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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
rude and not once even pretended to focus on the real questions. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: If you're asking why I don't turn a production environment over to being a freebsd-unstable-testbed, I can't really answer that question in a way you'd understand (if you were asking that question) On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:11 AM, V

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
) of my paid $EMPLOYER's time working on freebsd things, and countless hours of unpaid time. I don't know that I can do any more than this. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness __

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
large corporation, this statement is outright wrong. I can still get security patches for Solaris 2.8 which shipped almost 6 years ago now. Again, I'm not saying that 6 years is reasonable for FreeBSD - just pointing out that the statement is invalid. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
le to help. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
versions prevent this kind of insanity. I'm struggling to find a phrase here that can't be taken to be an insult, so forgive me and try to understand when I say that you really should try watching the cvs tree for a bit before making a nonsense comment like that. -- Jo Rhett N

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
ght, it's time to stop dealing with FreeBSD. The product is quality, but the abuse one has to sustain to ask a question on the mailing list isn't worth it. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness _

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
while we do it, or we'll also be lectured about our manners? I find it sad that again you find it more interesting to be insulting that to respond in a helpful manner to the questions raised. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy,

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
u for free. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
ase. Forcing everyone to upgrade to a unstable release doesn't seem likely to help improve the situation. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable

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

2008-06-07 Thread Jo Rhett
oing to decide what my choices were for helping out and improving the situation in some form. Without the "why" I haven't the foggiest idea how to help. (for already well known bugs which don't need my time/ effort/attention) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance

Re: Closing the Jo Rhett argument

2008-06-09 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 9, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Joe Kelsey wrote: Jo Rhett has clearly stated (in offline reply) that they do not participate in the -BETA and-RC cycles leading up to -RELEASE, so they therefore do not have any issues with -RELEASE and EoL to raise. Actually, they still have the same complaints

tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-25 Thread Jo Rhett
mind boggles to imagine the manpower cost of doing so. (and to justify the manpower cost versus the gain from doing so...) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@free

Re: tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-25 Thread Jo Rhett
ks for the clarification ;-) We don't upgrade machines that have been deployed unless there is a good reason to. Do you deploy machines for longer than 1 year? How do you deal with security patches in the longer term? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthro

Re: tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-30 Thread Jo Rhett
to. This makes sense. But for personal curiosity sake, what if Yahoo needed to stick with supported FreeBSD releases? How would you deal with updating that many machines every 12 months? Would that be possible in your business? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanth

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-01 Thread Jo Rhett
arted with this serial console issue... which is indeed a pain :( TIA, Marian _______ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " -- Jo Rh

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Jo Rhett
ervers and I haven't checked into using the virtual serial on the Blades we have. On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:42:16PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: This rhymes with sio deciding that your TTY is something other than ttyd0. We had this same problem on Rackable -- even though the proper tty was

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Jo Rhett
which is what makes it the console. NOTE: I think this whole parade sucks, and the kernel should believe device.hints ... but there is no apparent interest in solving this problem (even when a bounty is offered), and I don't do enough device driver development these days for it to be worth

how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-11 Thread Jo Rhett
this never happened before the p11 patch to 6.2. I don't know if that is related or not. Obviously, I can't upgrade to 6.3 if heavy cpu/disk activity kills the system. No, I don't have any other insights. I'm not prone to posting "duh help me please!&quo

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-16 Thread Jo Rhett
t... Ugh. I guess this option doesn't appeal very much. Are there any other options available? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-16 Thread Jo Rhett
ystem remains pingable, answers TCP connections, etc etcc but doesn't respond. No TCP negotiation, no response on the console, etc. It's higher level activity which isn't working... -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by ne

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-16 Thread Jo Rhett
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:59:33AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Every time it is rebuilding ad0. Every single boot in the last two weeks. On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Clifton Royston wrote: That just means that it halted without a proper shutdown. If it crashes, the mirror isn't st

chipset causing locks.

