RE: ufs recovery
Assuming the disk has not been written to, then making a full DD image of the drive is your 1st step, then make a copy of that DD image and store it somewhere safe in case something goes wrong with the one you are working on. You can try Foremost which can recover data even deleted stuff from a DD image, there was another package that works on the command line but I cannot recall the name of it just now. Your success rate will depend on the type of data you are trying to recover, from experience foremost works better on certain types of files. Regards Graeme Dargie -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Laszlo Danielisz Sent: 08 September 2013 09:47 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: ufs recovery Hi, By mistake I forgot to edit my crontab on my FreeBSD 8.3 after I took out one of the hard drives. I had a little rsync script which I used to synchronise a directory between those two hard drives, because one of the hard drives were not present anymore and rsync had the --delete parameter I end up deleting the whole directory, of course with precious informations. I have ufs on the hdd, after the accident I've turned off the computer to avoid any writings on the disk. Do you have any idea how can I recover the lost directory? Thank you! Laci ___ 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
zfs and 9.1 upgrade
Hi All Upgraded 3 machines today from 9.0 to 9.1 all three run ZFS as a storage but not as a boot file system. One machine out of the three ended up with a very sick looking ZFS pool, not a big deal as this machine is a backup mirror for another system. So I did a zpool destroy tank then zpool create tank raidz ada1 ada2 ada3 ada4 ZFS tells me that ada1 might be part of an active pool and use -f to override this. zpool create -f tank raidz ada1 ada2 ada3 ada4 cannot create 'tank': no such pool or dataset Any clues anyone? Regards ___ 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 based, standalone, print server
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Nicole Sent: 25 October 2012 10:21 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD based, standalone, print server Hi, The network card on my HP 4300 is definitely dead. All I am left with is a... parallel port! But the printer is still working fine, printing fast and in good quality. I don't want to invest in a new network card though, while I have a bunchg of old systems lying around. Solutions are: 1) I set-up a small FreeBSD box, with printer spooler, and all my quota stuff; 2) I find a solution to bridge the parallel port and the ethernet port. This is more exciting and I keep the quota and spooling on the original print server. Any cue for the option 2? Best regards, Olivier ___ 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 You might be able to dig up a network to parallel port jet direct box fairly cheap from a well known auction site. Regards Graeme ___ 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: harware compatibility queustion
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bonomi Sent: 24 August 2012 03:30 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: harware compatibility queustion I need to add more than two' internal SATA _ports_ to a box that will be running FreeBSD 9. When I look at inexpensive SATA controllers, they all seem to be using chipsets thar are _not_ explicitly mentioned in the 'supported hardware' list. Can anyone say, authoritatively, that, say, a 'SiL3114'-based cnntroller card will work in FreeBSD, as far as 'bare drive' functionality goes? Alternatively, can anybody recommend an inexpensive 4-port (or more) SATA controller card that is known to work with FreeBSD? ___ 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 I have used a SIL3112 card on FreeBSD 7 and 8 which is just a 2 port version of the card you are looking at, as far as I recall it worked with no issues. If you want me to check it with 9.0, I can stick it on the machine that the card currently resides in. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Hi!
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Cox Sent: 12 August 2012 07:31 To: customer Subject: Hi! Hello customer, You don't have to reply, this is a test. I have a new website someurl.com You are welcome! ___ 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 Well at least his surname is appropriate! ___ 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 bonnie puzzlement
snip Discover it alone. I told already enough about it but it results in attacks from ZFS (and general new technology) fanatics. ___ 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 If the rest of the world thought like you we would still be trying to invent the wheel. ___ 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
Squid issue
Firstly I know this is a bit off topic for this list, please accept my apologies in advance. I have tried asking in more relevant circles but I have had no responses at all. Under pfSense I have openVPN running and Squid, the vpn has rules to route traffic on ports 119 and 563 via the VPN connection and everything else should route via the normal WAN connection and this works as expected until I introduced Squid to the mix, now web traffic is being routed via the VPN and I can see no obvious options in Squid to force it to use the WAN gateway. If anyone has any ideas or solutions feel free to contact me off list. Regards Graeme ___ 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
NTFS data recovery
Hi All, I have been given a laptop to look at for a friend, the hard disk is close to death with a SMART error on POST. My initial thought was to just mount it on an Windows 7 machine and grab what I can from the drive. No joy Windows insists that the partition is RAW and I need to format it. I can however mount it under FreeBSD without any problems, the directory structure appears to be intact but there are no files in the places I would expect to find them under the Users directory, I am guessing that these have somehow been deleted or perhaps the victim of a partial OEM recovery process. Is there a way to scan the drive for deleted files from the command line or something from the ports tree that anyone can recommend to fulfil this requirement. Regards Graeme ___ 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: GUI for gpart
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: 07 July 2012 14:50 To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: GUI for gpart I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to compile linux software. Anyway i see no reason for such a software, click-click solutions are always inefficient relative to normal text based ones, and partitioning is not a job that end user (who want click-click interfaces at all cost) is supposed to do ___ 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 Perhaps your English phrasing loses something in translation, but your opinions are always presented in a way that you are correct and the rest of the world is just wrong. As for the original question have a look at the gparted live cd, full GUI support on that so you might be able to get that running, off the top of my head I am not sure about UFS support. ___ 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: Strange case of vanishing disk
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kaya Saman Sent: 04 June 2012 02:07 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange case of vanishing disk Hi, this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out over 2 ZFS storage pools. Additionally I am running the root file system on a 40GB SSD. The strange thing with this is that I recently installed the 4TB disks and they're brand new. One disk connected to the system board works fine and shows up as online and on one of the channels using atacontrol list. The other disk is connected to a Startech.com Jmicron based 2x SATA RAID controller card. The disk connected to the controller card is having issues. At first the drive wouldn't be seen by the system then after a while all of a sudden it was there. No reboots, no io scans nothing it just appeared. After blasting it with IO for a few days the disk has now vanished again. I had this error in dmesg for a while: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113337535 I have tried to use pciconf -lbvv to show the connected interfaces and the JMICRON comes up fine: atapci0@pci0:2:0:0:class=0x010400 card=0x2366197b chip=0x2366197b rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.' device = 'JMicron JMB366 AHCI/IDE Controller (JMB36X)' class = mass storage subclass = RAID bar [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd040, size 8, enabled bar [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd030, size 4, enabled bar [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd020, size 8, enabled bar [1c] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd010, size 4, enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd000, size 16, enabled bar [24] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xd051, size 8192, enabled So why isn't the disk? I reckon as stated at the beginning that either the 180Watt PSU inside the system isn't enough or the controller is just really poor?? Could anyone suggest anything to look into, I'm sure I've covered all the bases but just incase there is something else I can do with this one?? Thanks. Kaya ___ 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 I have had a similar issue on a 3 machines before and in each case the cause was slightly different, on one updating the motherboard BIOS updated the AHCI microcode and the problem went away, another it was the power supply that was a little under powered and in the third which was much more odd was a faulty ram socket on the motherboard, in that case I had initially thought it was the on board sata controller that was the issue so I tried a new 6 port sata controller but the behaviour was the same, so I know it sounds strange but run memtest and see if throws up an errors. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Samba acting oddly.
I have a problem with Samba, well I think it is samba as one machine I have access to when I try to perform an action like create a new folder in my home folder windows spouts that I need permission and would I like to try again. I guess some background would be useful at this point, I have 3 FreeBSD machines that were running 8.2 AMD 64, some kind souls on this list were able to help me get Samba working using Active Directory, I upgraded to 9.0 when it became available and everything seemed to be fine. I happened to be needing to create a perl script that would allow two users to chat over a network, so rather than fiddling about with Linux and VM`s .. I just used two of my FreeBSD machines, this is when I noticed the issue. Only one machine shows this problem, the others let me happily create / delete stuff in the home folder other shares on the problematic machine are fine. The configuration files for all 3 machines is included below, but I just cannot seen to see why 2 work and 1 does as all three are running Samba35-3.5.6.2 so any help or pointers would be welcome. Regards Graeme Machine Eris - samba works perfectly Smb.conf looks like this [global] workgroup = UNIVERSE realm = UNIVERSE.GALAXY.LCL netbiosname = ERIS interfaces = re0 security = ads allow trusted domains = yes idmap uid = 5000-1 #idmap gid = 15000-2 winbind gid = 5000-1 template homedir = /usr/home/%U template shell = /bin/csh winbind cache time = 3600 winbind nested groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes winbind separator = | winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind offline logon = yes syslog only = Yes socket options = SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072 TCP_NODELAY use sendfile = yes read raw = yes use sendfile = yes local master = no use sendfile = yes dns proxy = no username map = /usr/local/samba/usermap # ACL Support map acl inherit = yes #acl group inherit = yes acl group control = yes # LOGGING log file = /var/log/samba/%m log level = 1 max log size = 1000 syslog = 2 ### recycle bin code # bin vfs object = recycle recycle:repository = .RecycleBin/%U recycle:keeptree = Yes recycle:touch = Yes recycle:versions = Yes recycle:maxsize = 0 recycle:exclude = *.tmp recycle:exclude_dir = /tmp recycle:noversions = *.ppt [homes] readonly=no other shares below Machine Proteus - samba working a charm ... [global] workgroup = UNIVERSE realm = UNIVERSE.GALAXY.LCL netbiosname = PROTEUS interfaces = re0 security = ads allow trusted domains = yes idmap uid = 5000-1 #idmap gid = 15000-2 winbind gid = 5000-1 template homedir = /usr/home/%U template shell = /bin/csh winbind cache time = 3600 winbind nested groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes winbind separator = | winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind offline logon = yes syslog only = Yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536 use sendfile = yes read raw = yes use sendfile = yes local master = no use sendfile = yes dns proxy = no username map = /usr/local/samba/usermap # ACL Support map acl inherit = yes #acl group inherit = yes acl group control = yes # LOGGING log file = /var/log/samba/%m log level = 1 max log size = 1000 syslog = 2 [homes] read only = No Both of these work with no issues. However Amalthea which is the machine showing the problem, the smb.conf is the following [global] workgroup = UNIVERSE realm = UNIVERSE.GALAXY.LCL netbiosname = amalthea interfaces = nfe0 security = ads allow trusted domains = yes idmap uid = 5000-1 #idmap gid = 15000-2 winbind gid = 5000-1 template homedir = /usr/home/%U template shell = /bin/csh winbind cache time = 3600 winbind nested groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes winbind separator = | winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind offline logon = yes syslog only = Yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536 use sendfile = yes read raw = yes use sendfile = yes local master = no use sendfile = yes dns proxy = no username map = /usr/local/samba/usermap # ACL Support map acl inherit = yes #acl group inherit = yes acl group control = yes # LOGGING log file = /var/log/samba/%m log level = 1 max log size = 1000syslog = 2 ### recycle bin code # bin vfs object = recycle recycle:repository = .RecycleBin/%U recycle:keeptree = Yes recycle:touch = Yes recycle:versions = Yes recycle:maxsize = 0 recycle:exclude = *.tmp recycle:exclude_dir = /tmp recycle:noversions = *.ppt [homes] readonly=no ___ 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: Printer recommendation please
