On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
I've not had a single crash / power outage that background fsck has
been able to deal with. 90% of the time the machine will fail to even
boot to single user mode :(
You should turn write caching off on your drives.
Steve
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote:
Try:
. Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar
tool.
. Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to
finish.
. Install some other OS that recognizes the array, write the MBR and
partition
Hi,
Thought I would report back what I discovered.
Following some suggestions on this list I booted into safe mode and installed
the operating system successfully. I still couldn't get the machine to boot
except in safe mode.
After updating the source to the latest stable incarnation via
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:07:54 +0100
Alan Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After updating the source to the latest stable incarnation via cvsup I
did a makeworld and rebuilt the kernel to take advantage of SMP
support of our twin processors.
At the end of that process the server boots fine. Not
Hi!
A few weeks ago I submitted this PR and obviously, there was not enough
information provided to get some help.
The PR is http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/81215
As I am getting more and more headaches using an ugly resolution I would
like to make another round of
Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
I've not had a single crash / power outage that background fsck has
been able to deal with. 90% of the time the machine will fail to even
boot to single user mode :(
You should turn
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
As far as I understand, the *only* people who can make that driver
exists again are NVidia. I suggest you contact them and ask why they
removed support for your graphics card. I don't expect that they will
care or do anything, but they certainly won't if you don't tell
JM wrote:
Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
I've not had a single crash / power outage that background fsck has
been able to deal with. 90% of the time the machine will fail to even
boot to single user mode :(
You
Igor Robul wrote:
If you cvsup your ports, then you'll get support for legacy cards in
nvidia-driver port.
Sorry, I have posted to incorrect list :-(
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On 29. jun. 2005, at 20.58, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:28:09PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote:
On 28. jun. 2005, at 16.58, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:37:29AM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote:
Hi,
I have, since upgrading to 5.x and
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:50:33 +0200, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JM wrote:
Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
I've not had a single crash / power outage that background fsck has
been able to deal with. 90% of the time
Original Message -
From: JM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You should turn write caching off on your drives.
and in addition to that... you can enable a foreground fsck at boot
which might be the better option if boot times aren't an issue.
Normally they wouldn't but on some of our machines
Ronald Klop wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:50:33 +0200, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
JM wrote:
Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
I've not had a single crash / power outage that background fsck has
been able to deal
Error in installation of cyrus-imapd22!!
mail/cyrus-imapd22/make install clean
=== Installing for cyrus-imapd-2.2.12_1
=== cyrus-imapd-2.2.12_1 depends on
file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Pod/Parser.pm - found
=== cyrus-imapd-2.2.12_1 depends on
file:
Steven Hartland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/me looks forward to a journaling FS The FS is the one area that
really lets FreeBSD down in my
opinion. Wish I had 1. the time and 2. the knowledge to help
out with dev in the area but unfortunately I have neither :(
Remember that if you are having
Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember that if you are having trouble with softupdates and background
fsck reporting inconsistencies, journalling will just give you silent
filesystem corruption instead.
What makes you believe so?
mkb.
Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember that if you are having trouble with softupdates and background
fsck reporting inconsistencies, journalling will just give you silent
filesystem corruption instead.
What makes you believe so?
I've been trying to get 5.x installed on a machine in order to evaluate
upgrading from 4.x, but am running into a host of troubles.
First, I tried to install 5.2. Booting from CD, BTX would halt with a
register dump.
Next, I tried to install 5.3. Booting from CD, I'd eventually reach the
Beastie
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400
Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
to be frozen. Next, I installed 4.10 (which installs fine) and tried
to cvsup to -stable, but had problems with buildworld.
More information required (as almost always):
- type and model of maxhine?
- dmesg output from
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:27:17PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Torfinn Ingolfsen, and lo! it spake thus:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400
Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The machine is a clunker - P2-266 with 48MB RAM and a couple of
2GB ATA drives.
And you are not running out of
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:07:30PM +0200, Fracesco Cecconi wrote:
Error in installation of cyrus-imapd22!!
mail/cyrus-imapd22/make install clean
=== Installing for cyrus-imapd-2.2.12_1
=== cyrus-imapd-2.2.12_1 depends on
file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Pod/Parser.pm - found
This is not a problem with background fsck... this is the way soft updates
is supposed to handle a power failure. Soft updates is designed to allow
safe write caching. It orders writes such that the filesystem is always
consistent. The worst that can happen in the case of power loss is
FYI, I had a chat with the ISC folks this week, and they said in clear terms
that enabling threads on current versions of BIND would be a pessimization.
I have already turned off threads in the port of 9.3.1, and am looking at
doing that for the base as well.
Could you give the port a try for now
* Eric Ekong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050629 23:18]:
I am having issues getting dual head to work with this card and
freebsd 5.4-STABLE. I previously had it working with the G550
with no problem. I am using Xorg with everything all updated
from ports as of 5 minutes ago. As well as I am using
I am having issues getting dual head to work with this card and
freebsd 5.4-STABLE. I previously had it working with the G550
with no problem. I am using Xorg with everything all updated
from ports as of 5 minutes ago. As well as I am using the Linux
driver for 6.8.2 from Matrox. I am going to
I've been having stability problems in a new dual-core opteron machine.