2008-07-21 Thread Jo Rhett
PM, Peter Wemm wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:59:33AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Every time it is rebuilding ad0. Every single boot in the last two weeks. On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Clifton Royston wrote: Tha

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-03 Thread Jo Rhett
Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | [EMAIL PROTECTED] there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel | -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by ne

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett
ould be futile. To go back to the original statements made at the time: "you should consider the lifetime of the release before you invest resources in it". That means we need to know the lifetime to determine how much resources to apply to testing it, yes? -- Jo Rhett Net Con

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-15 Thread Jo Rhett
. Who can convince their company to put resources into the mainstream release effort, when this kind of cycle basically forces every company to run their own internal release process. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanth

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-15 Thread Jo Rhett
My point to you is that if this wasn't being forced upon every company that uses FreeBSD, those companies could commit more resources to help the core (main branch, whatever - not "Core") freebsd development. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant end

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
o provide that support internally. If we had known (and longer than 12 month) maintenance periods for a given release, then I could avoid maintaining this infrastructure internally and would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 hours a month I could dedicate to testing and bug fixes of Fr

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
be happier focusing their effort on the mainstream release. A bunch of us made proposals to our $EMPLOYERs to make this happen, but there was no apparent interest from the release team so the effort was abandoned. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open sour

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: Robert, I'd like to point out to you that when I complained about 6.2's accelerated EoL, I was soundly boxed around the ears and told that I should have been paying attention to the projected EoL date when we decided to roll out 6.2 across th

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
How do you need it, to make a real change? Please stop avoiding even considering what people are offering to you. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
expressing amusement about watching every developer dance around the topic, skipping over the relevant part -- how do we improve things? We could improve things. We could get more resources. Why not consider the topic? That's not demanding. Check your dictionary. -- Jo Rhet

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
oid considering. Maybe, just maybe, there is some reason why FreeBSD doesn't want more people helping. Or ... something. I haven't the vaguest clue. If there is some reason why getting paid people to work on testing and release cycle is a bad idea, would someone please stan

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
If something is answered clearly I tend to address topics which aren't resolved. But the section you quoted is your worst example -- If you look at my reply, you'll notice that not only did I not ignore it, I replied to that section with concerns about fluctuating schedules that this doc

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
the symptoms, but to analyze and solve the parent problems that may not be so obvious. I suspect this above statement applies to every problem the release and testing teams have. What is necessary to get consensus to even discuss the issues involved? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant en

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
o again. You have given several options, not a single one of which will provide more resources to the release team. The only thing you've successfully done is given me three different ways to eff off and leave you alone. Apparently, more resources is not in your interest.

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: And my e-mails have always discussed ways to get more resources. Recently we even had a group of people trying to arrange for more explicit corporate support for testing and release process. For some reason unclear to me, not a single developer has

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
ime. The others contribute at random, but I don't see that changing much due to their existing commitments. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
rt it. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 18, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I've kind of lost the drift, but it sounds to me as though Jo Rhett is tentatively offering to take on extended support for 6.2, but not earlier versions. Aside from programming skills, what would Jo need to bring to the table in ord

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
imes if you google for them) I'd rather just drop this tangent. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
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Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
good practice ;-) It's unlikely to slow me down one bit. ^^^ you may know more about the resource limitations and why commit bits are necessary to relieve your resource strain. In that situation, please educate me. Or everyone. In particular,

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
led out, you sit down and try to determine what resources are necessary to achieve a certain goal. Then you find those resources, etc etc... Without input from the current release team extending the support schedule is not possible. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
with an effort that tried to provide more support. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 19, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Gary Palmer wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:38:32PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Without input from the current release team extending the support schedule is not possible. Inquiry - is release team the constraint? I don't know. I asked why not, and was tol

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
pany chatted with us about it, and everyone decided it was easier to have me do the integration work for them as opposed to paying them more. (other companies we paid for them to do the work, etc) This is how things work. You ask a question, somebody answers the question and you sit and chat

