Re: geforce 310m CUDA problem
On 08/10/2012 16:24, Ashkan Rahmani wrote: Unfortunately (for me of course) it has geforce 310m cuda 1gb VGA, and it seems this VGA is not supported by FreeBSD. After installing FreeBSD/PC-BSD resolution is about 800x600 and I can not change it. Color depth is also terrible. Configuring xorg.conf automatically or manually can not fix my problem. installing nvidia driver from ports also can not fix my problem. some ideas -- The release notes for nvidia-driver 304.51 lists the 310M as supported. Check that you have the latest version Maybe try with driver nv instead of nvidia to see if the issue is the driver. kldstat | grep nvidia to check that the nvidia kernel module has loaded. Is there any helpful info in Xorg.0.log Lines starting with (EE) are errors. (WW) warning lines may also be helpful. dmesg will show the startup log and may highlight any hardware detection problems. Have you installed x11/nvidia-settings? It is a gui app that should show you all available resolutions. The Xorg.conf from your archlinux install should produce the same results on FreeBSD. Or at least give hints to what is configured wrong. There is a chance that your linux install used a newer version of xorg - 1.7 is default in ports but you can set WITH_NEW_XORG to build 1.10 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How are things?
Hi Hey. How are things? We may be getting down there to your neck of the woods soon so maybe we can all go grab a bite to eat or something. I’ll keep you posted. Talk to you soon. Lisa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [zfs-discuss] How many disk in one pool
Here's an example of a ZFS-based product you can buy with a large number of disks in the volume: http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/petarack.htm 360 3T drives A full petabyte of storage (1080TB) in a single rack, under a single namespace or volume On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr wrote: Hi all, I'm actually running ZFS under FreeBSD. I've a question about how many disks I «can» have in one pool. At this moment I'm running with one server (FreeBSD 9.0) with 4 MD1200 (Dell) meaning 48 disks. I've configure with 4 raidz2 in the pool (one on each MD1200) On what I understand I can add more more MD1200. But if I loose one MD1200 for any reason I lost the entire pool. In your experience what's the «limit» ? 100 disk ? I can't speak for current FreeBSD, but I've seen more than 400 disks (HDDs) in a single pool. -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Building Ports: Is there a make equivalent for --batch ?
[ John Levine wrote on Mon 8.Oct'12 at 2:42:33 - ] ... Note that setting the BATCH environment variable to yes will answer yes to any prompts during this process, removing the need for manual intervention during the build process. (This was said with respect to upgrading ports via portupgrade.) Or you can use portmaster, which runs through all the ports first and does the config dialogs before starting the rebuild. There are stil a few places it can get stuck, but many fewer than portupgrade. Portmaster is worth a look just out of amazement. It is a 4,000 line shell script. Yes, I use this myself and it is very good. I used to use portupgrade but changed when I started using 9.x, i'm not sure why. But to learn it's 4000 line shell is quite amazing. Its author must have some excellent shell wizardry skills! :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Chesar
On 09/22/12 17:43, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I'm using tomcat-6.0.35 and openjdk6-b24_4, if that helps. I'll try openjdk either with tomcat6 or 7. Hi Michale. I finally got around trying openjdk, but that didn't work either. I also tried within a jail (which I created from scratch), just to be sure there was no conflict, but nothing changes. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: DVD OPC errors with growisofs
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: I'm using growisofs to write DVDs of backup files. Some combinations of older drives and newer media give :-( unable to PERFORM OPC: Input/output error. If you are concerned about this, you could try cdrecord to see if it makes a difference. Can limiting write speed avoid these errors? That depends on both the drive and the media. It's also possible that it makes matters worse, though. It's a myth that reducing speed guarantees better results. And what ways are there to detect the fastest speed supported by both drive and media? The drive is supposed to figure it out on its own. If your drive supports it, you can use readcd to measure how well burned media can be read and do a couple of experiments with various burn speeds to see if it affects the results for your drives and the media you care about. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Do I need to use sysutils/ataidle to avoid high LCC for my hard drive?
Hi list. I am currently running FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE on my laptop. And I am wondering if I still need to use sysutiles/ataidle to avoid high Load Cyle Count for my hard drive. Is there still a need to run this utility to avoid LCC under FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE? Thanks for your attention! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: dd zero on the wrong disk. ZFS over GELI on that disk, recover possible?
