Re: Deadlock in 5.3p5

2005-04-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2005-Apr-20 19:33:43 -0700, Doug White wrote: >On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> 0xc1e2ce70: tag ufs, type VREG, usecount 6, writecount 0, refcount 0, flags >> (VV_OBJBUF), lock type ufs: SHARED (count 1) with 1 pending >> ino 142169, on dev ad0s1g (4, 25) ... >> 142169 /u

installkernel succeeds, but old kernel boots

2005-04-20 Thread Paco Hope
I cvsupped the latest RELENG_5 sources and did make buildworld. Then I built and installed the kernel using make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=PACO make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=PACO Then I rebooted. So far so good. This is all normal. However, after I reboot and r

frequent crashing

2005-04-20 Thread Randy Bush
stable kernel of mar 7 but this has been happening for many months # kgdb kernel.debug /usr/home/crash/vmcore.1 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Re: Deadlock in 5.3p5

2005-04-20 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: > My son's computer deadlocked last night. "show lockedvnods" in DDB showed: > > Locked vnodes > 0xc1669840: tag ufs, type VDIR, usecount 8, writecount 0, refcount 2, flags > (VV_ROOT|VV_OBJBUF), lock type ufs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xc18ed000 (pid >

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 RC2 on a Compaq Laptop?

2005-04-20 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Matt Meola wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting 5.4RC2 installed on a Compaq Presario > laptop? According to my BIOS, I have a Presario R3200 (Athlon XP > processor). I get the splash screen, it begins the boot process > and then it just shuts off the computer. See t

Re: gstat and scripting

2005-04-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 21), Ronald Klop said: > The tool gstat can produce very nice stats. Can I get these stats > from the system periodicly for use in my one scripts/graphs? Is there > a sysctl like kern.ad0.reads? Or some other way of retreiving this > info from the kernel. Looking at the gst

Re: gstat and scripting

2005-04-20 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, The tool gstat can produce very nice stats. Can I get these stats from the system periodicly for use in my one scripts/graphs? Is there a sysctl like kern.ad0.reads? Or some other way of retreiving this info from the kernel. Looking at the gstat output, the numbers mus

[PATCH] securelevel and make installworld

2005-04-20 Thread Jon Noack
On 04/20/05 16:56, Ronald Klop wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:28:06 -0500, Jon Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 04/20/05 15:16, Ronald Klop wrote: Can make installworld complain on startup if I try to run it with securelevel > 0. It will fail half way through on some files with nochg flags or

gstat and scripting

2005-04-20 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, The tool gstat can produce very nice stats. Can I get these stats from the system periodicly for use in my one scripts/graphs? Is there a sysctl like kern.ad0.reads? Or some other way of retreiving this info from the kernel. Looking at the gstat output, the numbers must be in there. Ron

Re: Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start':

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Alexander Chamandy wrote: Has anyone seen these sorts of errors when compiling applications (such as PHP or Apache2)? I can buildworld, kernels and most of the ports.. but occasionally I run in to this error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `_init_tls'

Re: securelevel and make installworld

2005-04-20 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Ronald Klop wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:28:06 -0500, Jon Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 04/20/05 15:16, Ronald Klop wrote: Can make installworld complain on startup if I try to run it with securelevel > 0. It will fail half way through on some files with nochg flags or something lik

Re: tester needed: problems in 5.3R errata solved?

2005-04-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:34:29PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Hiroki Sato wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > Before 5.4R is released, I would like to make sure which problems > > described in 5.3R errata[*] are solved and which are not. > > If you had a problem on 5.3R a

Re: securelevel and make installworld

2005-04-20 Thread Ronald Klop
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:28:06 -0500, Jon Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 04/20/05 15:16, Ronald Klop wrote: Can make installworld complain on startup if I try to run it with securelevel > 0. It will fail half way through on some files with nochg flags or something like that. Design feat

'cut' and newline problem

2005-04-20 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear all, today I had problems with cut (tset -I -S -Q \?$term | cut -d ' ' -f1) on 5.4-RC3 and after googling for the error "cut: stdin: Illegal byte sequence" I found that someone already reported [1] that cut kind of misbehaves from 5.3-RC on. Is this still a problem? Thanks, -Harry [1] h

