Re: GEOM label tasting of windows disk hangs on 8.1

2010-08-12 Thread Bengt Ahlgren
Bengt Ahlgren ben...@sics.se writes: Bengt Ahlgren ben...@sics.se writes: Marius Nünnerich mar...@nuenneri.ch writes: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 14:11, Bengt Ahlgren ben...@sics.se wrote: Hi! When I was trying to install 8.1-REL from the dvd install media on a ThinkPad X40 that has the

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-Release NFSD hang in rc_lo state

2010-08-12 Thread alan bryan
--- On Tue, 8/10/10, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: From: Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.1-Release NFSD hang in rc_lo state To: alan bryan alan.br...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 7:35 PM I'm doing some testing

Re: [CFT] if_ath updates - ar5416 (macbook pro, etc)

2010-08-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi everyone, I've just merged in some changes to the noise floor (NF) internal calibration and NF CCA (clear channel assessment) programming. This may (slightly) improve AR5416/AR9160 behaviour in both AP and station mode in noisy/busy conditions. I've only really tested this in AP mode as I

Re: GEOM label tasting of windows disk hangs on 8.1

2010-08-12 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 23:29, Bengt Ahlgren ben...@sics.se wrote: Marius Nünnerich mar...@nuenneri.ch writes: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 14:11, Bengt Ahlgren ben...@sics.se wrote: Hi! When I was trying to install 8.1-REL from the dvd install media on a ThinkPad X40 that has the original

Re: www.freebsd.org

2010-08-12 Thread jhell
On 08/11/2010 09:30, Michael Schuh wrote: Hi again, up and running again. many thanks. greetings michael 2010/8/11 Michael Schuh michael.sc...@gmail.com: Hi@ list either i shoot the www.freebsd.org webserver in the head or he is still down for other reasons. What i have done

Re: www.freebsd.org

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Schuh
hi jhell, forget about that i have clicked on commands where are to search on solaris. i know that and i know these commands from solaris. the FreeBSD's webserver was off ( not reacheable for a time ) after my clicks and that was the problem, not that these commands nor man pages wasn't been

Re: www.freebsd.org

2010-08-12 Thread jhell
Ugh, Top-posting. Let me dissect this. On 08/12/2010 11:07, Michael Schuh wrote: the FreeBSD's webserver was off ( not reacheable for a time ) 's/off/on/' 's/for a time/by me/' after my clicks and that was the problem, 's/my/my spamming/' not that

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-Release NFSD hang in rc_lo state

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Macklem
[stuff snipped] I applied this patch and have been unable to reproduce the hang since. Rick, Thanks for an awesomely quick response! This will go into 8-Stable at some point? I believe so. I'll be away from computers until Aug. 24, so maybe late Aug. to head and mid-Sept. to stable/8.

Re: 8.1R: ppp default route uses wrong Netif (with pppoe)

2010-08-12 Thread Michael BlackHeart
As I understand this isn't a bug but a mistype or misunderstand of config ( see man ppp.conf ) I'm running myself 8.0, 8.1 and currently 8.STABLE with pppoe in this way and never have a problem as many peolpe do. Look in listing my-provider: set line PPPoE:nfe0 Here's some set line and should

NFS stalling on 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-12 Thread Mark Morley
Hi all, I have five front end web servers that all mount their content from the same server via NFS. If I stress the link on any one of the machines (eg: copy a large directory with a lot of files to/from the mounted file system) the client will pause. That is, all processes trying to access

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 5 August 2010 12:41, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere? IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!),

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 13/08/2010, at 10:43, Adrian Chadd wrote: [cain 14:07] /tmp rm -f kernel/*.symbols [cain 14:07] /tmp du -sh kernel 50Mkernel Why not add support to the relevant libraries/code to support reading compressed symbol files? Hmm, it does make a rather massive difference.. 206Mb - 55Mb

My kernel panics sucked, but they seem to be gone now.

2010-08-12 Thread William D. Colburn (Schlake)
A rehash of the problem: If my computer was plugged into the UPS and sitting on my metal desk the drive controllers would fail and cause a panic almost immediately when booted. If my computer was plugged into wall power and sitting on a wooden table, the machine ran flawlessly. New information: