Re: VM Options
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:23:16 -0500, Bill Moran wrote In response to Jack Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old and still stuck on version 3 the last time I tried it. It depends on what you want to do. Do you want to run another OS (even a different FreeBSD release)? Is it sufficient to prevent processes seeing each other? VMWare on FreeBSD is a no-op. Someone should really remove that port. That's nonsense. The current (very old) port is quite out-dated and it took me some time to get it running right e.g. with VMware 3 on FreeBSD 6.2. But it works! In most (though not all) cases Xen is a useful alternative to VMware. Of course Xen is driven by the Linux hype. All majors OS vendors support Xen. When virtualization solutions find their way into next generation's CPUs Xen might take over VMware. Xen is still weak on the management side. About a year ago rsync.net's 2007 code bounty called for a newer VMware port, but it's still in the state currently in progress (for half a year now). jail is your best option. See the handbook for details and install the ezjail port to make it more manageable. The drawback is that jail can only run other FreeBSD instances in the VM. Although jails are available far longer than zones in Solaris they have fallen behind. They lack a lot of features, e.g. no ressource management. Even things that work in native FreeBSD don't work in jails. (ulimit) Next up would be qemu. I use it a lot and it works a lot like VMWare. The disadvantage to qemu is that it's really slow. VMware burns quite a lot of CPU. QEMU is much worse. Down the list are a number of technologies in various stages of development, such as Xen. I don't recommend any of them at this time unless you want to help with development. It really depends on what you want to achieve. Regards, Robert PS: People say, I sometimes tend to see things to negative. -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:17:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote Robert, You have device driver conflicts with the hardware. Most likely it is the ata driver and the rocket raid card. The rocket raids are nice cards but I have had them blow up too. In my case I simply moved the rocket raid card to a different system where it was rock solid, and put in a promise card that was blowing up in yet a third system. I have a whole collection of hardware to play with. Unfortunately that is what happens when you work with operating systems that wern't preloaded on the hardware you bought. Ted, I would like to do so, but the RAID-controller is on the motherboard. (That was the main reason for choosing this mobo, since everything I need (and obviously something more) is already on-board.) All I could do was do disable SATA is in BIOS. Is there a way to control the ressources to avoid the conflict? Robert Ted - Original Message - From: Robert Eckardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware? Hi, for some time I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 running on my server as a host for VMware and several other functions. I'm using a 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 on an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS mobo w/ USB, VGA, 2xGbit/s, 2xPATA channels etc. on board. I used to run FBSD-5.2.1 with vmware3 on an Epox mobo w/ a 2GHz Celeron without problems. After changing HW (mobo, CPU, HDD) and OS (FBSD6.0) I found the system to freeze upon accessing an USB device when vmware was running. So my first investigations led to its driver, but in some cases heavy disk I/O was sufficient to cause a freeze. Since the situation got worse with FreeBSD 6.2 I started to work on it more systematically and found the following (actually I was on the verge to switch to Linux CentOS 4.4 or OpenSUSE 10.2 with VMware Server running nicely, but the HD and network performance were disappointing): 1)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ disabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, but no USB devices. 2)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: system freezes with network connections breaking, endless messages ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SET_MULTI taskq. ad2: FAILURE [or TIMEOUT] - WRITE:DMA timed out [or retrying] LBA= g_vs_done():ad2s1e[WRITE(offset=, length=)]error = 5 typing reboot will finally reboot the system after several hours, nothing in the logs though. 3)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using either PCI-VGA *or* on-board VGA, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, also when accessing the USB device. 4)**ACPI on, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using on-board VGA, vmware3 started: system freezes with messages above. So, what's the relation between the scenarios? Where can I tweak the system to get it stable? Since I spend already several man-days on getting VMware running on my machine, I would like to help further debugging by making additional tests, but I don't know where to start. I can live without ACPI (for the time being) -- the old system consumes 125W while the Pentium M machine stays at 42W with ACPI taking about another 8W in idle-state. For me it seems essential why enabling/disabling USB in the BIOS or adding an additional PCI-VGA card stabilizes the system and why the unstable system behaves the same way like with enabling ACPI. I put some boot_verbose-logs on http://www.robert-eckardt.de/ghost/ Regards, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?
