bind9 trouble in -PRERELEASE

2006-11-01 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
Hello, I have a server with busy local DNS (bind 9.3.2-P1, listen on localhost). The bind9 got strange problem and gone away for the last some days: Oct 31 11:34:49 cat9 named[500]: /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/mem.c:628: INSIST(((unsigned char *)mem )[size] ==

Re: panic: vfs_getopt: caller passed 'opts' as NULL

2006-11-01 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On 10/31/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that they'll be demand-loaded if requested (e.g. if you try to mount_nullfs). Maybe you or something else tried to mount such a filesystem by accident? But the point is mood anyway, since I could not reproduce the problem. I tried

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Nov-01 06:14:03 +1000, Greg Black wrote: The state of the software out there is disgracefully far from being ready for 64-bit platforms -- after wasting weeks in a vain attempt to get a workable development environment on my amd64 setup, I've just completed a move to i386 (by a fresh

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Oct-31 14:44:46 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: - certain ports have i386 binaries (can't be fixed) - certain ports have i386 asm code (can be fixed if there is fallback C code) A partial solution to this is to get the i386 emulation and cross- building into better shape. If I

RE: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-11-01 Thread SiteRollout.com
Many thanks for all the replies guys. I used the following method pasted below remotely without having to boot up in single user mode and it worked fine to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1/6.2, so I'm sharing with all in case anyone needs to do the same. However I want to downgrade from 6.2 PRERELEASE to

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Pete French
This doesn't tally with my experiences. I've had an amd64 laptop Me neither - but then I think this is a large case of 'your mileage may vary', as it entirely depends on what you are doing. I did find, like the original poster, that a number of language ports didn't work properly when I first

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-11-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 20:41, Jack Vogel wrote: = I still think it looks like some kind of scheduler issue going on = here, so maybe this is something to check. Why would the scheduler affect the sys component of the load (which shoots to the sky before the machine drops of the network)? I

Re: panic: vfs_getopt: caller passed 'opts' as NULL

2006-11-01 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:57:48AM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: On 10/31/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that they'll be demand-loaded if requested (e.g. if you try to mount_nullfs). Maybe you or something else tried to mount such a filesystem by accident? But the point

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-11-01 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 12:53, SiteRollout.com wrote: Many thanks for all the replies guys. I used the following method pasted below remotely without having to boot up in single user mode and it worked fine to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1/6.2, so I'm sharing with all in case anyone needs to

Re: Still possible to directly boot without loader?

2006-11-01 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 26 October 2006 15:54, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:42:34PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 26 October 2006 15:18, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:38:24AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Sorry, I

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-11-01 Thread Steven Hartland
Mikhail Teterin wrote: Actually, it stalls even with polling disabled. It just takes A LOT longer, as I just found out. Instead of minutes, it takes hours of heavey traffict to stall, but it still happens. Pressing a key still wakes it up... Sounds like apm or something making the machine go

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Greg Black wrote: [ ... ] Dunno about PAE on i386 (and don't much care). As it happens, my amd64 box is hardly higher end, but it has slots for 4GB and its doco claims that it can run with 4GB. However, to my great displeasure, I discovered after setting it up that both its BIOS and any OS I

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-11-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
середа 01 листопад 2006 08:44, Steven Hartland написав: Actually, it stalls even with polling disabled. It just takes A LOT longer, as I just found out. Instead of minutes, it takes hours of heavey traffict to stall, but it still happens. Pressing a key still wakes it up... Sounds like

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-11-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
вівторок 31 жовтень 2006 19:43, Jack Vogel написав: This is fairly bizarre :) I think I can say pretty safely that this is NOT an em driver issue, its a scheduler problem of some sort. Am I the only one having problems with em driver? In its latest 6.x-incarnation? Or is the enabled

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-11-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Mikhail Teterin wrote: Why would the scheduler affect the sys component of the load (which shoots to the sky before the machine drops of the network)? I thought, it only matters for user-space programs (the order in which they run)... It also schedules internal kernel threads (such as device

Re: Still possible to directly boot without loader?

