Re: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var...
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:26:56PM -0400, B. Cook wrote: [/etc/defaults]# 2 grep dumpdev * rc.conf:dumpdev=AUTO # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or NO). rc.conf:savecore_flags= # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present. Those are the defaults. Do you have anything in /etc/rc.conf? NB: don't edit /etc/defaults/rc.conf! I will set it to NO and try rebooting it. Would AUTO cause it to write to the same fs that has the crash? It is supposed to use a swap partition. What does this mean? Other than the obvious.. is there something useful that I could glean from vmcore.15 ? Run the core files through kgdb(1), and see where the crash ocurred. Does it always occur in the same spot? [/var/crash]# 22 cat info.15 Dump header from device /dev/mirror/gm0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 177184768B (168 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Thu Aug 13 09:14:44 2009 Hostname: gameface Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Wed May 20 16:56:48 EDT 2009 r...@gameface:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERICplus Panic String: ufs_dirbad: /var: bad dir ino 3485849 at offset 3584: mangled entry Dump Parity: 2197692492 Bounds: 15 Dump Status: good Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpTy7Gl6NS55.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: boot sector f*ed
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, PJ wrote: Subject: Re: boot sector f*ed Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:54:31PM -0400, PJ wrote: Well, I've been looking at the disk(s) and I have found some interesting shei**e that doesn't make sense. 1. The fbsd minimal installation that I had set up for recovery of the previous crash does not boot... Now, why in Hades is that? I hadn't touched the disk since last using it to look at the corrupted disk through an usb connection. The current crashed installetion was done afterwards and the only change was in the bios to set the boot disk to the new installation. The installation was finally completed with all the programs working fine... and then BOOM! 2. I tried booting from all the disks on the machine (4 disks) and only the current crashed one booted!... so, it's not the boot sector at all... something is screwy on this machine; either the motherboard is buggered (which I doubt, but not entirely), the disks are finished or theres some kind of gremlin lurking in the confines of the box. This sounds more and more like hardware troubles. Indeed it does, more and more since. A few things to check (in order of decreasing likelyness IMHO): - Cables to the harddisks: Make sure they are properly connected. A machine of mine suddenly started getting disk read errors after I put in another graphics card. It turned out that the SATA connector to that drive had come partially loose. - Powersupply: check the voltages (preferably under load) with a monitoring app like mbmon. If that's not possible, check in the BIOS. A failing powersupply can give weird unreproducable errors. If you have ever heard a popping noise from the machine it could be a short in the powersupply caused by dust. I've seen that fry motherboards. - PCI cards: check that they are seated properly. Although in this case I'd say this seems the least likely. I usually bet first on the power supply .. but it's not my money :) I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: Chomping heavily; some useful background but a bit much, no disrespect. machine. The troubles began when I tried to install flashplayer on the 7.1 machine. Or could be a hardware issue that became evident around the same time? bash4 and fluxbox for X. Everything seemed to work fine. I ran all the programs and saw that all the files I had recovered from the crash were recovered and working. Man, was I ever happy! I shut down for the night and looked forward to getting bask to normal development of my current projects. In the morning, I boot up and WHAM!... the system is f**cked. And so am I. Have you tried swapping the power supply? I assume you've swapped the cables, removed cleaned and replaced cards, checked CPU temperature etc? Now, the problem is that it is imperative to be able to figure out what exactly is going on. Well, the problem with that is that I do not seem to be in a position to do what is required. For one thing, I do not know how I can save testing output to an external file when I am working on a temporary shell on the problem machine. Perhaps you could indicate what I should be doing or where to look for information. Steve Bertrand has most recently addressed those issues, good advice, especially don't panic :) Another problem is rather a strange quirk or I don't know what - The problems I am having are on two very similar machines: 1 is a MSI 6758 875P NeoFisr motherboard running on a Pentium 3.0ghz CPU; the other is the identical board with a Pentium 2.4ghz CPU. The strange thing is that even with identical bios, the bios does not act the same on both machines. The final install that was so promising was on the 2.4 ghz machine. Except for being somewhat slower (I find it rather slow compared to the the 3ghz, but maybe that's normal) it always worked without problems. Have you tried putting the HD from the problem 2.4GHz machine in the 3GHz box, to see if it behaves properly there? Have you tried running various hardware diagnostic programs over the flakey box? Overnight memtesting can reveal other problems even if memory is fine. There are quite a few diagnostic CDs around; some boot some Linux, some DOS even, it doesn't really matter if they can prove/disprove the hardware. anyway - I tried booting a minimal installation on the 2.4ghz machine from a disk that was set up before the crashed disk was installed and that boot did not work... there was no reason for it to not work... all Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? All that I am seeing is that there is either a problem with the bios (which I even reinstalled and that changed
Re: boot sector f*ed