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
abs? Server hosting? Twinkies? Exactly. Thank you for phrasing it so very well. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
thus $EMPLOYER gains no value in the effort. FWIW, this is why I'm in favor of consistent support periods. When you align the business benefit with the community benefit, you can get the business to help improve the community product. (remainder snipped to a different subject lin

Release team resources

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
the general public (who read security- related mailing lists, anyway) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
for 24 months *unless* we find it necessary to release 6.5 then I'd be totally happy. But that's not what is being said. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
ecide that they don't have the resources to support 3 major revisions, it's a pretty good reason to think that FreeBSD can't either ;-) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness

Re: Release team resources

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
even split. Acknowledged, sorry I was working from memory and forgot that the things we had to patch for already went through a "does it affect us" filter :-( You're right. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open sour

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
stems ;-) That being said, I was working on Debian when they went through the Woody/Sarge era, and frankly I think that distinct production/ development tracks work even less well so it's not like I have useful advice here ;-) -- Jo Rhett Net Conson

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
longer than 6.4? (not trying to be accusative or demanding, it's just a fairly odd situation) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
g the chicken and egg for FreeBSD, it's being created by the existing policy. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
guideline that a business can understand. It's also always incrementally forward, and doesn't reward a business for staying behind on a previous release - like your existing policy is doing right now. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, ope

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
actually promoting the idea of skipping releases. This may not be a good idea -- it was just a toss out there, but it makes a lot more sense than the existing policy. Could you at least respond to the issues raised here? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philant

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
act" for support periods could in fact be implemented with a reasonable policy that doesn't require a psychic to determine the likely failure or not of a release. I've proposed one. I'm sure that there are better ways to say it, but I'd really appreciate it if yo

proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
g anything. I think this policy would make a lot more sense, and would promote forward movement. Feel free to correct me if we overlooked anything. Thanks. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
s required to support a release after it is EOL'd in a much more direct fashion than an e-mail thread. -- John Baldwin -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Colin Percival wrote: jonathan michaels wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this is what we feel

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Jo Rhett
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:37 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Normal Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 12 months after the release. A release which is not the final minor release of a branch will be additionally

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-10-01 Thread Jo Rhett
4 months if there is no followup release. This effectively solves both of the problems you've very accurately named above. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@fr

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-10-11 Thread Jo Rhett
Hi, Colin. Any news/thoughts on where we are with this? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-22 Thread Jo Rhett
igate on Friday. Anything specific that would be more or less useful to debug in particular? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
x27;t type fast enough. Also noteworthy, I can't hit "6" to set console to comconsole so that I could cut/paste this. It really seems like there are major problems around the keyboard. (and no such problems with 6.3) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] Plugging back in the monitor after lockup showed only a single char more: ([EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Has anyone filed a PR on this

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
John, is this perhaps the problem seen with 7.0, discussed here? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-05/msg00437.html On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Has anyone filed a PR on this problem, or

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
rap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 0 Uptime: 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@f

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: | By Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [ 2008-10-24 21:13 +0200 ] On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Milan Obuch wrote: I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an workaround - copy

Re: FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 available...

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
-RELEASE builds in about a week and a half. We encourage you to test out 6.4-RC2 and report any problems by submitting PRs or via email to the freebsd-stable list. I would love to, but it's still not available on the download area. Er, i386 isn't anyway. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance :

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. /boot.config: -Dh Consoles: internal video/keyboard

Re: FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 available...

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 6.4 is now available. FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4 release cycle. Unless a big show-stopper is found from

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

2008-11-16 Thread Jo Rhett
configuration for that if you want. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

2008-11-16 Thread Jo Rhett
f the code. Use the binary version of tw_cli that matches the firmware on your controller. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

2008-11-17 Thread Jo Rhett
Jo Rhett wrote: The driver logs all useful stuff, and the SEC logfile surfer does a good job of notifying you quickly. I can send you an SEC configuration for that if you want. On Nov 16, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hm - what is SEC? Simple Event Correlator http

Re: Possible regression in ifconfig under7.0 - removes valid default route

2008-11-17 Thread Jo Rhett
turn the E.mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net phi

Want one of the affected systems for your lab? (Was: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot)

2008-11-20 Thread Jo Rhett
John, I can ship you one of these machines for your own testing if you like. Or send me a public key and I can give you SSH access to the console serial port, whichever would be easiest for you to get what you need. Let me know how I can help. On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote

no priority on the console?

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
As per my previous message, I've spent about 3 months trying to debug a problem that was causing all disk I/O to go very slowly. One of the things which made this nearly impossible to diagnose was the absolute lack of priority given to the console. Logging in on the console would take 12-1

smartd long self-test causes drives to hang

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
I've spent about 3 months tracing down what was causing my personal colo box to start getting "sluggish" right around dawn every Saturday morning. It took so long because some mornings I simply couldn't pull my head out of my tail enough to do proper debugging. The cause was *really slow*

Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
This is now filed as PR 129149 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129149 Given the nature of this bug, can I persuade someone to mark this as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ? On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 24

Re: smartd long self-test causes drives to hang

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3917165570 2. Name: ad1 Mediasize: 300069052416 (279G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3874187635 On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Jo Rhett wrote

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-11-24 Thread Jo Rhett
So boot from CD, go to LIVE filesystem, mount my root and copy only / boot/kernel? Are there any other modules I should copy, or settings I should change? On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo Rhett wrote: This is now filed as PR 129149

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
ing has been done to even investigate the reports, nevermind address them. Congradulations. Good Job. If you aren't going to accept bug reports, why exactly do you release testing candidates at all? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open

Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
tinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
stable releases. It's really unfortunate that the release management is so willing to ignore the evidence which leads to major releases with serious flaws, and on top of that seems to take delight in marking the known flawed releases as the long support releases. Brilliance. Just pl

confirming bugs is bad behavior, etc.

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
ubt that positive change is going to happen here. Your request is accepted. I'm unsubscribing now. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

2008-12-01 Thread Jo Rhett
identified the relevant portions, I would have happily tried backing out some of the changes on a per-component basis to figure it out. In short, tell me what you wanted/needed, and I would have done it ASAP. It's apparently irrelevant now. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by n

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
for any business to handle this ugprade. It totally understand obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out. But 6.2 is barely a year old... -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
nsupported. So we're staying unsupported until 6.3 stabilizes obviously. That sucks. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
then observe the EoL get pushed. I'm surprised that it failed to get pushed this time. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
The 6.3 degression has been somewhat surprising. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-s

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
never hung with 6.2. Reboots only occurred to satisfy kernel security patches. But with 6.3 there are many open bug reports about our exact hardware, and I'd prefer to avoid swapping positions with you ;-0 -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
Jo Rhett wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Also, it's not like anyone should have been caught by surprise by the 6.2 EoL; the expiry date has been advertised since the 6.2 release itself. It has changed multiple times. I keep reviewing and finding 6.3

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
ly, I know the majority of you are happy rebooting your systems 5x daily to run the latest. I'll do that with my home system, no problem. But I can't do this in a production environment. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by ne

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Scott Long wrote: Jo Rhett wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Scott Long wrote: Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you? gmirror failures, 3ware raid driver timeouts, bge0 problems. All three in production use on dozens of systems. Give me specific

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
and 6.3 to break so many drivers? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubsc

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
get better gas mileage than the EPA observes? Neither do I ;-) (yes, their testing methodology is flawed but it's a decent enough benchmark to know if you want the vehicle or not) -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jo Rhett
been happy to build a test system and turn it over to the developer in question. We do that fairly routinely. And please stop with the loaded language. I'm not asking anyone to work for me. I am suggesting that it is perhaps too early to EoL 6.2 because 6.3 isn't ready yet. -

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