LSI 53c1020 (mpt) troubles
Hi, I have a system which I've put an LSI 53c1020 (the PCIe version) so I can connect an old LTO tape drive (U320 interface) to it. It detects the tape drive but emits some alarming messages and access to it is impossibly slow. I suspect the cable is dodgy, so I am waiting to get another one to test with because it also runs very slowly under Linux. However on FreeBSD it spams the logs with messages like: Dec 17 03:09:15 maarsy-acq3 kernel: mpt0: request 0xfe00b9f7b3c0:172 timed out for ccb 0xf800073c9000 (req->ccb 0xf800073c9000) Dec 17 03:09:15 maarsy-acq3 kernel: mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xfe00b9f7b3c0:172 function 0 Dec 17 03:09:15 maarsy-acq3 kernel: mpt0: abort of req 0xfe00b9f7b3c0:172 completed Dec 17 03:09:15 maarsy-acq3 kernel: mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xfe00b9f7b3c0:172 function 0 Dec 17 03:09:15 maarsy-acq3 kernel: mpt0: abort of req 0xfe00b9f7b3c0:172 completed These are repeated many times per second. Under Linux it does not seem to do this (tested with Ubuntu 20.04 ISO) If anyone is interested in testing patches to improve the robustness then I can test them since the new cable will take a while to 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 unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
ZFS hanging on too hard
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a ZFS mirror system with a USB disk as backup. The backup disk is a ZFS pool which I am zfs send'ing to. However I find that if the disk is disconnected while mounted then things go pear shaped.. root@gateway:~ # zpool status -v pool: backupA state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices are faulted in response to IO failures. action: Make sure the affected devices are connected, then run 'zpool clear'. see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-HC scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM backupA 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? -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: ZFS hanging on too hard
On 14/10/2013, at 2:32, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: First pool is not your pool name its backupA so try: zpool online backupA /dev/da0 If that still fails try: zpool online backupA 1877640355 I get.. root@gateway:~ # zpool online backupA /dev/da0 cannot online /dev/da0: pool I/O is currently suspended root@gateway:~ # zpool online backupA 1877640355 cannot online 1877640355: pool I/O is currently suspended It seems that it does not recognise the disk is present :( I tried zpool export but that hangs, eg root@gateway:~ # zpool export -f backupA load: 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: ZFS hanging on too hard
On 14/10/2013, at 8:44, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: root@gateway:~ # zpool export -f backupA load: 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 Hmm I guess your going to have to reboot, which is not ideal. Yeah :( Also, if I _do_ reboot it hangs on shutdown, the last message is about da0 having pending buffers.. It rather makes my idea of a 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 many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: ZFS hanging on too hard
On 14/10/2013, at 9:00, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: pulls the disk while it's imported then the server would need to be rebooted. That could mean the underlying issue may be a USB or CAM scsi_da. You didnt say which OS version your running? 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 am running 9.2 (fresh install from a USB key). -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: ZFS hanging on too hard
On 14/10/2013, at 9:19, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: hw.usb.no_shutdown_wait=1 That seems to work around the hang on reboot, thanks. I am running 9.2 (fresh install from a USB key). That does kind of point the finger away from ZFS code, is it reproducable? 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 them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
FreeBSD 9.2 ahci under Parallels VM
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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
ZFS devd messages
Hi,
It seems that the ZFS messages no longer match entries in devd.conf, eg..
notify 10 {
match system ZFS;
match typevdev;
action logger -p kern.err 'ZFS: vdev failure, zpool=$pool type=$type';
};
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?
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Re: ZFS devd messages
On 12/10/2013, at 11:21, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au 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=215223839'
Does anyone have an updated set of rules handy?
For now I nuked the entries out of /etc/devd.conf and made some in
/etc/devd/zfs.conf (where they should have been to start with IMO..) like so..
notify 10 {
match system ZFS;
action logger -p kern.err 'ZFS notice: type=$type version=$version
class=$class pool_guid=$pool_guid vdev_guid=$vdev_guid';
action echo 'ZFS notice: type=$type version=$version class=$class
pool_guid=$pool_guid vdev_guid=$vdev_guid' | mail -s 'ZFS Event' zfs;
};
And added an alias for zfs@.
It would be nice if this was the default, yes it is a bit noisy and not very
user friendly but at least you get notice something weird is happening out of
the box.
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GEOM RAID devd events
Hi, Does anyone know if graid generates devd events for 'interesting' RAID events? (eg array becoming degraded, rebuild progress completion, etc). I had a look and I couldn't find any devctl_notify* calls but perhaps they are hidden behind some GEOM calls. If there aren'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. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: GEOM RAID devd events
On 01/08/2013, at 19:16, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org 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). I had a look and I couldn't find any devctl_notify* calls but perhaps they are hidden behind some GEOM calls. If there aren't, are there any plans to add some? I am happy to test, or even write if I can find some time. 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 about where such a thing would go) 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. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: GEOM RAID devd events
On 01/08/2013, at 19:56, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au 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 about where such a thing would go) After doing the reading I should have done before I sent my last message I see that g_raid_update_* look good candidates. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
Hi, I am trying to make a FreeBSD 9.2 hybrid image (ie ISO USB from the same file) and as part of that I need to use syslinux. Unfortunately I can't get Syslinux's mboot.c32 to run the kernel or loader as suggested at http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32 - it reports 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. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
On 01/08/2013, at 1:45, Teske, Devin devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Has anyone had any success with this? Absolutely. You can download and dissect the following to show you how it's done... http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download.shtml#FreeBSD_Druid It uses syslinux, as you can see here: http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/src/boot/freebsd/isolinux.cfg?revision=1.1view=markup As you can see, I use the memdisk.c32 module. Notice that I append iso raw as options 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.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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
On 01/08/2013, at 9:04, dte...@freebsd.org wrote: Have you tried mboot? No I have not. Do you know anyone that has got it to work? Supposedly someone got it to work because there is an entry in the syslinux wiki http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32#FreeBSD_example 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 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
On 01/08/2013, at 9:41, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au 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 branch isn't mentioned) which was confirmed to work, when or if it was tried, the precise syntax used, or any other type of useful information. Good point, I've asked the original poster for more details. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
On 01/08/2013, at 12:15, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Supposedly someone got it to work because there is an entry in the syslinux wiki http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32#FreeBSD_example I'm following the threads on both lists, and that example 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 :( -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
kern.geom.conftxt broken in the presence of geom_raid
I am trying to write a script which generates a list of devices to install on (hopefully with some vaguely descriptive message next to it) and I noticed that kern.geom.conftxt is mangled when there is a graid volume present, eg.. root@test92:/root # sysctl kern.geom.conftxt | less kern.geom.conftxt: 0 DISK ada2 500107862016 512 hd 16 sc 63 1 RAID raid/r0 500104691712 512(null)descrIntel RAID1 volume/descr (null)LabelVolume0/Label (null)RAIDLevelRAID1/RAIDLevel (null)TransformationRAID1/Transformation (null)Components2/Components (null)Strip65536/Strip (null)StateOPTIMAL/State (null)DirtyNo/Dirty (null)Subdisksada1 (ACTIVE), ada2 (ACTIVE)/Subdisks 2 PART raid/r0p6 471372660736 512 i 6 o 27917370368 ty freebsd-ufs xs GPT xt 516e7cb6-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b 3 LABEL gptid/821a18d0-efb3-11e2-855b-002590d071b5 471372660736 512 i 0 o 0 3 LABEL ufsid/51e7fdbd167c3fbb 471372660736 512 i 0 o 0 2 PART raid/r0p5 21474836480 512 i 5 o 6442533888 ty freebsd-ufs xs GPT xt 516e7cb6-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b It looks like the config 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 them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Trouble building release with docs
On 21/07/2013, at 16:19, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org 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, but without that I get.. [...] May I ask why 9.1? Actually that's an excellent question :) I though 9.1 was coming out not 9.2 but that is not correct. So, if I rebuild with 9.2 checked out will the docs build? 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. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Trouble building release with docs
On 21/07/2013, at 23:56, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: So, if I rebuild with 9.2 checked out will the docs build? Yes. Depending on the use, just downloading the built documents from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ could 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. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Trouble building release with docs