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Karel Miklav Sent: 30 March 2012 16:39 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printer recommendation please Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox Phaser 6500 looks nice, but I can not economically justify my appetite. Is there a cheaper alternative or maybe PostScript printers aren't that good idea anyway, heh? -- Thanks, Karel ___ 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 Not exactly conclusive, I have a Dell 1320C with the Ethernet module, and while I have never needed to connect it to one of my FreeBSD machines, it would work with OS X and CUPS, since then Dell has released an official driver for OS X. However I am not sure as to how much use an OS X driver would be for FreeBSD, for £90 I am satisfied with its performance. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Chance Sent: 14 March 2012 10:27 To: FreeBSD Cc: Carmel Subject: Re: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV On 03/13/12 19:54, Carmel wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:59:45 -0500 Adam Vande More articulated: Are you sure these devices aren't trying to connect to a DLNA server? Such need can be met by net/mediatomb or other port. A couple of people have replied to this thread. The Samba shares are configured correctly and are visible on my Windows based PCs. I have no idea if the TVs are using DLNA. I never had to configure anything, other than sharing the folders, on my Microsoft PCs, so am I to assume that DLNA is always available on that OS? Anyway, I will try your suggestion. I have a Sony networked TV, and it definitely needs a DLNA server and is very picky about what formats are served. I'm not a Windows user but I have the impression Home or Home Premium versions of Vista/Win7 have DLNA support built in. Alexander Leidinger has written a couple of blog posts on getting Sony TVs working with FBSD. Take a look at this and the related posts: http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/09/15/sony-bravia-tv-dlna-formats/ ___ 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 I would have to disagree with some of the stuff in that blog, all be it I have a Bravia 5810 rather than a 5800 where he states that you cannot stream HD formats in PAL I would disagree, I am using different software as well but it does happily steam HD 720 and 1080 in PAL. IIRC Sony UK now officially recommend Serviio as a steaming solution for their products. I used to use ushare which worked great with the xbox 360 but the TV would not go near it and I wanted a solution that did not require extra machines to be on to use, hence not going down the Windows media player router, that and it was never happy if the media was remote. I really did spend close to a year looking for a solution, and I even asked on the list if anyone knew of anything, the key is not so much in the DLNA support but in the media transcoding, for Sony you need something that will take your xvid / divx / mkv file and convert that in real time to a MPEG2 stream which the TV will then display. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV
Been here ... cursed that, your TV is not seeing the folders directly at least not in the traditional sense, it is likely that it is using WMP as a DLNA server which will transcode the media in to a format that your TV can play by streaming. You solution is in ports /net/serviio You can find more information here http://www.serviio.org Do not worry that it mentions Win Mac and Linux, it does work great on FreeBSD . Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Carmel Sent: 13 March 2012 17:30 To: FreeBSD Subject: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV Presently, I have three HD TVs, two Samsung and one Sony. On these TVs there is a menu where I can access remote devices to access music or videos. By marking the folders shared in Windows, these folders are available on these TVs. I have found no way to accomplish the same thing with my FreeBSD-8.2 PC. Simply using Samba and creating a shared music or video directory does not work. I contacted Samsung and they told me that they do not support architecture other than Microsoft MAC and that I should contact whoever wrote the OS I am working with for assistance. I didn't bother with Sony since I assume I would have only gotten the same response. If anyone understands what I am talking about and has a feasible solution I would love to hear. I had considered either mapping a drive in Windows that pointed to the FreeBSD share or creating a link to it. I would prefer not to have to go that route however, even if it did work. I probably should add that this entire system is wireless with the exception of the FreeBSD machine that is hard wired to the wireless router. -- Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com ___ 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: Suggestion
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bruno Comerci Sent: 09 March 2012 04:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than Windows, if you just throw away your FreeBSD and join forces with the ReactOS team to accelerate their process. Actually there isnt any single free OS that can be fully trusted, but ReactOS seems to be that one that we all are wating for. Sincerely, Common world's citizen who dont have money to pay Windows and dont trust Linux and any other Unix-based OS. ___ 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 I try not to reply to these things, but I have to say this bloke is having a proper tin bath (laugh) in development since 1996 their website proudly claims, and here we are in 2012 and it is still an alpha! Regards Graeme ___ 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: lighttpd + php + external mssql server
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter Vereshagin Sent: 04 March 2012 17:05 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lighttpd + php + external mssql server Hello. 2012/03/03 00:32:40 + Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk = To 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' : GD I am just looking for some advice or hints if anyone has a clue how to make a FreeBSD server running lighttpd + php5 connect to an instance of MS SQL 2008 R2. GD GD I have already installed php-extensions for mssql but when I try and GD run a connection from the FreeBSD server it gives a http 500 The GD error log has this GD 2012-03-02 18:20:09: (mod_fastcgi.c.2699) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal GD error: Call to undefined function mssql_connect() in GD /usr/local/www/data/ GD GD Php -m shows mssql as installed. 1) Command-line php and fastcgi php are able to have a different set of extensions. Look at the phpinfo() output from your fastcgi if it has an mssql extension. 2) You may want to try an ODBTP extension for mssql connectivity which supports mssql features like 'go' clause batch runs and scroll cursors with fetching from them on the contrast to the 'traditional' dblib-based mssql php extension. -- Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: A0E26627 ___ 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 You are spot on Peter, phpinfo() shows no mssql extension, so I am guessing the next question is does it have such an extension and if so how to enable it, there are no make config options for the fastcgi I can see in ports. I am doing this so I can do some work at home for a project that will be looked at elsewhere so portability is a major concern. Regards Graeme ___ 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
lighttpd + php + external mssql server
I am just looking for some advice or hints if anyone has a clue how to make a FreeBSD server running lighttpd + php5 connect to an instance of MS SQL 2008 R2. I have already installed php-extensions for mssql but when I try and run a connection from the FreeBSD server it gives a http 500 The error log has this 2012-03-02 18:20:09: (mod_fastcgi.c.2699) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mssql_connect() in /usr/local/www/data/ Php -m shows mssql as installed. Regards Graeme Dargie ___ 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
zip to exe utility
Hi All I have spent a good while looking for a utility that needs to perform a very specific task, I need to take a zip file and convert it in to self-extracting archive that can be distributed to Windows client machines. There are some specific requirements that it has to fulfil:- Specify the extraction location when the file is created e.g. e:\foldername The extraction process needs to be able to operate silently with no end user interaction. I have had a trawl through the archiver ports and nothing obvious stood out to me as fitting the bill. Regards Graeme ___ 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
removing directories
Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes. I have a large number of directories around 300 which all have sub dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two further sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an easy way to remove all the pages and thumbnail dirs from the tree? Regards G ___ 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: System locking up.
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Staal Sent: 18 September 2011 22:59 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: System locking up. --As of September 18, 2011 2:29:20 PM +0100, Graeme Dargie is alleged to have said: I have a system that is being problematic, I suspect but I cannot say for sure it is maybe related to ZFS as I have a fairly large ZFS pool on the machine. The system will just lock up, local console does not respond to the keyboard, num lock still changes the led on the keyboard, the system still responds to pings but you cannot ssh to the unit. The behaviour is random the system can be running for 50 days plus with no issues then suddenly it enters this state, the error logs do not show anything. --As for the rest, it is mine. Where is your swap located? I've seen similar on a ZFS system with swap on ZFS, when running low on RAM. If that's the case, you can either put in more RAM (so you don't need to use swap) or move swap to a dedicated disk/partition, that's not under ZFS control. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ 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 Swap is on the UFS boot disk, so it might be a heat/psu issue as previously suggested. Regards Graeme ___ 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
System locking up.
Hi All, I have a system that is being problematic, I suspect but I cannot say for sure it is maybe related to ZFS as I have a fairly large ZFS pool on the machine. The system will just lock up, local console does not respond to the keyboard, num lock still changes the led on the keyboard, the system still responds to pings but you cannot ssh to the unit. The behaviour is random the system can be running for 50 days plus with no issues then suddenly it enters this state, the error logs do not show anything. System 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0 AMD 64 Running on an AMD x2 5600 4gb of DDR2 Gmirror 80gb boot disks 6 x 1.5TB SATA II disks using AHCI Loader.conf vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 //vfs.zfs.txg.timeout=5 vm.kmem_size=1024M vm.kmem_size_max=1024M vfs.zfs.arc_max=100M vfs.zfs.vdev.cache.size=100M ZFS filesystem version 4 ZFS storage pool version 15 Is this likely to be a case of just not enough ram? Or is there some other trouble shooting I could do to try and nail down what is going on as it tends to happen when the ZFS zpool is being accessed heavily. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Media streaming software.
Hi All Must be a year or so ago I posted looking for some advice on media streaming software that had a some specific requirements, mainly that it would transcode media on the fly to an MPEG2 stream so the dlna enabled TV could display the stream, I did get some good advice at the time but ultimately nothing quite fitted the bill. That was until someone mentioned serviio to me, so I looked in ports and sure it enough it is there (/usr/ports/net/serviio) it works great happily my TV will now play an MKV file and pretty much anything else I have thrown at it. So if you are looking for something that will work on a headless server to allow you stream media .. I would check this one out. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Samba question
Hi All I am sure there is a simple answer to this but I google has not overly helped. I am trying to mount a samba share that is on a FreeBSD 8.2 server to another FreeBSD 8.2 server, Mount_smbfs -I IP //user@host/share /mountpoint It then asks for a password, I enter the users password and then get mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error Dmesg is showing smb_co_lock: recursive lock for object 1 I have samba integrated with Active Directory, so I then thought ah maybe adding the user to AD would help, so I have done so using the same password etc still no joy, I have make sure the user has access rights on the samba share, restarted samba and the same error persists, any ideas ? Regards Graeme ___ 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
serviio
Has anyone any experience with this media streaming port, their forums are helpful but largely if you are using linux / os X / win, not much on FreeBSD? Feel free to discuss off list if you feel it to be more appropriate. Regards Graeme ___ 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: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: 17 June 2011 00:06 To: Chuck Swiger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware) On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:11:22 -0700 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robert wrote: I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time. When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alone in any of the four slots, BIOS then shows 960 MB instead of the 1024 one would expect. Sounds like the BIOS is stealing 64MB for video RAM. There's likely a BIOS setting which governs the size of this. As for not being able to access all 4GB, this is a FAQ. If you run a 32-bit system, the top gigabyte or so of address space is reserved for memory mapped I/O reservations like AGP, PCIe, etc. If your hardware is capable of running in 64-bit mode, do that. Regards, Chuck Thanks for the reply. I should have been clearer. During POST only 2752 MB is shown. Also, I am running the amd64 version of freenas. As I said, I am 100% sure this is a MOBO hardware problem and I was just trying to compute the math. Robert ___ 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 The BIOS if it has shown 4096mb at post in the past would suggest that it is up to date at least enough to deal with 4gb of ram. I would say the likely hood of all 4 ram sticks developing the exact same problem at the same time while not impossible is highly unlikely. Do you have another machine you can test the ram in or stick of ram you can test on this motherboard? Not sure if your board will let you do this or not, but try 1 stick in bank 1 rather than bank 0, and see what it shows, you might also want to repeat the same test with 1 stick in bank 2 and then in bank 3. Bios settings for on board video will reserve some ram, some boards report the main ram figure less this figure others do not. You might want to try doing a bios reset with the jumper on the motherboard its self. Also give the ram slots a blow out with some aero duster could be there is some dirt in them. Other than running memtestx86 or the 64bit equivalent I am pretty much out of ideas. Regards Graeme ___ 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: RAM needed for DHCP + router?
