Re: IrDA question

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 21 July 2005 16:42, caleb wrote: The port is definitely sio1/cuaa1. I tried to run ircomm while irs was still running and got; Why? No offence but it's always worth trying something different when stuff isn't working :) cannot open pty I killed irs and used; ircomm -d

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:58:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hi, I reported this before, but I am very surprised that it is still the case: (This is from the last time it happened; this time the box rebooted and cleared the serial console

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Hans Lambermont
Eirik ?verby wrote: ... However, since I seem to be the only one who has noticed this, perhaps I'm the last person on earth to routinely use serial terminal switches instead of KVM switches to do my admin work? No, I recently installed 3 5.4-R production machines that do not have video cards,

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Eirik verby wrote: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 1; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x1c fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0620b5f stack pointer =

background fsck, softupdates inconsistent state on disk

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
Hi. Having enough opportunities to do crash recovery with kern/83375 open and some of my services not yet moved back to FreeBSD 4, I noticed that often it crashes just after (or perhaps during) mirroring of a directory tree. The mirroring involves creating a directory with in it 80 subdirectories

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:43:33PM -0700, Alexey Yakimovich wrote: My advice to FreeBSD release engineering team: - do more testing; - have it tested with hardware what was published in Hardware Notes; - do not release it for production if it is not in production quality; - reread again what

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: The above panic will show up occasionally when logging out from a serial console (i.e. ctrl-D, logout, exit, whatever). This is EXTREMELY BAD, as it will crash an otherwise perfectly healthy box at random - and renders the serial console useless.

Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Steve wrote: I've found tons of emails, news messages, listserv messages, and even some bug reports of this seemingly common error. So, I had been running 5.2 on a server, and, updated to 5.3. Got the READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA error and retries. So, figuring it might be a

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Alexey Yakimovich wrote: My advice to FreeBSD release engineering team: - do more testing; - have it tested with hardware what was published in Hardware Notes; - do not release it for production if it is not in production quality; - reread again what was written by

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:27, Marc Olzheim wrote: Thank you for expressing my exact same sentiments. I'm still a huge FreeBSD fan and switching to anything else (well, perhaps DragonFly) seems out of the question, but my faith is being tested a lot lately. Having switched some of my

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jul 21, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: The above panic will show up occasionally when logging out from a serial console (i.e. ctrl-D, logout, exit, whatever). This is EXTREMELY BAD, as it will crash an otherwise perfectly healthy box

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: I've only seen the issue when logging out of a serial console session, and had previously hypothesized that it had to do with the simultaneous timing of a console message from syslog and the opening/closing of the console's tty due to logging out and

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:29:47PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I think the best way to rectify this is to test RC candidates on YOUR hardware.. This finds the bugs you need fixed at a time when people are very receptive to fixing them. It's not realistic for the release engineer to test

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
Robert, First, thank you for your clear reply. 90% of useful FreeBSD testing happens when large FreeBSD consumers take release of FreeBSD and deploy them in their testbeds and real-world environments, and find the bugs through the application of high levels of load and obscure hardware

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Nicklas B. Westerlund
Marc Olzheim wrote: but I'd like a clear answer on what to do now in regard to taking FreeBSD 5 into 'real' production... I'd have to second this request. We rely heavily on the stability and performance of FreeBSD in our business. We've only had the occasional stupid hang on our

RELENG_6 scroll wheel

2005-07-21 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej All, I upgraded to RELENG_6 to help testing. Everything went smooth so far, but my scroll wheel in X isn't working anymore. I didn't changed anything regarding the configuration from FreeBSD RELENG_5 to RELENG_6 ... some details: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a FreeBSD beastie.mobile.rz

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jul 21, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eirik Øverby wrote: I've only seen the issue when logging out of a serial console session, and had previously hypothesized that it had to do with the simultaneous timing of a console message from syslog and the

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Marc Olzheim wrote: Indeed. That's why my company started taking FreeBSD 5.3 in use for production servers when it was out. Since then numerous bugs were fixed, some of which reported by us. Now that we're X bug fixes later in time and started to get a good feeling about

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:19:23PM +0200, Eirik verby wrote: If you cause syslogd not to send any output to /dev/console, does the problem go away? I'm afraid to say it doesn't Please, could you add: options DDB #Enable the kernel debugger options DDB_NUMSYM

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: Although I havn't seen any major problems on our servers, all using u320 scsi and smp - I don't feel as secure about my choice of upgrading to 5.x. We still have some 4.x servers in production, and judging by how this is evolving, I think I'll

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi, at this point i musttail my paint with you and the other's. I have really made a few tests on one big issue or RELENG_5. At the time as it was early enough to change things, but the guys they have me telled someone else have to fast machines to test ( in my eyes they should test on some

Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Joao Barros
Hi all, Robert, I was hopping for you to mention user's feedback. I started this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052288.html back with SNAP004. The problem is still present in BETA1. I haven't seen any more advances in the thread, and I know this must be a

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread MikeM
On 7/21/2005 at 8:29 PM Daniel O'Connor wrote: |On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:27, Marc Olzheim wrote: | Thank you for expressing my exact same sentiments. I'm still a huge | FreeBSD fan and switching to anything else (well, perhaps DragonFly) | seems out of the question, but my faith is being

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Joao Barros wrote: I was hopping for you to mention user's feedback. I started this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052288.html back with SNAP004. The problem is still present in BETA1. I haven't seen any more advances in the thread,

Re: SuperMicro X5DP8-G2MB/(2)XEON 2.4/1GB RAM 5.4-S Freeze

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: The problem is with the periodic SMM interrupt and the bios. The attached program (ich-periodic-smm-disable.c) will fix the problem. For more information on what it does, see the Intel ICH3 datasheet. compile as 'gcc

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Joao Barros
On 7/21/05, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Joao Barros wrote: I was hopping for you to mention user's feedback. I started this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052288.html back with SNAP004. The problem is still present in

why is [acpi_task1] killable?

2005-07-21 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, I've (accidentally, because of a broken pidfile) noticed yesterday that root can kill [acpi_task1] (PID 8 on my system, FreeBSD 5.4-p5/i386). Killing it resulted in an immediate and total lockup of the system. I gather that processes with [ ] around their name are parts of the kernel.

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, MikeM wrote: Your comment presupposes that most of the bugs are specific to one piece of hardware, I doubt that is a valid assertion. I would offer that most of the bugs are not present in source code specific to a certain piece of hardware, but are present in source

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2005-07-21 Thread Administrator
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Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:23 AM 21/07/2005, Joao Barros wrote: John started debugging this with another person with similar problems on 5 and the debugging never got to 6 (no feedback from the other person): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052727.html Yes, The other person is me :)

jails bring down network interface

2005-07-21 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, While tracking an issue with a jail I run, the interface to which the jail aliases it's IP to suddenly became unresponsive. My script starts the jail, then runs ifconfig alias. After starting and stopping the jail about 20 times, the interface basically froze. Ifconfig reported it as up

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:20:49PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: I know FreeBSD 5 was a strange exception in the relase scheduling and that a lot has been learned from it for the future and I'm certainly not unthankful for all the work that's done, but I'd like a clear answer on what to do

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Joao Barros
On 7/21/05, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:23 AM 21/07/2005, Joao Barros wrote: John started debugging this with another person with similar problems on 5 and the debugging never got to 6 (no feedback from the other person):

Multiple consumers of /dev/dsp

2005-07-21 Thread Josef Karthauser
In the past I'm sure that we supported the mixing of audio in the kernel so that multiple applications could open /dev/dsp at the same time. Was this a function of the audio card driver, or of the audio subsystem? Currently on my new machine I don't get any mixing, and applications fail to open

Re: Multiple consumers of /dev/dsp

2005-07-21 Thread David Adam
Josef, On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Josef Karthauser wrote: In the past I'm sure that we supported the mixing of audio in the kernel so that multiple applications could open /dev/dsp at the same time. Was this a function of the audio card driver, or of the audio subsystem? Currently on my new

Re: jails bring down network interface

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Benjamin Lutz wrote: While tracking an issue with a jail I run, the interface to which the jail aliases it's IP to suddenly became unresponsive. My script starts the jail, then runs ifconfig alias. After starting and stopping the jail about 20 times, the interface

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread MikeM
On 7/21/2005 at 2:29 PM Robert Watson wrote: |Some of us have actually spent quite a bit of time looking at the defect |sets reported for 5.x. Depending on the release they fall into a number |of categories, but here are the major ones I've identified: | [snip] |- Network stack stability under

Re: TinyBSD Call For Testers

2005-07-21 Thread Marten Vijn
I tried to build tiny freebsd a 6.0 version, which currently works on my laptop ( cvs checked out to day) did a build/install world + kernel The image build doesn't exit somewhere or errors... burned an image to my cf-card cat my.img /dev/ad4 Then booted the image boot stops : can't load

Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors

2005-07-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:54 -0500, Steve wrote: I've found tons of emails, news messages, listserv messages, and even some bug reports of this seemingly common error. So, I had been running 5.2 on a server, and, updated to 5.3. Got the READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA error and retries. So, figuring

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, MikeM wrote: Thank you for the clear answer. For the record, I am very pleased with the overall quality of FreeBSD, my comments were only meant in the sense of everything has room for improvement, even something as excellent as FreeBSD. I think everyone agrees there's

Re: TinyBSD Call For Testers

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Tracanelli
Hello Marten, Thanks for your input. Yesterday sysutils/tinybsd was updated to reflect fetching the new 0.2 TinyBSD which has some improvements related to lib depends, specially pam as it was not functional on tinybsd (opie related problems) in FreeBSD 6 like it was in RELENG_5 before.

