Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Rob
--- Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since your /home is almost empty, how about (temporarily) moving the contents into /usr and swapping onto ad0s1e rather than into a swapfile. This should at least enable you to build a debug kernel. I'm now indeed building a new kernel, without

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Rob
One more thing, for those who are reading this thread. Concerning my kernel locking up while using a swapfile: I had an infinite while loop running during the kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every 15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes dead is this: /dev/ad0s1b

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2005-Nov-15 02:08:12 -0800, Rob wrote: makeoptions DEBUG=-g options INVARIANTS options WITNESS options WITNESS_KDB options KDB options DDB options DDB_NUMSYM options GDB Is that enough? If your system is headless, you probably want 'options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER' as well. First

Promise TX4300 boot problems

2005-11-15 Thread Lawrence Farr
I've stuck a Promise TX4300 controller in to replace the marvell onboard SATA that I can't boot off on a Supermicro server. If I set 2 discs up as Raid 0 or Raid 1 it's fine, But 4 discs as Raid 0+1 is detected, installs without any problems, but hangs at the boot loader with elf32_loadimage:

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you can compile a kernel without it, add DDB, WITNESS and INVARIANTS support, then trigger the deadlock with the swapfile, break to DDB and examine the state of the machine. See the chapter on kernel

Re: ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred.

2005-11-15 Thread Sven Willenberger
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 22:57 -0800, Ade Lovett wrote: On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:51 , Amit Rao wrote: 0) Upgrade to Seagate 10K.7 drive firmware level 0008. That seems to help. One ahd sequencer error message still appears at boot, but after that it seems to work (with your fingers crossed).

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Rob
--- Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-Nov-15 02:08:12 -0800, Rob wrote: makeoptions DEBUG=-g options INVARIANTS options WITNESS options WITNESS_KDB options KDB options DDB options DDB_NUMSYM options GDB Is that enough? If your system is headless, you

FreeBSD-6 amr and ahd trouble

2005-11-15 Thread Joerg Pulz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I'm running an Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy RX300 dual-XEON hyperthreading enabled server with an onboard LSI MegaRAID controller and an Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 dual channel SCSI adapter. The LSI MegaRAID controller is configured to RAID1

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-15 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: pldrouin Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. pldrouin acpiconf -i loop reproduces the problem for me too.

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:16:47AM -0800, Rob wrote: --- Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-Nov-15 02:08:12 -0800, Rob wrote: makeoptions DEBUG=-g options INVARIANTS options WITNESS options WITNESS_KDB options KDB options DDB options DDB_NUMSYM

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:15:37AM -0800, Rob wrote: One more thing, for those who are reading this thread. Concerning my kernel locking up while using a swapfile: I had an infinite while loop running during the kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every 15 seconds. The last

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-15 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: pldrouin Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. pldrouin acpiconf

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-15 Thread Nate Lawson
Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: pldrouin Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. pldrouin acpiconf

Re: Filesystems 1TB not possible on 6.0-R (anymore?).

2005-11-15 Thread David Kirchner
FWIW, we have a 6.0-RELEASE machine running now with two 2TB partitions, using disklabel(bsdlabel) rather than gpt. This is with the 3ware driver. Could the problem you're having be with the arcmsr driver in some way? Anyone else on the list using that card able to confirm it?

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Lars Kristiansen
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:16:47AM -0800, Rob wrote: --- Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-Nov-15 02:08:12 -0800, Rob wrote: makeoptions DEBUG=-g options INVARIANTS options WITNESS options WITNESS_KDB options KDB options DDB options DDB_NUMSYM

Re: kernel land ppp makes mage fault

2005-11-15 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:38:16AM +0200, Anatoli Marinov wrote: A I try to use pptp (pptpclient) and ppp connection to my ISP with FreeBSD A 6-STABLE. A If I compile pptp from ports after installation it works in user land and A consume 50-60% from my CPU time (for 200 KB/sec). A Before

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Lars Kristiansen
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:15:37AM -0800, Rob wrote: One more thing, for those who are reading this thread. Concerning my kernel locking up while using a swapfile: I had an infinite while loop running during the kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every 15 seconds. The last

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:49:57PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:15:37AM -0800, Rob wrote: One more thing, for those who are reading this thread. Concerning my kernel locking up while using a swapfile: I had an infinite while loop running during the