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: 27 May 2011 02:16 To: Gary Gatten; Chuck Swiger Cc: 'questi...@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router? On Thu, 26 May 2011, Gary Gatten wrote: Your biggest consumers would be FBSD itself and the routing tables. I *think* full internet routing tables are still less than 512MB, (google to check), so unless you have more routes than that - 512MB may work, 1GB most likely will. Too many unknowns, like; is this ipv4 only or 6 and 4 routes? Tweaked/minimal kernel, etc. Sorry, forgot to mention: inet4 for now, probably mixed with v6 in years to come. GENERIC kernel if at all possible (trying to minimize maintenance and general fussiness level). And in reponse to Chuck, How many DHCP leases and NAT clients? At any one time, probably dozens (maybe hundreds) of leases and hundreds (maybe thousands) of NAT clients, but not tens of thousands. Leases and NAT clients will come and go on a daily or weekly basis as equipment is tested, configured and shipped out. - Original Message - From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 06:46 PM To: FreeBSD Questions List questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RAM needed for DHCP + router? Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? This box will be running isc-dhcpd, doing NAT either via natd or pf, and not much else. I expect the amount of traffic (throughput) to be very small, but the address space involved is quite large, at least by my standards. It seems to me that this will require potentially large amounts of memory for routing tables, etc., but not much disk. I'll be installing the latest -RELEASE; 32-bit if I can, 64-bit if I must, depending on how much memory it looks like I'll need. I may also install webmin for the benefit of my computer-literate-but-not-unix-savvy coworkers. Thanks! -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 If you just want a router / firewall you might want to look at pfsense, I am pretty sure it will cover all the things you want. http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=52Itemid=49 that gives some guides on hardware spec for given parameters. Regards Graeme ___ 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
problem building krb5
Hi All, I went back to a machine today that I think I had partially got samba 3.5 installed on, I need to get krb5 on so I can add the system to my AD domain. Clearly on my previous attempt I got something wrong, but I am not overly sure how to go about fixing this problem below, I don't need printer support as these machine do not have printers attached or need access to them. amalthea# cd /usr/ports/security/krb5 amalthea# make install clean === krb5-1.9_2 depends on executable: gm4 - found === krb5-1.9_2 depends on executable: texi2dvi - found === krb5-1.9_2 depends on executable: dvips - not found ===Verifying install for dvips in /usr/ports/print/dvipsk-tetex === dvipsk-tetex-5.95a_5 depends on file: /usr/local/share/texmf-local/ls-R - found === dvipsk-tetex-5.95a_5 depends on file: /usr/local/share/texmf-dist/LICENSE.texmf - found === dvipsk-tetex-5.95a_5 depends on executable: mktexlsr - not found ===Verifying install for mktexlsr in /usr/ports/print/teTeX-base === Installing for teTeX-base-3.0_21 === teTeX-base-3.0_21 depends on file: /usr/local/share/texmf-dist/LICENSE.texmf - found === teTeX-base-3.0_21 depends on file: /usr/local/share/texmf-local/ls-R - found === teTeX-base-3.0_21 depends on executable: texi2html - found === teTeX-base-3.0_21 depends on executable: gs - not found ===Verifying install for gs in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11 === Building for ghostscript8-nox11-8.71_6 /bin/ln -s -f /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71/epag-3.09/gdevepag.c /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71/base /bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71/obj /bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71/bin gmake LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -shared -Wl,-soname=libgs.so.8' GS_XE=./bin/../sobin/libgs.so.8.71 STDIO_IMPLEMENTATION=c DISPLAY_DEV=./obj/../soobj/display.dev BINDIR=./bin/../sobin GLGENDIR=./obj/../soobj GLOBJDIR=./obj/../soobj PSGENDIR=./obj/../soobj PSOBJDIR=./obj/../soobj CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -DUPD_SIGNAL=0 -I. -I/usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71/jasper/src/libjasper/include -I/usr/local/include/libpng -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-builtin -fno-common -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DGX_COLOR_INDEX_TYPE=unsigned long int -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -DGS_DEVS_SHARED -DGS_DEVS_SHARED_DIR=\/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/8.71\' prefix=/usr/local ./bin/../sobin/gsc ./bin/../sobin/gsx gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71' cc -DHAVE_MKSTEMP -DHAVE_HYPOT-O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -DUPD_SIGNAL=0 -I. -I/usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71/jasper/src/libjasper/include -I/usr/local/include/libpng -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-builtin -fno-common -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DGX_COLOR_INDEX_TYPE=unsigned long int -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -DGS_DEVS_SHARED -DGS_DEVS_SHARED_DIR=\/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/8.71\ -I./obj/../soobj -I./base -g -o ./bin/../sobin/gsc ./psi/dxmainc.c -L./bin/../sobin -lgs ./bin/../sobin/libgs.so: undefined reference to `lips_mode3format_encode' gmake[1]: *** [bin/../sobin/gsc] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11/work/ghostscript-8.71' gmake: *** [so] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8-nox11. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/teTeX-base. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/dvipsk-tetex. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/krb5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/krb5. Regards Graeme ___ 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: BTX loader - cant find sources
-Original Message- From: Andi Anton [mailto:phpw...@yahoo.com] Sent: 25 March 2011 08:19 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: BTX loader - cant find sources Hi guys, Can you tell me, please, where can I found the sources for the freeBSD BTX bootloader? I have some BIOS SATA hdd detection problems (the BTX loader hangs just ater it founds the hdd) and I want to recompile and debug the BTX loader in order to fix my problem. Thanks in advance, phpwolf ___ 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 I had a similar issue with one machine when installing 8.2 release, I disconnected all of the drives except the one I was going to install the o/s on, the btx loader worked fine, the install went fine. The machine worked fine with all the drives connected once the o/s was installed. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Samba and Active Directory
Hello list, I have tried putting this on the samba mail list seems that no knows or is willing to share, having got good help with freebsd on here before, I figured its worth a shot, apologises if it is not 100% OT. I am sure this has been asked a million times but here goes for +1 I am looking for help, or pointers to a good resource to get FreeBSD 8.2 and Samba 3.5 working within a Win 2008 AD environment, the samba how to got me so far, but I am missing something somewhere as none of the shares defined within the smb.conf will connect without asking for a username and password. Regards Graeme ___ 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: CPU heating!
-Original Message- From: Chris Rees [mailto:utis...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 February 2011 10:11 To: Mario Lobo Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: CPU heating! On 13 Feb 2011 23:06, Mario Lobo ml...@digiart.art.br wrote: Hi; I am following 8-CURRENT AMD64. I have a Phenom II 955. Up to the 3rd week of January, I had 8-STABLE. Idle CPU temp was 42~44 C (which is already not excellent, i know) and full load would never go above 60 C (compiling VBox from KDE, for instance). After updating to 8.2-PRERELEASE, my temps now are: idle:not less than 48 C full load (same above conditions): it reached 65.5 C with peaks of 66 C!. Was there any big change between these versions that could be causing this? -- You need to replace the thermal grease on your processor? It goes hard and loses effectiveness. I recommend Arctic Silver 5. Chris ___ 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 Sorry to jump in, yes I would agree about Artic Silver 5, while researching the topic of thermal compounds I discovered that it takes approx 200 hours of being used before AS5 will start to operate at its peak. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)
-Original Message- From: Bahman Kahinpour [mailto:bahman.li...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 January 2011 11:40 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1) Hello FreeBSD people all over the world, There is an onboard Intel SATA controller on Intel DH55HC motherboard. I have tried FreeBSD version 7.3 and 8.1 on this motherboard, it recognizes the SATA controller but recognizes the hard disk as IDE devices. How can this happen? $ uname -a FreeBSD mail.freebsdsystem.net 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 23 19:28:28 IRST 2011 r...@mail.freebsdsystem.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 $ dmesg | grep SATA atapci1: Intel PCH SATA300 controller port 0xf090-0xf097,0xf080-0xf083,0xf070-0xf077,0xf060-0xf063,0xf020-0xf03f mem 0xfe725000-0xfe7257ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 ad8: 476940MB WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 01.00A01 at ata4-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s ad10: 476940MB WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 01.00A01 at ata5-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s ad12: 476940MB WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 01.00A01 at ata6-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s acd0: DVDR SONY DVD RW DRU-870S/1.61 at ata7-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s $ I did everything to prevent the FreeBSD kernel from recognizing the hard drives as IDE. I turned off all IDE emulation options in the BIOS. How can I fix that? Thanks Bahman Kahinpour ___ 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 This is very motherboard dependent, if your board supports AHCI, putting the sata controller in to that mode will result in the drives starting as ada rather than ad. You will also need to load the AHCI driver in /etc/loader.conf ahci_load=YES ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: SAMSUNG HD154UI 1AG01118 ATA/ATAPI-7 SATA 2.x device ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers ada0: 1430799MB (2930277168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada0: Native Command Queueing enabled I pulled that from one of my systems, the data drives are sata the boot disk is IDE so for me changing to AHCI had no effect on the system booting, if you boot from a SATA drive I suspect you might need to tweak fstab to allow the system to boot correctly. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)
Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this list. I cannot open them, I cannot get his address from the mail to talk to him directly, or get the address so I can filter it. Yes it is not the end of the world, but the possibility does exist he is saying something useful, if only I could see it. I have no other problems at all with emails from anyone else. If anyone has any useful advice off list please. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Coldfusion
Hello List, I am trying to get FreeBSD to serve up coldfusion based pages, from what I have managed to find on google I need Apache tomcat, which I have managed to install ok. I am doing this on a VM first so I don't mess up my current servers. This is not for a production environment, I just want to be able to work on some stuff at home, which will involve coldfusion a database connector and an access mdb database. Yes I know I could achieve the same results in php and MySQL, but the module I am sitting at University is doing coldfusion. If the list is not an appropriate place to discuss this, feel free to contact me off list. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?
-Original Message- From: Mike Clarke [mailto:jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk] Sent: 22 December 2010 21:46 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's? I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the release notes http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html#ETHERNET. I see that the strings RTL8211C(L) and RTL8201L (but not EL) appear in /usr/src/sys/dev/rgephy.c and rlphy.c but the man page for the rl driver only mentions RealTek 8129/8139 and I'm not sure which driver is built from rgephy.c. Am I going to have problems if I get a motherboard with one of these NIC's? -- Mike Clarke ___ 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 I have an am2+ board in a machine with a realtek card and it is using the re driver, might be worth having a look there. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Install problem with 8.0 Release
Hi list, I am trying to help a friend who is overseas install FreeBSD 8.0 i386. Left to his own devices the install failed, so I ran through it with him last night, all is fine till it gets to the root password screen where the install just hangs. He is not very techy, all I could glean was the system has an sis chipset and it previously ran windows 7 with no problems, I am hoping to get a more detailed spec of the machine, but I thought might make an initial enquiry to the list to see if anyone has come across this behaviour before, or are there any obvious possible causes ? Regards Graeme ___ 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 enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition?
