Re: New Xorg - different key-codes

2020-03-11 Thread Mark Martinec
I just updated my laptop from source, and somewhere along the way the key-codes Xorg sees changed. Indeed. This doesn't just affect -CURRENT: it happened to me on -STABLE last week, so I'm copying that list too. And a "Down" key now opens and closes a KDE "Application Launcher", alternatively

Re: lame reverse DNS?

2020-02-27 Thread Mark Martinec
The problem has been resolved but I still sometimes see "connect from unknown[2610:1c1:1:606c::19:2]" in the maillog (today: 6 of 131 connections). Local unbound issue? That IPv6 has a valid reverse DNS record, so please try to investigate. Looks like an intermittent problem. Tried the followin

Re: Lockdown adaX numbers to allow booting ?

2019-09-20 Thread Mark Martinec
Kurt Jaeger writes: The problem is that if all 10 disks are connected, the system looses track from where it should boot and fails to boot (serial boot log): Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port BIOS

Re: Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2

2018-12-04 Thread Mark Martinec
.2 memstick to be able to regain control. Mark On 29 Nov 2018, at 17:01, Mark Martinec wrote: After successfully upgraded three hosts from 11.2-p4 to 12.0-RC2 (amd64, zfs, bios), I tried my luck with one of our production hosts, and ended up with a stuck loader after rebooting with a new

Re: Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2

2018-12-01 Thread Mark Martinec
ing the same problem? Mark On 29 Nov 2018, at 17:01, Mark Martinec wrote: After successfully upgraded three hosts from 11.2-p4 to 12.0-RC2 (amd64, zfs, bios), I tried my luck with one of our production hosts, and ended up with a stuck loader after rebooting with a new kernel (after the fi

Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2

2018-11-29 Thread Mark Martinec
After successfully upgraded three hosts from 11.2-p4 to 12.0-RC2 (amd64, zfs, bios), I tried my luck with one of our production hosts, and ended up with a stuck loader after rebooting with a new kernel (after the first stage of upgrade). These were the steps, and all went smoothly and normally

Reminder - [Bug 213276] port 502 is officially mbap (Modbus Application Protocol), /etc/services claims outdated asa-appl-proto

2018-08-17 Thread Mark Martinec
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213276 Any chance of getting this simple fix of /etc/services into CURRENT before it's too late for 12.0 ... ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: r313494 make perl File::Temp broken

2017-02-10 Thread Mark Martinec
2017-02-10 14:09, Iblis Lin wrote: as not a perl programmer myself. I have no idea what is going on. I found this issue while compiling math/openblas. [iblis@ns]% uname -a FreeBSD ns 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #1 r313500: Fri Feb 10 16:39:21 CST 2017 root@ns:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GEN

Re: gptzfsboot grew a lot after skein support was added; need knob to control bloat

2017-01-31 Thread Mark Martinec
2017-01-27 01:09, Allan Jude wrote: Yeah, most of the size is from the GELI support, not Skein, so that is your best starting place. On a tangential ... does the gptzfsboot really support skein checksums in 11.0? If so, then why does zfs not allow setting skein on a root pool? # zfs set c

Re: date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3

2016-08-06 Thread Mark Martinec
08.2016 18:44, Mark Martinec wrote: On 2016-08-05 17:23, Andrey Chernov wrote: POSIX does say that the default format should be the same as with "+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y". It also says that %a and %b are locale's abbreviated names. It is true for _POSIX_ locale only, as I already sa

Re: date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3

2016-08-05 Thread Mark Martinec
On 2016-08-05 17:23, Andrey Chernov wrote: On 05.08.2016 17:47, Mark Martinec wrote: [Bug 211598] date(1) default format in en_EN locale breaks compatibility with 10.3 and violates POSIX https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211598 It breaks compatibility but not violates

