Re: Problem with IBM Thinkpad T30 shutting down due to high temperatures

2009-08-14 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Alexandre,
Hello list,

2009/8/14 Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko gaiji...@gmail.com:
 On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:53 +0200, Christian Walther wrote:
 Hello list,

[...]
 Add something like

 hw.acpi.thermal.tz1.passive_cooling=1
 hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1
 hw.acpi.thermal.tz1._PSV=75C

I did. Well, not 75C, because this value seems to be somewhat low. The
critical temperature is 92C, and the original value of _PSV is 86.5C.
This might be to hight, so I'm currently experimenting with lower
values. So far, 84C really seems to be an acceptable value.
Additionally, I'm trying different settings for powerd, which really
seems to make a different as Roland stated in my ACPI/Cpufreq issue?
post.

 Also, please, consider following advice on cleaning up dust and possibly
 re-applying the thermal paste given elsewhere in the thread -- on my
 2-year old laptop doing both shaved about 3C from the normal operating
 temperature.

Yes, doing some internal cleaning and applying new thermal paste is on
my list. Luckily IBM supplies good manuals and the Thinkpad can be
disassembled easily. It's on my list and will be done next week.

Luckily, reducing _PSV made it possible to rebuild world and kernel,
so my system is up to date in this regard. I yesterday tried to build
some complex ports (audio/mumble, which in turn requires QT), and it
worked nicely. But I'm not entirely satisfied and will keep tweaking
the system (after I did the cleaning...).

Christian
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RE: Going to BSD 8 from RELENG_7

2009-08-14 Thread Johan Hendriks
I cvsup and build RELENG_7 many times a week.  This has served me well

(except for the ZFS boot problem I had that went in and was backed  
out) for quite a while.

I like to track a STABLE release.  When BSD 7 went to 7.1 and to 7.2,  
it all just happened automatically with the way I do things.

Now I am interested on one of my BSD machines to try 8.0.  I need to  
change my cvsup target from RELENG_7 to CURRENT I believe.  Is that  
true?  When will STABLE become 8.0?

Also, does anyone know if there is a project page that talks about  
8.0, its timeline, its features, etc?  If you type 8.0 into the main

freebsd.org web page it find nothing on the entire web site.   
Obviously something is wrong...

Thanks!

Dan Allen
Spring Lake, Utah

Change your target to tag=RELENG_8 to track 8.0-Stable Or to
tag=RELENG_8_0 to get the release (When it is released) 
If you want to track CURRENT change your target to tag=.  do not forget
the dot it is CURRENT ;-)
Tag=. Will become FreeBSD 9 when 8 is released.


To see some big changes go to the following page.
http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html

It give you one nice overview of things changed.


Be aware that if you go from 7 to 8 you will need to rebuild all your
installed ports.
ALso if you do a buildworld from 7 to 8 do not do the make delete-old
and the make delete-old-libs before you have rebuild your ports.
If you do the make delete-old and make delete-old-libs runs, all ports
depending on the FreeBSD 7 libs will not work any more.   read:  most
likely all your ports.
If you have changed for example your Shell for root to a ports based
shell like bash and you do the make delete-old-libs you can not log in
anymore, because bash depends on the 7 libs wich are not there anymore.

And as usual MAKE A GOOD BACKUP 

Regards,
Johan

 


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Re: USB mouse not detected on boot of 7-STABLE

2009-08-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Aug-13 22:36:24 +0200, Trond Endrestøl 
trond.endres...@fagskolen.gjovik.no wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:16-0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
 Hardware that simply would not work on the old stack is operating
 flawlessly on 8.0-BETA2.

Does this include hardware such as the Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem?

AFAIK, it does.  It definitely works for my E169.

