Re: 7.0 Kernel install problem

2008-03-01 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2008 3:32:32 AM Subject: 7.0 Kernel install problem Make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC whent without errors. Make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC gave

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the FreeBSD Project thanks for your interest in FreeBSD. We hope you enjoy the new release. I've just spent the whole morning installing it on my office desktop. It was an awful experience: installing packages

Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Björn König
I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to save some space? Yes, you can do this safely. Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:18:52 -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem to me that some work in this area would pay dividends. Suggestion for a quick fix (hack might be the right word): 1. first time one of the extra cd's is read, the user gets a choice to copy the cd to hard

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread David Marec
Le Thursday 28 February 2008 13:18:30 Kris Kennaway, vous avez écrit : freebsd update requires a known state to upgrade from, i.e. so it can apply the right set of diffs to bring your system from one known state to another. This basically means previously installed from the release media and

Re: [kgdb] There is no member named pathname

2008-03-01 Thread pluknet
On 29/02/2008, pluknet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've updated to the recent RELENG_7 as of 2008/02/28 to try the new kld-add feature in kgdb, among other things (yes, i do debug kernel modules). However, now I get an error message; also I'm unable to use the add-kld command.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chris H. wrote: * log on as root - or su to root after logging on as regular user * type /usr/sbin/sysinstall - this brings up the installer again * choose post install * choose install additional ports/packages * choose net/cvsup-without-gui * when finished, exit the installer A very nice

Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alex de Kruijff wrote: I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to save some space? Yes but if you encounter a panic and need to submit a bug report then you will need at least the kernel.debug

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BSD is /different/. Which is /not/ bad, just /different/. :) Never said it was bad (on the *very* contrary) Been using it for a little more than 10 years now: would I have been if I had thought otherwise ? ;-) * choose net/cvsup-without-gui no longer

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the FreeBSD Project thanks for your interest in FreeBSD. We hope you enjoy the new release. I've just spent the whole morning installing it on my office desktop. It was an awful experience: installing packages from the

Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:11 -0800 Stephen Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a workaround, adding the line: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and prevent the hangs that are caused by the DMA timeouts. Yeah, but having dma=1 makes the system faster, doesn't it? -- Dick

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: * log on as root - or su to root after logging on as regular user * type /usr/sbin/sysinstall - this brings up the installer again * choose post install * choose install additional ports/packages * choose net/cvsup-without-gui * when

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Chris H.
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BSD is /different/. Which is /not/ bad, just /different/. :) Never said it was bad (on the *very* contrary) Been using it for a little more than 10 years now: would I have been if I had thought otherwise ? ;-) * choose

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steven Hartland wrote: Seems portupgrade can easily break the perl install. How? Well there are various modules which can be updated but are also part of the base perl and are hence required. A good example of this is ExtUtils::MakeMaker. If you uninstall any version of this port your done

Re: 7.0 Kernel install problem

2008-03-01 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2008-03-01 01:32, Alex de Kruijff wrote: kldxref /boot/kernel kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked ... Should I be worried? You're probably upgrading from 6.x? The old kldxref doesn't grok the new kernel format, apparently. So you might want to use the kldxref from your buildworld

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Ken Smith
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 19:18 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: Another approach might be to make one cd the desktop install cd, including all of the apps commonly used to install the desktop (xorg, kde, gnome, etc.) This is already in place, as best I can. X.org is on disc1 (on purpose since it's

RE: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails

2008-03-01 Thread Kevin K
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:18 PM To: Kevin K Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails On 29/02/2008,

Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: KK Alex de Kruijff wrote: KK I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is KK this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to KK save some space? KK KK Yes but if you encounter a panic and need to submit

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Julian Stacey
But I'm not up to it right now. I'll save it for another posting. Posting come go forgotten, so I suggest send your final script as a send-pr to eg the doc/ tree. That (doc/ tree) ( www tree generated from it, copied in advanced to local host) people can have available eg on local laptop,

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, March 01, 2008 3:32 PM +0800 Nawfal bin Mohmad Rouyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can actually use csup instead of cvsup and it is already included in the base. I knew that, but old habits die hard. Plus I haven't read the csup man page yet. :-) Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails

2008-03-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:12:52PM -0500, Kevin K wrote: I have cvsupped my src - cvsup stable-supfile / RELENG_7 cvsup5,3,4.freebsd.org many times and I keep failing @ make buildworld : magic, 67702: Warning type `log' invalid magic, 67703: Warning offset [EMAIL PROTECTED] files no longer

RE: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails

2008-03-01 Thread Kevin K
-Original Message- It looks like you did something wrong when using cvsup, and did not check out RELENG_7, but instead got a copy of the whole CVS repository - which cannot be compiled from directly. Remove all the contents of your current /usr/src/, fix your supfile, and try

