Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, Scott!

> Ok guys, time for a small breather here.  All these claims about
> EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed.

I only stated that according to ICP Vortex Germany the
GDT products are EOE and ICP Vortex will not provide an
updated driver for FreeBSD. Nothing more.
I talked to the person on the phone right before I sent my mail
to the list.

And that "orphanage" part depended on a big "IF nobody is willing
to work on it".

Regards,

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Re: named rc.d

2006-08-01 Thread Mark Andrews

> Apologies if posted to wrong list, the rc.d script for named chowns
> /etc/namedb to root:wheel if set to bind:bind why is this?  A slave
> named server running as bind user cannot download new slave zones if
> dir ownership is root or update it if file ownerships are root which I
> sometimes see.

Use /etc/namedb/slave for slave zone.
Use /etc/namedb/dynamic for dynamic zone.

Mark

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mtree/BIND.chroot.dist,v 1.6 2004/11/04 05:24:29 gshapiro 
Exp $
#
# Please see the file src/etc/mtree/README before making changes to this file.
#

/set type=dir uname=root gname=wheel mode=0755
.
dev mode=0555
..
etc
namedb
dynamic uname=bind
..
master
..
slave   uname=bind
..
..
..
/set type=dir uname=bind gname=wheel mode=0755
var uname=root
dump
..
log
..
run
named
..
..
stats
..
..
..
 
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Re: named rc.d

2006-08-01 Thread Gregory Shapiro
> Apologies if posted to wrong list, the rc.d script for named chowns
> /etc/namedb to root:wheel if set to bind:bind why is this?  A slave
> named server running as bind user cannot download new slave zones if
> dir ownership is root or update it if file ownerships are root which I
> sometimes see.

Slave zones should be put in the slave subdirectory which is owned by
bind.  You want as few directories/files owned by the bind "run as" user
as possible to prevent damage if that user becomes compromised.
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named rc.d

2006-08-01 Thread Chris

Apologies if posted to wrong list, the rc.d script for named chowns
/etc/namedb to root:wheel if set to bind:bind why is this?  A slave
named server running as bind user cannot download new slave zones if
dir ownership is root or update it if file ownerships are root which I
sometimes see.

Chris
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Re: ncplogin panic

2006-08-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:28, ejc wrote:
> On 8/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > i had the same problem. See my thread on the freebsd-fs mailinglist
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-July/002060.html
> >
> >
> > After some research i use the attached patch against ncp_sock.c.
> >
> > So it is not the real solution to this problem it only avoids the panics. 
I'm using it quiet a while without any other known
> > problems.
> > Hopefully someone with more knowledge can help on this.
> >
> > I also get some "md_get_mem(461): incomplete copy" messages which seem to 
do no harm, so far.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Maik
> >
> >
> > !!! Use atyour own risk !!!
> >
> > --- ncp_sock.c.origFri Jan  7 02:45:49 2005
> > +++ ncp_sock.c   Thu Jul 20 14:12:45 2006
> > @@ -189,7 +189,12 @@
> >  struct thread *td = curthread;
> >  struct ucred *cred = NULL;
> >
> > -return so->so_proto->pr_usrreqs->pru_sopoll(so, events, cred, td);
> > +if ( td->td_selq.tqh_last == NULL ) {
> > +printf("ncp_poll: td->td_selq.tqh_last == NULL\n");
> > +return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +   return so->so_proto->pr_usrreqs->pru_sopoll(so, events, cred, td);
> >  }
> >
> >  int
> >
> >  pach ends here ---
> 
> After setting my bios to only use one CPU I was able to get a core
> dump and the panic is happening at the exact same place as yours:
> in selrecord (../../../kern/sys_generic.c:1105)
> 1100 * it alone as we've already added pointed it at us
> and added it to
> 1101 * our list.
> 1102 */
> 1103if (sip->si_thread == NULL) {
> 1104sip->si_thread = selector;
> 1105TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&selector->td_selq, sip, 
si_thrlist);
> 1106} else if (sip->si_thread != selector) {
> 1107sip->si_flags |= SI_COLL;
> 1108}
> 1109
> 
> I found your backtrace by digging a bit through the freebsd-fs list
> and we appear to be reaching selrecord though different paths.  Mine
> is in sopoll() at ../../../kern/uipc_socket.c:2059
> 
> I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm trying to use IP
> instead of IPX to access our server.
> My dump backtrace is attached.