When it first crashed we were running a number of multicast
applications that were listening to, recording, and rebroadcasting data. I
have been able to re-simulate the data play upto the crash and can
recreate the panic 1 out
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:00:47PM -0400, Rob Watt wrote:
#7 0x80400c0b in calltrap () at
/usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S:171
#8 0xff007c3b00f0 in ?? ()
#9 0xff007b78c500 in ?? ()
#10 0x0001840f in ?? ()
#11 0x in ?? ()
#12 0x
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:53:56PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote:
On 29. jun. 2005, at 20.58, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:28:09PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote:
On 28. jun. 2005, at 16.58, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:37:29AM
On 30. jun. 2005, at 22.56, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:53:56PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote:
On 29. jun. 2005, at 20.58, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:28:09PM +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote:
On 28. jun. 2005, at 16.58, Brian
Hi all,
Removing IPF for 5.4-STABLE seems to have made the boxes stable. I
switched all the firewalls to PF and they haven't crashed since, its been
about 3 days now... (before they were crashing every 12 hours).
Here are my worries:
1) If I were to put this machine into production, it
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:07:59PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
Hi all,
Removing IPF for 5.4-STABLE seems to have made the boxes stable. I
switched all the firewalls to PF and they haven't crashed since, its been
about 3 days now... (before they were crashing every 12 hours).
Of course,
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:07:59PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
Removing IPF for 5.4-STABLE seems to have made the boxes stable. I
switched all the firewalls to PF and they haven't crashed since, its been
about 3 days now... (before they were crashing every 12 hours).
The similar situation:
JM Basicly a process will hang in either ffsfsn (fsync induces this
JM write) or getblk (a read), and as far as I can find out, the io
JM just never returns even though the underlying block device
JM continues to work fine..
I know this is probably a stupid answer, but ... Have you upgraded
the
After changing to PF I did not notice single crash for month (production
servers with, sometimes, heavy load).
I would try FreeBSD with PF anyway. Works perfectly.
You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD with
PF because it works perfectly. To me, a month of
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:53:20PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD with
PF because it works perfectly. To me, a month of uptime isn't perfectly.
It is, comparing to two- or three-day uptime periodic when it crashes. With
IPF.
Douglas K. Rand wrote this message on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 16:40 -0500:
JM Basicly a process will hang in either ffsfsn (fsync induces this
JM write) or getblk (a read), and as far as I can find out, the io
JM just never returns even though the underlying block device
JM continues to work
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400
Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
to be frozen. Next, I installed 4.10 (which installs fine) and tried
to cvsup to -stable, but had problems with buildworld.
More information required (as almost always):
- type and model of maxhine?
It's
On Thursday 30 June 2005 23:58, Maciej Wierzbicki wrote:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:53:20PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD with
PF because it works perfectly. To me, a month of uptime isn't perfectly.
It is, comparing to
On 2005-Jun-30 18:18:16 -0400, Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More information required (as almost always):
- type and model of maxhine?
It's home-made. It doesn't have a type or model. FWIW, it's ran FreeBSD
fine since 3.2.
Presumably you bought the motherboard. What brand
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote:
Try:
. Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar
tool.
. Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to
finish.
. Install some other OS that recognizes the array, write the MBR
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:18:16PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:
- dmesg output from 4.11 (or 4.10)
Don't have it anymore.
- describe in detail your buildworld problems (and any other problems),
specifically any error messages you might get.
Basically, it konks out immediately while
On Thursday 30 June 2005 22:53, Matt Juszczak wrote:
After changing to PF I did not notice single crash for month
(production servers with, sometimes, heavy load).
I would try FreeBSD with PF anyway. Works perfectly.
You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD
Could you not use pfsync to mitigate the problem (at least
partially)? As for your original question, I think its less
work to change your hardware to something you know works than
changing operating systems. Why not use single CPU machines
for this?
My boss refuses :-(
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:18:16PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:
- dmesg output from 4.11 (or 4.10)
Don't have it anymore.
- describe in detail your buildworld problems (and any other problems),
specifically any error messages you might get.
Basically, it konks out immediately while
Mark Kirkwood wrote:
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote:
Try:
. Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar
tool.
. Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to
finish.
. Install some other OS that recognizes
Matt Emmerton wrote:
I gave precise descriptions of what happened on 5.[234]
and can provide more details if requested
Please provide dmesg output from 4.x, as this will help us help you!
Cheers
Mark
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Matt Emmerton wrote:
I gave precise descriptions of what happened on 5.[234]
and can provide more details if requested
Please provide dmesg output from 4.x, as this will help us help you!
See http://www.gsicomp.on.ca/~matt/5x/dmesg.410
--
Matt Emmerton
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:07:59 -0400 (EDT)
Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
[...]
Therefore, part of me is thinking of switching back to either 4.11 or to
OBSD 3.7. Problem is, this switch wouldn't be temporary, it would have to
be permanant. I couldn't set things up now and then move
On 6/30/05, Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400
Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
to be frozen. Next, I installed 4.10 (which installs fine) and tried
to cvsup to -stable, but had problems with buildworld.
More information required (as
On 6/30/05, Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400
Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
to be frozen. Next, I installed 4.10 (which installs fine) and tried
to cvsup to -stable, but had problems with buildworld.
More information
Matt Emmerton wrote:
Processor: Intel Pentium II 266 MHz (Slot 1)
Is the above typo, or have you underclocked it ?
(from the dmesg : CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (*232.67-MHz*
686-class CPU)
Likely a typo -- I built this machine a long time agoand all I know is that
it's
Matt Emmerton wrote:
Processor: Intel Pentium II 266 MHz (Slot 1)
Is the above typo, or have you underclocked it ?
(from the dmesg : CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (*232.67-MHz*
686-class CPU)
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Hello,
i noticed one of my boxes had the message init: can't exec getty 'none'
for port /dev/console: No such file or directory into messages and
repeating forever.
any idea what does it mean?
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