Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2009-10-11 Thread Jo Rhett
) and installed these ports and experienced the exact same problem. That's why I am here. Physical or localized issues have already been ruled out. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
investigate the reports, nevermind address them. Congradulations. Good Job. If you aren't going to accept bug reports, why exactly do you release testing candidates at all? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
the known flawed releases as the long support releases. Brilliance. Just plain brilliant, top to bottom. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

confirming bugs is bad behavior, etc.

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
. Your request is accepted. I'm unsubscribing now. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
, I would have happily tried backing out some of the changes on a per-component basis to figure it out. In short, tell me what you wanted/needed, and I would have done it ASAP. It's apparently irrelevant now. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source

no priority on the console?

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
As per my previous message, I've spent about 3 months trying to debug a problem that was causing all disk I/O to go very slowly. One of the things which made this nearly impossible to diagnose was the absolute lack of priority given to the console. Logging in on the console would take

smartd long self-test causes drives to hang

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
I've spent about 3 months tracing down what was causing my personal colo box to start getting sluggish right around dawn every Saturday morning. It took so long because some mornings I simply couldn't pull my head out of my tail enough to do proper debugging. The cause was *really slow*

Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
This is now filed as PR 129149 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129149 Given the nature of this bug, can I persuade someone to mark this as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ? On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 24

Re: smartd long self-test causes drives to hang

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: I've spent about 3 months tracing down what was causing my personal colo box to start getting sluggish right around dawn every Saturday morning. It took so long because some mornings I simply couldn't pull my head out of my tail enough to do proper debugging

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
So boot from CD, go to LIVE filesystem, mount my root and copy only / boot/kernel? Are there any other modules I should copy, or settings I should change? On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo Rhett wrote: This is now filed as PR 129149

Want one of the affected systems for your lab? (Was: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot)

2008-11-20 Thread Jo Rhett
John, I can ship you one of these machines for your own testing if you like. Or send me a public key and I can give you SSH access to the console serial port, whichever would be easiest for you to get what you need. Let me know how I can help. On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

2008-11-17 Thread Jo Rhett
Jo Rhett wrote: The driver logs all useful stuff, and the SEC logfile surfer does a good job of notifying you quickly. I can send you an SEC configuration for that if you want. On Nov 16, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hm - what is SEC? Simple Event Correlator http

Re: Possible regression in ifconfig under7.0 - removes valid default route

2008-11-17 Thread Jo Rhett
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Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

2008-11-16 Thread Jo Rhett
for that if you want. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

2008-11-16 Thread Jo Rhett
the binary version of tw_cli that matches the firmware on your controller. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 available...

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
-RELEASE builds in about a week and a half. We encourage you to test out 6.4-RC2 and report any problems by submitting PRs or via email to the freebsd-stable list. I would love to, but it's still not available on the download area. Er, i386 isn't anyway. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. /boot.config: -Dh Consoles: internal video/keyboard

Re: FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 available...

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 6.4 is now available. FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4 release cycle. Unless a big show-stopper is found from

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
can't type fast enough. Also noteworthy, I can't hit 6 to set console to comconsole so that I could cut/paste this. It really seems like there are major problems around the keyboard. (and no such problems with 6.3) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] Plugging back in the monitor after lockup showed only a single char more: ([EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Has anyone filed a PR

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
John, is this perhaps the problem seen with 7.0, discussed here? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-05/msg00437.html On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Has anyone filed a PR on this problem

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
process = 0 (swapper) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 0 Uptime: 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: | By Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [ 2008-10-24 21:13 +0200 ] On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Milan Obuch wrote: I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an workaround - copy older /boot

6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-22 Thread Jo Rhett
. Anything specific that would be more or less useful to debug in particular? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-10-11 Thread Jo Rhett
Hi, Colin. Any news/thoughts on where we are with this? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-10-01 Thread Jo Rhett
solves both of the problems you've very accurately named above. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Jo Rhett
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:37 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Normal Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 12 months after the release. A release which is not the final minor release of a branch will be additionally

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
of skipping releases. This may not be a good idea -- it was just a toss out there, but it makes a lot more sense than the existing policy. Could you at least respond to the issues raised here? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
be implemented with a reasonable policy that doesn't require a psychic to determine the likely failure or not of a release. I've proposed one. I'm sure that there are better ways to say it, but I'd really appreciate it if you guys would take the problem seriously. -- Jo Rhett Net

proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
forward movement. Feel free to correct me if we overlooked anything. Thanks. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
in a much more direct fashion than an e-mail thread. -- John Baldwin -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Colin Percival wrote: jonathan michaels wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this is what we feel