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Re: Panic due to junk pointer in pf(4)

2009-08-14 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 21:16:09 Peter Jeremy wrote:
 My firewall (7.2p3/i386) recently panic'd:
 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
 fault virtual address   = 0x1065e
 fault code  = supervisor read, page not present
 ...
 I have a crashdump that shows:
 #6  0xc06c9c1b in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:159
 #7  0xc044ecd0 in pf_state_tree_lan_ext_RB_REMOVE_COLOR (head=0xc2a256a8,
 parent=0xc442c6a0, elm=0xc40aa8e0) at
 /usr/src/sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c:391 #8  0xc044ef79 in
 pf_state_tree_lan_ext_RB_REMOVE (head=0xc2a256a8, elm=0xc404a11c) at
 /usr/src/sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c:391
 #9  0xc045383e in pf_unlink_state (cur=0xc404a11c)
 at /usr/src/sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c:1158
 #10 0xc0456b6e in pf_purge_expired_states (maxcheck=119)
 at /usr/src/sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c:1242
 #11 0xc04570f9 in pf_purge_thread (v=0x0)
 at /usr/src/sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c:998
 #12 0xc0535781 in fork_exit (callout=0xc0456f50 pf_purge_thread, arg=0x0,
 frame=0xd2d4cd38) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:810
 #13 0xc06c9c90 in fork_trampoline () at
 /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:264

 Working up, 'parent' in pf_state_tree_lan_ext_RB_REMOVE_COLOR() has
 a garbage u.s.entry_lan_ext:
 (kgdb) p parent-u
 $3 = {s = {entry_lan_ext = {rbe_left = 0x10602, rbe_right = 0x5,
   rbe_parent = 0xc40aa8e0, rbe_color = -1002258432}, entry_ext_gwy = {
   rbe_left = 0xc3c42238, rbe_right = 0x1, rbe_parent = 0x0,
   rbe_color = 0}, entry_id = {rbe_left = 0xc3c54470, rbe_right = 0x0,
   rbe_parent = 0x0, rbe_color = 0}, entry_list = {tqe_next =
 0xc41f9e6c, tqe_prev = 0x0}, kif = 0xc442c58c},
   ifname = \002\006\001\000\000\000\005\000à¨\nÄ\000ÀBÄ}

 Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look next?

You could try the attached patch that I just set to re@ for inclusion.  There 
is an obvious error in how I handle the pf_consistency_lock in the purge 
thread that might well be the culprit for the error you are seeing.  I assume 
you can't trigger the panic at will, though.  In any case I'd be interested in 
your feedback, thanks.

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Index: sys/contrib/pf/net/pfvar.h
===
--- sys/contrib/pf/net/pfvar.h	(revision 196216)
+++ sys/contrib/pf/net/pfvar.h	(working copy)
@@ -1593,8 +1593,13 @@ extern struct pool		 pf_state_pl, pf_altq_pl, pf_p
 extern struct pool		 pf_state_scrub_pl;
 #endif
 extern void			 pf_purge_thread(void *);
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+extern int			 pf_purge_expired_src_nodes(int);
+extern int			 pf_purge_expired_states(u_int32_t, int);
+#else
 extern void			 pf_purge_expired_src_nodes(int);
 extern void			 pf_purge_expired_states(u_int32_t);
+#endif
 extern void			 pf_unlink_state(struct pf_state *);
 extern void			 pf_free_state(struct pf_state *);
 extern int			 pf_insert_state(struct pfi_kif *,
Index: sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c
===
--- sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c	(revision 196216)
+++ sys/contrib/pf/net/pf.c	(working copy)
@@ -971,6 +971,9 @@ void
 pf_purge_thread(void *v)
 {
 	int nloops = 0, s;
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+	int locked;
+#endif
 
 	for (;;) {
 		tsleep(pf_purge_thread, PWAIT, pftm, 1 * hz);
@@ -978,14 +981,19 @@ pf_purge_thread(void *v)
 #ifdef __FreeBSD__
 		sx_slock(pf_consistency_lock);
 		PF_LOCK();
+		locked = 0;
 
 		if (pf_end_threads) {
-			pf_purge_expired_states(pf_status.states);
+			PF_UNLOCK();
+			sx_sunlock(pf_consistency_lock);
+			sx_xlock(pf_consistency_lock);
+			PF_LOCK();
+			pf_purge_expired_states(pf_status.states, 1);
 			pf_purge_expired_fragments();
-			pf_purge_expired_src_nodes(0);
+			pf_purge_expired_src_nodes(1);
 			pf_end_threads++;
 
-			sx_sunlock(pf_consistency_lock);
+			sx_xunlock(pf_consistency_lock);
 			PF_UNLOCK();
 			wakeup(pf_purge_thread);
 			kproc_exit(0);
@@ -994,20 +1002,44 @@ pf_purge_thread(void *v)
 		s = splsoftnet();
 
 		/* process a fraction of the state table every second */
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+		if(!pf_purge_expired_states(1 + (pf_status.states
+		/ pf_default_rule.timeout[PFTM_INTERVAL]), 0)) {
+			PF_UNLOCK();
+			sx_sunlock(pf_consistency_lock);
+			sx_xlock(pf_consistency_lock);
+			PF_LOCK();
+			locked = 1;
+
+			pf_purge_expired_states(1 + (pf_status.states
+			/ pf_default_rule.timeout[PFTM_INTERVAL]), 1);
+		}
+#else
 		pf_purge_expired_states(1 + (pf_status.states
 		/ pf_default_rule.timeout[PFTM_INTERVAL]));
+#endif
 
 		/* purge other expired types every PFTM_INTERVAL seconds */
 		if (++nloops = pf_default_rule.timeout[PFTM_INTERVAL]) {
 			pf_purge_expired_fragments();
-			pf_purge_expired_src_nodes(0);
+			if (!pf_purge_expired_src_nodes(locked)) {
+PF_UNLOCK();
+

Re: Going to BSD 8 from RELENG_7

2009-08-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:17:55 +0200
 From: Johan Hendriks jo...@double-l.nl
 Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org
 
 I cvsup and build RELENG_7 many times a week.  This has served me well
 
 (except for the ZFS boot problem I had that went in and was backed  
 out) for quite a while.
 
 I like to track a STABLE release.  When BSD 7 went to 7.1 and to 7.2,  
 it all just happened automatically with the way I do things.
 
 Now I am interested on one of my BSD machines to try 8.0.  I need to  
 change my cvsup target from RELENG_7 to CURRENT I believe.  Is that  
 true?  When will STABLE become 8.0?
 
 Also, does anyone know if there is a project page that talks about  
 8.0, its timeline, its features, etc?  If you type 8.0 into the main
 
 freebsd.org web page it find nothing on the entire web site.   
 Obviously something is wrong...
 
 Thanks!
 
 Dan Allen
 Spring Lake, Utah
 
 Change your target to tag=RELENG_8 to track 8.0-Stable Or to
 tag=RELENG_8_0 to get the release (When it is released) 
 If you want to track CURRENT change your target to tag=.  do not forget
 the dot it is CURRENT ;-)
 Tag=. Will become FreeBSD 9 when 8 is released.
 
 
 To see some big changes go to the following page.
 http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html
 
 It give you one nice overview of things changed.
 
 
 Be aware that if you go from 7 to 8 you will need to rebuild all your
 installed ports.
 ALso if you do a buildworld from 7 to 8 do not do the make delete-old
 and the make delete-old-libs before you have rebuild your ports.
 If you do the make delete-old and make delete-old-libs runs, all ports
 depending on the FreeBSD 7 libs will not work any more.   read:  most
 likely all your ports.
 If you have changed for example your Shell for root to a ports based
 shell like bash and you do the make delete-old-libs you can not log in
 anymore, because bash depends on the 7 libs wich are not there anymore.

One other suggestion: if you have the libusb port installed, be sure
to delete it BEFORE you try updating any ports. libusb is now in the
base system and is incompatible with the ports version, so anything that
is linked to it will fail with the new USB stack in 8.0.
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Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Richards
Is there a practical limit on the number of active USB drives with FreeBSD?  
I've had stability issues using multiple USB drives as storage.

