Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:47:29PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: I've done serial console redirection before but this laptop has no serial port. Can I get console redirection via firewire? Can you point me at some docs? Check out http://wiki.freebsd.org/DebugWithDcons Brix -- Henrik Brix

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Doug Poland
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-06 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:48:35 +1100 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much everytime I'm getting a lockup, i'm either streaming music from my music box or on a skype call. Not much to go by, but there isn't any logs left at all of the crash. It is not a panic (no writing dump to

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the machine and it appears the box ceases to communicate on SSH. A couple

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Karol Mroz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the machine and it appears

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:07:46PM -0800, Karol Mroz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:09 -0600 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the machine and it

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:48:35 +1100 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But i still get the occasional lockup. I have a feeling it is related to using the sound card : $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: Intel 82801F High

Re: 7.0-BETA1 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose?

2007-11-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:48:35PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:09 -0600 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 freezing. There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages,

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-31 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/30/07, Mike Pumford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Previously I didn't mention that there are some functions missing from the FreeBSD's NDIS api. These are: With the help of NDIS reference and Linux ndiswrapper I have been able to implement all

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-31 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Pumford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:56:58 AM Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it was -current. I

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Pumford
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Previously I didn't mention that there are some functions missing from the FreeBSD's NDIS api. These are: With the help of NDIS reference and Linux ndiswrapper I have been able to implement all but KeBugCheckEx (they are all rather simple but I Can help

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it was -current. I have been updating at

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ uname -a

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
Robert Marella wrote: It is looking like a hardware problem. I update portmaster to 1.24 and it didn't help. When I tried with the -B option it froze in a different place. I then csup the latest source rm'd /usr/obj and attempted a buildworld. Lo and behold it froze up. It has been very

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Luis Neves
Yuri Lukin wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote FWIW, I have a T61 (not the p version) with 7.0-PRERELEASE from Oct 15th and have an integrated IBM miniPCI card that uses the ath driver without any problems: ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112,

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Yuri Lukin
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote Hi all. So far I've failed to have a working wireless connection with this combination. There are no FreeBSD drivers for the included intel 4965AG card. I've tried to use the ndiswrapper framework without success. The ndisgen wizard

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Yousif Hassan
There are no FreeBSD drivers for the included intel 4965AG card. I've tried to use the ndiswrapper framework without success. The ndisgen wizard runs without issues, but kldloading the driver freezes and reboots the machine. This occurs if the Windows driver contains function calls that

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Luis Neves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:24:40 PM Subject: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure Hi all. So far I've failed to have a working wireless connection

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-26 Thread Yuri Lukin
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:34:12 +0100, Luis Neves wrote ath card [EMAIL PROTECTED]:22:0:0: class=0x02 card=0xcb2114b9 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter' class =

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-25 Thread Wayne Chapeskie
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:21 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: The 7.0-BETA1 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use I've been doing some install testing of the 7.0-BETA1 i386 ISO's, and have found a small glitch or

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Wayne Chapeskie wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:21 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: The 7.0-BETA1 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use I've been doing some install testing of the 7.0-BETA1 i386 ISO's, and

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: rihad wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. We've used 7-CURRENT since January on a couple of production boxes and had very

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread rihad
Greg Byshenk wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: rihad wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. We've used 7-CURRENT since January on a couple of production

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:00:42PM +0500, rihad wrote: rihad wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. My question was more a theoretical one: it's called BETA for some reason, otherwise it'd

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
rihad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question was more a theoretical one: it's called BETA for some reason, otherwise it'd still be in HEAD. To me BETA means that no major architectural changes are expected in it any more, no? That's correct. In theory, if BETA had no bugs (and no new ones

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-24 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:21 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle which also means the beginning of the FreeBSD-6.3 Release cycle. Because the people who support the ports for FreeBSD also need to go through a freeze cycle as part of

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-23 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Ken Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:21:00 AM Subject: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon... We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle which also

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-23 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:57:52 +0200, rihad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. BTW, where can I find 7-STABLE release notes? It's not here: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html

Re: 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-23 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
rihad wrote: How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks. We've used 7-CURRENT since January on a couple of production boxes and had very few disasters, well, none, but a couple of issues. Risky is a relative