Re: apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
but that's not a real solution. Also if you have gone from 6.x to 7.x make sure that you don't have any old stuff linked against libc.so.6 loaded into a binary using libc.so.7. It mostly works except with threaded programs and then *kaboom* -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
() would call puts() - and why that would then crash! Seems like some threading related wrinkle though as pgsql mhash are the only extensions I have that are linked to libthr.so -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: console access

2008-06-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup (it was MFC'd to RELENG_6 others on the 18th of March) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: console access

2008-06-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
commit I was much more successful though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the underlying problem is it would seem to be the only way forward. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that does seem very aggressive (and broken). I had a look at the code and it should only print it each time you enter the fdisk screen. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
bogus geometry are in themselves totally bogus. ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that don't. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: Generic 2-port PCI Express Serial Card - how to get recognized?

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Have you tried loading puc? Unfortunately I think you will need to recompile your kernel because it is not in GENERIC and not available as a module. Look at /usr/src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c for a list of vendor/device IDs (and add yours if it isn't there). -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH in chroot?

2008-03-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Anton - Valqk wrote: Reply to myself, I've found the problem, you _must_ copy the ld.so.hints in /var/run/ to the /var/run/ chrooted dir. now everything works like a charm. Or you can run this.. chroot sh /chroot/sbin/ldconfig /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib -- Daniel

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
* didn't have any problem running X on 6.3 release. Maybe you should have contributed by downloading an RC and testing it? G550's are very old cards, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that someone doing RC testing would have one installed. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/mbr to the disk for testing. When I now boot the disk on the Acer laptop, it just displays one register dump followed by BTX halted. You need to re-install the bootblocks (bsdlabel) and the loader (I think you can just cp it into /boot after rebuilding it). -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the loader does to work, although I guess it might be possible to add that to GRUB. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have no experience with it, but I would be very interested if it did work (although since GRUB is i386 only and I use amd64 systems that's another hurdle..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: 7.0 RC3 and usb problems

2008-02-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that USB bus type), ehci (for USB2.0), usb (obvious), and umass. The kicker is that you also need scbus, da, and possibly pass. They must be in the kernel otherwise it wouldn't have linked. Does the device appear in usbdevs -v when it's connected? Does anything show up in dmesg? -- Daniel

Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
? I couldn't actually figure out what sets it originally and ended up rebooting the box :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on it (in inet6 or ip6) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to do this? :) ifconfig fxp0 -alias inet6 2002:792d:8527::1:1 This doesn't work, what Hajimu suggested does though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: doconnor Anyone know the right way to do this? :) sudo ifconfig fxp0 inet6 2002:792d:8527::1:1 -alias Ahah, thanks, that works. Now to work out how to get rtadv going :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
am not sure what is responsible for making them. I just rebooted it and it seems OK now though.. Any idea what creates the link local address at startup? (Mainly to satisfy my curiosity :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:53:27 +1030 Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: doconnor Any idea what creates the link local address at startup? (Mainly to doconnor satisfy my curiosity :) Put ipv6_enable=YES into your /etc/rc.conf Yeah but I

Re: UFS snapshot weirdness

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a consistent file-backup with history. This one puzzles me to no end. Hmm, that is very odd.. Maybe the FS is stuffed somehow :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: UFS snapshot weirdness

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have had people recover many files using the snapshot tool in ports (plus a small symlink maker for samba access) and haven't noticed issues like this. On the otherhand I find it can take a long time to make a snapshot (during which time no FS access is allowed). -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: /dev/cuad0: Device busy

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ganbold wrote: I'm trying to use serial port but the system says device busy. daemon# cu -l /dev/cuad0 -s 9600 /dev/cuad0: Device busy link down What does fstat /dev/cuad0 say? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: kldload: Unsupported file type

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: I tried #ifdef'ing out link_elf.c but it panicd my machine on boot and I haven't had time to find out why. The kernel is a link_elf type object I believe, so you have to have it. Ahah.. No easy answer there then :) -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: kldload: Unsupported file type

