Re: reboot in single user

2007-07-09 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:09:20 -0400 Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as I have certain users that become very unhappy when they see a massage arrive more than an hour after it was originally sent. well...do they understand how email systems work? if they don,t then you can explain

Re: reboot in single user

2007-07-09 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm aware of SMTP retries- just trying to gauge how long it will take - as I have certain users that become very unhappy when they see a massage arrive more than an hour after it was originally sent. There's a reason email is called email and not instant messaging.

RE: reboot in single user

2007-07-09 Thread Johan Hendriks
I'm curious to know if there is a command to reboot into single user mode- * more importantly* if I do reboot in single user mode can I still SSH in? My box is not physically near me and I'm upgrading 5.5 to 6.2 - so it this possible- or do I need to go get the box and attach a keyboard

Re: Computer hangs on reboot

2007-06-01 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
, but it didn't help). The problem is that when I try to reboot it just hangs. The last line I see on the screen is Rebooting..., then some vertical lines move across the screen (maybe video mode switch or something like that), and that's it. I tried to add some debug output to cpu_reset_real() code

Computer hangs on reboot

2007-05-28 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
to reboot it just hangs. The last line I see on the screen is Rebooting..., then some vertical lines move across the screen (maybe video mode switch or something like that), and that's it. I tried to add some debug output to cpu_reset_real() code: printf(cpu_reset_real(): before keyboard reset\n); outb

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-12 Thread MikeM
On 4/10/2007 at 11:55 AM Marc G. Fournier wrote: |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |Hash: SHA1 | | |I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... | |Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a |server |*after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-11 Thread NetOpsCenter
Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no

Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-11 Thread NetOpsCenter
Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely without headaches ...

Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely without

adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard recognized? Basically, I have

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:55:19 -0300 Marc G. Fournier wrote: I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard recognized?

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 10, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard recognized? Basically,

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Steven Johnson
Hello, I am receiving your email because of a screw-up in Gmail. I have no recourse but to mark your email as spam and delete it. Gmail has been unresponsive in correcting the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/10/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 10, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Marc G.

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:21:27 +0400 Boris Samorodov wrote: hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x1 Sorry, the flag I used 0x01 (not sure if it makes any difference). WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:35:00 -0400 Steven Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am receiving your email because of a screw-up in Gmail. I have no recourse but to mark your email as spam and delete it. Gmail has been unresponsive in correcting the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Don't top

Erroneous delivery of list e-mail (was Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard )

2007-04-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steven Johnson wrote: Hello, I am receiving your email because of a screw-up in Gmail. I have no recourse but to mark your email as spam and delete it. Gmail has been unresponsive in correcting the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Steven It *might* be a screwup in GMail. However, I have

KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely without headaches ... I only need to be able to

Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:11 PM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely

RE: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Don O'Neil
Of Derek Ragona Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:09 PM To: Marc G. Fournier; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ... At 02:11 PM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know

Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
600 5 100 * J I'm looking at 'post-crash' kind of error messages ... after the point that the hard drives are no longer being written to ... as well as the ability to login remotely during a reboot when it gets to teh point that it says 'hit RETURN for /bin/sh' because it had

RE: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Tamouh H.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: April 10, 2007 3:12 PM To: Derek Ragona; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ... -BEGIN PGP

RE: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Jerry Dunham
On 10 Apr 2007 at 18:24, Tamouh H. wrote: We've used StarTech KVM Over IP switches with both windows and BSD with no major issues. They're pretty much the most reasonably priced ones out there. I've also had excellent success with fairly inexpensive IOGear MiniView KVMs. In fact, I'm

Reboot issue

2007-04-03 Thread alma
Dear, I am having a spontaneous reboot issue and I really dunno what to do.. here is which message I get from logs .. any hints what it might be ?? Apr 3 06:50:44 hope kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Apr 3 06:50:44 hope kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted Apr 3

