Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!
Wow, spooky, I used to live at: 8716 W 70th Terr Shawnee Mission, KS 66204 Of course, that was back in the early 70's ;). Anyway, I might be able to get you a copy if you want 1. I have a spare 5.0-DP somewhere at one of my customers in Lenexa, or I could make a newer version. Unfortunately, I cannot get to my broadband connection until Thursday because I am staying with my wife at the hospital. If noone else sends you one, I will try to make one for you and mail it then. - brian On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Soeren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] > > It seems Juli Mallett wrote: > > > > Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, > > > > and an ISO image has been built from sources. > > > > > > I don't have a CD burner. I have no ability to burn a CD at all. > > > > Where do you live ? I'm sure we can find someone with a CD burner > > near you willing to make a copy and snailmail it to you... > > (Consider this a beg for anyone close enough for it to be cost > effective to send me a 5.0-CURRENT snapshot CD, on which I can > somehow disable the atkbdc/atkbd stuff at bootup, or which has > them out of the kernel...) > Juli Mallett > 11145 W 76th Terrace > Shawnee, KS 66214 > United States > > Thanks for the idea :) > juli. > -- > Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve > Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > +---+--+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://recall.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light"\ http://www.mccons.net/ +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
memory/swapping problem
I am having a problem with a new server that I am setting up to host my UseNet news and email. Machine: 1.26GHz 512MB/L1 Cache 768MB PC133 Memory 4x60GB UDMA100 IDE Drives 4x36GB 160MBit SCSI Drives OS: 5.0-CURRENT (yes I know, but I have been CURRENT since 386bsd 0.1) Software: INN 2.3.3 Sendmail w/amavisd milter ipop3d This machine has been running for about 2 months on CURRENT with no problems, but I recently upgraded the CPU from an 866 to the new one. At that time, I also planned to replace the motherboard with a new Intel SAI2 dual processor board, add a 2nd processor and drop in 3x512MB ECC Registered DIMMs. So I built and installed a more current CURRENT and added SMP to the config for my kernel. The motherboard was defective, so I put back in the original board and memory chips, while I wait for the replacement board. The 2nd night after the build was done, I started having memory/swap/wired problems. I rebuilt the kernel for UP operation, but the problems have not gone away. Machine averages about 95% idle all day except during news expiration. For the first day, it averages around 45M wired. 'inn' process is about 137MB RSS. During expiration there is an understandable spike in CPU and Swap activity. 'expire' process is about 259MB RSS. When the expiration completes there is about 254MB still wired. The second night it goes to 500+MB wired and the system never finishes expiration before I get a call that email is down. I have actually gone out and killed every process running on the machine that I can (including inetd, syslogd, cron, sshd, sendmail and inn). The wired memory is never released until I reboot the machine. Any ideas (other than going to STABLE :)? - brian +---+--+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://recall.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light"\ http://www.maxbaud.net/ +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Is Adaptec ATA Raid Supported
I am looking for a mid-range Raid solution for my database server. I hate to put down a significant chunk of change for SCSI Raid for a website that still doesn't quite pay its bills. Now for my question. I was looking at an: Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A controller card. It is a four channel ATA/100 raid controller with up to 128MB onboard cache and it support Levels 0,1,0+1 and 5. Looks real promising, but I cannot see any support for it in ata-raid.[ch]. Will the current code support this card? Or are there plans to add it in the near future? tia, - brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Buildworld problems