Re: date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3

2016-08-05 Thread Mark Martinec
On 2016-08-05 07:00, Julian Elischer wrote: On 5/08/2016 5:44 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: Should I open a bug report, or has the problem been noted? it's not clear without reading the standard whether the bug is in the old or new version. have you tried other systems? In particular I'd

Re: date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3

2016-08-04 Thread Mark Martinec
Should I open a bug report, or has the problem been noted? Mark On 2016-08-04 04:32, Julian Elischer wrote: On 4/08/2016 7:24 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: Is it normal/expected/documented that the date(1) command in 11.0 now produces a timestamp in substantially different format in an

date(1) default format changed between 10.3 and 11.0-BETA3

2016-08-03 Thread Mark Martinec
Is it normal/expected/documented that the date(1) command in 11.0 now produces a timestamp in substantially different format in an "en_US.UTF-8" locale (long names, commas, 12 vs. 24h hour time): Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 12:50:43 AM CEST vs: Thu Aug 4 00:52:29 CEST 2016 Setting LC_TIME

Re: OpenSSH HPN

2015-11-11 Thread Mark Martinec
For a fast transfer of large files see sysutils/bbcp. It uses ssh to establish authorized connection, then does a transfer over multiple parallel TCP sessions by itself. If data encryption is needed, combine it with security/hpenc Mark ___ freebsd-c

Re: Segmentation fault running ntpd

2015-11-04 Thread Mark Martinec
Upgrading 10.2-RELEASE-p6 to 10.2-RELEASE-p7 now solved ntpd crashes (apparently fixed by: FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-15:20.vm). Thanks!!! Mark On 2015-11-01 10:31, Andre Albsmeier wrote: On Fri, 30-Oct-2015 at 19:47:59 +0100, Mark Martinec wrote: Not sure if it's the same

Re: 11.0-CURRENT r290273: installer fails with "out of swap space" error

2015-11-03 Thread Mark Martinec
On 2015-11-03 21:50, Maxim Pugachev wrote: I tried to install r29273 into Parallels VM, but got an error on "distextract" stage. Here is the last messages from bsdinstall_log: DEBUG: f_debug_init: ARGV=[distextract] GETOPTS_STDARGS=[dD:] DEBUG: f_debug_init: debug=[1] debugFile=[/tmp/bsdinstall_

Re: Tunnelling IPv4 over IPv6 for GitHub access?

2015-11-02 Thread Mark Martinec
Craig Rodrigues wrote: I have some machines which are on an IPv6 only network. It works great and I can access most things on the IPv6 Internet that I need like Google ( [2607:f8b0:4004:808::1014]) , Facebook ([2a03:2880:1010:df05:face:b00c:0:2]), CNN ( [2620:100:e000::8001]), etc. However, t

Re: Segmentation fault running ntpd

2015-10-30 Thread Mark Martinec
Not sure if it's the same issue, but it sure looks like it is. I have upgraded a couple of hosts (amd64) from 10.2-RELEASE-p5 to 10.2-RELEASE-p6, i.e. the freebsd-upgrade essentially just replaced the /usr/sbin/ntpd with a new one; then I restarted the ntpd. On all host but one this was successf

Re: Some unresolved but important X.org problems

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Martinec
2015-02-11 Beeblebrox wrote: I have been having problems described below since March of 2014, but did not have much of an option other than to wait for gradual improvements. Considering that 11 is nearing official RELEASE, I would think these problems would be worth consideration. I'm posting in

Memory corruption in a master perl process after child exits - only under FreeBSD 10.0 amd64 (not in 10.1 or 9.*)

2015-01-26 Thread Mark Martinec
There is a problem report since July 2014 in a Perl bug tracker, which seems to affect only FreeBSD 10.0 amd64 (regardless of a version of Perl or usage of clang vs. gcc compiler): https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122199 I wonder if someone intimately familiar with handling of virtua

Re: DigitalOcean offers VMs with FreeBSD!

