Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Is anyone aware of the situation where FreeBSD behaves erratically when a disk is physically removed without atacontrol detach ataX being run prior to removal (at least on RELENG_7)? I can confirm this behaviour on FreeBSD 6.2. It sometimes freezes or panic when I

Re: tmpfs: strange behaviour (was: broken buildkernel (scsi_low and -Os) and duplicate manpages)

2008-02-17 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:35:28AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: On 14/02/2008, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Naylor wrote: It is a strange problem, normal installworld works fine, but somehow the duplicate manpages result in a failure when installing with DESTDIR=, here

Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-17 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Feb 17, 2008 3:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:08:38PM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 7:07 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of the situation where FreeBSD behaves erratically when a disk is

Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-17 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Feb 17, 2008 4:25 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 17.02.08, 02:08, Carlos A. M. dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: precautions prior to yanking the disk. Upon reinsertion, the system found the disk and I could continue I/O operations on it as if it had never been

Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-17 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
17.02.08, 16:51, Carlos A. M. dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting the message you pointed out: You might lose cached and in-flight data of course, and userspace applications may or may not handle the disappearance of their underlying filesystem with grace and aplomb :) Perhaps you believe

Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk

2008-02-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:03:31AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 3:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:08:38PM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 7:07 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone

Re: X.org: Fatal server error [Solved]

2008-02-17 Thread Harald Weis
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:44:13PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I've learned two lessons. 1. As a constant user of portupgrade since ages, this time, before and after the xorg-upgrade procedure, I have carelessly omitted the `-R' option.

Re: ath and cardbus

2008-02-17 Thread Michael C. Cambria
Nathan Lay wrote: [deleted] Anyone else experience this strange behavior? It is of note, that if the card is plugged in before booting, it is properly detected and attached during boot. It is only when plugging it into a running FreeBSD 7.0 system for the first time that it behaves this

How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-17 Thread Jim Bryant
One line summary: Too many files in a top-level UFS-2 filesystem directory will cause a panic on mount. Kern/Critical/High Priority/SW-Bug Which FreeBSD Release You Are Using: 6.3-STABLE Environment (output of uname -a on the problem machine): FreeBSD wahoo.sd67dfl.org 6.3-STABLE

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-17 Thread Jim Bryant
FYI: The system assigned kern/120781 to this bug report. IMHO, a security advisory should be issued ASAP. Jim Bryant wrote: One line summary: Too many files in a top-level UFS-2 filesystem directory will cause a panic on mount. Kern/Critical/High Priority/SW-Bug Which FreeBSD Release

FreeBSD Status Reports for the Fourth Quarter of 2007

2008-02-17 Thread Brad Davis
Hi Everyone, The FreeBSD Status Reports for the Fourth Quarter of 2007 are now available at: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2007-10-2007-12.html Regards, Brad Davis ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: X.org: Fatal server error [Solved]

2008-02-17 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Harald Weis thusly... 2. The `pkg_info -L' check does not certify that the file is actually in its place To actually verify the existence of the files, stat(2) them somehow (will work at least in bourne like shells) ... pkg_info -L port-name \ | awk