Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:10:46AM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote: > I know this is rather late in the release process, but given that this > issue will affect many people, I think it should be considered fixing > this driver for 6.1. The release is imminent. The last Ts are being crossed and Is dott

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2006-05-05 Thread Miles Lubin
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: I had a similar event last night, on a P4 on an Asus P4P800. The current driver is much less prone to this lockup problem than it used to be. In my case it does not have to be in a high-load situation, it appear

Re: system crash during file copy to a floppy with bad sectors

2006-05-05 Thread Rostislav Krasny
On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:01:09 +0930 "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2006 07:41, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > > write the same file to the same floppy I didn't run umount and it crashed > > again. Following are footsteps of the first crash, founded in the > > /var/log/mes

6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Last night I updated on of my machines from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-RC. As far as I understand, I followed the instructions correctly - in particular: boot -s # fsck -p # mount -u / # mount -a # adjkerntz -i # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p # make installworld I found that installworld stops, because

Re: system crash during file copy to a floppy with bad sectors

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 06 May 2006 09:33, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > > Can you get a back trace? ie enable crash dumps and do it again, or > > transcribe, or photograph the screen as it panics if you are local. > > Unfortunately I cannot reproduce it now. Doesn't the old log help? > There is one "Fatal trap 12

Re: usb to serial

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 06 May 2006 00:34, David Coder wrote: > thx for the suggestions, guys. with > > device uftdi > device uplcom You can just kldload these BTW. Saves time when testing :) > in the kernel config the adapter shows up as > > ugen0: ArkMicroChips USB-UART Controller, rev 1

howto/hack for Matrox's mga_hal and Xorg 6.9.

2006-05-05 Thread George Hartzell
[I've seen some comments here about people struggling w/ mga_hal, so I thought I'd share this.] I wanted to use features of the Matrox mga x11 driver (dual headed digital video) that required the hal, but I wasn't able to get the mga_hal port to work with Xorg 6.9. I cobbled up an underhanded h

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Janet Sullivan
Mike Jakubik wrote: arrive at the sacrifice of stability. I think FreeBSD should only be released when known major bugs are worked out. A known broken release to me and most new users is useless, lets not release simply for the sake of numbering. For me, and many other quiet users, FreeBSD *I

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2006-05-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:26:54PM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote.. > On Fri, 5 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > >On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:03:55PM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote.. > >>My motherboard has a built-in ethernet port that is handled by the sk > >>driver. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RC on amd64. Wh

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2006-05-05 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:03:55PM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote.. My motherboard has a built-in ethernet port that is handled by the sk driver. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RC on amd64. When the network card is under high load, it often kills any current connection

Re: 6.x on an IBM T42 laptop

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Willson
> From: Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've got an IBM T42 laptop that's currently running 5.4, and it's working > nicely at the moment. ACPI works well enough that suspend to RAM works > ('zzz'), the audio works, USB devices are recognised, and the battery life's > reasonable (with est en

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-05 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
My vote goes to PureFtpd.. It`s ideal server.. On 5/4/06, N.J. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-04 05:48:40 -0800]: > What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for > something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. Anothe

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Paul Allen wrote: One detail of this has to do with version numbering. The FreeBSD version number says a lot more about the userland than it does about the kernel per se. If we were to version the kernel arch, I think it would look more like this: '94 1.1.5.1 (Last N

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Scott Long
Guys, I appreciate the attempts at rational explaination from camp A, and I appreciate the flood of emotional outpouring from camp B. However: Mike Jakubik, David Kirchner, and others: You are making a mountain out of a molehill and exploiting the unprecendented openness of the release engineer

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Jakubik
Mark Linimon wrote: Make Jakubik wrote: FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an influx of new bells and whistles just before the release [...] I fully understand that this is a volunteer project [...] I'm sorry, but the former statement proves the latter f

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2006-05-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:03:55PM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote.. > My motherboard has a built-in ethernet port that is handled by the sk > driver. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RC on amd64. When the network card is > under high load, it often kills any current connections and leaves the > message "sk0: w

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Jakubik
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 02:27 PM 05/05/2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: This quota/nve problem sure stirred things up, i guess im partly to blame, but anyway i think that it all boils down to is this; FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an influx of new bells and I think

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Linimon
Make Jakubik wrote: > FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an > influx of new bells and whistles just before the release [...] I fully > understand that this is a volunteer project [...] I'm sorry, but the former statement proves the latter false. Let's try to do our

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Jakubik
Scott Long wrote: Please contact me privately with a list of issues on the 6.1 TODO list that are presently affecting you, and I will personally resolve them for you. Scott, thanks for the very generous gesture, but i cant ask you something like this. The problems that are affecting me are qu