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:41:48 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? I could guess defective RAM here... I suggest running memtest for some hours, just to be sure. It's really a bad situation when you're searching for a software problem when there's none, instead it is explainable by a hardware problem. Sometimes, quite often in fact, I've found just disassembling, thorough cleaning, fresh heatsink paste maybe, and reassembly solves many issues, without ever knowing what exactly did the trick. Life's like that .. This is called doing nothing. :-) From my own experience, if sometimes really works. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re[2]: Kernel panic
Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 12 августа 2009 г., 19:59:39: MF On Wednesday 12 August 2009 08:01:07 Коньков Евгений wrote: Aug 12 15:59:08 host savecore: reboot after panic: integer divide fault Aug 12 15:59:08 host savecore: writing core to vmcore.4 How to obtain which process cause system to reboot? MF kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.4 kes# kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.4 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd... Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (kgdb) -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A
Try the following options in your Device section: Option AccelMethod EXA Option MigrationHeuristicgreedy On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I installed 7.2 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A305 SP6926A and it looks like Xorg is too slow on this machine. Does anyone have this notebook, can share its xorg.conf? uname -a FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun 7 10:23:49 UTC 2009 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 /etc/rc.conf keymap=spanish.iso.acc sshd_enable=YES # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Aug 13 12:05:46 2009 ifconfig_re0=DHCP hostname=toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES xorg.conf Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load dri2 Load extmod Load glx Load record EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelName Monitor Model EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option ColorKey # i #Option CacheLines # i #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] Option DRI # [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces # i #Option PageFlip # [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver intel VendorName Intel Corporation BoardName Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.conf Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a solution. Is the solution given safe? Should I open a PR? Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Managing encrypted disks
[snip] What I'd like to know, is if it's possible to somehow check to see if there are any GELI 'attach'ed disks on a given system that have not yet been mounted (or, iow, were umount'd, but were left attached). #dmesg doesn't say much in this regard, and I couldn't find out by listing /dev either. Any tricks to find out what GELI knows? I want to automate everything except the insertion of the keys, which will always be manual. Knowing how to identify what is attached but not mounted would be a good start. [/snip] Steve, If there are no /dev/*.eli devices listed, then there are no geli providers attached. You can also check the output of the 'geli list' and 'geli status' commands. If they return nothing, no providers are attached, otherwise they'll list the providers and algorithms/key sizes used and so forth. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: boot sector f*ed
Ian Smith wrote: [snip] Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? All that I am seeing is that there is either a problem with the bios (which I even reinstalled and that changed nothing in the functioning) or something is going on with the OS. After you've thoroughly proven the hardware is AOK under sustained and varied pressure, then you can suspect software issues - which tend to be far more consistent and repeatable - but if the hardware's acting flakey then you likely won't see any consistency in software issues, which does seem to concur with your descriptions to date. In my experience, hardware problems can quite possibly show little pattern to where and when in the usage of said machine they cause the box to flake. One that is malfunctioning all the time is relatively easy to find. The intermittent is the bane of all troubleshooting. I hate the intermittent more than I hate anything. One pattern an intermittent will show is eventually as the bad part gets worse the period between flakes will get shorter, and ultimately at some point die completely. Initially the period can be quite large so proper troubleshooting is difficult as you can't troubleshoot during the 'in between' when it's not malfunctioning. I also have an 80/20 rule about hardware as to whether it is a hot or cold failure. The 80% part is that most hardware problems occur when very dense VLSI chips heat up. So a machine may not show any problem until it's been powered up for a while. The other 20% is the cold start. Turn the box on and there is immediately some kind of problem early on in the course of booting. Leave it powered on, walk away for 20 minutes to get a coffee, and reset it after it's had a chance to warm up and now it works fine the rest of the day. These patterns are indicative of a typical pattern in hardware trouble behavior. A software error, on the other hand, most of the time shows itself as a well defined repeatable sequence of steps that cause the problem every time the sequence is executed. This can also usually be easily reproduced by others running the same, or similar enough, platform(s) by executing said sequence. This can get quite sticky as even the BIOS code is software! Bad buggy BIOS code having a bad reaction to the compiled boot loader binary, even though probably quite rare, is not totally outside the realm of possibility. Somewhere very near the root of the geometric logic tree of troubleshooting you need to be able to drive a wedge between hardware and software in a divide and conquer kind of way. Making any arbitrary assumptions as to which side is the problem early on will blind the troubleshooter to avenues of hypothesis this and test that. Assume that the hardware is 100% OK so it must be a software problem without proof is a mistake, and vice versa. And it might be as simple as installing another OS such as a Linux distro or Windows to the box. If it is truly