Re: FYI: SVN to GIT converter currently broken, github is falling behind

2015-11-11 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I just got this error when fetching from remote; related? [elars@laurel: ~/src] git fetch --all Fetching origin Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. Fetching upstream remote: Counting objects: 557, done. remote:

Re: env functionality of config(5) has no effect?

2015-10-22 Thread Eggert, Lars
amd64 -- Sent from a mobile device; please excuse typos. +49 151 120 55791 > On Oct 22, 2015, at 21:08, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:09 +, Eggert, Lars wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to include some loader tun

env functionality of config(5) has no effect?

2015-10-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm trying to include some loader tunables in the kernel, via the "env" functionality described in config(5). When I look at the compiled kernel binary with strings(1), I see that the tunables are compiled in. However, they don't seem to take any effect when booting the kernel, and they

Difference between pkg 1.5.2 and 1.5.4

2015-06-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm netbooting with a read-only rootfs. Up until version 1.5.2 of pkg, that sometimes caused some errors when installing various packages, but the install continued even if some files couldn't be written. That seems to have changed with 1.5.4. Specifically, upgrading ca_root_nss from 3.19

Re: ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-5-20, at 17:42, Ryan Stone ryst...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, I bet that you have a bunch of CPUs and ixl is consuming all of your interrupt vectors. Does setting this tunable fix the issue? hw.ixl.max_queues=1 Yeah, this box has 40 cores, but unfortunately that tunable doesn't change

Re: ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-5-18, at 19:22, Ryan Stone ryst...@gmail.com wrote: Hm, I'm unable to reproduce this on the latest -CURRENT (r283059). My hardware is a little different from yours -- my CPU is a Haswell Xeon, and I have only 1 igb port and no ixgbe. Also, I was just booting GENERIC. I didn't

Re: ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-5-18, at 16:08, Ryan Stone ryst...@gmail.com wrote: This is very strange. I have successfully netbooted -CURRENT in a very similar environment (ixl compiled into kernel and booting over igb). I can't remember when the last time I did this but it was probably within the last couple of

ixl and BOOTP

2015-05-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, when I have the ixl driver compiled into my -CURRENT kernel (or loaded as a module via loader.conf), the boot seems to hang (or silently crash) when BOOTP starts bringing up interfaces to send out probes. (I'm not netbooting over an ixl, the boot interface is an igb.) What works is

FreeBSD FUSE calls truncate() on read-only files

2015-02-25 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, this came up when trying to port tup (https://github.com/gittup/tup) to FreeBSD. Even though we are opening the file read-only with cat, FUSE calls truncate() on it, which modifies its mtime and this screws up tup. See https://github.com/gittup/tup/issues/198 Anyone know why FreeBSD's

Re: HEADS UP: Upgraded clang, llvm and lldb to 3.5.0

2015-01-07 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2015-1-7, at 16:28, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: Please open a bug and cc hselasky@ on it. Done: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196597 Lars signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: HEADS UP: Upgraded clang, llvm and lldb to 3.5.0

2015-01-07 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-12-31, at 21:41, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: I just committed an upgrade of clang, llvm and lldb to 3.5.0 to head, in r276479. there seem to be issues when building with -DWITH_OFED: --- contrib/ofed.all__D ---

Re: [PATCH] nscd

2014-09-30 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I've been seeing the same issues with nscd not caching, but unfortunately your patch doesn't seem to change things, for better or worse. My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: group: cache files nis hosts: cache files dns networks: cache files passwd: cache files nis shells: files services:

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-8-18, at 20:23, John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com wrote: Why not run a local slave on your server? I am trying to get one set up. It requires a change request to our organization's IT, which is, ahem, not always lightning fast. Lars signature.asc Description: Message signed with

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-8-19, at 13:54, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: I know that this a bit late but have you ever considered Hesiod? it uses DNS/txt. we have been using it since the days when BSDi had no NIS support and haven’t seen a ypserver not responding since :-) I don't control the

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-8-17, at 18:10, Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: We were using +: type entries in the local password and group tables and I believe we used an unmodified /etc/nsswitch.conf (excluding cache lines while testing nscd): I tried that setup too, and it doesn't seem to

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Nobody using nscd? Really? On 2014-8-14, at 13:26, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: [Resending to current@, since I can't get it to work on -CURRENT either.] Hi, anyone have an idea why nscd would not be caching NIS lookups? My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: group: cache files

nscd not caching

2014-08-14 Thread Eggert, Lars
[Resending to current@, since I can't get it to work on -CURRENT either.] Hi, anyone have an idea why nscd would not be caching NIS lookups? My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: group: cache files nis hosts: cache files dns networks: cache files passwd: cache files nis shells: files services:

