graid3 not working on partitions

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, since GEOM so a nicely layered framework (and I didnt want to loose my MBR) I tried to setup a graid3 using using da1s1a... instead of da1... getting the following negative results: (not only trying to use da1/da1s1 for parity, it trashes the disklabel on da1s1 too) ... (totum)(root) graid3

Re: graid3 not working on partitions

2004-11-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:20:33AM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote: + Hi, + since GEOM so a nicely layered framework (and I didnt want to loose my MBR) + I tried to setup a graid3 using using da1s1a... instead of da1... + getting the following negative results: + (not only trying to use

graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

2004-11-24 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, to the best of my ability I have been investigating the 'real' requirements of a raid-3 array, and cannot see that the following text from graid3(8) cannot possibly be correct - and if it is, then the implementation must be wrong or incomplete (emphasis added): label Create a RAID3

Re: graid3 not working on partitions

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: ... The thing you have to avoid (probably it should be more clear in the manual page) is to allow providers to share the same last sector. The gradi3 class uses the last provider's sector to store metadata and if you have 2 or more providers which

Re: graid3 not working on partitions

2004-11-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:57:08AM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote: + On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: + ... + The thing you have to avoid (probably it should be more clear in the + manual page) is to allow providers to share the same last sector. + The gradi3 class uses the last

5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Greetings, out of fun and to investigate claims about alleged bgfsck resource hogging (which I could not reproduce) posted to news:de.comp.os.unix.bsd, I pressed the reset button on a live FreeBSD 5-STABLE system. Upon reboot, fsck -p complained about an unexpected softupdates inconsistency on

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
Matthias Andree wrote: Greetings, out of fun and to investigate claims about alleged bgfsck resource hogging (which I could not reproduce) posted to news:de.comp.os.unix.bsd, I pressed the reset button on a live FreeBSD 5-STABLE system. Upon reboot, fsck -p complained about an unexpected

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, this in theory should not happen. YOu could have caught it right at the instance that it was sending a transaction out to disk, or you could have caught an edge case that isn't understood yet. Unfortunately, ATA drives also cannot be trusted to flush

Re: graid3 not working on partitions

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: ... The thing you have to avoid (probably it should be more clear in the manual page) is to allow providers to share the same last sector. The gradi3 class uses the last provider's sector to store metadata and if you have 2 or more providers which

Re: graid3 not working on partitions

2004-11-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote: + BTW: Is there a way to change a providers sectorsize (da1s1a in my case) + or ist it allways inherited from da1? It is possible via dedicated GEOM class. There is no such class atm, which changes provider's sector size and

Error on installworld from 5.2.1 to 5.3-p1

2004-11-24 Thread Renato Botelho
Hi, I was trying to update my 5.2.1 box to 5.3-RELEASE-p1. I did this cvsuped RELENG_5_3 make my KERNEL config make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown now (At this time the machine was locked) I rebooted the machine and enter in single mode with kernel 5.2.1 mergemaster -p

Re: graid3 not working on partitions

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: ... Thanks for your informations! Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger, Business Development Manager SAP-Basis, Plaut Consulting Comp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plaut.de | http://www.Reifenberger.com

Re: ntpd v4.2 problem

2004-11-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:35:46 +0900 From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harlan Stenn wrote: This would be use -g with ntpd and forget about ntpdate. H -- But make sure your clocks are in sink at the start by using date. or add -g with the ntpdate_flags, to

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS? [5-STABLE, too]

2004-11-24 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi. On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:02:00PM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: With the attached test program you'll probably find out soon whether PR and fix apply to RELENG_5 (and possibly above) as well. Please keep us posted. I was able to DoS the machine (non-root user!) on 5-STABLE as of today

Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

2004-11-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:54:07AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: + to the best of my ability I have been investigating the 'real' + requirements of a raid-3 array, and cannot see that the following text + from graid3(8) cannot possibly be correct - and if it is, then the + implementation must be

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 24), Scott Long said: Matthias Andree wrote: out of fun and to investigate claims about alleged bgfsck resource hogging (which I could not reproduce) posted to news:de.comp.os.unix.bsd, I pressed the reset button on a live FreeBSD 5-STABLE system. Upon reboot,

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 24), Scott Long said: Matthias Andree wrote: out of fun and to investigate claims about alleged bgfsck resource hogging (which I could not reproduce) posted to news:de.comp.os.unix.bsd, I pressed the reset button on a live FreeBSD 5-STABLE system. Upon

pci-pci bridge and atheros problem

2004-11-24 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hello, I am not able to operate atheros wireless cards with 4 port pci-pci bridge. They are detected but they do not associate and they do other weird stuff sometimes, like frequency not set correctly etc. I believe this is a problem with the pci-pci bridge but I couldnt figure out what I can

Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

2004-11-24 Thread Eirik Øverby
On 24. Nov 2004, at 18:11, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:54:07AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: + to the best of my ability I have been investigating the 'real'  + requirements of a raid-3 array, and cannot see that the following text  + from graid3(8) cannot possibly be

Are there a make problem?

