interrupt storms with AR5414 on 6.3 RELEASE

2008-02-18 Thread huub
I have a problem running the Atheros AR5414 wireless mini-pci-card (Compex model WLM54AGP23) with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE (GENERIC i 386) on a Soekris 4521. I get lots of messages: interrupt storm detected on irq10:; throttling interrupt source and ath0: device timeout And after sometime the

ldconfig -R issue (Was: Problems with icu - 3.8)

2008-02-18 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
+stable@ Yoshihiro Ota wrote: Why are so many people are bitten by this? Is that the jobs of port-upgrading tool to safe copy these libraries to compat so that all programs using the old libraries works? Portupgrade preserves the libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg: % ls

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Jim Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i; char buf[1024]; bzero(buf, 1024); for(i = 0; i 1; i++) { sprintf(buf, touch %s%05d\n, argv[1], i); system((const char *)buf);} return(0);} Subject should be how to take

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Kurt Buff
Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this! Doctor: Don't do that... On Feb 18, 2008 1:23 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i; char buf[1024]; bzero(buf, 1024);

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:53:59PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Two bugs: [skip] That's all very funny, but what about a panic? It it true that it's possible for non-root to bring a file system to not-mountable state? Eugene Grosbein ___

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Scott Long
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Purely in the interest of showing off, here is my version. It is 81 bytes shorter than yours, it is valid C99 with POSIX extensions (yours is not), and it produces 11,450 files in about 0.2% of the time yours takes to

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Dennis Melentyev
Dag-Erling: you win! Your's longer a couple of inches :) Sorry, my hands runs in front of the loco... Hope there are not much of *such* styled preprocessor code in FreeBSD? It should be a plain suicide to fix a bug in it. 2008/2/18, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dag-Erling Smørgrav

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Speedtoys
Time for the idiot(proof) function call. Got brakes? == 25hrs or one season with one pad set is possible. Save money and pit time, compromise nothing. Ask how. TXT or Tone: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.speedtoys.com On Feb 18, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Andrews
Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this! Doctor: Don't do that... Did you actually bother to read his report? While his example is used /, if the report is correct then you just need to replace / with the path of any file system mount point that is world writable like say /tmp. Do you

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Purely in the interest of showing off, here is my version. It is 81 bytes shorter than yours, it is valid C99 with POSIX extensions (yours is not), and it produces 11,450 files in about 0.2% of the time yours takes to produce 10,000. #include

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Jim Bryant wrote: FYI: The system assigned kern/120781 to this bug report. IMHO, a security advisory should be issued ASAP. Thanks for the report, I'm sure your widely distributed e-mail will get someone looking at it quickly. In the future if you run into an issue

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, I would agree with Mark and Jim, this is a serious issue for enterprise servers. Yet another example where I would have wanted to see a more supportive response from the FreeBSD project members, like Robert Watson just did. This would benefit keeping a good relation with the business users.

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Scott Long
Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, I would agree with Mark and Jim, this is a serious issue for enterprise servers. Yet another example where I would have wanted to see a more supportive response from the FreeBSD project members, like Robert Watson just did. This would benefit keeping a good

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Daniel Corrigan
Since this was released to a public mailing list, I can only assume some less than nice user will attempt this. The only top level file system I have that can be written to by normal users is /tmp Should clear_tmp_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf prevent this from causing harm? Dan On Feb 17, 2008

Duplicate mails, again...

2008-02-18 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Would someone from the mail admins please remove the recipient at: mail.radiokom.kr.ua from the mailing list? He/She/It keeps reposting all mails sent to freebsd-stable, as other should've also noticed already, and this is getting severely annoying for my filters. -- Heiko Wundram Product

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
Daniel Corrigan wrote: Since this was released to a public mailing list, I can only assume some less than nice user will attempt this. The only top level file system I have that can be written to by normal users is /tmp Should clear_tmp_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf prevent this from causing harm?

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Daniel Corrigan wrote: Since this was released to a public mailing list, I can only assume some less than nice user will attempt this. The only top level file system I have that can be written to by normal users is /tmp Should clear_tmp_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf prevent

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Robert Watson wrote: Hopefully this bug will get resolved shortly, and then we can evaluate if an errata notice is necessary. FYI, I have been unable, thus far, to reproduce it with 150,000 entries in the root of a test file system on an 8.x kernel. I'm not set up to

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Scott Lambert
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:14:30AM -0600, Daniel Corrigan wrote: Since this was released to a public mailing list, I can only assume some less than nice user will attempt this. The only top level file system I have that can be written to by normal users is /tmp Should clear_tmp_enable=YES in

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:53:59PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Two bugs: [skip] That's all very funny, but what about a panic? It it true that it's possible for non-root to bring a file system to not-mountable state? The issue appears to be more subtle than

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
[CC list trimmed] On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:24:08PM -0600, Jim Bryant wrote: How to repeat the problem: Compile and run the following as instructed: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i; char buf[1024]; bzero(buf, 1024); for(i = 0; i 1; i++) {

Revisiting jerky/freezing mouse issue in 7.0

2008-02-18 Thread Joe Peterson
I spent some time looking again at a trace I posted last month showing mouse jerkiness/freezing under load (note that I see it all of the time under light load too, but it is harder to reproduce on demand). Here's the trace: http://www.skyrush.com/downloads/ktr_ule_4.out The large

Re: Revisiting jerky/freezing mouse issue in 7.0

2008-02-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Joe Peterson wrote: ... This issue (especially since it does not even require continuous heavy CPU use to see) is a constant distraction while using the system, and again I want to volunteer my time to help track it down. I am not sure how to further delve into it, so if there is some

Re: interrupt storms with AR5414 on 6.3 RELEASE

2008-02-18 Thread Sam Leffler
huub wrote: I have a problem running the Atheros AR5414 wireless mini-pci-card (Compex model WLM54AGP23) with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE (GENERIC i 386) on a Soekris 4521. I get lots of messages: interrupt storm detected on irq10:; throttling interrupt source and ath0: device timeout And after

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 17:21 +, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Robert Watson wrote: Hopefully this bug will get resolved shortly, and then we can evaluate if an errata notice is necessary. FYI, I have been unable, thus far, to reproduce it with 150,000 entries in the

Re: 7.0-RC2 package glitch

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:13:35PM -0800, Wayne Chapeskie wrote: The RC2 sysinstall misses six packages, which are included on disc 1, which RC1 did install: imake-1.0.2_4,1 makedepend-1.0.1,1 gccmakedep-1.0.2 xorg-cf-files-1.0.2_2 xorg-nestserver-1.4,1

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
Jim's original report seemed to indicate that the filesystem paniced on mount even after repeated fsck's. That implies that Jim has a filesystem image that panics on mount. Maybe Jim can make that image available and a few people can see if downloading and mounting it