loader.conf "Error: stack overflow"

2003-08-14 Thread Lucky Green
Using -CURRENT as of a few hours ago: --- FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sun Aug 10 13:37:08 CEST 2003) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Error: stack overflow \ /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x30ee80 data=0x33f98+0x57160 syms=[0x4+0x3c2d0+0x4+0x4 a11b] Hit [Enter]

Re: options NO_SWAPPING, still wants swap

2003-04-12 Thread Lucky Green
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Lucky Green wrote: > > > I compiled a kernel with "options NO_SWAPPING", yet CURRENT still > > attempts to allocate swap space: > > NO_SWAPPING has nothing to do with not allocating swap space. It

RE: ENOMEM error diagnosis?

2003-03-16 Thread Lucky Green
> Poul-Henning wrote: > > Make sure you have rev 1.9 of src/sys/geom/bde/g_bde_crypt.c > > I hadn't done my math and before that rev gbde would request > > very large lumps of ram from malloc(9). For a few hours, I thought that rev 1.9 may have fixed the problem, but I just received another "ENO

ENOMEM error diagnosis?

2003-03-14 Thread Lucky Green
I am seeing a lot of crashes of GBDE, causing "ENOMEM" errors to scroll rapidly on the console. Whenever this happens, the server becomes unresponsive to keyboard or any other input and has to be power cycled. Is there some debug setting that I can set which would help diagnose the problem further?

GBDE automation scripts?

2003-03-12 Thread Lucky Green
I am writing a section for the Handbook on how to use gbde. Currently, using gbde is a rather manual process. Each time a host reboots, the admin needs to attach the gbde device(s), enter any required passphrases, manually fsck the partition, and mount it. I suspect some subscribers to this mailin

Re: Ethernet (xl) will not transmit or receive

2003-02-25 Thread Lucky Green
allation. I even flashed in the latest BIOS, but that had no effect. (The hardware has since been re-tasked and is no longer available for testing). --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

OpenSSL 0.9.6/0.9.7 library version conflicts

2003-02-12 Thread Lucky Green
I just spent a few days trying to determine why postfix with STARTTLS enabled is instantly dumping core on my new FreeBSD 5.0 machine. The problem was caused by a conflict between OpenSSL library versions 0.9.6 and 0.9.7, both of which are installed on the machine. The former as part of the FreeBS

RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Lucky Green
erboards. <http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/ipmi/>, but it seems to address a slightly different question. Thanks in advance, --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Lucky Green
I have a dual PIII Intel L440gx+ (VA Linux) server. I am running CURRENT cvsupped a few hours ago. This motherboard provides access to the BIOS via sio1. When booting, the serial BIOS shows everything that's happening until the point of booting the kernel (where it seems to switch video modes to h

RE: 5.0 without swap

2003-01-11 Thread Lucky Green
Miguel wrote: > Having no swap will prevent you from getting crashdumps in > case of panic which, if you run 5.0, is not that unusual. > Besides these days harddrives cost $1/GB, so why not setup > the swap partition anyway? I don't want cleartext cryptographic keys to ever touch magnetic media

5.0 without swap

2003-01-11 Thread Lucky Green
I am about to set up a FreeBSD 5.0 machine without a swap partition. The server has 1GB of RAM. Are there any caveats that I need to consider during installation or configuration? Thanks, --Lucky To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

5.0 upgrade via dump/restore how-to?

2002-12-17 Thread Lucky Green
A few folks have asked me if I knew if there is an how-to that could be used as a basis for upgrading a STABLE box to 5.0 using not the procedures in UPGRADING, but rather performing a clean 5.0 install on a fresh disk followed by restoring whatever is required to make the new install look like the

BDE drive encryption practices and techniques?

2002-12-15 Thread Lucky Green
I plan to deploy GBDE in an environment in which the absolute maximum of the system that can reasonably be kept encrypted on disk will be kept in an encrypted format. The system has the following requirements: 1) It must remain possible to administer the host over ssh. This includes rebooting the

DRM_LINUX, potential draw backs?

2002-11-11 Thread Lucky Green
Are there any potential draw backs to enabling DRM_LINUX? Or should DRM_LINUX be enabled whenever one enables COMPAT_LINUX? This has not been clear to me from reading NOTES. Thanks, --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in t

RE: Request: remove ssh1 fallback

2002-10-23 Thread Lucky Green
a machine on which ssh2 is not available would manually need to enable ssh1 login in their sshd_config file. But I would argue that permitting ssh1 login into a machine should be a conscious act taken by the administrator by editing the config file, not something that a distribution should enable

RE: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Lucky Green
images somewhere. It would be very helpful if somebody could provide those of us ready to start testing with the precise URL to the floppies/ISOs of a particular build that should be tested. --Lucky Green, who earlier today installed the HD on which 5.0 will live. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Request: remove ssh1 fallback

2002-10-22 Thread Lucky Green
of FreeBSD and hope the FreeBSD team will consider this change. Thanks, --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

FireWire in 5.0?

2002-09-28 Thread Lucky Green
e 5.0 release by, say, January? I am aware that there is existing FireWire code, I am just wondering by when you think the integration will likely be done. Thanks in advance, --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Suggestion to disable ssh1 in FreeBSD 5.0

2002-07-17 Thread Lucky Green
onfig file. 3) Compatibility reducing security is typically not a good thing. I therefore would like to ask the FreeBSD team to please consider to, in the default configuration of FreeBSD 5.0, only enable ssh2 for sshd. Thanks, --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q