Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:29:38 +0800, lei yang wrote: > Yes, the second version I post is using the source from you supplied, > then I compiled it, but it has no > "-U" flag like what I post, it seems a version different casued this. Yes. The version distributed by the ports collection is different

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Carl Johnson
lei yang writes: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to build a "netcat" on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it >>> possible? I'm new to free bsd >> > > > it has no "-U" flag, can you point me where

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, lei yang wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:59:55 +0800, lei yang wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon wrote: >>> > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: >>> >> Hi, [...] > >

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread lei yang
ast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/netutils/netcat/ >> > >> > ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/security/purdue/netutils/netcat/ >> > >> > http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/lprng/TOOLS/ >> > >> > You could try to use that source distributio

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
netcat > > in /usr/ports/net/netcat (which can also be used). That > > port's Makefile lists some sources: > > > > ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/netutils/netcat/ > > > > ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/security/purdue/netutils/netcat/ > >

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-22 Thread lei yang
.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/netutils/netcat/ > > ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/security/purdue/netutils/netcat/ > > http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/lprng/TOOLS/ > > You could try to use that source distribution as well. > > Thanks for the great help, I have built it

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Jul 22 09:44:21 2012 > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800 > From: lei yang > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu > > Hi, > > I want to build a "netc

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-22 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: > Hi, > > I want to build a "netcat" on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it > possible? I'm new to free bsd I hope I don't misunderstand your intention: You are trying to build a Linux executable of netcat from FreeBSD's sources? You _do_ know

help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-22 Thread lei yang
Hi, I want to build a "netcat" on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it possible? I'm new to free bsd I have to quesion: 1)where to download it's source it for "netcat" 2)how to build it on ubuntu with gcc? only make? Thanks Lei ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Good luck with your nightmare. if i would be in his case i would first not touch it and then slowly analyze EVERYTHING that is used on that system, and ask users how exactly they use it (i mean shared folders etc). Then i will step by step fix things to proper state, waiting for complaints

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-21 Thread Modulok
known files e.g: /etc/master.passwd should be root read/write and so on. You can build up your initial database of known permissions by parsing a clean install with the same scripts you just wrote. Also see the 'file' command to help identify executables. Obviously, you're going to have t

Re: amd64, 57600 serial install help

2012-07-21 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
I assume you have compiled the bootblocks as per the instruction in the handbook. Second, do you have more than one serial port on the box because FreeBSD can only work its serial console magic on only one port at a time. If you redirect your IPMI serial console or just a normal serial console,

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
l 2012 10:12:05 +0200 (CEST) > > Subject: Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare > > > > [[ sarcastic comment with no useful value removed ]] > > > > it's a mess, and ofcourse everything is "critical" there is no room for > > > interru

amd64, 57600 serial install help

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Macdonald
what am i doing wrong here? From rebuilding the install iso and from the handbook instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html which suggests that in /boot/loader.conf only console="comconsole" is required, i have tried this and also ex

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From: Wojciech Puchar > Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:12:05 +0200 (CEST) > Subject: Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare > [[ sarcastic comment with no useful value removed ]] > > it's a mess, and ofcourse everything is "critical" there is no room for &g

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:55:29 +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > Now, I have no idea which processes actually require access to those > files, what privileges these processes run with and which files are > actually executable or just plain files. For differentiating "files' nature", use "file " to ide

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
tion of service. Now, I have no idea which processes actually require access to those files, what privileges these processes run with and which files are actually executable or just plain files. i can only help you with base system and ports permissions, and /var and /etc just look how it should b

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/07/2012 07:55, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > So, how can I > > - determine if files are actually unix executables or just plain files > (or windows executables)? file(1) should help. > - determine which users actually need read or write access to these files? This is in most c

Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-19 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi: I have inherited a problem that is no cause for envy, the previous administrators had no idea what they were doing, so problems with a permission denied would be solved by chown -R 777 /whatever! Needless to say, it's a mess, and ofcourse everything is "critical" there is no room for inte

Re: Could someone help me with Dovecot AD integration PAM setup?

2012-06-22 Thread Waitman Gobble
aster: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=91263 > uid=0 code=kill) > Jun 22 10:02:03 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=38998 > uid=0 code=kill) > Jun 22 10:04:08 auth-worker(1229): Error: pam(,127.0.0.1): > pam_authenticate() failed: authentication error (/etc/pam.d/dovec

Could someone help me with Dovecot AD integration PAM setup?

