Hi. I just described the steps I took to solve the crashing servers. There might be other ways, but I described how I did and shared it with the rest of the community, since noone else have reported anything else.
I upgraded to the latest FreeBSD in the stable branch (RELENG_7) to get as much of the 2.6.16 work into the system. There have been a lot of work going on since 7.0-RELEASE. Atm RELENG_7 gives FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE. You could try with linux_base-f8 which is the supported version for 2.6.16. But I dont want 10 dependencies extra on my system just to be able to unpack the linux_base. With this setup I dont need any extra packages. The linux_base-gentoo-stage3 in ports is at 2006.X and is quite old. So I just took the latest one I could find. Hopefully there have been some fixes in the gentoo linux during the last two years. I also do some extra steps that is not done in the port. I rarely have any problems on upgrading the system remotely. There are some things you need to look out for. Like: - Dont use bash (or other 3rd party shells) as default login shell for your user and root. They might point to a library that is not working anymore. - In fstab. Comment out everything that is target to linux. I have removed linux_base and at boot it tries to mount linprocfs. - To be safe. Comment out all extra services you start from rc.conf. We want the system to boot up so we can login with ssh. On our game system we only have sshd in addition to the actual game server binary. I have been upgrading FreeBSD remotely for over 10 years and almost never encountered any problem. At work I can always connect through ILO to get them up and running. I dont have that luxury on the game servers. /Bjorn On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Joseph Love wrote: > So, was the big thing just to upgrade to 7.1-prerelease? Or was the > port version of the gentoo build also part of the problem? > > Everything else you've mentioned seems to be simply what you'd need to > go through just to get the sucker to run in the first place. > > -Joe > > On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:59 AM, kama wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I have now healthy servers again on FreeBSD without crashes. The > > testserver, where I dont restart hlds every morning, have over 24 > > hours of > > uptime. > > > > This are the steps I have done. Upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE. > > Use the > > 2.6.16 kernel linux ABI instead of the default 2.4.2 kernel linux > > ABI. Use > > an more up-to-date version of linux_base. I use gentoo 2008.0, I > > prefer it > > over fedora8, due to the amount of dependencies that are needed. I > > have not tested to see if fedora8 works. > > > > Since I had several servers running hlds, I wrote up a install > > script that > > configure, fetches, unpack and setup the linux_base. > > > > I have the script available here: > > ftp://fa1.pvp.se/freebsd/install_gentoo_2008_2.6.16.bash > > ftp://fa2.pvp.se/freebsd/install_gentoo_2008_2.6.16.bash > > > > The script does more or less what the port does. I started to > > rewrite the > > Makefile to update the port, but it took longer than write this script > > since I am not familiar to write the Makefiles for ports. > > > > Just run the script after you have updated FreeBSD and removed the old > > linux_base. > > > > On top of not getting the server to crash, the server seems to run > > more > > smoothly. Like less choke. > > > > Enjoy! > > > > /Bjorn > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
