Re: nfs lockup

2004-02-14 Thread Danny Braniss
just an update, with a newer -current it still hangs exactly in the same place, and on two very different hosts! xpc# ps lwp 21002 UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 18 21002 20990 0 -7 0 1572 1036 nfsfsy D p00:00.00 ar cq libbsdxml.a xmlpa

Re: pam_ldap and passwd

2003-11-24 Thread Danny Braniss
while you are at it can you: --- passwd.cTue Jul 15 12:31:13 2003 +++ passwd.c.orig Sat Apr 19 00:27:09 2003 @@ -119,10 +119,6 @@ fprintf(stderr, "Changing NIS password for %s\n", pwd->pw_name); break; - case _PWF_HESIOD: -

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-10-15 Thread Danny Braniss
> From: Richard Tobin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Ok, GEOM Gate is ready for testing. > > > For those who don't know what it is, they can read README: > > > > Aaargh! It's the return of nd(4) from SunOS. > > Excuse me? > > # uname -a > SunOS galaxy 4.1.4 18 sun4m > # man nd > No manual entr

Re: ACPI problem?

2003-07-18 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > Your asl seems bogus since there are a lot of unexpected values (i.e. for > > > TZ and EC port values). Since it worked in 4.8R, follow the instructions > > > for disabling ACPI. > > > > > > -Nat

rpcinfo

2003-07-17 Thread Danny Braniss
I just run rpcinfo: # rpcinfo rpcinfo: can't contact rpcbind: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Success :=) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: ACPI problem?

2003-07-16 Thread Danny Braniss
> Your asl seems bogus since there are a lot of unexpected values (i.e. for > TZ and EC port values). Since it worked in 4.8R, follow the instructions > for disabling ACPI. > > -Nate thanks, that did it, but now, is there anyway i can help fix this so acpi will work? i have several of this boxes

ACPI problem?

2003-07-15 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, the motherboard is Intel STL2, which works fine with 4.8-stable. just tried 5.1-current and it hangs on boot: BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9d3a:0106 BIOS 637kB/785344kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1

tunning 5.1

2003-07-03 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, i run a small program that writes to file, these are the numbers Fbsdlocal disk nfs -- 4.8 44.86 42.54 5.1 34.37 16.42 are these values (MB/s) acceptable? comments? while disk io is less tha

Re: acpi patch for dell laptop?

2003-06-21 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:29:30PM -0400, Mike Sturdee wrote: > > Where can I find the latest, greatest patch that fixes this? > > Try this URL: > > http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php > > and let me know if it works. > > --Stijn just to confirm that it works on a Dell Latitude C800

Re: rcNG & automonter(amd)

2003-06-07 Thread Danny Braniss
> > Amd is poorly designed the way it blocks and is overly sensative to one's > network setup. Your's is the first trouble I've heard of with back > grounding its invocation, and several were happy with it. I don't know > what to say. remove rev 1.127 if you like. what's needed is a simple wa

Re: rcNG & automonter(amd)

2003-06-07 Thread Danny Braniss
> This may have been because of a missed merge from rcOG. How does the following > work for you? > > Cheers. it will fix my problem, but in an 'obscure way', just have to remember to set amd_flags my point is that amd should not be backgrounded by default, it does so anyway once it managed to r

rcNG & automonter(amd)

2003-06-07 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, I have a problem with /etc/rc.d/amd, because of the line command_args="&" ${amd_program} gets run in the background, ldconfig failes to cache libraries in /usr/local/lib (which is automounted :-) Is there realy a need for the "&"? amd will background itself after it's done with t

Re: Diskless: 5.0R scripts, boot, NFS mount problems I didn't have in 4.7S

2003-02-22 Thread Danny Braniss
I have been using diskless boots for some time, and selecting different kernels is very easy, see ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/diskless-boot danny > > :Seems like diskless clients would have to have separate kernels with > :the "option BOOTP" while any servers must omit thi

Re: Problem with RC3

2003-01-15 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 09:43, Danny Braniss wrote: > > hi all, > > firstly, hats off, great stuff! > > > > so far i have 2 problems to report: > > 1- I managed to boot of the cd, but later stage of the install > >refuses to recognize the cd.