It would be very helpful if you could get the symbols loaded for the modules 
in you backtrace.  You can either compile everything into a static kernel or 
you can use the 'asf' tool to generate appropriate gdb script commands to 
source to get symbols for your modules.  You can find a kldstat gdb command 
in src/tools/debugscripts/ that would be helpful to use with asf.

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Re: ncplogin panic

2006-08-01 Thread ejc

On 8/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,

i had the same problem. See my thread on the freebsd-fs mailinglist

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-July/002060.html


After some research i use the attached patch against ncp_sock.c.

So it is not the real solution to this problem it only avoids the panics. I'm 
using it quiet a while without any other known
problems.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge can help on this.

I also get some "md_get_mem(461): incomplete copy" messages which seem to do no 
harm, so far.

Regards,

Maik


!!! Use atyour own risk !!!

--- ncp_sock.c.origFri Jan  7 02:45:49 2005
+++ ncp_sock.c   Thu Jul 20 14:12:45 2006
@@ -189,7 +189,12 @@
 struct thread *td = curthread;
 struct ucred *cred = NULL;

-return so->so_proto->pr_usrreqs->pru_sopoll(so, events, cred, td);
+if ( td->td_selq.tqh_last == NULL ) {
+printf("ncp_poll: td->td_selq.tqh_last == NULL\n");
+return 0;
+}
+
+   return so->so_proto->pr_usrreqs->pru_sopoll(so, events, cred, td);
 }

 int

 pach ends here ---


After setting my bios to only use one CPU I was able to get a core
dump and the panic is happening at the exact same place as yours:
in selrecord (../../../kern/sys_generic.c:1105)
1100 * it alone as we've already added pointed it at us
and added it to
1101 * our list.
1102 */
1103if (sip->si_thread == NULL) {
1104sip->si_thread = selector;
1105TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&selector->td_selq, sip, si_thrlist);
1106} else if (sip->si_thread != selector) {
1107sip->si_flags |= SI_COLL;
1108}
1109

I found your backtrace by digging a bit through the freebsd-fs list
and we appear to be reaching selrecord though different paths.  Mine
is in sopoll() at ../../../kern/uipc_socket.c:2059

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm trying to use IP
instead of IPX to access our server.
My dump backtrace is attached.

Thanks
Eric


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Re: ncplogin panic

2006-08-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 31 July 2006 15:15, ejc wrote:
> I am having a problem getting ncplogin to work on my 6.1-stable
> system.  When I run ncplogin I get the following panic (hand
> transcribed):
> 
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
> fault virtual address   = 0x0
> fault code  = supervisor write, page not present
> instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc052d0a7
> stack pointer   = 0x28:0xc6021a98
> stack frame = 0x28:0xc6021ab4
> code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
> = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process = 863 (ncplogin)
> trap number = 12
> panic: page fault
> cpuid = 1

Can you run 'gdb /path/to/kernel.debug' and do 'l *0xc052d0a7' (the value of 
instruction pointer above)?

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Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)

2006-08-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 31 July 2006 09:35, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>  > Mike Jakubik wrote:
>  > > I tried that, unfortunately it does not work. All i want to know is if 
>  > > this a shortcoming of freebsd or the motherboard, if its the later, i 
>  > > will contact the manufacturer.
>  > 
>  > If ACPI doesn't include the sysctl's that's due to your BIOS, not 
FreeBSD.
>  > You can verify by doing an acpidump and seeing if you have any thermal
>  > zones listed in your ASL.
> 
> I have a similar problem.  This is what sysctl says:
> 
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 8.3C
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 1
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 9.8C
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 31.3C
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
> dev.acpi_tz.0.%desc: Thermal Zone
> dev.acpi_tz.0.%driver: acpi_tz
> dev.acpi_tz.0.%location: handle=\_TZ_.THM0
> dev.acpi_tz.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
> 
> The value of tz0.temperature is always 8.3C and never seems
> to change.  In reality it should be rathe 20C and change
> slightly during day and night.
> 
> This is an excerpt from "acpidump -d" on that machine, which
> seems to imply that it _should_ support thermal readings
> (but I'm not a low-level ACPI expert):
> 
> Scope (_TZ)
> {
> Name (\TEMP, 0x0AFF)
> ThermalZone (THM0)
> {
> Name (_TSP, 0x3C)
> Name (_TC1, 0x04)
> Name (_TC2, 0x04)
> Name (_PSL, Package (0x01)
> {
> \_PR.CPU0
> })
> Method (_PSV, 0, NotSerialized)
> {
> Store ("_PSV Method", Debug)
> Return (0x0B0E)
> }
> Method (_SCP, 1, NotSerialized)
> {
> Notify (THM0, 0x81)
> }
> Method (_TMP, 0, NotSerialized)
> {
> Store ("_TMP Method", Debug)
> Return (TEMP)
> }
> Method (_CRT, 0, NotSerialized)
> {
> Store ("_CRT Method", Debug)
> Return (0x0BE5)
> }
> }
> }
> 
> Is it a bug in the ACPI BIOS or a bug in FreeBSD code?

