Re: What do you use for kernel debugging?

2014-09-29 Thread José Pérez Arauzo
Hi Garrett, On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:43:45 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote [...] When I was debugging getting ACPI to work on my netbook, here were some other things I did to get the system up and going: - Built a stripped down kernel that just contains the essential bits (CPU, filesystem,

SVN r272273 breaks 'dump'

2014-09-29 Thread Michael Butler
It seems that the strptime changes broke the recognition of /etc/dumpdates. Last night's level 2 dump turned into a level 0: DUMP: Date of this level 2 dump: Mon Sep 29 00:10:26 2014 DUMP: Unknown intermediate format in /etc/dumpdates, line 1 DUMP: Unknown intermediate format in

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.
On 9/29/2014 at 2:15 AM José Pérez Arauzo wrote: |This encoded message has been converted to an attachment. | |Hi Mike, |It looks like we are hitting the same problem. If we find a |third person with the same issue we can fund a club. :) |Interesting to note: | 1) we both run FBSD on small

Re: dmesg seems broken

2014-09-29 Thread Chris H
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: Where can I get that information? Where was it sent? Why am I not allowed to view it? Sounds to me like the kernel ring buffer is now too small for all the early boot messages? OK more investigation indicates that

capsicum and netmap ?

2014-09-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, while trying the netmap-enabled libpcap library with tcpdump, i noticed it fails to return data on a kernel with capsicum (the string capability mode sandbox enabled made me suspicious, and removing the cap_*() calls from tcpdump.c seems to make things work again). Would anyone be able to

Re: dmesg seems broken

2014-09-29 Thread Allan Jude
On 09/29/2014 10:31, Chris H wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: Where can I get that information? Where was it sent? Why am I not allowed to view it? Sounds to me like the kernel ring buffer is now too small for all the early boot messages? OK

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote: |The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur |if you revert that? | = I downloaded 11-current via svn, then copied over the pre-270327 version of ata_xpt.c. make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel

Re: capsicum and netmap ?

2014-09-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:30:43PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, while trying the netmap-enabled libpcap library with tcpdump, i noticed it fails to return data on a kernel with capsicum (the string capability mode sandbox enabled made me suspicious, and removing the cap_*() calls from

Re: capsicum and netmap ?

2014-09-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:27:09PM +, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:30:43PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, while trying the netmap-enabled libpcap library with tcpdump, i noticed it fails to return data on a kernel with capsicum (the string capability mode sandbox

Re: dmesg seems broken

2014-09-29 Thread Chris H
On 09/29/2014 10:31, Chris H wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: Where can I get that information? Where was it sent? Why am I not allowed to view it? Sounds to me like the kernel ring buffer is now too small for all the early boot messages? OK

Re: dmesg seems broken

2014-09-29 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-09-29 14:22, Chris H wrote: On 09/29/2014 10:31, Chris H wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: Where can I get that information? Where was it sent? Why am I not allowed to view it? Sounds to me like the kernel ring buffer is now too small for

Re: dmesg seems broken

2014-09-29 Thread Chris H
On 2014-09-29 14:22, Chris H wrote: On 09/29/2014 10:31, Chris H wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: Where can I get that information? Where was it sent? Why am I not allowed to view it? Sounds to me like the kernel ring buffer is now too small

Re: capsicum and netmap ?

2014-09-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:20:08PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:27:09PM +, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:30:43PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, while trying the netmap-enabled libpcap library with tcpdump, i noticed it fails to return

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote: |The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur |if you revert that? | |Regards |Steve = Another data point. I just downloaded the image: FreeBSD-10.1-BETA3-i386-disc1 The looping occurs also

Re: capsicum and netmap ?

2014-09-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 06:53:08PM +, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:20:08PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... The nm_open() (which includes open and mmap) occurs before the cap_enter() call, and poll() works fine until we do the cap_enter()/cap_sandboxed() calls. I was

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote: |The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur |if you revert that? | |Regards |Steve = Yet another data point (actually two data points). I had an older STABLE image sitting around.

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread José Pérez Arauzo
Hi Mike, On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote [...] So that should put a time bracket on the issue, roughly the first half of 2014. can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank you. BR, -- José Pérez Arauzo ___

Re: Call for FreeBSD 2014Q3 (July-September) Status Reports

2014-09-29 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Reminder: the deadline for 2014Q3 status reports is just over a week away! Thanks, Ben (on behalf of monthly@) On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Ed Maste wrote: Dear FreeBSD Community, The deadline for the next FreeBSD Quarterly Status update is October 7, for work done in July through September.

[CFT] alc(4) QAC AR816x/AR817x ethernet controller support

2014-09-29 Thread Yonghyeon PYUN
Hi, I've added support for QAC AR816x/AR817x ethernet controllers. It passed my limited testing and I need more testers. You can find patches from the following URLs. http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/pci.quirk.diff and http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/alc.diff.20140930

[PATCH] nscd

2014-09-29 Thread David Shane Holden
So, I've noticed nscd hasn't worked right for awhile now. Since I upgraded to 10.0 it never seemed to cache properly but I never bothered to really dig into it until recently and here's what I've found. In my environment I have nsswitch set to use caching and LDAP as such: group: files cache

vt_suspend / vt_resume

2014-09-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
I think that currently vt_suspend / vt_resume are called at quite unsuitable times. For example, vt_suspend performs a vt switch which requires cooperation from an X server, but that could be problematic given that some devices may already be suspended. I believe that it is better to do what