On 22/07/2013, at 7:58, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:55:03AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 21/07/2013, at 23:56, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: So, if I rebuild with 9.2 checked out will the docs build? Yes. Depending on the use, just downloading the built documents from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ could be more effective. I can build /usr/doc OK, I am having trouble building /usr/src/release/doc. doc/ build as of at least r253470 is fine for stable/9 branch. Are you saying you are still having a problem? No, it builds now (after I checked out r253470). Sorry for the confusion. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Trouble building release with docs
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, but without that I get.. [andenes 7:04] /usr/src/release #/usr/bin/time make release BUILDNAME=$BUILDNAME make -C /usr/src/release BUILDNAME=9.1-GENESIS obj make -C /usr/src/release BUILDNAME=9.1-GENESIS ftp cdrom memstick cd /usr/src/release/doc make all install clean 'FORMATS=html txt' INSTALL_COMPRESSED='' URLS_ABSOLUTE=YES DOCDIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/release/rdoc === en_US.ISO8859-1 (all) === en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes (all) /usr/bin/grep '^?xml version=.*?' article.xml article.parsed.xml.tmp grep: article.xml: No such file or directory *** [article.parsed.xml] Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes. *** [all] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1. *** [all] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/release/doc. *** [reldoc] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/release. *** [release] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/release. 0.48 real 0.37 user 0.10 sys There is article.sgml though.. I have installed textproc/docproj 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Trouble building release with docs
On 20/07/2013, at 22:47, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: There is article.sgml though.. I have installed textproc/docproj and I can build /usr/docs fine. What does svn say about that file? % cd /usr/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/ % svn stat ? article.parsed.xml.tmp The article.sgml suggests a leftover file from an earlier /usr/src that was not removed before svn checkout. That does not explain why article.xml is missing, though. It is present on my 9-stable and 8-stable checkouts. Maybe a mixed or partial 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.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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?
On 27/06/2013, at 5:53, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote:
cd /usr/ports/whatever
make install clean
{lather rinse repeat until done}
The faster version of this is
find /usr/ports -maxdepth 3 -name work -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
Simpler is to put..
WRKDIRPREFIX=/foo/bar
in /etc/make.conf
Then you can just rm -rf /foo/bar/work to delete all of the port build goop.
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Re: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data
On 14/06/2013, at 17:05, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, zpool(8) will do exactly what you tell it to do. It does not know about any partitioning schemes and assumes that the user knows that using labelclear on a the whole disk will potentially destroy all data on it including any partitioning information. Well as i found out, zpool(8) does not know what it clears. ! :D I think an adjustment to the man page is in order here. The man page clearly state it removes ZFS labels, not GPT, gmirror and glabel labels. It should mention it will remove labels from the disk/device, and that it clears ALL labels. If a user reads the man page it now looks save to use labelclear. I thougt that zpool would know if there was zpool label information on the disk, and if i a case there is no ZFS label information it will tell me that! In my case i did not loose anything, so no big deal but there will proberbly be someone who gets bitten by this. A plus is that i found a new way to clear my disks fast ! ;) It only clears ZFS labels, just because GPT gmirror information sits in a similar place doesn't make that incorrect. You are saying the equivalent of.. Why does dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 erase my whole disk, not just the first partition? ie you are giving the tool bad options and then complaining when it doesn't do what you meant :) 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data
On 14/06/2013, at 17:48, Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO it would be helpful to verify what's there first and warn the user about it if such an operation will overwrite a different type of label than what is about to get written there. Perhaps it should even refuse to write (by issuing an error stating that there is already a label there - and preferably also what type) until the label that's already there gets explicitly cleared by the user or until the command gets forced. Does that make sense? The problem with this is that then each label 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data
On 14/06/2013, at 18:16, Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with this is that then each label tool needs to know about every other label format you want to detect for.. Isn't it possible to add such information to labels, so that the tools at least know who to ask what they're dealing with? Not really, the format of the labels is fixed, and there is no standard way they are arranged. If there is no guaranteed method of identifying data on the disk as a label, then you can't warn the user in all cases. 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Flow monitoring with PF
On 12/06/2013, at 9:47, Scott, Brian brian.sco...@det.nsw.edu.au wrote: I was looking at trying out flow monitoring and I found pfflowd, but unfortunately it does not work with FreeBSD 9.0. I thought about ng_netflow but that doesn't see my tun interface which may be related to.. WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() Noise message. I've never seen it actually mean anything. The problem is that tun0 is a generic network interface. Ng_ether only exposes Ethernet devices. The equivalent to tun but for an Ethernet device is tap. Creating a tap device after boot immediately creates the corresponding ng_ether node which can then be plumbed into ng_netflow. OK, for some reason I thought NG would add nodes to mirror every network interface but that was wrong.. Some software 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 processing is in-kernel. Yeah, that is one reason I looked at it. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch
On 10/06/2013, at 11:30, Guy Helmer guy.hel...@gmail.com wrote: 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 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? 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 anything. I tried a crash box at work with the same kernel and both OpenJDK 6 7 but I have been unable to reproduce 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 choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Flow monitoring with PF
On 13/06/2013, at 3:06, Ermal Luçi e...@freebsd.org wrote: I was looking at trying out flow monitoring and I found pfflowd, but unfortunately it does not work with FreeBSD 9.0. I thought about ng_netflow but that doesn't see my tun interface which may be related to.. WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() since tun0 appears after the kernel is all done. Does anyone have any recommendations for generating flow information from PF? Here https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools/tree/master/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 from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
Flow monitoring with PF
Hi, I was looking at trying out flow monitoring and I found pfflowd, but unfortunately it does not work with FreeBSD 9.0. I thought about ng_netflow but that doesn't see my tun interface which may be related to.. WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() since 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 them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch
Hi, I was experimenting with Logstash + elasticsearch on FreeBSD 9 - initially I downloaded it by hand (I forgot to check for a port) and it worked fine. I then tried the port and this forced me to use a different java version (was jdk-16.0.3p4_25 now openjdk6-b27) and it seems that the new one causes a panic. Unfortunately crashdumps aren't working properly, however I did get the panic message.. in6p_lookup_mcast_ifp: not multicast This is from /usr/src/sys/netinet6/in6_mcast.c around line 1775. Has anyone else seen such a problem? Some quick googling didn't show anything. 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.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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch
On 09/06/2013, at 3:00, Guy Helmer guy.hel...@gmail.com 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...@maarsy-acq3.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Multicast panic caused by elasticsearch
On 09/06/2013, at 11:45, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On 09/06/2013, at 3:00, Guy Helmer guy.hel...@gmail.com 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...@maarsy-acq3.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 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? Also, which JVM? -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Serial terminal issues
On 06/06/2013, at 22:51, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote: The new system has a Gigabyte GA970A-UD3 board with just a serial header on the board. I bought a serial connector backplate in an electronics store and connected it to the board. 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 cable with a hobby knife. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Serial terminal issues
On 06/06/2013, at 4:59, Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote: It is very possible. You should have asked Gigabyte what exact product (specifically part number) to purchase that provided a header-to-backplane DB9 port, or if they could send you one (many will for free). Always use what the mainboard vendor tells you. Always. I contacted Gigabyte, but haven't heard from them yet. For the Dutch readers: their website is at gigabyte.co.nl. You absolutely don't want to go to gigabyte.nl - not safe for work, not at all (guess where I was…). We make our serial cables at work, it is fairly straightforward. You can see in the manual which end of the motherboard connector is pin 1. We have ribbon cable and insulation displacement D9 2x5 headers on hand though.. If you aren't certain the serial hardware works 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...