Well, your _TMP method just returns the TEMP constant.  It may be that your 
BIOS is supposed to be overwriting the TEMP constant periodically.  It's not 
a bug in FreeBSD though.

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Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, July 31, 2006 11:05 pm, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 7:49 PM, User Freebsd wrote:

>> I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as
>>  most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing
>> endless headaches ...
>>
>> Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported
>>  platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure
>> out a suitable replacement for the card ...
>>
>> So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with?  Its a remote
>>  server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play,
>> same slot that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to
>> reformat the server afterwards ...
>
> You may want to consider the LSI MegaRAID cards...  There are various
> ones.  Do you need the low profile format?  Look at the 320-1lp for
> that otehrwise the 320-1 or 320-2x
>
> They have freebsd drivers and a command line management app.

We've been bitten bad by these cards.  LSI MegaRAID 150-6 SATA RAID
controllers (PCI-X format).  The management tools are crap, the
throughput is crap, the onboard SATA chipset is a Silicon Image.  And
they will not run reliably when plugged into a riser card.  Testing
with FreeBSD 6.0 32-bit and 64-bit, and Debian Linux testing (32-bit
and 64-bit) has shown these cards to not be worth the time, hassle,
money, or effort.

We lost data on several servers before narrowing down the cause to
these cards.  We lost several weeks of time diagnosing these things. 
And we lost several hundred dollars when the vendor wouldn't take them
all back (we got them to trade most of them for 3Ware 9550SX cards).

In our experience, these cards are crap, and their tech support isn't
much better.



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Re: "scan stuck" with if_iwi(4)

2006-08-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:47:16PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:28:12PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> >> Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> >>> Oh? Sounds interesting, where can I find these patches?
> >> The work has always been in perforce.freebsd.org; look in the sam_wifi
> >> branch.  The code will not hit head until folks show up to fix legacy
> >> drivers that use net80211.  I got stuck holding the bag when I committed
> >> the wpa support and it ain't going to happen again.
> >>
> > 
> > Do you have a list of drivers that are stalling this? 
> 
> The changes decouple scanning from the net80211 state machine so any
> driver that uses ieee80211_new_state is affected:
> 
> tubby% grep -l ieee80211_new_state */*.c
> ath/if_ath.c
> awi/awi.c
> ipw/if_ipw.c
> iwi/if_iwi.c
> ral/rt2560.c
> ral/rt2661.c
> usb/if_ural.c
> wi/if_wi.c
> 
> I know how to convert ath and ral.  iwi and ipw might not be too bad now
> that they've been changed to not abuse the state machine so much.  awi,
> ural, and wi will break.  ural might be ok after the new usb stack comes
> in but that's not clear.
> 
> So I guess I'd take responsibility for ath and ral and want help with
> all other drivers.

IMO, losing awi in the process wouldn't be a big deal.  We'll be
maintaining 6.x until well into 2008 and all the awi cards are defunct.

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problem with lib/libpam/modules/pam_ssh

2006-08-01 Thread Pavel Pisarenko
Hello All,

I have problem with make buildworld on my 2 different servers
FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE/i386/RELENG_6 (CVSup'ed today)

cut here===
===> lib/libpam/modules/pam_self (all)
cc -O2 -pipe -march=pentium4 -I/usr/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_self/../../../..>
building static pam_self library
ranlib libpam_self.a
===> lib/libpam/modules/pam_ssh (all)
make: don't know how to make ssh_namespace.h. Stop
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/src/lib/libpam/modules.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/lib/libpam.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
===

I tried to find file ssh_namespace.h, but it does not exist
Makefile (/usr/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_ssh/Makefile) has reference
to ${OBJS} ${POBJS} ${SOBJS}: ssh_namespace.h

cut here===
# PAM module for SSH
# $FreeBSD: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_ssh/Makefile,v 1.20.2.2 2006/07/14 16:48:
52 ru Exp $
===

Any ideas?