Actually, I was already at 5.0-CURRENT. FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT (CHINA) #7: Thu May 10 05:25:14 CDT 2001 - brian On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Please try the attached patch. I'm going to attempt to unbreak > the upgrade path from 4.1-RELEASE to 5.0-CURRENT sometimes in > the near future. > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:15:00AM -0500, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > I am having problems doing a buildworld. When I run it, I get the > > following error: > > > > cd /home/src/usr.bin/xinstall; make obj; make depend; make all; make > > install > > cc -O -pipe-I/usr/obj/home/src/i386/usr/include -static -o xinstall > > xinstall.o > > xinstall.o: In function `main': > > xinstall.o(.text+0x8f): undefined reference to `strtofflags' > > > > I checked in /usr/lib/libc.a and got: > > > > root@china (/usr/src)> nm /usr/lib/libc.a | grep strtofflags > > strtofflags.o: > > 0088 T strtofflags > > > > So I know it exists. I did a 'ranlib /usr/lib/libc.a', and also did an > > 'ar s /usr/lib/libc.a', neither seemed to help. I did an upgrade from > > install floppies to the 20010909 snapshot from current.freebsd.org, and I > > still get the same error. I was able to rebuild my kernel successfully > > after I updated, so I know the compiler and linker are mostly working. > > > > I tried to rebuild some out of date utilites (zip-5.40 upgrade to > > zip-5.42), as another experiment and I get: > > > > cc -o zip -s zip.o zipfile.o zipup.o fileio.o util.o globals.o crypt.o > > ttyio.o unix.o crc32.o crctab.o deflate.o trees.o match.o crc_i386.o > > fileio.o: In function `tempname': > > fileio.o(.text+0xc8e): warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider > > using mkstemp() > > unix.o: In function `version_local': > > unix.o(.text+0x8a2): undefined reference to `__xuname' > > > > Once again I checked with 'nm' and I got: > > > > root@china (/usr/ports/archivers/zip)> nm /usr/lib/libc.a | grep __xuname > > U __xuname > > U __xuname > > __xuname.o: > > T __xuname > > > > So it also exists. Then, out of boredom/desperation, I did: > > > > root@china (/tmp)> ar x /usr/lib/libc.a __xuname.o > > root@china (/tmp)> ar ruv /usr/lib/libc.a __xuname.o > > r - __xuname.o > > root@china (/tmp)> ranlib /usr/lib/libc.a > > > > And I still get the same results from the make in zip. > > > > > > Anybody else have another suggestion? > > -- > Ruslan ErmilovOracle Developer/DBA, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, > [EMAIL PROTECTED]FreeBSD committer, > +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.orgThe Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age > +---+--+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://recall.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light"\ http://www.maxbaud.net/ +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Buildworld problems
I am having problems doing a buildworld. When I run it, I get the following error: cd /home/src/usr.bin/xinstall; make obj; make depend; make all; make install cc -O -pipe-I/usr/obj/home/src/i386/usr/include -static -o xinstall xinstall.o xinstall.o: In function `main': xinstall.o(.text+0x8f): undefined reference to `strtofflags' I checked in /usr/lib/libc.a and got: root@china (/usr/src)> nm /usr/lib/libc.a | grep strtofflags strtofflags.o: 0088 T strtofflags So I know it exists. I did a 'ranlib /usr/lib/libc.a', and also did an 'ar s /usr/lib/libc.a', neither seemed to help. I did an upgrade from install floppies to the 20010909 snapshot from current.freebsd.org, and I still get the same error. I was able to rebuild my kernel successfully after I updated, so I know the compiler and linker are mostly working. I tried to rebuild some out of date utilites (zip-5.40 upgrade to zip-5.42), as another experiment and I get: cc -o zip -s zip.o zipfile.o zipup.o fileio.o util.o globals.o crypt.o ttyio.o unix.o crc32.o crctab.o deflate.o trees.o match.o crc_i386.o fileio.o: In function `tempname': fileio.o(.text+0xc8e): warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp() unix.o: In function `version_local': unix.o(.text+0x8a2): undefined reference to `__xuname' Once again I checked with 'nm' and I got: root@china (/usr/ports/archivers/zip)> nm /usr/lib/libc.a | grep __xuname U __xuname U __xuname __xuname.o: T __xuname So it also exists. Then, out of boredom/desperation, I did: root@china (/tmp)> ar x /usr/lib/libc.a __xuname.o root@china (/tmp)> ar ruv /usr/lib/libc.a __xuname.o r - __xuname.o root@china (/tmp)> ranlib /usr/lib/libc.a And I still get the same results from the make in zip. Anybody else have another suggestion? - brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: CURRENT instability
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:30:12AM +0100, Pascal Hofstee wrote: > > AMD K6-2 350 > > > > I noticed the vague stack smashes posting earlier ... and i think it's very > > likely this is the same bug > > Same here, random crashes -- AMD K6-2 300; no panic, no crash dump, > just a complete system freeze if you happen to use too much CPU. > I had to temporarily revert to an older kernel. Another "data point". It was happening here as well on a Pentium 200/MMX. The crash occurred, almost everytime, in a bcopy called from vm_fault according to the kernel debugger (on the rare occassions I could still use it). Whenever I couldn't use the debugger, the Instruction pointer was usually 08:. I stuck an old P-III 800MHz/PC133 machine in its place and everything has worked flawlessly since. - brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Email being rejected