Re: HEADS UP: Updated llvm/clang to 3.4 in r261991

2014-02-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-2-16, at 21:06, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: I have just upgraded our copy of llvm/clang to 3.4 release, in r261991. I just done a git pull followed by a buildworld. Shouldn't I be having version 3.4? root@six:~ # dmesg | grep clang FreeBSD clang version 3.3

Re: HEADS UP: Updated llvm/clang to 3.4 in r261991

2014-02-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Disregard - pilot error. (It's not Feb 4...) Lars On 2014-2-18, at 9:50, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Hi, On 2014-2-16, at 21:06, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: I have just upgraded our copy of llvm/clang to 3.4 release, in r261991. I just done a git pull followed

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-1-20, at 21:59, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: I believe this should work, yes. Getting a crashdump or the panic messages would be really helpful in figuring out why it isn't. Thanks. I rebuilt the kernel, and see no crashes anymore. So that's good. But there are a bunch

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-1-21, at 10:04, Lars Eggert l...@netapp.com wrote: See the attached dmesg which I of course forget to attach (sigh). See below. Lars GDB: no debug ports present970 KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979,

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Last follow-up: I just saw that there are some additional messages (errors?) on the serial console when changing the device from IB to Ethernet, maybe they mean something to someone: root@one:~ # sysctl sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1=eth sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1: auto (ib)7ib0:

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2013-7-9, at 22:08, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: So this was just fixed (finally) in HEAD in r253048. You can how use the sysctls to change this. I saw the commit. Thanks! I'll give it a try at some point

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2014-01-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, if I leave the mlx4ib device out of the kernel (i.e., only compile in mlxen), doing the sysctl switch to Ethernet mode works fine. Lars On 2014-1-20, at 13:08, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Hi, On 2013-7-9, at 22:08, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Jul 9, 2013, at 9

nfsd server cache flooded, try to increase nfsrc_floodlevel

2013-08-08 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, every few days or so, my -STABLE NFS server (v3 and v4) gets wedged with a ton of messages about nfsd server cache flooded, try to increase nfsrc_floodlevel in the log, and nfsstat shows TCPPeak at 16385. It requires a reboot to unwedge, restarting the server does not help. The clients

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-07-01 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 29, 2013, at 2:45, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: Btw, a NFSv4 mounted root fs will not work correctly, because the client name is generated from the host uuid, which isn't set when the root fs is mounted. I'm not sure what the client would use as its client name, but

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I should have mentioned that the server is FreeBSD -STABLE running newnfs, and the network isn't partitioned (because I access the box over SSH at the same time I see these messages.) They only appear under heavy NFS load (portmaster build of math/R in this case.) Lars On Jun 29, 2013,

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
Thanks Rick! I will check these Monday. Lars On Jun 29, 2013, at 2:45, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:37, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:14, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: on a -CURRENT client, I get

NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, on a -CURRENT client, I get quite a number of console messages under heavy NFSv4 load, such as: nfsv4 expired locks lost nfscl: never fnd open nfscl: never fnd open nfscl: never fnd open nfsv4 expired locks lost nfscl: never fnd open nfscl: never fnd open nfsv4 expired locks lost nfsv4

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:14, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: on a -CURRENT client, I get quite a number of console messages under heavy NFSv4 load, such as: nfsv4 expired locks lost nfscl: never fnd open actually, not sure if the nfscl message is from an NFSv4 mount point

Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)

2013-06-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:37, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: On Jun 28, 2013, at 16:14, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: on a -CURRENT client, I get quite a number of console messages under heavy NFSv4 load, such as: nfsv4 expired locks lost nfscl: never fnd open actually

reboot hanging?

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, something changed in the last 2-3 weeks on -CURRENT that causes reboots to hang after this line: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done I need to manually cycle the power to reboot. Any clues? Thanks, Lars ___

Re: ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, any further ideas? This issue still exist when building -CURRENT on -STABLE as of today. Thanks, Lars On May 23, 2013, at 12:33, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Hi, On May 22, 2013, at 13:37, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: Can you try to figure out which copy of clang

Re: reboot hanging?