Re: securelevel and make installworld

2005-04-20 Thread Jon Noack
On 04/20/05 15:16, Ronald Klop wrote: Can make installworld complain on startup if I try to run it with securelevel > 0. It will fail half way through on some files with nochg flags or something like that. Design feature: 'schg' is the system immutable flag. Some system files are installed wi

Re: Floppy problems

2005-04-20 Thread Stefan Hauser
hello > I'm having a problem doing "newfs" to a floppy on a new installation. I tried > changing to a new floppy and get the same thing. > # fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0 > Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y > Processing done. > # bsdlabel -B -w /dev/fd0

Re: tester needed: problems in 5.3R errata solved?

2005-04-20 Thread Vivek Khera
On Apr 20, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Hiroki Sato wrote: Hi all, Before 5.4R is released, I would like to make sure which problems described in 5.3R errata[*] are solved and which are not. If you had a problem on 5.3R and you make sure it is solved (or still persists) on 5.4-RC series, could you please

securelevel and make installworld

2005-04-20 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, Can make installworld complain on startup if I try to run it with securelevel > 0. It will fail half way through on some files with nochg flags or something like that. Greetings, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >bash-2.05b$ su >Password: >bolivia# cp /usr/sbin/cron /home/wmoran/. >bolivia# cp /home/wmoran/cron /usr/sbin/. >cp: /usr/sbin/./cron: Text file busy >bolivia# > >Notice that /usr/sbin/cron is in use (because my system is running >normally) I can copy _fro

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Fact is, trying to update a running system could result in silent failures. >The system can not replace programs that are in use, so there's always the >chance that something or other won't get updated (cron would be an excellent >example ... do you always s

Re: 5.4-RC2 keyboard problem on Dell PowerEdge 2850

2005-04-20 Thread Eric Anderson
SÅawek Åak wrote: On 4/18/05, c0ldbyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-2] SÂawek Âak wrote: Hi, After install from CD the keyboard doesn't work on this machine. Has anyone else seen it? /S Select the correct key map screen map etc... ? Erm. When I say keyboard doesn't wo

Re: tester needed: problems in 5.3R errata solved?

2005-04-20 Thread Alexander Chamandy
On 4/20/05, Hiroki Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Before 5.4R is released, I would like to make sure which problems > described in 5.3R errata[*] are solved and which are not. > If you had a problem on 5.3R and you make sure it is solved (or > still persists) on 5.4-RC series, c

tester needed: problems in 5.3R errata solved?

2005-04-20 Thread Hiroki Sato
Hi all, Before 5.4R is released, I would like to make sure which problems described in 5.3R errata[*] are solved and which are not. If you had a problem on 5.3R and you make sure it is solved (or still persists) on 5.4-RC series, could you please inform us? Any comments are welcome. Thanks i

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-20 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake tofik suleymanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/04/05 03:55]: : This patch worked fine on RELENG_5 for amd64.Here are the steps we : did(as long as i remmember them): : : (assuming RELENG_5 is already up and running): : tar -zxf ata-mk3n-releng5.tar.gz : cp -R sys/modules/ata /usr/src/sys/mo

Re: Remote firewall changes, Was: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread dtalk-ml
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aristedes Maniatis wrote: Ok, everyone who has NEVER ever made that mistake (or locked themself out with a firewall rule, accidentally putting it into effect before testing) raise their hand. :) Yes, that would be me. But someone taught me a great tric

Re: Please Suport Starsky2 DVB-S card please

2005-04-20 Thread Julian Stacey
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Maher Mohamed wrote: > > Hello there I would like to ask you if you could add to the final > > realase drivers for the SkyStar2 PCI card it is a Digital Sat-Reciver > > made by TechniSat Company, the bad thing though is that they do not > > suport it > > > > Thank you v