Stefano Rossi stefa.ross...@gmail.com wrote: I made a tremendous mistake with a dd of=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1 command. ada1 was the wrong disk. Ooops ... The command was interrupted after a few seconds (I only wanted to erase the partition table), and a gpart create -s gpt ada1 was given before I realized my mistake. On ada1 there was a single partition, type freebsd, which was labelled HD4. /dev/label/HD4 was geli encrypted with a keyfile (I still have the keyfile), and /dev/label/HD4.eli was a zpool (named HD4 too). Is there any way I could save at least some of the data on that zpool? I know geli makes backup of the metadata, I must have them somewhere on my root partition. Is there any way to recover the few lost megabytes at the start of the disk? Or, would it be possible to recreate the same partition table with the single partition, relabel it and restore the geli backup to the labelled partition? Would then zfs recognize it? The geli and glabel meta data is located at the end of the partition so it shouldn't be affected by the dd if you only deleted a couple of MBs at the beginning of the disk. If you previously weren't using a gpt layout on ada1, however, the gpart call might have corrupted the meta data for both in which case you'll have to recreate it. If the glabel meta data wasn't corrupted, the label should show up again once you recreated the partition at the previous position. If the label shows up, it's likely that the geli meta data isn't affected either and you can try to geli attach the provider and import the zpool. After a zpool scrub you'll know which files were damaged. If the label doesn't show up after the partition table has been corrected, you'll first have to recreate a label and geli restore the meta data as documented in geli(8). I'd recommend that you backup the whole disk and work on the backup until you know that the recovery process works. This would allow you to use zfs snapshots to be able to quickly rollback the backup if you need several attempts to get the partition layout right and decreases the chances that the damage gets worse. Out of curiosity I just experimented with a 1 GB disk where the label was on md0s1 which was created with gpart add using the whole disk and could thus easily be recreated: fk@r500 ~ $ls /dev/label/recovery-test /dev/label/recovery-test fk@r500 ~ $zogftw cmd zogftw_clear_device /dev/md0 2012-10-08 13:48:51 zogftw: Clearing /dev/md0. Feel free to abort this with ctrl-C ^C28+0 records in 27+0 records out 28311552 bytes transferred in 3.715472 secs (7619907 bytes/sec) fk@r500 ~ $ls /dev/label/recovery-test ls: /dev/label/recovery-test: No such file or directory fk@r500 ~ $sudo gpart create -s GPT /dev/md0 md0 created fk@r500 ~ $sudo gpart add -t freebsd /dev/md0 md0s1 added fk@r500 ~ $ls /dev/label/recovery-test /dev/label/recovery-test fk@r500 ~ $zogftw import 2012-10-08 13:49:57 zogftw: recovery-test's location isn't registered yet! 2012-10-08 13:49:57 zogftw: No pool name specified. Trying all unattached labels: recovery-test 2012-10-08 13:49:57 zogftw: No geli keyfile found at /home/fk/.config/zogftw/geli/keyfiles/recovery-test.key. Not using any. You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: Fabian Keil f...@fabiankeil.de 4096-bit ELG-E key, ID 351A59E5, created 2006-08-19 (main key ID BF2EA563) 2012-10-08 13:50:04 zogftw: recovery-test attached 2012-10-08 13:50:09 zogftw: recovery-test imported fk@r500 ~ $sudo zpool status recovery-test pool: recovery-test state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM recovery-test ONLINE 0 0 0 label/recovery-test.eli ONLINE 0 0 116 errors: No known data errors # Apparently a bunch of ZFS meta data was corrupted but could be # corrected, scrub the whole pool to see what else got damaged. fk@r500 ~ $sudo zpool scrub recovery-test fk@r500 ~ $sudo zpool status recovery-test pool: recovery-test state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected. action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the entire pool from backup. see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-8A scan: scrub repaired 1.52M in 0h0m with 3601 errors on Mon Oct 8 13:51:23 2012 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM recovery-test ONLINE 0 0 3.52K label/recovery-test.eli ONLINE 0 0 7.78K errors: 3601 data errors, use '-v' for a list
Building a release with custom packages
Hi All, If anyone has interest, I have a new blog post on building a FreeBSD release with custom packages at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/08/building-freebsd-media-with-custom-packages/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... A follow up. I e-mailed FB office boyz and received a response, which is safe to share with the list: Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org This is almost not doable for many reason: 1/ the ports itself will be over complicated to only allow compiler some part of libreoffice imho (that is the main reason I didn't make it at first 2/ splitting the build won't give you much 3/ what linux distributions do it splitting the result of the build, not the build itself, and the ports tree does not allow this for the moment. regards, Bapt Well, if you have an opinion make it count now when this stuff is discussed. jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Serial console getty broken after upgrading to 9.1-RC2