Re: Reboot issue

2007-04-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:37:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear, I am having a spontaneous reboot issue and I really dunno what to do.. here is which message I get from logs .. any hints what it might be ?? These aren't spontaneous reboots. They're kernel panics. Apr 3 06:50

6.2-amd64 Hang at reboot on Supermicro X7DBR-i+

2007-03-15 Thread Guy Helmer
I'm investigating a problem where a pretty much stock 6.2 SMP kernel randomly hangs on multiple Supermicro X7DBR-i+ and X7DBR-8+ systems. The system syncs the filesystems and prints Uptime: ..., then hangs. So far, I've narrowed it down to the MOD_SHUTDOWN request to the rootbus module.

system does not come up after reboot due to devices in /dev missing freebsd v3.2

2007-03-13 Thread David Glassman
We have a freebsd 3.2 system and had to reboot it. Afterwards it could not fine the following: swapon: /dev/da0s1b: No such file or directory swapon: /dev/da2s1b: No such file or directory Automatic reboot in progress... Can't stat /dev/da0s1a: No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/da0s1a

Re: system does not come up after reboot due to devices in /dev missing freebsd v3.2

2007-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
David Glassman wrote: We have a freebsd 3.2 system and had to reboot it. Afterwards it could not fine the following: swapon: /dev/da0s1b: No such file or directory swapon: /dev/da2s1b: No such file or directory Automatic reboot in progress... Can't stat /dev/da0s1a: No such file or directory

Re: system does not come up after reboot due to devices in /dev missing freebsd v3.2

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:07:37PM -0400, David Glassman wrote: We have a freebsd 3.2 system and had to reboot it. Afterwards it could not fine the following: swapon: /dev/da0s1b: No such file or directory swapon: /dev/da2s1b: No such file or directory Automatic reboot in progress... Can't

named not starting on reboot

2007-02-27 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to start it manually. I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly. here are my settings in my rc.conf s nip named_enable=YES named_uid=bind named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named named_flags=-c

Re: named not starting on reboot

2007-02-27 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Noah wrote: Hi there, I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to start it manually. I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly. here are my settings in my rc.conf s nip named_enable=YES named_uid=bind named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named

Re: named not starting on reboot

2007-02-27 Thread Vince
Noah wrote: Hi there, I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to start it manually. I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly. here are my settings in my rc.conf s nip named_enable=YES named_uid=bind named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named

Re: named not starting on reboot

2007-02-27 Thread Noah
Vince wrote: Noah wrote: Hi there, I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to start it manually. I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly. here are my settings in my rc.conf s nip named_enable=YES named_uid=bind

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 12:16:08 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Jan

FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Gould
I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs Win95; but has 2 usb ports. Didn't Win98 predate usb ports? When I try to boot up with the FreeBSD 6.2 installation CD, the system

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:34:44AM -0800, Andrew Gould wrote: I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs Win95; but has 2 usb ports. Didn't Win98 predate usb ports? No,

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:34:44AM -0800, Andrew Gould wrote: I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread W. D.
At 11:34 1/28/2007, Andrew Gould, wrote: I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs Win95; but has 2 usb ports. Didn't Win98 predate usb ports? When I try to boot up with the

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread Apatewna
O/H Garrett Cooper έγραψε: Also just for the sake of the archives, Win95 ver. b (basically SP2) did have USB support but it really sucked; I couldn't the machine to recognize a number of USB devices with this version of 95. However, Win98 made a big difference in this arena since they started

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Rico Secada wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:38:43 -0700 Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill. I'll keep that in mind. I think I have the problem figured out. *base=/var/db was set in the supfile. After changing it to /usr, the problem went away. You can be 99.9%

uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Z. Wade Hampton
Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. The process begins, and starts deleting the old stuff...no problem. Then, about 10 minutes into it, the

