Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-17 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Scott, Monday, May 8, 2006, 2:29:23 PM, you contributed this to our collective wisdom: Hello, I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these machines. I

Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm seeing 190 Mb/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). The

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE + devel/php5-pcre incompatible?

2006-05-17 Thread Dominic Marks
Jonathan Noack wrote: Pertti Kosunen wrote: Dominic Marks wrote: Is the php5-pcre module really incompatible with FreeBSD 6.1? If so, is there a workaround or a version I can roll back to? Also, it is just me (:-)) or is the php5 port complaining about a checksum mismatch for everyone else?

Re: Upgrading to 6.1-RELEASE problems with make buildkernel

2006-05-17 Thread Yousef Raffah
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:03 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 05:15:04PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 6.1-RC to 6.1-RELEASE my cvssup file is: *default host=cvsup3.de.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr/

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-17 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Tue, 16 May 2006, Colin Percival wrote: Personally, since FreeBSD 4.11 will reach its EoL about 8 months from now, and the 4.x-[56].x upgrade path is non-trivial, I recommend installing FreeBSD 6.1 instead. Well, have you seen my simple performance benchmarking RELENG_4 vs 6?

Re: [HACKERS] semaphore usage port based?

2006-05-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Max Khon wrote: Yes, there seems to be an awful lot of noise being made about the fact that the system does, in fact, work exactly as documented, and that the configuration being complained about is one that is specifically documented as being unsupported and undesirable.

6.1 and USB: problems with mounting SonyEricsson K750 flash

2006-05-17 Thread Dennis Melentyev
Hi All! I've got a problem with mounting SonyEricsson K750 flash card: 6.1 is not stabily mounting/recognizing device, and, after several tries ended up in creating TWO IDENTICAL device nodes in /dev!!! Has anyone any suggestion on how to resolve such a problem? Here is kind of my actions log:

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-17 Thread Dimitry Andric
Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: Well, have you seen my simple performance benchmarking RELENG_4 vs 6? IMHO it mimics quote common usage pattern: it just downloads a large file with 10Mbps rate and stores it on UFS filesystem. On the same hardware (i386 uniprocessor Celeron-333 system with 128Mb

buildworld failure in libexec.mail.local on 6.1 Release

2006-05-17 Thread Victor Sherstniov
Hello! I have this problem too. I use SMTP AUTH and I get error if I do buildworld. Do you have decision of problem? Thank you. Victor Sherstniov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Messages from rc-scripts are not displayed at all

2006-05-17 Thread Sergei Mozhaisky
Hello everyone. Got a problem on FreeBSD 6.1. After kernel boot messages there are no messages from rc scripts until login prompt displayed (but rc scripts are started OK). Boot process looks like: Mounting root from /dev/ad0s1 last kernel message here is a long pause while rc scripts

buildworld failure in libexec.mail.local on 6.1 Release

2006-05-17 Thread Victor Sherstniov
Hello! After running cvsup to RELENG_6_1, I started `make buildworld KERNCONF=BEASTIE61` as per the handbook's '21.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System' In libexec/mail.local I get the following on stderr /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin/ld: warning: libldap-2.2.so.7, needed

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-17 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Wed, 17 May 2006, Dimitry Andric wrote: (INVARIANTS removed) RELENG_6 (and 5) _still_ uses = 50% of CPU time for (Intr+Sys), while RELENG_4 doesn't use more than 28% for them. Just as a test for RELENG_6, could you try setting kern.hz=100 in your loader.conf, and repeating your

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, it's possible (and risky), however you will not get, for example, an advantages of UFS2 and so forth, because you can't upgrade from UFS to UFS2 without rebuilding FS. How can one convert their UFS to UFS2

Re: 6.1 and USB: problems with mounting SonyEricsson K750 flash

2006-05-17 Thread Bengt Ahlgren
Hi! Dennis Melentyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a problem with mounting SonyEricsson K750 flash card: 6.1 is not stabily mounting/recognizing device, and, after several tries ended up in creating TWO IDENTICAL device nodes in /dev!!! Has anyone any suggestion on how to resolve such

Re: Fwd: kldfind

2006-05-17 Thread Ricardo A. Reis
Hello Ricardo! I think it will be better if your utility displays short description for each kld module (from man page for example). Hi Alexey, Thanks for all feedback's, i update kldfind for v53 in http://ricardo.epm.br/freebsd/script/kldfind/kldfind-v053, i short description

Re: Messages from rc-scripts are not displayed at all

2006-05-17 Thread Joseph Koshy
This bug was seen not on all computers. Currently I found 3 PC with this problem (two on AMD platform, one on Intel). Video adapters on them are also different. Any suggestions? Its really unlikely to be a video adapter problem. You could debug this by adding a 'set -x' to the beginning of