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shunsuke SHINOMIYA) writes: > sysctl kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet=0 > sysctl kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt=0 > > affect to your router's performance? No effect for me. > and, disabling interrupt moderation of em(4) affects the

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("David Schwartz") writes: >> options HZ=1000 #for polling > That's too low. 2000 is the minimum you should consider. Having fixed my traffic generator, I'm now hitting ~220Kpps as limit before errors. > kern.random.sys.ha

Re: Remote firewall changes, Was: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Sebastian Krings - Kellerpunk
Aristedes Maniatis schrieb: On 20/04/2005, at 6:05 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: (And of course the obvious--DO NOT shut down the sshd daemon.) :) Ok, everyone who has NEVER ever made that mistake (or locked themself out with a firewall rule, accidentally putting it into effect before testing) raise t

Re: Remote firewall changes, Was: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Jared Earle
On 4/20/05, Aristedes Maniatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that would be me. But someone taught me a great trick...the "at" > command. So, just before you blow away your access with changes to > ipfw, do this: > > echo "ipfw add 1 pass all from any to any" at now +10 minutes > > Then if all

Remote firewall changes, Was: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
On 20/04/2005, at 6:05 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: (And of course the obvious--DO NOT shut down the sshd daemon.) :) Ok, everyone who has NEVER ever made that mistake (or locked themself out with a firewall rule, accidentally putting it into effect before testing) raise their hand. :) Yes, that woul

Re: FreeBSD and NMAP

2005-04-20 Thread Edwin Brown
You could also just enable pf and have one scrub rule. /etc/rc.conf pf_enable="YES" # Set to YES to enable packet filter (pf) pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf" # rules definition file for pf pf_program="/sbin/pfctl"# where the pfctl program lives pf_flags=""

Please, MFC geom_mbr.c 1.65 [Was: Recursive slicing of msdosfs disk (da0s4s4) ?]

2005-04-20 Thread Claude Buisson
I observed the same behaviour with a USB memory stick (da1s1s4). Everything is back to normal after applying the diff from geom_mbr.c 1.65 (and the problem seems not to be limited to "disks with extended partitions") Claude Buisson Original Message Subject: Recursive slicing of ms

Re: Meeting Security Requirements with FreeBSD

2005-04-20 Thread Wilko Bulte
The local guru is Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You might also be interested in http://www.trustedbsd.org Wilko On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 07:42:44AM -0400, Michael A. Koerber wrote.. > All, > > 1. Currently FreeBSD (or any other BSD) doesn't seem to be on the list > of approved OS's for cla

Meeting Security Requirements with FreeBSD

2005-04-20 Thread Michael A. Koerber
All, 1. Currently FreeBSD (or any other BSD) doesn't seem to be on the list of approved OS's for classified processing. I'm trying to obtain at least local approval, but I don't speak the "security language" too well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 2. The unix's that are approved are

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Mars G. Miro
>> Fact is, trying to update a running system could result in silent failures. >> The system can not replace programs that are in use, so there's always the >> chance that something or other won't get updated (cron would be an excellent >> example ... do you always shut cron off when you update? H

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Pete French
> Apparenlty, nobody who is claiming this has _tried_ it. Try it yourself Apparently yo misunderstood what people were claiming. Nobody said you can modify a running binary, merely that you can replace it. try deleting it and writing a new one. it does work, I do this all the time! -pcf. ___

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-20 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
> Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. > No > > NFS. It's a sort of diskless machine with all the system on ram. There > is a > > problem when the preloaded image is >~32MB. Kernel loads but it

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-20 Thread tofik suleymanov
Damian Gerow wrote: Thus spake Soren: : I've just uploaded the latest ATA mkIII patches for releng_5 (and : releng_5_4 for that matter). : : Since this work is now in -current there will only be releng_5 patches : now and then if there is sufficient interest. Since the work was done for ATAPICAM

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-20 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:18:17PM -0700, David G. Lawrence wrote: > >I assume you saw this in the tftpd manual page? > > BUGS > Files larger than 33488896 octets (65535 blocks) cannot be transferred > without client and server supporting blocksize negotiation (RFC1783). > > M