Re: 9.2-PRE: switch off that stupid "Nakatomi Socrates"

2013-09-30 Thread Joe Holden
On 30/09/2013 14:50, Matthieu Volat wrote: Le 30 sept. 2013 à 01:54, Ricardo Ferreira a écrit : Em 29-09-2013 19:11, Charles Sprickman escreveu: On Sep 29, 2013, at 3:28 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: On 28.09.2013 11:32, Phil Regnauld wrote: Teske, Devin (Devin.Teske) writes: If you work serio

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 ix driver vlan problem

2013-09-27 Thread Joe Holden
On 25/09/2013 22:10, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rumen Telbizov wrote: Thanks for the heads-up Oleg, although not the news that I was hoping for. So what I am going to do right now is reinstall with 9.2 and recompile the driver with your patch. I'll come back to the list with

Re: virtio for 9.1-R

2012-11-27 Thread Joe Holden
On 27/11/2012 23:22, Bryan Venteicher wrote: Hi, - Original Message - From: "Joe Holden" To: "Sergey Kandaurov" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:49:07 PM Subject: Re: virtio for 9.1-R On 27/11/2012 19:25, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:

Re: virtio for 9.1-R

2012-11-27 Thread Joe Holden
On 27/11/2012 19:25, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: On 27 November 2012 22:12, Joe Holden wrote: Hi guys, I can't see virtio in releng/9.1, is there any particular reason why it isn't going to be included given that it works reasonable well (and is optional anyway, so not likely to be d

virtio for 9.1-R

2012-11-27 Thread Joe Holden
Hi guys, I can't see virtio in releng/9.1, is there any particular reason why it isn't going to be included given that it works reasonable well (and is optional anyway, so not likely to be detrimental)? Thanks, Joe ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mai

Re: kern.eventtimer.periodic

2012-03-31 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Hey, So I have another box that has time issues since being upgraded to 9.0-REL, again kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 seems to be the fix. Should this perhaps be a default in future releases? Sigh... correct list this time

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-10 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Alex Samorukov wrote: On 02/10/2012 06:56 PM, Joe Holden wrote: Guys, This should really be reverted to sysinstall until the new installer is at least in a state where it consistently works... the most important part of a new users experience is the installer and the few

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-10 Thread Joe Holden
Alex Samorukov wrote: On 02/10/2012 06:56 PM, Joe Holden wrote: Guys, This should really be reverted to sysinstall until the new installer is at least in a state where it consistently works... the most important part of a new users experience is the installer and the few new installs I have

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-10 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Guys, This should really be reverted to sysinstall until the new installer is at least in a state where it consistently works... the most important part of a new users experience is the installer and the few new installs I have done lately I've just installed 8.

New BSD Installer

2012-02-10 Thread Joe Holden
Guys, This should really be reverted to sysinstall until the new installer is at least in a state where it consistently works... the most important part of a new users experience is the installer and the few new installs I have done lately I've just installed 8.2 and upgraded from there as th

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-21 Thread Joe Holden
Ronald Klop wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:11:51 +0100, Martin Sugioarto wrote: Am Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:20:51 +0100 schrieb "Ronald Klop" : Hi, As I understand it. Host: FreeBSD 9 Guest: WinXP Which one has troubles with its clock? The host or the guest or both? Hi, only inside VirtualBo

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-19 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Joe Holden wrote: Sounds like you were looking for commercial support, since unpaid volunteers don't have an obligation to promptly leap out and provide solutions within your ETA. Not really, just an acknowledgement wou

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-19 Thread Joe Holden
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Joe Holden wrote: Sounds like you were looking for commercial support, since unpaid volunteers don't have an obligation to promptly leap out and provide solutions within your ETA. Not really, just an acknowledgement would be fine. It is

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-19 Thread Joe Holden
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Joe Holden wrote: Looks like this is down to the dynamic/tickless changes in 9 (that aren't even noted in the release notes), the machines have now been switched to linux as the lack of responses/care given to my recent postings has been

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-19 Thread Joe Holden
long run. Unfortunate decision but I am inclined to agree. Thanks, J Ian Lepore wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:12 +0000, Joe Holden wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone else noticed the tendency for 9.0-R to be unable to accurately keep time? I've got a couple of machines that have been upg

Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-17 Thread Joe Holden
Hi guys, Has anyone else noticed the tendency for 9.0-R to be unable to accurately keep time? I've got a couple of machines that have been upgraded from 8.2 that are struggling, in particular a Virtual box guest that was fine on 8.2, but now that's its been upgraded to 9.0 counts at anything

Re: UFS corruption panic

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Holden
Actually, that would be a safe assumption especially now that the installer rightly or wrongly defaults to a single / filesystem, but perhaps if it could be tunable via mount flags that would be sensible also... Thanks, J On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On 15/01/2012 08:1

UFS corruption panic

2012-01-14 Thread Joe Holden
Guys Is a panic **really** appropriate for a filesystem that isn't even in fstab? ie; panic: ufs_dirbad: /mnt: bad dir ino 3229 at offset 0: mangled entry Which happened to be an file-backed md volume that got changed as I forgot to unmount it beforehand, however as a result there is now inc