2006-11-01 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:44:56AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: The masking hack is probably only needed for aout. For elf, objdump -h /kernel says: % Sections: % Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn % ... % CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA %

Re: panic: vfs_getopt: caller passed 'opts' as NULL

2006-11-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:57:48AM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I grepped /sys for DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS and it seems to only add some additional KASSERTs, but not the one which triggered in the original panic. Nullfs seems more fragile than I initially thought ... It's just that compiling in

RE: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-11-01 Thread David Christensen
Oops, you're right. I've been accidentally ignoring this anyways, I'll take care of it. Thanks! Scott Thanks the kernel now recognizes the network interface. But it fails to attach the driver to the interface and gives the following error.

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-11-01 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: I've had no difficulty with 1950/2950 installs, as long as the disk controller is the PERC 5/I. I don't know if this holds for Vivek's experience as well. However, with the SAS5 controller (LSILogic SAS) AMD64 won't boot without either: -

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-11-01 Thread Travis Pugh
On 01/11/06 13:56 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: I've had no difficulty with 1950/2950 installs, as long as the disk controller is the PERC 5/I. I don't know if this holds for Vivek's experience as well. However, with the SAS5 controller (LSILogic

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-11-01 Thread Conrad Burger
On 01/11/06, David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, you're right. I've been accidentally ignoring this anyways, I'll take care of it. Thanks! Scott Thanks the kernel now recognizes the network interface. But it fails to attach the driver to

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Peter Jeremy writes: | It would be nice to see the 32-bit emulation improved so that it is | possible to build/run the i386 versions of ports on an amd64 system. | This would be the best of both worlds. If I had any free time, I | would even work on this myself. I have this working well enough

Re: bind9 trouble in -PRERELEASE

2006-11-01 Thread Mark Andrews
Hello, I have a server with busy local DNS (bind 9.3.2-P1, listen on localhost). The bind9 got strange problem and gone away for the last some days: Oct 31 11:34:49 cat9 named[500]: /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/mem.c:628: INSIST(((unsigned char *)mem )[size]

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-11-01 Thread Scott Long
Conrad Burger wrote: On 01/11/06, David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, you're right. I've been accidentally ignoring this anyways, I'll take care of it. Thanks! Scott Thanks the kernel now recognizes the network interface. But it fails

Re: panic: vfs_getopt: caller passed 'opts' as NULL

2006-11-01 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Kris Kennaway wrote: Nullfs seems more fragile than I initially thought ... It's just that compiling in the extra debugging (it might be DEBUG_LOCKS or DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS, I forget which), causes the sizes of structures to change, so when the module tries to fondle the structure at a certain

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-11-01 Thread Tuomo Latto
Scott Long wrote: How hard would it be to use the linux driver code base to add tthe SerDes support to the FreeBSD driver? I am not a C programmer, but I can copy and paste ;) FreeBSD has the MII and PHY blocks abstracted out into separate drivers, unlike linux. It's not clear to me how this

Re: bind9 trouble in -PRERELEASE

2006-11-01 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: Hello, I have a server with busy local DNS (bind 9.3.2-P1, listen on localhost). The bind9 got strange problem and gone away for the last some days: Oct 31 11:34:49 cat9 named[500]: /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/mem.c:628:

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-01 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:34:22AM +0100, Fredrik Widlund wrote: Yes, it forces writeback even when the controller has no BBU. Choosing WBack itself will default back to WThru. It's dangerous, but I guess it should be much less dangerous than using for example softupdates. I don't see how it

Re: bind9 trouble in -PRERELEASE

2006-11-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:40:39PM +0300, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: I don't think that I can do a stack backtrace when named left no core after that. No core is being left either due to limits (limit/ulimit) being imposed on the user or group 'bind', or because chroot precautions are being used.

Re: bind9 trouble in -PRERELEASE

2006-11-01 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:40:39PM +0300, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: I don't think that I can do a stack backtrace when named left no core after that. No core is being left either due to limits (limit/ulimit) being imposed on the user or group 'bind',

bootmgr on pc engines wrap board

2006-11-01 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi, bootmgr hangs on the PC Engines WRAP board. It's been brought up before on the small@ list (IIRC), but with no solution. It hangs just after 1 FreeBSD 2 FreeBSD I have a stack of the WRAP boards I was going to use for the NTP Pool, but I really want to use a nanobsd style

Re: bootmgr on pc engines wrap board

2006-11-01 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:45:45PM -0800, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: Hi, bootmgr hangs on the PC Engines WRAP board. It's been brought up before on the small@ list (IIRC), but with no solution. It hangs just after 1 FreeBSD 2 FreeBSD Have you set the bootloader to use serial?