Hello all, I had a working serial console setup on Freebsd 9.0 for remote access via my HP server's BMC serial console. I recently built and installed 9.1-RC2 on a separate dataset on this machine's ZFS pool and merged in my existing configuration from 9.0. On 9.1-RC2 I no longer get a login prompt. However, I still do have access to the loader prompt and can see the kernel boot messages on the serial console. I built my GENERIC kernel and world using clang with default flags. I see that the kernel identifies the serial port getty has spawned on the port. # dmesg |grep uart uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) # ps axl|grep ttyu0 0 54051 0 20 0 11996 1416 ttyinIs+ u00:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 ttyu0 Here are the relevant configuration bits I copied over from 9.0 setup that works: /etc/ttys: ttyu0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 screen-256color on secure /boot/loader.conf: boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES comconsole_speed=115200 console=comconsole,vidconsole # kenv |grep uart.0 hint.uart.0.at=isa hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 hint.uart.0.irq=4 hint.uart.0.port=0x3F8 Have there been any changes to the serial console setup in 9.1 or has anybody else experienced similar problems? __ Thanks, Ziyan. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
4k alignment for attaching new disk to zfs mirror
Hi, Before creating a pool i setup two disks mirror with gnop trick to have ashift=12 - 4k pool alignment. I also did that for the disk partitions (gpt -a 4k option) to have partitions 4k alignment (diskinfo -v disk shows stripesize=4096 for both disks). Now i replaced one disk with a new one, but cant get the diskinfo or gpart list to display stripesize=4096 - did everything as usual (gpt -a 4k for partitions). Or do i have to re-create my pool with gnop trick again ? Do you have an idea if that at all is needed ? Some other information i found says that as long as pool is 4k alignment is done (ashif=12) you do not need to do 4k alignment for new disk for partitions with gpart -a 4k option. Could someone please comment on that ? Many Thanks, Karolis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD update
Hello: I updated FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE (FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386) using freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install commands. As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message that the current patch level is p4. After rebooting the computer uname gives p3 on the updated system: # uname -r 9.0-RELEASE-p3 If I run freebsd-update fetch on the updated system I get: # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 9.0-RELEASE-p4. The file /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh on the updated system also indicates p4 state. TYPE=FreeBSD REVISION=9.0 BRANCH=RELEASE-p4 Why does uname reports p3 while freebsd-update indicates p4 state? Regards, Istvan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
what is an in-core disklabel ?
Hi, I've seen the term in-core a couple times while reading up about BSD disk labels. Does it refer to data that is cached in kernel memory ? Context examples : - fdisk(8) outputs parameters extracted from in-core disklabel - bsdlabel(8)'s manual explains that the -n (dry run) parameter does not install the new label either in-core or on-disk. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
proxy setup
Hello: My FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE system is behind a institutional firewall. Obviously I can not change any settings of this firewall. After installing FreeBSD and not setting any proxy servers I could install packages using pkg_add -r command. But when I tried to update the system freebsd-update fetch stopped. I traced that it stopped because getting the file through ftp failed: (with failed: Connection refused: messages). Therefore I have set http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables in my .profile file. After this the update ran without any problem. But now pkg_add -r refuses to fetch files with message: Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD: Forbidden wget with --no-proxy option can fetch the file, that is the problem for pkg_add is probably the configured http or ftp proxy. How can fix this so that I should not every time set/unset proxy when I want to update the system or install a package? Thanks, Istvan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS and zpool mistake
Dear list, I installed a freebsd with freebsd on a zfs root and only one disk: pool: zroot state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zrootONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 This disk was now insterted into the computer and boots fine. The next step I wanted was to setup a mirror with a second disk. So I inserted a second disk, configured everything with gpart and added the disk to the zroot with: zpool add zroot gpt/disk1 (I think I had to execute zpool add zroot mirror gpt/disk1, this is not clear from the man page) And now I have a problem, it seems not to be a mirror but a stripe: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zrootONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0 Is there any chance to get it into a mirror? I don't think there was anything written to the second disk but I cannot remove it anymore. Has anyone a tip for me, howto convert the stripe to a mirror? Thanks, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS and zpool mistake
if you want a mirror you need to do attach a new disk :) On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.net wrote: Dear list, I installed a freebsd with freebsd on a zfs root and only one disk: pool: zroot state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zrootONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 This disk was now insterted into the computer and boots fine. The next step I wanted was to setup a mirror with a second disk. So I inserted a second disk, configured everything with gpart and added the disk to the zroot with: zpool add zroot gpt/disk1 (I think I had to execute zpool add zroot mirror gpt/disk1, this is not clear from the man page) And now I have a problem, it seems not to be a mirror but a stripe: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zrootONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0 Is there any chance to get it into a mirror? I don't think there was anything written to the second disk but I cannot remove it anymore. Has anyone a tip for me, howto convert the stripe to a mirror? Thanks, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD update
