Re: Geom label lost after expanding partition

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé oliv...@cochard.me wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: I have a GPT formatted disk where I recently expanded the size of a partition. I used gpart resize -i 6 ada1 first to expand the partition

Re: Geom label lost after expanding partition

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé oliv...@cochard.me wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: I have a GPT formatted disk where I recently expanded the size

Re: geom mirror now rebuilding on every reboot?

2012-08-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
you can use GPT for a single partition. Looks to me like a disk is GPT or legacy. Declaring which is the first command when setting up a new disk. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 - GPT boot problems?

2012-08-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
the protective MBR and the gptboot code as documented in the gpart(8) man page? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: release documentation confusing for 9.1

2012-07-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
to build the various formats. I'm not sure when they will hit the web site and, of course, noting is official until the release, but it is unlikely to change at this point except for minor corrections. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Regression in stable for ThinkPad T520 with Intel GPU (Sandybridge) between June 22 and July 18

2012-07-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

2012-06-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
effectively useless for an extended period. Full disclosure: I have disabled background fsck on most of the systems for which I am responsible, but not all. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:40:45 +0200, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:50:49 +0200, Warren Block wbl

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:41:58 +0200, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: Since updating my systems to 9-Stable, I am not getting my smartcard reader attached when hot-plugged. From devd.conf attach 50

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:50:49 +0200, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Ronald Klop wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:01:21 +0200, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012

devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
fine under version 8. I have confirmed devd is seeing the device inserted just fine. the action just does not seem to be carried out. Any idea where I should look? I saw a couple of threads on current from others seeing something similar, but could find no resolution. I have seen a -- R. Kevin

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-06-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Marius Strobl mar...@alchemy.franken.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:11:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Marius Strobl mar...@alchemy.franken.de wrote

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-06-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Marius Strobl mar...@alchemy.franken.de wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 05:13:44PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:54 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: I sent a note about

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Marius Strobl mar...@alchemy.franken.de wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 05:13:44PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:54 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard anything. I'm really getting

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
require re-installation of ports. Security ports and minor updates are trivial. Grenada? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
, as it was probably prior to the release of 9. I googled around, but could not find it. I'd really appreciate it if anyone can point me toward a solution. Thanks, -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. I have a system that I am

Re: Problems trying to run X on Intel DH77DF System

2012-05-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:02:42AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Hi All, I have a new Intel DH77DF mini-ITX motherboard with a Core i5 3550 CPU and am

Re: Problems trying to run X on Intel DH77DF System

2012-05-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
of 'pciconf -vl'. Anyone have any idea of what's going wrong, or what I can do to get X to work on this system? Are you using the KMS driver (WITH_NEW_XORG)? Can you provide the Xorg.log? As far as vty switching, that is yet to be implemented with KMS. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E

Re: Make buildkernel fails on /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c

2012-05-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
that atapicam is not needed with ATA_CAM. I don't have atapicam it in my kernel and my SATA CD/DVD drive works just fine. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 9-STABLE: sh /etc/rc autoboot could not finish

2012-05-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
autoboot  1937   0  S+    0:00,00 grep rc root@blob:/ # uptime  0:08  up 33 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0,00 0,00 0,00 root@blob:/ #  What happens? Why /etc/rc could not finish? Take a look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-December/065198.html -- R. Kevin Oberman

Re: Make buildkernel fails on /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c

2012-05-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
'device ata' in your kernel? Is 'option ATA_CAM' in it? I don't know how atapi-cam plays with ATA_CAM. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 8.3-PRERELEASE and ATA_CAM

2012-05-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
needs it. But why are you doing this? 9.0 defaults to use ATA_CAM, so just build GENERIC. atadisk is not in GENERIC, but both ata and da ar, though da has nothing to do with ata_cam. It's the SCSI disk driver. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

9.0-RELEASE hangs on probe of CD on upgraded 9.0

2012-05-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
to STABLE? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: High load event idl.

2012-04-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
those processes might be. Using top(1) with 'H' to show threads and see what they might be. The possibilities with what we have now are nearly endless. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 - GPT boot problems?

2012-04-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
Table article on Wikipedia for more information.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:26 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: Throttling ... is intended for thermal control, not power management. The power savings will be negligible ... How can it possibly provide any thermal benefit, if it does not reduce power

Re: Can't load many network kernel module in 8.3-PREREALEASE

2012-03-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
load /boot/kernel/if_axe.ko: Exec format error GENERIC already has all of these drivers. Did you buidt a kernel with no network interfaces? If the kernel is built with the drivers, you can't load them as they already exist. (And you can't unload drivers built into the kernel, either.) -- R. Kevin