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Re: Odd PCI and ACPI messages on 'INSYDE RSDT_000' laptop

2006-08-01 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello Bruno,

* Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This means you can't get configuration for speedstep on this processor
> via ACPI because something is broken into the bios.
> 
> But since we have that:
> 
> > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1498.73-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x695  Stepping = 5
> ^^^
> speedstep should work if you put:
> cpufreq_load="YES"
> into /boot/loader.conf
> and you don't need acpi_perf anyway.

I built the cpufreq module and rebooted. I now have an est0 and p4tcc0
device. Powerd now sets the processor to a lower clockrate. Thanks a
lot!

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Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Scott Long wrote:


Ok guys, time for a small breather here.  All these claims about
EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed.
First, the iir driver is being worked on when the need arises.  Several
bugs were fixed in it a few months ago, and until Mark's recent series
of mails on it, no other problems had been reported.  So far there is
only one person reporting unhappiness with it, which doesn't necessarily
mean that there is systematic trouble with the driver or the hardware.
Second, various Adaptec sources have confirmed that they do support
FreeBSD.  Making big statements in public that they don't, or that it's
not up to ones' standards or hopes, isn't terribly useful or productive.
I'd hate for FreeBSD to turn into That Other BSD that publically abuses
and harasses vendors for percieved sleights.  There are much more
positive and product ways to fix problems and form good relationships,
and those ways are actively being pursued by some people right now.


As email'd previous, I do apologize if my email was taken as "disgruntled 
against Adaptec", for it was not meant as such ... it was merely meant as 
a warning to others, similar to your disclaimer below, that if you are 
running a card using the iir(4) driver, and are looking to move up to 
FreeBSD 6.x, that they might experience issues ...


Please also note that until I hit what, from most angles, was appearing to 
be major brick walls, I was doing everything I could to, and am still 
willing to, provide all of the information I can towards diagnosing and 
fixing the issue ...


I had tried all avenues that I knew about ... I tried email'ng the listed 
MAINTAINER, no response ... I got an email from one developer telling me 
that there wasn't much that could be done, due to the closed specs, 
without being able to get ahold of said MAINTAINER ... and the response I 
got back from ICP Vortex was one of "the inbox driver should work fine, 
but we don't official support FreeBSD" ... it doesn't leave much of a warm 
feeling that the driver is anything but orphaned :(


My email was meant as a warning so that others could hopefully avoid the 
several weeks it took me to get to the point that all *appeared* lost ...


Also, please note that in my email, I did finish it off with a plea that 
if anyone from Adaptec, or working with them, was out there, that my 
server was pretty much at their disposal to fix the problem, even at the 
risk of losing clients due to the downtime ...


And here again is my standard disclaimer: I highly recommend that anyone 
who takes their data integrity seriously should spend time qualifying 
any RAID solution that they are interested in before putting it into 
production.  What works for your workload might not work for someone 
else's workload, and vice-versa.


In this case, we're talking about 3 servers that ran flawlessly with the 
iir(4) driver under 4.x, that are no exhibiting the deadlock/hang issues, 
after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x ... Up until upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, I've 
*never* had a problem with either an Adaptec controller, or running one 
with FreeBSD ...




 >

Scott


Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

Hello!


'k, just to clarify here ... the new products won't be based on the iir(4) 
driver then?



Yes, they won't.



Basically, should the iir(4) driver be considered EOE also?



As far as Adaptec and ICP Vortex are concerned, yes. Since the
driver is Open Source, there is no enforced EOE, just "orphanage",
if nobody is willing to work on it.

Regards,

Patrick M. Hausen
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Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread Scott Long

Ok guys, time for a small breather here.  All these claims about
EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed.
First, the iir driver is being worked on when the need arises.  Several
bugs were fixed in it a few months ago, and until Mark's recent series
of mails on it, no other problems had been reported.  So far there is
only one person reporting unhappiness with it, which doesn't necessarily
mean that there is systematic trouble with the driver or the hardware.
Second, various Adaptec sources have confirmed that they do support
FreeBSD.  Making big statements in public that they don't, or that it's
not up to ones' standards or hopes, isn't terribly useful or productive.
I'd hate for FreeBSD to turn into That Other BSD that publically abuses
and harasses vendors for percieved sleights.  There are much more
positive and product ways to fix problems and form good relationships,
and those ways are actively being pursued by some people right now.

And here again is my standard disclaimer:
I highly recommend that anyone who takes their data integrity seriously
should spend time qualifying any RAID solution that they are interested
in before putting it into production.  What works for your workload
might not work for someone else's workload, and vice-versa.