2012-06-22 Thread Kaya Saman
m_authenticate() failed: authentication error (/etc/pam.d/dovecot missing?) Jun 22 10:20:57 auth-worker(1232): Error: pam(,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: authentication error (/etc/pam.d/dovecot missing?) Can anybody help me with this? Regards, Kaya __

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home to my PC tonight, but this hopefully is enough to replicate the crash

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:11:11 am Mark Felder wrote: > So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a > state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about > getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over > a netw

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network or something because I don't believe it can write through the

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:56:02 pm Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? > > > > We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU > VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using m

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using multiple CPUs in his video transcoding VMs. Unfortunately I can't give

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:06:13 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Do you only have one CPU in this VM? If not, do you know which threads the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? correct, only one CPU in the VM ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:47:46 am Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above > > information in it so we don't lose it? > > > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping

Re: Need some help building bootcrunch

2012-05-30 Thread Rick Miller
t into an > mfsroot.  I'm unable to get it built completely and hoping someone > might be able to help me identify the issue. > > crunchgen runs and exits without issue.  Running make fails with the > following error indicating it's not able to find, presumably, libmd &g

Need some help building bootcrunch

2012-05-30 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I am attempting to build a bootcrunch file that I will inject into an mfsroot. I'm unable to get it built completely and hoping someone might be able to help me identify the issue. crunchgen runs and exits without issue. Running make fails with the following error indicating it&

Re: Kernel Panic any help?

2012-05-29 Thread Jens Jahnke
y much f...ed up. I always got an "access denied" on every operation I tried on the device node for the root partition. I had to delete and re-create the partition. Well I took the "oportunity" and upgraded to 9.0. ;-) Thanks for the help, Jens -- 29. Wonnemond 2012, 18:18

[ports] Need help for port which claims to install but doesn't; package installs ok

2012-05-27 Thread Gary Aitken
First, my apologies for previous posts which hijacked an existing thread. I thought changing the subject line was ok and had forgotten about in-reply-to. So my apologies for a repost; I've gotten no replies and am not sure others actually saw / processed it or just ignored because of the bad etiq

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Please email freebsd-wireless@ with wireless related questions. Try "wlandebug -i wlan0 +crypto" and see if you get encryption errors. Unfortunately there's currently no broadcom NIC maintainer, so things are falling behind. adrian ___ freebsd-q

Re: Kernel Panic any help?

2012-05-25 Thread John Levine
>panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch Something's fairly badly screwed up on your disk. My advice would be to boot from a CD or USB key and run fsck to try to repair it. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Kernel Panic any help?

2012-05-25 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, as a happy freebsd user since about 2 years I have experienced my first kernel panic and have no idea what to do. My main machine crashed an hour ago and since then I can't get it to boot. The panic message: panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace #0 0x

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, You guys now absolutely, positively have enough information for a PR. It's still not clear whether it's a device/interrupt layer issue in FreeBSD, or whether vmware is doing something wrong with how it implements shared interrupts, or a bit of both.. Adrian On 24 May 2012 13:54, dane foster

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 24. May 2012, at 13:47 , Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above >> information in it so we don't lose it? >> > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it per

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread dane foster
Hey all, On 25/05/2012, at 1:47 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above >> information in it so we don't lose it? >> > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to ge

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? If this is indeed the problem then I really think we should root cause why the driver and/or interrupt handling code is getting angry with the shared interrupt. I'd also appreciate it if you

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 13:47:45 -0500, Michael Powell wrote: Very curious how 'irq 22 at device 22.0' and 'dev.mpt.0.%location: slot=22' all match with a '22'. Strangely here in ESXi that doesn't work the same. Emulated BIOS must be considerably different... :/ $ vmstat -i interrupt

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Powell
Mark Felder wrote: > OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash > and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards > interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. > > I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:01:19 -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: You could try switching mpt to MSI. MSI interrupts are never shared. Add this to /boot/device.hints: hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1" Currently implementing this on the known crashy servers. I've been looking around and all of our VM

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Boyer
On May 21, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and > the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards > interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. > > I'm still trying to test thi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was able to recreate my cra

Re: help me please

2012-05-12 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Vinicio Santiago Altamirano Mendez : > > > please can u tell me how to remapping tftp with a remapping file or exist > > another form?. > > i see that in tftp manual no exist the -m option > > how to do remapping on tftp on mac os x 10

