Re: 7.3-RELEASE sysinstall netDev feature

2010-03-23 Thread Rink Springer
Hi David, On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:19:11PM -0400, David Boyd wrote: Is this the code committed by Rink Springer last October? The code I committed (revision 198317) added support for 'netDev=ANY'; this would select the first device that has an active link. Note that the value is case

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Rink Springer
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD. Any comments on their quality/performance/reliability? I have got an Areca ARC-1110 4x SATA2 PCI-X card

Re: FW: 8.0-BETA2 sysinstall ignoring setting of nonInteractive

2009-08-16 Thread Rink Springer
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 07:33:35PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Rink Springer wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:04:31AM -0400, David Boyd wrote: Can someone PLEASE commit this fix. This fix looks OK to me; I'll ask re@ for permission. Just a status update

Re: FW: 8.0-BETA2 sysinstall ignoring setting of nonInteractive

2009-08-03 Thread Rink Springer
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:04:31AM -0400, David Boyd wrote: Can someone PLEASE commit this fix. This fix looks OK to me; I'll ask re@ for permission. Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer- http://rink.nu Optimism, Hercules, is the shield of fools. - Dahak

Re: iir(4) support under 7.1

2008-12-12 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Heinrich, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:27:41AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hmmm? nobody using this stuff anymore??? FWIW, we have some IBM servers which feature an iir(4) too and they are unusuable on =7.0 - the iir(4) does not initialize correctly anymore. I don't have details since I am

Re: iir(4) support under 7.1

2008-12-12 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:49:12AM +0100, Rink Springer wrote: Hi Heinrich, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:27:41AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hmmm? nobody using this stuff anymore??? FWIW, we have some IBM servers which feature an iir(4) too and they are unusuable on =7.0 - the iir(4

Re: Problem with Adaptec 29320LPE

2008-11-24 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Greg, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:42:49PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote: backuphost# camcontrol devlist SONY LIB-162 0208at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ch3) SONY SDX-1100 0102 at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa3,pass1) SONY LIB-162 0203at scbus0 target 2

Re: system panic: RAID5 problem or zfs problem

2008-10-22 Thread Rink Springer
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:33:44PM +0800, lhmwzy wrote: First we create a pool name www: zpool create www da1 da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 Um, this isn't a RAID - this is a simple concatination of disks. I think what you meant to do was: zpool create www raidz da1 da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 Otherwise, you'll

Re: sade root only

2008-10-13 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Dominic, On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: Certain md and da devices (usb-sticks, encrypted images) on my systems are owned by certain users, which I want to be able to use sade to partition their private partitions, disks, whatever. FWIW, you currently can't

Re: 7.1 i386 PXE

2008-10-09 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Dmitriy, On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:08:42PM +0400, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: I tryin update my install server. Look like 7.1 i386 pxe boot broken. My own release build is 7.1-i386-2008-10-05 Hmm, I tried it a few days ago and it worked fine for me. What kind of error are you seeing?

Re: machine hangs on occasion - correlated with ssh break-in attempts

2008-08-21 Thread Rink Springer
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:03:09PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Finally, consider moving to pf instead, if you really feel ipfw is what's causing your machine to crash. You might be pleasantly surprised by the syntax, and overall administrative usability (it is significantly superior to

Re: Incorrect file size?

2008-06-20 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:34:26PM +0300, Krassimir Slavchev wrote: # ls -l total 1239702 - -rw--- 1 vscan vscan 4398199488512 Jun 20 15:18 auto-whitelist - -rw--- 1 vscan vscan 22 Jun 20 15:18 bayes.lock - -rw--- 1 vscan vscan 102168 Jun 20 15:18

Re: Incorrect file size?

2008-06-20 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:54:22PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Except that the file in question should be, judging by the filename, a simple text file. I don't really see how a whitelist could grow to such monstrous sizes :) Most likely it's a file system corruption - fsck should be the first

Re: Disable DMA without loader.conf or sysctl.conf.

2008-04-16 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:37:05PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: Remembering that Cromwell won't support loader That is not correct - recent versions of the sysutils/cromwell port support passing kernel environment parameters. As for your /boot/xboxlinux.cfg, use: title FreeBSD/xbox kernel

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: Mapping stat(1) device number/name to partition?

2008-03-05 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Rick van der Zwet wrote: Which handy shell utility program will help me doing this? I think you can use statfs(2) to look up the f_fsid, this should be equal to the st_dev, judging from the code in kern/vfs_syscalls.c. There doesn't appear to be a

Re: uchcom MFC?