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
the question and you sit and chat about solutions that meet everyone's needs. This situation with FreeBSD has been downright shocking because I've never before in my life been attacked for saying We need this. How can I help? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
? Twinkies? Exactly. Thank you for phrasing it so very well. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
no value in the effort. FWIW, this is why I'm in favor of consistent support periods. When you align the business benefit with the community benefit, you can get the business to help improve the community product. (remainder snipped to a different subject line) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance

Release team resources

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
, anyway) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
to release 6.5 then I'd be totally happy. But that's not what is being said. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
that they don't have the resources to support 3 major revisions, it's a pretty good reason to think that FreeBSD can't either ;-) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Release team resources

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
. Acknowledged, sorry I was working from memory and forgot that the things we had to patch for already went through a does it affect us filter :-( You're right. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
the Woody/Sarge era, and frankly I think that distinct production/ development tracks work even less well so it's not like I have useful advice here ;-) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
situation) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
, it's being created by the existing policy. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
that a business can understand. It's also always incrementally forward, and doesn't reward a business for staying behind on a previous release - like your existing policy is doing right now. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
, please educate me. Or everyone. In particular, I'll be happy to buy you coffee/beer/poison of choice at your leisure if that would make this easier. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
and try to determine what resources are necessary to achieve a certain goal. Then you find those resources, etc etc... Without input from the current release team extending the support schedule is not possible. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
with an effort that tried to provide more support. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 19, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Gary Palmer wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:38:32PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Without input from the current release team extending the support schedule is not possible. Inquiry - is release team the constraint? I don't know. I asked why not, and was told

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
was expressing amusement about watching every developer dance around the topic, skipping over the relevant part -- how do we improve things? We could improve things. We could get more resources. Why not consider the topic? That's not demanding. Check your dictionary. -- Jo Rhett Net

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
. Maybe, just maybe, there is some reason why FreeBSD doesn't want more people helping. Or ... something. I haven't the vaguest clue. If there is some reason why getting paid people to work on testing and release cycle is a bad idea, would someone please stand up and explain? -- Jo Rhett

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
is answered clearly I tend to address topics which aren't resolved. But the section you quoted is your worst example -- If you look at my reply, you'll notice that not only did I not ignore it, I replied to that section with concerns about fluctuating schedules that this document presents. -- Jo

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
that may not be so obvious. I suspect this above statement applies to every problem the release and testing teams have. What is necessary to get consensus to even discuss the issues involved? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
to the release team. The only thing you've successfully done is given me three different ways to eff off and leave you alone. Apparently, more resources is not in your interest. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: And my e-mails have always discussed ways to get more resources. Recently we even had a group of people trying to arrange for more explicit corporate support for testing and release process. For some reason unclear to me, not a single developer has

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
. The others contribute at random, but I don't see that changing much due to their existing commitments. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
it. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 18, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I've kind of lost the drift, but it sounds to me as though Jo Rhett is tentatively offering to take on extended support for 6.2, but not earlier versions. Aside from programming skills, what would Jo need to bring to the table in order

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
this tangent. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
. If we had known (and longer than 12 month) maintenance periods for a given release, then I could avoid maintaining this infrastructure internally and would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 hours a month I could dedicate to testing and bug fixes of FreeBSD as a whole. -- Jo Rhett Net

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
their effort on the mainstream release. A bunch of us made proposals to our $EMPLOYERs to make this happen, but there was no apparent interest from the release team so the effort was abandoned. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: Robert, I'd like to point out to you that when I complained about 6.2's accelerated EoL, I was soundly boxed around the ears and told that I should have been paying attention to the projected EoL date when we decided to roll out 6.2 across the business

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
? Please stop avoiding even considering what people are offering to you. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-15 Thread Jo Rhett
resources into the mainstream release effort, when this kind of cycle basically forces every company to run their own internal release process. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-15 Thread Jo Rhett
forced upon every company that uses FreeBSD, those companies could commit more resources to help the core (main branch, whatever - not Core) freebsd development. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett
. To go back to the original statements made at the time: you should consider the lifetime of the release before you invest resources in it. That means we need to know the lifetime to determine how much resources to apply to testing it, yes? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-03 Thread Jo Rhett
- From there to here, from here to | [EMAIL PROTECTED] there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel | -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

chipset causing locks.

