Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-12 Thread Scott Long
Chris wrote: On 12/05/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan Noack wrote: The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't some put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues thing. It was a long

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Scott Long
Brent Casavant wrote: On Sun, 21 May 2006, Colin Percival wrote: In order to better understand which FreeBSD versions are in use, how people are (or aren't) keeping them updated, and why it seems so many systems are not being updated, I have put together a short survey of 12 questions. I

Re: quota and snapshots in 6.1-RELEASE

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Long
Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: Hi! On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:35:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: 6.1-STABLE after 6.1-RELEASE is releases. So I think you may want If you use snapshots with your quotas, update to 6.1-STABLE. If you Sorry, guys. You are mean RELENG_6_1 or RELENG_6? WBR

Re: state of fs/udf

2006-05-25 Thread Scott Long
Andriy Gapon wrote: It seems that UDF fs has been in not-well-supported state for a while now. It seems that Scott Long, original author and maintainer, has moved on to other more important (and, perhaps, interesting) things. (perhaps - because RE does not seem to be too exciting on the first

Re: 6.1-STABLE; Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode; kgdb isn't working??!?

2006-05-31 Thread Scott Long
David Wolfskill wrote: In testing a vendor's product, I managed (as I had been warned might happen) to crash the machine on which the product was running. It's a moderately-recent 6.1-STABLE: mx-out05# uname -a FreeBSD mx-out05.lab.example.org 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #3: Sun May 7

Re: panic: trying to sleep while sleeping is prohibited - USB network panic after ifconfig

2006-05-31 Thread Scott Long
This looks like a pretty fundamental problem with the aue driver. Scott Scott Ullrich wrote: Sleeping on usbsyn with the following non-sleepable locks held: exclusive sleep mutex in_multi_mtx r = 0 (0xc0acfbc0) locked @ /usr/src/sys/neti net/in.c:971 KDB: stack backtrace:

Re: Suggestions for Adaptec SAS AIC9410

2006-06-09 Thread Scott Long
Doug White wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Andy Dills wrote: I'm trying to get a Supermicro 6024H-32R setup with 6.1, but I'm discovering that the Adaptec SAS AIC9410 controller isn't yet supported. I see one brief thread about it on this mailing list back in March, but no further mention or

Re: Suggestions for Adaptec SAS AIC9410

2006-06-09 Thread Scott Long
Andy Dills wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Scott Long wrote: Doug White wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Andy Dills wrote: I'm trying to get a Supermicro 6024H-32R setup with 6.1, but I'm discovering that the Adaptec SAS AIC9410 controller isn't yet supported. I see one brief thread about

Re: make rerelease broken at camcontrol...

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Long
Peter Losher wrote: Thanks to all who answered my 'make release' questions; now that I have done the initial release cut, now I am trying out 'make rerelease', and it's bombing at the stage 4.4: building everything stage. -=- === sbin/camcontrol (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe

Re: Upgrading i386 box from 5.5-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE

2006-06-21 Thread Scott Long
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm in the middle of an attempt to upgrade an i386 box from 5.5-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE. Just in case it's apropos, the box was recently upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.5-STABLE. I am following the handbook's The Canonical Way to Update Your System and have sucessfully

Re: Upgrading i386 box from 5.5-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Long
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm in the middle of an attempt to upgrade an i386 box from 5.5-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE. Just in case it's apropos, the box was recently upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.5-STABLE. I am following the handbook's The Canonical Way to Update Your System and have sucessfully

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-04 Thread Scott Long
Michel Talon wrote: Using Ubuntu as the server I connected a FreeBSD 5.4 and 6-stable box as clients on a 100Mb/s network. The time trial used a dummy 100Meg file transfered from the server to the client. I have similar experiences here. With FreeBSD-6.1 as client (using an Intel

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-04 Thread Scott Long
Michel Talon wrote: BTW, I noticed yesterday that that IPv6 support committ to rpc.lockd was never backed out. An immediate question for people experiencing new rpc.lockd problems with 6.x should be whether or not backing out that change helps. So it may be relevant to say that i have

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-19 Thread Scott Long
up *after* upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, and only acting up under load ... There are two normal approaches: (1) Switch controllers and see if the problem goes away, then blame the controller that was replaced. :-) (2) Debug the driver when the system is in the wedged state. When Scott Long

Re: Can't run newly-compiled RELENG_6 programs under RELENG_6_1: missing __res_state

2006-07-19 Thread Scott Long
Guy Helmer wrote: We just tried running programs under RELENG_6_1 that were compiled under RELENG_6 checked out 2006-07-19, and couldn't because of the undefined symbol __res_statel, which I would assume is a result of the recent MFC of the BIND 9 resolver library.Is this to be expected?

