Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Greg Byshenk free...@byshenk.net wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:26:12PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: On Friday I have updated a machine from 7.1 to stable/8. It is connected to a serial console. With 7.1 everything worked fine, but with stable/8 things seem to break. [...]

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:37:24AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Greg Byshenk free...@byshenk.net wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:26:12PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: On Friday I have updated a machine from 7.1 to stable/8. It is connected to a serial console. With 7.1 everything

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Is there a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to this machine when you're attempting to get serial console output? Kind of. It's connected to a local KVM switch. If so, I'm not too surprised it doesn't work (re: -P flag). If -P is not supposed to activate the serial console,

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:21:21AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Is there a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to this machine when you're attempting to get serial console output? Kind of. It's connected to a local KVM switch. Does the KVM switch provide power to a PS/2 port

Re: Policy for removing working code

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [...] Beyond that, I suspect that dropping an HBA or three would have been far less burdensome on users of the hardware in question than dropping ISDN is on its users. One can always replace a no-longer-supported HBA with a supported one, or (worst case)

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 12.09.2010 um 17:26 schrieb Oliver Fromme: I cannot even su(1) to root because it tries to print a message to the console, so it hangs, too. For the same reason I can't use shutdown(8) either. :-( This is what a hanging su(1) command looks like in ps -alxww: UID PID PPID CPU PRI

SOLVED: Re: VBox 3.2.8 SATA virtual disks FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE 20100912 -- (virtual) harddisks are not found on boot...

2010-09-13 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Freebsd-stable. You wrote 13 сентября 2010 г., 00:14:31: I have VirtualBox-based FreeBSD 8.1 installation (32 bit, VirtualBox 3.2.8, WinXP/x64 host, but I thinks that host config is irrelevant). Sorry for noise, it seems to be VirtualBox instability: I've re-created

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread David Evans
I can confirm there is much weirdness with the uart on 8-STABLE. I'm using FBSD in several virtual machines on Parallels Desktop. It is possible to set the serial port on the VM to output to a file on the host OS I try something like 'cat file /dev/cuad0 on FBSD 7 and 8. This works on 7

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 13.09.2010 um 13:04 schrieb David Evans: I can confirm there is much weirdness with the uart on 8-STABLE. OTOH, I have real hardware where things are working just fine: $ grep uart /var/run/dmesg.boot uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: [FILTER]

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:21:21AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Is there a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to this machine when you're attempting to get serial console output? Kind of. It's connected to a local KVM switch. Does the KVM

Re: AoE driver for FBSD8 or later?

2010-09-13 Thread George Mamalakis
On 13/09/2010 08:41, Max Khon wrote: George, On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:12 AM, George Mamalakis mama...@eng.auth.gr mailto:mama...@eng.auth.gr wrote: On 10/09/2010 19:05, pluknet wrote: On 10 September 2010 17:32, George Mamalakismama...@eng.auth.gr

[releng_8_0 tinderbox] failure on ia64/ia64

2010-09-13 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2010-09-13 12:31:52 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2010-09-13 12:31:52 - starting RELENG_8_0 tinderbox run for ia64/ia64 TB --- 2010-09-13 12:31:52 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2010-09-13 12:32:38 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2010-09-13 12:32:38 -

Re: MSIX failure

2010-09-13 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Fri 2010-09-10 (10:43), Jack Vogel wrote: No, not the add-on adapter, i have no trouble finding those, what I want to know about is the details about the system that has em0 LOM, only way to check on that is to have the whole enchilada :) Ah right. These are snippets from dmidecode, is

[releng_8_1 tinderbox] failure on arm/arm

2010-09-13 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2010-09-13 14:21:57 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2010-09-13 14:21:57 - starting RELENG_8_1 tinderbox run for arm/arm TB --- 2010-09-13 14:21:57 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2010-09-13 14:22:19 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2010-09-13 14:22:19 -

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Rick Macklem wrote: Btw, if anyone who didn't see the posting on freebsd-fs and would like to run a quick test, it would be appreciated. Bascially do both kinds of mount using a FreeBSD8.1 or later client and then read a greater than 100Mbyte file with dd. # mount -t nfs -o nfsv3

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, September 13, 2010 8:49:48 am Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:21:21AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Is there a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to this machine when you're attempting to get serial console output?