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:44:12PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote: A couple of the times but not everytime the following message was repeatedly displayed at the console before freezing: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 273427, size: 4096 AFAICT that is just a

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-15 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Nate Lawson wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: pldrouin Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin laptop is back to normal when I remove the

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Johny Mattsson
On 11/16/05 07:49, Lars Kristiansen wrote: I had an infinite while loop running during the kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every 15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes dead is this: /dev/ad0s1b 39848118203984830% /dev/md0 131072 5908

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:26:43AM +1100, Johny Mattsson wrote: On 11/16/05 07:49, Lars Kristiansen wrote: I had an infinite while loop running during the kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every 15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes dead is this: /dev/ad0s1b

Re: Strange boot messages under 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:01:19PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Ales wrote: During boot process under 6.0-STABLE I spoted some strange messages. Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek savecore: reboot after panic: page fault Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek savecore: no

moused flags behaviour in 6.0 -- regression?

2005-11-15 Thread martinko
hello, until freebsd 6.0 (that is to say in 5.3 and 5.4) i used moused_flags=-3 in rc.conf and both my mice worked correctly (or as desired) -- synaptics touchpad missing 3rd button was emulated while the wheel on my USB mouse worked as expected. now, in 6.0, with the same setting, touchpad

Re: Promise TX4300 boot problems

2005-11-15 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Lawrence Farr wrote: I've stuck a Promise TX4300 controller in to replace the marvell onboard SATA that I can't boot off on a Supermicro server. If I set 2 discs up as Raid 0 or Raid 1 it's fine, But 4 discs as Raid 0+1 is detected, installs without any problems, but

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Rob
--- Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-Nov-15 02:08:12 -0800, Rob wrote: 2) Is such debugging possible on a headless PC without a keyboard attached? I do have serial console access. Yes. See above URL. The advantage is that you can (hopefully) capture a log of

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread David Wolfskill
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:09:33PM -0800, Rob wrote: ... Yes. See above URL. The advantage is that you can (hopefully) capture a log of your debug session. Send a serial BREAK and you should get a DDB prompt. What is this serial BREAK? How do I send a serial BREAK at the serial

xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-15 Thread James Long
After hours of head-banging over the past couple of days, I have finally succeeded in installing EITHER xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 OR xterm-206_1. Previously, installing either port told me that it conflicted with the other, in spite of having cvsupped my ports tree twice to ensure I was getting the

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:18:35PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:09:33PM -0800, Rob wrote: ... Yes. See above URL. The advantage is that you can (hopefully) capture a log of your debug session. Send a serial BREAK and you should get a DDB prompt.

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-15 Thread James Long
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:32:45PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:26:16PM -0800, James Long wrote: After hours of head-banging over the past couple of days, I have finally succeeded in installing EITHER xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 OR xterm-206_1. Previously,

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Kris Kennaway wrote this message on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 22:35 -0500: What is this serial BREAK? How do I send a serial BREAK at the serial console? Is this some magic key combination? I'm probably saying something about my age by doing this :-} A BREAK (in serial

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:18:35PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:09:33PM -0800, Rob wrote: ... What is this serial BREAK? How do I send a serial BREAK at the serial console? Is this some magic key combination? I'm probably saying something about my age

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-15 Thread Rob
James Long wrote: Then I noticed: === xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 depends on package: xterm0 - not found and investigated the Makefile to find why the odd package name of xterm0. My portstree from Nov. 12th, has this at this particular place: RUN_DEPENDS=

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:44:25 -0800 (PST) From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Long wrote: Then I noticed: === xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 depends on package: xterm0 - not found and investigated the Makefile to find why the odd package name of

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:51, Danny Pansters wrote: I myself am not really doing anything with capturing, but some ideas that may be helpful: FWIW, from what I know in ring capture mode the video gets synch'd by the audio by having enough frames per audio sample. So if audio sample size or

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-15 Thread James Long
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:56:33PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:49:10PM -0800, James Long wrote: === xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 depends on package: xterm0 - not found and investigated the Makefile to find why the odd package name of xterm0. Looks as if the

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-15 Thread Stephen Hurd
Daniel O'Connor wrote: FreeBSD doesn't have rtc.ko.. Mine doesn't anyway :) I'm not sure how mplayer in FreeBSD stamps frames either. It's not stock, but /dev/rtc (via rtc.ko) can be had via emulators/rtc if rtc.ko exists, it's a dependency, to force it to be built you can frob the