a hardware problem it may continue to malfunction and cause trouble no matter what the choice of OS. Or it may not, as sometimes buggy hardware design failures are compensated for with workarounds in drivers, thus hiding the flaw. It's the old 'have a insert brand name box with xyz hardware' with a known problem and the fix is to download and install insert brand name driver revision such and such from the OEM. Since these kinds of things are not generally propagated far and wide an OS such as FreeBSD may not be privy to such bad hardware details. Sometimes the developers do incorporate hacks for hardware. If you can accurately identify such a situation the most likely way to get it fixed for the long run is to file a proper PR. If done well enough and it catches the eye of a dev who may be interested and actually possess the piece of hardware a workaround may get coded and become a part of FreeBSD. Just a lot of generalizations here. As always, there is the YMMV clause. :-) [snip] -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?
Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support it. Was I dreaming? (Forgot to send this reply to the list the first time, not just the OP.) No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions. [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=174501 Indeed and from http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html (a reasonably complete list of whats comming in 8.0) it says bsdlabel gets extended to 26 partitions Status: Committed to -CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Author: Marcel Moolenaar web: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-December/084949.html bsdlabel is (finally!) extended to support more than 8 partitions. The new limit of 26 partitions comes from the number of lower-case letters. To make use of this change, GEOM_PART needs to be used instead of GEOM_BSD (this requires custom kernel configurations). Vince -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) m...@kolybabi.com () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.conf Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a solution. What's the output of the command ldd `which su` ? Is the solution given safe? Should I open a PR? Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A
Thanks George, that worked!. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com --- On Fri, 8/14/09, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote: From: George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A To: Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 4:13 AM Try the following options in your Device section: Option AccelMethod EXA Option MigrationHeuristic greedy On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I installed 7.2 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A305 SP6926A and it looks like Xorg is too slow on this machine. Does anyone have this notebook, can share its xorg.conf? uname -a FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun 7 10:23:49 UTC 2009 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 /etc/rc.conf keymap=spanish.iso.acc sshd_enable=YES # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Aug 13 12:05:46 2009 ifconfig_re0=DHCP hostname=toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES xorg.conf Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load dri2 Load extmod Load glx Load record EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelName Monitor Model EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option ColorKey # i #Option CacheLines # i #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] Option DRI # [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces # i #Option PageFlip # [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver intel VendorName Intel Corporation BoardName Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.conf Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a solution. What's the output of the command ldd `which su` ? Is the solution given safe? Should I open a PR? Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
There are also some interesting responses in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc about this (I opened a thread there too). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) That's normal. Shall I take a guess? You changed root's shell to bash! bash uses libintl, and will be invoked by the su -m $ppp_user in /etc/rc.d/ppp Yet another good reason not to change root's default shell :D cheers, Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.conf Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a solution. What's the output of the command ldd `which su` ? Is the solution given safe? Should I open a PR? Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) That's normal. Shall I take a guess? You changed root's shell to bash! bash uses libintl, and will be invoked by the su -m $ppp_user in /etc/rc.d/ppp Yet another good reason not to change root's default shell :D cheers, Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.conf Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a solution. What's the output of the command ldd `which su` ? Is the solution given safe? Should I open a PR? Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
More on Toshiba A305 SP6926A
A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness contrast. This machine has this control in Windows by clicking the [FN Key]+F6/F7. Does anyone knows how to enable this in FreeBsd? Thanks in advance, Leonardo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Definately. before ldconfig is run, only the system libraries in /lib and /usr/lib are known. Doing a su -m root at that time, as /etc/rc.d/ppp is doing, will result in the error message you got, as bash wants to load libintl.so.8, which lives in /usr/local/lib. Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) That's normal. Shall I take a guess? You changed root's shell to bash! bash uses libintl, and will be invoked by the su -m $ppp_user in /etc/rc.d/ppp Yet another good reason not to change root's default shell :D cheers, Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.conf Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a solution. What's the output of the command ldd `which su` ? Is the solution given safe? Should I open a PR? Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?