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
the old stuff...no problem. Then, about 10 minutes into it, the system reboots all by itself - no apparent reason. Any ideas? Season's Greetings, Z. Wade Hampton Twin Bridges, Montana I don't know about the reboot, but you should always use the head . tag for ports (note that's a period

not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I had to reboot recently (a truly rare event), and I found that my PPPoE connection didn't come back up automatically. Quite disturbing if I happen to be away from the house and a power failure lasts longer than my UPS. After boot, if I run /etc/rc.d/ppp-user start, it comes up perfectly

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Christian Walther
Hello Mike, do you have ppp_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf? If you never configured /etc/rc.conf to start ppp on boot, you should take a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf to see what options are available, and what options apply to your setup. HTH Christian

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/23/06, Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. The process begins, and starts deleting the old

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mike, do you have ppp_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf? If you never configured /etc/rc.conf to start ppp on boot, you should take a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf to see what options are available, and what options apply to your

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Z. Wade Hampton
On Saturday 23 December 2006 14:10, Bill Moran wrote: Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1.

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Bill Moran
Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. The process begins, and starts deleting the old

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 23 December 2006 11:48, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I had to reboot recently (a truly rare event), and I found that my PPPoE connection didn't come back up automatically. Quite disturbing if I happen to be away from the house and a power failure lasts longer than my UPS

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have ppp-user_enable=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? No, and looking at ppp-user, I don't see why I'd need one. I have ppp_enable=YES. # PROVIDE: ppp-user # REQUIRE: netif isdnd # KEYWORD: nojail . /etc/rc.subr name=ppp rcvar=ppp_enable

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 23 December 2006 12:36, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have ppp-user_enable=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? No, and looking at ppp-user, I don't see why I'd need one. I have ppp_enable=YES. # PROVIDE: ppp-user # REQUIRE: netif

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
? Mike I forgot to mention, as a workaround if you can't get the rc.d script working you can start it from cron. Just replace the time/day/month variables with @reboot and the path to the exicutable. I use it for a couple of things that don't have start scripts. See man(5) crontab for examples

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Lane
mikes_ppp_enable 5) reboot If ppp does not start then ... edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ppp-user to REMOVE the # REQUIRE line reboot again If ppp STILL does not start ... well ... i don't like my solutions, but ... I'd delete all of the rcorder information from my script and hang on until the developer

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Lane
mikes_ppp_enable 5) reboot If ppp does not start then ... edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ppp-user to REMOVE the # REQUIRE line reboot again If ppp STILL does not start ... well ... i don't like my solutions, but ... I'd delete all of the rcorder information from my script and hang on until the developer

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to mention, as a workaround if you can't get the rc.d script working you can start it from cron. Just replace the time/day/month variables with @reboot and the path to the exicutable. I use it for a couple of things that don't have

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does not appear that rcorder is invoked when you run the script from the command line ... thus it will start when you invoke it manually as long as /etc/rc.conf agrees. Do this: rcorder -s nostart /etc/rc.d/* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rcorder -s

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:38:43 -0700 Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill. I'll keep that in mind. I think I have the problem figured out. *base=/var/db was set in the supfile. After changing it to /usr, the problem went away. You can be 99.9% sure that the problem

Can not power-off or reboot on Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.

2006-12-21 Thread Janvier Pang
Hi everyone, I have a new Acer Aspire 5100 laptop and a FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 installed. When I shutdown the machine by shutdown -p now command, the machine will hang after printing the All Buffers Synced. Uptime: xx:xx messages. If I use the reboot command to reboot the machine, i got the same

Re: Can not power-off or reboot on Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.

2006-12-21 Thread Paul Argentoff
On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:42, Janvier Pang wrote: I've tried to disable the ACPI function on start up, the system will crash and reboot. Could anybody kindly help or give some hints to solve this shutting down problem? Comment out device ehci in your kernel config: you'll see

Re: Restarting DSL connection without reboot?

2006-11-17 Thread Rafael Aquino
; - Clean arp tables; After that, when the script turns ppp on, everything works. If the problem is with the physical equipment, I once use python with telnet module to automatically log via telnet on the modem and send the command to reboot it. []´s -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. 0 xx 51

Re: Restarting DSL connection without reboot?

