Re: munin related

2013-10-08 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 19:57+0200, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: Yep killing nscd help me to get out of this trouble. I have long suspected nscd to reinitialise the timers whenever an entry is requested while still held in the cache, be it a positive or a negative result. As such the only reasonable

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
Thanks very much. Please could I make a suggestion that this be included in the handbook page? On 8 Oct 2013 01:31, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup

mpt problem on a Supermicro motherboard (FreeBSD 9.2 amd64)

2013-10-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, I have several Supermicro-based servers with the mpt RAID adapter: # mptutil show adapter mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: UNUSED Board Assembly: Chip Name: C1068E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: none # The problem is, I cannot configure any RAIDs (please see

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On 5 October 2013, at 05:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon

Re: NAT: Handbook vs mailing list

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: [snip] The mailing list message linked above suggests that the handbook information is the old way and that the correct way is to set ipfw_enable and natd_enable in rc.conf. Then /etc/rc.d/ipfw will load ipfw.ko, and if natd_enable is set, will invoke /etc/rc.d/natd,

install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have prepared a boot-able USB-key (to be exactly a disk image of it) the usual way: # dd if=/dev/zero of=da0 bs=8m count=1868 # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f da0 md0 # fdisk -I md0 # fdisk -B md0 # bsdlabel -w md0s1 auto # bsdlabel -B md0s1 # bsdlabel -e md0s1 # edit the disk label and

Re: munin related

2013-10-08 Thread Laszlo Danielisz
Not a bad idea. From: Mark Felder f...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, October 7, 2013 8:35 PM Subject: Re: munin related On Mon, Oct 7, 2013, at 12:57, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: Dear Dan, Yep killing nscd help me to get out

Re: munin related

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 1:15, Trond Endrestøl wrote: On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 19:57+0200, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: Yep killing nscd help me to get out of this trouble. I have long suspected nscd to reinitialise the timers whenever an entry is requested while still held in the cache, be it a

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image in /mnt. What would be the best method for this? Run pkg_add with the flag --chroot chrootdir, or use chroot(8) directly? Or any other idea? Thanks in advance All

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 07:58:06AM -0500, Mark Felder escribió: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image in /mnt. What would be the best method for this? Run pkg_add with the flag --chroot

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 8:07, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 07:58:06AM -0500, Mark Felder escribió: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image in /mnt. What would be the

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread dweimer
On 10/08/2013 4:27 am, Doug Hardie wrote: On 5 October 2013, at 05:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 08:12:31AM -0500, Mark Felder escribió: No. The r255948 was built on a clean, empty environment but with $ cat /etc/src.conf WITH_PKGTOOLS=yes Ok, I won't question your needs for pkg_* as you seem to be aware of what you're doing :-) When

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
Use PACKAGESITE=http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest That's the kit that will form the official FreeBSD package repository; it just lacks the crypto bits for signing the packages, which is why it's calling itself 'pkg-test' Oh -- there isn't an A record in the DNS for

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 10:58, Zoran Kolic wrote: Use PACKAGESITE=http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest That's the kit that will form the official FreeBSD package repository; it just lacks the crypto bits for signing the packages, which is why it's calling itself 'pkg-test'

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
Yeah!!! 96.47.72.120 works! Thanks! Depends. Where are your other installed packages from? I'd probably re-install all of them from the pkg-test repository just to be safe. I installed 9.1 on new node and compiled from ports. It took a long time, which I want to avoid right now. Here is what I

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On 8 October 2013, at 06:22, dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: On 10/08/2013 4:27 am, Doug Hardie wrote: On 5 October 2013, at 05:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
This is actually trickier than it first looked. First I got into single user mode by supplying 'shutdown now', but the tunefs commands all failed with the following: #tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0s1a Clearing journal flags from inode 4 tunefs: Failed to write journal inode: Operation not permitted

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
I On 8 October 2013 01:31, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: This is actually trickier than it first looked. First I got into single user mode by supplying 'shutdown now', but the tunefs commands all failed with the following: #tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0s1a Clearing journal flags from inode 4 tunefs: Failed to

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
# gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for this method. So the only thing in

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread cary
Doug Hardie wrote: The Thick Plottens… I received the drives and installed them on a working system. The failed system is structured with a single partition for the system and another for swap. For some unknown reason, the BIOS got left configured to boot the extra disk if its powered up.

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Thanks very much. Please could I make a suggestion that this be included in the handbook page? Please do not top-post, it makes replies more difficult. I have added a warning about SUJ to the top of the gmirror section in the Handbook.

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: # gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Powell
Andy Zammy wrote: # gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for this method.

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:20:40 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I tried downloading the src with: svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/9.2 /mnt/usr/src I didn't get Release 9.2. The first entry in UPDATING is: 20130705: hastctl(8)'s `status' command output changed to terse

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread cary
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:20:40 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I tried downloading the src with: svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/9.2 /mnt/usr/src I didn't get Release 9.2. The first entry in UPDATING is: 20130705: hastctl(8)'s `status' command output

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
I tried creating the mirror before the install. As the drives are now mirrored, the installer picked up on the face that there are two gm0 nodes - one on each hard drive. I installed onto ada0's gm0 node. After it reboots, the bootloader stops at the manual prompt. From what I can see that's not

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Brown
alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # can I take it all the way to -p12?

Geli and ZFS

2013-10-08 Thread yudi v
* * -- There are few different ways to set-up geli with ZFS. I just want to get some opinions (benefits and disadvantages) about the below two options *First option*: (most commonly encountered set-up) Have geli on the block device and ZFS on top of the geli