Re: boot0cfg -B can't work

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/12/2010 08:48 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: On 06.12.2010 3:37, Yue Wu wrote: Thanks, I remembered that boot0cfg in the previous version can do it without changing the sysctl parameter, maybe it's changed in newer version. It seems it was broken with r209469. Something as

Re: boot0cfg -B can't work

2010-12-06 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 06.12.2010 13:15, Andriy Gapon wrote: It seems it was broken with r209469. Something as simple as what Yue is trying to do could/should be done with gpart. But boot0cfg has some additional features... boot0cfg is already doing this via gpart's ioctl interface. AFAIR, there is yet

Re: ZFS raidz recovery

2010-12-06 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Sat 2010-11-27 (15:22), Gareth de Vaux wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to simulate a disk fail and replacement in a raidz array and failing myself. What'm I doing wrong? Here's Ok I did some science, it looks like the array doesn't like me throwing zeros at the disk when it's 'offline'. If I take

Find a committer for conf/144842 and kern/148928

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas Sandford
There's two unloved buglets that as far as I can see haven't been resolved so far in 8-STABLE, but which would be nice to squeeze into 8.2-RELEASE. Could some kind committer/releng type please take a look at them - pretty please? conf/144842: [ip6] ipv6_default_interface causes route

Re: DTrace (or other monitor) access to LBA of a block device

2010-12-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Artem Belevich fbsdl...@src.cx (from Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:27:00 -0800): On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: By the way, in order for this to work one would need r207057 applied to -8. Any chance that could be MFC'ed?

Re: Could MSGBUF_SIZE be made a loader tunable?

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/12/2010 07:20 per...@pluto.rain.com said the following: Would there be some fundamental problem in changing MSGBUF_SIZE from a compiled-in constant to a tunable that could be set at the loader prompt? (I'm _not_ suggesting that it be adjustable while the system is running.) The

Re: DTrace (or other monitor) access to LBA of a block device

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/12/2010 16:59 Alexander Leidinger said the following: I do not think it is trivial. The amount of discussion around this does not makes me want to do a MFC. Sorry, I must have missed the discussion. Could you please clarify what is not trivial in this case? The change itself seems to be

Re: idprio processes slowing down system

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Nov-28 02:24:21 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: Since all the boinc processes are running at i31, why are they impacting a buildkernel that runs with 0 nicety? With the setup you presented

Re: pcm says `channel dead' with snd_hda

2010-12-06 Thread Zhihao Yuan
Anybody has any ideas? At the beginning, I guess it's caused by some software. After seen it many times in my log, I found that it appears whenever I want to use the sound card. If you don't use the sound card for a long time (like 10mins), the next time you use it will cause this warning message.

FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
Trying to re-install a set of HP servers over the iLO, and every time I tried to install the 8.1 CD I ended up with an error message telling me that the CD looked more like an audio CD than a FreeBSD distibution. I ouzzled over it a bit, and then remembered that I originally installed these

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 00:51 Pete French said the following: Trying to re-install a set of HP servers over the iLO, and every time I tried to install the 8.1 CD I ended up with an error message telling me that the CD looked more like an audio CD than a FreeBSD distibution. I ouzzled over it a bit,

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:51:36PM +, Pete French wrote: Trying to re-install a set of HP servers over the iLO, and every time I tried to install the 8.1 CD I ended up with an error message telling me that the CD looked more like an audio CD than a FreeBSD distibution. I ouzzled over it

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
Basically if it feels like you are the first one to report the problem, then, unfortunately, the onus is on you... Sure, I've been around here long enough to know this - was just trying to see if anyone else knew about it, as it takes so long to boot over the network that I really didn't want

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 01:27 Pete French said the following: Actually my expereice of filing PR's has been pretty positive over the years. Am a bit surprised you feel this way. Investigating and posting here also generates reseults, but I do like to tag them onto a PR in the end, just so they dont get

Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) Because few thousand other people do not seem to be as lucky: http://people.freebsd.org/~edwin/gnats/gnats-openpercategorycummulative.html ah, not good graph

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
So, I just gave the 8.1 CD a try - which didnt take nearly as long as anticipated. End result is that it also fails to insall. Pr filed as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152874 Am wndering if this could be due to the change in the USB stack somehow though - I have a feeling that iLO

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
This problem has been reported many times in the past and almost certainly has nothing to do with 8.x. Here's a thread about the matter where a user states the same as you but about 7.1: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-10/msg00307.html I found that - it

Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 01:44 Pete French said the following: Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) That's exactly the reason why I said unless the reporter also actively pursues it :-) Because as my

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Monday 06 December 2010 06:46 pm, Pete French wrote: So, I just gave the 8.1 CD a try - which didnt take nearly as long as anticipated. End result is that it also fails to insall. Pr filed as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152874 Am wndering if this could be due to the change

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2010 01:46 Pete French said the following: So, I just gave the 8.1 CD a try - which didnt take nearly as long as anticipated. End result is that it also fails to insall. Pr filed as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152874 BTW, that error message is produced by sysinstall on

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Pete French
This problem may be a reverse problem of this PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=138789 In other words, your virtual CD-ROM reads correct TOC from mounted image but block size is wrong? Maybe old umass(4) corrects this case heuristicly but the new USB stack doesn't? Might be

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:52:25PM +, Pete French wrote: This problem has been reported many times in the past and almost certainly has nothing to do with 8.x. Here's a thread about the matter where a user states the same as you but about 7.1:

Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Pete French on Monday, 06 December 2010: Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) Because few thousand other people do not seem to be as lucky:

Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/12/2010 01:44 Pete French said the following: Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) That's exactly the reason why I said unless the