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
)? It tells you how to make a good port, how to test it (though I don't think it has anything on redports, yet), and how to submit it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
section describes exactly how to go about it. Be sure that it passes portlint(1) before you submit. Thanks for you work on this. I'm looking forward to seeing it as a port. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
, it is very hard to do in the real world. I suspect it is really needed. And what else is creating directories in /media? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
and APIs can change which is the key to getting new features out to a broad audience. It simply as to be done. No one really likes it, but no one has come up with a better way. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
. It i also why 5.0 and 5.1 were clearly marked as development releases not for production. I really hope to never see a release as ugly as 5. 9.0 may have issues as did 7.0 and 8.0, but for most, it works quite well. I m happily running it on a couple of systems. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
man bsdlabel: Installing Bootstraps If the -B option is specified, bootstrap code will be read from the file /boot/boot and written to the disk. Or am I not understanding something? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:     On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:56:24 -0800 Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: =A0 =A0 On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky er

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
to bite you in the butt all too often. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
on the disk, but no other OS is likely to do so. Unless I am missing something, this should be a non-starter. Totally unacceptable. The backup belongs in the last and only in the last LBA on the physical disk. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: freebsd 9-stable TOP problem from around Jan 10

2012-02-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
but I need to co-ordinate with others to upgrade the machine in question. Not seeing it here on 9-stable. Could it be a display issue? I am using gnome-terminal with TERM defined as 'xterm'. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
and bsdlabel, I'm happy to see both go. They have a horrid user interface and require a calculator to get right. Yes, I use them, but only because there is no other way to do some things. (sade(8) comes closer all of the time, though.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
access to a small number of took on Windows...the ones in Office. It's still better than either LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org for either documents or presentations, especially presentations that will be displayed on a Windows system (as most are). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6

Re: HPN-SSH question

2012-01-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
and generating time plots very useful for looking at this sort of performance issue. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD 9 recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
all ports have been removed.That can save a fair amount of reconfiguration at the slight risk of retaining some old cruft. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 8.2-9.prerel: gmirror failed with error 19

2011-12-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
, glabels, and such. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
be the closest atch? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
. Have you tried a longer one? I seem to recall that 3 meters was the minimum, but it was so long ago that my memory is a bit fuzzy. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin

2011-09-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
rejected.The message states that Colin is working on a patch to the emulation code which should be available shortly. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=14130+0+current/freebsd-emulation -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: make installworld fails (touch not found)

2011-09-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
-stnd.info.gz texinfo.info.gz /usr/share/info === include (install) creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh touch: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/src/include. *** Error code 1 Anyone having the same issue? Check the setting of the date/time on the system. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: gmirror+gjournal often makes inconsistens file systems

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
, not a drive, is the appropriate application. I am quite aware of this as I just created my first gjournal file system last night and was briefly confused by this. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-09-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:01 AM,  per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:04:43PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: ... the standrad does not specify EXACTLY what

Re: wlan0 rc.conf setup does not assign static ip on 8.2-STABLE

2011-09-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
wrouter0 mode 11g channel 1 Will the AP be routed or bridged? If it is bridged, there is no need for it to have an address. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
Jeremy, I think we are simply not communicating, I guess. You are arguing point with which I agree. Comments in line: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:10:13PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:01 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:04:43PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: ... the standrad does not specify EXACTLY what triggers a transition from standby to ready (PM2 to PM0). Only

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
issue is a firmware bug in the drive. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:29:02PM -0400, David Magda wrote: On Tue, August 30, 2011 11:50, Kevin Oberman wrote: [...] The more I look at this, the more it seems to me that it is an issue with the Seagate drive

Unable to shutdown

2011-08-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
is fine. This looks like a bug, but I don't see why the unmounting of an msdosfs system does not spin up the drive. It's clearly hanging on some operation that is not spinning up the drive, but does block. Any ideas what is going on? Possible fix? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
in the near term, I'll go along with recommending replacement. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: WD Advanced Format: do I need to do something special?

2011-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
also use gpart create -s mbr to create a traditional MBR slice/partition setup, There are several on-line articles detailing this operation. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: GPT boot blocks, booting and booteasy

2011-08-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
2011/8/15 Andrey V. Elsukov a...@freebsd.org: On 10.08.2011 07:12, Kevin Oberman wrote: I have /boot/pmbr loaded into the PMBR and gptboot into the freebsd-boot partition. I'll admit that I did this by rote and don't understand how these two files interact with the UEFI BIOS to get

GPT boot blocks, booting and booteasy

2011-08-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
other disk which is sliced in the traditional fashion? Can anyone point me to any information on how the boot process works with GPT? Thanks! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: dtrace ustack kernel panic

2011-08-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
depend (possibly a no-op) make make install -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: Quoting Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com (from Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:33:27 -0700): On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD.  I read a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
when 'newfs'ing it. Again, thanks for the advice. At very least it will save me a bit of time! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick free

Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
we retain the old format under a legacy switch and/or env variable for users that have tools that parse the output (cough yahoo cough). Pretty please! This would be wonderful. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
easy to get one of these useless things by accident. I would have if I hadn't been warned at the last minute. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
like the way to go in e future. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
should have time. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to understand the problems I am having on some systems regarding libarchive, lzma, and xz. I have an 8-Stable system updated yesterday. As far as I can tell, libarchive does include the lzma stuff from libzma