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Martin
Robert Watson wrote: - ATA problems. Many of these, while a symptom of bugs in the ATA code running without Giant, were very specific to timing, or divergent/poor ATA hardware. As a result, they were difficult to reproduce in any environment but the original reporting environment. The

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:23 AM 21/07/2005, Joao Barros wrote: On 7/21/05, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Joao Barros wrote: I was hopping for you to mention user's feedback. I started this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052288.html There

Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors

2005-07-21 Thread Steve
Paul Mather wrote: One common thread in my case is that all ran some kind of software RAID (gvinum or gmirror), though not all of my software RAIDed machines exhibited the DMA problems leading me to think perhaps it was a hardware/load/disk combination problem. I do not use RAID at all,

Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors

2005-07-21 Thread Steve
Robert Watson wrote: 6.0 contains a significant re-write and update of the ATA driver, and corrects a number of known problems with timeouts and reliability. This rewrite is available as patches against 5.x, but has not been committed because ATA is a very sensitive thing (lots of very

Debug output when wi0 pcccard removed

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Bowen
Hello, All; I recently CVSUP'd from 5.4 to 6.0BETA1. I used the instructions in UPDATING to build/install world and used GENERIC unmodified to build the kernel. The whole procedure went without a single hitch. My question concerns the meaning of a debug message which appears when I remove my

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
Agreed. I have a PR open on the ATA issues, particularly with SATA drives, and have had it open since before 5.4-RELEASE. It remains open. Careful selection of what's where can avoid major trouble, but this is hardware that worked properly on 4.x for a LONG time - its definitely NOT defective.

RE: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Alexey Yakimovich
First of all thank you very much all for your replies. I just want to add some comments based on previous mails. - I completely agree with MikeM - any kind of complex software could be tested with right prepared test cases, specially if they are going to be reused in the next release; - if those

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: You might have to wait until 6.0-R since fixing it seems to require infrastructure changes that cannot easily be backported to 5.x. With all due respect - if this is (and I'm assuming it is, because it happens on all the

Strange panic

2005-07-21 Thread Alexander S. Usov
Hi! I have got a pair of very strange panics today. I didn't saw the exact panic message for the firs one, as the X was running at the time it has halted, and all I can say about it is that it was unable to reboot and there are no coredump. For the second one I saw a message (approximate -- I

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, Am 21.07.2005 um 13:00 schrieb Robert Watson: Have you tried, and do you plan to try, our 6.0 test releases before 6.0-RELEASE goes out the door? Specifically, on the hardware you know you're having problems with 5.4 on?

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread pcasidy
Hi all! I have read this thread with a lot of interest and I have to congratulate each of you for bringing calm, clever and interesting answers. I too felt that the quality of 5.x is not what I was used to but there are new nice and promising features. Having read most of all the emails it

RE: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Alexey Yakimovich wrote: First of all thank you very much all for your replies. I just want to add some comments based on previous mails. - I completely agree with MikeM - any kind of complex software could be tested with right prepared test cases, specially if they are

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 21, 2005, at 4:56 AM, Eirik Øverby wrote: However, since I seem to be the only one who has noticed this, perhaps I'm the last person on earth to routinely use serial terminal switches instead of KVM switches to do my admin work? no, there are plenty of us out here... i have two

Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Eli K. Breen
All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd (Slow, not usefull if the hardware isn't identical?) tar

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working code? This is a perfectly valid thing to do in -HEAD, where its heh, you know this might go BOOM on you!

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Gary Mulder
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd(Slow, not usefull

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread asym
At 15:20 7/21/2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd(Slow, not usefull if the

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:20 PM 21/07/2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd (Slow, not usefull

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:26 PM 21/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working code? I understand your frustration, but others would

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Dan Mack
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd (Slow, not usefull if

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My main problem, and to others after seeing the question from times to times, is to know which is a good (not necessarly the best) hardware to run FreeBSD on? When I buy a new motherboard, which chipset to choose/avoid, which controllers ? Maybe some website like it is

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:26 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working code? Not to mention that this happened

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Eli K. Breen
Just as a point of note, I'm not trying to roll out squeeky-clean new machines. Let's say I've got ten-fifteen sets of clusters, I need to be able to just rip a copy and blast it to another machine. Thanks for all the responses so far. -E- Dan Mack wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:51:13PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 03:26 PM 21/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
I had a shell script that would replicate a machine when I ran my ISP; you put the loader and partition table, plus a minimal system on the new machine, then ran the script and pointed it at the source. UUUPPP! In about 20 minutes it was done. Not hard to do at all with a simple

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:12:47PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:26 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:50 AM -0400 7/21/05, MikeM wrote: On 7/21/2005 at 8:29 PM Daniel O'Connor wrote: | | I think the best way to rectify this is to test RC candidates | on YOUR hardware.. This finds the bugs you need fixed at a | time when people are very receptive to fixing them. | | It's not realistic for

RE: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eli K. Breen Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:21 PM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Machine Replication All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote: Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? [...] Now whether my details are a bit off, that's fine, I don't want this to be diluted in

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:00:40PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: [original poster wrote:] - I completely agree with MikeM - any kind of complex software could be tested with right prepared test cases, specially if they are going to be reused in the next release; For static problems -- yes. For

What to do when panic?