Re: Can't run newly-compiled RELENG_6 programs under RELENG_6_1: missing __res_state

2006-07-19 Thread Scott Long
Guy Helmer wrote: Scott Long wrote: Guy Helmer wrote: We just tried running programs under RELENG_6_1 that were compiled under RELENG_6 checked out 2006-07-19, and couldn't because of the undefined symbol __res_statel, which I would assume is a result of the recent MFC of the BIND 9

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-20 Thread Scott Long
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Jul-19 22:38:56 -0400, Ed Maste wrote: - You may have to adjust some parameters in the kern.polling sysctl tree - specifically, kern.polling.burst_max, kern.polling.each_burst and kern.polling.user_frac might need tweaking. Note that increasing

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-24 Thread Scott Long
Marcelo Gardini do Amaral wrote: The limited testing I've done on a Sun V20z at work suggests that you can get better routing throughput in interrupt mode than polling mode. YMMV and this is before tweaking the polling parameters. (My testing also suggests that I don't really need to do any

Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread Scott Long
Ok guys, time for a small breather here. All these claims about EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed. First, the iir driver is being worked on when the need arises. Several bugs were fixed in it a few months ago, and until Mark's recent series of mails on it, no

Re: amr(4) in 6.1-RELEASE-p3 ignores my tape drive

2006-08-08 Thread Scott Long
clinth wrote: Hi All, This morning I upgraded a Dell PowerEdge 2850 from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-RELEASE and found that amr(4) no longer detects my Seagate DAT via sa(4). The system has an embedded Dell PERC 4e/Di with two channels. Channel 0 contains two disks in RAID 1 and works fine.

Re: 6-stable locking problem

2006-08-11 Thread Scott Long
Darn, I thought that that was already fixed. I'll go dig up my patches and take care of this. Scott Pavel Merdin wrote: Hello. There's a problem with a very busy server (ad server, CPU is close to 0% idle most of the time). Configuration: Dual AMD Opteron 252 2.6GHz Chipset: AMD 8131

Re: LSI/amr driver controller cache problem?

2006-09-01 Thread Scott Long
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi, all! We just set a brand new Intel SSR212CC box into production. This is basically a standard server with 2 LSI SATA RAID controllers and 12 drive bays in 2 rack units height. Intel sells it as a storage product. There's a variant of Windows 2003 server that turns

Re: Attention Julian Stacey

2006-09-17 Thread Scott Long
Julian H. Stacey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] lol, that's the stupidest thing I've heard all week. Inflamatory. Refered to postmaster. Julian, meet Kris. Kris has been the head of the FreeBSD ports team for a large

Re: Patch: sym(4) VTOBUS FAILED panics on amd64, amd64/89550

2006-09-21 Thread Scott Long
Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Quick summary: sym(4) assumes on amd64 that virtual addresses provided by bus_dmamem_alloc() have the same alignment as the physical addresses (in this case, 2*PAGE_SIZE). They don't, and stuff

Re: Patch: sym(4) VTOBUS FAILED panics on amd64, amd64/89550

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Long
Stefan Esser wrote: Scott Long schrieb: Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Quick summary: sym(4) assumes on amd64 that virtual addresses provided by bus_dmamem_alloc() have the same alignment as the physical addresses

Re: Patch: sym(4) VTOBUS FAILED panics on amd64, amd64/89550

2006-09-26 Thread Scott Long
Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Attached is a simpler patch, after some feedback from Stefan over general niceness. It removes the amd64 special case by splitting the target member (an array of struct sym_tcb) of sym_hcb out into a separately allocated structure. This way there is never a need to

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:00:21AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: I get tons of these: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP mailbox# pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x108c15d9

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:55:53AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The SMBus Interface is not used at all (it's not even really usable). Anyway, as soon as I unload the ichsmb module I cannot triger the problem anymore. If I load it again, the problem cann again

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Sep-27 10:32:49 -0600, Scott Long wrote: My theory here is that something in the kernel, likely VM/VFS, is holding the Giant lock for an inordinate amount of time. In the past (RELENG_5) I've had major problems with syncer delaying interrupt threads for long

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
David G Lawrence wrote: In the past (RELENG_5) I've had major problems with syncer delaying interrupt threads for long periods (I've seen 8msec). See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-February/012346.html I'm not sure if this is still a problem (but I am still having some

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Volker wrote: On 37378-12-23 20:59, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! Well, the best I can say at the moment is, Wow. =-( I guess the thing to do here is to figure out if the problem lies with the em interrupt handler not getting run, or the taskqueue not getting run. I helped Pyun with

CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-09-28 Thread Scott Long
All, Attached is my first cut at addressing the problems described in this thread. As I discussed earlier, the VM syncer thread is likely starving the USB interrupt thread. This causes the shared usb+network interrupt to remain masked, preventing network interrupts from being delivered, and

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-09-28 Thread Scott Long
O. Hartmann wrote: Scott Long wrote: All, Attached is my first cut at addressing the problems described in this thread. As I discussed earlier, the VM syncer thread is likely starving the USB interrupt thread. This causes the shared usb+network interrupt to remain masked, preventing

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-09-28 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 03:15 PM 9/28/2006, O. Hartmann wrote: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c:282: error: for each function it appears in.) /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c: At top level: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c:863: warning: 'usb_intr_task' defined but not used *** Error code 1 Are you sure the

Re: Poor write performance with LSI 320-2 on 6.1-STABLE

2006-09-29 Thread Scott Long
Albert Chin wrote: I have an Intel S875PWP1 motherboard with a Pentium4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PCI bus is 33Mhz, 32-bit. I recently purchased an LSI 320-2/128MB on eBay (though the card really looks like a PERC4/DS) and just ran some bonnie++ tests on a RAID 1 array between two U320 drives for the

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-09-30 Thread Scott Long
Craig Boston wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:48:42PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/usb_fastintr_RELENG_6.diff At first glance it appeared to work, but I'm about to do some more testing since I just discovered that I have to kldload something (anything) first

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-30 Thread Scott Long
David G Lawrence wrote: Attached is a simple user program that will immediately cause pretty much all of the network drivers (at least the ones I own) to stop working and get watchdog timeouts. I am runnign this on a single processor machine with an SMP kernel and it does not have any

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-10-01 Thread Scott Long
Martin Nilsson wrote: Just an observation. All the boxes I've had this problem on have _two_ em interfaces. I have never seen it on my boxes with just one em NIC. The error is always em0 timeout - never em1 (I haven't seen any!) Yesterday my local network got completely wacky, the gateway

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Long
John Marshall wrote: $ dmesg | grep bge bge0: Broadcom BCM5705K Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3003 mem 0xe820-0xe820 irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4 miibus1: MII bus on bge0 bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:51:ba bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge0: link state changed to DOWN bge0:

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Long
David G Lawrence wrote: Very interesting data point. I wonder if this accounts for some of the inconsistency in the reporting from others. In any case, SCHED_ULE is still considered to be highly experimental. Hopefully it will get some more attention in the near future to bring it closer to

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Scott Long
Guy Brand wrote: Craig Boston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 29/09/2006 at 20:19 wrote: One thing this patch definitely did do though, is break the nvidia driver pretty badly. Couldn't keep the X server running for more than a minute before it froze solid. Lots of Xid: blah blah blah messages. Yes

em, bge, network problems survey.

2006-10-04 Thread Scott Long
All, I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further. I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself. Thanks. 1. Are

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Long
Bill Moran wrote: I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm actively working on fixing the driver right now. Scott

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Long
Yeah, the error is probably a PCI error coming from the chipset, not a RAM error. Unfortunately, there are a lot of mystery reasons why a PCI error might get triggered, and the message isn't enough to say what exactly it is. However, one simple test you can to is to disable the EISA device in

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Long
Tom Judge wrote: Scott Long wrote: Bill Moran wrote: I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm actively working

Re: Patch available for shared em interrupts (Re: em, bge, network problems survey.)

2006-10-13 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 10:34 PM 10/5/2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: Based on successful testing on a machine with shared em interrupt, the following patch should work around the problem *in that case*. Note that this patch will not help you if you are not using the em driver, or if you are seeing

Re: em0 problem

2006-10-14 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:09 AM 10/14/2006, Balgansuren Batsukh wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD-6.1 on my home PC. After sometime frequently get em0 UP/DOWN message. There is a patch you can try that might help you at

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

2006-10-15 Thread Scott Long
Danial Thom wrote: --- Mark Linimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:32AM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: Stating facts is not trolling. true, but ... The fact that you may not want to hear it is your own problem [...] You can't keep promoting this junk they're putting

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Long
Conrad Burger wrote: Hi It looks like there is a new version of the bce driver in HEAD. When will it be incorporated into Releng_6? It will be merged when someone, preferably 2-3 people, tell me that the changes in HEAD work for them. So far, no one has. Scott

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Long
Kevin Kramer wrote: and will it support the BCM5754 in the Precision 390? No idea, ask the vendor. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Long
Tom Judge wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:15:14PM +0100, Jason Thomson wrote: Using the driver from HEAD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our problems. We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount,

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Scott Long
Bill Paul wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a number of tests to reproduce

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Scott Long
Bill Paul wrote: Yes, but did you do it with a Smartbits though, or just with a couple of other FreeBSD machines? Unfortunately, a typical FreeBSD system on its own won't generate frames anywhere near fast enough to really torture test a gigE interface. At best you might hit around 20 to

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-21 Thread Scott Long
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Jason Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Scott Long wrote: Conrad Burger wrote: Hi It looks like there is a new version of the bce driver in HEAD. When will it be incorporated into Releng_6? It will be merged when someone, preferably 2-3 people

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-21 Thread Scott Long
of the threads regarding Broadcom issues. -- Kevin Kramer Sr. Systems Administrator 512.418.5725 Centaur Technology, Inc. www.centtech.com Scott Long wrote the following on 10/18/06 10:26: Kevin Kramer wrote: and will it support the BCM5754 in the Precision 390

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-24 Thread Scott Long
odd though, is that copying +100 gig of data from nfs to the 2950 which it was doing previously didn't lock things up with the old driver. My thanks to Scott Long and all others who worked on this! Regards, Ruben van Staveren ~BAS On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response

Re: Install onto 6Tb array

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Long
Lawrence Farr wrote: I'd like to install stable directly onto a 6Tb Areca array, and have run out of clues how to do it. In the past I've always used a separate boot volume that was small enough for sysinstall to work with, but I have no space to fit more drives in this chassis. I've tried

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Long
Sam Baskinger wrote: Bill Moran wrote: [snip] The driver from HEAD (if_bce.c 1.17) is looking much better - thanks Scott! We couldn't trigger this bug using UDP NFS mounts. Neither could we trigger it with multiple simultaneous TCP connections. I'm seeing similar improvement. I've been

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Long
Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 25.10.2006 um 19:36 schrieb Robert Watson: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Stefan Bethke wrote: We're consistely getting this panic even under smallish loads. I've experimented with various values for VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX (384, 512, 768 and 1024 MB), but the boxes are still

Re: Install 5.4 CD, Adaptec 2120S, aac0: Command hex Timeouts

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Long
post from Chris Knight in January, but he was on 6 and that was apparently right at a change to the aac driver. Searching FreeBSD.org turned up a similar problem back in March 2004 [5.2.1]. Scott Long responded to that one as a known issue being resolved. The BIOS firmware was 'Build 7244

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Long
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:24, Scott Long wrote: Sam Baskinger wrote: Bill Moran wrote: [snip] The driver from HEAD (if_bce.c 1.17) is looking much better - thanks Scott! We couldn't trigger this bug using UDP NFS mounts. Neither could we trigger it with multiple

Re: Install 5.4 CD, Adaptec 2120S, aac0: Command hex Timeouts

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Long
Glen Van Lehn wrote: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/06 7:36 PM Glen Van Lehn wrote: Hi, I'm new to the FreeBSD lists, and still uncertain on protocol. I posted this today on the freebsd-hardware list, but from the discussion I'm seeing today, it may better apply to 5-stable than

5.x discussions should migrate to freebsd-stable

2005-07-02 Thread Scott Long
All, Now that 5.3 is about to be released (really, I mean it this time!) and 5.x is considered -STABLE, further 5.x discussions and bug reports should migrate over to the freebsd-stable mailing list. I know that after 4+ years, there is probably a lot of sentimental attachment to

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

2005-07-11 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 05:04 PM 11/07/2005, Robert Watson wrote: As a further FYI, a variety of debugging features are still enabled by default in RELENG_6, including INVARINTS, WITNESS, and user space malloc debugging. These will remain enabled through the first snapshot from the Apart

FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Long
Marc G. Fournier wrote: And, for the stupid question of the day ... how long before 5.x is no longer supported? I'm just about to deploy a new server, and was *going* to go with 5.x, but would I be better just skipping 5.x altogether? Or are there such drastic changes in 6.x that doing so

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:33:24PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote.. At 1:06 PM +0200 7/16/05, Øystein Holmen wrote: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp-sites og mirrors.

FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2005

2005-07-22 Thread Scott Long
. Thanks Robert Watson and Scott Long for their kind help. Open tasks: 1. When writing the document, try to figure out the sebsd userland utils that need to be ported. 2. Test and edit more policies for BSD environment

Re: 6024H-T / X6DHT-G / Marvell H2 SATA

2005-08-23 Thread Scott Long
fbsd wrote: Hello All, For 5.4, FreeBSD AMD64 (and i386) is not able to recognize my diamond-max 160G SATA drives on a Supermicro 6024H-T / X6DHT-G board with the default Marvell H2 SATA ctrl'r. There are SATA drivers for RH, FC3 and Windows from Supermicro:

FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 Available

2005-09-07 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. ISO images are available for i386, amd64, pc98, alpha, powerpc, and ia64 architectures. sparc64 is still in the process of being built and will be uploaded as soon as

HEADS UP! [Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 Available]

2005-09-08 Thread Scott Long
All, It looks like I accidentally put amd64 packages onto the i386 ISO images. I'm generating new ISOs and will upload then as soon as possible. This likely explians the problems with installing X11 from the ISO. Sorry for the confusion. Scott Scott Long wrote: Announcement

Re: Panic for 6.0-BETA4 on AMD64

2005-09-16 Thread Scott Long
This is a well known problem. A fix is hopefully being worked on. Scott Slawek Zak wrote: Hi, A panic occured on tmpfs overfill. /tmp with tmpmfs was configured for 100MB size. Backtrace from debugger: db where Tracing pid 60288 tid 100299 td 0xff02c3cba980 putc() at putc+0xa9

HEADS UP! Debugging, SMP changed in RELENG_6

2005-09-17 Thread Scott Long
All, I've turned off kernel deubgging (INVARIANTS, WITNESS, KDB) and malloc debugging (the default is now 'aj) in the RELENG_6 branch in preparation for 6.0-BETA5. I've also turned off SMP in the i386 and amd64 GENERIC kernels and have added and SMP kernel config for those architectures. All of

Re: any ideas when 5.5 will be out

2005-09-19 Thread Scott Long
Paul T. Root wrote: In the past, x.0 releases are meant for the adventurous not the production oriented. I never go before x.1. And I skipped 3.x completely. I just got my final server from 4.11 to 5.4 in July. 6.x is probably still 9-12 months away from prime time. But that's just a guess on

Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52

2005-09-22 Thread Scott Long
Christoph Sold wrote: Hi All, trying to install 6-stable in a VMWare 4.5.2 WS installation, running on an 1.6 GHz Celeron CPU. After 3 hours, it still extracts scontrib into /usr/src directory. On tty 3, top tells cpio ist in vlruwk state for ages. CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4%

Re: problem with aac0 on FreeBSD 5.4 Stable#5

2005-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Sorry, but I really cannot imagine what is going on here. According to the messages, the card seems to have crashed. You're using firmware rev 7244 on it, and I can't say that I've ever been happy with the 7xxx series firmware. Would it be possible to back down to rev 6011? I believe that you

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Scott Long
Tuomo Latto wrote: Alexander S. Usov wrote: Just pointed firefox to freebsd.org and I was greeted with a new look! ... And in general, I have already heard from quite a lot of people today that the old design was quite authentic and recognizable, while the new one looks as a quite standard

FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available

2005-10-11 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The release engineering team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0. We encourage everyone to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. Availability of ISO images is given below. If you have an older system you want to

HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Long
All, Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE. Everyone that we have talked to has applauded the stability and functionality of the system, so we are really pleased and really eager to wrap it up and

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Long
Marcin Jessa wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:09:36 +0200 Felipe Alfaro Solana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE. Everyone that we have talked to has applauded the

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Long
Vladimir Sharun wrote: What about Gleb Smirnoff NFS locking leak patch ? I put it on production, everything works just fine. The question is: this patch will be merged to main source tree for 6.0-RELEASE ? Scott Long wrote: SL Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Scott Long
Felipe openglx wrote: On 10/27/05, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE. Everyone that we have talked to has applauded the stability and functionality