Re: dell latitude 13

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
with the main graphics system, usually Intel 3000 which is actually a part of the Sandy Bridge CPU. Since the Intel chip is also still unsupported by FreeBSD, you will be limited to VEDA support which is very limited. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6...@gmail.com On Jul 1, 2011 8

Re: libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:32 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6558 at gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to understand the problems I am having on some systems regarding libarchive, lzma, and xz. I have an 8-Stable system updated yesterday

Re: dell latitude 13

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
of adding the code as on this link: http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-21852.html If it is a 4500, you will have at least minimal graphics support. You should be able to disable the NVIDIA daughter card on BIOS, but I would not want to guarantee it. Good luck! R. Kevin Oberman, Network

libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
would be greatly appreciated! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable

Unable to boot Lenovo T520

2011-06-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
help. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Last work day before retirement is Jun 17, 2011

Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
it increase by .125 every time throttling adds another step to the pause time. It will be fairly dramatic and very close to steps of exactly .125 of the original time. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E

Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
, but does not explain in any way why your CPU is so hot. I'll be very curious as to what you find when running another OS. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
and better (when present), you are not being power efficient. To do this, the clock must rise very quickly and should drop slowly. And even then, it's not likely to save much power or reduce heat load significantly . -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
engender data corruption while enhancing performance. It still will not save you from losing the data that is in cache and not written, but that is the extent of the damage. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
with the whole CVSup / MFC / release process... To be very clear, stable/8 is tagged RELENG_8 in cvs, so you need to specify a tag of RELENG_8 in your supfile. *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
benchmarks. The sweet spot on most disks I've found is 64k. Otherwise use benchmarks/bonnie++. When FreeBSD updated its random number engine a couple of years ago, random and urandom became the same thing. Unless I am missing something, a switch should make no difference. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
than I am, but at least this should provide a bit more information. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3

Re: root mount error

2010-12-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
2 See 19.6 Labeling Disk Devices in the handbook for more information. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B

Re: /sbin/reboot

2010-12-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751

Re: memory leak and swapfile

2010-11-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:17:43 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:12:59PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:17:05 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org It looks like

Re: memory leak and swapfile

2010-11-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
. Any suggestions? ps -aux Look for processes with large values in the VSZ column. I'm sure that there are other ways to see this, but that's an easy one. You can, of course, pipe the output to sort and use the -k 5 -n options. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Re: icmp packets on em larger than 1472 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-11-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:49:56 -0800 (PST) From: Kirill Yelizarov ykir...@yahoo.com --- On Thu, 11/11/10, Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net wrote: From: Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net Subject: Re: icmp packets on em larger than 1472 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkin

Re: icmp packets on em larger than 1472 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-11-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:04:36 -0800 On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:10:57AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:49:56 -0800 (PST) From: Kirill Yelizarov ykir...@yahoo.com --- On Thu, 11/11/10, Kevin Oberman ober

Re: icmp packets on em larger than 1472

2010-11-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
includes 12 bytes of address and two bytes of ethertype or the CRC. If the igb is allowing over 1500 bytes of IP packet through, assuming the MTU has not been increased for the standard 1500, something is clearly broken. 1472 is the right answer and 1500 (or 1473) is not. -- R. Kevin Oberman

Re: icmp packets on em larger than 1472 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-11-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
' fails on v7 and v8. Are the V8 systems where you see if failing without the '-D' on the same network segment? If not, it is likely that an intervening device is refusing to fragment the packet. (Some routers deliberately don't fragment ICMP Echos Request packets.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: hast vs ggate+gmirror sychrnoisation speed

2010-10-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
and many are using larger pages. You want the MAX_SEND_SIZE to be a multiple of the page size, so 32K is probably not a bad size. You could try dropping it to 16KB, but I doubt it will help and might hurt transfers. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O

Re: Label question...why does ufs label vanish on mount?

2010-10-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
. this is both counter-intuitive, but hard to program around. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4

Re: Problem with security log

2010-10-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
) Is the any real documentation on the ipfw0 device and how to use it? I can see it as being very handy. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key

Label question...why does ufs label vanish on mount?

2010-10-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
physical drive contains the labeled media. It is a particular issue for hald and the tools which depend on it. Is there a good reason for this odd behavior of UFS? If there is not a good reason, could it be changed? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence

Re: Label question...why does ufs label vanish on mount?

2010-10-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Stefan Bethke s...@lassitu.de Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:01:24 +0200 Am 12.10.2010 um 20:51 schrieb Kevin Oberman: For some reason the /dev/ufs/label entry that geom creates for every UFS formatted partition is deleted when the device is mounted. This is not the case for other

Re: Label question...why does ufs label vanish on mount?

2010-10-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:09:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:51:00AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: For some reason the /dev/ufs/label entry that geom creates for every UFS formatted partition

Re: ISDN4BSD removal (was: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon)

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/isdn4bsd/ -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751

Re: BIND9 built w/--disable-ipv6 on 8.1-STABLE

2010-09-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751

Re: Policy for removing working code

2010-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
. Personally, I think we screwed up. /soapbox -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B

Re: ipfw: Too many dynamic rules

2010-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
does not work. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751

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