Re: bootmgr on pc engines wrap board

2006-11-01 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Nov 1, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote: Have you set the bootloader to use serial? Set -h in /boot.config Yes. (the nanobsd build process does that by default, echo -h ${NANO_WORLDDIR}/boot.config ) - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/

Re: bootmgr on pc engines wrap board

2006-11-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:45:45PM -0800, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: : Hi, : : bootmgr hangs on the PC Engines WRAP board. : : It's been brought up before on the small@ list (IIRC), but with no : solution.

Re: bootmgr on pc engines wrap board

2006-11-01 Thread spoggle
NanoBSD write the boot block to use the disk packet (BIOS INT 0x13) interface. This doesn't work on any of the WRAP or Soekris (45xx or 48xx) boards I've got. From memory: look for the boot0cfg line at around line 367 of the nanobsd.sh script and delete -o packet from it. You can prove it by

Re: New em driver

2006-11-01 Thread Ronald Klop
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:48:46 +0100, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:44:37 +0200, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a conference call today, it was decided that a merge of my Intel driver base and the STABLE code would take place. This code undoes the

carp interface stops responding

2006-11-01 Thread Ken Menzel
I am wondering if I am understanding carp interfaces correctly. I have a SPAM gateway that runs on two servers. I want to enable a failover scenario. I want to test the interface on the backup server. So the primary server is shut down. I enable carp and it starts up fine and works for a

Boot FreeBSD from grub

2006-11-01 Thread Sun Zongjun-E5739C
Hi, all I have install FreeBSD6.1 on my desktop, then install linux FC5. But now I can't see FreeBSD from Grub menu. How can add FreeBSD into grub menu? I can see FreeBSD file system via fdisk -l comand. Thanks Regards Zongjun ___

Re: Installing 6.1-R on Dell Powervault 745N

2006-11-01 Thread Lin Jui-Nan Eric
Dear, On 10/20/06, Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boot verbose and grap the output like you did earlier in this thread will do nicely. What I need are the lines from where the channels on the controller are probed for raw devices, that should reveal if we can se any HW at all.. The

RE: Boot FreeBSD from grub

2006-11-01 Thread Sun Zongjun-E5739C
Thanks for your kind support. I add root(hd0, 0) but grub reports that can't find file? Here is the output of fdisk Device boot System /dev/hda1 *FreeBSD /dev/hda2Linux Thanks Regards Sun Zongjun

Re: Boot FreeBSD from grub

2006-11-01 Thread Joseph Koshy
sz How can add FreeBSD into grub menu? I can see FreeBSD file sz system via fdisk -l comand. Something like the following should work in /boot/grub/menu.lst: title FreeBSD root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader assuming that the 'a' partition is where the kernel resides. There might be a catch:

RE: Boot FreeBSD from grub

2006-11-01 Thread Sun Zongjun-E5739C
Hi, Koshy Thanks very much. It works find after I modified root(hd0,0) to root (hd0, 0, a) Regards Zongjun -Original Message- From: Joseph Koshy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2006年11月2日 12:30 To: Sun Zongjun-E5739C Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD from grub

Re: Boot FreeBSD from grub

2006-11-01 Thread Norbert Augenstein
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:50:25PM +0800, Sun Zongjun-E5739C wrote: Thanks for your kind support. I add root(hd0, 0) but grub reports that can't find file? Here is the output of fdisk Device boot System /dev/hda1 *FreeBSD

Re: carp interface stops responding

2006-11-01 Thread Ken Menzel
I am wondering if I am understanding carp interfaces correctly. I have a SPAM gateway that runs on two servers. I want to enable a much cut Sorry for the late night noise. I see my mistake. I have something on that IP that does not respond to ping per the dmesg: arp_rtrequest: bad gateway

problems with shutdown after dump on a large partition

2006-11-01 Thread Anatoliy Dmytriyev
I got problems with shutdown after dump with “-L” (with spashots) on a large partition: We have large partition with 872G on “df –H” report. Exactly before shutdown the “dump –Lau” was finished without any problems. After dump finished I run command “shutdown –h now” and in the result