2015-01-15 Thread Mark Martinec
But here are some thread about FreeBSD is way slower than Linux in these virtual installations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487 May be IOPS quotation? Can you test with dd and custom kernel with MAXPHYS=1048576 ? Don't know about DO, but networking over virtio is also slower und

Re: ssh None cipher

2014-10-18 Thread Mark Martinec
If the purpose of having a none cipher is to have a fast file transfer, then one should be using sysutils/bbcp for that purposes. Uses ssd for authentication, and opens unencrypted channel(s) for the actual data transfer. It's also very fast, can use multiple TCP streams. Mark On 10/18/14 06

Re: [CFT] SSP Package Repository available

2014-08-22 Thread Mark Martinec
2014-08-22 18:07, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 21 Aug 2014, at 18:07, Bryan Drewery wrote: On 8/21/2014 10:53 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote: On 8/21/2014 5:34 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: Does clang (in 10-STABLE or CURRENT) support also the option -fstack-protector-strong ? Not sure if clang 3.4 has it

Re: [CFT] SSP Package Repository available

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Martinec
Bryan Drewery wrote: Ports now support enabling Stack Protector [1] support on FreeBSD 10 i386 and amd64, and older releases on amd64 only currently. Support may be added for earlier i386 releases once all ports properly respect LDFLAGS. To enable, just add WITH_SSP=yes to your make.conf and re

Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Martinec
me wrote: we are talking about NAT64 (IPv6-only datacenter's path to a legacy world), and NPT66 (prefix transalation). I doubt anyone had a traditional NAT in mind. Kevin Oberman wrote: No, all of the messages in the thread are specific about NAT66, not NPT66. NPT66 may have real value. I ha

Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?

2014-07-28 Thread Mark Martinec
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Darren Reed wrote: [...] IPFilter 5 does IPv6 NAT. With the import of 5.1.2, map, rdr and rewrite rules will all work with IPv6 addresses. NAT66 is a specific implementation of IPv6 NAT behaviour. 2014-07-29 00:07 Kevin Oberman wrote: And all IPv6 NAT is ev

Re: zfs send/recv: STILL invalid Backup Stream

2014-07-25 Thread Mark Martinec
2014-07-25 15:41, Larry Rosenman wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:58:48AM +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: Don't know, I'd guess some network-related memory limit is being hit on the sending site. Why not try to decouple the 'zfs send' from a network copy and ssh: Login to a re

Re: zfs send/recv: STILL invalid Backup Stream

2014-07-25 Thread Mark Martinec
On 2014-07-24 19:56, Allan Jude wrote: or better yet: ssh r...@tbh.lerctr.org "zfs send ..." | mbuffer -m 16M | zfs recv ... (The misc/mbuffer compensates for bursty zfs reads and writes. A note to myself: I should suggest to Allan to add mbuffer in a pipe as used in sysutils/zxfer, instead

Re: zfs send/recv: STILL invalid Backup Stream

2014-07-24 Thread Mark Martinec
2014-07-25 01:36 Larry Rosenman wrote: #!/bin/sh DATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"` #DATE2=2013-03-24 #DATE2=`date -v "-1d" "+%Y-%m-%d"` # snap the source ssh r...@tbh.lerctr.org zfs snapshot -r zroot@${DATE} # zfs copy the source to here. ssh r...@tbh.lerctr.org "zfs send -v -R zroot@${DATE} | \ ssh

Re: zfs send/recv: STILL invalid Backup Stream

2014-07-24 Thread Mark Martinec
2014-07-24 21:57, Larry Rosenman wrote: Sending zroot/home@zxfer_26699_20140724135840 to zroot/backups/TBH/zroot/home. Write failed: Cannot allocate memory cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream Error when zfs send/receiving. borg.le

Re: zfs send/recv: STILL invalid Backup Stream

2014-07-24 Thread Mark Martinec
2014-07-24 21:31, Larry Rosenman wrote: borg.lerctr.org /home/ler # zxfer -dFkPvs -g 376 -O r...@tbh.lerctr.org -R zroot zroot/backups/TBH Creating recursive snapshot zroot@zxfer_26699_20140724135840. Checking grandfather status of all snapshots marked for deletion... Grandfather check passed. S

Re: CURRENT: why is CURRENT swapping so fast?