2008-07-21 Thread Jo Rhett
PM, Peter Wemm wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:59:33AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Every time it is rebuilding ad0. Every single boot in the last two weeks. On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Clifton Royston wrote: That just

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-16 Thread Jo Rhett
this option doesn't appeal very much. Are there any other options available? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-16 Thread Jo Rhett
connections, etc etcc but doesn't respond. No TCP negotiation, no response on the console, etc. It's higher level activity which isn't working... -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-16 Thread Jo Rhett
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:59:33AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Every time it is rebuilding ad0. Every single boot in the last two weeks. On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Clifton Royston wrote: That just means that it halted without a proper shutdown. If it crashes, the mirror isn't stopped

how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-11 Thread Jo Rhett
frustrated by this one. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Jo Rhett
and I haven't checked into using the virtual serial on the Blades we have. On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:42:16PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: This rhymes with sio deciding that your TTY is something other than ttyd0. We had this same problem on Rackable -- even though the proper tty was setup 0x3f8 irq

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Jo Rhett
it the console. NOTE: I think this whole parade sucks, and the kernel should believe device.hints ... but there is no apparent interest in solving this problem (even when a bounty is offered), and I don't do enough device driver development these days for it to be worth my time. -- Jo Rhett Net

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-01 Thread Jo Rhett
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-30 Thread Jo Rhett
to. This makes sense. But for personal curiosity sake, what if Yahoo needed to stick with supported FreeBSD releases? How would you deal with updating that many machines every 12 months? Would that be possible in your business? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open

tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-25 Thread Jo Rhett
to imagine the manpower cost of doing so. (and to justify the manpower cost versus the gain from doing so...) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-25 Thread Jo Rhett
for the clarification ;-) We don't upgrade machines that have been deployed unless there is a good reason to. Do you deploy machines for longer than 1 year? How do you deal with security patches in the longer term? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source

Re: Closing the Jo Rhett argument

2008-06-09 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 9, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Joe Kelsey wrote: Jo Rhett has clearly stated (in offline reply) that they do not participate in the -BETA and-RC cycles leading up to -RELEASE, so they therefore do not have any issues with -RELEASE and EoL to raise. Actually, they still have the same complaints

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:39 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2008-Jun-04 22:22:33 -0700, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And please stop with the loaded language. I'm not asking anyone to work for me. I am suggesting that it is perhaps too early to EoL 6.2 because 6.3 isn't ready yet. So you

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
for themselves. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
. There are also FreeBSD hardware vendors who support FreeBSD as a platform. If you want someone to take responsibility, make 'em an offer. thanks, BMS -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
that FreeBSD can do -- maybe it is. I just couldn't find any documentation of why dropping 6.2 makes a lot of sense, so I was hoping to get a clear answer for that. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
for dropping 6.2 in just barely more than a year.. On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:23 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 04 June 2008 01:20:56 pm Jo Rhett wrote: Okay, I totally understand that FreeBSD wants people to upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3. But given that 6.3 is still experiencing bugs with things

please stop being nasty to people.

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
, is this kind of repeated nastiness necessary? Most everyone who has posted on this thread cares deeply about FreeBSD and does what they can to support it. What do you hope to gain by being nasty to them? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
they may believe themselves to be. You seem quite willing to make enemies. I'm not your enemy, and we'd both probably get a lot more work done if you stopped treating me like one. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
known bugs in it. It will take pretty much all the time I spend supporting FreeBSD os and applications away to focus entirely on backporting security patches back to 6.2. I know of several other organizations facing the same problem. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
that. I would rather focus my efforts on something that produces more effective results. This is the reasoning behind my question: why drop 6.2 and 6.1 at the same time? What is the real cost of supporting 6.2 until a new stable version ships? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
policy question gets lost. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
project to say the least. A few negative comments doesn't mean they think the whole project is trash. Excluding the fact that we're all human and have emotions / ego, you have to agree that such a hostile approach isn't really the best thing. Thank you. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
of support for 6.2-RELEASE. 6.2 was (and *is* AFAIK) the most stable release of FreeBSD since 4.11 and it came out the door with less than 12 months of support intended. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
, please accept my apology for having created this thread as it seems to have become nothing more than an opportunity for people talk nastily to others. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
(without attacking me?) give some insight into the issues here? This is what I was asking: what prevents supporting 6.2 ? Where could I best apply some of my time to improve the situation? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
of the entries. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
being nasty. I'd said much the same thing over the last 5 days, but I haven't once uttered a word about you not reading what has already been said repeatedly. Nor does that topic interest me. I am curious about the policy issue involved here. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
=Jo+Rhett There are some resources to help you find already-submitted PRs to reference if it will help. (The latter 2 are new, and are attempts by the bugbusting team to flag 'well-known problem' and 'PR indicates regression'): http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues http

console access

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
in particular lives in Japan these days so a colo visit would take him a day or two... -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
improve the situation. Anyway, I've said this a dozen times now so I won't be repeating it. You are welcome to continue ignoring it. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd

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