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-13 Thread Rick Macklem
Ok ... NFS server: - FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE-20100620 i386 - intel Atom 330 (1.6 GHz dual-core with HT -- 4-way SMP) - 4 GB RAM - re0: RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E PCIe Gigabit Ethernet NFS client: - FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE-20100908 i386 - AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (2.8 GHz + Turbo Core,

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-13 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:15:34AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: instead of from the local cache. I also made sure that the file was in the cache on the server, so the server's disk speed is irrelevant. snip So, nfs is roughly twice as fast as newnfs, indeed. Hmm, I have the same

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, September 13, 2010 8:49:48 am Oliver Fromme wrote: Now I get your point ... Yes, -P does probe the keyboard first. That's probably why I see the boot0/boot2 on the VGA console, not on the serial port. As far as I know, /boot.config is read by the

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, September 13, 2010 11:55:27 am Oliver Fromme wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, September 13, 2010 8:49:48 am Oliver Fromme wrote: Now I get your point ... Yes, -P does probe the keyboard first. That's probably why I see the boot0/boot2 on the VGA console, not on

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-13 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
--On September 12, 2010 11:44:40 -0400 Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:46:30AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: snip My results seems to confirm a factor of two (or 1.5) but it's stable: new nfs nfsv4 369792 bytes transferred in 71.932692 secs

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, September 13, 2010 11:55:27 am Oliver Fromme wrote: I think the boot.config stuff might be a red herring. The console breaks (i.e. freezes) as soon as I try to run a getty process on it -- That seems to indicate that getty does *something* to the

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:59:58PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, September 13, 2010 11:55:27 am Oliver Fromme wrote: I think the boot.config stuff might be a red herring. The console breaks (i.e. freezes) as soon as I try to run a getty process on it

Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Eivind E
Hello, I'm hoping somebody can shed some light on this. One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock didn't work, no network (so no ssh) and I

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Ed Schouten
Just replying to a random message in this thread. Maybe we should just implement /dev/console in such a way that it can never get stuck on dcd. I've seen this break too many times. Below is an untested patch. Anyone willing to test it for me? As Jeremy did point out, FreeBSD's TTY/serial/etc

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ed Schouten wrote: Just replying to a random message in this thread. Maybe we should just implement /dev/console in such a way that it can never get stuck on dcd. I've seen this break too many times. Below is an untested patch. Anyone willing to test it for me? Thank you! I will

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Ed Schouten
* Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote: @ Jeremy: Thank you for the detailed response! I will make sure to bring a multimeter with me and check the pin connections on my nullmodem cable. I'm still curious why this cable worked with 7.x with the same configuration. I seem to remember

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock didn't work, no network (so no ssh) and I couldn't do

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Eivind E
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Oliver Fromme wrote: Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock didn't work,

Re: MSIX failure

2010-09-13 Thread Jack Vogel
We don't deal with desktop systems that much in my group, it was pointed out by a coworker that the BIOS has settings that could disable MSI, please check out how yours is set. Jack On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Gareth de Vaux b...@lordcow.org wrote: On Fri 2010-09-10 (10:43), Jack Vogel

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Eivind E
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Lucas Holt
On 09/13/10 18:04, Eivind E wrote: Tried to substitute the driver with ati and loading radeon.ko (which automatically loaded drm.ko) and had the same results as the plain radeon driver. X starts up once in a while, but the screen goes to about half of normal brightness and the view is moved

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04:16AM +0200, Eivind E wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: snip Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)? It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, too. Keep in mind that normal radeon driver is called x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:44:02PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: Maybe we should just implement /dev/console in such a way that it can never get stuck on dcd. I've seen this break too many times. Below is an untested patch. Anyone willing to test it for me? I'll test this out on our RELENG_8