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > root> I am using the standard freebsd.mc created during a buildworld. I > root> have started noticing that I am missing/rejecting a lot of emails > root> from places like: yahoogroups.com. > > It would be helpful to show the actual log message so we can determine why > it is being rejected. If it is something like: > > Mar 7 18:45:51 horsey sendmail[69643]: f282jdlg069643: ruleset=check_mail, >arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10.0.1.1], >reject=501 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain of sender address >[EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist Yes, that is it. I actually started noticing the problem in my email for the daily (nightly) run. I went to look in the maillog, however, and that is the essence of the error (I think the PID might have been different ;). > Then at the time the mail came in, yahoogroups.com was not resolvable. You > can check with: > > nslookup -q= yahoogroups.com. > nslookup -q=A yahoogroups.com. > nslookup -q=MX yahoogroups.com. I did this and it does resolve for that one, but it doesn't for an ISP that one of my clients is trying to receive an email from. I emailed the owner of the ISP who promptly informed me that you should never setup an IP for your domain name, just for things like the www..org ;). However, the MX does (and has all along) resolved for his domain. I thought sendmail would do the DNS lookup/RDNS double-check thing for the MX machine instead of the origination machine, which was why I was so confused. > root> I have been looking in the sendmail config stuff, and I have not yet > root> figured out what rule I would need to change, but I need it fixed > root> soon, customers are complaining. I think what needs to be done is > root> add a rule that says (if it is a TLD, go ahead and accept it). And, > root> yes, I realize that means I will get a lot of emails from places > root> like: akjasdkfhaskhdf.com, but a "whois" lookup would be WAY TOO > root> SLOW. > > >From /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README: > > FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) > Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session will be > refused if the host part of the argument to MAIL FROM: > cannot be located in the host name service (e.g., an A or > MX record in DNS). If you are inside a firewall that has > only a limited view of the Internet host name space, this > could cause problems. In this case you probably want to > use this feature to accept all domains on input, even if > they are unresolvable. Saw this, and didn't like the sound of it one darn bit. I am on a AT&T T1, which has been extremely reliable, and have never (that I know of) had problems resolving names unless the other persons bind or connection to the net is shakey. > ... > An ``access'' database can be created to accept or reject mail from > selected domains. For example, you may choose to reject all mail > originating from known spammers. To enable such a database, use > > FEATURE(`access_db') > ... > OK Accept mail even if other rules in the > running ruleset would reject it, for example, > if the domain name is unresolvable. Okay, just call me stupid :). I use this feature already to allow relays from/to my various domain names, reject email from spammers, etc. I can even control it directly from webmin instead of looking at all those strange rules in the .cf file. thanks, - brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Email being rejected
I am using the standard freebsd.mc created during a buildworld. I have started noticing that I am missing/rejecting a lot of emails from places like: yahoogroups.com. It is a valid domain name, and I can't imagine why I would not want to get their emails (well, actually I can, but that is beside the point :). It appears that the problem is that they do not have a machine named "yahoogroups.com". I have been looking in the sendmail config stuff, and I have not yet figured out what rule I would need to change, but I need it fixed soon, customers are complaining. I think what needs to be done is add a rule that says (if it is a TLD, go ahead and accept it). And, yes, I realize that means I will get a lot of emails from places like: akjasdkfhaskhdf.com, but a "whois" lookup would be WAY TOO SLOW. - brian +---+--+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://recall.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light"\ http://www.maxbaud.net/ +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Problem installing on T20