Scott


Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

Hello!


'k, just to clarify here ... the new products won't be based on the iir(4) 
driver then?



Yes, they won't.



Basically, should the iir(4) driver be considered EOE also?



As far as Adaptec and ICP Vortex are concerned, yes. Since the
driver is Open Source, there is no enforced EOE, just "orphanage",
if nobody is willing to work on it.

Regards,

Patrick M. Hausen
Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit


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Re: Odd PCI and ACPI messages on 'INSYDE RSDT_000' laptop

2006-08-01 Thread Bruno Ducrot
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:33:58AM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Last week I got a laptop from a few friends of mine with a broken
> screen. I removed the screen from the device and connected a regular CRT
> to it to install FreeBSD 6.1 on it for serving as a jukebox (silent,
> doesn't consume too much power).
> 
> I first tried FreeSBIE 1.1, which just deadlocked during the bootsplash.
> After that I downloaded a FreeBSD 6.1 CD. When I boot FreeBSD 6.1
> without the ACPI kernel module, it panics (fatal trap 12) right after
> probing uhci0. When I boot with ACPI, it boots like it should. Because
> the laptop doesn't have a serial connector, I didn't copy the kernel
> backtrace. If it is really needed, I'll boot the CD once again and type
> over the screen contents.
> 
> Anyway, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on it, with the ACPI module loaded, but
> I still get some really strange messages in my dmesg I thought would be
> useful to mention:
> 
> | ...
> | cpu0:  on acpi0
> | acpi_perf0:  on cpu0
> | acpi_perf0: failed in PERF_STATUS attach
> | device_attach: acpi_perf0 attach returned 6
> | ...
> | acpi_perf0:  on cpu0
> | acpi_perf0: failed in PERF_STATUS attach
> | device_attach: acpi_perf0 attach returned 6
> | ...


This means you can't get configuration for speedstep on this processor
via ACPI because something is broken into the bios.

But since we have that:

> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1498.73-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x695  Stepping = 5
^^^
speedstep should work if you put:
cpufreq_load="YES"
into /boot/loader.conf
and you don't need acpi_perf anyway.

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Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello!

> 'k, just to clarify here ... the new products won't be based on the iir(4) 
> driver then?

Yes, they won't.

> Basically, should the iir(4) driver be considered EOE also?

As far as Adaptec and ICP Vortex are concerned, yes. Since the
driver is Open Source, there is no enforced EOE, just "orphanage",
if nobody is willing to work on it.

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Re: GEOM_BDE: where is my partition?

2006-08-01 Thread Stefan Bethke


Am 01.08.2006 um 16:41 schrieb Felipe Neuwald:


Stefan,

Yes, the disk have been detected:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/felipe]# dmesg | grep ad5
ad5: 194481MB  at ata2-slave UDMA66
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/felipe]# ls -laF /dev/ad5
crw-r-  1 root  operator0,  62 Aug  1 10:39 /dev/ad5

And here is the fdisk output:

...

fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found


Well, there you go: that's why there is no ad5s1, and thus ad5s1c.

Maybe you got lucky, and only the first sector of the disk got lost  
in that crash. If you know how you had partitioned that disk  
*exactly*, or you have another disk of the same size that is  
partitioned *exactly* the same, you might try to re-create the slices  
usign fdisk, or copying over the first sector with dd.  Otherwise,  
you need to restore from backup.



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Re: GEOM_BDE: where is my partition?

2006-08-01 Thread Felipe Neuwald

Stefan,

Yes, the disk have been detected:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/felipe]# dmesg | grep ad5
ad5: 194481MB  at ata2-slave UDMA66
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/felipe]# ls -laF /dev/ad5
crw-r-  1 root  operator0,  62 Aug  1 10:39 /dev/ad5

And here is the fdisk output:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/felipe]# fdisk /dev/ad5
*** Working on device /dev/ad5 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=395136 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=395136 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
   start 63, size 398297025 (194480 Meg), flag 80 (active)
   beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
   end: cyl 895/ head 15/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:

The data for partition 3 is:

The data for partition 4 is:


Felipe.


Stefan Bethke escreveu:

(Please do *not* crosspost.)

Am 01.08.2006 um 15:36 schrieb Felipe Neuwald:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# ls /dev/ad5s1c
ls: /dev/ad5s1c: No such file or directory


Is the actual disk probed? (dmesg output should show that.)

If the hardware is still detected, what does fdisk say about the 
slices on that disk?