2008-02-29 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:07:01PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:59:10PM +, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Now that 7.0 has been cut, any chance that the uchcom driver could be MFC'd? good idea - i just built it under 6.3 and it did build and work without changing a

Re: Tar regression from 6.2 to 6.3 with --strip-components

2008-02-27 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:09:50AM +1100, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: And the tar extraction returns a failure. I can confirm this does not work on 8-CURRENT either. Is this known? Should I raise a PR? That seems a good idea to me. Thanks! -- Rink P.W. Springer

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

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

Deadlock in state 'sysctl lock'

2007-02-20 Thread Rink Springer
Hi people, At work, one of our SpamAssassin/ClamAV filtering machines just entered a deadlock state: FreeBSD/i386 (xxx.qsp.nl) (cuad0) login: root load: 0.00 cmd: login 683 [sysctl lock] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 148k load: 0.00 cmd: login 683 [sysctl lock] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 148k load: 0.00 cmd: login 683

Re: sysctl segfaulting

2007-02-17 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Michael, On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:47:45AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: I've attached the ktrace output of 'sysctl kern.clockrate' to this message. Hmm, could you try to rebuild sysctl manually and give that one a try? Maybe there's not something in sync. Something like: # cd

Re: sysctl segfaulting

2007-02-17 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Michael, On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: So I tried recompiling libc with debug cflags (-g3 -O -pipe), but this only makes the backtrace in gdb much longer, but still without any function names. Hmm, 'make install' appears to strip the debugging info.

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-08 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:42:39PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options I can highly recommend the Areca family of SATA-II controllers. I have a ARC-1110 (4 poort RAID controller) with 4x 320GB Western Digital SATA-II drives

Re: Error with cli32 ARECA RAID command line tool.

2006-12-21 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Nikolay, On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: Hello, folks. I am not sure where to go with this, but i have an error trying to execute ARECA RAID command line tool with PAE kernel with GENERIC kernel everything is allright: Fatal error 'Cannot allocate red

Re: mountd(8) tries to remount / as R/W

2006-12-12 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Ed, On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:36:45AM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: Is it possible to teach mountd to leave the root filesystem alone? This might be due to a change I have made in mountd(8) to prevent it from destroying filesystem flags; could you file a PR for me? I assume this is a recent

Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6

2006-11-26 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Richard, On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote: I just bought a large external hard drive for home backups (500g Western Digital My Book). When I plug it in to my machine (RELENG_6 from about a week ago), the system sees the device just fine: Nov 26 22:03:21

Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6

2006-11-26 Thread Rink Springer
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:34:09AM +0100, Rink Springer wrote: Looking at /sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c seems to hint the existance of options MSDOSFS_LARGE; this avoids the error message and will let you mount the disk. Oh, and before I forget: this option is defined in /sys/conf/NOTES

panic(): vinvalbuf: dirty bufs: perhaps a ffs_syncvnode bug?

2006-11-16 Thread Rink Springer
Hi people, At work, some storage is put on a SUN StorEdge 3510 FibreChannel array; the disks are divided into two volumes, which are mounted using isp(4) controllers. Two seperate machines each mount a single volume (this is, box1 mounts the first volume (/dev/da1), and box2 mounts the second

Re: [PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-11 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:25:57AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: There is another fxp ID as well http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-October/030169.html Jack Vogel was going to look at it, but I think he is pretty busy with the em issue and it would be nice to get this

[PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-03 Thread Rink Springer
Hi people, Recently, I installed FreeBSD on a Tyan GS14 barebone, which houses an bge(4) and a fxp(4). However, FreeBSD does not recognize the on-board fxp(4) NIC by default. All that was needed was just an extra PCI ID addition; the patch can be found at http://rink.nu/tmp/if_fxp.ve.diff. With

Re: Gmirror question

2006-10-25 Thread Rink Springer
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:07:59PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: Is it possible to use gmirror to mirror a single BSD partition? If not: is it possible with other tools? I think this is possible, have you tried (inspired by man gmirror) # gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0s1a da1s1a

Re: mountd changed?

2006-10-20 Thread Rink Springer
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:33:38AM +0200, Rink Springer wrote: I'll get this committed. Thanks for the report and patch! It has been committed to HEAD; Expect a MFC after a few days. Thanks! -- Rink P.W. Springer- http://rink.nu Patience is for those who cannot

Re: mountd changed?