2008-01-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description

Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
amd64 around the error message in link_elf.c. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:17:40AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: amd64 uses link_elf_obj.c, all the other archs use link_elf.c, hence the duplication. Then why does amd64 need link_elf.c at all? I wonder

kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
..) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 6.3 and Intel G33

2008-01-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the mouse or press a key the whole display refreshes so it appears X thinks it's been off) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: G965 patch for 6.3-Beta

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, it is not critical, just one of those It would be nice things :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 6.3 and Intel G33

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
install). It may complain if you have witness enabled, since I haven't brought over the witness fix from -current yet. OK. I really only want the 2D driver so DPMS works and the screen saver can turn the monitor off (although faster 2D would be good as well) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: G965 patch for 6.3-Beta

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it is lower case in the rest of the code. I see a NetBSD patch at http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2007/09/05/0015.html but I haven't tried shoe horning that in yet.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: G965 patch for 6.3-Beta

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Hiroshi Nishida wrote: Hi. I've attached the patch. Please apply it at /sys/pci. Oops please ignore, I sent the wrong email. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

FreeBSD 6.3 and Intel G33

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
haven't tried shoe horning that in yet.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: Intel S3000AH stall on boot

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to remove the FDD because it is needed in the event we need to reinstall to load the aacu driver from Adaptec :-/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Intel S3000AH stall on boot

2007-12-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Jack Vogel wrote: On Dec 1, 2007 8:32 PM, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am doing some work for a company that recently bought 2 systems based on the above motherboard and mostly they work fine, however on boot just before userland starts they stall

Intel S3000AH stall on boot

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in RAID10 (using the driver from Adaptec's website). The swi2 is.. 18 ?? WL 0:00.00 [swi2: cambio] -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: external usb disk

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
chance it can be committed? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-BETA2 Hmm I think I applied it manually.. ISTR it wasn't too difficult. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-11-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a picture of it). I should be getting another system like it soon so I can test it again, hopefully I'll get time to add some 'go slow' routines to the stack trace so I can actually record it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: USB-4COMi-SI-M : Isolated 4 Port USB-RS422/RS485

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I hitting a bug? Since it is showing ucomX it should work. How are you testing it? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote: The other approach would be to just splat an install CD onto a flash disk, eg.. fdisk -BI /dev/da0 bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 newfs -b 4096 -f 512 -i 8192 -O1 -U /dev/da0s1 mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt cd /mnt tar zxf /dev/acd0 umount /mnt

Re: problems bridging on RELENG_6

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether 00:bd:2d:73:00:00 Opened by PID 994 tap1: flags=8942BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether 00:bd:63:73:00:01 Opened by PID 1007 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: ICH9 ethernet part (82566) woes

2007-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, and it has the support you need. Just give them a week and I think it will be there, maybe I can take a break from my other work and get to the MFC. As the 6.4.1 driver works I am happy :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

ICH9 ethernet part (82566) woes

2007-09-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:) Failing that.. Any idea how hard it would be to add the ID for this controller to the driver in 6.2? (ie does it need magic not present in the driver) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: ICH9 ethernet part (82566) woes

2007-09-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
link to even an old driver (from the page mentioned in the README in /usr/src/sys/dev/em) - can you give me a hint where I'd find something? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

2007-09-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
though.. Could be a buggy BIOS too. Also if you aren't using it as RAID I doubt it will use the cache memory at all.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Via padlock

2007-09-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Currently I am using VIA Epia SP13000, which has Nehemiah CPU with RNG, AES support. It appears the man page is missing, but putting device crypto device padlock in your kernel should work. In 7.0 it's a module. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Via padlock

2007-09-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote: padlock_load=YES So there's no need to modify your kernel. I just realised that I checked and amd64 6.2 machine and an i386 -current machine, hence my confusion :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: twe on amd64 hangs

2007-08-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have grabbed a slab of info from DDB over Firewire (plus NMI switch :) which is attached. If anyone is searching the archives for this.. The work around is to disable APIC in the BIOS. (Like the 3ware KB suggests.. :) -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/dev/twe0 -d 3ware,0 -a -o on -S on -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,1 -a -o on -S on -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of failure monitoring but it has indicated problems to me in the past :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

uzip on large file systems

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
)]error = 5 Any suggestions? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [resolved, ?naively] Re: geom vs ich through ar device - benchmarks?