From: Gil Vidals [mailto:gvid...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 07/09/2010 03:55 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition? I'm new to both FreeBSD and ZFS and need some guidance. The only way I could get zfs to work was by installing FreeBSD directly on a freebsd-ZFS file system, which isn't supported by default by sysinstall. I had to run the zfsinstall.sh script which creates the freebsd-ZFS file system and compiles freeBSD. Whenever If I used the standard install (UFS file system), I would always get an unsupported file system error whenever I tried to kldload zfs.ko. Is there away to install FreeBSD on the standard UFS file system and then use the other disks on the server for ZFS? I would appreciate any hints. Thanks, Gil Vidals ___ 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 Once you have installed FreeBSD 8.0 to a ufs partition have you from your SU account have you tried zpool create ? Regards Graeme ___ 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 not usable on FreeBSD-8.1
-Original Message- From: Dick Hoogendijk [mailto:d...@nagual.nl] Sent: 16 August 2010 21:49 To: Roland Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote: My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number. Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplained message (cg0: bad magic number). I have NO CLUE whatsoever what can be the cause of this. Both drives can be formatted by Windows, Linux and lots of other utilities. They can not be formatted UFS2 for / by FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 You can try to get your system up and running using something like http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ or pcbsd. If that works, then I guess the possible cause is you. :-) Good idea. I will give it a shot, although I'm pretty sure I'm not the cause. I have four years experience as a (Open)Solaris system administrator and before that I used FreeBSD heavely. From the 4.10 series up to the 6.x series. So I do know something about the matter. But, we'll see... Keep you posted. It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table. Can you post the output of 'gpart showdevice' and 'bsdlabeldevices1'? I have found the cause of my troubles. Using FixIt I was able today to use my ad8 with gpart and newfs it without errors. I also found out that zpool scrub pool was waiting for an uninterruptible disk wait. That made me remember I used to have troubles before in this hardware setting. The problem lies in a flaw in my MB. I have one ATA disk attached as master and an ATAPI dvd drive (slave) on ATA channel 0 plus four SATA2 drives (ATA channel 4,5,6,7 master). Somehow this does not work OK. Without the ATA drive on channel 0 (an older model) my four SATA2 drives work perfectly. I suspect some kind of interrupt issue. Problem: FreeBSD is installed on my ATA drive on channel 0. I tried to do a minimal install on drive ad8 today to dump/restore the system over and get rid of that lousy ATA drive. Bad luck. Sysinstall can't find /dev/ad8s1b so it can't complete the creation of the filesystems. And thus I can't do a minimal install on this SATA2 drive. Any ideas how I can overcome this issue? westmark# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 ST3160021A/8.01 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 Slave: acd0 PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A/1.08 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 ATA channel 1: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 4: Master: ad8 Hitachi HDP725050GLA360/GM4OA5CA SATA revision 2.x Slave: no device present ATA channel 5: Master: ad10 Hitachi HDP725050GLA360/GM4OA50E SATA revision 2.x Slave: no device present ATA channel 6: Master: ad12 Hitachi HDT721010SLA360/ST6OA31B SATA revision 2.x Slave: no device present ATA channel 7: Master: ad14 Hitachi HDS721010CLA332/JP4OA39C SATA revision 2.x Slave: no device present ___ 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 Bit of a long shot, but have you tried enabling AHCI mode for the sata drives in the bios and setting ahci_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf assuming your the board supports it. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Page fault in kernel when using CD, BSD 7.2
-Original Message- From: Mark Terribile [mailto:materrib...@yahoo.com] Sent: 12 August 2010 03:32 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Page fault in kernel when using CD, BSD 7.2 Hi, In the last two days I've had two nasty problems on two machines. The first started dumping core on epiphany, apparently when the Javascript garbage collector ran. I found that the fan on the video card was running and stopping. I jury-rigged a fan over it (until I get a new one) and the problem has gone away. Probably nothing to do with the second problem, but who knows? Second problem: on a machine (Core 2 Quad, 2.24 GHz) the CD/DVD drive has started to give me page faults in the kernel. The press any key on the console to halt the reboot does not work. I've been using this drive on and off for months. I've checked all the connections (PATA), blown out the machine (the temperatures reported by sysctl range from 50 to 59 degrees from core to core), and put a different power lead into the drive. Sometimes the console gets large transfer errors (I don't want to excite the problem right now, as the fsck is finally running) before the fault. The disk transfers don't work, the drive won't open, the process can't be interrupted, etc. The error usually comes a few minutes after the drive stops working. Yes, the processor is running a little hot, but I don't think it's dangerous and its been like this for months. I have a compact heat sink on it and the interaction between the rotor/stator fan and the CPU speed control reduces the speed too much at low load. But again, it's been like that for months. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is it worth trying a new PATA or SATA drive? Mark Terribile materrib...@yahoo.com Might be worthwhile running memtest on the machine. Regards Graeme ___ 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: HPT RocketRaid 2320 mobo support
-Original Message- From: Ryan Coleman [mailto:ryan.cole...@cwis.biz] Sent: 11 August 2010 20:30 To: User Questions Subject: HPT RocketRaid 2320 mobo support List, Is anyone running the HPT RR 2320 controller? What's the Motherboard that you're running on? My ABIT AB9 QuadGT's ethernet support has failed, in fact it did it months ago. I've been limping along with a Firewire 400 ethernet connection to another server (with an EVGA 790i Ultra SLI that doesn't support the RR2320). I can't afford to power two computers all day long just to keep my large RAID available on the net for my customers' needs. Any leads you can provide would be helpful. The AB9 board is no longer available from any vendor anywhere near my purchase price 2 years ago ($150) and that would be an acceptable solution. If I can find 2 of them to build my new 12TB (8x2TB RAID 5) system that would be wonderful. Thanks in advance, Ryan Coleman___ 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 Not sure about the US v UK on prices but I recently coughed up for 6 1.5TB hard disks for a system, the 2TB disks were almost double the price for only 500mb more, it did not make good economic sense, granted that was a few months ago now. Surely a short term solution would be to get a PCI nic for your existing system. Regards Graeme ___ 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 woes
-Original Message- From: Dick Hoogendijk [mailto:d...@nagual.nl] Sent: 10 August 2010 21:10 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: ZFS woes FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 - I spend all evening trying to create a ZFS mirror on my two 1Tb sata2 drives formerly used under opensolaris (zfs22) I wiped out the firt mb; i used sysinstall to create a fbsd slice; wiped it out again; booted knoppix to create an EFI / GPT; booted into opensolaris and created a zpool (v14), but nothing, nothing did the trick. sometimes the GEOM GPT table (first / second) was bad; sometimes I saw other warnings; sometimes I *seemed* to be able to create a ZFS mirror and it *seemed* healthy. I even could write to it, but the moment I wanted to do a zpool scrub tank the system freezes or gave me warnings like ZFS: vdev failure, zpool=tank type=vdev.bad.label Whatever I did, I could not get rid of the errors and create a healthy zpool. It really drives me crazy, so if anyone can tell me HOW I can turn two drives into a state that I can use them for ZFS under FreeBSD, please tell me *in detail*. I love to have ZFS back (I'm really used to it on opensolaris), but it has to be safe. It cannot be that one zpool scrub halts my system. I must have done something wrong then. But what? ___ 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 I could be over simplifying what you are trying to do, but seen as you did not mention it what was wrong with Freebsd and zpool create tank mirror device1 device2 If you are getting warnings about the drives being part of a previous pool and you are not fussed about the data on the drives try using the manufactures diagnostics to do low level format then create your pool. Regards Graeme ___ 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
em0 and FreeBSD8.1
Hello All, I installed 8.1 yesterday on vmware exsi, all seemed to go fine, but today I noticed when I fired up phpsysinfo a lot of dropped packets. Device ReceivedSentErr/Drop em0 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 343/0 plip0 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 lo0 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 %ifconfig em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:0c:29:6d:51:a9 inet 192.168.1.120 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active The machine that vmware runs on has intel gb based nics and I also run pfsense as my router firewall on the same vmware exsi machine and it has not dropped a packet. Device ReceivedSentErr/Drop em0 725.40 MB 1.19 GB 0/0 em1 3.49 GB 2.46 GB 0/0 lo0 375.63 KB 375.63 KB 0/0 enc0* 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 pfsyn 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 pflog 0.00 KB 146.35 MB 0/0 em1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:0c:29:f0:0c:c3 inet 192.168.1.250 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fef0:cc3%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex) status: active The only difference I can see is according to phpsysinfo the 8.1 machine shows - Intel Corporation - Gigabit Ethernet Controller (copper) (82545EM) Where as the pfsense vm shows em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6 Any one any ideas why this is showing dropped packets. Regards Graeme ___ 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: BSD logo
snip To all who replied to this, I just have to say I have not laugh so hard in ages. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Hard disk on its way west ?