2005-07-21 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hello, I've never debugged FreeBSD, but now I've decided to help the testing process of FreeBSD 6. I installed it, and then I had a panic. I got a debugger prompt, but I don't know what to do with that. I don't know the debugger commands. Please let me know what should I do when I have an

Silent crash on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1

2005-07-21 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 and if I use more consoles I have a silent crash. The cursor won't move and I can't change back to another console. It has happened three times so far when I was using two consoles. (I was using make + ee in the first two cases and in the third case cvsup

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Eli K. Breen
I should point out, this is for replication in a running production environment. Machines cannot be taken down, and swapping hardware is not an option. I'm currently experimenting with a copy of the MBR, and the root partition on a CD, with enough tools to attach to the network to retrieve

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Dan Mack wrote: snip Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? No. g4u and a script might do a good job for you if your hardware is mostly similar. If there was, then I

Re: What to do when panic?

2005-07-21 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 7/21/05, Kövesdán Gábor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6. I installed it, and then I had a panic. I got a debugger prompt, but I don't know what to do with that. I don't know the debugger commands. Please let me know what should I do when I have an another panic. What should I type and

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
Yep. Pretty much what I used to do with my ISP. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING!

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Andrea Campi
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Dan Mack wrote: Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up custom network images that I could

RE: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Alexey Yakimovich
Even for dynamic problems you can have your code generating detailed logs, including time, pid, thread id, cpu, function, memory ..., and have them analyzed later by some script. But this not my main point here, in this thread. All thoughts in the mails of this thread, developers as well as

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: ATA-NG (Soren's new code) is not (from what I understand) in the 5.x codebase. One bone of contention is that apparently it IS in -HEAD, but there are no plans to MFC it to 5.x. Then you misunderstand. Soren has asked to MFC it, and we've asked

RE: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Alexey Yakimovich wrote: Even for dynamic problems you can have your code generating detailed logs, including time, pid, thread id, cpu, function, memory ..., and have them analyzed later by some script. But this not my main point here, in this thread. Instrumentation

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:45:03AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: ATA-NG (Soren's new code) is not (from what I understand) in the 5.x codebase. One bone of contention is that apparently it IS in -HEAD, but there are no plans to MFC it to 5.x.

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: If Soren BELIEVES (2) is the case, I'll test against -BETA1, IF I can have confirmation that -BETA1 has the ATA-NG code in it. Its trivially easy for me to reproduce this problem on my sandbox machine. As has already been stated, Soren's changes

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Am 21.07.2005 um 13:00 schrieb Robert Watson: Have you tried, and do you plan to try, our 6.0 test releases before 6.0-RELEASE goes out the door? Specifically, on the hardware you know you're having problems with 5.4 on? Yes, I did

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Craig Boston
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote: dd(Slow, not usefull if the hardware isn't identical?) I use dd a lot for this type of thing and don't see how it could possibly be slower than any other method that duplicates the entire raw drive. Make sure to give it a

Re: RELENG_6 scroll wheel

2005-07-21 Thread Jonguk Kim
Marian Hettwer wrote: Hej All, I upgraded to RELENG_6 to help testing. Everything went smooth so far, but my scroll wheel in X isn't working anymore. I didn't changed anything regarding the configuration from FreeBSD RELENG_5 to RELENG_6 ... some details: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a FreeBSD

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:38:40AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: If Soren BELIEVES (2) is the case, I'll test against -BETA1, IF I can have confirmation that -BETA1 has the ATA-NG code in it. Its trivially easy for me to reproduce this problem on

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Janet Sullivan
I've been a BSD user since the mid-90s, and a FreeBSD user since the days 4.0 became STABLE. Right now, I have 2 collocated servers, one home server, and a laptop all running 5.4 without any serious problems. I've watched 5.x since its creation, and while there have been some rocky times, I

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread pcasidy
On 21 Jul, Dan Mack wrote: Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up custom network images that I could blast to any system just by

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Vlad GALU
On 7/21/05, Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My main problem, and to others after seeing the question from times to times, is to know which is a good (not necessarly the best) hardware to run FreeBSD on? When I buy a new motherboard, which chipset to