Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-11-01 Thread JoaoBR
On Monday 29 October 2007 20:25:18 Jason Slack wrote: I have an HP Media center PC that has the Viiv 920-D processor with 4GB of RAM. I hate Windows, but had to sell my MacBook so my Fiance and I could get into a new apartment together. you really should read manpage of gmirror deactivate or

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-11-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear colleagues, any hints to tune rrdtool with ~30k rrd files (approx 2k target devices)? machine is mostly IO-bound, showing 100% disk load with 8 or sometimes even 3

Display freezes since the last update

2007-11-01 Thread David Marec
hello, Since i updated my FreeBSD 6.3 box yesterday, the display hangs up while KDE is runnning, screen and keyboard are off, i stop the system by the poweroff push-button. I guess this occured when the screensaver or power management was launched. Nov 1 08:39:53 david

Re: Proposed #ifdef change to em

2007-11-01 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Hi, Jack Vogel wrote: Vladimir, Your one phrase more or less patched invalidated the whole data point. We are talking about code thats checked in and bound for 6.3 :) Oops. I've got it. Maybe we talk about different kinds of watchdog. I have meant TX queue watchdogs. Yes, there is a

Re: any hope for nfe/msk?

2007-11-01 Thread Oleg Lomaka
Hello, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:01:04PM +0200, Oleg Lomaka wrote: [...] I had RxFIFO overrun again :( from dmest: msk0: Rx FIFO overrun! [...] Please try attached patch again. Sorry for the trouble. After applying the patch show me verbosed dmesg output related

Re: usb keyboard FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1

2007-11-01 Thread Rainer Hurling
Hi Eric, I reported yesterday on ports@, that with portupgrade of 30th October, rebuilding some xorg ports and restarting X now all LEDs of my USB-keyboards (3 systems) are working again. (FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386) Hope this helps, Rainer Eric Millbrandt schrieb: Hello all, I has been

Re: any hope for nfe/msk?

2007-11-01 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:59:48AM +0200, Oleg Lomaka wrote: Hello, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:01:04PM +0200, Oleg Lomaka wrote: [...] I had RxFIFO overrun again :( from dmest: msk0: Rx FIFO overrun! [...] Please try attached patch

Re: Get packages from stabele tree via sysinstall

2007-11-01 Thread Dennis Melentyev
Hello Michael, AFAIU, the problem is that 6.3-PRERELEASE does not have binary packages built for it. It is intended for testing purposes. Just wait for 6.3-RELEASE plus allow some time to build everything. PS. There is Russian/Ukrainian speaking UA-FUG with some of FreeBSD committers and big ISP

RE: System hangs up every day

2007-11-01 Thread Дмитрий Комалеев
A system failure of this sort (one which leaves no log entries of any kind) is generally a hardware fault; memory stick failures tend to cause kernel panics and easy repeatability. I would suggest examining the hardware components, the motherboard could have some faulty capacitors (burst,

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-11-01 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:45PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: I don't completly agree. Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as well and I prefer having

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-11-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:43:41PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: Show me the positives that outweights the negatives and I'm on your side. Why do you think we're on different sides to begin with? I've not advocated removing catman capability, or denied that

Re: usb keyboard FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Millbrandt
Rainer Hurling wrote: Hi Eric, I reported yesterday on ports@, that with portupgrade of 30th October, rebuilding some xorg ports and restarting X now all LEDs of my USB-keyboards (3 systems) are working again. (FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386) Hope this helps, Rainer Thanks, but my problem does

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in ufs stateunderpersistent CPU load

2007-11-01 Thread Oleg Derevenetz
Dumpdev is swap partition on da0 (single physical disk) that connected to Mylex AcceleRAID 170 RAID controller. The problem arrives when I copy large amount of files from FTP to another disk (da1) that is connected to the same RAID controller. If the driver or controller is misbehaving it