Something caught my eye on a dmesg output the other day, and it got me wondering if this was going to cause me a problem in the near future. ad4: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata2-master SATA300 ad8: 476938MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 I had a check of another machine I have with the same make and model of hard disk and they all seem to report 476940MB. ada0: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada0: Native Command Queueing enabled ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada1: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x device ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers ada1: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada1: Native Command Queueing enabled ada2 at ahcich2 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada2: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x device ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers ada2: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada2: Native Command Queueing enabled ada3 at ahcich3 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada3: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x device ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers ada3: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada3: Native Command Queueing enabled I have recently run the Hitachi drive fitness test on both ad4 and ad8 as I was getting timeout error, both drives passed without any errors. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta
-Original Message- From: Jerry Bell [mailto:je...@nrdx.com] Sent: 18 June 2010 06:11 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta I am having all sorts of problems with drives in a new server. I have a 450G sata drive that hold my root partition, works great, no issues. I have a second, 1TB drive that has been all sorts of trouble. When writing to this disk, I occasionally see errors like this: Jun 17 07:40:36 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1564898207 Jun 17 07:40:36 www3 kernel: ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=1564898207 Jun 17 07:57:12 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1565052351 Jun 17 07:57:12 www3 kernel: ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=1565052351 Jun 17 09:45:12 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1565983775 Jun 17 09:45:12 www3 kernel: ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=1565983775 Jun 17 09:50:24 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1566082719 Jun 17 09:50:24 www3 kernel: ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=1566082719 Jun 17 10:01:25 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1566358623 Jun 17 10:01:25 www3 kernel: ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=1566358623 Jun 17 10:02:59 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1566387807 Jun 17 10:02:59 www3 kernel: ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=1566387807 Jun 17 10:18:59 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=43231 Jun 17 10:18:59 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=57567 Jun 17 10:18:59 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=773471 Jun 17 10:18:59 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=786271 Jun 17 10:18:59 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=810079 Jun 17 10:19:00 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=76767 Jun 17 10:19:00 www3 kernel: ad8: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=784479 Last week, I asked the datacenter to provide me with a new 1TB drive, and they did. It formatted fine, no errors. I copied files to it, ran bonnie, etc, and no signs of any DMA issues. Until this morning when I started having the errors again. If I run a tool like bonnie, I am very easily reproduce the errors. After some research, I find that these errors are often indicative of SATA cable problems. The datacenter replaced the cable, and the problem continues. The datacenter moved the sata cable to a new SATA port, and the problem continues The datacenter adds a BRAND NEW 1TB drive (now the system has 3 drive), and I am unable to format the drive because of these errors: ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=168172351 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=602334847 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=602334847 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=427014463 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=427014463 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=15425407 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=471408895 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=471408895 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=91422655 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=203161183 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1211817727 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=1211817727 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=37998847 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=309632575 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=309632575 ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=24831007 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=59067391 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=497744575 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=497744575 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_MUL status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=1128895 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=13920511 ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=547029919 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48
RE: Media streaming
From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 May 2010 01:25 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Media streaming On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk wrote: Okies well so far I have tried mediatomb, the TV sees the server but gives the same message as with ushare this server does not support be useful if it said what it didn't support but there we go. I've used mediatomb fairly regularly. I stream to my ps3 and it works quite well but it is quite picky about format of the video. Check to make sure yours meets the specs. I don't know of anything that does transcoding on-demand if I understand your desires correctly. The video must be in the correct format to be streamed. Finding the correct format required trial and error and a lot of time. I suggest splitting off like 30 secs of a file and getting that work. After that, you can re-encode the files you want streamed. -- Adam Vande More Hi Adam, I can happily stream to my xbox 360 via ushare it seems to be fine with xvid and divx encoded avi`s. My Sony Television on the other hand supports only mpeg2, avchd I did re-encode 1 file to mpeg2 and it plays fine but not via BSD only via win 7 and wmp12 but that really is not a viable option for me as I have 640gb of media files that would require this treatment. The TV streams ok via win 7 and wmp12 that would have been acceptable solution if it were not for two major niggles with that solution, it will not play a file to the TV that does not reside on the local system, all of my media is on a ZFS raidz pool on FreeBSD 8.0 and I have to use the PC to start the playing of the file. I have also tried mezzamo on win 7 which is only a trial, on the limited testing I have tried it has a nasty habit of just stopping streaming, sometimes it takes 3 or 4 goes to get a file to play through, but at least that one lets me select via the television. I will keep hunting, there will be a solution somewhere . Regards Graeme ___ 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: Media streaming
-Original Message- From: James Phillips [mailto:anti_spam...@yahoo.ca] Sent: 28 May 2010 18:23 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Media streaming Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 00:14:09 +0100 From: Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk Subject: RE: Media streaming To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 01fb8f39bad0bd49a6d0da8f7897392904f...@mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In your first message you said that The Sony TV was DTLA compliant. Because you specifically mentioned it, I assumed you knew what that meant. Your streaming server *will not* be DTLA compliant unless you are running Windows media center edition or something. I did not want to bring it up, because there was no evidence that your problem was DRM related. SNIP! Okies well so far I have tried mediatomb, the TV sees the server but gives the same message as with ushare this server does not support be useful if it said what it didn't support but there we go. I will look at The server does not support Digital Transmission Content Protection: http://www.dtcp.com/ Overview presentation: http://www.dtcp.com/documents/dtcp/DTCP_Overview.pdf In essence, you are supposed to encrypt the video stream lest you copy it. I am a little surprised the TV would refuse to work with an unencrypted stream, which is why I did not respond to your first post. Regards, James Phillips Hi James I said the TV was DLNA compliant, those links at the brief look I had appears to be the sort of encryption you would see on a HD signal via HDMI that would prevent you say recording HD content to your PVR device and then playing it back to a blu-ray recorder and recording it to disc. I had done a fair bit of googling on this before posting to the list, it seems Sonys' implementation of DLNA is a bit loose shall we say, I have seen a lot of people having issues with DLNA complaint NAS devices not working with Sony TV`s. As I have stated in a previous post it does work with wmp12, but it is not elegant or the solution I want for the reasons I stated earlier. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Media streaming
-Original Message- From: Carl Chave [mailto:c...@chave.us] Sent: 27 May 2010 00:48 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Media streaming Graeme, No answer from me unfortunately, but, possibly mediatomb? I had a question for you about ushare though - I use it to use it with my SMCWAA-G media players and it came the closest to operating like I wanted, BUT, I wasn't never able to stream audio to more than one player at a time. I never figured out if it was a ushare problem or something else. Are you able to stream to more than one device at a time? I cant say I have ever tried, but I will give it a try and let you know. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Media streaming
-Original Message- From: Dale Scott [mailto:dalesc...@shaw.ca] Sent: 27 May 2010 20:23 To: Graeme Dargie; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Media streaming ... So I am search of a media server that can transcode from native format to MPEG2 on the fly that does not require a GUI. I'm experimenting with FreeNAS (FreeBSD? NanoBSD?), which uses Fuppes (Free uPnP Entertainment Services) for on-the-fly transcoding (I'm streaming to a plasma tv from the FreeNAS box via an Xbox 360). It runs headless, although there's a webgui for configuration (FreeNAS and Fupples). Just mentioning in case any of the technology could be applied to your situation. Dale Okies well so far I have tried mediatomb, the TV sees the server but gives the same message as with ushare this server does not support be useful if it said what it didn't support but there we go. I will look at Fuppes tomorrow. As for ushare and multiple streams Carl, I played something on the xbox360 upstairs then tried the Philips streamium downstairs, it could not see the media server at all, was that what you were getting ? I will test it again tomorrow as this streamium bit of kit is quite old and fairly flakey in its operation. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Media streaming
Hello List, I was wondering if anyone out there knew of a port that is capable of doing media streaming to a LCD TV which is apparently DLNA compliant. I currently have a FreeBSD 8.0 machine which runs ushare with all my media on it, which works a treat with an xbox 360 and also (sorry) windows client pc`s. The TV will see the ushare machine but reports this server does not support. According to Sony the TV supports MP3 and MPEG2 formats, so this is where ushare is falling down as I think it serves up the media in its native format. So I am search of a media server that can transcode from native format to MPEG2 on the fly that does not require a GUI. Regards Graeme ___ 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: HP Proliant ML 150 G5
-Original Message- From: William E. Moreno A. [mailto:wmore...@yahoo.com] Sent: 26 April 2010 01:44 To: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: HP Proliant ML 150 G5 I tried to install FreeBSD 8.0 AMD64 on an HP Proliant ML 150 G5 Intel Xeon quad core but fails. With CentOS 5.4 the installation was Ready. I would like to know is this product ML 150 G5 is incompatibility with FreeBSD 8.0 I tested FreeBSD with an ML 115 G5 and the installation was ready. Thanks William Moreno P.D.: El presente correo no contiene tildes para evitarle al receptor inconvenientes en su lectura. ___ 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 Well some more info as to the error you are getting when trying to install would be of help, have you tried i386 rather than AMD64 as there are Xeons out there that are not 64bit chips. Regards Graeme ___ 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 issues
Hello All I have an issue with freebsd-update, I will back track a few steps to give you some background as to what I was doing prior to using freebsd-update. I have been trying to get half-life dedicated server working on one of my machines, seemed to install ok from games/linux-steam but on running it would crash then hang the machine. After a bit of digging about it was suggested that I needed to modify the kernel to have the CPU_ENABLE_SSE option it seemed to go through # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL ok but then went belly up make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL failed. I re-read the man page, and tried again today, for it to fail at the buildkernel stage saying CPU_ENABLE_SSE was not an valid option. So I thought ok I will just rebuild the generic kernel using the above steps. That worked fine, system rebooted and from what I can tell works as it should. Now on to the issue, doing freebsd-update fetch works ok, but the inital run of the freebsd-update install complained about lack of disk space, looking in to /boot there was a 230mb folder called GENERIC, I checked my other two machines and this was not present of either, so I moved the folder out of /boot and re-ran freebsd-update install now it complains that /boot/GENERIC is missing. I`ll freely confess to not knowing much about this kind of thing but to me it looks like freebsd-update thinks my kernel is /boot/GENERIC and not /boot/KERNEL Anyone know what I have done wrong and how to fix this ? if anyone out there knows how to get HLDS working that would be a great help as well eris# uname -a FreeBSD eris.galaxy.lan.lcl 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Apr 2 16:14:18 BST 2010 gra...@eris.galaxy.lan.lcl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ERISGEN amd64 eris# df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0s1a496M270M186M59%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev Regards Graeme ___ 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: Replacing Home Router With PC
-Original Message- From: mailinglist [mailto:mailingl...@ucwv.edu] Sent: 11 March 2010 01:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Replacing Home Router With PC I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on). I've got an older PC that would great as a routerhowever I also need it to be a wireless access point for my house. It has a PCI wireless network card (A 54G Belkin, not sure of the exact model). I know FreeBSD is technically capable for acting as my DHCP, DNS, router, gateway box if properly configured. The question is, can it use that wireless card to act as a access point instead of a client (how the card is intended to be used)? Also, any links anyone can provide on how to setup a FreeBSD box to act as home router/gateway would be much appreciated! ___ 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 Might well be worth having a look at pfsense as a router option, thought I can't vouch for the support for your wireless card, I took the easy option and configured the old wireless router as an access point. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Question about Jails
Hello List, I understand this is possible but cant seem to find any how to`s or guides out on the net, I would like to set up a jail running FreeBSD 8.0 i386 on a system that is running FreeBSD 8.0 amd64. I know this may sound somewhat odd but I have a program that I need to run that just will not compile under amd64. Regards Graeme ___ 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 8.0 and AHCI
Hello All I thought I would just give you an update and solution to a problem I was having with the above. Basically the machine would show no hard disks when AHCI driver was loaded, with the following showing up at boot. ahcich0: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe0:ahcich0:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich1: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe1:ahcich1:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich2: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe2:ahcich2:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich3: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe3:ahcich3:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich4: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe4:ahcich4:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich5: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe5:ahcich5:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich0: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich2: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich3: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich4: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich5: Timeout on slot 0 run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config ahcich0: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich2: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich3: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich4: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich5: Timeout on slot 0 Someone suggested that the drives were not in AHCI mode, I was 99% sure that they were as it was the only way I could get all 6 sata ports working, but until today I had not had a chance to confirm this. The drives were already set to AHCI in the bios, and showed up in the AHCI bios util and also at post. I did some googling and it seems this is an issue with AMD SB700 chipsets as someone else had come across the same problem. I gave a snapshot of 9.0 a shot just to see if the problem existed in 9.0 as well as 8.0, it does. Last resort was to do a BIOS update of the mainboard, as it was on the original release F1 and F4 was available. On reboot I noticed the AHCI bios revision had changed 00078 from 00070, I still get a couple of timeout messages on boot, but the drives now detect and work just fine. Regards Graeme ___ 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: This could be a wild goose chase but ...
Hi Roland I took a peek at MEncoder, seems to work just fine, just a matter of having a play with the settings to get the quality / file size balance correctly, thanks for the hint. Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: Roland Smith [mailto:rsm...@xs4all.nl] Sent: 02 January 2010 15:48 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This could be a wild goose chase but ... On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:03:10PM -, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hi I have been trying for a day or two to get /usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake to install on 8.0-Release AMD64, the port just stops bleating about wanting i386, I did some googling and found a supposed patch to cure this so it would install but that does not seem to make any difference as the patch does not apply correctly. Has anyone managed to get this going on AMD64 or am I just chasing the proverbial wild goose ? Have you looked at alternatives like mencoder, of ffmpeg2theora. They work just fine on amd64. They use much the same libraries. Mencoder does H.264 encoding very well, But ffmpeg2theora gives _much_ smaller files with good quality. It's weakness is that it cannot handle AC3 (dolby digital) very well. So I like to resample the audio first with mencoder, and then convert to theora video with ogg audio. For a wide-screen (16:9) DVD movie; mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.mpg mencoder -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -idx -o movie.avi movie.mpg ffmpeg2theora --sync --aspect 24:10 --croptop 72, --cropbottom 72 \ -v 7 -c 2 movie.avi File sizes, to give you an idea: movie.mpg 6500 MiB movie.avi 5800 MiB movie.ovg 1750 MiB Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ 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
This could be a wild goose chase but ...