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jun 17, 2013, at 15:18, Luiz Otavio O Souza lists...@gmail.com wrote: It was a change on alq. The fix was committed in r251838. Awesome! I can confirm it's fixed. Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-06-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 17, 2013, at 14:51, Bryan Drewery bdrew...@freebsd.org wrote: ccache is known to be broken with clang [1]. I would recommend not using it. Pity! We do buildworld often enough that that's an inconvenience. Sometimes CCACHE_CPP2=1 in make.conf can help. CCACHE_CPP2=1 is hardcoded in

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-06-03 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:57, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: Cool. Thanks. Would you like to review and/or test the above? it'd be great if folks would test this a bit. It certainly works for me, but I can't say that I have done a very thorough testing. I'll be happy to commit it if

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-05-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, to conclude this thread, the patch below allows one to specify an nfs rootfs via the ROOTDEVNAME kernel option, which will be mounted when BOOTP does not return a root-path option. Lars diff --git a/sys/nfs/bootp_subr.c b/sys/nfs/bootp_subr.c index 2c57a91..972fb12 100644 ---

port building warnings about compat.ia32.maxvmem

2013-05-27 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, when I try to build ports on -CURRENT, I've been seeing tons of these messages since the past week or so: make: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 1633: warning: Couldn't read shell's output for if /sbin/sysctl -n compat.ia32.maxvmem /dev/null 21; then echo YES; fi The amd64 kernel I'm

Re: ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-05-23 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On May 22, 2013, at 13:37, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: Can you try to figure out which copy of clang ccache finds and runs? I enabled CCACHE_LOGFILE, and it seems that it runs /usr/bin/clang: [2013-05-23T12:25:36.810346 48913] Command line: /usr/local/libexec/ccache/clang

ccache issues during buildworld on recent -CURRENT

2013-05-22 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, my buildworlds using ccache have recently begun failing with the message below. Buildworld without ccache works fine. Any ideas? CC='/usr/local/libexec/ccache/world/clang --sysroot=/home/elars/obj/usr/home/elars/src/tmp -B/home/elars/obj/usr/home/elars/src/tmp/usr/bin' mkdep -f .depend -a

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-23 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 22, 2013, at 2:56, Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote: As anyone been able to test this patch? I've been running with it for a few days. I've done a reinstall of all ports plus a few portmaster -a runs without pkgng database corruption. I've not tested it for very long, but

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-12 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 12, 2013, at 1:10, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: Well, I have no idea why an NFS server would reply errno 70 if the file still exists, unless the client has somehow sent a bogus file handle to the server. (I am not aware of any client bug that might do that. I am almost

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-11 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:30, Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote: First, I think you can recover your database. that would be great. Can you try the following command: # mv /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite /var/db/pkg/backup.sqlite # echo '.dump' | pkg shell /var/db/pkg/backup.sqlite |

newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, on a diskless server, I keep the ports tree and pkgng databases on a newnfs NFSv4 mount. After a bunch of portmaster -a runs, the pkgng sqlite database appears to get corrupted. For example, when I try to update an existing port, this happens: root@five:~ # portmaster ports-mgmt/pkg ...

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:02, Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote: This can usually happen when a user do not have the nfs lock system started. Are you sure that nfs lock is correctly started? with NFSv4, the locking system is integrated with the main protocol, it's no longer separate.

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 11, 2013, at 1:28, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: Error code 70 is ESTALE (or NFSERR_STALE, if you prefer). The server replies with that when the file no longer exists. File locking doesn't stop a file from being removed, as far as I know. but the file is still there.

Re: newnfs pkgng database corruption?

2013-04-10 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Apr 11, 2013, at 0:16, Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote: Will you be able to test it? yes. (But I will be traveling for the next two weeks and so the turnaround may be a bit longer than normal.) Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: NewNFS vs. oldNFS for 10.0?

2013-03-15 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, this reminds me that I ran into an issue lately with the new NFS and locking for NFSv3 mounts on a client that ran -CURRENT and a server that ran -STABLE. When I ran portmaster -a on the client, which mounted /usr/ports and /usr/local, as well as the location of the respective sqlite

Re: serial console not accepting input?

2013-03-05 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Mar 4, 2013, at 20:59, Doug Ambrisko ambri...@ambrisko.com wrote: Try to do a {Ctrl}D to see if works. We've seen that the TX on reset hangs but input works fine. I'm not sure if we ran into this with uart(4) but had a problem with sio(4). No change. Lars

Re: Dtrace: Module is no longer loaded

2013-02-21 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 16:03, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Couple of thoughts: - is your kernel installed in the typical location? yup. - what does the following produce? readelf -a -W /boot/kernel/kernel | fgrep shstrtab readelf -a -W /boot/kernel/kernel | fgrep SUNW_ctf

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 17:58, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Try top -HS .. to try and break down the kernel threads. ACPI is eating the cycles, according to top: 0 root 80 0K 496K - 2 1:13 27.88% kernel{acpi_task_2} 0 root 80 0K

system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I have a system running -CURRENT that in top(1) is showing ~20% CPU usage for the system at all times. Any ideas what could be causing this, or how I would go about diagnosing this further? Nothing in the logs. Thanks, Lars PS: dmesg attached, in case it helps: Copyright (c) 1992-2013

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:40, Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd wrote: What about reviewing top(1) ? top shows the ~20% I mentioned: last pid: 3176; load averages: 0.79, 0.80, 0.84 up 0+14:49:49 09:43:51 17

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:54, Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd wrote: And indeed we find your answer here, acpi0 firing up a lot of interrupts. Don't you get any message about that in dmesg -a or /var/log/messages ? I'd expect something like interrupt storm blabla… source throttled blabla..