Stefan


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iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:


Hello!

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:


That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me
the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they
were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll check what they have
to say about the GDT controllers.


OK - so here's the deal:

The GDT products are officially EOE (End Of Engineering).
ICP Vortex will not provide capacity to update their own
driver for FreeBSD 6.

The new products will feature full FreeBSD support, eventually.
(couple of weeks, he said)


'k, just to clarify here ... the new products won't be based on the iir(4) 
driver then?  Basically, should the iir(4) driver be considered EOE also?



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Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd


A quick follow up on this email ... please note that I have not, in this 
email, pointed to anything but the iir(4) driver, and, more specifically, 
the GDT controller card ...


I have been using Adaptec products since the early 90's, and, until 
upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, *never* had a complaint with them ... this email 
was meant to be a 'caveat emptor' for anyone looking to use the iir(4) 
driver, and is not meant to apply to *all* Adaptec cards, as they don't 
all use the iir(4) driver ...


Apologies to all who took this as a broad attack against Adaptec, it was 
not meant as such ...


On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote:



'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to 
be:


"FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the "GDT" based ICP RAID
controllers. Nevertheless the inbox driver should work."

Great, well, the inbox driver doesn't work with FreeBSD 6.x, and support 
doesn't exist to get it fixed, mainly since, as most ppl here know, the specs 
are closed, so even a non-Adaptec person can't do much to fix the problem(s) 
...


For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) 
driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to heavy 
load, where the 'blocked' state just continues to rise until file accesses 
just no longer work ...


So, if you are running a server that is using the iir(4) device driver and 
are considering upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x and beyond, or are looking to build 
a new machine using a device that relies on this driver, do so at your own 
peril ...


Please note that this deadlock issue exists on *both* the ICP Vortex cards, 
*and* the Intel based RAID controllers ...


If anyone from Adaptec is out there and is actually interested in seeing this 
problem fixed, *please* let me know ... I have three servers, all three 
exhibiting this problem, and one of them is fully loaded with the kernel 
debug stuff so that I can (I think) give you almost *anything* you want in 
the way of information concerning the problem ...




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Re: GEOM_BDE: where is my partition?

2006-08-01 Thread Stefan Bethke

(Please do *not* crosspost.)

Am 01.08.2006 um 15:36 schrieb Felipe Neuwald:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# ls /dev/ad5s1c
ls: /dev/ad5s1c: No such file or directory


Is the actual disk probed? (dmesg output should show that.)

If the hardware is still detected, what does fdisk say about the  
slices on that disk?



Stefan


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Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote:


On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote:


I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most
ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches
...

Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported
platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a
suitable replacement for the card ...

So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with?  Its a remote
server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play, same slot
that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to reformat the server
afterwards ...



I contacted Achim Leubner not long ago, about wheather he still
maintains and supports the iir(4) driver, as claimed in the SEE ALSO
section of the manpage.  His answer was yes.


I email'd him several weeks back, as soon as it was determined that the 
problem I've been experiencing with the deadlocks looked to be iir 
related, and didn't hear anything back :(



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Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:


Hi!

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote:


Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported
platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a
suitable replacement for the card ...


That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me
the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they
were working on full FreeBSD support.


Great, that definitely wasn't the feel that I got from them ... I've been 
using Adaptec products since early 90's, mainly because they have always 
been the 'tried-n-true' product ...


As I mentioned to someone else, I'm willing to endure having the server 
hang up a few times in order to debug the problem, and fix the driver, but 
any correspondance that I actually got answers back on gave me the feel 
that I was on my own ... my previous email to this was meant to warn 
others to think twice, especially with newer FreeBSD boxes, about going 
with anything that runs on the iir(4) driver ...



 
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Re: Panic

2006-08-01 Thread Robert Watson


On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Robert Watson wrote:


On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Graham Menhennitt wrote:


Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

current process = 479 (mountd)


I have the same panic reproducibly. Shutting off nfs_server_enable (i.e. 
mountd) in rc.conf prevents it. This is with 6-STABLE cvsupped yesterday. 
I'll get some more info and follow up the PR.


I rebuilt my kernel (to enable debugging) and now it doesn't panic. So it 
seems that an old kernel (from around the end of May) with a new mountd 
(from Sunday) will crash. But a new kernel with a new mountd won't.