On Fri, August 14, 2009 05:47, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support it. Was I dreaming? No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions. [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=174501 Indeed and from http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html (a reasonably complete list of whats comming in 8.0) it says bsdlabel gets extended to 26 partitions Status: Committed to -CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Author: Marcel Moolenaar web: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-December/084949.html bsdlabel is (finally!) extended to support more than 8 partitions. The new limit of 26 partitions comes from the number of lower-case letters. To make use of this change, GEOM_PART needs to be used instead of GEOM_BSD (this requires custom kernel configurations). Ah, Ivan's site, that's where I saw it. Thank you. Kinda surprised it didn't turn up on a google search. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)
Thank you Ruben :-) :-) I wouldn't have thought in a million years that could be the issue, but what you have said makes perfect sense. Looks like its back to /bin/sh for root. Cheers, Alex. Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Definately. before ldconfig is run, only the system libraries in /lib and /usr/lib are known. Doing a su -m root at that time, as /etc/rc.d/ppp is doing, will result in the error message you got, as bash wants to load libintl.so.8, which lives in /usr/local/lib. Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) That's normal. Shall I take a guess? You changed root's shell to bash! bash uses libintl, and will be invoked by the su -m $ppp_user in /etc/rc.d/ppp Yet another good reason not to change root's default shell :D cheers, Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.conf Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a solution. What's the output of the command ldd `which su` ? Is the solution given safe? Should I open a PR? Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:48 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot partitions in the installer. No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you need to bootstrap a system. ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you need to bootstrap a system. That's a silly answer. The way to get more people to use FreeBSD is to make the installation process as easy and complete as possible. If bootstrapping a system using the livefs file system is possible, then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be built into the installer. Yes, a higher-level sysadmin can do it...but the vast majority of people who administer servers for a living are not higher-level sysadmins. Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you need to bootstrap a system. That's a silly answer. The way to get more people to use FreeBSD is to make the installation process as easy and complete as possible. If bootstrapping a system using the livefs file system is possible, then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be built into the installer. Yes, a higher-level sysadmin can do it...but the vast majority of people who administer servers for a living are not higher-level sysadmins. And those who are unfamiliar with a system will likely use the default filesystem an OS provides. That's UFS2 for most people. Especially since ZFS is still considered experimental, I find it unreasonable to have the installer support something that isn't considered permanent. Also, since ZFS is a hog when it comes to system resources, works best on amd64, and many other factors/tuning, you expect this all to be available if someone wants to install to an embedded firewall? Or to some little special purpose system? I don't use ZFS, UFS2 works fine for me. I would find it ridiculous to see ZFS support in the installer, but all GEOM should be supported. Especially the raid3 and mirror. I think you're expecting the world... Maybe a check is in order. Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:58 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be built into the installer. With a few machines, yes. Once you get to 5 or 6, start building your own custom internal ISOs, and maintain your configuration templates in SVN or use Puppet. I make the suggestions because you're asking about an advanced topic, so I gave you an honest answer. ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
I'm responding to two people's comments here in one response. :) From: Brian A. Seklecki sekle...@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us I make the suggestions because you're asking about an advanced topic, so I gave you an honest answer. Honest answers are appreciated. :) I'm not saying that the way you suggested was invalid, just that there ought to be an easier way. From: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com And those who are unfamiliar with a system will likely use the default filesystem an OS provides. That's UFS2 for most people. For most people, yes. Most people don't need to be able to install FreeBSD over a serial cable or parallel cable, but those options are included in the installer. From: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com Also, since ZFS is a hog when it comes to system resources, works best on amd64, and many other factors/tuning, you expect this all to be available if someone wants to install to an embedded firewall? Or to some little special purpose system? It already is available to everyone...it's just harder to install than it ought to be. A firewall probably doesn't need X11, but that's included in the installer. From: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com I don't use ZFS, UFS2 works fine for me. I would find it ridiculous to see ZFS support in the installer, but all GEOM should be supported. Especially the raid3 and mirror. So, you like the idea of including RAID3 and mirror because that suits your needs, but my desire to see ZFS support is unreasonable because you don't have a need for ZFS? Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A question for developers