Hi, for some time I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 running on my server as a host for VMware and several other functions. I'm using a 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 on an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS mobo w/ USB, VGA, 2xGbit/s, 2xPATA channels etc. on board. I used to run FBSD-5.2.1 with vmware3 on an Epox mobo w/ a 2GHz Celeron without problems. After changing HW (mobo, CPU, HDD) and OS (FBSD6.0) I found the system to freeze upon accessing an USB device when vmware was running. So my first investigations led to its driver, but in some cases heavy disk I/O was sufficient to cause a freeze. Since the situation got worse with FreeBSD 6.2 I started to work on it more systematically and found the following (actually I was on the verge to switch to Linux CentOS 4.4 or OpenSUSE 10.2 with VMware Server running nicely, but the HD and network performance were disappointing): 1)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ disabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, but no USB devices. 2)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: system freezes with network connections breaking, endless messages ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SET_MULTI taskq. ad2: FAILURE [or TIMEOUT] - WRITE:DMA timed out [or retrying] LBA= g_vs_done():ad2s1e[WRITE(offset=, length=)]error = 5 typing reboot will finally reboot the system after several hours, nothing in the logs though. 3)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using either PCI-VGA *or* on-board VGA, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, also when accessing the USB device. 4)**ACPI on, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using on-board VGA, vmware3 started: system freezes with messages above. So, what's the relation between the scenarios? Where can I tweak the system to get it stable? Since I spend already several man-days on getting VMware running on my machine, I would like to help further debugging by making additional tests, but I don't know where to start. I can live without ACPI (for the time being) -- the old system consumes 125W while the Pentium M machine stays at 42W with ACPI taking about another 8W in idle-state. For me it seems essential why enabling/disabling USB in the BIOS or adding an additional PCI-VGA card stabilizes the system and why the unstable system behaves the same way like with enabling ACPI. I put some boot_verbose-logs on http://www.robert-eckardt.de/ghost/ Regards, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP not working
On Sun, 14 May 2006 09:42:22 +0200, Maan Jee wrote Hello, I have installed Apache HTTP Server 2.20 and PHP 5. But when I want to open index.php file in the browser instead of getting the Output Html page, I get SAVE index.php file popup. What is the wrong, I have added these lines in httpd.conf AddType application/x- httpd-php . php AddType application/x- httpd-php-source . phps There must not be a space in your application type .../x-httpd-... Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why doesn't burn cdrdao BIN/CUE on 6.0-R ?
)= 1 (0x1) write(2,0xbfbfe6b8,1)= 1 (0x1) Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.write(2,0xbfbfe1f0,77) = 77 (0x4d) write(2,0xbfbfe6b8,1)= 1 (0x1) write(2,0xbfbfe6b8,1)= 1 (0x1) open(Video1.cue,0x0,0666) = 3 (0x3) open(Video1.cue,0x0,0666) = 4 (0x4) break(0x80d3000) = 0 (0x0) fstat(4,0xbfbfdd30) = 0 (0x0) break(0x80d4000) = 0 (0x0) read(0x4,0x80d3000,0x1000) = 113 (0x71) break(0x80d5000) = 0 (0x0) read(0x4,0x80d3000,0x1000) = 0 (0x0) break(0x80d6000) = 0 (0x0) break(0x80d7000) = 0 (0x0) break(0x80d8000) = 0 (0x0) break(0x80d9000) = 0 (0x0) close(3) = 0 (0x0) stat(Video1.bin,0xbfbfe720)= 0 (0x0) __getcwd(0xbfbfe320,0x400) = 0 (0x0) sigprocmask(0x1,0x280cc820,0xbfbfe6f0) = 0 (0x0) sigprocmask(0x3,0x280cc830,0x0) = 0 (0x0) sigprocmask(0x1,0x280cc820,0xbfbfe6f0) = 0 (0x0) munmap(0x282ef000,0x3000)= 0 (0x0) sigprocmask(0x3,0x280cc830,0x0) = 0 (0x0) exit(0x1) process exit, rval = 256 -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why doesn't burn cdrdao BIN/CUE on 6.0-R ?
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:12:05 +0100, Fabian Keil wrote Robert Eckardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after trying for some hours now to burn a videocd with cdrdao under 6.0-R, I reverted to nero on XP. :-( 18:45 gluon: roberte/CD-Stuff/tmp 0%# cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc-raw --speed 16 Video1.cue Did the same command work before? I did not try it on 6.0, but it used to work on 4.5. It doesn't answer your question, but cdrecord has basic cue sheet support, too. You could give it a try. Yes, it worked well. Thank you for this hint. I didn't find it in cdrecord(1) on the first sight. Things like this, however (I had planned to fix just some small details on my new server this weekend, but got lost in not-working packages/ports) let me doubt, whether using FreeBSD is still preferrable. Regards, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need a better way to loop in the shell...
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:44:42 -0500 (EST), user wrote I always do loops in /bin/sh like this: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done Hi, try instead: cat file | while read f ; do rm -f $f ; done In your command `file' is presented as 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 01 - These Are Days.mp3 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 02 - Eat For Two.mp3 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 03 - Candy Everybody Wants.mp3 ... while the for-loop cuts the arguments at spaces. read reads the rest of the line in its last (and only -- in this case) argument into a single variable. Regards, Robert Easy. I like doing it like this. The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line... For instance, lets say I have a file full of filenames, like this: # cat file 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 01 - These Are Days.mp3 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 02 - Eat For Two.mp3 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 03 - Candy Everybody Wants.mp3 and I try to use the above loop on it, it thinks that every word is a line ... the above loop will attempt to delete the following files: 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 01 - These (and so on) Even if I quote the variable $f, like: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done it still does the same thing. - So my question is, what is a nice simple way to loop in the shell, as close to what I am doing above as possible, that does not have this problem ? Should I just be using something other than `cat` ? Or what ? THanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fuser equivalent
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 18:03:43 +0800, Crucis wrote Hi, Is there a BSD equivalent of the Linux fuser command? fuser is used to identify processes using files/sockets. Thanks in advance try `lsof' (list open files) from the ports. Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS ..........
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:07:05 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:00:47 +0300 Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, From time to time I get this: Sep 7 12:57:44 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (d.root-servers.net) Sep 7 12:57:44 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (a.root-servers.net) Sep 7 12:57:44 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (c.root-servers.net) Hi, I had the same problem a while ago. I had configured my ISP's name-server (actually several of them) to forward requests to. It happened that one of them became unreachable. From (just quickly) looking at the source, I found that named ends in this very loop as it does not try to actually request adresses for the root name-servers but rather writes out error messages. The funny thing was that the forwarders are managed in the same list as the root servers. After removing any forwarders from my named-config and relying completely on the root servers I never had the problem again. (Before this it happend after a few hours up to several weeks of named's run-time.) Regards, Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SmartCtl and Array Disks, BSD 4.10
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:32:30 +0200, Alberto De Boni wrote Hi, just a little question. I've installed BSD 4.10 on a motherboard with Highpoint array Raid 0-1controller. I've used two 80Gb Maxtor HDD configured as mirror. All works very fine, atacontrol let me to add a spare disk as i need, the O.s. works without any problem and performaneces are very good. Now, i would like to add S.M.A.R.T control on my disks and here we are with the problems: BSD let me se only a combined device called ar0 (and of course this is right). The problem is that smartcontrol cannot check smart data on ar0 device. Is there a way to see the two real device ad4/ad6 and check for smart datas? Hi, Can't speak for 4.10, but 5.2.1 sees the devices. Robert 11:48 quasar:/root 0#% cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | egrep 'a[dr][0-9 ]|atap' FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #3: Sun Mar 14 14:32:01 CET 2004 Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_ad1816.ko at 0xc0b321ac. atapci0: HighPoint HPT372 UDMA133 controller port 0xb000-0xb0ff,0xac00-0xac03,0xa800-0xa807,0xa400-0xa403,0xa000-0xa007 irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci1 atapci0: [MPSAFE] ata2: at 0xa000 on atapci0 ata3: at 0xa800 on atapci0 atapci1: Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1 GEOM: create disk ad4 dp=0xc47f2660 ad4: 78533MB HDS722580VLAT20 [159560/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 GEOM: create disk ad5 dp=0xc47f2460 ad5: 117246MB Maxtor 6Y120P0 [238216/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA133 GEOM: create disk ad6 dp=0xc47f2560 ad6: 78533MB HDS722580VLAT20 [159560/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 GEOM: create disk ad7 dp=0xc48e9460 ad7: 117246MB Maxtor 6Y120P0 [238216/16/63] at ata3-slave UDMA133 GEOM: create disk ar0 dp=0xc48e35e0 ar0: 78533MB ATA RAID1 array [10011/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master disk1 READY on ad6 at ata3-master GEOM: create disk ar1 dp=0xc48e31e0 ar1: 117246MB ATA RAID1 array [14946/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad5 at ata2-slave disk1 READY on ad7 at ata3-slave Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ar1s1a 11:49 quasar:/root 0#% atacontrol status ar1 ar1: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad5 ad7 status: READY 11:49 quasar:/root 0#% atacontrol status ar0 ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY 11:49 quasar:/root 0#% atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: acd0 CD-RW CDR-6S52/6SG1 ATA/ATAPI rev 0 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 HDS722580VLAT20/V32OA60A ATA/ATAPI rev 6 Slave: ad5 Maxtor 6Y120P0/YAR41BW0 ATA/ATAPI rev 7 ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 HDS722580VLAT20/V32OA60A ATA/ATAPI rev 6 Slave: ad7 Maxtor 6Y120P0/YAR41BW0 ATA/ATAPI rev 7 11:49 quasar:/root 0#% atacontrol cap 2 1 ATA channel 2, Slave, device ad5: ATA/ATAPI revision7 device model Maxtor 6Y120P0 serial number Y333551E firmware revision YAR41BW0 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 240121728 sectors lba48 not supported dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support EnableValue Vendor write cacheyes yes read ahead yes yes dma queued no no 0/0x00 SMART yes yes microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management yes no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management yes yes 254/0xFE192/0xC0 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTPtunnel hangs with proxy
Hello, has someone got an idea, what I'm doing wrong? I'm trying to get httptunnel to work via a proxy. I have observed the following behaviour under FBSD-4.5R as well as under 5.2.1R, with apache-2.0.48_1 as well as with apache-1.3.22_7 and with httptunnel-3.3 as well as with httptunnel-3.0.5. Finally, I reduced it to the following setting: (I tried different options for proxy-buffer size und -timeout without any effect): telnet 127.0.0.1 2023 | htc -F 2023 -P 127.0.0.1:80 127.0.0.1:8080 || httpd (as the proxy and at least my Netscape is happy) || hts -F 127.0.0.1:23 8080 | telnetd After the connect to htc I get no further reaction from telnet. I can send a CR to htc, where it simply sits around. All connections are in state ESTABLISHED, only the one to telnetd does not exist at that time. htc waits in a read for reply from the proxy, while hts at the same time also waits for data from the proxy on the first of two connections. The proxy has two connections open to either htc and hts, but in the Log of hts there is only the first of them noted. (htc sent a POST and a GET and waits now for the reply to the GET. The proxy, however, sent the GET to hts on the second connection, whereas hts waits in a read in the first one.) Only after killing htc the proxy sends its data to hts, which then in turn opens the connection to telnetd and (after stopping hts) closes it again. Has someone out there successfully got such a setting (httptunnel via a proxy) working? How do I get httptunnel to get the proxy to forward the data (POST-request) immediately? Does anyone now of an alternative to httptunnel? (I tried htun-0.9.5 but gave up as it's too hard Linux-style.) Unneccessary to note, but without proxy the connection works fine. Regards and thanks, Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