Hi Hope everyone had a good new year, sorry I am going to have to stress your brains this early in 2010. I have been trying for a day or two to get /usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake to install on 8.0-Release AMD64, the port just stops bleating about wanting i386, I did some googling and found a supposed patch to cure this so it would install but that does not seem to make any difference as the patch does not apply correctly. Has anyone managed to get this going on AMD64 or am I just chasing the proverbial wild goose ? Regards Graeme ___ 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
ezjail bsd 8.0
I am trying to get ezjail running on bds 8.0 and I keep hitting the same wall FreeBSD amalthea.galaxy.lan.lcl 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I have update /usr/src using csup When I issue a ezjail-admin update -ip It runs for a while then dies with Installing everything -- cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 install === share/info (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 444 dir-tmpl /usr/jails/fulljail/usr/share/info/dir install:No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/share/info. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Now I suspect it is something stupid I have done or not done but I cant seem to see what it is. Regards Graeme ___ 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 and ACHI driver
Hello List Having upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0 everything is running fine, I decided to try the ahci_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf The first machine was fine after a reboot, zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: scrub completed after 0h14m with 0 errors on Thu Dec 10 07:19:21 2009 config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1ONLINE 0 0 0 ada0ONLINE 0 0 0 ada1ONLINE 0 0 0 ada2ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors ahci0: [ITHREAD] ahci0: AHCI v1.10 with 4 3Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported ahcich0: AHCI channel at channel 0 on ahci0 ahcich0: [ITHREAD] ahcich1: AHCI channel at channel 1 on ahci0 ahcich1: [ITHREAD] ahcich2: AHCI channel at channel 2 on ahci0 ahcich2: [ITHREAD] ahcich3: AHCI channel at channel 3 on ahci0 ahcich3: [ITHREAD] (aprobe1:ahcich1:0:15:0): SIGNATURE: (aprobe0:ahcich1:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: (aprobe2:ahcich2:0:15:0): SIGNATURE: (aprobe0:ahcich2:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: (aprobe3:ahcich3:0:15:0): SIGNATURE: (aprobe0:ahcich3:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ada0 at ahcich1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x device ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers ada0: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada0: Native Command Queueing enabled ada1 at ahcich2 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada1: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x device ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers ada1: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada1: Native Command Queueing enabled ada2 at ahcich3 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada2: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x device ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers ada2: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada2: Native Command Queueing enabled The second however eris# zpool status pool: tank state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices could not be opened. There are insufficient replicas for the pool to continue functioning. action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-3C scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankUNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas raidz1UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas ad8 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open ad6 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open ad4 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open ad10UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open ad14UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open ad12UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open eris# ahci0: [ITHREAD] ahci0: AHCI v1.10 with 6 3Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported ahcich0: AHCI channel at channel 0 on ahci0 ahcich0: [ITHREAD] ahcich1: AHCI channel at channel 1 on ahci0 ahcich1: [ITHREAD] ahcich2: AHCI channel at channel 2 on ahci0 ahcich2: [ITHREAD] ahcich3: AHCI channel at channel 3 on ahci0 ahcich3: [ITHREAD] ahcich4: AHCI channel at channel 4 on ahci0 ahcich4: [ITHREAD] ahcich5: AHCI channel at channel 5 on ahci0 ahcich5: [ITHREAD] ahcich0: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe0:ahcich0:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich1: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe1:ahcich1:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich2: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe2:ahcich2:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich3: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe3:ahcich3:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich4: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe4:ahcich4:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich5: Poll timeout on slot 0 (aprobe5:ahcich5:0:0:0): SIGNATURE: ahcich0: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich2: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich3: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich4: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich5: Timeout on slot 0 run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config ahcich0: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich2: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich3: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich4: Timeout on slot 0 ahcich5: Timeout on slot 0 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a ZFS filesystem version 13 ZFS storage pool version 13 re0: link state changed to UP without the achi driver %zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1ONLINE 0 0 0 ad8 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad6 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad4 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad10ONLINE 0 0 0 ad14ONLINE 0 0 0 ad12ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors atapci0: [ITHREAD]
strange samba issue
Hi List I have encountered a problem with samba and I cant seem to find a solution to it. I re-installed my 3 BSD servers over the last week and am now running 8.0 amd 64. I`ll use the machine names as it will make it less confusing to explain, Proteus AMD64 3500+ 4GB 3 x 500GB ZFS raidz samba-3.3.9 Amalthea AMD64 x2 4200+ 2GB 4x 500GB ZFS raidz samba-3.3.9 Eris AMD64 x2 5200+ 4GB 6 x 1.5TB ZFS raidz samba-3.3.9 Mercury win2k3 server Saturn win2k3 server Hyperion windows XP pro Samba is setup to just function as part of the workgroup. Accessing all the network shares from Hyperion is what I would call normal in speed, except for Proteus clicking on a folder can take 15 seconds or so for the folder to open. Now if I connect to either Saturn or Mercury via remote desktop, and I then access Proteus the speed is normal pretty much the instant you double click the folder it opens. I have tried adding socket options = TCP_NODELAY to the smb.conf on Proteus but that made no difference, anyone got any ideas ? Regards Graeme ___ 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 disk replacement questions
-Original Message- From: krad [mailto:kra...@googlemail.com] Sent: 04 November 2009 09:19 To: Steve Polyack Cc: Derrick Ryalls; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ZFS disk replacement questions 2009/11/3 Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net Derrick Ryalls wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: Derrick Ryalls wrote: 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure? Is there a way to take the drive offline then use atacontrol to spin it down or something so it is easy to identify? In my opinion you are best off using glabel(8) to give names to the disks. This way you can name them in a way that makes sense to you. Additionally, when you create the ZFS pool you will use the glabel'd names. This means that the pool will still come up properly if something causes your devices to be numbered differently (i.e. a drive dies and you happen to reboot the system). I believe ZFS does this automatically. Supposedly, if you take a working set of RAIDZ drives from one machine and put it in another, ZFS will figure out the drives since they get labelled by ZFS internally. My question concerns how to identify the physical disk in question based on the adX or glabel name? Different name in software is fine, but if the drive fails I want to make sure I pull the correct drive. This is possible, but I don't remember reading that ZFS handles this anywhere, and I've seen glabel(8) recommended elsewhere for the same reason. Either way, you can add your drives one-by-one and label them on the enclosure arraydrive00 and then glabel the individual disks with the same name. This way when ZFS tells you arraydrive03 is dead/offline, you can look at your enclosure and pull the drive with the arraydrive03 label. Depending on your controller it is also probably worth it to use one of the SATA-specific drivers in FreeBSD 8 - these are ones like ahci(4) and siis(4). While the generic ata(4) driver will work for pretty much everything, the updated AHCI drivers can take advantage of some more features. Enable the modules at boot to use them. I will look into it, thanks. The machine in question is 2 year old hardware currently with a 3ware raid card. I will be going software raid only, but FreeBSD already recognizes the eSATA drive I have attached as a backup device so I know the O/S can at least talk to sata drives attached to the mobo. ___ 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 One thing to note about resilvering; unlike most raid systems zfs knows what is going on at the filesystem level as well as block level. Therefore when a drive has to be resilvered, only the data on the drive is rebuilt rather than every block as with most other raid subsystems. eg if you have a 1TB hd but only have 20 Gig of data, only 20 gig is copied/rebuilt rather than 1 TB of data if you were using gvinum/gmirror. This massively speeds up rebuild times and stress on the other drives. However the fuller the drive the less the benefits ___ 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 Hi All Sorry to jump in on someone else's question / answer but I have a related query. I notice the previous answer mentioned specific achi(4) driver and Freebsd 8.0 are these available in 7.2 ? Will the achi(4) driver work happily along side the ata driver. I just replaced every drive in my raidz array the dirty way as I could not see away to make the replacement drive show up without doing a reboot, would the achi(4) driver allow me to hot swap the disks in the future ? Regards Graeme ___ 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 on FreeBSD 7.2
Hello all I currently have machine with 6x500gb hdd`s running under ZFS RaidZ everything is working just fine, I have bought 2x3bay ICY Dock bays for this machine, my questions is do I have to make sure the drives go back on to the same sata ports as they are currently on or will ZFS sort it self out? Regards Graeme ___ 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
postgresql does not build correctly
I have been trying on and off to set up postgresql for undernets gnuworld services for ircd. Now according to the instructions below this should build with tcl support and you should end up with the following file /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pgtclsh Except you dont. Instructions freebsd:/root# tar -xzf postgresql-8.1.4.tar.gz freebsd:/root# cd postgresql-8.1.4/ freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# ./configure --with-CXX \ --enable-multibyte \ --with-tcl --without-tk \ --with-tclconfig=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 \ --with-includes=/usr/local/include/tcl8.4 \ --with-libraries=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 You need gmake 3.79 or above to build PostgreSQL (and you will also need it for GNUworld later), check you have it by running gmake --version, you should get something like this : Note: You will also need automake 1.6 or above in order to build GNUworld. freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# gmake --version If you don't have gmake, you can get it here ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.80.tar.gz . If you don't have automake 1.6+, you can get 1.7.9 here ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.9.ta r.gz . If that's ok, you can go on and build PostgreSQL for real, then install it... freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# gmake freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# gmake install If you are using bash as your shell programm, add the following line : export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/lib into /etc/profile. zsh, sh and ksh use the same command in their respective .shrc .zshrc .kshrc ~ files. For csh and tcsh you will need to use setenv instead : setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/lib To check that your PostreSQL installation includes TCL support, check that the following file exists onto your system : /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pgtclsh Everything seems to work without any errors during the ./configure stage and gmake install, I just dont end up with pgtclsh at the end of it. Regards Graeme ___ 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
System crashed need some help troubleshooting
Hi All, I have a server in the house that has been running away fine, I noticed today that it had rebooted 17hours or so ago, looking a little further it also looks like it had rebooted around 23hours previously. panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small: 505761792 total allocated cpuid = 0 Uptime: 23h56m0s Physical memory: 4017 MB Dumping 1149 MB: 1134 1118 1102 1086 1070 1054 1038 1022 1006 990 974 958 942 926 910 894 878 862 846 830 814 798 782 766 750 734 718 702 686 670 654 638 622 I found the above in the /var/log/dmesg.yesterday I could use some advice on how to troubleshoot on what is going on with this machine. Regards Graeme ___ 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: VLC server
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:peterp...@aboutsupport.com] Sent: 08 July 2009 05:25 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLC server Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello List. Hi, try upgrading the ports tree. Peter ___ 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 I did that before I started the install. Regards Graeme ___ 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: VLC server
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:peterp...@aboutsupport.com] Sent: 08 July 2009 09:07 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLC server Graeme Dargie wrote: I did that before I started the install. Regards Graeme As a workaround, try to compile ffmpeg first. Make make config for ffmpeg and make sure libamr is NOT enabled. It is a workaround but should do the job. Peter ___ 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 libamr I assume is the AMR wide and narrowband options, those are both not selected, and it still wont complete. Regards Graeme ___ 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
VLC server
