to acd: 1. device nodes for individual tracks: this might not be so useful for tracks on audio CDs, but it is especially useful for mixed audio/data CDs and multi-track data CDs; 2. automatic detection of track type (audio/data)

Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work

2008-01-17 Thread Scott Long
Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:40 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Where can one go to read up on what MSI is and how it helps us? Is enabling it just setting a sysctl? Does that have to be done in loader.conf or can it happen later? loader.conf (though it is now default on in RELENG_6).

Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work

2008-01-17 Thread Scott Long
Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:40 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Where can one go to read up on what MSI is and how it helps us? Is enabling it just setting a sysctl? Does that have to be done in loader.conf or can it happen later? loader.conf (though it is now default on in RELENG_6).

Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work

2008-01-17 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:40 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Where can one go to read up on what MSI is and how it helps us? Is enabling it just setting a sysctl? Does that have to be done in loader.conf or can it happen later? loader.conf (though it is now default on in RELENG_6).

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE desktop system periodically freezes momentarily

2008-01-17 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 21:06 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Same deal as before then. It cannot be the same problem as in the previous 6.x trace (unless you are using a non-mpsafe filesystem, i.e. not UFS). Kris In fact I have some MSDOSFS auto-mounting from /etc/fstab, but normally not in

nscd again

2008-01-17 Thread Denis Barov
Hello! I found some strange behaviour of NIS/nscd when NIS in compat mode. In /etc/nsswitch.conf I have: netgroup: cache compat passwd: cache compat group:cache compat #group_compat: cache nis #passwd_compat:cache nis in /etc/nscd.conf: #nscd.conf threads

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE desktop system periodically freezes momentarily

2008-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wayne Sierke wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 21:06 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Same deal as before then. It cannot be the same problem as in the previous 6.x trace (unless you are using a non-mpsafe filesystem, i.e. not UFS). Kris In fact I have some MSDOSFS auto-mounting from /etc/fstab,

Re: Dell PERC6?

2008-01-17 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Vlad GALU writes: | On 1/17/08, Ferdinand Goldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi! | | I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. | According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work | with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE desktop system periodically freezes momentarily

2008-01-17 Thread Joe Peterson
Kris Kennaway wrote: KTR_SCHED Kris, BTW, I am curious if the traces I posted were informative. Let me know if I did not create them correctly. The xterm test seems to vary in usefulness depending on video card (faster cards catch up too quickly), but the freezing still happens quite often

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 17 January 2008 07:38:32 am Pete French wrote: following up my own email here, but I have compiled the kernel debugger into my kerenal, and much to my surprise it dooes actualy drop into the debugger when it panics. so, what can I do from there to help sort this out ? a quick

Re: Kernel panic when kldunload acpi_video

2008-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:17:52 am Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:31:55 -0500 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please get a crash dump with matching kernel.debug and acpi_video.ko.debug. where do I read about creating a debug version of acpi_video.ko (or other

Re: PCI MSI (was Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work)

2008-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:05:17 am Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Vivek Khera thusly... On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:09 AM, John Baldwin wrote: *: This is the default behavior for 7.0, I have not encountered the problem mentioned above on any 1950/2950 boxes so far

Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 10:40:25 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I have built my own release of 6.3 (slightly older than 6.3 as tagged) and I am seeing an odd cosmetic problem. Whenever I kldload a module (stuff loaded by the loader doesn't do it) I get this in dmesg.. kldload:

garbled message from p800-controller

2008-01-17 Thread Claus Guttesen
Hi. I've upgraded to FreeBSD stable as of Jan. 16'th 2008, doen a make world/kernel. The server is a DL360 G5 with a builtin p400i controller and a p800 controller as well. Upon boot I get a garbled dmesg from the p800 controller: da1 at ciss1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 dSaM1P:: APC OCMPPUA Q# R1A

Re: garbled message from p800-controller

2008-01-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:24:55PM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. I've upgraded to FreeBSD stable as of Jan. 16'th 2008, doen a make world/kernel. The server is a DL360 G5 with a builtin p400i controller and a p800 controller as well. Upon boot I get a garbled dmesg from the p800

Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: Can anyone explain what the underlying problem is? (I am guessing some ordering issue where normally elf64_obj is called first so the other is normally never called..) amd64 uses link_elf_obj.c, all the other archs use link_elf.c, hence the

Re: 6.3-RELEASE

2008-01-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:59:01PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: I have a mirror at work (Juniper Networks) and we have had all the bits since Tuesday. You can't have; the final sparc64-6 packages were just finished yesterday, at the last second. mcl

Re: 6.3-RELEASE

2008-01-17 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Josef Grosch, who wrote on Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:59:01PM -0800 .. On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:25:43PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:51:13PM +0200, George Kontostanos wrote: So may I guess that we have a release ? This question happens every time we get

Re: 6.3-RELEASE

2008-01-17 Thread Josef Grosch
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:25:43PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:51:13PM +0200, George Kontostanos wrote: So may I guess that we have a release ? This question happens every time we get near a release. There will be a release when, and only when, a signed email is

Re: 6.3-RELEASE

2008-01-17 Thread Josef Grosch
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:17:33PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:59:01PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: I have a mirror at work (Juniper Networks) and we have had all the bits since Tuesday. You can't have; the final sparc64-6 packages were just finished yesterday, at

Re: Re: Fix for GPE livelock on HPs

2008-01-17 Thread Volker
On 12/23/-58 20:59, Nate Lawson wrote: Nate Lawson wrote: Volker wrote: On 12/23/-58 20:59, Nate Lawson wrote: I've committed the below patch and want to MFC it to 7.0. To do this, I need people to test this quickly. It probably has no effect in 6.x and probably doesn't apply cleanly

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-17 Thread Pete French
MADT is the ACPI table that enumerates APICs. Do you have the offset of madt_probe()? I am sujre I can get it for you - do I need to do anything special in DDB, or is it just the numbers in the bt that you are after ? I can make this panic very easily and do whatever is necessary to get info

Re: garbled message from p800-controller

2008-01-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:24:55PM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote: da1 at ciss1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 dSaM1P:: APC OCMPPUA Q# R1A ILDa uAnDcGhVeOdL!U ME expa Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da1: 135.168MB/s transfers First item in http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/common_issues.txt has the

Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:17:40AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: amd64 uses link_elf_obj.c, all the other archs use link_elf.c, hence the duplication. Then why does amd64 need link_elf.c at all? I guess one option would be to put #ifdef amd64 around the

Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:17:40AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: amd64 uses link_elf_obj.c, all the other archs use link_elf.c, hence the duplication. Then why does amd64 need link_elf.c at all? I wonder if