solution for ad/ar geometry problem sought
Hi, has someone a solution for the following geometry problem with IDE disks on a raid controller? When activating the raid (RAID1) the system sees a different geometry on ar1 than it saw on ad5 and thus finds no filesystems. System is FBSD5.2R, EPoX 4GEA+, HPT372N, 2*77GB HDS + 2*114GB Maxtor. I install the system on one of the maxtors on device /dev/ad5. (ad4+ad6=ar0 carries the old 5.0 system, which accesses the raid via HighPoint's driver as da1 da1 at hpt37x20 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da1: HPT Inc. HPT37x2 RAID 1 1.05 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 78533MB (160836480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 10011C) da2 at hpt37x20 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da2: Maxtor 6 Y120P0 YAR4 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da2: 117246MB (240121728 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 14946C) da3 at hpt37x20 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da3: Maxtor 6 Y120P0 YAR4 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da3: 117246MB (240121728 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 14946C) ) Sysinstall complains about the geometry 238216/16/63 and claims to use 14946/255/62 instead. I tried the wizard mode, only to learn that setting the geometry to any value (e.g. to 29777/128/63 which is the same size as initially without rounding errors) it gets reset to 238216/16/63 when I write the new geometry to disk. So I installed anyway. I don't argue with my computer. On reboot after installation the disk is recognized as 238216/16/63 and everything works fine. Then I create the mirror using atacontrol RAID1 ad5 ad7 and after checking the raid status for READY and adjusting fstab I reboot. The kernel is loaded and ar1 has 14946/255/62 while ad5 still has 238216/16/63. Thus, the kernel cannot find the superblock of the root-FS and stops. I can continue by specifying ufs:ad5s1a as a new root but then fstab only contains references to ar1. Now, why is it good to access the disk with and without raid? It happened to me that ad6 broke. After replacing ad6 I started the resync ... until 6% were done. Then the system ran on a uncorrectable read error on ad4 (the original) No data was touched but resyncing didn't work. So I broke the mirror, used dump|restore on the raid-less disks and replaced ad4 too. Finally the resync worked. HighPoint's driver presented the disks and raid arrays to me always with the same geometry. So, where can I tweak the system to see the same geometries on ad5/ad7 and on ar1 ??? Any help appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!
Hi, thank you for this analysis. I ran into the same problem in that FreeBSD (fdisk) did not accept the values the BIOS uses. I was able to complete the installation, but when turning on my raid-1 FreeBSD recognized on next reboot all of a sudden the BIOS values and was therefore unable to find the filesystems. Switching between two geometries depending on whether the raid is on or off is unacceptable as in case of repair you want to atleast find your data. Besides, my MB is an EPoX 4GEA+ w/ HighPoint raid chip 372N and two Maxtor 120G disks w/ geometries 14946/255/63 (ar1, BIOS) and 238216/16/63 (ad5,ad7). I will try your workaround. But I second the recommendation that a developer should have a look into this problem -- atleast by allowing fdisk to accept manually provided values. Bye, Robert On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:26:59 -0800, Keith Kelly wrote ... My motherboard (MSI KT4 Ultra) BIOS calculates 19618/16/255 (80041440 total sectors). FreeBSD's FDisk calculates 4982/255/63 (80035830 total sectors). You'll notice that the total sector count is not the same, and you may wonder why. It's because of rounding error and the fact that the calculations were done in reverse. In theory, either set of CHS values should work fine, but the problem is that my BIOS picks one set and FDisk chooses another set -- and FDisk refuses to accept and use the set my BIOS calculated. ... So, the problem is that FDisk makes *different* assumptions than my BIOS does about what the sectors and heads values should be. I ran ... In the meantime, the workaround for anyone experiencing this problem is to go into their BIOS and set the hard drive to User mode, and manually enter the same C/H/S settings that FDisk calculated for the drive. Unfortunately, I think this means that if you have to repartition and reformat the entire drive, since the BIOS will now be addressing the drive using different C/H/S settings and will be unable to read any partitions that were formatting using different C/H/S addressing. So while there is a workaround, it is far from an ideal user experience. - Keith F. Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DOS of named
