Re: /usr/bin/objformat is missing

2008-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:24:49PM -0800, Chris H. wrote: cc: --export-dynamic: linker input file unused because linking not done But of course, it's just a harmless informative message. The -Wl,--export-dynamic should be in LDFLAGS, not CFLAGS. There's no guarantee that CFLAGS is passed to the

Re: zfs problems

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Alexandre Biancalana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/29/08, ZsUM ZsUM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Dump header from device /dev/ad4s1b Architecture: amd64 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 253394944B (241 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Sun Jan 20 23:51:58 2008 Hostname: Magic:

Re: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE

2008-01-30 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi Jeremy, I'm very glad that you a) can write! b) that you are actually doing something with respect to the zillions of missguided how-to's :-) Having some experience with the subject, and please, don't read me wrong, I see some different approaches: - indeed this IS the 21'st

Re: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE

2008-01-30 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:06 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Ed Maste wrote: iv. Knowledge of how TFTP and DHCP work, and how to debug them if they break, v. Intricate knowledge of configuring a DHCP server (common question: what's

option HZ=?

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, I want to know what is the bad effect of increasing HZ too much? And when is too much? What problems can I expect when HZ2000? Can I change this value without pre-compiling the kernel? Because all docs I found for HZ is in src/sys/conf/NOTES and it doesn't say much. How can I know

RE: option HZ=?

2008-01-30 Thread Robin Blanchard
I want to know what is the bad effect of increasing HZ too much? And when is too much? What problems can I expect when HZ2000? Can I change this value without pre-compiling the kernel? You can set kern.hz in /boot/loader.conf Robin P. Blanchard Systems

Re: kldload: Unsupported file type

2008-01-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 01:21:06 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Bruce M Simpson wrote: Since updating to 6.3-RELEASE on two machines I see this message a lot. Hooray I am not alone! I have a thread in stable called ' kldstat causes kernel to print odd message' (not

Re: New KTR trace for mouse freezing/stuttering in 7.0-RC1

2008-01-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 25 January 2008 05:31:34 pm Joe Peterson wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Hmm, when I look at that graph using schedgraphy from HEAD it just looks like xtrs is using up all the CPU. Yeah, xtrs is eating a lot of CPU, but I've never seen this affect the mouse movement (making it really

Re: 4.8 - 4.11 in-place upgrade ?

2008-01-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Robin Blanchard wrote: I just inherited a remote 4.8 box...Having not used RELENG_4 in eons, just wanted to check if it's safe to live upgrade (make installworld/kernel ; mergemaster) directly to 4.11 (world/kernel already built; waiting to install).

Re: 4.8 - 4.11 in-place upgrade ?

2008-01-30 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Robin Blanchard wrote: I just inherited a remote 4.8 box...Having not used RELENG_4 in eons, just wanted to check if it's safe to live upgrade (make installworld/kernel ; mergemaster) directly to 4.11

4.8 - 4.11 in-place upgrade ?

2008-01-30 Thread Robin Blanchard
I just inherited a remote 4.8 box...Having not used RELENG_4 in eons, just wanted to check if it's safe to live upgrade (make installworld/kernel ; mergemaster) directly to 4.11 (world/kernel already built; waiting to install). /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't seem to indicate this is out of the

Re: option HZ=?

2008-01-30 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:55:30PM +0200, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Greetings, I want to know what is the bad effect of increasing HZ too much? And when is too much? What problems can I expect when HZ2000? Can I change this value without pre-compiling the kernel? You can change HZ by adding a

Re: option HZ=?

2008-01-30 Thread Ivan Voras
cpghost wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:55:30PM +0200, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Greetings, I want to know what is the bad effect of increasing HZ too much? And when is too much? What problems can I expect when HZ2000? Can I change this value without pre-compiling the kernel? You can change

Re: mouse problems [A4 Tech OP-3D]

2008-01-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
After some poking into psm.c code I've got some results. First, for the archives, debug.psm.loglevel tunable is much more useful than a verbose boot for debugging PS/2 mouse issues. A good value is 2. Second, I fiddled with various probe methods to force them to recognize my mouse (by loosening

Re: option HZ=?

2008-01-30 Thread Dominic Fandrey
cpghost wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:55:30PM +0200, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Greetings, I want to know what is the bad effect of increasing HZ too much? And when is too much? What problems can I expect when HZ2000? Can I change this value without pre-compiling the kernel? You can change

Re: option HZ=?

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, Dominic Fandrey wrote: cpghost wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:55:30PM +0200, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Greetings, I want to know what is the bad effect of increasing HZ too much? And when is too much? What problems can I expect when HZ2000? Can I change this value without

Reproducible ZFS-related panic

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Eriksson
If you import and export more than one zpool FreeBSD will panic during shutdown. This bug is present in both RELENG_7 and RELENG_7_0 (I have not tested CURRENT). kgdb output: Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...2 1 0 0 done All buffers synced. vput: negative ref count 0xc2ad1aa0: tag ufs, type

Re: zfs problems

2008-01-30 Thread Hugo Silva
I'm not clear about which version of ZFS code is in FreeBSD, and whether the free space map bug is present there or not. Does anyone know which ZFS is in FreeBSD? Anyways, if you really need the data, it might be possible to boot the newest version of OpenSolaris, and let it repair your

Re: mouse problems [A4 Tech OP-3D]

2008-01-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:30:02PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: After some poking into psm.c code I've got some results. First, for the archives, debug.psm.loglevel tunable is much more useful than a verbose boot for debugging PS/2 mouse issues. A good value is 2. Second, I fiddled with

