macafee: I've been trying myself to see if it's feasible to run l4d on 6.3, as I really don't want to do a remote upgrade to 7. Sofar, I've come up with 'no' as doing the exact same operations on a 7.0-release box at least let me run the l4d server (I haven't tested for stability), which is further than I can get on 6.3.
My testing has been to: kldload linux manually set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 installed linux_base-f8 install steam install left4dead Load linprocfs: mount -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc On a FreeBSD 7.0-release machine, running l4d/srcds_run actually launches the server, and i can query it for a status, etc. On a FreeBSD 6.3 machine, running l4d/srcds_run bombs out with: "cannot set up thread-local storage: set_thread_area failed when setting up thread-local storage" So, I think 6.3 might be on it's way out on the last few of my servers. Again, I haven't done any stability testing, simply because I'm literally just getting to the point of discovering that I'll need to upgrade to 7. -Joe On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:58 AM, macafee wrote: > kama : >> Hi, >> >> I have now healthy servers again on FreeBSD without crashes. The >> testserver, where I dont restart hlds every morning, have over 24 >> hours of >> uptime. >> >> This are the steps I have done. Upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE. >> Use the >> 2.6.16 kernel linux ABI instead of the default 2.4.2 kernel linux >> ABI. Use >> an more up-to-date version of linux_base. I use gentoo 2008.0, I >> prefer it >> over fedora8, due to the amount of dependencies that are needed. I >> have not tested to see if fedora8 works. >> >> Since I had several servers running hlds, I wrote up a install >> script that >> configure, fetches, unpack and setup the linux_base. >> >> I have the script available here: >> ftp://fa1.pvp.se/freebsd/install_gentoo_2008_2.6.16.bash >> ftp://fa2.pvp.se/freebsd/install_gentoo_2008_2.6.16.bash >> >> The script does more or less what the port does. I started to >> rewrite the >> Makefile to update the port, but it took longer than write this >> script >> since I am not familiar to write the Makefiles for ports. >> >> Just run the script after you have updated FreeBSD and removed the >> old >> linux_base. >> >> On top of not getting the server to crash, the server seems to run >> more >> smoothly. Like less choke. >> >> Enjoy! >> >> /Bjorn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > Can you test the FreeBSD-6.3-RELEASE with the 2.6.16 linux_base? > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
