RELEASE discs ISO images (for future)

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi! 7.0-RELEASE images came out with FIVE disks - disc 1 to 3 and separate LiveFS and docs. What do they contain? I can guess that 2 and 3 are pure packages so I don't need to download them if I want to compile out from ports. And in previous releases I had to download the disc1 ONLY as it had

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested the howto from http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3 FreeBSD release which boots on my pc but

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:17AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested the howto from http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:17AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all systems works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later stage. Uh, no. amd64 kernels rely on information that only the loader supplies, such as the

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:37:03PM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: Last time I looked (in FreeBSD 4.x) these were connections that got stuck in an early stage, that is, before the HTTP request had been received. The 'accf_http' filter which wants to parse said request waits forever in this

Re: RELEASE discs ISO images (for future)

2008-03-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org This sybject has nothing to do with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posting to 2 FreeBSD lists is deprecated. hackers@ is for releases. Attempting to shrink to one list, this posted with: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc:

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all systems works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later stage. All of what you've said is correct. I'm not sure who's having problems with GRUB on USB sticks, because

[kern/sys_pipe.c] PIPE_NODIRECT and pipe throughput

2008-03-07 Thread Dmitry Antipov
Hello all, recently I've tried a few benchmarks around pipe throughput on Linux vs. FreeBSD. Everyone interesting can see my stuff at http://213.148.29.37/PipeBench, and initial post to Linux kernel developer mailing list at http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0803.0/1837.html It was

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Michael Gratton! On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:52 +1100; Michael Gratton wrote about 'Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it': * I have never liked how IPv6 denotes its addresses by using colon- delimited hexadecimal strings. The glib answer would be and this is why we have the DNS. Yes it is

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Jeremy Chadwick! On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:01:43 -0800; Jeremy Chadwick wrote about 'Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it': Makes it harder to debug, etc. Don't want to see anything IPv6 related in command output, to let programs to bind on IPv6 addresses, etc. Changing the Subject (but

FreeBSD 6.2/6.3/7.0 install CD boot panic

2008-03-07 Thread Balgansuren Batsukh
Hello, I tried to install FreeBSD-6.2/6.3/7.0 on Dell E520. When it get boot install CD, ask me language selection then panic. I mean keyboard, mouse no response, only can power off. Dell hasn't any serial port for debug. Only I use digital camera to capture screen. I tried to all boot

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested the howto from http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Vincent Mialon wrote: The boot selector is shown and I can choose between the two images that nanobsd generated. When it times out BTX crash with very fast scrolling lines. When I shutdown I can see BTX Halted with processor registers written on the screen. I tried different ways to bypass

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2008 04:53:55 pm Pete French wrote: I want to take a disc partition on one box and make it available to another box to be mounted. Under 7.0 it looks like I have a choice of using either ggated to do this, or the new iscsis initiator. Does anyone have

Re: RELEASE discs ISO images (for future)

2008-03-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
07.03.08 @ 16:10 Julian H. Stacey wrote: To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org This sybject has nothing to do with [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has because 6.3-RELEASE is also affected with docs issue, and future releases 6.4 and 7.1 will be in both branches, as ell as 8.0. Cc: [EMAIL

RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-07 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, We have been building RELENG_6_x source trees from read only NFS file systems for well over a year now with out any problems. However I have just tried to do make buildworld on a RELENG_7_0 source tree from yesterday and it failed to build with the following error: ===

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
Last time I used it the iscsi-target port had some significant bugs, but looking through cvs it looks like those may have been addressed. I can't really speak to performance. Reliability should be all right as long as you don't have frequent network issues. Thanks for the warning - do you

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
According to at least two reports, iSCSI initiator in 7.0-RELEASE is buggy and has problems that manifest in very low performance. There are patches for it which should be committed soon. See this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-February/003383.html Thanks - low

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua Coombs
Derek Taylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 09:50 PM Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS, and if present remove it. This fixed the problem. Thank you. -Derek. I can confirm a failure in the same spot. What concerns me is in both my failure, and Derek's, the malloc

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Oertel
David Malone wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:37:03PM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: Last time I looked (in FreeBSD 4.x) these were connections that got stuck in an early stage, that is, before the HTTP request had been received. The 'accf_http' filter which wants to parse said request

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread David Malone
So having the queue showing full in the netstat should be normal, and not have any side effects? btw, i tested this on 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and 7.x, they all appear to behave in the same fashion. I must admit that I did not check netstat, but I believe you would always see a full queue in netstat

Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Oertel
David Malone wrote: I must admit that I did not check netstat, but I believe you would always see a full queue in netstat once the machine had been running for a while. My test was to open a large number of connections, and check that once I exceded the backlog that previous connections were

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 March 2008 11:25:39 am Pete French wrote: Last time I used it the iscsi-target port had some significant bugs, but looking through cvs it looks like those may have been addressed. I can't really speak to performance. Reliability should be all right as long as you don't have

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 March 2008 10:08:59 am Ivan Voras wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2008 04:53:55 pm Pete French wrote: I want to take a disc partition on one box and make it available to another box to be mounted. Under 7.0 it looks like I have a choice of using either ggated

FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Darran
Hello all, I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? Do i have to do a degree in configuration to allow it to face the wild west (internet) ? I also want to use it for storage of media and serving of media

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Jason Evans
Joshua Coombs wrote: Derek Taylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 09:50 PM Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS, and if present remove it. This fixed the problem. Thank you. -Derek. I can confirm a failure in the same spot. What concerns me is in both my failure,

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:02 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: Hello all, I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? Yes, today it is. But that does not necessarily mean you will not need to do updates, apply patches, perhaps change

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua Coombs
Jason Evans wrote: cc1 was only trying to request 130MB, my datasize is 512MB, why did it fail? It looks to me like gcc is trying to allocate a single 130MiB object, but you don't say anything about how much memory is already in use. It may well be that there are no remaining places in the

[PATCH] Update pkg_add -r

2008-03-07 Thread walt
Looks like pkg_add -r is failing on RELENG_7: --- main.c.orig 2008-03-07 10:20:00.0 -0800 +++ main.c 2008-03-07 09:58:56.0 -0800 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ { 502100, 502128, /packages-5-current }, { 503100, 599000, /packages-5-stable }, { 600100, 699000,

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:54:53AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: Joshua Coombs wrote: Derek Taylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 09:50 PM Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS, and if present remove it. This fixed the problem. Thank you. -Derek. I can confirm a

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Darran
Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:02 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: Hello all, I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? Yes, today it is. But that does not necessarily mean you will not need

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:43 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: building the world etc etc, i think the question really boiled down to is it safe to run it after an install and minor configuration and i believe that at this point it is .. We have a number of busy production boxes running 7.0 (spam/virus scanning of

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 March 2008 09:13:12 am John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested the howto from

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/03/2008, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 10:08:59 am Ivan Voras wrote: According to at least two reports, iSCSI initiator in 7.0-RELEASE is buggy and has problems that manifest in very low performance. There are patches for it which should be committed

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread security
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:02 PM 3/7/2008, Darran wrote: Hello all, I want to run a (FreeBSD 7) server facing the internet and running Apache and wondered if its safe out of the box .. so to speak ? Yes, today it is. But that does not necessarily mean you will not need to do updates, apply

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/6/08, Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words; if I have machines with ipv6 adresses that I can reach globally, but don't have a dns name for them, the usefulness is very limited. Is that challenge solved somehow with ipv6? It doesn't look like dyndns.org supports ipv6

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote: Try this instead: http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch Hi John, I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with the regular btx loader... :( Might it not be a nice idea to put out a RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_0

[Panic] Removing of the Palm during select syscall causes panic

2008-03-07 Thread Oleg Sidorkin
Hello, I'm running 7.0-Stable on the ASUS P5K-VM + Intel Q6600 box. If Palm device is disconnected after synchronization, system crashes with following stacktrace: #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:194 #1 0x0004 in ?? () #2 0x802bea49 in boot (howto=260) at

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote: Try this instead: http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch Hi John, I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with the regular btx

Re: RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-07 Thread Xin LI
Tom Judge wrote: Hi, We have been building RELENG_6_x source trees from read only NFS file systems for well over a year now with out any problems. However I have just tried to do make buildworld on a RELENG_7_0 source tree from yesterday and it failed to build with the following error:

musicpd segfaults on run - was advised that it's an issue with the system

2008-03-07 Thread Ross Penner
Hi, I've recently run the upgrade gamut and moved from 6.3 to 7.0. I've had a few hick ups but this one I can't resolve. I used musicpd (http://www.freshports.org/audio/musicpd/) on 6.3 to stream to a shoutcast server. When I start mpd on 7.0, it immediately has a segmentation fault and dumps its

[releng_7 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2008-03-07 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:14 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:14 - starting RELENG_7 tinderbox run for powerpc/powerpc TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:14 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:32 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2008-03-08 04:45:32 -