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune to my liking. (But first, put the following line into your .vimrc : map F12 :syntax on CR :so ~/syntax.vim CR Then after starting gvim, press F12. That's the wat I do it.) ~/syntax.vim contents : hi Cursor guifg=white guibg=black hi Identifier guifg=black gui=bold hi NonText guibg=grey72 black hi Normal guifg=black hi Statement guifg=black hi shFunction guifg=black gui=bold grey30 hi Comment guifg=grey30 hi shCommandSub guifg=grey30 gui=bold red hi Constant guifg=red hi Directory guifg=red hi cFormat guifg=red gui=bold light-brown hi shSpecial guifg=#b07030 hi SpecialKey guifg=#b07030 hi shOption guifg=#b07030 hi shCase guifg=#b07030 green hi Special guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shExprRegion guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi PreProc guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi Statement guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi Repeat guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shRepeat guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shConditional guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shStatement guifg=#007700 gui=bold deep-blue hi Type guifg=#99 gui=bold hi shShellVariables guifg=#99 hi shVariable guifg=#99 muddy brown hi String guifg=#dd4400 hi shString guifg=#dd4400 black on yellow hi IncSearch guibg=yellow guifg=black hi Search guibg=yellow guifg=black hi Question guibg=yellow guifg=black other hi Operator guifg=#0088ee gui=bold blue hi shOperator guifg=#0088ee gui=bold hi StorageClass guifg=#bb0099 gui=bold purplish hi SpecialChar guifg=#00aa88 gui=bold greenish cyan -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
Jason Garrett wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:48, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some how-to documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the impression I got is that support for ZFS partitions is coming to the installer in perhaps 7.3 or 8.0, and I wanted to confirm or dispel that myth before I go forward using the hacky method. I wouldn't recommend using zfs at all right now, unless you want random crashes and lots of missing data.. ESPECIALLY in 8.0,1,2 versions. Do you have significant, long-term experience with random crashes and lots of missing data? I have nothing but good things to say about ZFS. I've been using it since 7.0, and one box in particular is put under extreme duress doing network backups daily. Since originally tuned, it has been just as stable as any other box we own. This particular box is configured as Tim's is in another post he wrote (7.2, RAIDZ, boot from UFS flash), and writes at ~160MBps for 6-8 consecutive hours per day. What I would recommend is if you go with -CURRENT and boot from ZFS on a box going into production, ensure that you have very up-to-date backups, stored in a method in which you could very quickly replicate onto another box in case of emergency. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
bwi driver
I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170 I installed them and loaded them. However pciconf -lv|grep bwi produces no output and ifconfig does not mention any wireless cards. What should I try now? -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: From: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com I don't use ZFS, UFS2 works fine for me. I would find it ridiculous to see ZFS support in the installer, but all GEOM should be supported. Especially the raid3 and mirror. So, you like the idea of including RAID3 and mirror because that suits your needs, but my desire to see ZFS support is unreasonable because you don't have a need for ZFS? Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental. When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect ZFS support in the installer in the same expectation I am expecting graid3 and gmirror to be. It's all about the status of ZFS itself, rather than the fact that it works. Does this paint a better picture to you of what I forgot to clarify in my original posting? Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bwi driver
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:41 +, Eitan Adler wrote: I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: If the driver didn't attach because IBM chose some exotic OEM PCI ID, then the grep wont find it. You really should post the full pciconf(8) and dmesg(8) for us, as well as kldstat(8) -v. uname(1) -a would also be helpful. ~BAS However pciconf -lv|grep bwi produces no output and ifconfig does not mention any wireless cards. What should I try now? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bwi driver
