LSI 53c1020 (mpt) troubles

2020-12-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor via freebsd-stable
o arrive :) -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

FreeBSD 9.2 ahci under Parallels VM

2013-10-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I am trying to setup a FreeBSD 9.2 under Parallels and I find that I have to tell it to present IDE disks instead of SATA ones otherwise it gets timeouts probing for the disks. Is there some debugging I can enable to gather more information? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network eng

Re: ZFS hanging on too hard

2013-10-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e? Yes, 100% of the time. I agree the USB behaviour is suboptimal, however I'm not sure if the ZFS code is blameless. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of th

Re: ZFS hanging on too hard

2013-10-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ning? > > The following may help forcing the shutdown if it is a USB problem, although > be > warned you may well loose data in normal operation, so would avoid leaving it > in your case. > > hw.usb.no_shutdown_wait=1 That seems to work around the hang on reboot, thanks. I

Re: ZFS hanging on too hard

2013-10-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
zpool on the backup disk a bit risky - if someone pulls the disk while it's imported then the server would need to be rebooted. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so man

Re: ZFS hanging on too hard

2013-10-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
0.04 cmd: zpool 1384 [tx->tx_sync_done_cv)] 2.63r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2804k load: 0.04 cmd: zpool 1384 [tx->tx_sync_done_cv)] 2.79r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2804k load: 0.04 cmd: zpool 1384 [tx->tx_sync_done_cv)] 2.99r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2804k -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gen

ZFS hanging on too hard

2013-10-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
UNAVAIL 0 0 0 1877640355 REMOVED 0 0 0 was /dev/da0 errors: List of errors unavailable (insufficient privileges) (but I am root..) root@gateway:~ # zpool online pool /dev/da0 cannot online /dev/da0: no such device in pool ?! Anyone have any ideas?

Re: ZFS devd messages

2013-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 12/10/2013, at 11:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Doesn't match anything because messages now look like.. > Processing event '!system=ZFS subsystem=ZFS type=resource.fs.zfs.removed > version=0 class=resource.fs.zfs.removed pool_guid=469710819 > vdev_guid=21522383

ZFS devd messages

2013-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
#x27;"; }; Doesn't match anything because messages now look like.. Processing event '!system=ZFS subsystem=ZFS type=resource.fs.zfs.removed version=0 class=resource.fs.zfs.removed pool_guid=469710819 vdev_guid=215223839' Does anyone have an updated set of rules handy? -

Re: GEOM RAID devd events

2013-08-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 01/08/2013, at 19:56, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> GEOM RAID does not do anything special about devd now. I had no such plans, >> but probably that is a not a bad idea if do it well. > > Do you have a recommendation for where I should start looking? (ie a hint > abou

Re: GEOM RAID devd events

2013-08-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 01/08/2013, at 19:16, Alexander Motin wrote: > On 01.08.2013 12:36, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> Does anyone know if graid generates devd events for 'interesting' RAID >> events? (eg array becoming degraded, rebuild progress & completion, etc).

GEOM RAID devd events

2013-08-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
en't, are there any plans to add some? I am happy to test, or even write if I can find some time. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.&qu

Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

2013-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
looks more like a > generic template than an actual, working command. "kernel_option", for > example. Yeah, I also wonder if it's for booting a XENified FreeBSD or something similar (no idea really). Maybe I'll just have to stuff the loader in an MFS and boot that :

Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

2013-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 01/08/2013, at 9:41, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Daniel O'Connor > wrote: > > That was for 7.x though, maybe the kernel has changed a bit. > > It doesn't say that at all. Nor does it say the exact release(even major > br

Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

2013-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
That was for 7.x though, maybe the kernel has changed a bit. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B

Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

2013-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ptions to memdisk.c32. Yes, I have used memdisk in the past but I want to avoid it if possible. It makes building the image quite a bit more complicated (and tedious to edit). Have you tried mboot? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft

Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

2013-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ports "Invalid Multiboot image: neither ELF header nor a.out kludge found". I suspect I would be able to use memdisk as I have used that in the past with syslinux (for 7.x) however this was seems a lot cleaner and easier to generate. Has anyone had any success with this? Thanks. -- Dani

kern.geom.conftxt broken in the presence of geom_raid

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tag has been pushed in where it shouldn't be. So, I guess I'll have to find some other way to generate my list :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of