On 29/04/2013, at 3:18, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: I'm having issues connecting Garmin GPS 18 to COM1 on 9.1, I get nothing but silence. Identical setup works absolutely fine with Linux. I've got PPS wire connected to DCD, but that seems to make no difference on Linux, so I presume it shouldn't affect fbsd either. snip # 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 different order between the 2 OSs. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Linux a.out binaries
I have some very old Linux a.out binaries that I have run on a FreeBSD 4 box. I recently tried them on a 9.1 system but I get an exec format error when trying to run them. [obtuse 11:45] ~ /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/bin/bin.linux/idl zsh: exec format error: /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/bin/bin.linux/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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Linux a.out binaries
On 18/04/2013, at 13:09, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: I presume it has rotted and was removed, does anyone know when? Good lord, the number of possibilities here are almost endless. You can't be serious... Perfectly! I don't think this is any worse than trying to run FreeBSD 1.0 binaries on -current :) My first inclination is to ask you if that FreeBSD system is amd64 or i386. Your Linux a.out binaries are i386. If the FreeBSD system is amd64: I don't think this is going to work; I see nothing in /sys/amd64/conf/* that indicates a.out is supported. Sure, 32-bit binaries might be (with COMPAT_FREEBSD32), but that's architecture, not format. Yeah, I wondered if that was the case. It is an amd64 system. If the FreeBSD system is i386: /sys/i386/conf/NOTES mentions a kernel option called COMPAT_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 person who needs it can run GDL. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: SU+J hard recovery failure
On 27/03/2013, at 18:43, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I had a panic on my laptop. Unfortunately the SU+J was not able to recovery the file system, the error was something like : Unknown error: Help! Could not find directory 9854215 And it went to the single user mode, I needed to fsck_ufs manually to recover the disk. What afraid me is what if happens on a headless machine? It will be hard to recover. For headless remote systems I use fsck_y_enable=YES. In my experience 'fsck -y' almost invariably recovers the disk 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 Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
KDE login causing processes stuck in zfs wchan
Hi, I recently updated to KDE 4.9.5 and I've found that unless I disable vfs.usermount (which stops gvfs from mounting) everything gets stuck in [zfs] eventually. This is running on.. FreeBSD midget.dons.net.au 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #10 r241435M: Thu Oct 11 15:03:22 CST 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 from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
Empty @cwd in some ports
I noticed I have a lot of ports which have an empty @cwd line in the +CONTENTS file (even after reinstalling). For example a2ps.. @comment PKG_FORMAT_REVISION:1.1 @name a2ps-a4-4.13b_4 @comment ORIGIN:print/a2ps-a4 @cwd /usr/local @pkgdep xineramaproto-1.2.1 @comment DEPORIGIN:x11/xineramaproto snip @exec /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib @unexec /sbin/ldconfig -R @comment OPTIONS:+NLS -I18N +EMACS @cwd @dirrm share/licenses/a2ps-a4-4.13b_4 And curl.. @comment PKG_FORMAT_REVISION:1.1 @name curl-7.24.0_2 @comment ORIGIN:ftp/curl @cwd /usr/local @pkgdep ca_root_nss-3.14.3 @comment DEPORIGIN:security/ca_root_nss snip @comment OPTIONS:-CARES -CURL_DEBUG -GNUTLS +IPV6 -KERBEROS4 -LDAP -LDAPS -LIBIDN -LIBSSH2 -NTLM +OPENSSL +CA_BUNDLE +PROXY -RTMP @comment OPTIONS:-TRACKMEMORY @cwd @dirrm share/licenses/curl-7.24.0_2 @unexec rmdir %D/share/licenses 2/dev/null || true This seems pretty broken 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 many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Empty @cwd in some ports
On 20/03/2013, at 22:06, Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org 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 them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Functional KDE desktop
On 18/03/2013, at 3:02, Eric S Pulley pul...@dabus.com wrote: I have it working fine here. I originally was using it on 9.0 then I upgraded everything but that didn't work well for the KDE 4.8-4.9 update in ports. Too many ports were split and moved around so I ended up removing all ports and remaking them all. One big gotcha is make sure you force a reconfigure on everything. My small nightmare was kdepim,kdepim-runtime and kdepimlibs there are now two deferment types of PIM you can built the old 4.8 style and the new. Make sure you are consistent as these packages are deps for many others. For a while I was still picking up settings for the old style and it was breaking all over the place. Ugh I see. Any idea what these options are called? If you want I can send you a list of all the stuff I have installed off 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
Functional KDE desktop
Hi, I am in the process of upgrading all the ports on a 9.1-PRERELEASE system and I am having a lot of trouble building or running KDE 4.9.5. I couldn't build it due to x11/xsd not building (didn't make a necessary header), or if I worked around that libkonq was not found by cmake. If I manage to work around that I get an error dialogue when logging in. In the end I gave up and installed packages (version 4.8.4) however that does work as startkde gives.. [midget 22:10] ~ env PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/kde4/bin /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde xset: bad font path element (#12), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax startkde: Starting up... /usr/local/lib/libkdeui.so.7: Undefined symbol _ZN6Attica15ProviderManagerC1ERK6QFlagsINS0_12ProviderFlagEE startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation. c++filt says this symbol is.. Attica::ProviderManager::ProviderManager(QFlagsAttica::ProviderManager::ProviderFlag const) Also, the startkde script does not set the pass so it never finds kcheckrunning. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
What is the Right Way(™) to run X?
Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput False EndSection I am pretty 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?
On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote:
so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which version of
xorg you are using.
Very possibly :)
I have xorg-server 1.7.7_6,1
Does lshal show any inputdevices?
I see the following..
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0'
freebsd.driver = 'atkbdc' (string)
freebsd.unit = 0 (0x0) (int)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
info.product = 'Keyboard controller (i8042)' (string)
info.subsystem = 'platform' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0' (string)
platform.id = 'atkbdc.0' (string)
pnp.description = 'IBM Enhanced (101/102-key, PS/2 mouse support)' (string)
pnp.id = 'PNP0303' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0'
freebsd.device_file = '/dev/atkbd0' (string)
freebsd.driver = 'atkbd' (string)
freebsd.unit = 0 (0x0) (int)
info.addons.singleton = {'hald-addon-input'} (string list)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keys', 'button'}
(string list)
info.category = 'input' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0' (string)
info.product = 'AT Keyboard' (string)
info.subsystem = 'platform' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/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 packages and do an install (I
suppose I could do it in a chroot).
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Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: BTW I have dbus hald running. Have you read http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html ? I have read it in the past. I _am_ running hald and am happy to do so, but it now appears broken (this system did not need AEI 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote:
Does lshal show any inputdevices?
I see the following..
snip
Oops, I just pasted the keyboard entries instead of the mouse ones..
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c404_noserial_if0'
freebsd.device_file = '/dev/ums1' (string)
freebsd.driver = 'ums' (string)
freebsd.unit = 1 (0x1) (int)
info.addons = {'hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse'} (string list)
info.bus = 'usb' (string)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse'} (string list)
info.category = 'input' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c404_noserial'
(string)
info.product = 'Trackball' (string)
info.subsystem = 'usb' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c404_noserial_if0'
(string)
info.vendor = 'Logitech' (string)
input.device = '/dev/sysmouse' (string)
usb.bus_number = 2 (0x2) (int)
usb.can_wake_up = true (bool)
usb.configuration = '' (string)
usb.configuration_value = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.device_class = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.device_revision_bcd = 544 (0x220) (int)
usb.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.freebsd.devname = 'ums1' (string)
usb.interface.class = 3 (0x3) (int)
usb.interface.description = '' (string)
usb.interface.number = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.interface.protocol = 2 (0x2) (int)
usb.interface.subclass = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.is_self_powered = false (bool)
usb.level_number = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.max_power = 100 (0x64) (int)
usb.num_configurations = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.num_interfaces = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.num_ports = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.port_number = 4 (0x4) (int)
usb.product = 'Trackball' (string)
usb.product_id = 50180 (0xc404) (int)
usb.serial = '' (string)
usb.speed = 1.5 (1.5) (double)
usb.speed_bcd = 336 (0x150) (int)
usb.vendor = 'Logitech' (string)
usb.vendor_id = 1133 (0x46d) (int)
usb.version = 1.0 (1) (double)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c012_noserial_if0'
freebsd.device_file = '/dev/ums0' (string)
freebsd.driver = 'ums' (string)
freebsd.unit = 0 (0x0) (int)
info.addons = {'hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse'} (string list)
info.bus = 'usb' (string)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse'} (string list)
info.category = 'input' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c012_noserial'
(string)
info.product = 'USB-PS2 Optical Mouse' (string)
info.subsystem = 'usb' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c012_noserial_if0'
(string)
info.vendor = 'Logitech' (string)
input.device = '/dev/sysmouse' (string)
usb.bus_number = 2 (0x2) (int)
usb.can_wake_up = true (bool)
usb.configuration = '' (string)
usb.configuration_value = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.device_class = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.device_revision_bcd = 4896 (0x1320) (int)
usb.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.freebsd.devname = 'ums0' (string)
usb.interface.class = 3 (0x3) (int)
usb.interface.description = '' (string)
usb.interface.number = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.interface.protocol = 2 (0x2) (int)
usb.interface.subclass = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.is_self_powered = false (bool)
usb.level_number = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.max_power = 98 (0x62) (int)
usb.num_configurations = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.num_interfaces = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb.num_ports = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb.port_number = 3 (0x3) (int)
usb.product = 'USB-PS2 Optical Mouse' (string)
usb.product_id = 49170 (0xc012) (int)
usb.serial = '' (string)
usb.speed = 1.5 (1.5) (double)
usb.speed_bcd = 336 (0x150) (int)
usb.vendor = 'Logitech' (string)
usb.vendor_id = 1133 (0x46d) (int)
usb.version = 2.0 (2) (double)
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Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?
On 17/03/2013, at 23:00, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: Looks promising. Just to make sure, have you verified that hald is still running? Things can crash... Yep, it's still running. Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment? Not really, I can't just nuke the existing packages and do an install (I suppose I could do it in a chroot). That is a problem yes. Have you considered using poudriere to build packages? It is rather nice, it can build old-school and new-school packages, and is very configurable. 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 Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?
On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it show up working, but that's annoying and stupid (and not an option on other systems with e.g. PS/2 meece). I wound up sticking the other half of that oft-cargo-culted incantation: Section ServerFlags Option AutoAddDevices off EndSection in my config, and it's worked OK since. '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 many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: What is the Right Way($(Do(B) to run X?
On 18/03/2013, at 8:54, Don Lewis truck...@freebsd.org wrote: I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is currently disabled and nothing obvious seems to be broken in Gnome. I haven't had any issues with AllowEmptyInput so I never bothered to switch over to the preferred AutoAddDevices. This sounds exactly like what I have, although I do find it odd that hal doesn't manage to open /dev/sysmouse and use that (even if it fails for /dev/ums* etc). lshal does show a mount device 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: What is the Right Way(�o) to run X?
On 18/03/2013, at 11:51, Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com wrote:
This sounds exactly like what I have, although I do find it odd that hal
doesn't manage to open /dev/sysmouse and use that (even if it fails for
/dev/ums* etc). lshal does show a mount device listed with /dev/sysmouse as
the device name.
Very odd. I have been running with xorg, sysmouse and hal for a long time
with no real issues. No AutoAddDevices or AllowEmptyInput at all.
lshal shows that the magic is working:
di = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/psm_0'
freebsd.device_file = '/dev/psm0' (string)
freebsd.driver = 'psm' (string)
freebsd.unit = 0 (0x0) (int)
info.addons = {'hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse'} (string list)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse'} (string list)
info.category = 'input' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0' (string)
info.product = 'PS/2 Mouse' (string)
info.subsystem = 'platform' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/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 be sysmouse on your system?
Yes.