2006-11-17 Thread Beech Rintoul
ppp until all the ppp processes died. After that we ran /etc/rc.d/ppp-user (it's a 5.3 box) again but the connection wouldn't come up (no route to host, when pinging). 2. After reboot everything worked as it should. I really don't like to reboot servers as soon as they lose DSL connectivity

Restarting DSL connection without reboot?

2006-11-16 Thread Nejc Skoberne
/rc.d/ppp-user (it's a 5.3 box) again but the connection wouldn't come up (no route to host, when pinging). 2. After reboot everything worked as it should. I really don't like to reboot servers as soon as they lose DSL connectivity. Is there any proper way to reset the connection (network card?) so

Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Jay Chandler
Howdy. Have a box that won't restart after I cvsup it and rebuild the OS. When the 'reboot' command is given, the machine hangs after the uptime announcement. Nothing built on the box other than OpenSSH and cvs-without-gui. The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with dual 3.0

Re: Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: Howdy. Have a box that won't restart after I cvsup it and rebuild the OS. When the 'reboot' command is given, the machine hangs after the uptime announcement. Nothing built on the box other than OpenSSH and cvs-without-gui

Re: Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Jay Chandler
On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You forgot to mention what version you're running, but if it's up-to-date 6.2 there's a sysctl for using an alternate reboot method which is necessary on certain machines. Kris Sorry, this is 6.1 PL10. I wasn't aware that 6.2 was out

Re: Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jay Chandler wrote: On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You forgot to mention what version you're running, but if it's up-to-date 6.2 there's a sysctl for using an alternate reboot method which is necessary on certain machines. Kris Sorry, this is 6.1 PL10. I wasn't aware

Re: Change an IP address without a reboot

2006-11-03 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 11/2/06, Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have the order wrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] (00:22:37 ~) 0 # ifconfig xl0 inet6 2001:470:1f01:244::30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (00:23:27 ~) 0 # ifconfig xl0 xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500

Change an IP address without a reboot

2006-11-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
Yesterday I asked a couple of questions about networking (assuming that it actually went to the list, I never saw my message in my inbox which makes me wonder if it was ever posted to the list). I've worked out the issue with IPv6, now the only remaining question is how does one actually change

RE: Change an IP address without a reboot

2006-11-02 Thread Steve Bertrand
How can I eliminate the first address? I've looked over the ifconfig manual page several times, each time reading it just a little bit more carefully, but I haven't found anything that answers this question. Would some kind person please help me out and show me what it is that's

Change an IP address without a reboot

2006-11-02 Thread Robert Huff
Andrew Falanga writes: How can I eliminate the first address? I've looked over the ifconfig manual page several times, each time reading it just a little bit more carefully, but I haven't found anything that answers this question. Would some kind person please help me out and show me

Re: Change an IP address without a reboot

2006-11-02 Thread Vince
Andrew Falanga wrote: When it boots, I log in and configure an IPv6 address like this: ifconfig sis0 inet6 fec0:1:1:1::3/64 Which works just great. It so happens in this little isolated network I'm building, this address was taken, so then I did the exact same command as above only I

Re: Change an IP address without a reboot

2006-11-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 11/2/06, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mybox# ifconfig rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet 208.70.104.3 netmask 0xff80 broadcast 208.70.104.127 inet 192.168.250.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast

Re: Change an IP address without a reboot

2006-11-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
Andrew Falanga wrote: On 11/2/06, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mybox# ifconfig rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet 208.70.104.3 netmask 0xff80 broadcast 208.70.104.127 inet 192.168.250.1 netmask 0xff00

freebsd-update Reboot?

2006-10-14 Thread Chris Maness
If freebsd-update installs new kernel modules, will the system have to be re-booted? If the system does need to be re-booted, will freebsd-update do it? If I have to manually reboot, when do I know a particular update calls for re-booting? Sorry for the 20 questions. ** -- Chris Maness http

Re: Changing Hostname = Reboot machine?