2007-07-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is booted and you have redundancy) then you will not be able to boot your system. It is pretty easy to fix this if you are present but it can be a real PITA if you are far away. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: Issues with Bootloader Vista

2007-07-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
://www.multibooters.co.uk/mbr.html I dunno if boot0 has 4 bytes to spare tho :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: problems with Hitachi 1TB SATA drives

2007-07-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Bill Swingle wrote: I've read that bad SATA cables could cause this, the cables I'm using are brand new but are probably pretty cheap. Unlike they're both faulty too.. You need to post your dmesg otherwise we have no idea what controller you're using.. -- Daniel

Re: problems with Hitachi 1TB SATA drives

2007-07-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
overlooked it. :-) Oops, maybe it was an attachment I forgot to read. As you say later - it would be good to know what mode the chipset is in. Might be worth trying AHCI mode if you have it (although maybe ICH5 is too old for that?) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Andriy Gapon wrote: Well, barriers usually stop something :-) Heh :) There are some comments in Russian, maybe someone will find time to translate, maybe even me... It could come in handy. FreeBSD VFS comitters are rare, ones that understand Russian are probably almost non-existent :)

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Andriy Gapon wrote: on 18/07/2007 20:34 Mark Linimon said the following: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:05:59AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Bottom line here is that the kernel panics when removing a USB device that has filesystems mounted. s/USB // I also have a hard time believing that the

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Nikola Lecic wrote: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opennet.ru%2Fopenforum%2FvsluhforumID9%2F6467.htmllangpair=ru%7Cenhl=enie=UTF8 Useful? Seems comprehensible enough (maybe a wrong impression since I understand Russian text). I'm not a VFS guru, alas :)

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
off HDs. Also I don't think smartctl or FreeBSD are to blame for the inability to send SMART commands to the HD - it is the enclosures fault for not remapping the commands. (Which should be trivial, the commands are identical just the transport is different) -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: Have some troubles after deleting group of packages...

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
believe it *should not* record such an install in the package manifests, therefore it *should not* delete a file which is not owned by the package system. It looks like the file was corrupted not deleted though.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Can't boot freebsd from usb device - Invalid slice

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/ You need to install a new loader and reinstall boot2 (bsdlabel -B) after you've built it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6

2007-06-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Yeah that would be a gross work around :( P.S. In the meantime, of course, tar from 6.1 and gtar should both work in this situation. Or you can use dd to read from the tape. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6

2007-06-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
: logical block location 0 /dev/nsa0: hardware block location 0 Current pos is 0 /dev/nsa0: logical block location 0 /dev/nsa0: hardware block location 0 Current pos is 100 /dev/nsa0: logical block location 0 /dev/nsa0: hardware block location 0 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6

2007-06-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Residual Count 0 This is a Tandberg TS400 (LTO2 drive, LTO1 tape) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

Re: Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6

2007-06-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
mine through dd all the time so I never noticed it :) Can you please file a PR about the issue? (or take it up with Tim whom I have CCd) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:58, Vivek Khera wrote: On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick :) please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love to omit CD rom drives on my future systems

Re: Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
you upgrade from? Some gnutar using system I guess? (5.x or 4.x?) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

Re: Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the tape? eg dd if=/dev/sa0 of=/tmp/foo If so does it work? Are you getting errors reading from the drive, or just the tar file is broken? I don't really have any other suggestions though sorry. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. I added John to the CC list, hope he doesn't mind! It would be nice if these patches were committed before 7.0 too :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
from USB without trying the RAID array as I have to press F5 to get it to boot from USB (even if I pick USB-HDD in the BIOS boot menu) So I press F5 and then it prints what I wrote.. F1DOS F2FreeBSD F5Drive 1 Default: F2 (I Press F5) - int=000d ... ... BTX halted -- Daniel