2014-06-20 Thread Mark Martinec
me wrote: Is this also fixed in the 10.0-STABLE by now? The situation does not improve by itself, ARC has it all, less active jobs scramble and fight for whatever free memory is left for them and most of them remain swapped out. The best curse of action to recover is to reboot. Quite a pain. O

Re: CURRENT: why is CURRENT swapping so fast?

2014-06-14 Thread Mark Martinec
me wrote: >> Is this also fixed in the 10.0-STABLE by now? >> The situation does not improve by itself, ARC has it all, less active jobs scramble and fight for whatever free memory is left for them and most of them remain swapped out. The best curse of action to recover is to reboot. Quite a pain

Re: CURRENT: why is CURRENT swapping so fast?

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Martinec
On 2014-06-12 2:26, Steven Hartland wrote: Also how recent a current there where some vm changes which apparently helped with this specifically r260567 and r265944. Is this also fixed in the 10.0-STABLE by now? I'm running "10.0-STABLE #0 r266449 May 19" (with ZFS and 16 MB of memory) and I'm

Re: 10-RC unable to build kernel without INET (i.e. IPv6-only)

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Martinec
Gleb, > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 08:13:20PM +0100, Mark Martinec wrote: > M> Under 9.2 the following could be used to build an IPv6-only kernel: > M> include GENERIC > M> makeoptions MKMODULESENV+="WITHOUT_INET_SUPPORT=" > M> nooptions INET &g

10-RC unable to build kernel without INET (i.e. IPv6-only)

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Martinec
Under 9.2 the following could be used to build an IPv6-only kernel: /sys/amd64/conf/TEST : include GENERIC makeoptions MKMODULESENV+="WITHOUT_INET_SUPPORT=" nooptions INET Now with stable/10 the: make buildkernel KERNCONF=TEST fails while building xen support: [...] cc -c -O2 -pipe -f

Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

2013-04-15 Thread Mark Martinec
On Monday April 15 2013 12:32:37 Lev Serebryakov wrote: > And, yes, NAT64 will be useful for sure, but it is another story, > not IPv6<->IPv6 translation. Fear not, NPT66 prefix translation is stateless, this is nothing like NAT44 / NAPT. On Monday April 15 2013 12:51:00 sth...@nethelp.no wrote:

Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

2013-04-14 Thread Mark Martinec
On Sunday April 14 2013 19:30:22 wishmaster wrote: > > Do we honestly need three packet filters? > Yes! This is the most clever thought in this thread. Why we need 3 > firewalls? Two packet filters it's excess too. We have two packet filters: > one with excellent syntax and functionality but with o

Re: FreeBSD services startup problems

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Martinec
On Thursday December 27 2012 00:33:25 Derrick Dantavious Edwards wrote: > Hi, > I am having problems with startup services in FreeBSD current. I am at a > loss on where the problem lies. Even though I have services explicitly > defined in rc.conf for startup they do not start. Startup scripts both

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to use the NEW pf syntax.

2012-11-20 Thread Mark Martinec
Paul Webster wrote: > I am aware this is a much discussed subject since the upgrade of PF, > I believe the final decision was that too many users are used to the old > style pf and an upgrade to the new syntax would cause too much confusion. I don't buy that. Think of a confusion in a year of two

Re: (was: Announcing the end of port CVS) no IPv6 mirrors for portsnap.FreeBSD.org

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Martinec
> For those reasons by February 28th 2013 the FreeBSD ports tree will > no longer be exported to CVS. Therefore ports tree updates via CVS > or CVSup will no longer available after that date. All users who use > CVS or CVSup to update the ports tree are encouraged to switch to > portsnap(8) [1] or