2006-10-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:06:54AM +0800, David Schulz wrote: Hello all, i would like to change the Host-name one two of my Servers. Do i have to restart the Machines afterwards, or is the another way i can make the new Host-name take effect? hostname(1) is your friend. -- Jonathan

Re: Changing Hostname = Reboot machine?

2006-10-13 Thread David Schulz
Hi, i wasnt asking how to change the hostname, but if there are any things i should be aware of or have to do if changing the hostname. Thanks, David On Oct 13, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:06:54AM +0800, David Schulz wrote: Hello all, i would like

Re: Changing Hostname = Reboot machine?

2006-10-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
to be restarted. But there is now reason to reboot you system (there seldom is on freebsd). Also (even though I see you're not asking how to change the hostname) remember to put your changes in /etc/rc.conf lest you want to have your changes discarded when rebooting. Svein Halvor

Re: Changing Hostname = Reboot machine?

2006-10-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:40:45PM +0800, David Schulz wrote: Hi, i wasnt asking how to change the hostname, but if there are any things i should be aware of or have to do if changing the hostname. You don't normally have to reboot. Have a look at /etc/rc.d/hostname. Cheers. -- Jonathan

Changing Hostname = Reboot machine?

2006-10-12 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, i would like to change the Host-name one two of my Servers. Do i have to restart the Machines afterwards, or is the another way i can make the new Host-name take effect? Thanks a lot, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

StartX casues system reboot

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Jacobs
Yesterday I was happily using x-windows on my computer. The system started acting up and frroze up. The screen had a bunch of random colors displayed. T reset system and after reboot I attempted to start xwindows again and the computer rebooted itself. This has happened every time since last

StartX casues system reboot

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Jacobs
Yesterday I was happily using x-windows on my computer. The system started acting up and frroze up. The screen had a bunch of random colors displayed. T reset system and after reboot I attempted to start xwindows again and the computer rebooted itself. This has happened every time since last

Re: StartX casues system reboot

2006-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/11/06, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] blurted: Yesterday I was happily using x-windows . . . reboot I attempted to start xwindows again and the computer rebooted itself. This has happened every time since last night. This is a dual boot system so I booted into windows do see

Question on when to submit PRs (a reboot hang)

2006-09-30 Thread Chris
I have what seems to be a mostly stable 6.2 PRERELEASE that I couldn't take backward to RELENG_6_1 for reasons I couldn't figure out. Unimportant because it's being loaded with data and going to test production right now. The mostly part is that in cvsupping I picked up a nasty reboot

Baud rate change on ex-console line without reboot?

2006-09-11 Thread Doug Lee
I use a serial console (sio0 flag 0x10, /boot/loader.conf console=comconsole, /boot.config -h, /etc/make.conf BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200), but I suddenly have need to quit doing that that and to use that line for a serial output device at 9600 baud. I am trying to do this without a reboot

Install then reboot

2006-08-30 Thread Jordi Carrillo
When I compile a new program from ports, freebsd takes quite a lot of RAM. Is that something right or it's a flaw? It does happen to you? The main problem is that not all memory used in compilation is freed, so it can be a problem (meaning rebooting) after compiling a very big software such as

Re: Install then reboot

2006-08-30 Thread Jason Morgan
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:58:58PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: When I compile a new program from ports, freebsd takes quite a lot of RAM. Is that something right or it's a flaw? It does happen to you? The main problem is that not all memory used in compilation is freed, so it can be a problem

Fwd: Install then reboot

2006-08-30 Thread Jordi Carrillo
anyway, -- Forwarded message -- From: Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30/08/2006 16:52 Subject: Re: Install then reboot To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:58:58PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: When I compile a new program from ports, freebsd takes