I wonder, I have 2 USB mice maybe that is a problem.
The full output of lshal is at http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/lshal.txt
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Re: IPMI serial console
On 23/02/2013, at 24:36, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: boot_multicons=YES hint.uart.0.flags=0x0 hint.uart.2.at=isa hint.uart.2.port=0x3E8 #hint.uart.2.disabled=0 hint.uart.2.flags=0x30 = I updated the BIOS IPMI fiwmare and now it works. Thanks! Interestingly if you don't have hint.uart.0.flags=0x0 then it goes weird and stuff comes out the video console at 1bps.. And it seems to pick uart.0 as the console even though I also put comconsole_port in there. So it seems that for 9.1 at least comconsole_port doesn't DTRT. I commented it out but left the rest of the UART hints and things still worked. I don't know whether all of that is needed, but, as you can see from the various commented-out lines, it was a configuration I arrived at that works. :-) Yep, thanks again for taking the time as it works for me too. Usually, I have the VGA console take precedence. In that case, I get messages on both the VGA console and the IPMI SOL console during the BIOS screen, loader, and kernel boot messages but then only messages on the VGA console during the rc.d boot phase. I have a serial console enabled in /etc/ttys, so I get output (e.g., getty login) on the IPMI SOL when that is eventually spawned. If I want to have the serial console take precedence, I usually escape to the loader prompt (via ESC at the loader menu) and issue a set console=comconsole,vidconsole command. Then, the rc.d boot output goes to the serial console and not 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.) 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 23/02/2013, at 24:36, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: I don't know whether all of that is needed, but, as you can see from the various commented-out lines, it was a configuration I arrived at that works. :-) I don't have a /boot.config on this system. OK, that gives me hope :) Usually, I have the VGA console take precedence. In that case, I get messages on both the VGA console and the IPMI SOL console during the BIOS screen, loader, and kernel boot messages but then only messages on the VGA console during the rc.d boot phase. I have a serial console enabled in /etc/ttys, so I get output (e.g., getty login) on the IPMI SOL when that is eventually spawned. If I want to have the serial console take precedence, I usually escape to the loader prompt (via ESC at the loader menu) and issue a set console=comconsole,vidconsole command. Then, the rc.d boot output goes to the serial console and That is basically what I want - I am looking for a way to run fsck or diagnose boot issues without having to fire up the Java app and tunnelling into the network. not 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://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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
IPMI serial console
Hi all, A recent thread inspired me to try getting a proper serial console working on a Supermicro X9SCL motherboard with IPMI. However I find that while I see loader messages and the getty I enabled after boot I don't get any kernel messages which does somewhat limit the utility.. The BMC creates COM3 (/dev/cuau2) which works with getty. I modified /boot/loader.conf like so.. boot_multicons=yes boot_serial=YES console=comconsole vidconsole comconsole_speed=115200 # Disable console flags on these 2 ports hint.uart.0.flags=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 to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 2:19, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Does anyone have any hints? Rather than using all these hints, just use these three in loader.conf: console=comconsole vidconsole console_speed=115200 console_port=0xblah (where blah is the 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 so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 8:53, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either. Sorry, those should be 'comconsole_speed' and 'comconsole_port'. Also, you should be able to get the loader prompt working if you enter those by hand using an IPMI KVM or some such. No luck with that either :( The IPMI serial console works for the BIOS loader so I guess the comconsole parts work, however the kernel doesn't seem to use it even with '-D -h'. The uart(4) flags are correct (I believe) 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 - 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 8:37, Navdeep Parhar npar...@gmail.com wrote: I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either. What does dmesg | grep uart show? I have a PCI serial card whose serial port I'm using as a console. I had to setup comconsole_pcidev, comconsole_port, and comconsole_speed properly in loader.conf to get it to work. 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 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 choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 9:15, Navdeep Parhar npar...@gmail.com wrote: 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 The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that doesn't use it which is the problem. And what do you see in kenv | egrep 'uart|com' ? comconsole_port=0x3e8 comconsole_speed=115200 hint.uart.0.at=isa hint.uart.0.flags=0x00 hint.uart.0.irq=4 hint.uart.0.port=0x3F8 hint.uart.1.at=isa hint.uart.1.flags=0x00 hint.uart.1.irq=3 hint.uart.1.port=0x2F8 hint.uart.2.flags=0x30 menu_command[1]=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 -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 8:33, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either. Try setting the IPMI pieces (in the IPMI device itself) to 9600bps. Then try using 9600bps in FreeBSD (loader.conf or /boot.config, as well 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'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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 10:09, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: Now to forward a tun interface so I can run the Java faux-VNC client and fix it. Not a surprise if it doesnt match the serial IO speed which on all our Supermicro machines is: 115200 Which MB, 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 them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 10:40, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: X9SIL-F BIOS version 1.1 (05/27/10) IPMI firmware is 2.01. I can't find this motherboard listed on Supermicro's site. kenv | grep smbios output please? Sorry, brainfart, it'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 Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 9:59, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: The reason I've advocated use of -Sxxx in /boot.config for years is because it gets around whatever idiocy there is in the FreeBSD kernel pertaining to serial port speed limitation. Possibly those boot2 changes I mentioned above have since dealt with this, but the situation used to be that without -Sxxx in /boot.config, you had to set BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200 in /etc/make.conf (or during buildworld and buildkernel) to achieve a serial port speed 9600bps -- otherwise FreeBSD would limit/cap the serial speed to 9600bps and you wouldn't see any output (even once getty(8) started -- yet switching the serial connection to 9600bps instantly made things work). Like I said, possibly this has been dealt with. Hmm I tried putting '-S 115200' in /boot.config and it broke - the boot process didn't run the loader (or kernel). Sorry for my rambling Email, but there's a lot of history and crap contained here (almost 10 years worth) that's hard to cover tersely. So much cruft :( For Daniel: have you tried a verbose boot, to see 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 inside script but I could not see any characters after the BIOS prints a countdown to boot. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 10:49, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: Sorry, brainfart, it's an X8SIL-F http://www.supermicro.com/xeon_3400/Motherboard/X8SIL.cfm?IPMI=Y I would start by upgrading the system BIOS (to 1.2a), loading defaults + re-assigning whatever you normally change, and then upgrading the IPMI firmware (to 2.66) + doing the same. If you have multiple systems of this type, do this on just *one* which you can sacrifice for testing. If the issues you're encountering happen afterward, I won'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). -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 9:30, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:18:51AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22/02/2013, at 9:15, Navdeep Parhar npar...@gmail.com wrote: 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 The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that doesn't use it which is the problem. It might be not the serial port, to which the loader talks. The supermicro boards I dealt with, have a feature of VGA text mode redirection to the serial port. This is how bios redirection usually works. Ahh OK, sneaky sneaky.. My has 'Forever', 'Until boot loader', and 'never', so I selected the second one. You could look at some bios knob which controls the point where the said redirection is stopped. It should be like 'after the OS takes the control', and not 'forever'. For BIOS, the loader is OS. I just tried rebuilding the boot blocks to work at 115200 like so.. cd /usr/src/sys/boot make BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200 sudo make install sudo gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -b /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/da0 However no luck either (with the above change) -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 12:02, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: Hmm I tried putting '-S 115200' in /boot.config and it broke - the boot process didn't run the loader (or kernel). I'll talk a bit about this -- again, sorry for the verbosity. I'll explain what I've historically used/done, then speculate a bit about your IPMI stuff: For me, on systems without IPMI, all I had to do was this (and nothing else): * Put the following in /boot.config: -S115200 -Dh This breaks the boot for me, boot.config has to contain more than just flags it seems. In any case I believe setting boot_multicons and boot_serial is the same as -Dh. Not sure about the baud rate though. snip situation may be different because you have 3 serial ports (2 classic DB9 ports or headers, and one fake via IPMI), so you may need to rely entirely on /boot/loader.conf to accomplish use of the IPMI one, unless you wanted to set BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT. OK, I made some more progress, I rebuilt the /usr/src/sys/boot with BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200 BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT=0x3e8 and now the loader talks to me without VGA to serial redirection. Possibly the reason you see via the IPMI serial port at this stage is because IPMI also does VGA-to-IPMI output, so what you're seeing on the IPMI serial port is actually from the VGA console (speculation on my part). Yes this was the case until just now. Debugging all of this is as you know a PITA because of where during the whole startup process it lies. IPMI just makes this whole thing an even bigger mess because it ties itself in to bits/pieces along the way, which a kernel (or even a bootloader, depending on what it touches and how), can mess up. This is why I've always stuck with the classic DB9 serial ports on the backplane; I know how to get FreeBSD to behave right with those, everything else is voodoo. :-) Yep, it's all kludges bolted on top of hacks. Part of me wonders if it's possible to disable, say, COM1 in the BIOS, then in the IPMI firmware tell it to user a serial I/O port of 0x3f8, IRQ 4 (i.e. COM1) and see if that works with the method I describe above. I don't have much familiarity with IPMI by choice, solely because of situations exactly like what you're going through. I have the same opinion of those damn NIC ASF things (see bge(4)) -- which is Yeah I may look at that if I can't proceed any further. exactly why many motherboard vendors that do IPMI now offer a *physically 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 dedicated port otherwise share(!). So the worst of both worlds, hooray! -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: IPMI serial console
On 22/02/2013, at 14:59, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: This breaks the boot for me, boot.config has to contain more than just flags it seems. In any case I believe setting boot_multicons and boot_serial is the same as -Dh. Not sure about the baud rate though. Then someone broke something (parser or something else). This has always, *always* worked (just flags). The last time I verified it was with the release of 9.0-RELEASE. I do have a system I could test this on, but I'd need to find a null modem cable first. Weird, this is 9.1 - I wouldn't expect any changes.. I have seen some MFCs that touch those bits in the bootloader, but from my memory it didn't touch anything other than supporting /boot/config as an alternate location to the classic /boot.config file. I would be very surprised if this broke it. I can assure you that those were the only flags that were needed, and in exactly that syntax. Even the Handbook has this in it, as well as boot(8). I believe your explanation of boot_multicons and boot_serial are correct and do correlate with -D and -h. I could look at the bootstrap code to verify. The options are described in loader(8) but not loader.conf(5). The drawback to using the /boot/loader.conf variables is that you won't get boot2 output because loader is what reads /boot/loader.conf, not boot2. Thus you lose the ability to deal with the system via serial at the boot2 stage. For me, this has always been a deal-breaker. This is why I always advocate /boot.config. (Note to readers: if I'm wrong about this, please correct me, and point me to the relevant code) Ah that is a fair point. BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200 BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT=0x3e8 and now the loader talks to me without VGA to serial redirection. Huzzah! Do you get output from the kernel now, or still just bootstraps and loader, then silence until getty runs? Sadly no, I just the loader then getty. 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 dedicated port otherwise share(!). So the worst of both worlds, hooray! Depends on the board and the IPMI integration. Most of the newer boards (past 3-4 years) I've seen have a dedicated LAN port on their IPMI add-on board; e.g. a dual-NIC motherboard has 2 NICs, then there's a 3rd NIC on the IPMI card/port. I have seen the shared ones though, and that'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 only, try that first then on failure share em0, or share em0 only. The default is try the dedicate port then if that fails share em0 :( -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: 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
On 19/02/2013, at 10:54, Edwin L. Culp W. edwinlc...@gmail.com wrote:
cat /compat/linux/etc/alsa/pcm/pcm-oss.conf
pcm.oss1 {
type oss
device /dev/dsp1
hint {
description Open Sound System
}
}
ctl.oss1 {
type oss
device /dev/mixer1
hint {
description Open Sound System
}
Why are you using /dev/dsp1 /dev/mixer1?
I would have thought using /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer would work, and if you
wanted to change which sound device you're using globally then set the
hw.snd.default_unit sysctl.
Also, what is the output of cat /dev/sndstat ?
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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
On 19/02/2013, at 11:58, Edwin L. Culp W. edwinlc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au 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 the same results. OK Also, what is the output of cat /dev/sndstat ? # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: ATI R6xx (HDMI) (play) pcm1: Realtek ALC892 (Analog 5.1/2.0) (play/rec) default pcm2: Realtek ALC892 (Front Analog Headphones) (play) pcm3: Realtek ALC892 (Rear Digital) (play) pcm4: Realtek ALC892 (Rear Digital) (play) The error that shows on the screen is : Problem with audio playback. Oh right, Skype actually generates an error.. I am not sure sorry. Note that your default audio device is HDMI audio (not sure if that is what you really want) and if you don't have something connected via HDMI I suppose that could cause the error.. Try.. sudo sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1 (leaving the ALSA config file alone) and then restart skype. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Intel 82574 issue reported on Slashdot
On 09/02/2013, at 20:42, Parv p...@pair.com wrote: Contact your motherboard manufacturer is much more time consuming than Run sysctl... | grep foo | awk ... to see if your system is affected. Gift^WStraight from horse's mouth ... http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html I've already read this. http://www.kriskinc.com/intel-pod I'd really rather a test which reads the EEPROM and tells me if it's a problem rather than hang the interface on a machine :) In any case that isn't the point - 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. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Intel 82574 issue reported on Slashdot
On 09/02/2013, at 4:46, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: recommends contacting your motherboard manufacturer if you have continued concerns or questions whether your products are impacted. Here is the link: http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2013/02/07/intel-82574l-gigabit-ethernet-controller-statement Any questions or concerns may be sent to me. In all honesty.. The blog post (and your email) are basically information free, they don't name names and provide no script or downloadable code that will allow end users to check if they are 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 standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: How to clean up /
On 30/11/2012, at 17:46, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: It would be Really Nice (tm) if they could be put into /usr instead since there is virtually no benefit to them being in / (since they are only used for debugging). I have long wondered why the kernel debug symbols were moved into /kernel. The only thing I can come up with was the desire to retain symbols for kernel.old, which the old system deleted. I'm not sure, but I think the change was made when the symbols files were added for all of the modules. I'd meed to dig back in the archived to track down the change. In any case, it's hardly difficult to come up with a scheme for keeping symbols for the current and old kernels and modules in /var or /usr and keep / from exceeding a gig on an amd64 system. (No, it's not there today, but it's disturbingly close.). I seem to recall that last time I thought about this the main problem was keeping them in sync.. Perhaps if you hashed the kernel and then created /usr//kerneldbg/$hash/ and created a symlink in /boot/kernel/debug to /usr//kerneldbg/$hash Then the debug 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 from /compat to /usr/compat by default would work I think. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
Re: How to clean up /
On 30/11/2012, at 12:14, mbsd m...@isgroup.com.ua wrote: Ξ ~ → du -sh /boot/kernel 59M kernel Try to recompile your kernel without debug. Or delete /boot/kernel/*.symbols. It would be Really Nice (tm) if they could be put into /usr instead since there is virtually no benefit to them being 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....
On 22/11/2012, at 14:46, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
Dumping all nodes and channels is incredibly useful for folks needing to
rewire something to get various jacks working and such, but I'd argue is
way overkill for a 'normal' verbose boot. See acpi(4) for examples of
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)
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Re: Xorg in swwrt
On 23/06/2012, at 19:02, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Feb-06 15:19:12 +1030, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au 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 swwrt. FWIW, I've run into this a couple of times recently when logging out of X. This is with X.Org X Server 1.10.6 and a ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro on 8-STABLE r235229. The problem seems to go away after a couple of hours. I think it's a memory fragmentation issue but I am only really guessing. Certainly after putting more RAM in the system in question the problem happened less frequently. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot
On 18/04/2012, at 7:32, Andy Dills wrote: I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on. It uses the Intel c602 chipset, and it's my understanding that support for that chipset (c60X) was recently added via the isci driver. Ok, great, that explains why 8.2-R and 9.0-R didn't see the drives. So, I grabbed the memstick image of 8.3-RELEASE that is on the ftp server, booted it up, and sure enough, as the dmesg scrolls I see it now properly recognizes da0 and da1, as it should (the memstick is da2). It sees the disks fine at this point, everything looks good. However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, and I go to partition the drives, I get No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time. Any suggestions for avenues to troubleshoot this? I have pictures to document if it helps. Seems very odd. I confirmed the behavior with the SATA set to IDE, AHCI, and RAID modes. (The drives were recognized as da0 and da1 during bootup in all three modes, but not by sysinstall.) That does seem very odd - if they appear as daX then sysinstall should see them. Can you go into the holographic shell (or livecd if you have it) and run.. echo /dev/da* echo /dev/da0 echo /dev/da1 (this will trash the first sector of da0 and da1 but I assume that's OK 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://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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: New BSD Installer
sync
umount ${TMPDIR}/mnt/local0
umount ${TMPDIR}/mnt/usr
umount ${TMPDIR}/mnt/var
umount ${TMPDIR}/mnt
rm -rf ${TMPDIR}
echo Reboot now
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Re: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?
On 26/10/2011, at 19:03, Claude Buisson wrote: [0x2caf2a3c] cdda access error: Could not set block size [0x2caf2a3c] cdda access error: cannot read sector n incrementing each time the sector number. So I infer that vlc cannot set the correct (audio specific) 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 release.. Does cdparanoia work for you? -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?
On 26/10/2011, at 20:50, Claude Buisson wrote: 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 release.. 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 trying so it's hard to know why it doesn't work :( -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?
On 25/10/2011, at 20:45, Claude Buisson wrote: When upgrading a system to 8.2-STABLE, I switched my kernel from atapicam to ATA_CAM, and found that vlc could not play audio CDs anymore. Reverting to atapicam (and reverting from cdN to acdN of course), vlc was OK again. It seems that I am not the only one having this kind of problem, as I found (for example) this message on questions@ (for releng9): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-October/234737.html Is this a known problem ? Is somebody working on it ? Have 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 to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: From 8-stable to 9.0 RC1 iscsi panic
On 25/10/2011, at 22:32, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Well i did use the single user mode ! And the safe mode ! But they all gave me that error. So the did load the loader.conf file. I think modules are loaded before displaying boot menu, where you can choose to boot in to single user mode. But you can enter the boot loader prompt, where you can unload already loaded modules or load new modules by its name, so you don't need to edit loader.conf for one time boot option. They aren't loaded before displaying the 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 - 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: can audio CDs be played with ATA_CAM ?
On 25/10/2011, at 23:24, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: These may not be the same problem, but I think they are related (a not so well documented change in the kerm interface). You want atapicam(4). This is not the same thing as options ATA_CAM. See /sys/conf/NOTES. Whether or not it works with audio CDs is unknown to me. atapicam is a bridge for the old ATA code to put ATAPI devices _only_ on CAM (as well as the ATA infrastructure). Hence they appear as /dev/cd0 and so on. ATA_CAM puts _all_ ATA devices on CAM, so you should 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 :) -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Interpreting MCA error output
On 18/10/2011, at 17:49, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: That would be absolutely helpful! After all, FreeBSD is primarily a server OS, and where would one have ECC if not on servers. Being able to determine what's wrong with memory would be certainly very valuable for many admins. This has been done, and it was committed a couple days ago as sysutils/mcelog. There are a couple thing about the port which bother me[1], and there is one warning which can be safely ignored (I'm a strong advocate of -Werror) but I do have a fix for 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. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: Interpreting MCA error output
On 18/10/2011, at 22:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: 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. Why? Most MCEs on FreeBSD will panic the machine. I would need to go through the MCA code to see what all gets handled elegantly, but I imagine there isn't much. If you see an MCA in your log file it didn't panic your machine, I think they're not uncommon. Also, isn't devd for device removal/insertions? This would be using devd for something it isn't intended for. I guess I have moral objections to it. What you're really wanting is Solaris's fmd(1m) daemon, which I believe is also tied heavily into Solaris'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 many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: valgrind on FreeBSD?
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: valgrind: Startup or configuration error: Can't establish current working directory at startup valgrind: Unable to start 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 choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: valgrind on FreeBSD?
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: valgrind: Startup or configuration error: Can't establish current working directory at startup valgrind: Unable to start up properly. Giving up. What do I need to do to make it work? It might need proofs mounted, not sure though. Did you mean procfs? Procfs is mounted: procfs on /proc (procfs, local) OK, so much for that idea then :( -- VZ -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: ZFS directory with a large number of files
On 06/08/2011, at 5:17, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Am 05.08.2011 um 17:12 schrieb Christian Weisgerber: Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg 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 delete/move the files out of the directory its performance would be good again. UFS would be the classic example of poor performance if you do this. Classic indeed. UFS dirhash has pretty much taken care of this a decade ago. While dirhash is quite an improvement, it is definitely no silver bullet. When I asked Kirk McKusick at last year's EuroBSDCon if having a six-figure number of files in a single directory was a clever idea (I just had a customer who ran into that situation), he just smiled and shook his head. Ahh, but OP had moved these files away and performance was still poor.. _that_ is the bug. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: ZFS directory with a large number of files
On 02/08/2011, at 19:12, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: When I was being taught the ropes of system administration at Oregon State, the team of crotchety UNIX admins there made it quite clear that there were things you just Did Not Do(tm) to computer systems. Shoving thousands of files into a single directory with no hierarchy was one of them. Sounds like a terminal case of Stockholm syndrome ;) It might be avoidable by the user being nice to the computer, but come on.. The computer is supposed to do tedious crap that humans don't like. I am pretty sure UFS does not 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) -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: ZFS directory with a large number of files
On 02/08/2011, at 18:38, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:39:03AM +0100, seanr...@gmail.com wrote: On my FreeBSD 8.2-S machine (built circa 12th June), I created a directory and populated it over the course of 3 weeks with about 2 million individual files. I'll keep this real simple: Why did you do this? I hope this was a stress test of some kind. If not: This is the 2nd or 3rd mail in recent months from people saying I decided to do something utterly stupid with my filesystem[1] and now I'm asking why performance sucks. Why can people not create proper directory tree layouts to avoid this problem regardless of what filesystem is used? I just don't get it. [1]: Applies to any filesystem, not just ZFS. There was a UFS one a 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: LTO3 tape drive not detected
On 24/06/2011, at 6:17, Joe in MPLS wrote: This was originally posted on the freebsd-questions list. It was suggested that I post it here: I have FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE running on an HP DL360 G5. I recently added an (HP branded) LSI Logic single channel SCSI 320 card and attached an HP Ultrium 920 LTO3 tape drive. The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it seems to know there's something at SCSI ID 4, but I get an AutoSense Failed for hba/id/lun 0:4:0 at boot and subsequent camcontrol rescans. I checked the supported hardware doc for the release but it doesn't get very specific about tape drives. This is my first experience with LTO3 tape. I was hoping that I'd automagically get a /dev/sa0 device like I always did with my old DLT drives but it wasn't to be this 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.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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV
On 25/05/2011, at 16:10, Willy Offermans wrote: According to the manufacturer (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemZPX/) it is not a soft modem, but a ``hardware'' modem. It says: Built-in processor does the work, so your computer doesn'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 they can help you out. -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV
On 25/05/2011, at 16:04, Willy Offermans wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2. I have enclosed the dmesg.boot file. puc was already incorporated into the kernel: kosmos# kldload -v puc kldload: can't load puc: File exists So I assume puc has 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 there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV
On 22/05/2011, at 9:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: However, as the boot process already mentions, there is no driver attached and I cannot get the modem to appear as an accessible and functional device. Is there someone, who can help me to get this modem to work? It would be helpful if you could specify what FreeBSD version you're using. Assuming 8.2 or RELENG_8: no promises, but puc(4) is probably what you're looking for. I would try adding: puc_load=yes To your /boot/loader.conf, then 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 :) -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
calendar(1) problems
Hi, I have the following calendar entry.. Tue+2 test for the second Tuesday in the month. This used to work in 6.x however it prints the following in 7.x and onward [maarsy-acq2 14:47] ~ calendar -f testcal Unprocessed: --- date: |Tue+2| flags: 10a - dayofweek modifierindex variable 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'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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: setting usb disc to da1
On 16/05/2011, at 3:53, Bruce Meier wrote: I think I have an answer to your problem. man glabel. Backup all data first! glabel label -v usr /dev/da1 newfs /dev/label/usr mount /dev/label/usr /usr [...] umount /usr glabel stop usr glabel unload I got that unload is unavailable but it everything worked for me. Check the man page. Hope this helps. After testing, it made no difference. 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 standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: setting usb disc to da1
On 15/05/2011, at 24:36, Thomas Krause wrote: I'm not sure with /boot/devices.hint. Could you give me a hint, how to set # camcontrol devlist AMCC 9500S-4LP DISK 2.08at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) Samsung G3 Station at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,da1) the Samsung G3 permanently to da1 (the AMCC must be da0). (This is a productive system and I don't want to do tests ...) I think the following will work.. hint.scbus.0.at=twa0 hint.da.0.at=scbus1 hint.scbus.1.at=umass-sim0 hint.da.1.at=scbus0 Unfortunately 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://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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: setting usb disc to da1
On 13/05/2011, at 7:08, Thomas Krause wrote: I've plugged a USB disc to a FreeBSD System and it's dedected as da1: da1: Samsung G3 Station Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device But when rebooting the machine, it becomes da0 and I cannot boot the system. What's the 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 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine
On 29/04/2011, at 10:38, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The OSX box is connected via an Airport Express (11n). Can you connect something to it via Ethernet and attempt an FTP transfer (both PUT (store on server) and GET (retrieve from server)) from a client on the wired network? Make sure whatever you're PUT'ing and GET'ing are using the ZFS filesystem. Don't forget binary mode too. I tried dd'ing /dev/zero over SMB and got 40MB/sec (although I'm not using AIO yet..) FTP'ing a 300 MB file averages 60-70MB/sec (the speed of my laptop HD) ttcp between the hosts hits wire speed (100MB/sec) OK. I don't think TM can use CIFS, I will try ISCSI as someone else suggested, perhaps it will help. Be aware there are all sorts of caveats/complexities with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There are past threads on -stable and -fs talking about them in great detail. I personally wouldn't go this route. Why can't OS X use CIFS? It has the ability to mount a SMB filesystem, right? Is there some reason you can't mount that, then tell TM to write its backups to /mountedcifs? It looks like I had a dodgy disk which was being tickled by the time machine backup (eg dodgy sector where the backup was located) so I have been chasing a ghost :) However, thanks to everyone for your helpful suggestions! I still haven't tried iSCSI, given I can't do a bare metal restore from it it doesn't seem worth it (also I don't have the time..) -- 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 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
ZFS vs OSX Time Machine
Does anyone else use ZFS to store TM backups? I find that whenever my laptop (over wifi!) starts a TM the ZFS machine it's backing up to grinds to a halt.. Other systems streaming stuff over NFS from it also tend to stall.. I presume that TM is doing something which causes ZFS some issues but I'm not sure how to find out what the real problem is let alone how to fix it.. I am running FreeBSD midget.dons.net.au 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #8 r217094M: Sat Jan 8 11:15:07 CST 2011 dar...@midget.dons.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIDGET amd64 It is a 5 disk RAIDZ1 with 1.29Tb free using WD10EADS drives. I don't see any SMART errors or ZFS warnings. I have the following ZFS related tunables vfs.zfs.arc_max=3072M vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 vfs.zfs.txg.timeout=5 vfs.zfs.cache_flush_disable=1 Any help appreciated, 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. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ 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