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adlereitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170 I installed them and loaded them. However pciconf -lv|grep bwi produces no output and ifconfig does not mention any wireless cards. What should I try now? man iwconfig man lspci -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental. When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect ZFS support in the installer in the same expectation I am expecting graid3 and gmirror to be. It's all about the status of ZFS itself, rather than the fact that it works. Your point is also valid. However, our experience with ZFS on the boxes that we have installed it has been nothing but positive since about 7.2, and Steve Bertrand has also posted that his experiences have been nothing but positive. I know that ZFS on FreeBSD hasn't gotten a stable rating yet, but it appears to be approaching that level and I don't think putting it in the installer (and perhaps marking it as beta) so that more people could test it and give feedback about bugs and their experiences would be a bad thing. To be clear, ZFS itself is indeed stable - our Solaris file servers are running it in multi-terabyte configurations on servers that get pounded to the order of nearly saturating a 1GB LAN link. ZFS is the only file system in our experience that has suffered no data losses in arrays with more than one terabyte (knock on wood). All other file systems have failed disastrously for us in multi-terabyte configurations. So what you're talking about is not the stability of ZFS itself, but the port of ZFS on FreeBSD. Does this paint a better picture to you of what I forgot to clarify in my original posting? Yes, clarity is key. Thanks! :) Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental. When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect ZFS support in the installer in the same expectation I am expecting graid3 and gmirror to be. It's all about the status of ZFS itself, rather than the fact that it works. Your point is also valid. However, our experience with ZFS on the boxes that we have installed it has been nothing but positive since about 7.2, and Steve Bertrand has also posted that his experiences have been nothing but positive. I know that ZFS on FreeBSD hasn't gotten a stable rating yet, but it appears to be approaching that level and I don't think putting it in the installer (and perhaps marking it as beta) so that more people could test it and give feedback about bugs and their experiences would be a bad thing. To be clear, ZFS itself is indeed stable - our Solaris file servers are running it in multi-terabyte configurations on servers that get pounded to the order of nearly saturating a 1GB LAN link. ZFS is the only file system in our experience that has suffered no data losses in arrays with more than one terabyte (knock on wood). All other file systems have failed disastrously for us in multi-terabyte configurations. So what you're talking about is not the stability of ZFS itself, but the port of ZFS on FreeBSD. Exactly. I've used ZFS once, on the box that could benefit from it most. It's a Dell PowerVault 715n NAS, which runs BSD very solid. i386 Pentium 3 @1GHZ, and 1GB RAM. This is back on 7.0 days, and I haven't run it since. I didn't loose any data, because the data on the ZFS was unimportant data that could be lost. It did freak out and panic when I was copying an ISO to/from it. I know that somewhere in 7.2 there was some tuning recommendations on i386, and that 8.0 has an updated version of ZFS that I will run again to try it out. I don't have any amd64 (none!) systems, so this box has to be tortured to be able to even experiment with ZFS. Does this paint a better picture to you of what I forgot to clarify in my original posting? Yes, clarity is key. Thanks! :) Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A question for developers
Manish Jain wrote: Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune to my liking. Thanks much for the info Manish! The best I can tell, your colour scheme file is for GUI. Is this correct? (it doesn't change my console to your colour scheme... it remains default when I enable syntax). With that said, I can tell that what you provided me with is much better than the default. I'll play around this afternoon and see what I can come up with. Cheers! Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: bwi driver
On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bwi driver
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. Ah . . . sorry, got mixed up with mailing lists. Thanks for correcting me! -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bwi driver
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Neal Hogannealho...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. Ah . . . sorry, got mixed up with mailing lists. Thanks for correcting me! BTW - The same goes for iwconfig -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bwi driver
You really should post the full pciconf(8) and dmesg(8) for us, as well as kldstat(8) -v. http://pastebin.com/f368e0550 http://pastebin.com/f7d5f883d http://pastebin.com/f7500570e http://pastebin.com/f606e2c81 -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem
Hi all, I'm trying to get my CD drive to work without so much success. Reading is fine, but when I try to burn a CD I get errors in dmesg. Using cdrecord -blank=fast dev=3,0,0 I get: [...] Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 18 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation starts. This drive or media does not support the 'BLANK media' command cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. cdrecord: Some drives do not support all blank types. cdrecord: Try again with cdrecord blank=all. And dmesg shows: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BUFFER ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SELECT_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x26 ascq=0x00 Using burncd blank I get: burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCBLANK): Input/output error and in dmesg: acd0: FAILURE - BLANK_CMD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x30 ascq=0x05 The drive works perfectly with other OS, so I don't think the hardware is the problem. The device is identified as: acd0: DVDR TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N/0208 at ata3-master SATA150 I have scbus, atapicd and atapicam in my kernel configuration. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2