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 11:21, Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd wrote: What about a newly build kernel without the line device acpi and without the options ACPI_DEBUG ? Hoping that this kernel: 1/ won't crash on boot 2/ will make the 20% cpu load and high interrupt rates disappear I added device

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, thanks for looking into this! On Feb 19, 2013, at 12:14, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Please try to run the following DTrace script (dtrace -s script-file) and capture its output. I get this error: # dtrace -s x dtrace: failed to compile script x: /usr/lib/dtrace/psinfo.d, line

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 13:15, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: You need to recompile your Kernel to use DTrace: https://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace I did. But I still get that error, even with the sample from the wiki: # dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry { @num[execname] = count(); }' dtrace:

Re: system 20% busy at all times?

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Feb 19, 2013, at 13:37, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: On Feb 19, 2013, at 13:15, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: You need to recompile your Kernel to use DTrace: https://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace I did. But I still get that error, even with the sample from the wiki

Re: Dtrace: Module is no longer loaded

2013-02-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, did you ever figure this out? I'm seeing the same thing. Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 30, 2013, at 22:43, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org wrote: What you need to do is, before the FreeBSD kernel boots, your loader needs to export some environment variables. This will trigger the various behaviors in the FreeBSD mount code. the loader can export some

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:45, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: Just a shot in the dark, did you actually tell it to do the root mount ro, or try with the nfs share as rw? ro Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:53, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: The interface doesn't have a name during loader stage. The kernel finds the interface to use based on the MAC address. You should set boot.netif.hwaddr as well in the kernel environment. Done, no change. Here is what's in

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-31 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 31, 2013, at 15:54, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: a shot in the dark, but is /usr/home/elars/dst properly exported? Yep, the NFS mount works fine when I use BOOTP with a root-path option Lars ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-30 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:32, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: On Jan 29, 2013, at 20:22, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org wrote: In src/sys/boot/common/boot.c which is part of the loader (not the kernel), if you look in the getrootmount() function, you will see that the loader

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:34, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org wrote: I recommend that you do not use ROOTDEVNAME, and instead you should follow the instructions which I wrote and contributed to the FreeBSD handbook: PXE Booting with an NFS Root File System

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-29 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:13, Lars Eggert l...@netapp.com wrote: On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:34, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org wrote: I recommend that you do not use ROOTDEVNAME, and instead you should follow the instructions which I wrote and contributed to the FreeBSD handbook: PXE

mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm trying to netboot a system where the root device is specified in the kernel via ROOTDEVNAME: options BOOTP options BOOTP_NFSROOT options BOOTP_NFSV3 options BOOTP_COMPAT options BOOTP_WIRED_TO=em4 options

Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

2013-01-28 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 28, 2013, at 16:23, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org wrote: Remove the BOOTP_NFSROOT option, it tells the bootp/dhcp code to keep querying the server until a root path is delivered. Without it, the ROOTDEVNAME option should get used (and I think even override a path from the server, if

Re: serial console not accepting input?

2013-01-24 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Jan 23, 2013, at 17:04, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: CTS/RTS hardware flow control, maybe? E.g. add :hw to the default settings in /etc/gettytab, or make a specific entry with an added :hw setting. nope, I don't even get a login prompt if I do that. If it is a physical

serial console not accepting input?

2013-01-23 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm embarrassed to ask this newbie question, but I'm at my wit's end: I've configured a serial console according to the handbook. I see the boot messages and get the login prompt. But at no point during the boot process does the console seem to accept any input, incl. when at the boot

genmodes dumping core during buildworld

2012-11-15 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, anyone see something similar before: === usr.sbin/zic/zdump (depend) rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a-DTM_GMTOFF=tm_gmtoff -DTM_ZONE=tm_zone -DSTD_INSPIRED -DPCTS -DHAVE_LONG_DOUBLE -DTZDIR=\/usr/share/zoneinfo\ -Demkdir=mkdir -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/zic/zdump/..