Problem with RC3

2003-01-15 Thread Danny Braniss
hi all, firstly, hats off, great stuff! so far i have 2 problems to report: 1- I managed to boot of the cd, but later stage of the install refuses to recognize the cd. 2- tried to install over the net, 'em' is not in generic danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: The official "GEOM is in the tree" speech.

2002-10-05 Thread Danny Braniss
good speech!, i hope that GEOM is as good! (or maybe I should have sayed that in reverse order?) danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

panic in getnewvnode

2002-10-02 Thread Danny Braniss
there is something fishy going on :-) with latest current, the tests are run on a diskless host, and just after booting, this is what i do: newfs /dev/ad0s2a mount /dev/ad0s2a /mnt-root cd /mnt-root rsh dev -n dump 0f - /c/4| restore rf - panic: vn_finished_write:

Re: R e: VFS panic is now fixed.

2002-09-30 Thread Danny Braniss
if i can help, please let me know! all im doing is: newfs /dev/ad0s2a mount /dev/ad0s2a /mnt-root rsh dev -n dump 0f - /c/4 | restore rf - and after a short while it panics. with today's cvsup, and with this 'fix': *** vfs_subr.c 2002/09/29 08:16:40 1.1 --- v

Re: R e: VFS panic is now fixed.

2002-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
> > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Danny Braniss wrote: > I am not able to reproduce this. Can you tell me how your kernel conf > differs from GENERIC as well as provide some details on how you trigered > this? > > Jeff > sure, the kernel is GENERIC, no changes. (with

R e: VFS panic is now fixed.

2002-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
if this is of any help: panic: vn_finished_write: neg cnt Debugger("panic") Stopped at Debugger+0x54: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 db> trace Debugger(c04b2d1c,c05664e0,c04bcd6b,cb4607d8,1) at Debugger+0x54 panic(c04bcd6b,cb46082c,c0325417,c05298e0,0) at panic+0xab vn_finished_write(c05298e0,0

Re: VFS panic is now fixed.

2002-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
> The VFS panic that was introduced in my recent commits has been fixed. I > accidentally commited extra stuff from my tree that was not entirely > correct. i just cvs'ed. i'm getting: panic: vn_finished_write: neg cnt danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: HEADS UP: rc.d is in the tree

2002-06-14 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:30:19 -0700 > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ick. > > > > What should be used instead of REQUIRE to mean that it will be > > started? > > > > I.e. if "REQUIRE" describes soft dependency ordering, what > > describes hard dependency ordering? > > Cor

Re: HEADS UP: rc.d is in the tree

2002-06-14 Thread Danny Braniss
in amd, # REQUIRE: rpcbind mountall ypbind nfsclient ** since i don't use yp, how can i override this? or in other words, can REQUIRE be configurable too? danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

make buildworld fails

2002-05-29 Thread Danny Braniss
cvsup'ed about 1 hour ago in /etc/make.conf MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX?=/r+d/obj and with setnev MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX /r+d/obj make buildworld ... FATAL: can't create /usr/src/gnu/lib/libstdc++/../../../contrib/gcc/cp-demangle .o: Permission denied how can i fix this? danny To Unsubscribe: send m

diskless boot, take n+2

2002-05-28 Thread Danny Braniss
comments please new changes i made to libstand/bootp.c: now, apart from placing all the dhcp stuff in the kenv, if the tag rc-conf is set i.e: option FBSD.rc-conf "132.65.16.100:/c/conf/rc.conf.foo"; it will read the file and place the "name=value" in the kenv as rc.conf.name="va

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-05-15 Thread Danny Braniss
> What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new > set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account? Your kernel > env dhcp variables are really good. i was thinking of adding something like this to dhcp: option FBSD.rc-conf "132.65.16.100:/c/conf/rc

Re: 3Com 3c905C-TX

2002-05-01 Thread Danny Braniss
> > Out of curiosity, do only 3c509's exibit this behavior, or is this > the core problem with 3c59x's as well? My experiences have not > been consistent with these cards, and I had assumed it was due > to buggy code in the 3-Com chipset. I've noticed flaky behavior from the > "Vortex" [3c59x]

