Re: new rc system

2003-09-15 Thread Doug Barton
We discuss rc on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feel free to send any ideas to that list. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send

Re: Question related to FreeBSD Serial Console...

2003-09-15 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gordon Tetlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : I've personally killed about 5 keyboards this way. I don't recommend hot : plugging PS/2 keyboards. PS/2 keyboards and mice are not hot pluggable. Mechanical switches do not meet the spec, but are less bad than

Re: upgrade from static to dynamic root

2003-09-15 Thread Harti Brandt
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: REOn Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:44:55PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: RE RE Hi, RE RE I just tried to upgrade one of my systems from a static root from july to RE an actual dynamic root. The installworld went fine 'til the place where RE /bin/test is

Re: mystery kernel spew

2003-09-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:13:09PM -0700, Doug White wrote: Incidentally, if you are getting wrapping even without this, you can use a serial console to capture the output. I've had to do this for doing nasty ACPI debugging with lots of the options enabled. For kernel spew, you can also increase

Re: ATA DVD-ROM failure

2003-09-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dario Freni wrote: Could you please boot verbose and mail me the output of dmesg ? Sure. That's in attachment. Okies, you need to update as there has been changes since this that should fix the problem. -Søren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: devd/devctl

2003-09-15 Thread Nik Clayton
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 06:26 pm, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: I was wondering if it would be a good idea to modify devd and devctl for them to handle other events than attaching and detaching devices.. For example, they could be used to mark a network interface as down, when the network

Re: fsck failed after hard crash

2003-09-15 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
(...) unexpected soft-update inconsistency, unable to write block, etc. going back to my 9/9/2003 good kernel, it works. i tried to use my old kernel; build with sources from fbsd 5.1 release). i rebooted the system and started fsck -y /usr again but the same problems occur :(

5.2-RELEASE TODO

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Watson
This is an automated bi-weekly mailing of the FreeBSD 5.2 open issues list. The live version of this list is available at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.2R/todo.html Automated mailing of this list will continue through the release of FreeBSD 5.2. FreeBSD 5.2

Re: Text file busy

2003-09-15 Thread Peter Edwards
Terry Lambert wrote: Wesley Morgan wrote: It's also unfortunate that this protection does not seem to extend to libaries. I've had some in-use X libraries get overwritten with some very colorful results. So send patches. I did a year ago :-) See PR 37554. (Not the original patch, the

mtools access to floppy stopped working with recent -current

2003-09-15 Thread Glenn Johnson
With a recent version of -current (09-14-2003) I can no longer write to a floppy drive with mtools commands. I get the following when trying to delete a file: plain_io: Bad address buffer_flush: write: Bad address plain_io: Bad address buffer_flush: write: Bad address plain_io: Bad address

system hang on boot w/ atapicam0: timeout waiting for ATAPI ready (5.1-CURRENT, IBM T30)

2003-09-15 Thread Lee Damon
As reported on Fri, 05 Sep 2003, I am seeing a hang on boot when I have the CD-RW/DVD installed in my T30's ultrabay. When I remove the drive the system boots fine. Having a CD in the drive does not help. The system hangs hard enough that I have to hit the power button to get it's attention.

panic: Negative bio_offset (-15050100712783872) on bio 0xc7725d50

2003-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
bad block 8239054478774324592, ino 3229486 bad block 7021770428354685254, ino 3229486 panic: Negative bio_offset (-15050100712783872) on bio 0xc7725d50 Debugger(panic) Stopped at Debugger+0x54: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 db trace Debugger(c043aa25,c04ac1c0,c0435bc2,cd1d1980,100) at

Re: panic: Negative bio_offset (-15050100712783872) on bio 0xc7725d50

2003-09-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
8239054478774324592 = 0x72570065646F4D70 = rW\0edoMp 7021770428354685254 = 0x617257006C6C6946 = arW\0lliF That looks suspicious to me... In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway writes: --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline bad block

Re: panic: Negative bio_offset (-15050100712783872) on bio 0xc7725d50

2003-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:24:24PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 8239054478774324592 = 0x72570065646F4D70 = rW\0edoMp 7021770428354685254 = 0x617257006C6C6946 = arW\0lliF That looks suspicious to me... Suspicious as indicating a kernel bug, or suspicious as in this panic is spurious

fsck mtools problems

2003-09-15 Thread Alan Cox
At the start of the weekend, I made a typo in a commit that changed vmapbuf() to use a new pmap function. The result was that raw disk access sometimes failed. I recognized and fixed the problem last night. Simply update your vfs_bio.c to the latest version and you should be fine. Sorry for

Re: Bad performance

2003-09-15 Thread Sean Chittenden
i recently switched from mandrake to freebsd. i used a second system, to install freebsd 5.1 (release) on a 15 gb western digital disk. i installed the whole system without problems and managed to start gdm and gnome2. everything worked fine and performance (launching gdm, gnome2 and

Bus error

2003-09-15 Thread Philipp Westphal
Hi today, cvsup'ed my source and build world ... and now get an so called Bus error while i want to su, anyone know about it (or fixed it) tnx wasa there is a fine line

DVD+RW not working with ATAng.