Re: Trouble building release with docs

2013-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 22/07/2013, at 7:58, Glen Barber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:55:03AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> On 21/07/2013, at 23:56, Warren Block wrote: >>>>> So, if I rebuild with 9.2 checked out will the docs build? >>>>> &

Re: Trouble building release with docs

2013-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uld be more > effective. I can build /usr/doc OK, I am having trouble building /usr/src/release/doc. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.&quo

Re: Trouble building release with docs

2013-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 21/07/2013, at 16:19, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 04:44:56PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to do a full (customised) release of 9.1 but I am >> having trouble building the docs. If I use NODOC it builds fine,

Re: Trouble building release with docs

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tial checkout? I got a response on IRC, apparently my docproj port is too new to build the sgml release docs. I think I'll just skip it for now, none of the documentation there is of interest to me anyway. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gso

Trouble building release with docs

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
j and I can build /usr/docs fine. I have /usr/src r253451 and /usr/doc r42325. I can copy a doc distfile from a 'real' release since I'm not customising that, but it would be nice to know what I'm doing wrong :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engin

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
make.conf Then you can just rm -rf /foo/bar/work to delete all of the port build goop. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbau

Re: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data

2013-06-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ses. That's not particularly > helpful for those cases where you can't warn the user. That's possibly a > worse situation than what started this thread. Being warned some of the time seems better than none of the time. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer f

Re: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data

2013-06-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
bel tool needs to know about every other label format you want to detect for.. If a label format has a checksum then you could ignore a request to nuke the label if there is no valid checksum (with a flag to force). No idea how many have checksums though.. -- Daniel O'Connor software an

Re: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data

2013-06-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
eant :) Perhaps it should be modified to check if there is valid ZFS data there before proceeding (although that could be annoying unless there is a way to force it), and/or the man page could be amended to say it doesn't do any checks before erasing things. -- Daniel O'Connor softwar

Re: Flow monitoring with PF

2013-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 13/06/2013, at 17:18, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:46:43AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > D> > Some software is kind enough to work with either tun or tap as a > configurable option. > D> > D> Unfortunately I am using ppp which doesn&#

Re: Flow monitoring with PF

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ter/pfPorts/pfflowd-0.8 > is a port that should work ok with pf(4) in FreeBSD 9.0++ Ahh very nice, thanks! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose fro

Re: Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
data point. >>> Can you tell me what revision you are running? >> >> >> Also, which JVM? > > > FreeBSD 9.1-stable r250314 (built on May 10) > openjdk-7.17.02_2 > elasticsearch 0.90.0 (not from ports) > > Please let me know if you want me to try an

Re: Flow monitoring with PF

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is kind enough to work with either tun or tap as a configurable > option. Unfortunately I am using ppp which doesn't :( >> Does anyone have any recommendations for generating flow information from PF? > > I've had great success with ng_netflow. I like the fact that all the

Flow monitoring with PF

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nce tun0 appears after the kernel is all done. Does anyone have any recommendations for generating flow information from PF? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of t

Re: Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch

2013-06-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09/06/2013, at 11:45, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 09/06/2013, at 3:00, Guy Helmer wrote: >>> uname is.. >>> FreeBSD maarsy-rdb.maarsy.rocketrange.no 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 >>> r224195: Tue Jul 19 17:45:03 CST 2011 >>> ra...@m

Re: Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch

2013-06-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
;> > > FWIW, I have not had any problem with elasticsearch on 9.1-stable from about > mid-May. OK thanks. I need to try it on a crash box and test a few things, thanks for the data point. Can you tell me what revision you are running? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engin

Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch

2013-06-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uname is.. FreeBSD maarsy-rdb.maarsy.rocketrange.no 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r224195: Tue Jul 19 17:45:03 CST 2011 ra...@maarsy-acq3.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.c

Re: Serial terminal issues

2013-06-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ard. Could the pinout be different or >> something? > > Yes. There are two different pinouts for motherboard serial headers. You can probably reverse it yourself if you are careful though - open one end and lift the cable out, flip it over and crimp it back in a vice then trim the excess

Re: Serial terminal issues

2013-06-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I suggest building or buying a serial loopback connector and plugging it in. Then run.. cu -l /dev/cuXXX -s 9600 and typing and see if you get your typing echoed back. If you do then you know the serial hardware & driver are working. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gene

Re: [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...

