Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Søren Schmidt
Doug White wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: This is why I don't trust ATA RAID for fault tolerance -- it'll save your data, but the system will tank. Since the disk state is maintained by the OS and not abstracted by a separate processor, if a disk dies in a particularly bad way the s

Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2004-Dec-13 18:37:29 -0800, Doug White wrote: >I in fact tested this on Saturday and it in fact rebooted. With GENERIC, >even. The digi driver sort of got left behind with the tty changes and >handed out uninitialized mutexes that trip null pointer panics. Machine >came back up fine, so u

not putty but mostly a dns and windows virus problem

2004-12-13 Thread Eriq Lamar
yep, I did also have an old version of putty, but I think the main problem was the dns conf and network problems, there is one windows box acting as a server on the same network that got a few viruses and started taking up all the bandwidth I found this yesterday and have tightened up security by i

polling probrem?

2004-12-13 Thread Katsuji Ishikawa
I have rebuid the FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE kernel with options below: options DEVICE_POLLING options HZ=1000 on ThinkPad iSeries 1800. And setting 'sysctl kern.polling.enable=1', then running dnetc installed from ports(dnetc-2.9008.491_1,1), I detected considerable amount of packet lo

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > This is why I don't trust ATA RAID for fault tolerance -- it'll save your > > data, but the system will tank. Since the disk state is maintained by > > the OS and not abstracted by a separate processor, if a disk dies in a > > particularly bad way the sys

Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page > > > faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. > > > This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at f

Re: QEMU

2004-12-13 Thread Jon Noack
Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:03:00PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a >> knoppix live-cd from iso-image with: > > I tried to build it from ports on amd64 but the compiler segfaulted. :-( > So it might be interesti

Fixing Posix semaphores

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have a desire to fix posix semaphores in at least 5.3. The current implementation doesn't actually follow the "spirit" of the standard, even though it technically qualifies in a somewhat degraded sense. I refer to the fact that the current implementation treats posix semaphores as completely co

Re: hushlogin attribute

2004-12-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rostislav Krasny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, there are few words about one should run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' > after each change. But this is not what I propose to add to the manual page > and /etc/login.conf is not a manual page by itself. At first I wasn't pay > attention to these lin

Re: putty times out on 5.3 box

2004-12-13 Thread Will Froning
Have you actually tried connecting to port 22 via telnet or nc? If that does work, PuTTY has a tons of debugging options to show you where things have failed. If the debugging output gives you headaches send the output to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for some super help. ;) You can send me the output off l

Re: QEMU

2004-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:03:00PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a > knoppix live-cd from iso-image with: I tried to build it from ports on amd64 but the compiler segfaulted. :-( So it might be interesting to know what platform you

Re: QEMU

2004-12-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Jon Noack wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:03:00PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a knoppix live-cd from iso-image with: I tried to build it from ports on amd64 but the compiler segfaulted. :-( So it might be intere

Re[2]: Installation attempt results in shutdown

2004-12-13 Thread dima
Seems to be a widely suffered ACPI issue... Have you tried different choices from the boot menu? 1) booting with ACPI disabled 2) safe mode 3) with verbose kernel logging Could you tell us if 1) a choice from above would help you to boot 2) the last messages with verbose logging enabled (well, if y

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:03:06PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > That's not quite fair. He was obviously testing to see how resilient > ATA RAID is to drive failures during rebuilding, as part of a series of > tests. (Obviously, it is not.) If you look at his original message, he > did not even "y

Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Oleg V. Nauman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:05:33AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page > > > faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. > > > This makes this problem hard to w

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:28 -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:59:16PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > > Thats a nice shotgun you have there. > > > > Yessir. And that's what testing is designed to uncover. The question is > > why this w

Re: sys/bitypes.h (4.10)?

