Re: DMA errors with SATA on 5.x [one fix]

2004-12-08 Thread Søren Schmidt
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 1:01 AM -0600 12/7/04, Tim Welch wrote: I'm getting NID not found/DMA errors on 5-STABLE with a Seagate 200gb sata drive: ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=10 LBA=268435455 This appears to be a result of 48-bit addressing. Any time a write is attempted to th

Re: painful delay during 5.3 boot

2004-12-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
> The problem just resurfaced when I built a custom 5.3 kernel. It turns > put that the problem was never fixed. The kernel on the 5.3 release > installation disk now just rejects the floppy drive when it configures > the floppy controller and the system comes up without the floppy drive, > some

Re: no internet after build world-kern install

2004-12-08 Thread whitevamp
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "whitevamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:43 PM Subject: Re: no internet after build world-kern install > > I have done a buildworld from 4.9 to 5.3 and also installed a new custom ker

hw.ata.ata_dma="0": can I do this during bootup at the loader prompt?

2004-12-08 Thread Rob
Hi, In /boot/loader.conf, I have hw.ata.ata_dma="0" to prevent a WRITE_DMA failure crash at bootup. Unfortunately, this forces my UDMA100 harddisk to operate at PIO4 speed. There are patches flying around on this mailing list that might solve the problem. I'm very keen on testing such patches, bu

Re: DMA errors with SATA on 5.x [one fix]

2004-12-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:01 AM -0600 12/7/04, Tim Welch wrote: I'm getting NID not found/DMA errors on 5-STABLE with a Seagate 200gb sata drive: ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=10 LBA=268435455 This appears to be a result of 48-bit addressing. Any time a write is attempted to the sector above, I get mul

Re: no internet after build world-kern install

2004-12-08 Thread whitevamp
ok i still havent got this resolved yet , heres an up date of things i have tryed to no avail , swaped out eth cards, swaped out cables, hooked up the box straight upto the dsl modem, looked around on the box to see if a firewall was getting started some ware and couldnt find one . so heres a recap

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0200, Crist?v?o Dalla Costa wrote: > Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the > BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a > core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half > th

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half the size of the RAM and the handbook says I needed one swap partition with at le

Re: no internet after build world-kern install

2004-12-08 Thread jl
> I have done a buildworld from 4.9 to 5.3 and also installed a new custom > kernel and > after all whent ok i rebooted the box and goto ping yahoo.com and i cant get > out , > and i also tryed pinging my outhere ip address and nothing on eathere one it > just > say destination unreachable. so

Re: trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801

2004-12-08 Thread Crucio
Booting safe mode actually works. Heck, I even got to use sysinstall. =} I shall try to replicate the stuff that gets set in beastie.4th and slap it into my loader.conf. Hopefully that should be enough to get me by. Thanks! --- Lapo Nustrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried booting

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 8 December 2004 at 11:20:34 +, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > >> I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers >> a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be >> causing this? > > If y

More WRITE_DMA problems on 5.3

2004-12-08 Thread Rob
Hi, Once again I ran into WRITE_DMA failure at bootup with one of my PCs. Motherboard: LGM-VBX6 Twin Processor /* not dual */ VIA 82C693 Apollo Pro AGPset 2Mb Flash ROM BIOS UDMA66 support BIOS: Award Software Inc. v4.51PG Harddisk: IBM-DTLA-307045/TX6OA50C 43979M

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:15 PM 08/12/2004, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote: I've disabled SMP with the kern.smp.disabled=1 sysctl and I'll see what happens next. Strangely though the kernel seems to think the system has only one cpu despite it being hyperthreaded: You want to turn HT off in the BIOS. The scheduler wil

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:21:24PM -0200, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote: I just installed 5.3 RELEASE on a new server today and everytime I try to compile someting for more than five minutes it crashes. This sounds like hardware, but it could be a bug related to your part