Hello List. I was trying to install VLC server from ports, all seemed simple enough till it got to the ffmpeg port, where it stops compiling with the following errors. Your help is greatly appreciated. === Building for ffmpeg-2008.07.27_11 cc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_ISOC9X_SOURC E -I. -I/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/ffmpeg-2008-07-27 -O2 -fno-strict-al iasing -pipe -O2 -I/usr/local/include/vorbis -I/usr/local/include -fomit-frame-p ointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wall -Wno-switch -Wdisabled-optimization - Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-sign -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings - O3 -fno-math-errno-fPIC -DPIC -c -o libavcodec/libamr.o libavcodec/libam r.c libavcodec/libamr.c:80:30: error: amrnb/interf_dec.h: No such file or directory libavcodec/libamr.c:81:30: error: amrnb/interf_enc.h: No such file or directory libavcodec/libamr.c:93: error: field 'mode' has incomplete type libavcodec/libamr.c: In function 'getBitrateMode': libavcodec/libamr.c:100: error: 'MR475' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:100: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only onc e libavcodec/libamr.c:100: error: for each function it appears in.) libavcodec/libamr.c:101: error: 'MR515' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:102: error: 'MR59' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:103: error: 'MR67' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:104: error: 'MR74' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:105: error: 'MR795' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:106: error: 'MR102' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:107: error: 'MR122' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:115: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a ca st In file included from libavcodec/libamr.c:533: /usr/local/include/amrwb/dec_if.h: At top level: /usr/local/include/amrwb/dec_if.h:28: warning: redundant redeclaration of 'D_IF_ init' /usr/local/include/amrwb/dec_if.h:26: warning: previous declaration of 'D_IF_ini t' was here libavcodec/libamr.c:699: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type gmake: *** [libavcodec/libamr.o] Error 1 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg. sun3# make === Building for ffmpeg-2008.07.27_11 cc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_ISOC9X_SOURC E -I. -I/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/ffmpeg-2008-07-27 -O2 -fno-strict-al iasing -pipe -O2 -I/usr/local/include/vorbis -I/usr/local/include -fomit-frame-p ointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wall -Wno-switch -Wdisabled-optimization - Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-sign -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings - O3 -fno-math-errno-fPIC -DPIC -c -o libavcodec/libamr.o libavcodec/libam r.c libavcodec/libamr.c:80:30: error: amrnb/interf_dec.h: No such file or directory libavcodec/libamr.c:81:30: error: amrnb/interf_enc.h: No such file or directory libavcodec/libamr.c:93: error: field 'mode' has incomplete type libavcodec/libamr.c: In function 'getBitrateMode': libavcodec/libamr.c:100: error: 'MR475' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:100: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only onc e libavcodec/libamr.c:100: error: for each function it appears in.) libavcodec/libamr.c:101: error: 'MR515' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:102: error: 'MR59' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:103: error: 'MR67' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:104: error: 'MR74' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:105: error: 'MR795' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:106: error: 'MR102' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:107: error: 'MR122' undeclared (first use in this function) libavcodec/libamr.c:115: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a ca st In file included from libavcodec/libamr.c:533: /usr/local/include/amrwb/dec_if.h: At top level: /usr/local/include/amrwb/dec_if.h:28: warning: redundant redeclaration of 'D_IF_ init' /usr/local/include/amrwb/dec_if.h:26: warning: previous declaration of 'D_IF_ini t' was here libavcodec/libamr.c:699: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type gmake: *** [libavcodec/libamr.o] Error 1 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg. Regards Graeme ___ 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: s...@home
-Original Message- From: Paul B. Mahol [mailto:one...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 June 2009 23:49 To: Stefan Miklosovic Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: s...@home On 6/30/09, Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I would like to install s...@home client to my machine, There are tutorials on internet how to install it, but it is all about package called simply setiathome. I dont see such package in a port tree. I was searching for similar one, it seems I found it : /usr/ports/astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced If i go to install it, it is about instaling ~30 ports as well, most of them is xorg related. I do not want to install these X related packages at all. It seems futile to having written WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf. Could I have s...@home client without X packages? I think you only need to install boinc-client and download right file(s) from seti webpage. -- Paul ___ 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 /usr/ports/astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced is the correct package to install, I have been running this for some months now and initially I thought the same as yourself about the X stuff ... but you actually need it even if you are running from a shell environment. Regards Graeme ___ 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
Intel NIC issues
Hi all Ok lets not go to war over this I just need some advice. I have a 1u rack system that has one of these motherboards http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7501/X5DPR-iG2+.cfm Now according to where I got the server and that page it is supposed to have dual gigabit nics on board. Dmesg shows the following em0: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6 port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xfc22-0xfc23,0xfc20-0xfc21 irq 31 at device 4.0 on pci3 em0: [FILTER] em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:24:84:f2 fxp0: Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x4400-0x443f mem 0xfc321000-0xfc321fff,0xfc30-0xfc31 irq 17 at device 2.0 on pci4 miibus0: MII bus on fxp0 inphy0: i82555 10/100 media interface PHY 1 on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:24:84:f3 fxp0: [ITHREAD] Now for reasons I can not fathom, one nic is showing just fine and the other is using a different driver and only speeds of upto 100mbs. I have tried both 7.1 and 7.2 So is the information on the board wrong or is there something I am missing. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Intel NIC issues
-Original Message- From: Graeme Dargie [mailto:a...@tangerine-army.co.uk] Sent: 02 June 2009 21:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel NIC issues snip I opened the case and the motherboard does not match what was supposed to be in the machine. I will contact the supplier and see what happens from there. Regards Graeme ___ 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: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64
-Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 26 May 2009 02:20 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: ill...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64 I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE 7.2-RELEASE Maybe? Haha ... thank I knew it was something blindly obvious that I was missing ... there be a lesson don't try to upgrade 3 systems at once and watch TV. even more important - why you are upgrading at all. did you find in 7.1 problems that you wanted to solve by moving to 7.2? [amd64] The FreeBSD kernel virtual address space has been increased to 6GB. This allows subsystems to use larger virtual memory space than before. For example, zfs(8) adaptive replacement cache (ARC) requires large kernel memory space to cache file system data, so it benefits from the increased address space. Note that the ceiling on the kernel map size is now 60% of the size rather than an absolute quantity. Various network interface drivers have been improved, including ae(4), ath_hal(4), axe(4), bce(4), cxgb(4), fxp(4), igb(4), jme(4), msk(4), mxge(4), nfe(4), re(4), rl(4), sis(4), and txp(4). Very specifically that I was getting watchdog time outs and link status up down up on the re nic driver, hopefully 7.2 solves this. Regards G ___ 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 Software RAID
-Original Message- From: Howard Jones [mailto:howard.jo...@network-i.net] Sent: 25 May 2009 14:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Software RAID Hi, Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing fancier. I have a set of brand new 1TB drives, a Sil3124 SATA card and a FreeBSD 7.1-p4 system. I created a RAID 5 set with gvinum: drive d0 device /dev/ad4s1a drive d1 device /dev/ad6s1a drive d2 device /dev/ad8s1a drive d3 device /dev/ad10s1a volume jumbo plex org raid5 256k sd drive d0 sd drive d1 sd drive d2 sd drive d3 and it shows as up and happy. If I reboot, all the subdisks show as stale, and so the plex is down. It seems to be doing a rebuild, although it wasn't before, and would newfs, mount and accept data onto the new plex before the reboot. Is there any way to avoid having to wait while gvinum apparently calculates the parity on all those zeroes? Am I missing some step to 'liven up' the plex before the first reboot? (loader.conf has the correct line to load gvinum at boot) I tried again, with 'gvinum start jumbo' before rebooting, and that made no difference. Also is the configuration file format actually documented anywhere? I got that example from someone's blog, but the gvinum manpage doesn't mention the format at all! It *does* have a few pages dedicated to things that don't work, which was handy... :-) The handbook is still talking about ccd and vinum, and mostly covers the complications of booting of such a device. On the subject of documentation, I'm also assuming that this: S jumbo.p0.s2 State: I 1% D: d2 Size: 931 GB means it's 1% through initialising, because the states or the output of 'list' aren't described in the manual either. I'm was half-considering switching to ZFS, but the most positive thing I could find written about that (as implemented on FreeBSD) is that it doesn't crash that much, so perhaps not. That was from a while ago though. Does anyone use software RAID5 (or RAIDZ) for data they care about? Cheers, Howie ___ 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 I have been running ZFS RAIDZ for 5 months on a 7.1 amd64 install, I have to say my experience has been mostly good. Initially I had an issue with a pci sata card causing drives to disconnect, but after investing a new motherboard with 6 sata ports everything has been smooth. I did have to replace a disk last week as it was showing checksum, read and write errors. ZFS rebuilt 2TB of data in around 5hours and did not loose any files at all. Regards Graeme ___ 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
updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64
Hi All I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Fetching metadata signature for 7.2RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 7.2RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. No doubt there is something really obvious I am missing, but I just cant seem to figure it out, I know the commands I am using work as it worked fine with an i386 system. Any advice would be greatly welcomed. Regards Graeme ___ 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 Software RAID
-Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 25 May 2009 18:09 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Cc: Howard Jones; Graeme Dargie; Valentin Bud Subject: Re: FreeBSD Software RAID I have looked at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog, needs about 1 GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet while it CAN be set up on 256MB machine with a little big flags in loader.conf (should be autotuned anyway) - it generally takes as much memory as it's available, and LOTS of CPU power. with similar operations ZFS takes 10-20 TIMES more CPU than UFS and it's NOT faster than properly configured UFS. doesn't make any sense ___ 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 Ok granted this is a server sat in my house and it is not a mission critical server in a large business, personally I have can live with ZFS taking a bit longer vs resilience. From just looking at my system at the moment I have 1.8GB of free ram from a total of 4GB. Regards Graeme ___ 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 Software RAID
-Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 25 May 2009 18:54 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Howard Jones; Valentin Bud Subject: RE: FreeBSD Software RAID Ok granted this is a server sat in my house and it is not a mission critical server in a large business, personally I have can live with ZFS taking a bit longer vs resilience. simply gmirror and UFS gives the same. much simpler, much faster. but of course lots of people like to make their life harder No I am not making life harder at all ... I have 6x500gb hard disks I want in a good solid raid 5 type configuration. So you are somewhat wide of the mark in your assumptions. ___ 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: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64
-Original Message- From: ill...@gmail.com [mailto:ill...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 May 2009 22:39 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64 2009/5/25 Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk: Hi All I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE 7.2-RELEASE Maybe? -- -- Haha ... thank I knew it was something blindly obvious that I was missing ... there be a lesson don't try to upgrade 3 systems at once and watch TV. Cheers for that Regards Graeme ___ 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: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64
-Original Message- From: Glen Barber [mailto:glen.j.bar...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 May 2009 22:58 To: lcon...@go2france.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64 On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: Could you paste the output of the following: cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 sorry, is bce not bc, Was going to be my next suggestion... I couldn't find 'bc' in GENERIC for amd64. ifconfig_bce0=inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0 and output from: dhclient bc0 I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm reboot. I'll see what happens with my client's machine. I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of bc0) -- Glen Barber ___ 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 Just took a quick peek at my pfsense machine hp D530 USDT which has a broadcom gigabit NIC, phpsysinfo reports bge0: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x3003. Might be worth trying that driver. Regards Graeme ___ 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: 7.1 System Crashing
-Original Message- From: APseudoUtopia [mailto:apseudouto...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 April 2009 20:23 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: 7.1 System Crashing My FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 system has gone down a few times in the last two days. I'm trying to figure out why, but there is nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg about the incident. Here's the output from the `last` command: User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 19:02 still logged in User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 18:52 - 19:02 (00:09) reboot ~ Tue Apr 14 18:52 User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 18:42 - crash (00:09) User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 16:06 - 18:42 (02:36) User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 11:23 - 12:53 (01:29) reboot ~ Tue Apr 14 07:44 User ttyp01.2.3.4Mon Apr 13 20:01 - 22:58 (02:57) User ttyp01.2.3.4Mon Apr 13 19:56 - 20:01 (00:04) User ttyp01.2.3.4Mon Apr 13 19:31 - 19:56 (00:25) User ttyp01.2.3.4Sun Apr 12 15:02 - 16:15 (01:12) User ttyp01.2.3.4Sun Apr 12 14:48 - 15:02 (00:14) reboot ~ Sun Apr 12 14:48 shutdown ~ Sun Apr 12 14:45 User ttyp01.2.3.4Sun Apr 12 14:24 - shutdown (00:21) User ttyp01.2.3.4Sat Apr 11 13:03 - 17:00 (03:56) wtmp begins Wed Apr 1 21:21:28 UTC 2009 As you can see, the system reboot several times, and crashed the most recent time. Only one of the shutdown/reboots listed is valid - the furthest one. I have no idea why it is rebooting/crashing. It has been completely stable until about 1-2 days ago. If anyone can direct me to post the output to any commands or any log messages, I'd be more than willing to do so in order to help anyone diagnose my problem. Thank you for your time. ___ 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 If you are able to I would check the cpu heat sink and fan are clean and in good working order, or if the machine is remote to you install something like healthd and have a look at the temperatures. Regards Graeme ___ 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: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum
-Original Message- From: Tim Judd [mailto:taj...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 April 2009 21:38 To: Chris Whitehouse Cc: Glen Barber; User Questions Subject: Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Chris On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( Even though it's (OT), maybe some of us could be able to help. What's the problem? I will try the HP support forums as suggested but... It's a nc6320 (RH383ET#ABU) and was in good condition not too much used and has never given trouble. It was booting, with mains and battery plugged in, when it suddenly and instantaneously lost power. Now it is completely dead, no LEDS. It made a couple of clicks as it died, one of which might have been the hard disk head parking. The power supply is showing what looks like the right voltage. The battery has 6 connectors, I tested between all combinations of pairs but all were zero voltage. I also tested between all pairs of battery connector pins in the back of the laptop with the power plugged in, also zero voltage. I am suspicious of the battery showing zero, I think it might need wake up power from the laptop. Does anyone know if this is the case and what pins need power? I left the power supply plugged in and it and an area on the underside of the laptop were mildly warm after some time so some current is flowing. That's all I can say. I will take the hard disk out and test. Luckily it didn't have critical data on it. I'm also competent to dismantle the laptop if anyone can suggest a fix. Thanks Chris My grandmother had a HP that just died too. My brother took the first stab at it, describing it as a likely DC-DC converter problem, and I was seeing indication of a bad seat on the CPU. It was working just fine and for the CPU to become unseated is not likely. I tore that machine apart until I couldn't figure out how to get the top or bottom plate off that surrounds the motherboard. I didn't fix it, but we all gave up and she went and bought another system. The DC-DC converter is what takes the 18V (or whatever) the mains/battery supplies, and breaks it out into the 3.3V, 5V, 12V, etc needed to power all the various components. We never ordered one and tried it. We just replaced the machine. ___ 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 You could try re-seating the ram should be located in one of the hatches on the underside of the unit, its free and worth a go just incase, if that fails I would seriously consider a new laptop, I have seen prices for HP mainboards that run in the £300-500 region. Regards Graeme Dargie ___ 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: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)
-Original Message- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinleyw...@efinley.com] Sent: 05 March 2009 17:57 To: Christopher Key Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3) Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been unable to find any consensus on their level of support in FreeBSD. I'm currently looking at a RocketRAID 2314 and SiI3726 based port multipliers. Has any had any experience with this combination? Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 they cost less than port multipliers. They don't do RAID, but then if you're on 7-Stable, you can use ZFS zraid. Elliot ___ 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 I had utter hell with a belkin pci sata card which used a silicon image chipset. The main problem would show up when writing a large amount of data to the drives which were in a zfs array. I even tried this card on 3 different motherboards with various combinations of sata hard disks and the result was the same when writing a large amount of data, a drive would randomly disconnect from the system. I understand from reading sata controllers based on a promise chipset are much better under freebsd 7. In then end I trumped for a new motherboard with 6 sata ports on it and it is running 6 x 500gb drives in a ZFS array just perfectly. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
-Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 10 February 2009 17:22 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 Graeme Dargie a écrit : -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 06 February 2009 16:47 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 Graeme Dargie a écrit : -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 04 February 2009 21:55 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Graeme Dargie a écrit : If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know. Regards Graeme Not a single time...sorry. -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 26 January 2009 18:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin Just to follow-up on my own problem... I tried to disable some options of the card with : ifconfig re0 -rxcsum -txcsum -tso -lro -vlanhwtag but nothing as changed. I just tried to download a big file (FreeBSD 7.1-REL DVD iso in fact) to see if the deconnection occurs even during a transfer. The DVD downloaded successfully and I verified that the MD5 are OK. BUT, /var/log/messages continue to tell me that: Feb 4 16:09:29 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP Feb 4 16:19:26 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Feb 4 16:19:30 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP Feb 4 16:19:32 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN during the transfer (which worked OK). I don't know if that can help someone to help me ;) Thanks, Martin ___ 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 I have a solution to this well a work around. Add -tso to the relevant line in /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 -tso Adding -tso stops the link up / link down problem. Now I am understand that this may increase cpu if the traffic on the nic is high. I am sure some one the list will know of any other implications this may have. It is a known problem and I site I read the bug had been submitted so hopefully it wont exist in 8.0 Regards Graeme As I stated in my last post, I tried to disable a few options, including TSO. Still, I gived a try to your workaround. I now have this line in rc.conf: ifconfig_re0=DHCP -tso but I have the same problem (it disconnect every 10 minutes and ask for an IP to the DHCP). Thanks for your suggestion, Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo
RE: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
-Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 06 February 2009 16:47 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 Graeme Dargie a écrit : -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 04 February 2009 21:55 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Graeme Dargie a écrit : If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know. Regards Graeme Not a single time...sorry. -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 26 January 2009 18:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin Just to follow-up on my own problem... I tried to disable some options of the card with : ifconfig re0 -rxcsum -txcsum -tso -lro -vlanhwtag but nothing as changed. I just tried to download a big file (FreeBSD 7.1-REL DVD iso in fact) to see if the deconnection occurs even during a transfer. The DVD downloaded successfully and I verified that the MD5 are OK. BUT, /var/log/messages continue to tell me that: Feb 4 16:09:29 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP Feb 4 16:19:26 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Feb 4 16:19:30 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP Feb 4 16:19:32 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN during the transfer (which worked OK). I don't know if that can help someone to help me ;) Thanks, Martin ___ 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 I have a solution to this well a work around. Add -tso to the relevant line in /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 -tso Adding -tso stops the link up / link down problem. Now I am understand that this may increase cpu if the traffic on the nic is high. I am sure some one the list will know of any other implications this may have. It is a known problem and I site I read the bug had been submitted so hopefully it wont exist in 8.0 Regards Graeme As I stated in my last post, I tried to disable a few options, including TSO. Still, I gived a try to your workaround. I now have this line in rc.conf: ifconfig_re0=DHCP -tso but I have the same problem (it disconnect every 10 minutes and ask for an IP to the DHCP). Thanks for your suggestion, Martin ___ 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 I don't use DHCP so it never causes me a problem, have you considered setting a static IP address ? Regards Graeme
RE: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
-Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 04 February 2009 21:55 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Graeme Dargie a écrit : If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know. Regards Graeme Not a single time...sorry. -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 26 January 2009 18:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin Just to follow-up on my own problem... I tried to disable some options of the card with : ifconfig re0 -rxcsum -txcsum -tso -lro -vlanhwtag but nothing as changed. I just tried to download a big file (FreeBSD 7.1-REL DVD iso in fact) to see if the deconnection occurs even during a transfer. The DVD downloaded successfully and I verified that the MD5 are OK. BUT, /var/log/messages continue to tell me that: Feb 4 16:09:29 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP Feb 4 16:19:26 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Feb 4 16:19:30 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP Feb 4 16:19:32 term003 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN during the transfer (which worked OK). I don't know if that can help someone to help me ;) Thanks, Martin ___ 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 I have a solution to this well a work around. Add -tso to the relevant line in /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 -tso Adding -tso stops the link up / link down problem. Now I am understand that this may increase cpu if the traffic on the nic is high. I am sure some one the list will know of any other implications this may have. It is a known problem and I site I read the bug had been submitted so hopefully it wont exist in 8.0 Regards Graeme ___ 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: Is there a trick to boot 7.1 install CD with USB keyboard?
-Original Message- From: Morgan Wesström [mailto:freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz] Sent: 28 January 2009 13:27 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Is there a trick to boot 7.1 install CD with USB keyboard? Dell OptiPlex 745 - no PS/2 connectors. USB keyboard works on boot menu but during kernel initialization I see this: usb1: host controller halted uhub1: device problem (IOERROR), disabling port 2 Keyboard is non-working when SYSINSTALL starts. Upgraded to latest BIOS and error disappears but keyboard is still non-working in SYSINSTALL. I've tried both front and rear USB ports. I've googled extensively but can't find any workaround or trick to make this work. Solution seems to be 8.0-CURRENT or am I missing something vital here? I was hoping for some command to issue at the boot prompt... Regards Morgan Have you made sure you have USB keyboard support enabled in the bios and you may also need to enable USB legacy support. Regards Graeme ___ 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: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know. Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 26 January 2009 18:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin ___ 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
Healtd
Having upgraded my motherboard I have discovered that healthd does not like the chipset as the values it is producing are way out eg cpu temp 255c, I wonder if anyone can recommend a good more upto date alternative that would work with phpsysinfo or mrtg ? Regards Graeme ___ 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: Motherboard support
Well I spent a little more time having a look in the bios Here are the results from various settings and a potential solution. SATA controller in Native IDE mode All drives show as IDE at the POST summary screen on boot In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-3 The disks show SATA Ports 45 No disks show Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 SATA Controller in AHCI Mode All drives show up on RAID Controller POST summary screen In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-5 now show disks connected Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata7-master SATA300 I have read there have been problems with the realtek 8169/8111c NIC card on some systems with under FreeBSD, but I cant seem to find a solution to this. Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au] Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH ___ 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: Closure: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
I have just had several days of issues with an SB700 chipset and drives not behaving nicely with it. Try setting the bios to ACHI mode this worked for me but I was not using the raid as a boot disk I merely wanted access to all 6 sata ports on the gigabyte board. Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: ThinkDifferently [mailto:jer...@futurecis.com] Sent: 21 January 2009 20:27 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Closure: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE In my research and unwitting trials with this particular motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H), I found that, while it is generally well tolerated by FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, the onboard RAID is completely incompatible. Even when a RocketRAID 3120 card was used, the RAID could be built, but the ar0 device thus created, did not survive a reboot. Also, a software RAID was attempted -- after a minimal install from CD, the atacontrol command was used to create RAID ar0, then (without rebooting) exiting back to the installer, the OS was loaded onto it; however, upon reboot, ar0 could not be found. In other words, it could not boot from any RAID, whether by software in FreeBSD or by hardware on RocketRAID. The problem stems from the board's Southbridge SB700 chipset (the infamous 700 series). This chipset is not (yet?) supported in FreeBSD. Other notes on this board include the following: -Generic VGA worked. -The onboard LAN (chipset 8111C) worked in 7.1-RELEASE, but not 7.0. -If the SATA ports are put into AHCI or Native IDE modes, individual disks were recognized, but in RAID mode, neither the RAID nor individual disks could be seen. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-needed-w--HighPoint-RocketRAID-3120-on-FreeBS D-7.1-RELEASE-tp21479839p21591518.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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
Motherboard support
Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome Regards Graeme ___ 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