2003-09-15 Thread David Gilbert
As a status report, a recent CVSup fixed the phantom ad3 issue, but... ATAng is failing to allow my DVD+RW to cut DVD+R's. growisofs fails with 'permission denied' as it's penultimate error ... even when run as root. It also seems to coaster the DVD ... which is getting expensive. This is all

Re: ACPI problems with this morning's -CURRENT

2003-09-15 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Nate Lawson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13/09/03 14:42]: The post you reference shows the user with a kernel that has both APM and ACPI installed, apparently. This is not valid. Please report your kernel config. If GENERIC in 2003/9/6 booted fine with ACPI and then your rebuilt kernel

wi0 - 5.1 problems

2003-09-15 Thread Marcos Biscaysaqu
Hi There. Someone knows why the Freebsd wireless Access Point work so bad on Freebsd 5.1?? I try lot of thing but I couldn't make it work fine, the wireless card crash the connection , the speed is very slow whan is working, is imposible to use. but same setting , same wireless card, work

Re: upgrade from static to dynamic root

2003-09-15 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:42:27AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: REOn Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:44:55PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: RE RE Hi, RE RE I just tried to upgrade one of my systems from a static root from july to RE an actual dynamic root. The

Re: upgrade from static to dynamic root

2003-09-15 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:44:55PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade one of my systems from a static root from july to an actual dynamic root. The installworld went fine 'til the place where /bin/test is installed. At that point the installation stopped with ELF

Re: ACPI problems with this morning's -CURRENT

2003-09-15 Thread Damian Gerow
(To recap: I'm having ACPI problems on a DFI CD70-SC, with both 5.1-R and 5-CURRENT. Booting GENERIC doesn't show any problems, however, so there's a good chance it's a misconfiguration issue.) Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/09/03 17:34]: It's attached. There's no APM in

ath0, Driver support?

2003-09-15 Thread Marcos Biscaysaqu
Hi There . I have in comming a couple a Proxim 8480- pcmcia , with Atheros Chipset and 8482- pci . someone knows if this card work on Freebsd? thanks -- Marcos Biscaysaqu Systems Administrator ThePacific.Net Ltd. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: panic: Negative bio_offset (-15050100712783872) on bio 0xc7725d50

2003-09-15 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: bad block 8239054478774324592, ino 3229486 bad block 7021770428354685254, ino 3229486 panic: Negative bio_offset (-15050100712783872) on bio 0xc7725d50 Debugger(panic) Stopped at Debugger+0x54: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 db trace

Re: panic: Negative bio_offset (-15050100712783872) on bio 0xc7725d50

2003-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:42:38AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: This is either disk corruption or an ffs bug. Thanks. The disk this occurred on is a flaky IBM drive which periodically experiences other kinds of FS corruption, so I'm inclined to blame it. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Release Engineering Status Report

2003-09-15 Thread Scott Long
All, I'd like to give a status report for 4.x and 5.x for the developers and users who didn't attend the DevSummit this past weekend. 4.9: The 4.9 release is likely going to be pushed back for a few weeks while the recent instability reports are tracked down. The target goal is two weeks, but

Re: Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-15 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:18:24PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: You mean you upgrade to RELENG_5_1? Beware that this branch is currently not buildable: libpthread build is broken. Eh? By `this branch' you mean RELENG_5_1? How is it broken? If there is a problem (I don't know of any --- it

Re: Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-15 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:54:09PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:18:24PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: You mean you upgrade to RELENG_5_1? Beware that this branch is currently not buildable: libpthread build is broken. Eh? By `this branch' you mean

Re: Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-15 Thread Miha Nedok
Try without the -j option. -Mike On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Didier Rwitura wrote: Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:13:30 -0400 From: Didier Rwitura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.1 I am trying to upgrade my sysstem from 4.8-RELEASE-p4

Re: Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-15 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Didier Rwitura wrote: I am trying to upgrade my sysstem from 4.8-RELEASE-p4 to 5.1 and i getting this error message when I run make -j4 buildworld [admin]/usr/src(101)#make -j4 buildworld Running test variables PASS: Test variables detected no

Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-15 Thread Didier Rwitura
I am trying to upgrade my sysstem from 4.8-RELEASE-p4 to 5.1 and i getting this error message when I run make -j4 buildworld [admin]/usr/src(101)#make -j4 buildworld Running test variables PASS: Test variables detected no regression, output matches. Running test targets PASS: Test targets