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:52:24 +0200 Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message that the current patch level is p4. After rebooting the computer uname gives p3 on the updated system: Why does uname reports p3 while freebsd-update indicates p4 state? Hi, if freebsd-update does not update the kernel uname will not show the 'correct' patch level. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
portmaster backup package
Hi, what to do with that backup package (-b option) after installation of new port failed ? jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what is an in-core disklabel ?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:14:20 +0200 From: Lucas B. Cohen l...@bnrlabs.com Subject: what is an in-core disklabel ? Hi, I've seen the term in-core a couple times while reading up about BSD disk labels. Does it refer to data that is cached in kernel memory ? Context examples : - fdisk(8) outputs parameters extracted from in-core disklabel - bsdlabel(8)'s manual explains that the -n (dry run) parameter does not install the new label either in-core or on-disk. 'cached' is not _technically_ exactly accurate, but you have the concept basically correct. The O/S reads the label information and stores it in an internal data structure, Then, when it needs to use that data (frequently!:) it uses the values in that internal structure, rather than attempting to re-read from the disk, itself. Technically, it's _not_ cached -- cached data is used to short-circuit a 'read' attempt, using an in-memory block of byte instead of an actual disk transfer. The -effect- is similar, but there are *important* differences. 'Cache' data is integrated with I/O operations, and a _write_ to the place where the data was read from -invalidates- the cached data, whereupon, the next read attempt will *not* be short-circuited, and the actual on-disk data will be returned. In the case of the disk label, it is read (once) into the internal data structure, and only the internal data is used after that. A userland app can change the 'on disk' data -- or trash it completely -- and what the O/S thinks the label info is will NOT be affected by that change to the 'on disk' data. The warnings you see in the documentation, are reminders that the O/S's 'internal' data and the 'on disk' data are *NOT* necessarily the same. That looking at _one_ source of that data does *not* guarantee that what you see =there= is the same as what is in the other place. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS and zpool mistake
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:29:46 +0200 Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.net wrote: Dear list, I installed a freebsd with freebsd on a zfs root and only one disk: pool: zroot state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zrootONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 This disk was now insterted into the computer and boots fine. The next step I wanted was to setup a mirror with a second disk. So I inserted a second disk, configured everything with gpart and added the disk to the zroot with: zpool add zroot gpt/disk1 (I think I had to execute zpool add zroot mirror gpt/disk1, this is not clear from the man page) You need add for a stripe and attach for a mirror. And now I have a problem, it seems not to be a mirror but a stripe: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zrootONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0 Is there any chance to get it into a mirror? I don't think there was anything written to the second disk but I cannot remove it anymore. Yep once you've added a stripe there's no way to remove it. You'll have to copy the data off somewhere and then rebuild the pool. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portmaster backup package
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:18:20 + (UTC), jb wrote: Hi, what to do with that backup package (-b option) after installation of new port failed ? Install it with pkg_add? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
A strange regression in curl
Hello! We have a web application running on FreeBSD 7.4 (amd64) which uses libcurl to send data to another system via HTTPS POST request. After I upgraded curl from 7.19.6 to 7.24, a mysterious problem appeared. When the length of the POSTed form exceeds 16121 bytes, sending the POST request to another system fails (receiving system responds with Error 500 and writes in its log 'Invalid POST Request received'). Admin of the receiving system says that his system never sees more than 16121 bytes of the incoming POST request. The problem does not appear when sending requests over HTTP instead of HTTPS, but this is no solution due to security requirements. Also I'm told that the problem does not appear when sending requests with curl 7.24 on Linux (don't know which distro). I downgraded curl back to 7.21.3, and the problem seems to have disappeared. I have output of curl --trace from versions 7.24 and 7.21.3, but looking at these two outputs they seem rather similar to me. Interesting thing is that both versions do seem to send the data in two batches, as seen in the output of --trace. In my test case, after successful SSL negotioation, I see the following actions: Send header, 263 bytes Send data, 16121 bytes Send data, 890 bytes Note how the first Send data is 16121 bytes, which is also the size limit where requests start to fail with curl 7.24. It seems that in case of curl 7.24 the receiving server does not receive the second part of Send data and thus sees the request as broken. But what is actually the problem? I don't think I can remain with curl 7.21.3 indefinitely... -- Toomas Aas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