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:27 PM 05/05/2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: This quota/nve problem sure stirred things up, i guess im partly to blame, but anyway i think that it all boils down to is this; FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an influx of new bells and I think you *are* forgettin

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Allen
One detail of this has to do with version numbering. The FreeBSD version number says a lot more about the userland than it does about the kernel per se. If we were to version the kernel arch, I think it would look more like this: '94 1.1.5.1 (Last Net/2) Version 0 Nov '94 2.0

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Scott Long
Mike Jakubik wrote: This quota/nve problem sure stirred things up, i guess im partly to blame, but anyway i think that it all boils down to is this; FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an influx of new bells and whistles just before the release. FreeBSD already has

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: This quota/nve problem sure stirred things up, i guess im partly to blame, but anyway i think that it all boils down to is this; FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an influx of new bells and whistles just before the releas

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Jakubik
This quota/nve problem sure stirred things up, i guess im partly to blame, but anyway i think that it all boils down to is this; FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an influx of new bells and whistles just before the release. FreeBSD already has many great features

DVD Burners/USB

2006-05-05 Thread Jaime Bozza
Hello, I recently replaced a DVD Automated Burner unit with a newer model. The older model used firewire for the drive interface and dvd+rw-tools worked fine. The new model uses USB 2.0 ports (1 for each drive.) Unfortunately, it seems that dvd+rw-tools no longer seems to work. Running dvd+rw-

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread David Kirchner
On 5/5/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It isn't good to release a software with known, documented bugs, but its better than shipping an untested software with god-one-knows unknown bugs. There's another reasonable option: the known buggy code could be disabled by default, and

How to disable libcom_err from being built?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Losher
Hi - I have an install base of machines running MIT Krb5 (which have their own com_err implementation), and I have always used NO_KERBEROS=true so that the integrated Heimdal stuff wouldn't be built during a buildworld. However libcom_err does, and that causes issues when trying to link in progra

Re: 6.x on an IBM T42 laptop

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Allen
> >Is anyone aware of any regressions in laptop functionality going from 5.4 > >to > >6.x? If you're worried, just burn a FreeSBIE first. Paul ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

sk0: watchdog timeout

2006-05-05 Thread Miles Lubin
My motherboard has a built-in ethernet port that is handled by the sk driver. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RC on amd64. When the network card is under high load, it often kills any current connections and leaves the message "sk0: watchdog timeout" in dmesg. I've seen previous posts on this issue, bu

Re: resolver behaviour regarding searchlist and A/AAAA query replies

2006-05-05 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, > On Fri, 5 May 2006 09:46:22 +0200 > Jan Gyselinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Which application did you use? The application which doesn't use > getaddrinfo(3) has this issue, and it cannot be fixed without > re-writing the application to use getaddrinfo(3). Jan> konqueror, which

Re: usb to serial

2006-05-05 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 5, 2006, at 11:04 AM, David Coder wrote: thx for the suggestions, guys. with device uftdi device uplcom you should really only need one of these. in the kernel config the adapter shows up as ugen0: ArkMicroChips USB-UART Controller, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2

Re: usb to serial

2006-05-05 Thread David Coder
thx for the suggestions, guys. with device uftdi device uplcom in the kernel config the adapter shows up as ugen0: ArkMicroChips USB-UART Controller, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 no specific com port shows up, however, so i must need something else. David Coder Network Eng

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:59:33PM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: > Here's how to reproduce the snapshot deadlock I'm seeing, with 6.1-RC2 > cvsup'd as of 5 or 6 hours ago: > > 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/bigfile bs=1024 seek=209715200 count=0 > 2) mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/bigfile > 3) bsdlabel -

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:58AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: +> Kris Kennaway wrote: +> >On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:41:57AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: +> >>Then why utilize a known non-functional technology? +> >> +> > +> >Because again, the benefits have been judged by the decision-makers +>

Re: resolver behaviour regarding searchlist and A/AAAA query replies

2006-05-05 Thread Jan Gyselinck
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:38:20AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: > Hi, > > > On Mon, 1 May 2006 20:46:40 +0200 > > Jan Gyselinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Jan> What I find strange though, is the fact it's now applying the searchlist > Jan> to get an answer on the query. Other tha

Can't select/install kernels in custom install.cfg - 6.1RC2

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Koch
Hi, I have just upgraded some of our product build machines to 6.1RC2 and I am having a few problems getting a custom install.cfg to work with the way sysinstall now selects/installs kernels. I am trying to select a custom distribution set using something like the following: dists=base kerne