Dear my friends, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: startx . I can see the GUI but I can not do anything on it. I can not click anything and I can not type nothing on it. My computer use ATI Radeon HD3450. But the kernel still works as the xserver stops working because if I do CTRL-Alt-F1/F2/F3/F? then I can see the login prompt console. What should I do to solve this problem? Thank you very much in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ricky Tompu Breakyricky.bre...@uni.de wrote: Dear my friends, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: startx . I can see the GUI but I can not do anything on it. I can not click anything and I can not type nothing on it. My computer use ATI Radeon HD3450. But the kernel still works as the xserver stops working because if I do CTRL-Alt-F1/F2/F3/F? then I can see the login prompt console. What should I do to solve this problem? I added the following to xorg.conf to fix the problems I had: Section ServerFlags option AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection Have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING regarding the Xorg update. HTH -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: More on Toshiba A305 SP6926A
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness contrast. This machine has this control in Windows by clicking the [FN Key]+F6/F7. Erm, you are *clicking* the keys on the keyboard? With the mouse? Would you explain how you do this? :-) Polite / almost technical answer follows: Does anyone knows how to enable this in FreeBsd? Traditionally, those functionalities - Fn + PFx in order to change some hardware setting like brightness, contrast, volume, CRT / LCD and others - are not the subject to the OS, they are much more lower level. It's completely possible that those functionalities require an OS specific driver (ugh) in order to work correctly. I mean, even a simple switch isn't part of the earphone socket anymore: If you want to use the earphones, there needs to be software (double-ugh) that switches off the internal speakers... by the way, we're talking about a little piece of metal here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem
First thing I'd suspect is that your drive is a read-only, write-only, but no rewrite, so that means it's unable to blank RW medium. The 'DVDR' and CDDVDW both indicate a write once kind of mindset. does the bezel on the drive itself say rewrite anywhere? --TJ On 8/14/09, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get my CD drive to work without so much success. Reading is fine, but when I try to burn a CD I get errors in dmesg. Using cdrecord -blank=fast dev=3,0,0 I get: [...] Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 18 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation starts. This drive or media does not support the 'BLANK media' command cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. cdrecord: Some drives do not support all blank types. cdrecord: Try again with cdrecord blank=all. And dmesg shows: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BUFFER ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SELECT_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x26 ascq=0x00 Using burncd blank I get: burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCBLANK): Input/output error and in dmesg: acd0: FAILURE - BLANK_CMD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x30 ascq=0x05 The drive works perfectly with other OS, so I don't think the hardware is the problem. The device is identified as: acd0: DVDR TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N/0208 at ata3-master SATA150 I have scbus, atapicd and atapicam in my kernel configuration. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:47:48 -0600, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: First thing I'd suspect is that your drive is a read-only, write-only, but no rewrite, so that means it's unable to blank RW medium. The 'DVDR' and CDDVDW both indicate a write once kind of mindset. does the bezel on the drive itself say rewrite anywhere? Check the output of % cdrecord -prcap dev=3,0,0 which will list what the drive does support. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re:firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1
firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com Thu Aug 13 02:16:24 UTC 2009 Previous message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Next message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] --On August 12, 2009 8:18:55 PM -0500 ajtiM lumiwa at gmail.com wrote: Hi! When I run ; portaudit -a Affected package: firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 Type of problem: mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities. Reference: http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/49e8f2ee-8147-11de-a994-0030843d3802.html but when I check above site I found: Affects: firefox 3.*,1 firefox 3.*,1 3.0.13,1 firefox 3.5.*,1 3.5.2,1 linux-firefox 3.*,1 linux-firefox 3.*,1 3.0.13,1 linux-firefox 3.5.*,1 3.5.2,1 linux-firefox-devel 3.5.2 seamonkey 0 linux-seamonkey 0 linux-seamonkey-devel 0 thunderbird 0 linux-thunderbird 0 Are problem with firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 or not, please. That port should probably be removed. It's ancient. Use /usr/ports/www/firefox3 or /usr/ports/www/firefox3.5 Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying I agree but for example if you want to install mplayer-plugin there are dependencies for firefox and you will have 2.0 again your disk. -- Mitja - http://starikarp.redbubble.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