Re: Messages from rc-scripts are not displayed at all

2006-05-17 Thread Sergei Mozhaisky
Hello. This bug was seen not on all computers. Currently I found 3 PC with this problem (two on AMD platform, one on Intel). Video adapters on them are also different. Any suggestions? Its really unlikely to be a video adapter problem. You could debug this by adding a 'set -x' to

Processes blocked on 6.1-R with amr(4)

2006-05-17 Thread Oleg Palij
Recently I tryed to update 5.4 to 6.1 from sources. After successfull install I found that all processes (pkg_delete, pkg_add, cp, tar, etc..) I run hangs mostly in getblk state. I reinstalled 5.4. It works fine. So I installed only the kernel from 6.1-R and booted it in single user mode. The

RE: Messages from rc-scripts are not displayed at all

2006-05-17 Thread Wilde, Donald
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sergei Mozhaisky Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:57 AM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Messages from rc-scripts are not displayed at all Hello everyone. Got a problem on FreeBSD 6.1. After kernel

Re: Messages from rc-scripts are not displayed at all

2006-05-17 Thread Joseph Koshy
The problem is much more complex, I suppose. Not only rc-scripts messages aren't display, there are no messages at all, from any scripts and programs, started between kernel boot and login prompt. Strange. - What does ls -la /dev/console show? - Does a single user boot (boot -s) drop you to a

Re: Messages from rc-scripts are not displayed at all

2006-05-17 Thread Joe Talbott
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:00:50PM +0300, Sergei Mozhaisky wrote: Hello. This bug was seen not on all computers. Currently I found 3 PC with this problem (two on AMD platform, one on Intel). Video adapters on them are also different. Any suggestions? Its really unlikely

Re: Fwd: kldfind

2006-05-17 Thread Ricardo A. Reis
Hello Ricardo! I think it will be better if your utility displays short description for each kld module (from man page for example). Hi Alexey, Thanks for all feedback's, i update kldfind for v53 in http://ricardo.epm.br/freebsd/script/kldfind/kldfind-v053, i short description

pxeboot with amd64 vs i386

2006-05-17 Thread Robert Watson
I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1

Re: failing PXE boot/HP-DL145

2006-05-17 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Oleg Bulyzhin wrote: OB On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:55:25PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: OB I can boot this HP Proliant DL145/amd64 box from the CD, but fails OB when booting via PXE. My guess the problem is in the pxeboot, but OB comparing to an older pxeboot that works

Re: pxeboot with amd64 vs i386

2006-05-17 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Robert Watson wrote: RW I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it RW was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) RW RW I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my RW notebook. All good so

possible cause of ath problem

2006-05-17 Thread JoaoBR
I found some mismatch for atheros cards like the DWL-G520 and DWL-AG530 which are identified by FreeBSD as Atheros 5212 and on Linux as Atheros 5213 this case the AG530: On 6.0-R wlan: mac acl policy registered ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath1:

Re: possible cause of ath problem

2006-05-17 Thread Infomatik
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:50, JoaoBR wrote: I found some mismatch for atheros cards like the DWL-G520 and DWL-AG530 which are identified by FreeBSD as Atheros 5212 and on Linux as Atheros 5213 in addition to the former msg both cards are probed as 11a/b/g but are not, pciconf on 6.0-R

Hard crashes with floppy access

2006-05-17 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
This afternoon I experienced two hard crashes while accessing my floppy drive. Mounting seemed to work OK, then I tried to copy a file (~24K) to the disk and then nothing, having to go for the Reset button. The first time this happened under X, the second time on a terminal. I have no idea when

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Re: RAID rebuild problem

2006-05-17 Thread David Nugent
Daniel O'Connor wrote: and rebuilt the array.. sudo atacontrol rebuild ar0 However the status stayed at 0%. On the rare occasion I've needed to do so, since 5.1 days, the atacontrol rebuild stays at 0%, last I tried this was on 6.1-PREPRELEASE ~mid February. The first time I gave up

Re: Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm seeing 190 Mb/s (32k block size reads on

Re: Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mike Jakubik
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm seeing 190 Mb/s (32k

Re: fsck

2006-05-17 Thread John-Mark Gurney
gareth wrote this message on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 15:21 +0200: because it changes with every operation and b) should never be checked in that way (that's exactly what fsck means when telling you NO WRITE). ok. but it didn't used to do this, then it started showing up errors on /var, then

Re: Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mike Jakubik wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm