Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-11-04 Thread Tom Evans via freebsd-stable
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > Like yourself, I think this is far from 'cosmetic' as is oft suggested, > especially in some fairly ill-informed forum posts but also various list > posts. I've been watching load averages since OS/2 through FreeBSD 2.2 >

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: Hello, Peter. This has probably been answered by now. But just in case. I believe what you're looking for is: mergemaster -vF This is my [chosen] default. I also find it helpful, as a safety net to cp _Rp /etc /eetc

Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

2013-07-30 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For years, a lot of security advisories have been present for bind. I'm just guessing if it's not a good idea to remove bind from base? This will probably free by half the number of FreeBSD SA's in the

Re: Where's the docs for FreeBSD maintenance with Subversion?

2013-07-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Fabian Wenk fab...@wenks.ch wrote: If there is an easier solution to upgrade an existing svn checkout from e.g. 8.4 to 8.5, please tell me. cd /usr/src ; svn switch http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.5 Cheers Tom

Re: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data

2013-06-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:49 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Well, you could have zpool check if there is a valid ZFS label and prompt/warn if it doesn't find one on whatever device it's about to wipe. That doesn't fix the gmirror/gpt case, but it might make zpool more intuitive to

Re: How to get pkgng work through a proxy?

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:36:44PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: Hi, I have this host (a cloned VM, FreeBSD 9.1 AMD64) behind an Astaro Web-Proxy: (blahost /root) 70 # pkg update [12:00] Updating repository catalogue

Re: recommended memory for zfs

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Benjamin Adams benjamindad...@gmail.com wrote: Hello zfs question about memory. I heard zfs is very ram hungry. Service looking to run: - nginx - postgres - php-fpm - python I have a machine with two quad core cpus but only 4 G Memory I'm looking to buy

Re: buildworld fails for stable/9

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi all, I checked out stable/9 this morning to generate a release. buildworld fails with the following: /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/stringlist.c:108: error: conflicting types for 'sl_find'

Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing

2013-04-23 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:20:31PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: 4) camcontrol wouldn't address the need/interest for ahci(4) quirks to be made available. Why? Because camcontrol is for CAM. ahci(4) is not part of CAM.

auditdistd user preventing installkernel

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all I was updating a newly installed FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE box to 9-STABLE, and was preparing to install the kernel in order to reboot to test it. However I was immediately hit with this: # make installkernel DESTDIR=/ROOT/9-STABLE-2013-04-13 ERROR: Required auditdistd user is missing, see

Re: Ghosted logins in w/who

2013-04-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM, damon...@mac.hush.com wrote: If I wipe the utmp file all the w/who content goes away, resets if you will. But in a matter of moments the problem reappears.. is this something that needs to be submitted as a bug report do you think? Thanks! Damon Hi Damon

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS best practices in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: #1. Map the physical drive slots to how they show up in FBSD so if a disk is removed and the machine is rebooted all the disks after that removed one do not have an 'off by one error'. i.e. if you have ada0-ada14 and

Using dhclient on WAN if on a box serving DHCP to LAN if

2012-12-07 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all Using 9.0-STABLE #1 r230946 - I found it out as I rebooted to prepare for 9.1, but I think it should be largely irrelevant of version. I have a freebsd router that provides all the things a soho router should on its LAN iface - DNS, DHCP, NAT (via pf). The WAN iface connects to a ADSL

Re: Using dhclient on WAN if on a box serving DHCP to LAN if

2012-12-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:38:45 +0100, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com What is in dhcpd.conf? Ronald. dhcpd.conf is straightforward: option domain-name x.com; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default

Re: simple patch for portsnap to use wget

2012-11-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Luca Ferrari fluca1...@infinito.it wrote: I did a little review and now it is possible to specify to use wget or not using the portsnap.conf file, as well as the option to ingore certificate checking even if I don't believe this is correct. Therefore portsnap

Re: Node conflicts in SVN

2012-11-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Frank Seltzer fran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Following that with 'grep -A1 C\ stat' shows 217 lines similar to these: D C accessibility local unversioned, incoming add upon update This says that svn has an entry for a file/directory named

Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. Fonz van Werven f...@skysmurf.nl wrote: After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse on my netbook stopped working. When I do # /etc/rc.d/moused onestart the pointer appears and can be moved for a second or two, then it stops

Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock, There might be some hardware thing in your setup

Re: /var getting full

2012-04-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Type: sync Then: df -h Then: cd /var du -hd 1 Post results. As well as this, any unlinked files that have file handles open by running processes will not be accounted for in du, but will be counted in df. You could

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: There are no security implications, no system resources to be wasted. And if you think there are security implications, then lets see a proof-of-concept. If I find time to write a proof-of-concept, I promise to

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 04/02/12 05:56, Tom Evans wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: There are no security implications, no system resources to be wasted. And if you think there are security

Re: About kern.ipc.semmap on FreeBSD 9

2012-03-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Efraín Déctor efraindec...@motumweb.com wrote: Hello. I’m currently testing FreeBSD 9.0, I want to use it as a OS for a PostgreSQL Server. However, it is recommended to modified some paramerts such as semaphores

Re: About kern.ipc.semmap on FreeBSD 9

2012-03-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Efraín Déctor efraindec...@motumweb.com wrote: Sorry about posting to @current. Yep, kern.ipc.semmap does exists on FreeBSD 8.2 (I have configured it on sysctl.conf) but on FreeBSD 9.0 its gone, Volodymyr Kostyrko pointed out that this options need to be

Re: Request for flowtable testers and actionable feedback RE: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, H h...@hm.net.br wrote: If you are curious about something, ask, right away ... clear and straight I'm curious about when you will stop trolling one of the last few fora on the internet where the SNR is actually high. This topic is discussing how users can help

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Peter Maloney peter.malo...@brockmann-consult.de wrote: I suggest these concepts should be tested: Perhaps the testers tested beta1 and beta2, but there were so many changes after beta2, that bugs appeared in release that did not exist in beta2. Test this by

Re: problems with AHCI on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:31:23PM +0100, Oscar Prieto wrote: I used to had tons of ahci errors in my 4 disk raidz1 worth of HD154UIs when the rig was built a year ago or so (with 8.0 Release), but they

Re: problems with AHCI on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Sorry, I missed the in-line part of your post at the top where you said: Interesting. I have 9 SAMSUNG HD154UI 1AG01118 in my raidz setup, haven't had a problem with any of them yet (touch wood). So that

Re: Strange 'hangs' with RELENG_9

2012-01-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, László KÁROLYI las...@karolyi.hu wrote: Moreover, I couldn't set SCHED_BSD in the kernel config, it said that it's an illegal option. Maybe it does not exist in RELENG_9. options SCHED_4BSD Cheers Tom ___

Re: ZFS / zpool size

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: A overhead of almost 300GB? That seems a bit to much, don't you think? The pool consist of one vdev with two 1,5TB disks and one 3TB in raidz1. Confused about your disks - can you show the output of zpool

Re: SVN checkout

2012-01-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Julian Kennedy juliank...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All Im just joined the list. Im not sure if this is the right place to ask svn questions. I want to checkout the freebsd code to play with it a bit. What should I do and which part of the repo should I checkout? I

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:39:50AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/14/11 18:54, Tom Evans wrote: I believe the correct thing to do is to put some extra documentation into the handbook about scheduler choice

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, George Mitchell george+free...@m5p.com wrote: Dear Secret Masters of FreeBSD: Can we have a decision on whether to change back to SCHED_4BSD while SCHED_ULE gets properly fixed? Please do not do this. This thread has shown that ULE performs poorly in very

Re: www/Apache22 fails to build when configured for LDAP and AUTHNZ_LDAP

2011-11-30 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Shaun Meyer meye...@morningside.edu wrote: Hello, I have already built apache22 successfully on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64. I realized that I wanted authnz_ldap which wasn't turned on by default so I went into www/apache22 and did the following: # make

Re: 8.2 + apache == a LOT of sigprocmask

2011-11-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: I don't use worker MPM on any of our boxes, we actually use ITK MPM solely because of the hosting nature of what we do.  I've actually never seen worker MPM in use on any *IX machine I've been on or administrated,

Re: R: make installworld fails (touch not found)

2011-09-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jason Hellenthal jh...@dataix.net wrote: Don't get why all these references for time are popping up here and why everyone seems to think that would make the PATH variable get cut short from the environment that newvers.sh is running in, but see the post I made

Re: FreeBSD 8.2r amd 64 problem when compiling 32bit applications

2011-08-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, noel beck nb...@hobsoft.com.mt wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.2 release on a 64-bit machine (amd64) and it has gcc 4.2.1 built in.  The library directories are lib, lib32 and lib64.  When I compiled for 64-bit the compilation was successful. However, the problem

Re: -m32 on freeBSD 8.2r amd64

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Michael Hoffmann benz...@arcor.de wrote: Maybe off topic? 1: echo int main(void) { return 0; } t.c 2: setenv LDEMULATION elf_i386_fbsd 3: gcc -c -m32 -o t.o t.c 4: gcc -nostartfiles -o a.out t.o -L/usr/lib32 /usr/lib32/crt1.o /usr/lib32/crti.o 5: file

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: And before someone asks: in most cases you *cannot* use this card in a PCIe x16 connector on a motherboard.  Most generic motherboard manufacturers at this point have special one-offs that assume their PCIe x16

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Jim Bryant kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com wrote: stay away from newer hp laptops. HP also like to lock-down which wifi cards you can use from BIOS - the machines won't complete POST with a 'bad' wifi card, so that's another strike as far as I am concerned. I've never

Re: watchdog timeout for pwait/rc.shutdown

2011-07-14 Thread Tom Evans
2011/7/14 Subbsd sub...@gmail.com: Hi Tell me please, is it possible to change the behavior of shutdown sequence to avoid work of kill process (or increase timeout). Тot always process can not react to signals and stop - for example, heavy MySQL server databases or databases/redis - can not

Re: Crashes with Promise controller

2011-07-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Christian Baer christian.b...@uni-dortmund.de wrote: A serial console is easy enough to set up on a Sun for example, but in this case, I am running a simple AthlonXP, which has nothing for that sort of help. I would need a special card for that and those cose

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-28 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk wrote: Is not the problem here that you are trying to GPT label a gmirrored disc ? If you instead gmirror two GPT partitions then the problem goes away doesnt it ? Thats how I set things up - use parititoning on the ohysical

Re: genassym.c:1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2011-03-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: FreeBSD rip0.psg.com 8.2-RC3 FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 #0: Sun Jan 30 06:28:31 UTC 2011     r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz (1999.78-MHz K8-class CPU)  

Re: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Otherwise, I can imagine that prefetching could cause what you describe, which is enabled by default in 8.0 and 8.1 and auto-disables in 8.2 if the amount of available memory is less than 4GB. I don't think this

Re: Disable probing of bge1?

2011-03-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Hi, all, I just discovered a minor problem when updating some rather dated systems from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.x or 8.x. The servers are Fujitsu Technology Solutions (former Fujitsu-Siemens) RX100 S4. The current generation

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

2011-02-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: What is sad is that these controllers are becoming very mainstream now, we're getting them more and more on Dell servers , and the fbsd project still struggles with them (for reasons I don't know, might be LSI's fault, might

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Well, the box I'm writing this message from is running a G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] + 3Gb videoram, while not the latest and greatest, it isn't really legacy either. I was /sure/ it'd be a snap to setup, but while functional, it

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Hello, Jeremy, Am 07.02.2011 um 09:55 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: The Wiki is outdated, I'm sorry to say.  Given that you have 8GB RAM, I would recommend these settings. ... Thank you very much for the insight. A current

Re: www/chromium ignores proxy settings [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-11-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Correct.  You need to reference a PAC file for the browser to read/parse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config I can show you an example .pac file if you want; I use one to define what domain names my

www/chromium ignores proxy settings

2010-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all I have installed chromium from ports: # pkg_info | grep chrom chromium-6.0.472.63 A mostly BSD-licensed web browser based on WebKit and Gtk+ and I have proxy settings configured in my environment, up to my eyeballs: $ env | grep -i oxy NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8

Re: www/chromium ignores proxy settings

2010-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Alexander Logvinov a...@logvinov.com wrote: Hello!  Use  chrome --proxy-server=http://proxy:3128/; :) Hi Alexander That didn't work either, it would not even make any connections then. With '--proxy-server=proxy:3128' though, it works correctly! It would

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

2010-10-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Peter Much p...@citylink.dinoex.sub.org wrote: vadim_nucli...@mail.ru aka Vadim Goncharov schrieb mit Datum Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:31:46 +0700 in m2n.fbsd.stable: |You do not understand the problem. It is not in notices volunteers, but |rather in the Project's

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: It seems far more than just CPU performance is awry.  Adam's data from his i7 shows 2.7 times Bryce's speed for the md5 -t, maybe a lower EST rate? - but that could no way account for buildworld taking 22.5 hours. Recent

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Vadim Goncharov vadim_nucli...@mail.ru wrote: I give up. Thank $DEITY. Cheers Tom ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:06 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Monday, August 23, 2010 5:35:40 pm Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 08:20:35AM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: It is not private, it is in //depot/projects/mcelog/... in

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Pawel Tyll pt...@nitronet.pl wrote: I do not think I can adjust the existing zpool on the fly.  I think I need to copy everything elsewhere (i.e the 2 empty drives).  Then start the new zpool from scratch. You can, and you should (for educational purposes if

Re: kernel issues with 8 STABLE

2010-07-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Free BSD free...@vfemail.net wrote: Dear List Members Also, even though I have custom keyboard in my kernel configuration, whenever I boot into single user mode I get US layout (it works fine when in multi-user mode). Does it work correctly if you run kbdmap

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de wrote: On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an exception, recently, iwn was very

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug.  At what point did the OP state he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have IPMI. Cheers Tom

Different sizes between zfs list and zpool list

2010-05-05 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all When looking at the size of a pool, this information can be got from both zpool list and zfs list: $ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT tank 5.69T 982G 36.5K /tank $ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT

Re: Different sizes between zfs list and zpool list

2010-05-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: When looking at the size of a pool, this information can be got from both zpool list and zfs list: $ zfs list NAME                       USED

Re: 7.2-p7 - 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com wrote: Hello all. With all respect Doug, users that have remote machines and do not have access to it to boot single user like the manual says.. what can we do? I understand that step is to be sure that no user will modify

Re: 7.2-p7 - 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Cristiano Deana cristiano.de...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, anyone else tried to update (todas's cvsup) 7.3-p7 to 8-STABLE? make update make buildworld make kernel make installworld mergemaster and i got a bad system call (core dumped). reboot, mergemaster

Re: 7.2-p7 - 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Cristiano Deana cristiano.de...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: make update make buildworld make kernel make installworld mergemaster and i got a bad system call (core dumped). You can't always

Re: stable-8 regression: time stands still

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:09:56AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: I'm going to get this kern.timecounter sysctl from the system booted with a 7.x livecd this evening. But really, I think this is a regression.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Here's the list: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8441629 Just over $1K, and I've got 4 nice drives, ECC memory, and a server board. Going with the celeron saved a ton of cash

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 7:51 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Here's the list: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 9:09 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: One thing to point out about using a PM like this: you won't get fantastic bandwidth out of it. For my

Re: Error upgrading 7.0 to 7.2 (buildword in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libopcodes setp)

2009-12-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-stable-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Jordi Espasa Clofent jespa...@minibofh.org writes: Lowell Gilbert escribió: Wonderful. I've used times the same command (1) without -j flag and... it works perfectly! It's curious, because of I always

Re: FreeBSD 8 GPT install, how?

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ollivier Robert robe...@keltia.freenix.fr wrote: According to Steven Hartland: I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on previous versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping there was a nice easy way on 8.0 given the improvements

Re: Can't use gpt labels re-importing pool

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.comwrote: I'm a bit curious about something, so maybe someone can help me understand: Why are people bothering with GPT labels (or in some cases, glabels) when AHCI (whether it be ataahci.ko or ahci.ko) is in use? Under

Re: pthread.h: typo in #define pthread_cleanup_push/pthread_cleanup_pop

2009-11-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Mikolaj Golub to.my.troc...@gmail.comwrote: snip So, I don't know what these macros actually were supposed to be. They were introduced in r179662: Revision 1.43: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs Mon Jun 9 01:14:10 2008 UTC (17

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: operator0, 164 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc Have you tried naming the GPT partitions and using /dev/gpt/* ? Nope, how would

8.0-RC1 ZFS loader extremely slow

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all I just installed 8.0-RC1 amd64 on a 6 gpt disk ZFS raidz1 (following the guide on the wiki), but have problems on reboot with the newly installed ZFS aware loader. The loader runs correctly, but incredibly slowly. It takes about 2 hours to get to the point where it enumerates the BIOS

Re: SCSI device not created upon a CF card plug in

2009-07-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:52 +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi Milan, thanks for the reply. Yep, your suggestion works but it simply unacceptable for end users. We are the makers of the Tomahawk Desktop (http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/). Anybody in the FreeBSD community care to develop

Re: upgrading ports without recompiling

2009-07-06 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 11:04 -0500, Ishmael F.E. wrote: Hi there . ¿How can I upgrade my ports without having to recompile everything? . I allready did # freebsd-update -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade install # reboot # freebsd-update install . But it didn'nt upgrade the ports, so I tryed #

Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape headertype 1853384566)

2009-03-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:45 +, Jake Scott wrote: .. Absolutely. You really must use a tool that interacts with the database to perform the backup. Most commercial DBs have hooks that allow the backup routines to call out to custom snapshot facilities. One would usually request a

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 03:55 -0700, Scott Long wrote: All, A major performance regression was introduced to the CAM subsystem in FreeBSD 7.1. The following configurations are known to be affected: VMWare ESX VMWare Fusion (using bt or lsilogic controller options) HP CISS RAID Some

Page fault while in kernel mode

2009-02-11 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all. I got this panic when our SMB server moved hostname. I still had the drives mounted, so I wondered what would happen if I ls'ed the mount point ('Doctor it hurts when I do this' 'Dont do that then..'). I'm running i386 RELENG_7 from mid October, so it is more than possible that this has

Re: Free memory after upgrade to 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Evans
other suggestions ? Thanks TR Tom Evans napsal(a): On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 17:08 +0100, Tomas Randa wrote: Hello, I have i386/PAE system (php, apache22, mysql) running on 7-STABLE and I can see strange behavior after upgrade from 7.0: Apache does not free memory, for example

Re: Free memory after upgrade to 7.1

2009-02-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 17:08 +0100, Tomas Randa wrote: Hello, I have i386/PAE system (php, apache22, mysql) running on 7-STABLE and I can see strange behavior after upgrade from 7.0: Apache does not free memory, for example: CPU: 31.2% user, 0.0% nice, 12.8% system, 0.7% interrupt, 55.3%

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 11:18 -0500, Kevin wrote: I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it wouldn't boot either -- it said Your CPU does not support long mode, please use a 32bit

Correct downgrade procedure

2008-10-17 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all I've been having increasingly annoying Xorg crashes with 7.1, on a previously very reliable laptop[1], and am now trying to go back to how it used to work, starting off by downgrading kernel + world to 7.0-RELEASE, which used to work quite nicely. If that fails to make any huge strides, I

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 09:37 -0200, JoaoBR wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2008 13:26:29 Adam McDougall wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 04:45:29PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:13:16 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat,

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:37 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's obviously open to discussion and there's nobody

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 08:45 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: On 4 Sep 2008, at 12:20 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... It was using Ubuntu that caused me to realize how far behind FreeBSD is on the desktop side, and how, with a SMALL AMOUNT of work and changes, it could make a big jump forward by this

Re: Intel G33 FreeBSD 7.x

2008-08-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 09:06 +0100, Oliver Peter wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:36 +0930 Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a G33 chipset system working in 7.x? ... Unfortunately, the drm module does not recognize my chipset (so I don't have DRI support under

Re: umtxn and Apache 2.2

2008-08-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:56 +0200, Borja Marcos wrote: Doesn't seem stripped to me... %file /usr/local/sbin/httpd /usr/local/sbin/httpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 7.0 (700110), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), FreeBSD-style, not

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:14 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:23:55 -0400 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, at Y! 6.3 is more stable than 6.2 (I had a list of about 10 patches for known deadlocks and kernel panics that were errata candidates for 6.2

Re: Release Schedule 7.1

2008-05-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 20:07 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: What are the hoped for release dates for 7.1? (plus or minus a month) I'm debating on running 7.0 vs 7.1 and timing is a consideration. Regards, Jason Scheduled releases are listed on the release engineering page.

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 08:46 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:13:17PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: In my experience, umass over EHCI has never worked on any machine ever, going back to 5.x and over multiple kinds of umass devices. (I never saw panics, only triple-fault

Re: panics on 6.3-RELEASE in IP stack

2008-04-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:27 -0400, Michael Proto wrote: Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: I concur, this fix should really be MFCed. The problem went away in 7.x due to a total rewrite. I am distracted by other stuff at the moment, so, starter's

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:46 +0100, Ruben van Staveren wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 15:32, Mark Andrews wrote: - IPv6 provides almost no technological upgrades beyond additional address space. DHCP addressed the auto configuration feature, VPNs addressed IPsec. That extra address

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 00:20 -0700, Unga wrote: Sorry for my late reply. What I mentioned is a fact, that I always do. Yep, the music listening is not affected at all when building world on both 4BSD and ULE. Please note my processor is 3Ghz, may be it can take such a load. Second,

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:41 -0700, Unga wrote: Hi all Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition coming soon? The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil

Re: musicpd segfaults on run - was advised that it's an issue with the system

2008-03-11 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:06 -0600, Ross Penner wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: musicpd doesn't really like playing with libthr. I find remapping libthr using /etc/libmap.conf is an adequate workaround on 7.0. [/usr/local/bin/mpd

Re: musicpd segfaults on run - was advised that it's an issue with the system

2008-03-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 23:07 -0700, Ross Penner wrote: Hi, I've recently run the upgrade gamut and moved from 6.3 to 7.0. I've had a few hick ups but this one I can't resolve. I used musicpd (http://www.freshports.org/audio/musicpd/) on 6.3 to stream to a shoutcast server. When I start mpd

Re: What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7?

2008-03-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 00:03 -0800, Chris H. wrote: Hello Mark. Thank you for your thoughtful reply. FWIW I'm hosting my own zone, out of my domain's address using a different host name. I'm simply forwarding the requests to a different port, so as to prevent port collision with the BIND. The

Re: I tried to install 7.0 today and had problems.

2008-02-29 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 07:43 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:06:28AM -0700, geek wrote: I tried to install 7.0 on a computer with an ABIT AV8 motherboard. This board has an integrated NIC and the installer didn't find it. The board uses a native VIA NIC (never

Re: Re:more than 4gb of RAM (configurations)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:41 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 5:10 PM, Kevin K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a box that we recently installed 16GB of RAM on. The box is i386 FreeBSD 6.2. It only recognizes 4gb. Siding with most of the group (go amd64), I'll add my own

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