Hi, what measures can I take against this irregular appearing Denial-Of-Service attacks of named which is filling my logfiles (messages, daemon, all.log) with messages like sysquery: no addrs found for root NS for minutes at a rate of 4000 lines/sec? I'm using named 8.3.3-REL on FBSD-5.0R. There is no indication that ipfw is blocking anything as denied packets are logged by default. (Well, at least not from any name servers.) This phenomenon happens irregularly after a few days/weeks/months. This last event, for example, happend after 4 days uptime, the one before after over 42 days. Searching in the archives pointed me to a) some issue with the named.cache file which I updated weeks ago and which is still up-to-date b) the firewall blocking the answer from a root-server (see above) c) and of course the arrogance of a developer suggesting to use a larger filesystem for logs as nothing is wrong with an application logging every error. Thus, nothing to solve the problem or to find the true cause. An nslookup 198.41.0.4 a.root-servers.net. produces Authoritative answers can be found from: 198.in-addr.arpanameserver = chia.ARIN.NET 198.in-addr.arpanameserver = dill.ARIN.NET 198.in-addr.arpanameserver = henna.ARIN.NET 198.in-addr.arpanameserver = indigo.ARIN.NET 198.in-addr.arpanameserver = epazote.ARIN.NET 198.in-addr.arpanameserver = figwort.ARIN.NET 198.in-addr.arpanameserver = ginseng.ARIN.NET *** Can't find server name for address 198.41.0.4: No information *** Default servers are not available Tcpdump shows the following transfer, nothing more: tcpdump: listening on tun0 20:47:47.288874 80.128.176.76.63384 198.41.0.4.domain: 18833+ PTR? 4.0.41.198.in-addr.arpa. (41) 0x 4500 0045 9dbf 4011 15ef 5080 b04c[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0x0010 c629 0004 f798 0035 0031 0b4a 4991 0100.).5.1.JI... 0x0020 0001 0134 0130 0234 3103.4.0.41. 0x0030 3139 3807 696e 2d61 6464 7204 6172 7061198.in-addr.arpa 0x0040 0c00 01 . 20:47:47.443400 198.41.0.4.domain 80.128.176.76.63384: 18833- 0/7/0 (194) (DF) 0x 4500 00de 4000 3411 7f15 c629 0004[EMAIL PROTECTED]).. 0x0010 5080 b04c 0035 f798 00ca 7663 4991 8100P..L.5vcI... 0x0020 0001 0007 0134 0130 0234 3103.4.0.41. 0x0030 3139 3807 696e 2d61 6464 7204 6172 7061198.in-addr.arpa 0x0040 0c00 01c0 1300 0200 0100 0151 8000.Q.. 0x0050 0f04 6368 6961 0441 5249 4e03 4e45 5400..chia.ARIN.NET. 0x0060 c013 0002 0001 0001 5180 0007 0464 696cQdil 0x0070 6cc0 3ac0 1300 0200 0100 0151 8000 0805l.:Q 0x0080 6865 6e6e 61c0 3ac0 1300 0200 0100 0151henna.:Q 0x0090 8000 0906 696e 6469 676f c03a c013 0002indigo.: 0x00a0 0001 0001 5180 000a 0765 7061 7a6f 7465Qepazote 0x00b0 c03a c013 0002 0001 0001 5180 000a 0766.:Qf 0x00c0 6967 776f 7274 c03a c013 0002 0001 0001igwort.: 0x00d0 5180 000a 0767 696e 7365 6e67 c03a Qginseng.: ^C Thanks in advance, Robert PS: BTW, is there a search engine on freebsd.org for the archives or do I have to stay with google, which becomes less usable each day?) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing FBSD5.0-R/4.7-R on EPoX 4GEA+
Hi, installing FreeBSD 5.0- or 4.7-RELEASE on my new hardware turns out to be quite impossible. The system consists of an EPoX EP-4GEA+ mainboard with Intel Celeron 2GHz (which is recognized as a Pentium 4 with HTT ???) and 512MB DDR266-RAM. 2 IBM DTLA-307075 are controlled by a HighPoint 372 onboard RAID controller as a RAID-1-array on IDE channel 3 and 4. Besides the on-board RealTek 8139B for DSL (later :-) a 3Com 905B is used for 100MBit-LAN. The BIOS settings were left on safe defaults, except for disabling the on-board 1394 and SATA interfaces. The system boots from floppy (the SCSI-controller and CD-ROM are still in the productive server) and mounts the server via NFS. I chose the following partitions on a dedicated disk ar0 in this order: a: / 250MB b: swap 500MB d: /var 200MB e: /usr3GB f: /src7GB g: /big 60.5GB After walking through the menus for custom installation it starts making filesystems. 5.0 issues a message which I cannot read as it is quickly overwritten (nothing on VT2 though). During installation of the distributions (X-Developer) the system freezes (never at the same point) with the HDD light on (no audible disk activity). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or what I can do to make the system work??? Thanks, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