Re: usb keyboard FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1

2007-11-01 Thread Rainer Hurling
Eric Millbrandt schrieb: Rainer Hurling wrote: Hi Eric, I reported yesterday on ports@, that with portupgrade of 30th October, rebuilding some xorg ports and restarting X now all LEDs of my USB-keyboards (3 systems) are working again. (FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386) Hope this helps, Rainer

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in ufs state under persistent CPU load

2007-11-01 Thread Rainer Hurling
Kris Kennaway schrieb: Rainer Hurling wrote: Thanks for your answer. Kris Kennaway schrieb: Rainer Hurling wrote: Looking into PR kern/104406 it seems, that this describes exactly what I am experiencing on three of my systems over the last weeks. They are running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (known

Re: em 6.6.6 - watchdog timeout

2007-11-01 Thread Jack Vogel
I should also note that this only applies to PCI-E NICs, 82571 and later. Jack ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: em 6.6.6 - watchdog timeout

2007-11-01 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/21/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:10 AM 10/21/2007, Mike Andrews wrote: I haven't tried the 6.6.6 driver on mine yet, though, so this could be something totally different. I was going to bump one of them from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 as a test soon. I see this problem

Re: usb keyboard FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1

2007-11-01 Thread Juraj Lutter
Rainer Hurling wrote: Eric Millbrandt schrieb: Rainer Hurling wrote: Hi Eric, I reported yesterday on ports@, that with portupgrade of 30th October, rebuilding some xorg ports and restarting X now all LEDs of my USB-keyboards (3 systems) are working again. (FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386) Hope

FreeBSD 6.3-BETA1 available

2007-11-01 Thread Ken Smith
The 6.3-BETA1 builds got delayed a bit by a last minute MFC causing some undesired ABI breakage. That has been fixed and the 6.3-BETA1 builds for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 have completed. The MD5/SHA256 checksums are: MD5 (6.3-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = be222e1b8f6a43ac95614e0967f54e59

Test changes to em

2007-11-01 Thread Jack Vogel
This is a substantial change to the EM driver that I would appreciate some testing and feedback on. You just replace the two files in your STABLE tree. Its big enough that this seemed easier than a patch. Whats in this: A change Mike Silbersack came up with, it makes the watchdog period twice

Re: freebsd-7.0b1 xorg-7.3_1 runs only once

2007-11-01 Thread J.R. Oldroyd
Adding some additional information... On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:34:51 -0400, J.R. Oldroyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xorg-7.3_1 runs fine, but just once. Subsequent attempts to start xorg result in: (EE) I810(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range (EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed. (EE)

Re: Test changes to em

2007-11-01 Thread Pete French
You just replace the two files in your STABLE tree. Its big enough that this seemed easier than a patch. Did you miss a file ? I nly see a new header file in here. Am keen to try this out though... -pcf. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: usb keyboard FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Fraser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juraj Lutter Sent: Friday, 2 November 2007 9:24 AM To: Rainer Hurling Cc: Eric Millbrandt; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb keyboard FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 Thanks, but my problem does not seems to be

Re: Test changes to em

2007-11-01 Thread Pete French
Eh, what I see is if_em.h and if_em.c, does the version that came thru not have both?? Nope, it's only got if_em.h in it - I just took a look at the actual mime stuff in the email and tere is only one attachment in the version I received. -pete. ___

Re: Test changes to em

2007-11-01 Thread Jack Vogel
Eh, what I see is if_em.h and if_em.c, does the version that came thru not have both?? Jack On 11/1/07, Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just replace the two files in your STABLE tree. Its big enough that this seemed easier than a patch. Did you miss a file ? I nly see a new

date/time trouble - PST came too early

2007-11-01 Thread Chris H.
Greetings, I have a server that is still running an old version: # uname -a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 #0: Tue Mar 7 19:37:23 PST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAIL05 i386 Yes, I /know/ it's old. But was waiting for 6.3 to stable out as that is it's intended target. Anyhow, as the