2013-04-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Linux, so I presume it shouldn't affect fbsd either. > # cu -l /dev/cuau0 -s 4800 > Connected > > and after the 'Connected' there is just silence (should be getting > $GPGLL every 200ms from the GPS unit)... Do you have any other serial ports? They may be probed in a di

Re: Linux a.out binaries

2013-04-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
AT_AOUT, which **is not** enabled in GENERIC. And of > course don't forget COMPAT_LINUX. > > Also worth noting is the BUGS section of a.out(5). It's looking like running it inside a FreeBSD 4 VM is the easier solution :) Thankfully it doesn't get much use these days now the p

Linux a.out binaries

2013-04-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
idl [obtuse 11:45] ~ >file /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/bin/bin.linux/idl /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/bin/bin.linux/idl: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped I presume it has rotted and was removed, does anyone know when? THanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genes

Re: SU+J hard recovery failure

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sk to a point where it can boot and then I can login remotely. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG F

KDE login causing processes stuck in zfs wchan

2013-03-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
2012 dar...@midget.dons.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIDGET amd64 Does anyone have a similar experience? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose fro

Re: Empty @cwd in some ports

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 20/03/2013, at 22:06, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Empty cwd is normal, it is equivalent to @cwd %%PREFIX%% OK thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of t

Empty @cwd in some ports

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ken but I am not sure what causes it :( [midget 21:09] /var/db/pkg >egrep -l '@cwd $' */+CONTENTS| wc -l 300 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so m

Re: Functional KDE desktop

2013-03-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
list and you can see if you're somehow missing important bits... I ended up nuking all of KDE/Qt and will try again. I also have had troubles with Python updates and a few things. I really like ports when installing but they are terrible when upgrading :( -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: What is the Right Way(�"o) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/devices/psm_0' (string) > input.device = '/dev/sysmouse' (string) > input.x11_driver = 'mouse' (string) > platform.id = 'psm.0' (string) > > Note that the input.device is sysmouse and that it works. Does lshal how the > input device to b

Re: What is the Right Way($(D"o(B) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
listed with /dev/sysmouse as the device name. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ce. 's probably worth a try... Yeah, that does work too. It's just annoying it's necessary :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so m

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
rable. It does require zfs though ;) I am using ZFS, I'll take a look :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanen

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: >> Does lshal show any inputdevices? > > I see the following.. Oops, I just pasted the keyboard entries instead of the mouse ones.. udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c404_noserial_if0

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
until I updated last week). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E9

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
edesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0' (string) input.device = '' (string) input.x11_driver = 'kbd' (string) platform.id = 'atkbd.0' (string) > Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment? Not really, I can't just nuke the existing

What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
etty sure this used to be necessary, then wasn't, but now seems required again.. From what I can see this means a 'startx' with no config is broken which is a bit of a step backwards. BTW I have dbus & hald running. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Functional KDE desktop

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
artkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation. c++filt says this symbol is.. Attica::ProviderManager::ProviderManager(QFlags const&) Also, the startkde script does not set the pass so it never finds kcheckrunning. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis So

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
les, but I don't know whether that is possible.) I guess the rc.d stuff goes out to whatever device is the nominal console, rather than to the logical console which then splits the output to all of the physical devices attached to it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gen

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ot the VGA console. (It would be nice to have rc.d init scripts output go > to both consoles, but I don't know whether that is possible.) Yeah that would be very nice, I will take what you have though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http:/

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
at's where the ASF stuff comes into play (ugh ugh ugh). I've always > avoided all the boards that have "on-board" IPMI of any sort. I have boards with 3 RJ45 ports, 1 IPMI & 2 normal (em devices). The IMPI configuration has an option to use the dedicated port

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ically separate NIC/RJ45 port* for it, rather than "piggybacking": > the latter caused so much pain/anger that it wasn't worth it. I assumed that the separate NIC was to avoid this problem, however I have since found that the default on the SM boards I looked at is to use the dedicate

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 22/02/2013, at 9:30, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:18:51AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> On 22/02/2013, at 9:15, Navdeep Parhar wrote: >>>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 >>>> u

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
#x27;t be > surprised, but it's good to rule out the above. > > Besides, if this turns out to be some weird IPMI bug, Supermicro is > going to tell you to the above anyway. :-) Yeah good point. It will have to wait until Tuesday when I can sit in front of it (faster that way)

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
if you get *anything* > prior to the initial "Copyright" line? (Keep a raw I/O dump too, to see > if ANY characters are received, not just printable ones -- that can > sometimes help determine if some code is initialising something wrong) I had a look by running ipmitool insi

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s an X8SIL-F http://www.supermicro.com/xeon_3400/Motherboard/X8SIL.cfm?IPMI=Y -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
B, which bios version, and which IPMI FW version are you using? X9SIL-F BIOS version 1.1 (05/27/10) IPMI firmware is 2.01. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
; as in inittab/getty). > > If this works for you, I can expand further on why, if requested. Well that broke everything :) - No messages from the BIOS - No kernel messages - No getty output Now to forward a tun interface so I can run the Java faux-VNC client and fix it. -- Daniel O

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
boot" menu_command[2]="goto_prompt" menu_command[4]="toggle_acpi" menu_command[5]="toggle_safemode" menu_command[6]="toggle_singleuser" menu_command[7]="toggle_verbose" menu_timeout_command="boot" -- Danie

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on acpi0 The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that doesn't use it which is the problem. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
lieve) uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 flags 0x30 on acpi0 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - ht

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
correct I/O port for COM3, > 0x3e8 > maybe?) No dice :( I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are

IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
;0x00" hint.uart.1.flags="0x00" # Set console flag hint.uart.2.flags="0x10" Does anyone have any hints? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them t

Re: Sound problems with skype in FreeBSD home.encontacto.net 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #410 r246209M: Sat Feb 16 05:07:32 CST 2013 fr amd64

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 19/02/2013, at 11:58, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Daniel O'Connor >> wrote: >> Why are you using /dev/dsp1 & /dev/mixer1? > > Copied from the port. No logic. I did try with dsp and mixer only and > restarted skype with

Re: Sound problems with skype in FreeBSD home.encontacto.net 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #410 r246209M: Sat Feb 16 05:07:32 CST 2013 fr amd64

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sound device you're using globally then set the hw.snd.default_unit sysctl. Also, what is the output of cat /dev/sndstat ? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of t

Re: Intel 82574 issue reported on Slashdot

2013-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
oint - this may be a "vendor issue" but it reflects poorly on Intel that they didn't take proper ownership of the issue. It would be far, far better for their image to say "some systems may have the fault, go to http:// to find a way to test for your operating system". --

Re: Intel 82574 issue reported on Slashdot

2013-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e affected. "Contact your motherboard manufacturer" is much more time consuming than "Run sysctl... | grep foo | awk ..." to see if your system is affected. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about st

Re: How to clean up /

2012-11-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
bug tools don't need to be much smarter to find them and they should never end up looking at incorrect data. A make target or some other tool to clean up old symbol directories might be needed though. > Moving the Linux emulation shadow root out of root would also help. Yes, a symlink

Re: How to clean up /

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in / (since they are only used for debugging). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
f > selectively logging ACPI_DEBUG components with debug.acpi.{layer,level} > and be very glad all of that doesn't appear in every verbose boot .. Wouldn't it be better to expose that stuff via a sysctl directly (ie the sysctl holds the actual data)> -- Daniel O'Connor so

Re: Xorg in swwrt

2012-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23/06/2012, at 19:02, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Feb-06 15:19:12 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> I updated ports (portmaster -a basically) on this 8.2-PRE box and now >> I find X takes a long, long time to start up and uses lots of CPU. It >> shows the wchan as

Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
since you're installing on those). If you could obtain a KLD for isci built for 9.0 you could load it in the loader and see if that installer sees it, you might not have the facilities for that though.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 11/02/2012, at 6:32, Joe Holden wrote: > On a related note - does the new installer have any kind of config file for > unattended installs a la sysinstall? No it doesn't, that said since the new release CD is a live file system (vs the old MFS on a CD kludge) it is much much easier to script

Re: UFS corruption panic

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and certainly wasn't. Times change though, every disk media is hot swappable these days, and in any case assumptions change. That said, changing all those code paths which panic because of corruption to instead re-mount read only (or similar) is a decidedly non trivial task :( -- Daniel O

Re: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?

2011-10-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
>> >> Does cdparanoia work for you? >> > > With cdparanoia-3.9.8_9: YES > > tested on 8.2 (from Sep 18) and 9.0 (from Sep 25) both with ATA_CAM Strange, I would have thought VLC would use the same sort of access method as VLC.. I don't know what it's

Re: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?