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see a bitypes.h that ships with BIND (and is in src/contrib/bind), but > there isn't an independent FreeBSD version. I suspect someone or something > thought it'd be clever to sneak that in .. it should be OK to remove. Turns out the dns/bind8 and dns/bin

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:59:16PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > > Thats a nice shotgun you have there. > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > Yessir. And that's what testing is designed to uncover. The question is > > why this works, and how do we prevent it? On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 1

thx to all that helped w/ putty or sshd problem

2004-12-13 Thread Eriq Lamar
most of the problem was w/ my dns conf. but the other suggestions opened my eyes to alot thx. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.5.1 - Release Date: 12/13/2004 ___ [EMAIL PROT

Re: QEMU

2004-12-13 Thread Jon Noack
Ivan Voras wrote: > Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a > knoppix live-cd from iso-image with: > > qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -boot d > > It always reboots the computer (no core-dump, no panic, just reboot - > and that's as user-started process, not under root). Same

Questions about GEOM and MIRROR

2004-12-13 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Hi. I just added two disks (ad4 & ad6, SATA 160Go) to my FreeBSD box. I want to use them in the following configuration: - ad4s1 & ad6s1: geom mirror of 80Go containing all my precious data (/, /usr, /var, /home) - ad4s2b: swap - ad4s2x, ad6s2x: non-important data On the mirror (ad4s

Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page > > faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. > > This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..) On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 1

QEMU

2004-12-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a knoppix live-cd from iso-image with: qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -boot d It always reboots the computer (no core-dump, no panic, just reboot - and that's as user-started process, not under root). Same thing under X11 or console.

Re: putty times out on 5.3 box

2004-12-13 Thread Mike Hunter
On Dec 12, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > I can't seem to get remote access anymore but at the site everything seems to > work?? I run a webserver and all the sites run fine but all of a sudden no > more > access through putty, or ftp. The only thing that is diff is I enabled ipfw > but > only

Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page > faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. > This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..) It reboots fine on my systems. D

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:59:16PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > Thats a nice shotgun you have there. > > Yessir. And that's what testing is designed to uncover. The question is > why this works, and how do we prevent it? I'm sure Soren appreciates you don

Fw: Re: Installation attempt results in shutdown

2004-12-13 Thread dima
-Original Message- From: David Jonsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:57:29 +0100 Subject: Re: Installation attempt results in shutdown > > 2.3.1.1, stage 6. I get some alternatives to choose, and there is a > ASCII-FreeBSD deamon at the right

RE: netstat fails with memory allocation error and error in kvm_read

2004-12-13 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, J. Martin Petersen wrote: > > > We are trying to gather some debug information for a problem that is > > > difficult to diagnose, as the machine always ends up hard frozen > > > (does not do anything, can not break to debugger, does not respond > > > to keyboard, etc.), so we

RE: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA on SATA disc

2004-12-13 Thread Alexei Yakimovich
Hello, I have the same problem with my 5.3-RELEASE GENERIC kernel. --CUT-- Nov 27 14:38:02 altair kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=26344735 --CUT-- --CUT-- Dec 7 18:02:11 altair kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=70378111 Dec 7 18:02:12

RE: netstat fails with memory allocation error and error in kvm_read

2004-12-13 Thread J. Martin Petersen
> > We are trying to gather some debug information for a problem that is > > difficult to diagnose, as the machine always ends up hard frozen > > (does not do anything, can not break to debugger, does not respond > > to keyboard, etc.), so we are dumping output from netstat, vmstat, > > iost

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

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Lackas
* Erik Hollensbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041211 16:55]: Hi Erik, > > > I have to dispatch a > > >atacontrol mode 1 foo UDMA33 > > You can use /etc/rc.early for that. You'll have to create it if it > > doesn't yet exist. Put 'atacontrol mode 1 foo UDMA33' in it, and it > > should execute that com

code to allegedly support realtek gigabit ethernet for 4.x available

2004-12-13 Thread Barry Bouwsma
e First of all, sorry for the delay in this -- I had hoped to get this done in time for the 4.11 code freeze, but I don't feel this is yet ready for inclusion into 4.x, until a couple of observed issues are resolved. What good is support if it's somewhat broken? Anyway, I've taken the if_re code

Re: is it possible to mount a vinum-fs on 2 hosts?

2004-12-13 Thread Michael Grant
I would love to see a cluster capable filesystem for freebsd. I do not know if this will help your situation but I have seen people mount the file system read/write on Host A and then mount the file system from Host A via NFS on Host B. This allows B to write to the file system using A. Michae

is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..) Or is there a new/undocumented configuration option? On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at

VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL

2004-12-13 Thread virusalert
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