Re: ULE scheduler broken and not documented

2004-12-08 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 04:21 pm, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > Hello to all, > > I'm runinng RELENG_5 and I noticed that ULE scheduler is broken. > Shouldn't this be documented in UPDATING? > > Thanks very much, > > Nuno Teixeira It's documented in errata: (1 Nov 2004) The ULE schedu

Re: trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801

2004-12-08 Thread Crucio
I shall try this. Do you have any idea what differs for the IDE driver (I presume ATAng) when booting into safe mode? --- Lapo Nustrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried booting up in safe mode? > I have a similar issue running 5.3 STABLE on a > machine which runs fine > with 5.3 BETA7

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:21:24PM -0200, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote: > I just installed 5.3 RELEASE on a new server today and everytime I try > to compile someting for more than five minutes it crashes. This sounds like hardware, but it could be a bug related to your particular system. Do you

5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Hello I just installed 5.3 RELEASE on a new server today and everytime I try to compile someting for more than five minutes it crashes. The message it said in the console is something like "page fault while in kernel mode", excuse-me if I don't remember it verbatim but I just drove home from th

Re: ULE scheduler broken and not documented

2004-12-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:21:02PM +, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > Hello to all, > > I'm runinng RELENG_5 and I noticed that ULE scheduler is broken. > Shouldn't this be documented in UPDATING? Yes. I thought it was, but you are correct in asserting that it isn't. Ceri -- Only two things are

ULE scheduler broken and not documented

2004-12-08 Thread Nuno Teixeira
Hello to all, I'm runinng RELENG_5 and I noticed that ULE scheduler is broken. Shouldn't this be documented in UPDATING? Thanks very much, Nuno Teixeira -- SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: Making a data DVD with 4.10 and dvd+rw-format

2004-12-08 Thread Joan Picanyol
* nicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041203 11:47]: > Joan Picanyol wrote: > >* Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041203 10:52]: > >>Joan Picanyol wrote: > # grep atapi /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LILO > device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives > > >>>You don't need thi

no internet after build world-kern install

2004-12-08 Thread whitevamp
I have done a buildworld from 4.9 to 5.3 and also installed a new custom kernel and after all whent ok i rebooted the box and goto ping yahoo.com and i cant get out , and i also tryed pinging my outhere ip address and nothing on eathere one it just say destination unreachable. so i whent back a

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Robert" == Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> This is a NULL pointer dereference; you can use addr2line or > Robert> gdb on your kernel.debug to turn it into a line number even > Robert> without a core. That might well be wort

Re: trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801

2004-12-08 Thread Lapo Nustrini
Have you tried booting up in safe mode? I have a similar issue running 5.3 STABLE on a machine which runs fine with 5.3 BETA7. Booting into safe mode works fine. Any other way, and it gets ATAPI errors or SCSI errors (if I take all ATAPI stuff out of the kernel). Still trying to find the real

Re: devfs rules

2004-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Frank Mayhar wrote: cat /etc/devfs.rules [devfsrules_local=15] add path 'bpf*' mode 0660 add path 'ugen*' mode 0664 add path 'cd*' mode 0664 For example. For some hints, 'man devfs' and /etc/defaults/devfs.rules. Oh, and for this example, don't forget to add devfs_system_ruleset="devfsru

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread David Gilbert
> "Robert" == Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> This is a NULL pointer dereference; you can use addr2line or Robert> gdb on your kernel.debug to turn it into a line number even Robert> without a core. That might well be worth doing, as we might Robert> be able to debug that ev

Re: devfs rules

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Mayhar
Frank Mayhar wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > [ Charset ISO-8859-2 unsupported, converting... ] > > Is there a canonical way of preserving devfs rules (device permissions > > actually) across reboots? > > >cat /etc/devfs.rules > [devfsrules_local=15] > add path 'bpf*' mode 0660 > add path 'ugen*' mo