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-31 Thread Scott Long
Marc Olzheim wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:05:07PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Everyone is still welcome to update their sources on the RELENG_6_0 branch and provide feedback for the next 48 hours or so. The release will likely be announced by the end of the weekend or early next week

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-31 Thread Scott Long
Warner Losh wrote: The ACPI+sio problem is known. I have a motherboard with a similar problem, though a different brand than yours. I solved it by removing the ACPI attachment from the sio code. The better solution is to allow loader hints to override ACPI hints. I tried talking to John

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-11-01 Thread Scott Long
Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:33:21PM +0600, Max Khon wrote: Hi! On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:29:00PM +0100, Marc Olzheim wrote: Linking against -lthr (or even -lc_r!) instead of -lpthread solves gdb The program no longer exists. problem for me on RELENG_6. Well, yes, but

FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Scott Long
The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and SPARTA. The release engineering team for 6.0-RELEASE includes: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Release Engineering, I386 and AMD64 Release Building Ken Smith

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Scott Long
Boris Samorodov wrote: Remove CC: to current. ;-) On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:40:58 -0700 Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. [skip] Typo at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/announce.html: - Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2005

Re: FreeBSD-6 amr and ahd trouble

2005-11-16 Thread Scott Long
Joerg Pulz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I'm running an Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy RX300 dual-XEON hyperthreading enabled server with an onboard LSI MegaRAID controller and an Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 dual channel SCSI adapter. The LSI MegaRAID controller is

Re: PAE-SMP compilation problem

2005-11-22 Thread Scott Long
Goran Gajic wrote: Hi, I don't know if this is known, but when I have tried compiling PAE kernel with SMP enabled on 6.0-RELEASE I've got this mistake: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual

Re: [Fwd: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cmbat.c]

2005-11-22 Thread Scott Long
Nate Lawson wrote: Here is a patch that should fix the battery hangs on RELENG_6. It was tested to work fine, although I need testing from an affected user to verify it fixes the problem. It was committed to HEAD and will be MFCed if it fixes the problem. Thanks a lot! I'm a bit

Re: sym(4) broken on amd64 (Time to port new driver?)

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Long
Sergey N. Voronkov wrote: Looks like it is broken for a while - _sym_calloc2: failed to allocate HCB is always there... And... Looks like Gerard Roudier havn't more interest in maintaining this driver - there is the second generation of the original driver into linux source three since 2001,

Re: FreeBSD-6 amr and ahd trouble

2005-12-05 Thread Scott Long
get any kind of error messages, so I haven't had much luck in tracking it down. With help from Scott Long and John Baldwin, i have my system up and running again without problems. You should build your own kernel which should have options MUTEX_NOINLINE in the kernel configuration

Re: Boot manager beep

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Long
Thomas E. Zander wrote: Hi, just installed a fresh 6.0 on a laptop, using the standard boot manager. The problem is: The default volume of pcspeaker can't be tuned in bios or anywhere else before loading a sound driver (in this case snd_ich). This especially means the pc speaker volume is

Re: Boot manager beep

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:49:33AM -0700, Scott Long wrote.. Thomas E. Zander wrote: Hi, just installed a fresh 6.0 on a laptop, using the standard boot manager. The problem is: The default volume of pcspeaker can't be tuned in bios or anywhere else before loading a sound

Re: Boot manager beep

2005-12-10 Thread Scott Long
jonathan michaels wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Thomas E. Zander wrote: On Fri, 09. Dec 2005, at 16:00 +, David Malone wrote according to [Re: Boot manager beep]: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is highly irritating for everyone else

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: F I triggered a few reproducible panics on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. F F I created a ramdisk with: F F /sbin/mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 256M -u 10 F /sbin/newfs -U /dev/md10 F /sbin/mount

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Kevin Oberman wrote: I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an ICH2

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Jonathan Noack wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never realized

HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-15 Thread Scott Long
All, The following is the approximate schedule for FreeBSD releases in 2006: Jan 30: Freeze RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 Mar 20: Release FreeBSD 6.1 Apr 3: Release FreeBSD 5.5 Jun 12: Freeze RELENG_6 Jul 31: Release FreeBSD 6.2 Oct 23: Freeze RELENG_6 Dec 11: Release FreeBSD 6.3 A 'freeze' means

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Long
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: All, The following is the approximate schedule for FreeBSD releases in 2006: Jan 30: Freeze RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 Mar 20: Release FreeBSD 6.1 Apr 3: Release FreeBSD 5.5 Jun 12: Freeze RELENG_6 Jul 31: Release

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