2011-10-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ific) sector size for > the > cam device. > > Thanks for your attention. > > Claude Buisson > > P.S. As I can see reading GENERIC, ATA_CAM will be the default for 9.X so > there > is a risk of complaints from FreeBSD workstation users (who cares ?) after the >

Re: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?

2011-10-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d be able to access your audio CD that way. I just tried and it ripped a CD fine using cdparanoia and cdcontrol seemed to play it OK (although I don't have the analogue output of this drive hooked up to the audio system). This is not to say that there isn't a bug in the ATA_CAM code :)

Re: From 8-stable to 9.0 RC1 iscsi panic

2011-10-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
he menu, but the list of modules to load is worked out then. If you want to boot without loading the modules listed in loader.conf you need to break into the loader and type.. unload boot -s (or whatever options you want) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?

2011-10-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ve you tried pointing VLC at /dev/cd0 when using ATA_CAM? It may be trying old style ATA ioctls based on the device name. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: Interpreting MCA error output

2011-10-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
aris's smf(5) > architecture. I always thought devd was a fairly general event notification thing. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so man

Re: Interpreting MCA error output

2011-10-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or that, but otherwise > it's functional. Do MCA log events cause anything in devd? It would be _super_ neat if the mcelog port installed a devd rule which emailed root@ with the human readable version of an MCA exception :) I suspect this wouldn't be too difficult to do for a JKH.

Re: valgrind on FreeBSD?

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06/10/2011, at 15:33, Václav Zeman wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote, On 6.10.2011 1:05: >> >> On 06/10/2011, at 7:36, Václav Zeman wrote: >>> No matter what I try, valgrind on 7.3-STABLE is giving me this, both >>> Valgrind >>> ports: &g

Re: valgrind on FreeBSD?

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
up properly. Giving up. > > What do I need to do to make it work? It might need proofs mounted, not sure though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06/08/2011, at 5:17, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Am 05.08.2011 um 17:12 schrieb Christian Weisgerber: >> Daniel Kalchev wrote: >> >>> On 02.08.11 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>>> I am pretty sure UFS does not have this problem. i.e. once you >&g

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
gt; month or two ago too… The problem is that he is being punished with shitty FS performance even though the directory structure is now non-silly. It sounds like the FS hasn't GC'd some (now unneeded) metadata.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Softwa

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ot have this problem. i.e. once you delete/move the files out of the directory its performance would be good again. If it is a limitation in ZFS it would be nice to know that, perhaps it truly, really is a bug that can be avoided (or it's inherent in the way ZFS handles such things) -- Dan

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s time. > > Is there a way to make this drive work? I'd check the cabling etc.. I have an LTO2 drive that "Just works (tm)". Can you boot a Linux ISO and see if that finds it? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
as already been loaded. You could try editing /usr/src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c to add your card's ID and then rebuild & reload the puc module. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that t

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t have to. I do not know if > this is sufficient to work under FreeBSD, but it seems to indicate that it > does not need any proprietary driver. Ahh, sounds promising.. You could just try adding the device IDs to the PUC driver and seeing what happens. Failing that ask Multitech if

calendar(1) problems

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ble modifierindex: |+2| dayofweek: |Tue| (2) Ignored: Tue+2 test Although now that I go to test it I find that 4.8 and 6.3 don't print anything for.. calendar -f testcal -A 120 which surprises me because I definitely received email from the system when it ran calendar -a.. -- Daniel O'Co

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n see what happens after booting. uart(4) > may auto-attach to that. Again, no promises. I have my doubts it would work though, most likely it's a soft modem which will only work with proprietary drivers. I couldn't find any details on the web page though so you might get lucky I suppose

Re: setting usb disc to da1

2011-05-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
erence. glabel won't change da0 etc.. It just provides an alternate device node to mount your file system from - one that doesn't change with probe order. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stand

Re: setting usb disc to da1

2011-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
fortunately I can't check the system I tested this on at the moment. I would strongly suggest you use glabel & UFS IDs (or GPT IDs if you used GPT when installing) in fstab rather than wiring device nodes. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://w

Re: setting usb disc to da1

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
trick to set the USB disc to da1 permanent? You can, to some degree, wire the device with.. hint.scbus.0.at="umass-sim0" hint.da0.at="scbus0" However I would recommend using GPT IDs, UFS IDs or GEOM labels in fstab so the underlying device name is irrelevant. -- Daniel O'Connor

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