Urgent! Can't boot up FreeBSD 6

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: First, my thanks to all of you who responded to my problem with booting up to FreeBSD 6. And thank you for explaining to me that the proper forum for that is freebsd-questions. And that is what I will do from now on. Thank you again. Benjamin

Re: gmirror on existing filesystem (was Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?)

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Jakubik
Craig Boston wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:04:02AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: There's no need to copy files around. gmirror handles it all for you behind the scenes. Just create the gmirror labels using the existing disks/slices/partitions, then insert the second set of

buildkernel failure on latest -stable source

2006-03-21 Thread Peter van Heusden
I recently re-installed a local machine with FreeBSD 6.1 BETA 4, in order to get around the SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE problem I emailed the list about earlier. I'm still having problems (slightly different errors) when running with normal settings, so I've been running this box in 'safe' mode.

Re: FreeBSD box dropping packets

2006-03-21 Thread Anton Nikiforov
Hello and thanks for the replay. Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 21:26:56 +0300, Anton Nikiforov wrote: I have a FreeBSD box running 5.4-RELEASE-p8. ... A week ago it was working just properly, but after adding more RAM (2GB additional RAM, and i do not thing that this is

Bluetooth on Acer Ferrari 4005

2006-03-21 Thread Maher Mohamed
Hello I have the a Ferrari 4005 LMWI, the laptop comes with a bluetooth mouse, did anyone made it work under freebsd? And how ? thank you in advanced -- Mohamed M. Maher ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bluetooth on Acer Ferrari 4005

2006-03-21 Thread Eric Anderson
Maher Mohamed wrote: Hello I have the a Ferrari 4005 LMWI, the laptop comes with a bluetooth mouse, did anyone made it work under freebsd? And how ? There's a great bluetooth mailing list for FreeBSD, that this question is better suited on, but anyway:

Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
[Moved from -current to -stable] вівторок 21 березень 2006 16:23, Matthew Dillon Ви написали:     You might be doing just writes to the mmap()'d memory, but the system     doesn't know that. Actually, it does. The program tells it, that I don't care to read, what's currently there, by

more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
When I mount with large read and write sizes: mount_nfs -r 65536 -w 65536 -U -ointr pandora:/backup /backup it changes -- for the worse. Short time into it -- the file stops growing according to the `ls -sl' run on the NFS server (pandora) at exactly 3200 FS blocks (the FS was created

Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : [Moved from -current to -stable] : :צ×ÔÏÒÏË 21 ÂÅÒÅÚÅÎØ 2006 16:23, Matthew Dillon ÷É ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ: : š š You might be doing just writes to the mmap()'d memory, but the system : š š doesn't know that. : :Actually, it does. The program tells it, that I don't care to read, what's :currently

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:When the client is in this state it remains quite usable except for the :following: : : 1) Trying to start `systat 1 -vm' stalls ALL access to local disks, : apparently -- no new programs can start, and the running ones : can not access any data either; attempts to

Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 17:48, Matthew Dillon Ви написали: :Actually, it does. The program tells it, that I don't care to read, what's :currently there, by specifying the PROT_READ flag only.     That's an architectural flag.  Very few architectures actually support     write-only memory

Re: FreeBSD box dropping packets

2006-03-21 Thread Anton Nikiforov
Hello All, Anton Nikiforov wrote: Hello and thanks for the replay. Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 21:26:56 +0300, Anton Nikiforov wrote: I have a FreeBSD box running 5.4-RELEASE-p8. ... A week ago it was working just properly, but after adding more RAM (2GB additional

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 17:56, Matthew Dillon Ви написали:  For UDP mounts, 65536 is too large (the UDP data length can     only be 65536 bytes.  For that matter, the *IP* packet itself can     not exceed 65535 bytes.  So 65536 will not work with a UDP mount. Well, then the mount should

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:26:45PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: The problem is about same with 32K and 16K packets. With 8K packets, the thing kind-of works (although trying to `systat -vm' still stalls disk access), but the outgoing traffic is over 20Mb/s on average -- MUCH more,

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 18:48, Patrick M. Hausen Ви написали: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:26:45PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: The problem is about same with 32K and 16K packets. With 8K packets, the thing kind-of works (although trying to `systat -vm' still stalls disk access), but the

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 18:48, Patrick M. Hausen Ви написали: Are you using TCP or UDP for your NFS mounts? Ok, I just tried tcp as follows: mount_nfs -r 8192 -w 8192 -U -otcp,intr,tcp pandora:/backup /backup (oops, twice :-) The symptoms are largely the same. The file stopped

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I don't specify either, but the default is UDP, is not it? Yes, the default is UDP. : Now imagine a client that experiences this problem only : sometimes. Modern hardware, but for some reason (network : congestion?) some frames are still lost if sent back-to-back. : (Realtek chipset on the

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Jon Dama
From Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:58:01PM -0500: I'll try the TCP mount, workaround. If it helps, we can assume, our UDP NFS is broken for sustained high bandwidth writes :-( What? I think you misunderstood. UDP NFS fairs poorly under network congestion; it

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 19:25, Matthew Dillon Ви написали: If the program works over a local     filesystem but fails to produce data in the output file on an NFS     mount (but completes otherwise), then there is a bug in NFS somewhere.     If the problem is simply due to the program

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The file stops growing, but the network bandwidth remains at 20Mb/s. `Netstat :-s' on the client, had the following to say (udp and ip only): If the network bandwidth is still going full bore then the program is doing something. NFS retries would not account for it. A simple test

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 20:09, Matthew Dillon Ви написали: If the network bandwidth is still going full bore then the program is doing something. NFS retries would not account for it. A simple test for that would be to ^Z the program once it gets into this state and see if

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 20:09, Matthew Dillon Ви написали:     If neither of those are an issue then I would guess that the problem     could be related to the NFSv3 2-phase commit protocol.  A way to test     that would be to mount with NFSv2 and see if the problem still occurs. Adding -2

Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS

2006-03-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 21 березень 2006 20:53, Matthew Dillon Ви написали: Ah ha. That's the problem. I don't know why you are getting a write error, but that is preventing the client from cleaning out the dirty buffers. The number of dirty buffers continues to rise and the client is just

Switch to using rc.d for local packages is premature for RELENG_6

2006-03-21 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi guys, As part of testing how well some of our products work with latest RELENG_6, I have make a new build and found that lot of important services (for example PostgreSQL, Apache) doesn't start up (despite having respective xxx_enable entries in /etc/rc.conf) when installed from the

Re: Switch to using rc.d for local packages is premature for RELENG_6

2006-03-21 Thread Maxim Sobolev
I have just realized that maybe the best approach to address this problem would be not reverting the change in question, but making find_local_scripts_new() more strict, so that only those local rc.d scripts that have been explicitly marked by maintainer as fully rc.d-safe are handled in a new

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2006-03-21 Thread postcard . com
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Process hanging on 6.0-STABLE

2006-03-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I work for a small company that makes radar systems for research organisations and we use FreeBSD on the PCs for data acquisition and processing. We have recently shifted to FreeBSD6/amd64 and one machine in particular is exhibiting a strange problem. The acquisition process is a Tcl