FYI, I've managed to reproduce this on a 7-CURRENT kernel, so will try to 
take a look at this in detail in the next few days.  It looks like a race 
during socket connect/accept for UNIX domain sockets, likely involving 
simultaneous close, which may be a sign of a bug in mountd (or the like) 
that triggers it. Of course, the kernel shouldn't panic under those 
circumstances. :-)


On further reflection, this is simply a bug in the UNIX domain socket code, 
and has to do with a race between an attempt to connect to a socket and the 
socket being closed, such as may happen during a reboot.  I'll do some more 
digging and see about a possible fix for this.


Thanks,

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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GEOM_BDE: where is my partition?

2006-08-01 Thread Felipe Neuwald

Hi Folks,

I have 4 GEOM_BDE encrypted partitions in one FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE 
Server. Since the server anormally shutdown (power cut), one of 
partitions isn't more available.


Here is the partitions:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# ls -laF /etc/gbde/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Mar 23 15:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  2048 Jul 13 11:34 ../
-rw---   1 root  wheel16 Sep 26  2005 ad0s1g
-rw---   1 root  wheel16 Sep 26  2005 ad1s1d
-rw---   1 root  wheel16 Sep 27  2005 ad2s1d
-rw---   1 root  wheel16 Mar 23 15:33 ad5s1c

ad0s1g, ad1s1d, and ad2s1d are correctly mounted:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# mount | grep bde
/dev/ad0s1g.bde on /data (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad1s1d.bde on /data1 (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad2s1d.bde on /data2 (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates)

But /dev/ad5s1c doesn't exist anymore!!!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# /sbin/gbde attach /dev/ad5s1c -l /etc/gbde/ad5s1c
Enter passphrase:
gbde: Attach to ad5s1c failed: Provider not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# ls /dev/ad5s1c
ls: /dev/ad5s1c: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]#

Any idea of how to recover the partition? What could happend? =/

Here is some info about my kernel:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# cat /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/KERNEL4 | grep GEOM
options GEOM_GPT# GUID Partition Tables.
options GEOM_BDE

And about my system:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev]# uname -a
FreeBSD xingu.xxx 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Feb 20 
16:47:57 BRT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL4  i386


Thank you,

Felipe Neuwald.

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Re: Panic

2006-08-01 Thread Robert Watson


On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Graham Menhennitt wrote:


Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

current process = 479 (mountd)



I have the same panic reproducibly. Shutting off nfs_server_enable (i.e. 
mountd) in rc.conf prevents it. This is with 6-STABLE cvsupped yesterday. 
I'll get some more info and follow up the PR.


I rebuilt my kernel (to enable debugging) and now it doesn't panic. So it 
seems that an old kernel (from around the end of May) with a new mountd 
(from Sunday) will crash. But a new kernel with a new mountd won't.


FYI, I've managed to reproduce this on a 7-CURRENT kernel, so will try to take 
a look at this in detail in the next few days.  It looks like a race during 
socket connect/accept for UNIX domain sockets, likely involving simultaneous 
close, which may be a sign of a bug in mountd (or the like) that triggers it. 
Of course, the kernel shouldn't panic under those circumstances. :-)


Thanks,

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-08-01 Thread erich

Dear Nikolas Britton,

Thanks for your comment about UNIX format with arcmsr.
I will change its coding style at 1.20.00.13.
Generally, areca put its release driver on its ftp site 
ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw .

But this site maintained by areca support team.
And the driver always need passed their long term testing procedure but not 
last new pack.

If I modify  it and done a testing procedure by me.
I will send it to you all.

Best Regards
Erich Chen
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To: "erich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"FreeBSD Stable List" 

Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)



On 7/31/06, erich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Dear Nikolas Britton,

Sorry I had new arcmsr driver version 1.20.00.13 for FreeBSD 
i386/amd64/ppc

plateform.
This version add ARECA new generation RAID adapters ( SATA / SAS ) into
arcmsr.
Its xfer rate more than 800MB/sec.
I need more time to test arcmsr on PowerMac G5 even SPARC machine in my 
Lab.

Any comments and opinion with this driver will win acceptance.

Best Regards
Erich Chen


Do you have a link to download v1.20.00.13? and have you MFC'd the
changes we made back into your new code?: Here are the changes we made
to 1.20.00.02: 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/arcmsr/arcmsr.c


Could I also suggest " sed 's/.$//' " to convert those pesky CR+LF
Windows files to UNIX format.


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Re: Help my Harddrive stopped working!

