Re: Machine is 'hanging'.

2000-02-28 Thread Dave J. Boers
It is rumoured that Stefan Schmidt had the courage to say: i have got a problem with a router running FreeBSD 3.4-REL: Every three days or so it hangs, whiche means that the console is not responding any more, open tcp ports don't respond == are timing-out just like they're filtered. I guess

-current hangs HARD

2000-02-21 Thread Dave J. Boers
Hi all, I have been having HARD -current hangs recently and they don't seem to be going away by cvsupping. I've been having two complete lockups (i.e. no response from X, network or serial terminal; no crashdump no whatsoever), which occured both times after approximately 10 days of uptime. The

Unknown panic in yesterday's -current

2000-02-04 Thread Dave J. Boers
Hi everyone, I just had a strange panic with yesterday's current: FreeBSD relativity.student.utwente.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Jan 28 16:15:13 CET 2000 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/RELATIVITY5 i386 A backtrace seems impossible (but I'm inexperienced with kgdb and I'm

Re: pcm - stutters

2000-01-26 Thread Dave J. Boers
It is rumoured that Devin Butterfield had the courage to say: I too notice these problems of mpg123 skipping during disk activity or X graphics ops but I have always had these problems, both with -STABLE and -CURRENT. I notice this with xmms too. So this is nothing new. Isn't this simply a

Re: Still system hangs, but different

2000-01-13 Thread Dave J. Boers
It is rumoured that Dave J. Boers had the guts to say: I'll leave the system running for a few more hours and then I will enable softupdates again to try if I can reproduce the problems and take a look with DDB. The system has been running with softupdates enabled and DDB in the kernel

Re: softupdates still broken!

2000-01-13 Thread Dave J. Boers
It is rumoured that Peter Wemm had the courage to say: Warning: softupdates is still falling over quite easily: (I run with INVARIANTS) initial pcb at 31f9e0 panicstr: softdep_lock: lock held by 412 panic messages: --- panic: softdep_disk_write_complete: lock is held syncing disks...

Re: Still system hangs, but different

2000-01-12 Thread Dave J. Boers
Matt, Like I said, I disabled softupdates on all my filesystems (and added DDB to the kernel). The system has been running 7 hours smoothly now, that's the longest uptime I've had so far with version 1.47 of ffs_softdep.c. I even recreated the directory that I couldn't delete previously and

Still system hangs, but different

2000-01-11 Thread Dave J. Boers
Hi All, After cvsup last night: FreeBSD relativity.student.utwente.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Ja n 11 04:48:17 CET 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compi le/RELATIVITY4 i386 which includes the latest softupdates changes, I still experience random system hangs, however not

Re: Still system hangs, but different

2000-01-11 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:10:10PM +0100, Dave J. Boers wrote: So I guess some problems still remain. replying to self here I have had the second occurence of the hang and I can provide some more information this time. The thing that hang's is disk i/o. The system continues to work

Re: Still system hangs, but different

2000-01-11 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:21:48AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: Everyone, make sure you are using at least version 1.47 of ffs_softdep.c. I have. I think there may still a problem but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet. Don't know if this helps, but the problem seems

Re: freezing...

2000-01-10 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:35:47PM +0100, Christian Carstensen wrote: this is funny: the system operates well, even when on heavy load (especially disk load), until i want a little more 8). to become more precisely, a cvs checkout or make world is no problem, if - and that's really

Strange SCSI related system hang

2000-01-09 Thread Dave J. Boers
Hi all, This morning I had a very strange (at least I've never seen it before) SCSI related system hang. The system simply stopped responding at 9:30:03 am this morning. I found it in this state at 13:20. It had been hanging _hard_. No response to console, serial terminal or network. After a

Re: freezing...

2000-01-09 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:43:49AM -, Joao Pedras wrote: it just... freezes! Can any of you tell me wether you have SCSI in your system (the ahc driver, perhaps)? I too had one of these strange lockups today (see earlier post) and it seems SCSI related. The lockup occured during an I/O

Re: freezing...