Re: Fwd: Install then reboot

2006-08-30 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
[format recovered, please don't top post to the list] On 30/08/2006 21:05, Jordi Carrillo wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30/08/2006 16:52 Subject: Re: Install then reboot To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wed, Aug 30, 2006

gmirror/gconcat: mkdir causes system reboot

2006-07-30 Thread Brent Hostetler
. All of the samba shares are on gmirror/gconcat hybrid mount point. '/dev/gconcat/DATA' mounted on /usr/local/smbshares. Now for some uknown reason creating a directories on this directory will immediately cause reboot!! From shell prompt I can SOMETIMES do the following othertimes it reboots

Re: gmirror/gconcat: mkdir causes system reboot

2006-07-30 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- Brent Hostetler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mode 04277 inum=12258433 fs=/usr/local/smbshares panic: ffs_vallov: dup alloc I say, did u try a fsck on that file system? It looks more like an file system related problem. I would try an fsck -n ... first (just in case there is a configuration

Re: strange reboot on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-23 Thread jan gestre
On 7/23/06, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a machine that I've been monitoring for strange reboots. The machine is hardly ever used, in fact it sits idle 99.9% of the time. When a hardware failure occurs, does FreeBSD still records 'reboot' in the last command ? All

strange reboot on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-22 Thread Tamouh H.
Hello, I have a machine that I've been monitoring for strange reboots. The machine is hardly ever used, in fact it sits idle 99.9% of the time. When a hardware failure occurs, does FreeBSD still records 'reboot' in the last command ? All the sudden at no specific intervals, the machine

Re: How does dmesg(8) information survive a reboot ?

2006-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-CD and my current session with the one I have installed. This is great. I have seen those Rebooting... lines but I've always thought they were written to /var/log/dmesg* right before the actual reboot with dmesg(8) somehow retrieving them at the next boot. What is the black magic here? It's

How does dmesg(8) information survive a reboot ?

2006-07-19 Thread Ricardo Branco
with the one I have installed. This is great. I have seen those Rebooting... lines but I've always thought they were written to /var/log/dmesg* right before the actual reboot with dmesg(8) somehow retrieving them at the next boot. What is the black magic here

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE fails to reboot system

2006-07-11 Thread Loren M. Lang
I just built a new server based on a Celeron 2.53Ghz with EM64T extensions on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard and 256 DDR ram and install FreeBSD-6.1 using the amd64 version. Everything is running fine, but when I tell the system to reboot, it just hangs with the line Rebooting... Both halt and power

spontaneous reboot

2006-06-15 Thread D G Teed
Hi, A server spontaneously rebooted last night. I don't see why. The last item in the messages file prior to reboot was: Jun 15 01:40:39 machinename /kernel: NMI ISA 24, EISA ff There is nothing atypical in the messages log prior to that. The server is running fine again now. Does

Re: spontaneous reboot

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
NMI means a non-maskable interupt. So this would be a hardware component generating this. -Derek At 06:33 AM 6/15/2006, D G Teed wrote: Hi, A server spontaneously rebooted last night. I don't see why. The last item in the messages file prior to reboot was: Jun 15 01:40:39

Spontaneous reboot involving 6-stable, gdb, and -pthread

2006-06-07 Thread Jeremy Nelson
to be a panic, because I've compiled a debugging kernel with DDB and KDB, etc, and it does not trap to the kernel debugger, just a reboot, as though I had hit the reset switch. I've successfully reproduced this 100% of the time I've tried it on multiple machines, on multiple branches of freebsd. I

Error Message Upon Reboot

2006-06-02 Thread Gerard E. Seibert
The following error message suddenly appeared after I booted up my system. The PC is connected to a small LAN. I Googled but was not able to find out what the message is suppose to mean. //Error Message Below// ~ $ Jun 2 15:01:56 seibercom kernel: arp: 00:07:e9:ea:f5:52 is using my IP

Re: Error Message Upon Reboot

2006-06-02 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 2, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Gerard E. Seibert wrote: The following error message suddenly appeared after I booted up my system. The PC is connected to a small LAN. I Googled but was not able to find out what the message is suppose to mean. //Error Message Below// ~ $ Jun 2 15:01:56

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