2004-11-24 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, We are trying to create a jail with FreeBSD 5.3 but it's fails with this error: cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/include -c /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.c make: don't know how to make /j/usr/lib/libc.a. Stop *** Error code 2 We was using: export D=/j make world

Re: Error on installworld from 5.2.1 to 5.3-p1 (FIXED)

2004-11-24 Thread Renato Botelho
You were root, you'd done a mount -a, and the tree was local to the system? I discovered the problem, my /tmp was mounted with noexec option, I remove this and all worked fine. Thanks a lot -- Renato Botelho ICQ: 54596223 AIM: RBGargaBR ___ [EMAIL

mergemaster

2004-11-24 Thread Tejas Kokje
Hi, I am upgrading by freebsd installation. While doing mergemaster, it didn't ask me whether it should overwrite my /etc/motd file. Is manual backing up of /etc/motd the only option or have I missed something in mergemaster ? Tejas Kokje University of Southern California

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder if this points to dependencies not being pushed out of the buffer/cache correctly. So do I. Is there a good way to debug this, i. e. more systematic than just trying to trash the FS and see if fsck can recover? That said, I rarely, if ever, see

Re: mergemaster

2004-11-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:30:24AM -0800, Tejas Kokje wrote: I am upgrading by freebsd installation. While doing mergemaster, it didn't ask me whether it should overwrite my /etc/motd file. Is manual backing up of /etc/motd the only option or have I missed something in mergemaster ? By

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:36:09 +0100, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I posted about softupdate problems on a SCSI system with DISABLED WRITE CACHE, on a somewhat flakey Micropolis drive that froze and caused If the hardware is broken, all bets are off, soft updates or no. -GAWollman

Re: Are there a make problem?

2004-11-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:12:17PM -0300, Paulo Fragoso wrote: Hi, We are trying to create a jail with FreeBSD 5.3 but it's fails with this error: cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/include -c /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.c make: don't know how to make

Re: mergemaster

2004-11-24 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:30:24AM -0800, Tejas Kokje wrote: I am upgrading by freebsd installation. While doing mergemaster, it didn't ask me whether it should overwrite my /etc/motd file. Is manual backing up of /etc/motd the only option or have I missed something in mergemaster ? You

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Matthias Andree wrote: I posted about softupdate problems on a SCSI system with DISABLED WRITE CACHE, on a somewhat flakey Micropolis drive that froze and caused massive ffs+softupdates corruption in February 2004 (on FreeBSD 4 though), see URL:http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?m38yj15m59.fsf

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
Michael Nottebrock wrote: Matthias Andree wrote: I posted about softupdate problems on a SCSI system with DISABLED WRITE CACHE, on a somewhat flakey Micropolis drive that froze and caused massive ffs+softupdates corruption in February 2004 (on FreeBSD 4 though), see

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Scott Long wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: Matthias Andree wrote: I posted about softupdate problems on a SCSI system with DISABLED WRITE CACHE, on a somewhat flakey Micropolis drive that froze and caused massive ffs+softupdates corruption in February 2004 (on FreeBSD 4 though), see

ggated, dvd+rw, atapicam problem

2004-11-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
Just hit a odd problem... here is what I am doing... I have a dvd+rw drive that I am trying to export using ggated... of which some thing is going wrong... any one have any idea what is happening? I think I provided all the possible info, if any one can think of any thing more, please let me

Re: Error on installworld from 5.2.1 to 5.3-p1

2004-11-24 Thread Zoltan Frombach
I did this cvsuped RELENG_5_3 make my KERNEL config make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown now (At this time the machine was locked) I rebooted the machine and enter in single mode with kernel 5.2.1 mergemaster -p make installworld Well, this is not quiet right. You should

5.3R p1 only boots in safe mode

2004-11-24 Thread secmgr
Can someone point me to what safe mode sets so I can debug whats broke? thanks jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote.. Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and run

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-24 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Brian Szymanski wrote: Did you try any machines that used Hyperthreading? I'd be interested to see how those machines fare based on the number of logical and real CPUs. Although people suggest -j4 as optimal in general case, I have come to a very different conclusion: 1) single CPU

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Rob
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote.. Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and

Re: 5.3R p1 only boots in safe mode

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
secmgr wrote: Can someone point me to what safe mode sets so I can debug whats broke? thanks jim It disables ACPI, APIC, ATA DMA, ATAPI DMA, ATA Write Cache, and EISA. Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
Rob wrote: Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and run (although FreeBSD can run on 386 processors with a

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
Rob wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote.. Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to