2006-10-17 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Erik, Lin, On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:01:11AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: [Second attempt to send this, since my first seems to have been eaten by my ISP. Apologies if it appears twice.] On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:40:22PM +0200, Rink Springer wrote: Hi, On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11

Re: mountd changed?

2006-10-16 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Erik, On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:01:11AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: [Second attempt to send this, since my first seems to have been eaten by my ISP. Apologies if it appears twice.] On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:40:22PM +0200, Rink Springer wrote: Hi, On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:30

Re: mountd changed?

2006-10-15 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:11:44PM +0800, Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote: Hi, I have a freebsd box (6-stable) which export its root slice to NFS. The exports file is: / -alldirs -maproot=root -network 10.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 After making world kernel today, the nfs client said

Re: mountd changed?

2006-10-15 Thread Rink Springer
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:45:23PM +0800, Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote: No, it does not work. Hmm, I am assuming that the filesystem isn't shown when you do a 'showmount -e' on the server, is this correct? Anything relevant in your /var/log/messages ? -- Rink P.W. Springer

FreeBSD/xbox live/installcd's available

2006-08-27 Thread Rink Springer
Hello everyone, In order to aid people installing FreeBSD on their xbox, I have created combined install/livecds to aid those willing to give FreeBSD/xbox a try. The images can be used to boot a full multi-user FreeBSD environment, but you can also boot directly into sysinstall to install FreeBSD

Support for QLogic QLE2460 ?

2006-06-29 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, At work, we recently bought a QLogic QLE2460 FC host adapter. However, FreeBSD doesn't seem to support this card. pciconf -lv gives: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x0c0400 card=0x01371077 chip=0x24321077 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'QLogic Corporation' class= serial bus

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Rink Springer
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:09:14AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: So far 6.X has been for the most part stable as NFS sever for us.. but one of our servers has been hanging crashing and NFSD was showing as status GIANT... and locking.. It had 6.0 stable and upgrading it to 6.1 stable (6-26)

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Rink Springer
Was it fixed after Jun 25? This comment fixed it for me: --- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:50:29 + (UTC) From: Konstantin Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsserver nfs_serv.c nfs_srvsubs.c kib

Re: long timeout on boot

2006-06-02 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced the one disk it discovered, then shows the CPUs launched, and then it just sits printing nothing

Re: opinion on which software RAID to use

2006-03-02 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Vivek, Any opinions on which has both qualities: easy to configure/manage (ie, recover after failure) and performance? The handbook RAID page doesn't even mention gmirror. The atacontrol seems very simple to use, at least. I've had very good results with gmirror. It's very easy to

Renaming a gmirror?

2005-11-22 Thread Rink Springer
Hi everyone, On a fileserver, one of the gmirror volumes has recently changed its mountpoint. Therefore, I would like to change the name of the gmirror to reflect this, as the current name is not very informational anymore. Is there a 'gmirror rename' command I am misssing, or is this simply

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-05-13 Thread Rink Springer
Is there something else I'm blatantly missing? If my memory serves me correctly, you need to explicitely force the interface up, eg: # ifconfig wi0 up After setting the SSID. Mine works after doing this, it's an ASUS WL-100. -- Rink P.W. Springer-

Re: calling fpa and fea users

2005-05-05 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Brooks, - Using these drivers to connect to a real, production FDDI network - Are running FreeBSD 5.3+ or will be in the near future Well, I use fpa(4) as a crosslink between my two boxes. Not really production-wise, but I do enjoy the fact that they can be dual-attached. Which is why I

Re: nss_ldap / top startup

2005-04-26 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, Any ideas, why this is happening? Will I need 10 seconds, when there are 6 accounts in LDAP? :-) Have you set your indexes correctly? This may result in a huge speedup. I use (this is only for about 180 accounts, but NSS works instantly): # Indices to maintain index

Re: AP #1 (PHY#1) failed! Panic (y/n)?

2005-02-23 Thread Rink Springer
I've seen this randomly on a dual-Xeon Dell 450 for 1 year (i.e. lots of different os versions). I believe it's a race/bug in the BSP startup My Dual Xeon does this was well. A simple reboot always fixes it. -- Rink P.W. Springer- http://rink.nu God, root,

Re: Problems installing ruby18-1.8.2_2

2005-02-22 Thread Rink Springer
Hello, The process sits at this point, taking up all CPU. I've just experienced the same problem on sparc64, cvsup from an hour ago. -- Rink P.W. Springer- http://rink.nu God, root, what is difference? - Pitr, Userfriendly pgpK5UfIAzpmx.pgp