Re: help me please

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Vinicio Santiago Altamirano Mendez : > please can u tell me how to remapping tftp with a remapping file or exist > another form?. > i see that in tftp manual no exist the -m option > how to do remapping on tftp on mac os x 10.6 pleas > thanks. Is this question for FreeBSD or Mac OS X?

help me please

2012-05-11 Thread Vinicio Santiago Altamirano Mendez
please can u tell me how to remapping tftp with a remapping file or exist another form?. i see that in tftp manual no exist the -m option how to do remapping on tftp on mac os x 10.6 pleas thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
Quick update: I have received word last night that this crash has been consistently happening to someone on FreeBSD 9 and they're looking for more ideas. I changed the following 41 days ago: - Video memory to "auto" if it wasn't already - SCSI controller changed from LSI Logic Parallel to L

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:07:04AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 > On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse > wrote: > > On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple ne

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: > > Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network > > profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc,

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireles

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 11, Message: 21 On Sat, 5 May 2012 19:26:00 -0400 (EDT) Chris Hill wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > Anton Shterenlikht wrote; > > [snip] > > >> ...I still find the whole networking area perfectly impenetrable. (If > >>

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 5 May 2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote; [snip] ...I still find the whole networking area perfectly impenetrable. (If you can recommend a really introductory book on the subject, I'd really appreciate it. [snip] See also "TCP/IP Network Administration". This i

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
Anton Shterenlikht wrote; > I'm afraid I understand very little > from what you've written. Sorry > to be such a shmuck. I've read a couple > of books on networking, someting like > Patterson & Hennesy (?) Networking - system > approach (?), but I still find > the whole networking area perfectly

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
0lo0 # I'm afraid I understand very little from what you've written. Sorry to be such a shmuck. I've read a couple of books on networking, someting like Patterson & Hennesy (?) Networking - system approach (?), but I still find the whole networking area perfectly impenetrab

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:56:33PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > It looks like you're missing a route. > > > > I suspect you've got a wired ethernet port, that is being conigured > > with a default address. and the default route points -there-. > > > > Plea

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 04:38:18PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2012 21:03:07 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > [..] > > wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > > ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe > > inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > nd6

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 07:30:17AM +0800, Buganini wrote: > how about > `ifconfig wlan0 mode 11b` > > 11g sticks very soon for me and some other people. > > Regards, > Buganini seems to make no difference: wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe inet 192.168.

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
just can't get the wireless connection, > > even to the router: > > > > % ping 192.168.1.1 > > PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes > > ping: sendto: No route to host > > ping: sendto: No route to host > > ^C > > > > On the console

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 May 2012 21:03:07 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [..] > wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe > inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > nd6 options=29 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Buganini
> % ping 192.168.1.1 > PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: No route to host > ping: sendto: No route to host > ^C > > On the console I see: > > RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) > RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) > RX dec

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
e to host > ping: sendto: No route to host > ^C > > On the console I see: > > RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) > RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) > RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) > RX decryption attempted (old

help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
ryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1) firmware version (rev 410 patch 2160 date 0x751a time 0x7c0a) Please help What am I doing wrong? What else can I try? Many thanks -- Anto

Re: need help on installing bsd in virtual box

2012-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:01:28 +0100 (BST), dhillon sandeep wrote: > Hi, >    I am struggling in installing the bsd in virtualbox > i am totally new to unix, but have previously installed > Ubuntu linux in my virtual box, i have dounloaded both the > images bootonly and release iso, after creatin

Re: need help on installing bsd in virtual box

2012-04-27 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:01 PM 4/27/2012, dhillon sandeep wrote: Hi, I am struggling in installing the bsd in virtualbox i am totally new to unix, but have previously installed Ubuntu linux in my virtual box, i have dounloaded both the images bootonly and release iso, after creating the new virtual machine

need help on installing bsd in virtual box

2012-04-27 Thread dhillon sandeep
Hi,    I am struggling in installing the bsd in virtualbox i am totally new to unix, but have previously installed Ubuntu linux in my virtual box, i have dounloaded both the images bootonly and release iso, after creating the new virtual machine and starting it for first time and by selecting

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
year ago, many many things have changed >> since then. > > was an unwarranted criticism for reasons that I've already explained. Everything in that paragraph is a fact. If you feel criticized when people state facts, I'm not sure how much I can help you. Please note, I

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Felder
Guys, The crash on my machine with debugging has evaded me for a few days. I'm still looking for further suggestions of things I should grab from the DDB when it happens again. Thanks for the help everyone! ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
> On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticize

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticized. If you

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
t installing random other versions and hoping that it's going to > > cause a fail ... well, let's just say that doesn't make a whole lot > > of sense. Or at least it's a recipe for a hell of a lot of busywork, > > busywork not guaranteed to return any sort of u

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a he

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Jim Bryant
Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another product t

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:53:10 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: On the same vmdk files? "Deleting the VM" makes it sound like not. Fresh new VMDK files every time, and always thick provisioned. None of the other VM's, even the VM's that had been abused in this horribly insensitive manner of being pla

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > Have you migrated these hosts, or were they installed in-place and > > never moved? > > fwiw the apparent integrity of things on the VM is consistent with > > our experience too. > > VMMotion and StorageVMMotion does not seem to affect th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
We don't have any indications that before the crash processes will take unusual amounts of CPU. The only time there is high CPU usage is at the point where it does enter the crashed state and no longer seems to be able to communicate with the disk. I'm not sure this is the same bug but we'l

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Have you migrated these hosts, or were they installed in-place and never moved? fwiw the apparent integrity of things on the VM is consistent with our experience too. VMMotion and StorageVMMotion does not seem to affect the stability. Even

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > > It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically > > crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. > > It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, > > what technology,

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > >>> FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > >> > >> As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > >> it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer >

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
x27;s in a hung state, register dumps of the PIC/APIC to see what state they're in, etc. Maybe pull in someone like ixsystems and see if they can help debug this kind of stuff? If you're paying vmware for support, you could pull them into things with ixsystems and see if the two of t

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerome Herman
the debugger the next time it crashes. And when it crashes, what the heck should I be running? I've never played with the KDB before... Thank you for any suggestions and help you can give me ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, what technology, whether you're us

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> > And then there is this one with similar symptoms and a workaround: > > > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D27899 > > I'm now investigating those loader.conf options. I have my crashy machine > set to use them on next boot so we'll see if it crashes now that I'm using > LSI SAS emu

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
ction. Meanwhile, this is still a volunteer project, and as a result sometimes the best way to get attention to a problem is to verify that it hasn't already been fixed. You've been around more than long enough to understand this Joe. We can spend time arguing about what *should* be (actually we

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:53:52 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt Yes, they offer Paravirtual (not applicable

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > If we assume mpt is the culprit > Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt Also, it's not VMWare'

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:49:30 Joe Greco wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? > > > > We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit > > version. And it's not so mu

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:53:02 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: Not so long ago, VMware implemented a clever scheme for reducing the overhead of virtualized interrupts that must be delivered by at least some (if not all) of their emulated storage controllers: http://static.usenix.org/events/atc11/tech

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another product that would virtualiz

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:05:30 -0500, Mark Atkinson wrote: If this is an interrupt problem with disk i/o, then you might want to look into (DDB(4)) show intr show intrcount maybe show allrman Thank you! I really don't know what things we should be running in DDB to diagnose this and we wi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerry
no > > difference. I think we've done a fair job ruling out VMWare. > > > > > > I think we've finally found enough data that this is definitely > > something in the FreeBSD world. I'm going to begin prepping some of > > the known crashy servers

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Atkinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/29/2012 07:03, Mark Felder wrote: > Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I > came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no > idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see > something out

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:36 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky > wrote: > >> >> It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI >> devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout? >> >> What does "wmstat -i" output? >> >

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jim Bryant
to begin prepping some of the known crashy servers with more debugging. Any suggestions on what I should build the kernel with? They never do a proper panic, but I definitely want to at least *try* to get into the debugger the next time it crashes. And when i

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:49:30 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: I explained it at the time to one of my VMware friends: This is 100% identical to what we see, Joe! And we're so unlucky that we have this happen on probably a dozen servers, but a handful are the really bad ones. We've rebuilt them fr

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:36 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout? What does "wmstat -i" output? --HPS Here's a server that has a week uptime and is due for a crash any

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:31:24 -0500, Eduardo Morras wrote: Don't know about ESXi but on others VM Managers i can change the chipset emulation from ICH10 to ICH4. Can you change it to an older chipset too? Unfortunately there's no setting in the GUI for that but I'll keep looking to see

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:49:30 Joe Greco wrote: > > On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? > > We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit > version. And it's not so much a crash as it

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > Hi, > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit version. And it's not so much a crash as it is a "disk I/O hang". The fact that it was happening regularly t

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