3Com 3c905C-TX

2002-04-29 Thread Danny Braniss
sorry for the cross posting, but this is true for both, stable and current. the onboard ethernet (the motherboard is a tyan tiger dual MPX) xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x3000-0x307f mem 0xfa001000-0xfa00107f irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci2 at 100baseTX is slower than 10Mgb :-( i

diskless configuration, was ... diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
im modifying libstand/bootp.c, and im trying to read a file via tftp/nfs, while i'm sure i'll figure it out - eventualy, can someone help me out here? thanks, danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
> Danny, > > What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new > set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account? Your kernel > env dhcp variables are really good. I know that many do want to do what > you are doing (large scale RO /); but up until now /etc/rc.

Re: what if/diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
> Note that Luigi has recently committed something similar to create the > sysctl kern.bootp_cookie (see /sys/nfs_client/bootp.c rev 1.36). > i will check that out asap. > I have also been doing the same thing for some time, but the difference in > my version is that I use four separate DHCP op

what if/diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
at stage 1, the diskless host sends out a bootp/dhcp request, the dhcpd servers sends back some packets, and pxeloader gets tftp'ed. i modified libstand/bootp.c to place all the tags - that dhcp provides - in the kernel environmet, so that they can be used later - eg in rc.diskless1. what if:

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-23 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > > > +if [ -z "`hostname -s`" ]; then > > +hostname=`kenv dhcp.host-name` > > +hostname $hostname > > +echo "Hostname is $hostname" > > +fi > > If you wanted to match the style for most of the rc* files, and

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-23 Thread Danny Braniss
> Robert Watson wrote: > > I have't really used the diskless environment with 4.x, but use it > > extensively in my test/development environments for 5.0. Stateless > > workstations are great when it comes to file system debugging, especially > > since newfs is orders of magnitude faster than fsc

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-23 Thread Danny Braniss
> Robert Watson wrote: > > This would provide full compatibility with the current model for those > > that want it (and I think it's more people than you think) at the same > > time as changing the system to provide easy support for the environment > > you're looking for. If the default settings

Re: diskless booting

2002-04-23 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:32:51PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > diskless_root_readonly="NO" # Make it "YES" for readonly > > > > > > good. &g

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-23 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > diskless_root_readonly="NO" # Make it "YES" for readonly > > good. > > > diskless_etc_localmd="NO" # Make it "YES" to have the > > # diskless environment md-mount and replicate /etc from /conf > > Seems the

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-22 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:40:44AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > Since im very interested in diskless/dataless, and i've been at it for some > > time now, i made some changes to libstand/bootp.c and /etc/rc.diskless1 > > which i wouldn't mind receiving commne

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-22 Thread Danny Braniss
> I'll commit this to rc.diskless1 this will only work if you include the changes to bootp.c > > +if [ -z "`hostname -s`" ]; then > +hostname=`kenv dhcp.host-name` > +hostname $hostname > +echo "Hostname is $hostname" > +fi > > BUT you've missed the

FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-22 Thread Danny Braniss
Haven't tried all the new stuff, but i've installed it on several different hosts and so far have had no real problems, good work!! Since im very interested in diskless/dataless, and i've been at it for some time now, i made some changes to libstand/bootp.c and /etc/rc.diskless1 which i wouldn't

pam_rhost Re: rshd on 5.0-DP1

2002-04-12 Thread Danny Braniss
for what it's worth, i've set up a pam_rhost: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/pam_rhost To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: rshd on 5.0-DP1

2002-04-11 Thread Danny Braniss
i went down the same road, rlogin works fine, but rshd does not work, for anybody - including root. my guess the problem is in the PAM stuff. danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: new rc.diskless{1,2} files

2001-04-02 Thread Danny Braniss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }I've found that one can reduce a lot of common file duplication by }reversing that logic, going after "default" first, then }"network-specific", finally followed by "host-specific" files: } } if [ -d /conf/default/etc/ ]; then } cp -Rp /conf/def

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