Re: Documentation of NO_* knobs

2008-03-01 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:49:33AM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:04:10PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello, On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:18:31AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I think you're looking for all the WITHOUT knobs in src.conf(5). I'm

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread James
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 14:53 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Seems portupgrade can easily break the perl install. How? Well there are various modules which can be updated but are also part of the base perl and are hence required. A good example of this is

Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Philipp Ost
Alex de Kruijff wrote: I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to save some space? Some time ago someone already asked this question on current@ IIRC. Someone proposed to add

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails

2008-03-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 11:00:11AM -0500, Kevin K wrote: I'll try removing /usr/src/* re-cvsupping. I would recommend you also nuke relevant directories or files in /usr/sup (or if you're using csup, /var/db/sup). I tend to recommend using /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and

packet loss with re(4) - fixed on 6.4-R

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Langille
I'm happy to say that the packet loss I experienced with re(4) on 6.3-RELEASE has been fixed by a patch provided off list by Pyun YongHyeon. I'm also happy to report that the same hardware does not exhibit any re(4) problems with 7.0-RELEASE. ref:

Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Hurd
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:11 -0800 Stephen Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a workaround, adding the line: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and prevent the hangs that are caused by the DMA timeouts. Yeah, but having dma=1 makes the system

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Hurd
Kris Kennaway wrote: I think something is not quite right in your analysis, because perl does not depend on any external perl modules (it cannot, by definition). I ran into something like this when I was switching from a threaded perl to an unthreaded perl. It wasn't possible to just use a

7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-01 Thread Jeff Blank
Hello, I posted this around 3 months ago and never received a response. the problem still occurs with 7.0-STABLE (csup on 20080301). I possibly incorrectly referred to it as a panic last time, when the problem was really a trap. The only steps I've really taken since I posted this originally

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think something is not quite right in your analysis, because perl does not depend on any external perl modules (it cannot, by definition). I know what your saying there Kris, this shouldn't happen. So I've spent some time

Re: $HOME changed from 6.2 to 6.3 and 7.0 ?!

2008-03-01 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On Fri, 29.02.2008 at 13:58:27 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $ ... HOME=/var/log If this has changed from before, I guess it would be due to a new shell

Re: infinite loop when copying to ext2fs

2008-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jakub Siroky wrote: I've just confirmed the same situation on 6.2-RELEASE amd64/GENERIC. I did not noticed it before because I started using ext2fs extensively some months ago. Regards, Jakub On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:44:34 +0100 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote:

Re: infinite loop when copying to ext2fs

2008-03-01 Thread Jakub Siroky
I've just confirmed the same situation on 6.2-RELEASE amd64/GENERIC. I did not noticed it before because I started using ext2fs extensively some months ago. Regards, Jakub On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:44:34 +0100 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Jakub Siroky wrote: I

Re: 7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-01 Thread Joe Koberg
Jeff Blank wrote: Hello, I posted this around 3 months ago and never received a response. the problem still occurs with 7.0-STABLE (csup on 20080301). I possibly incorrectly referred to it as a panic last time, when the problem was really a trap. I also receive Fatal trap 12: page

Re: 7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-01 Thread Pete French
I also receive Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode while trying to boot a HP Proliant DL580G3 from the 7.0-RELEASE amd64 disc1 CD. Does it boot with ACPI disabled ? I have an HP workstation which did the same, and got a patch for it in the end, but thius might be an utterly

Re: 7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 02:44:04PM -0500, Jeff Blank wrote: I posted this around 3 months ago and never received a response. the problem still occurs with 7.0-STABLE (csup on 20080301). I possibly incorrectly referred to it as a panic last time, when the problem was really a trap. A trap

Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to save some space? You can build a custom kernel, without debug support, if

Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:11:53PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: KK Alex de Kruijff wrote: KK I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is KK this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to KK

Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:20:50PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: I'd like to attack these driver problems. What I need is to spend a couple of days with an affected system that can reliably reproduce the problem, instrumenting and testing the driver. I have a number of theories about what might

Re: 7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-01 Thread Jeff Blank
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:56:46AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 02:44:04PM -0500, Jeff Blank wrote: /boot/loader.conf (XXX_load=YES). It seems to occur near the end of device probing, just before it detects the disks. This is likely to be when the loaded modules get

dump, restore and zfs

2008-03-01 Thread John Pettitt
Does anybody know if it's possible to restore a dump of a ufs filesystem to zfs? Thanks John ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dump, restore and zfs

2008-03-01 Thread Bakul Shah
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:56:43 PST John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if it's possible to restore a dump of a ufs filesystem to zfs? Yes. restore doesn't need any internals knowledge of the target filesystem; it writes files, directories special devices normally so it will