My initial design goal was cheap, hot-swappable storage.  I am only using a 
100MB network currently so throughput on the storage is not a problem as I 
can't push the data to/from the drives faster than what my network requests 
are.  

I first tried my setup on 7.0, then migrated to a newer PC, then upgraded to 
7.2. 
 
I have the following USB drive setup:

1 320GB gmirror (320x2) + gjournal + ufs2
1 1TB gmirror (1TBx2) + gjournal + ufs2
1 150GB gjournal  + ufs2

I also have another 1TB gmirror (1TBx2) + gjournal but removed it.  The system 
crashed when I used these drives (bacula or bonnie++) so I pulled them to test 
on another system.

Recently my stability issue has been when I have been writing data to the 150GB 
gjournal drive from the 320GB gmirror device (USB device - USB device).  It 
will be working fine, then all I/O stops on the 150GB drive.  The system 
remains responding to other USB devices etc. for a while.  I try rebooting and 
the system crashes with gjournal errors (didn't write down, but I will later).  

Every time this happens the 1TB gmirror comes up fine but one of the 320GB 
providers is missing.  No problem after 'gmirror forget' and 'gmirror insert'.  
Everything rebuilds fine.  The 150GB gjournal drive is fine after a 'fsck -y'.

I do pair the gmirror drives to the same USB adapter.  Found out after initial 
testing with multiple USB adapters that they do not appear standard enough to 
cross adapters like I would for a production server at work to prevent SPOF 
with an adapter.

I have tried Linux as well with softraid and LVM2 on the same hardware.  It 
worked fine until I applied software updates and the udev took 30+ minutes to 
boot.  I went back to FreeBSD.  Even when I crashed I was back up in 2-5 
minutes.

I can and will provide more detail if requested.  My concern is that the issue 
seems to continue no matter what hardware/OS changes I try.

Thanks in advance.





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Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Richards
I just tested my 2nd 1TB gmirror device on another system with FBSD 7.2.  I was 
getting full throughput on the drive and no lockup using bonnie++ and also 
monitoring with gstat.

I then moved those drives back on my main server.  When I booted the system I 
hung on the 320GB gmirror devices.  Previously the 1st 1TB gmirror and 320GB 
gmirror were attached to the integrated USB ports on the motherboard.  I moved 
the 320GB gmirror to a PCI USB adapter.

The 2 320GB drives in the gmirror were da5 and da6.  Here's what I saw on the 
console:

(da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0
(da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): Invalid command operation mode
(da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): Unretryable error
GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=5), da6[READ(offset=512, length=512)]
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm-san: provider da6 disconnected.
(da5:umass-sim5:5:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(da5:umass-sim5:5:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(da5:umass-sim5:5:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(da5:umass-sim5:5:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0
(da5:umass-sim5:5:0:0): Invalid command operation mode
(da5:umass-sim5:5:0:0): Unretryable error
GEOM_JOURNAL: BIO_FLUSH not supported by mirror/gm-san.

I waited for a few minutes with no change in the console.  I then detached one 
of the USB drives (which happened to be da6) and saw this:

umass6: at uhub7 port 4 (addr 4) disconnected
(da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): lost device

Nothing else changed for a few minutes so I powered off the system.  When I 
brought it back up the 320GB gmirror device was out of sync, but apart from 
that all devices were online.