UFS corruption panic

2012-01-14 Thread Joe Holden
Guys Is a panic **really** appropriate for a filesystem that isn't even in fstab? ie; panic: ufs_dirbad: /mnt: bad dir ino 3229 at offset 0: mangled entry Which happened to be an file-backed md volume that got changed as I forgot to unmount it beforehand, however as a result there is now in

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Joe Holden
) was that if the vulnerabilities remained *undisclosed*, they would have a much lower chance of being exploited. On 12/23/11 5:47 PM, Joe Holden wrote: So don't update until Monday? The outcome will be the same :) Damien Fleuriot wrote: Hey up list, Look, just a rant here. Wh

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Joe Holden
So don't update until Monday? The outcome will be the same :) Damien Fleuriot wrote: Hey up list, Look, just a rant here. Who in *HELL* thought it would be a cool idea to release no less than FOUR security advisories today ? I mean, couldn't this have waited and remained undisclosed until

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Joe Holden
Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNzA it might be worth highlighting that despite Oracle Linux 6.1 Server is using a kernel + compiler a

Re: iSCSI initiator tester wanted

2007-06-07 Thread Joe Holden
Nathan Butcher wrote: > Danny Braniss wrote: > lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer > > Not sure what the cause was. Perhaps I was just thrashing out my virtual > NIC... Yeah, thats an issue with the default vmware emulated nic... Ta, Joe ___ freeb

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Holden
Einstein Oliveira wrote: Va'clav Haisman wrote: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hello. I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows 2003 host. Time is a hour slow for a day. I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf I've tried all possible values in kern.timecounter.hard

Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Holden
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Mar 3, 2007, at 23:37 , Michael W. Belz wrote: Stick with what has been posted, documented and tried and tested more importantly your having issues finding solid docs to support your task...using cvsup you have handbook docs and freebsd diary to use don't r

Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Holden
frzburn wrote: > > > On 3/3/07, *Joe Holden* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply! > So if I understand well, i must use CVSup (or csup) to ``synchronize my > source''. > > But if I use CVSup, will

Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Holden
frzburn wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a new FreeBSD user, but a veteran Linux user ;) I'm using FreeBSD 6, and I was wondering while I gave a try to rebuilding ``world'' how to properly synchronize my source. Here's what I mean: After my successful installation of FreeBSD, I looked on www.bsdguides.or

Re: Enough already [was: Re: Loosing spam fight]

2007-01-27 Thread Joe Holden
#x27;s time for us to treat you with the same rudeness that you have shown us. get yourself some education kid It's already been proven you have nothing to say on the matter, other than what has been said, or the obvious. Do us all a favour and give up. -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Joe Holden
Ma wrote: I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is added in your rc.conf? -- Ma Jie Hi, I used the rc.conf values as set out in rc,conf(5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep crash /etc/defaults/rc.conf dumpdev

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-18 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Stefan Bethke wrote: If the system has ACPI, you might get some temperature information from the sysctl hw.acpi.thermal OIDs. No acpi whatsoever, it is a very "stripped down" machine, looks like a blade or something. If the hard disk is recent enough, it mi

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Stefan Bethke wrote: If the system has ACPI, you might get some temperature information from the sysctl hw.acpi.thermal OIDs. No acpi whatsoever, it is a very "stripped down" machine, looks like a blade or something. If the hard disk is recent enough, it might have a temperature sensors a

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Joseph Koshy wrote: Is the machine stable otherwise? Does it pass its builtin diagnostics? Hi Joseph, It has coped sufficiently during the extensive number of make/buildworlds and day to day use, nothing seems to trigger it, its fairly random. Ta, Joe Also, I cvsup'

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Joseph Koshy wrote: Is the machine stable otherwise? Does it pass its builtin diagnostics? Hi Joseph, It has coped sufficiently during the extensive number of make/buildworlds and day to day use, nothing seems to trigger it, its fairly random. Ta, Joe -- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Dominic Marks wrote: See if you can get temperature readings from the hardware. Is the system busy? Hi Dominic, there is no sensors on said machine, it was up for 150 odd days running linux prior to the change. -- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-16 Thread Joe Holden
Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 17.11.2006 um 08:05 schrieb Joe Holden: Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I have with 1&1. How do you know it's rebbots as opposed to crashes/panics? Enable crashdumps in rc.conf and see if you get a dump. Stefan --Stefan

(Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-16 Thread Joe Holden
Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I have with 1&1. I have included as much information as I can think of, if there is anything else I can provide, please ask. dmesg: claire# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 198

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-10-26 Thread Joe Holden
SiteRollout.com wrote: > I'm new to this list, so here's a hello, how are you to everyone on the > list! Welcome! > I'm coming to FreeBSD from a Linux background, so whilst some things are > pretty similar, some things are pretty different. Excellent! > 1.) How exactly do I know whether I am runn