I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run Partition Magic and shrunk the disk to 4GB (leaving 8GB for FreeBSD). I downloaded 4.2-RELEASE and installed it on the box. Everything looked good until I tried to reboot the machine. At that point, it would show the ThinkPad Logo, tinker, then the screen would dim, the hard drive light stuck on, and the box just sat there (for 3 hours, as a test 8). The company we lease the machine from had to give me a new hard drive to fix the problem. Luckily I don't keep anything I care about on this machine. Assuming the problem was a hardware issue, I tried it again, with the same results. This time I got IBM involved, and they said that the T20 checks for data on the hard drive (kinda sounded like the CMOS was too small for all the stuff they saved between boots). From what they told me, the data is stored somewhere in those 62 sectors after the boot block, before the first partition. Okay, so I am now on my third hard drive, and I decided to try it one more time (glutton for punishment). This time I tried a 5.0 snapshot dated 2000/12/23. The install looked good, and I even got it to boot both NT and FreeBSD from the drive (in that order). After I gave FreeBSD the 3-finger salute to shut it down, the system would no longer boot. Through experimentation, I have found that I can: 1) Pull hard drive out 2) power on and wait until red error saying drive is missing 3) plug drive in hot (don't tell IBM 8) 4) boot from FreeBSD boot/root disks 5) drive works when mounted using custom install option then a holographic shell. I can even copy files to/from the hard drive across the network (okay, I am bored and desparate). Everything works except booting from the drive. Using dd|od -c, it appears that boot0 is overlapping onto the second sector (which I thought was a no-no). Also, boot1 or boot2 (I forget which now) was in sectors 3-x, and I thought those should be in the boot area of the FreeBSD partition, right? I have attempted to replace the boot record (even using a standard MBR). I finally got so frustrated that I dd'd /dev/zero into those 62 sectors in hope the IBM would assume it was a new drive and re-create the data it needed. Any ideas? - brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: kernel trap 9
Chris, Sorry, I didn't know what was needed. I have also located the problem (well, sort of). I built a GENERIC kernel, and then made incremental changes until I had my old working kernel back. The problem appears to be in the code for one of the following options: CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION I don't need these anymore (my machine figures out the clock speed when it boots without them), so I didn't try to isolate which was at fault. If people would like, I can turn these on one at a time and see which is causing it. If I remember correctly from when I last looked at the code, CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP turns on the feature and the other 2 select variations on how it is handled. brian +---+--+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://kidsearch.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light"\ http://www.maxbaud.net/ +---+--+ On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Chris Costello wrote: > On Tuesday, March 28, 2000, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > Fatal trap 9: general protection fault in kernel mode > > > >Why did you remove the vital information needed to track down > and fix the problem? > > -- > |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |A paperless office has about as much chance as a paperless bathroom. > ` > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
kernel trap 9
I am having a serious problem trying to build a new kernel for my machine. I was running 'current' and have now 'downgraded' to 4.0-RELEASE to try and fix the problem. When I try to boot my machine, it goes into the bootstrap loader okay, and waits 10 seconds, then the screen flashes and the following message pops up on the screen: kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 9: general protection fault in kernel mode processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 current process = Idle interrupt mask = net tty bio cam trap number = 9 panic: general protection fault Uptime: 0s My machine is a PIII-500 on an Asus P2B-S motherboard. I have 128MB of RAM and 2 Video Cards installed. I am using using a 'dc0' type NIC. I suspect the problem is in the build process (or some residual flag), because I can boot kernel.GENERIC from the 4.0-RELEASE without a hitch. If someone would be interested in giving me a hand with this, I would be happy to send them my config files, &etc. brian +---+--+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://kidsearch.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light"\ http://www.maxbaud.net/ +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