Below are the kernel messages from the second boot:

Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
    The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May  1 08:49:13 UTC 2009
    r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz (2266.67-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf49  Stepping = 9
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
  Features2=0x441dSSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,CNXT-ID,xTPR
  AMD Features2=0x1LAHF
real memory  = 1877868544 (1790 MB)
avail memory = 1826934784 (1742 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: P4M900 AWRDACPI
ioapic0 Version 0.3 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 Version 0.3 irqs 24-47 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: P4M900 AWRDACPI on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 10, 6fde (3) failed
Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0
acpi_hpet0: High Precision Event Timer iomem 0xfe80-0xfe8003ff on acpi0
device_attach: acpi_hpet0 attach returned 12
acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0
acpi_button1: Sleep Button on acpi0
pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
vgapci0: VGA-compatible display mem 
0xc000-0xcfff,0xfb00-0xfbff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0
pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2
pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 31 at device 3.0 on pci0
pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3
atapci0: VIA 8237S SATA150 controller port 
0xfc00-0xfc07,0xf800-0xf803,0xf400-0xf407,0xf000-0xf003,0xec00-0xec0f,0xe800-0xe8ff
 irq 21 at device 15.0 on pci0
atapci0: [ITHREAD]
ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0
ata2: [ITHREAD]
ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0
ata3: [ITHREAD]
atapci1: VIA 8237S UDMA133 controller port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe400-0xe40f at device 15.1 on pci0
ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci1
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci1
ata1: [ITHREAD]
uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 20 at device 16.0 on 
pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 22 at device 16.1 on 
pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci1: [ITHREAD]
usb1: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 21 at device 16.2 on 
pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci2: [ITHREAD]
usb2: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0

Version nomenclature [was RELENG_7 to 8]

2009-08-14 Thread grarpamp
Wanted to put in a suggestion. Users are constantly confused and
asking questions about the FreeBSD version naming scheme, somehow
not quite picking it up right, which is which, where to use it,
etc.

And though I know what it is, it still seems silly to me.  Because
we've got logical pointers _loosely_ correlating to formal repo tag
and branch names.  Worst case I've seen was when FreeBSD had 4, 5,
6 all in flux at once.  STABLE and CURRENT could only point to two
things and there were about 10 potential tags involved.

Basically, I'm proposing FreeBSD should relegate the terms STABLE
and CURRENT out to the marketing portion of the web team. You
can't check them out of any repo as tags, 4 and 5 were 'stable' when
6 was 'current' and so on.

CURRENT means nothing more than cvs HEAD or svn trunk or git nonce.
So use those terms instead of leading people think they can check
out 'CURRENT' or that it has some magical command line, config file
or source properties.  website: 'The latest snapshots from our
FreeBSD-STABLE and FreeBSD-CURRENT branches are also available'...
checking out those branch names gets you HEAD. There are references
to 7-STABLE, 8-CURRENT and parhaps other bastardizations on a theme
:-) in the handbook that are not valid tags.

STABLE is pretty much the same way, only more confusing if more
than one thing is 'stable'.  Back in the 4/5/6 days it could have
referred to any number of branches.  And on the main page, we now
have more buzzwords...  'production' and 'legacy'.  In fact, I'd
venture that the proper place for such words,
CURRENT/STABLE/production/legacy, is only on the release/download/support
related pages of the website, with little '-'s to the actual tag
they imply. More importanly, with descriptions that say something
like which trains are developed/supported when, for how long. ie:
why the deserve such words to be applied to them.

Anyone who has a need to refer to CURRENT/STABLE is obviously getting
beyond the release iso's and into the cvs/svn/git level of things.
So just use the right terms then.  Encourage people to use proper
tags and for reporting bugs and things. They could probably make it
into uname somehow.

RELENG_x_y_RELEASE
RELENG_x_y [date/serial]
RELENG_x   [date/serial]
HEAD/trunk [date/serial]

uname: '7.2-STABLE #0 date of compile' isn't quite the same solid
reference as RELENG_7 as of yesterdays code. Which is what it is,
not the zero-eth 7.2 errata/security/stability commit.

And maybe figure out a way that each commit bumps a serial counter
in UPDATING or some stampfile or uname so people can report the
serial.  Or maybe use the git crypto hash thing. FreeBSD needs a
crypto hash reference inside the primary source tree anyways, not
just on the n steps removed iso's.

I dunno, just seen year after year of these questions on the lists :)
Thought I'd put at least something out there. Not meant to be a
bikeshed or anything. More like something to be addressed by doc
project or whatever.
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