2000-01-09 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:10:37AM +0100, Christian Carstensen wrote: this runs stable for 3 hours now... try a current kernel (checked out 4 hours ago), using a version of the file /usr/src/sys/pci/ahc_pci.c from 2000/01/06. ok, maybe it's not by any means stable, but works better than

Re: freezing...

2000-01-09 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:48:08AM +0100, Christian Carstensen wrote: i'm using a ahc 7895 onboard on a tyan thunder 100. i've seen my cdrom occasionally not coming up until power cycling. is this a known bug with that controller? Mine is an AIC 7860 (i.e. 2940UA). I see my hard disk failing

compiling libF77/libI77

2000-01-04 Thread Dave J. Boers
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to compile and install libF77/libI77 from /usr/src/contrib/libf2c please? Or, for that matter, the whole libf2c? I need the libraries and the ones from netlib won't compile. Is there some way to include building the libraries in a standard make buildworld? Thanks a

Re: troubles with X

1999-12-30 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 06:28:02PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: For some reason now I can't startx(1) as either myself or root. I type startx and the PAM auth routines loop forever printing out 'Password:'. I comment out the last two lines in /etc/pam.conf and I get an authentication failure

Re: troubles with X

1999-12-30 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:43:47PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Here is the answer I was given by somebody on this list last week. #/etc/pam.conf # tricky tricky forgive me xserver authsufficient pam_permit.so no_use # If we don't match anything else,

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I second that! Running -current since October and

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-18 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:27:16AM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Do you boot from the UDMA66 drive ? Yes. Bios boot sequence is EXT,C,A; where EXT is set to UDMA66, not SCSI. The SCSI disk is a 4.3 Gb WD Enterprise on an Adaptec 2940AU board. What is your BIOS revision ? Award Bios v.

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: There is no way to see if the disk was in suspend mode, you can give it a command and se how long it takes before it comes back :) The problem here is that it takes the command and OK's it, but it takes the spinuptime + overhead

Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-17 Thread Dave J. Boers
Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I enabled UDMA66 (by plugging in an 80 conductor cable) on my WDC AC418000D today. The mainboard is an ABit BP6 with builtin Highpoint HPT366 ATA controller. The system works very nicely. I did some heavy testing in single user mode by moving several

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:36:42AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: One more thing, do you have SMART enabled in your BIOS ??, if so turn it off, and see if that changes anything... I don't recall having it enabled; but I will check to make sure as soon as I get home from work (which is still some

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:29:30PM +0600, Max Khon wrote: hi, there! same here, dmesg output: SNIP ata_command: timeout waiting for interrupt Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ata0-master: ad_timeout:

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:10:46AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: Dec 15 19:01:02 test /kernel: ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting Dec 15 19:01:02 test /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done snipsnip Dec 16 07:01:24 test /kernel: ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: Uhm, that wont be new WD drives, as they are exactly the same as IBM drives give or take the label :) Huh? That I didn't know. So you're saying that WD and IBM 18 Gb disks are the same hardware? My disk: ad0: WDC

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 04:50:55PM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: Check http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/prodspec/djna_spw.pdf snip If a command is received during spin down of ADM, the drive quits the spin down and tries to complete the command as soon as possible. In case the

Re: ata - disk contact lost....

1999-10-22 Thread Dave J. Boers
o have any negative side effects on my system. Thanks again, Dave. -- Dave J. Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will *NOT* read email sent to Graduate student of Theoretical Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve ...

ata - disk contact lost....

1999-10-21 Thread Dave J. Boers
of uptime. Below follows the info. Any help would be much appreciated. Should I worry about disk integrity? If you need more info, please let me know. Best regards, Dave Boers. -- Dave J. Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will *NOT* read email sent to

Re: Abit's BP6 and 'lmmon' or 'chm'

1999-10-11 Thread Dave J. Boers
Abit BP6 with two 450 Mhz Celerons. Dave. -- Dave J. Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will *NOT* read email sent to Graduate student of Theoretical Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve .http

Re: pcm oddity

1999-09-25 Thread Dave J. Boers
al celeron on an Abit mainboard. Maybe someone wants to look into this, as I don't have any device driver programming experience (and little time to learn also). Best wishes, Dave. -- Dave J. Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will *NOT* read email sent to Gradua