2006-08-01 Thread Paig Chong Woo


Le 1 août 2006 à 08:23, Lasse Edlund a écrit :

I have an old Pentium III computer with FreeBSD 5.3 and I am using  
GEOM

GBDE encryption on a few IDE-disks that are mounted on a PCI-ide
controller.
I had some important files on a less than 1 year old 300gb Maxtor
harddrive (ad5) when it stopped working. The harddrive had been  
working

ok, and it had been in the computer all the time, so no risk physical
damage. Then I mounted and attached it and tried to move a few gb's of
files to it and I got lots of WRITE_DMA errors all over the terminal.
Then the computer crashed, next reboot I could attach it with gbde  
but not

mount, due to I/O errors, and fsck said "incorrect superblock".
After second restart the computer could not find it,
and the dmesg from the third restart is shown below.
What shall I do to get my data back? I have approx 200mb of  
critical data

there that I need to get back..


I had this kind of problem recently, and I was able to recover the  
entire data by finding a functional identical drive and swapping the  
logic boards. But then again I was lucky to find an identical drive,  
and the issue was a malfuntionning logic board...



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Re: Help my Harddrive stopped working!

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Aug-01 08:23:43 +0200, Lasse Edlund wrote:
>I had some important files on a less than 1 year old 300gb Maxtor
>harddrive (ad5) when it stopped working. The harddrive had been working
>ok, and it had been in the computer all the time, so no risk physical
>damage.

Have you touched anything in the box?  I'd check all the cables on the
off-chance that one is lose as well as re-seating the controller.  If
none of this helps, I suspect you have a choice of restoring from
backups or using the services of one of the data recovery companies.

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Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello!

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

> That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me
> the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they
> were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll check what they have
> to say about the GDT controllers.

OK - so here's the deal:

The GDT products are officially EOE (End Of Engineering).
ICP Vortex will not provide capacity to update their own
driver for FreeBSD 6.

The new products will feature full FreeBSD support, eventually.
(couple of weeks, he said)

Technically, the ICP guy was quite confident, that ICP's
own driver for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x didn't show the problems
we have on FreeBSD 6 with the FreeBSD iir driver.
He recommended using ICP's driver source as a reference when
trying to fix the FreeBSD 6 driver.

I'm not a kernel developer so I cannot really comment on this.


HTH,

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Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote:
> 
> I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most 
> ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches 
> ...
> 
> Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported 
> platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a 
> suitable replacement for the card ...
> 
> So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with?  Its a remote 
> server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play, same slot 
> that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to reformat the server 
> afterwards ...
> 

I contacted Achim Leubner not long ago, about wheather he still
maintains and supports the iir(4) driver, as claimed in the SEE ALSO
section of the manpage.  His answer was yes.

That all I know.

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Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi!

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote:

> Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported 
> platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a 
> suitable replacement for the card ...

That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me
the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they
were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll check what they have
to say about the GDT controllers. We run typo3.org on four
heavily loaded systems with these cards. We did not update to
6.x yet, because of fear of the mythical NFS deadlocks.
Now things seem to get even worse.

> So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with?  Its a remote 
> server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play, same slot 
> that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to reformat the server 
> afterwards ...

We just ordered this box here:

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/storage/ssr212cc/

It contains two Intel SRCS28X RAID Controllers, that are supposedly
supported by the amr driver and the Linux Megamgr utility.

The system should arrive in about two weeks - if you're interested,
I'll keep you updated.

Regards,

Patrick M. Hausen
Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit
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punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung
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ncplogin panic

2006-08-01 Thread m . ehinger

Hi,

i had the same problem. See my thread on the freebsd-fs mailinglist

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-July/002060.html


After some research i use the attached patch against ncp_sock.c.

So it is not the real solution to this problem it only avoids the panics. I'm 
using it quiet a while without any other known
problems.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge can help on this.

I also get some "md_get_mem(461): incomplete copy" messages which seem to do no 
harm, so far.

Regards,

Maik


!!! Use atyour own risk !!!

--- ncp_sock.c.origFri Jan  7 02:45:49 2005
+++ ncp_sock.c   Thu Jul 20 14:12:45 2006
@@ -189,7 +189,12 @@
 struct thread *td = curthread;
 struct ucred *cred = NULL;

-return so->so_proto->pr_usrreqs->pru_sopoll(so, events, cred, td);
+if ( td->td_selq.tqh_last == NULL ) {
+printf("ncp_poll: td->td_selq.tqh_last == NULL\n");
+return 0;
+}
+
+   return so->so_proto->pr_usrreqs->pru_sopoll(so, events, cred, td);
 }

 int

 pach ends here ---



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