Unexpected resilver after reboot (after scrub found CKSUM problems)

2008-01-30 Thread Joe Peterson
[...reposting to freebsd-stable - no response on freebsd-fs] I had a strange thing happen on ZFS the other day, and I cannot find any info about it on the web - thought you might have some ideas. I am using 7.0-RC1 at the moment. I found a checksum error in ZFS during a scrub. This is strange

Re: Minidumps in -STABLE and smaller than physical memory

2008-01-30 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:16:36PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:15:47PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:14:33AM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:44 +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: Hello! I've noticed (with

kld regression

2008-01-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
The problem is as follows: 1. put udf_load=YES in loader.conf 2. you can mount and unmount udf filesystems 3. you can kldunload udf if no udf filesystems are mounted 4. now mount udf fs while udf.ko is unloaded 5. udf is auto loaded and fs is mounted 6. unmount fs 7. try to kldunload udf

Re: kld regression

2008-01-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/01/2008 19:39 Andriy Gapon said the following: The problem is as follows: 1. put udf_load=YES in loader.conf 2. you can mount and unmount udf filesystems 3. you can kldunload udf if no udf filesystems are mounted 4. now mount udf fs while udf.ko is unloaded 5. udf is auto loaded and fs

Re: kld regression

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 30/01/2008 19:39 Andriy Gapon said the following: The problem is as follows: 1. put udf_load=YES in loader.conf 2. you can mount and unmount udf filesystems 3. you can kldunload udf if no udf filesystems are mounted 4. now mount udf fs while udf.ko is

newbie question about NFS

2008-01-30 Thread geek
I am using FreeBSD 6.2. I am trying to export a directory so that another machine can read and write to it. With an /etc/exports file that says: /Data 192.168.1.20(rw) I get an empty directory on the client machine. I know that there are files in the directory. They show when I list the

Re: newbie question about NFS

2008-01-30 Thread John Nielsen
Read the exports(5) manpage. Its format is different on FreeBSD than it is on Linux. (rw) isn't valid. Pay particular attention to the section about maproot. In the absence of -maproot and -mapall options, remote accesses by root will result in using a credential of -2:-2. So if you mounted

WITNESS weirdness

2008-01-30 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, not sure if this is a problem, but: # sysctl -a | grep witness debug.witness.child_cnt: 161 debug.witness.child_free_cnt: 3935 debug.witness.sleep_cnt: 235 debug.witness.spin_cnt: 0 debug.witness.free_cnt: 789 debug.witness.skipspin: 1 debug.witness.trace: 1 debug.witness.kdb: 1

Re: WITNESS weirdness

2008-01-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Eirik Øverby wrote: # sysctl debug.witness.watch=1 debug.witness.watch: 0 sysctl: debug.witness.watch: Invalid argument Am I supposed to be able to turn witness off runtime, but not back on again? Yes, that is working as designed. Witness needs to run continuously to track state. Kris

Re: WITNESS weirdness

2008-01-30 Thread Eirik Øverby
So I need to reboot. Brilliant :) And I thought I was being clever... Using WITNESS to try and help figuring out why bge is crapping out on me all the time, but with WITNESS it's been stable, but oh-so-slow :P /Eirik On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Eirik Øverby wrote:

Re: newfs locks entire machine for 20seconds

2008-01-30 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] The machine is running with ULE on 7.0 as mention using an Areca 1220 controller over 8 disks in RAID 6 + Hotspare. I'd suggest you first try to reproduce the stall without ULE, while keeping all other parameters exactly the

Re: newfs locks entire machine for 20seconds

2008-01-30 Thread Dieter
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Hartland writes: From: Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] The machine is running with ULE on 7.0 as mention using an Areca 1220 controller over 8 disks in RAID 6 + Hotspare. I'd suggest you first try to reproduce the stall without ULE, while keeping all

Re: newfs locks entire machine for 20seconds

2008-01-30 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] What *exactly* do you mean by machine still locks up with no activity for anywhere from 20 to 30 seconds. Is there disk activity? (e.g. activity light(s) flashing if you have them) Cant tell if there is disk activity its in a DC

Re: newfs + gstat locks entire machine for 20seconds

2008-01-30 Thread Steven Hartland
The plot thickens This stall is not just related to newfs you have to have gstat running as well. If I do the newfs without gstat running then no stall occurs. As soon as Im running gstat while doing the newfs then everything locks as described. Running truss on gstat shows the issue / cause

Re: newfs locks entire machine for 20seconds

2008-01-30 Thread Dieter
What *exactly* do you mean by machine still locks up with no activity for anywhere from 20 to 30 seconds. Is there disk activity? (e.g. activity light(s) flashing if you have them) Cant tell if there is disk activity its in a DC miles away ;) Does top continue to update the

Re: kldload: Unsupported file type

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: I tried #ifdef'ing out link_elf.c but it panicd my machine on boot and I haven't had time to find out why. The kernel is a link_elf type object I believe, so you have to have it. Ahah.. No easy answer there then :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and

Re: kldload: Unsupported file type

2008-01-30 Thread Bruce M Simpson
John Baldwin wrote: It is printed whenever a kernel module is loaded. The modules load OK. Nothing special or different about them. ... The kernel is a link_elf type object I believe, so you have to have it. That follows (I was reading this the other day 'cause we don't support

Re: zfs problems

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not clear about which version of ZFS code is in FreeBSD, and whether the free space map bug is present there or not. Does anyone know which ZFS is in FreeBSD? Anyways, if you really need the data, it might be possible to boot the newest