Re: devfs rules

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Mayhar
Ivan Voras wrote: [ Charset ISO-8859-2 unsupported, converting... ] > Is there a canonical way of preserving devfs rules (device permissions > actually) across reboots? >cat /etc/devfs.rules [devfsrules_local=15] add path 'bpf*' mode 0660 add path 'ugen*' mode 0664 add path 'cd*' mode 0664 For

Re: devfs rules

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 17:55, Ivan Voras wrote: > Is there a canonical way of preserving devfs rules (device permissions > actually) across reboots? > > It seems devd.conf works only for "static" devices, not hotplugged, > while devfs rules works for those, but they vanish on reboot. You c

Re: devfs rules

2004-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Is there a canonical way of preserving devfs rules (device permissions actually) across reboots? It seems devd.conf works only for "static" devices, not hotplugged, ^ this should have been "devfs.conf" while devfs(8) rules work for those, but they vani

devfs rules

2004-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Is there a canonical way of preserving devfs rules (device permissions actually) across reboots? It seems devd.conf works only for "static" devices, not hotplugged, while devfs rules works for those, but they vanish on reboot. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
I played around with the kernel debug options a little and found peculiar things: - With just options KDB (and no debugger backend specified), a panic will just cause some output scroll very fast on the console - perhaps kdb is trying to enter a nonexisting debugger backend and loops? - With

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 13:38, Robert Watson wrote: Okay, I've now enabled the following in the kernel: options KDB options KDB_TRACE options DDB > So I'm thinking it > would be nice to know: > > - Can you enter and continue from kdb normally using the sysctl. Yes

vinum crashes by using more then 11 disks on RELENG_4

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi, Ihas following System dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 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 4.10-STABLE #1: Tue Nov 30 14:26:29 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 13:38, Robert Watson wrote: > ULE is temporarily without an owner, but Jeff and others have expressed > interest in working on it further. I'd not run it for the time being, but > it's probably not a hopeless case. Does the above statement mean that the > hangs or p

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > I don't have kdb enabled in my kernel configuration at all... > > > > I'm guessing it might be useful at this point, if possible :-). > > Useful for what exactly? I'm mainly interested in getting this machine > to auto-reboot after a (watchdog-

vinum crashes the Box by using more then ten disks on RELENG_4

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi, Ihas following System dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 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 4.10-STABLE #1: Tue Nov 30 14:26:29 CE

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 13:16, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > panic: page fault > > > > This is a NULL pointer dereference; you can use addr2line or gdb on your > > kernel.debug to turn it into a line number even without a core. That > > might well be worth doing, as we might be able to d

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 12:54, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 12:20, Robert Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog > > >

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 12:20, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers > > > a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 12:28, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers > > > a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 12:20, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers > > a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be > > causing this? > > If you drop to th

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers > > a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be > > causing this? > > If you drop to the debugger b

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers > a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be > causing this? If you drop to the debugger by using the debug.kdb.enter sysctl, and do "call doadum

Re: 4.10 and KDE 3.3.1 == broken :(

2004-12-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:48, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Needless to say that is quite untested/unsupported by us, and if you've > > been using any packages there's a good chance things aren't fitting > > together so well. I do hope Xorg 6.8.1 won't break KDE on 4.x once it's > > in ports, but I can't

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Tuesday, 7. December 2004 21:54, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers a > panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be > causing this? FWIW, I got a "real" panic today (page fault) and no dump was taken the

painful delay during 5.3 boot

2004-12-08 Thread Dan Strick
(I am posting this message to freebsd-stable because release 5.3 is allegedly now stable and freebsd-current is now beginning to concern itself with things that will belong to release 6.0. Let me know if another mailing list would be more appropriate.) When FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 was being tested I repo

Re: FreeBSD sound distortion problems with SB Live! fixed with PREEMPTION

2004-12-08 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
[ freebsd-stabl@ is now the right place for RELENG_5 ]. On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:48:40PM -0700, Travis Poppe wrote: > Hello all, > > Back in October, I contacted the list and described a problem I was > having with FreeBSD 5.X (now 5.3-RELEASE) and sound. I will reiterate > the problem one more