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, and loader. Ahh I see, my bad! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:33, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:52, Kostik Belousov wrote: - int=000d ... ... BTX halted You boot from the hard drive, right ? Then, boot2 shall be changed too, since it uses btx. You should apply the patch, build the world

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 20 00 8e d8 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3 ss:esp=02 9e 00 00 77 3a 01 41-00 14 02 9e 06 9e 0f 08 BTX halted The second one is more accurate as I didn't copy it from a blurry photo :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 28 May 2007 13:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Yes, there is also a loader/pxeboot in the same directory. As kib@ told me, do not install this loader on your disk which may destroy your data. I see the binaries, I was thinking of trying one with a USB flash boot disk, I'll unplug my

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Daniel O'Connor wrote: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. Ooh ahh, please sir, can I have some more^Wit? :) I did some googling

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Rong-en Fan wrote: On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. Ooh ahh

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
same result. Linux and Windows XP booted from cd just fine so I am sure this is not hardware problem. I believe this is most likely this issue... http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t3047441.html Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 26 May 2007 22:00, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: I believe this is most likely this issue... http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t30 47441.html Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list

Re: Gigabyte GA-VM900M caveats

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
off one disk) or to put another disk in and rebuild... Not exactly good for unattended use. This was on an Epox 8HDAI Pro, I don't know if it's any better now or not. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Gigabyte GA-VM900M caveats

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
them any more. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Hard Hang, nothing in logs / no panics

2007-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, you can do that with an uncooperative system - unless the PCI bus is hung (which would be useful information in an of itself) Might be worth trying a BIOS update too. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Supermicro PDSME+ / 3ware 9650

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
welcome :) Thanks in advance. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Creating one's own installer/mfsroot

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. This might be of interest BTW.. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: install SCSI over ATAPI for DVD

2007-05-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 03 May 2007 00:50, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: okay i am trying this xine thing.. where do i put the sysctl dingies? You can put them in /etc/sysctl.conf They probably aren't needed.. However you only need xine for PLAYING a DVD. PS please trim your posts. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: install SCSI over ATAPI for DVD

2007-05-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it myself except to copy existing ones (I used k9copy). Personally I'd just go out an buy a DVD player that plays DivX and/or Xvid and view the eps directly.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: install SCSI over ATAPI for DVD

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
used by many ports linkacd0cdrom linkacd0dvd then run /etc/rc.d/devfs restart it should do it for you. Then DVD playing apps should find your drive OK. If not please give actual error messages and fully describe what you're trying. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: xfce4 desktop broken, complaining about libmd5.so.1

2007-04-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to find the port which has that library: http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/ Enter libmd5.so.1 into the search field, check the packing list checkbox, and click the Search button. I suspect both of these methods wouldn't help if the plist was dynamically generated (alas) -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: How to report bugs (Re: 6.2-STABLE deadlock?)

2007-04-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgp1RMXdUwoh1.pgp Description

Re: Alternate installers for FreeBSD for unattended installation

2007-04-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgp32wrpJxA0i.pgp Description: PGP

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
how long it will take them to get back to me. I'm also not really sure how this can be debugged since the computer locks up solid :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
problem. You can disable ACPI temporarily at the boot loader prompt by issueing unset acpi_load if you are having problems booting an ACPI enabled machine. The loader doesn't use ACPI so while it may be related to ACPI the command you suggest won't have an effect. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
user mode (or whatever). I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic task and hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
into the loader prompt in time I can then do things as normal.. very odd! Does anyone know of a proper fix for it? This work around is very kludgy :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 13 April 2007 12:37, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Also, if I break into the loader prompt in time I can then do things as normal.. very odd! Does anyone know of a proper fix for it? This work around is very kludgy :( I think this is the same as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
resolution using VESA == slideshow. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
as they weren't linked against so many other libraries. However, I gave up before building a 6.8.0 server and used the vesa driver. Heh, I wouldn't mind VESA except my LCD monitor's native resolution is 1680x1050 and I can't get X to do it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

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