Re: Bug in Perl script

2011-12-09 Thread Mark Martinec
Alexander, > I have a script that runs command tail with open descriptor. > After 30 seconds, I close descriptor. But descriptor not closed. > When script is closed tail is present in ps aux. > > $log_file = path_to_log; > eval { > local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die; }; > alarm (30); > ope

Re: iSCSI initiator: iscontrol cannot be stopped or killed

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Martinec
Xin LI wrote: > Try procstat -kk to find the calling stack, as a start? > This could be very useful when tracking down problems. > Also the 'D' flag from ps(1) output in most times are not quite useful > and ps -o wchan would tell you what exactly it was waiting for, just FYI. Posted both a few d

Re: bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Martinec
> Seems to me the min(4KB,stripesize) would be a safe bet. s/min/max/ Mark ___ 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: bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Martinec
Nathan wrote: > The installer will align all partitions to the GEOM stripesize/offset. > We could make it do min(4KB, stripesize), but in general I think this is > better done at the GEOM level. I doubt any SSD device on the market will want to admit its internal structure, they all claim 512 sect

Re: bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Martinec
> Btw (unrelated), tried the same with a 2 TB (virtual) disk, the > guided partitioning suggested 64k boot, 2TB ufs, and 4GB swap, > but then fails with "No free space left on device". > Didn't investigate, looks like a bug. Sorry, my mistake, please disregard this claim. I chose "create" instead

bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Martinec
Using a guided partitioning install of 9.0-RC2 on a 64GB (virtual) disk (from a 9.0-RC2 ISO image) results in the following GPT partitioning: # gpart show /dev/ada0 => 34 134217661 ada0 GPT (64G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 125828992 2 freebsd-ufs

Re: iSCSI initiator: iscontrol cannot be stopped or killed

2011-11-24 Thread Mark Martinec
> > If you can get it back into this state, > > Sure, *every* time. > > > a procstat -k -k would be very helpful. > > (the second -k is not a typo). > > # procstat -k -k 5896 > PIDTID COMM TDNAME KSTACK > 5896 102364 iscontrol-mi_switch+0x174

Re: iSCSI initiator: iscontrol cannot be stopped or killed

2011-11-23 Thread Mark Martinec
On Thursday November 24 2011 01:35:28 Ryan Stone wrote: > If you can get it back into this state, Sure, *every* time. > a procstat -k -k would be very helpful. > (the second -k is not a typo). # procstat -k -k 5896 PIDTID COMM TDNAME KSTACK 58

iSCSI initiator: iscontrol cannot be stopped or killed

2011-11-23 Thread Mark Martinec
Problem: the iscontrol process starts normally and establishes a session and brings up a device, but it cannot be stopped. It does not react to a HUP signal, and neither to KILL. The /dev/da0 device is operational and the remote disk remains normally accessible, regardless of how I try to (unsucce

Upgrading 8.2 to 9.0-rc2: missing directories at 'make installkernel'

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Martinec
When upgrading a FreeBSD 8.2 (amd64) to today's csup (tag=RELENG_9, i.e. 9.0-RC2), the standard procedure got itself into trouble: rm -rf /usr/obj make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=xxx make installkernel KERNCONF=xxx (the xxx is mostly a plain vanilla 'include GENERIC' with pf alt

Re: Support for newer Ethernet chips in RE(4) driver?

2010-10-08 Thread Mark Martinec
On Friday October 8 2010 19:00:45 Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > Actually re(4) supports much more controllers than that. > Man page needs updating to reflect this. False alarm. Indeed it does work with RTL8111E. I was distracted by the lack of its mention on the man page, and by the presence of a FreeB

Support for newer Ethernet chips in RE(4) driver?

2010-10-08 Thread Mark Martinec
The current re(4) Realtek Ethernet adapter driver supports the 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8101E chips, but lacks support for newer Realtek network interface controllers such as RTL8111 C/E/D, the RTL8168 series and some other. This is unfortunate as the RTL8111E and RTL8111D controllers found their w