> Hello,
>
> The PmcTools is merged to RELENG_7.
>
> You can now enjoy the same level of features / hw supported as in head:
> - Callchain in capture
> - Core 2 support
> - Core i7 support
> - pmcannotate: source code annotation using pmc capture
> - bug fixes
> ...
>
> Tell me if you find any
> This problem has been reported a couple of times but it is not clear what
> change caused it.
I upgraded my RELENG_6/amd64 system yesterday and ran into
this bug.
There's a fix (and an explanation of the bug) now in PR bin/124353.
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> I notice that it finds the device ad4 but then it tries to mount root from
> /dev/ad6s1a. I've edited the fstab to have it look for ad4s1a but it still
> won't boot. Anyone have any pointers or ideas?
Have you tried interrupting the boot sequence and setting new
values for the `rootdev' and `r
> Does it mean that hwpmc from now will work "out of the box" with new Intel
> core2 duo/quad processors (like T7500) ?
No, someone needs to write the appropriate CPU-dependent
module for that.
For those who are interested in doing so, there is a HowTo
document at:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcT
Hello List(s),
I am very pleased to announce a patch, by Fabien Thomas, that brings
PmcTools' callchain capture features to 7-STABLE. Thank you, Fabien!
The patch is linked to from the PmcTools wiki page:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcTools.
The current file name is: "patch-callchain-FreeBSD-7-STA
> > Also I tried to find what else is slow in FreeBSD, I tried hwpmc as
> > module and in kernel, but it fails with error:
> > pmc: Unknown Intel CPU.
> > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (hwpmc, 0x804833e0,
> > 0x809338a0) error 78
> There are patches you need to enable it on woodcr
> i have searched alot for a software to:
>
> - distribut configuration files from one master to different systems
> - maintain configuration files on one machine for all systemes and then send
> it out
> - push the files, not download them like cvsup
> - maintaining files for all systems and files
By the I have tried google, handbook, mailing list, and faq
for these but the most I have been able to find are rote
use of these in howto's, like the "make distribution"
example above, but no descriptions of what they do.
The build(7) manual page documents some of the make targets
meant for 'pu
I've installed opera on my FreeBSD 6.1 from
opera*.tar.bz2 with no errors, but I can run it..
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libm.so.2"
not found, required by "opera"
help please!!!
Are you using the port in "www/opera"? It should
be installing the appropriate compat-XX dependencies
cg> I've installed FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 onto a BL460c blade. The
cg> installation itself went fine, but there is no network.
cg> The nic is on a broadcom 16 ports GB switch on the
cg> backside of the blade-chassis.
Does the kernel detect any kind of network card in the
system? What does "dmesg" say?
jh> Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I
jh> have with 1&1.
jh> I have included as much information as I can think of, if
jh> there is anything else I can provide, please ask.
Is the machine stable otherwise? Does it pass its
builtin diagnostics?
A good way to check for ba
Is there anybody else with the same problem?
nik:0:~$ truss /nothing
truss: execvp /nothing: No such file or directory
load: 1.04 cmd: truss 70662 [exithold] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 700k
Known problem. See bin/70803.
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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 catc
em> I'd love to see a project similar to OpenWRT based on a BSD,
em> but so far, and it seems that FreeBSD mips port effort has
em> stalled :
em> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/mips/
There's work going in Perforce:
http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeList.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/mips2/...
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I am building my own releases for FreeBSD. When upgrading a server to the
new release, I'd like to use the 'make installworld' procedure. Therefore
I'm mounting the /usr/src and /usr/obj from the release build via NFS onto
the server in question.
Are you running "make buildworld" on one host and
I installed it yesterday. Everything goes ok, but problem
with sound card, It's a builtin Intl HDA on gigabyte 915G-DU
motherboard. I added the line
sound_load="YES"
snd_driver_load="YES"
snd_cmi_load="YES"
to /boot/loader.conf but sound is not working.
Things to check:
- Does loading the dri
a> ... but I don't understand why machine should go to suspend or
a> hibernation through high user/system activity... o_O
Another suggestion would be to check the SMPS in the
system. These symptoms could be explained by voltages
going out of spec when under load.
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jj> i was wondering, why is the loader tunable kern.maxdsiz not
jj> documented in the manpages?
Most probably oversight. Could you please file a PR?
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When I was starting build world (make buildworld), building
process was broken with output:
[snip]
# make cleandepends
# make cleanworld
Remove the contents of /usr/obj completely and try again?
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I am running 6.1 stable, AMD64 on Dell 2850, Intel Xeon. It
keeps hanging for no reason, no panic message or core and I
have to reboot the system whenever it freezes.
Any idea where to check?
1) Please post the output of dmesg. Are there any unusual
devices connected to it?
2) What is the
but this doesnt function right. so i see the behavior from
$myline in the while-loop like an local variable..
If you are looking for function local variables,
use the "local" keyword. For example:
a.sh
a=1
f()
{
local a
a=2
echo B: In f: $a
}
echo A: Outside
The problem is much more complex, I suppose. Not only
rc-scripts messages aren't display, there are no messages at
all, from any scripts and programs, started between kernel
boot and login prompt.
Strange.
- What does ls -la /dev/console show?
- Does a single user boot (boot -s) drop you to a '
This bug was seen not on all computers. Currently
I found 3 PC with this problem (two on AMD platform,
one on Intel). Video adapters on them are also
different.
Any suggestions?
Its really unlikely to be a video adapter problem. You
could debug this by adding a 'set -x' to the beginning
of /et
I have a test PC here which
is quite old (FreeBSD 4.mumble, Tcl 8.2) and it never
sees any problems. I am soon going to try an identical system
to the one failing (6.0-STABLE)
Have you checked if the PC's serial port adheres to RS232 specs?
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ch> I inadvertently put the wrong tag in my cvsup script and
ch> ended up with 5.5-PRERELEASE instead of 5.4. If I just
ch> change the tag to default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4
ch> will it prune and/ or overwrite my src tree accordingly?
dp> Yes, cvsup is fully capable of reverting collections to
> # fdisk /dev/ad0
> *** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cyl
kl> From the tcpdump logs it looks like the packets are not
kl> reaching the sql ...
kl> IP Filter: v4.1.8 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging =
kl> enabled
Anything interesting in IPFilter's stats?
Does the misbehaviour remain if IPFilter is turned off?
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Kevin,
> Any ideas on this weird issue?
Please also post the output of dmesg(8) and whatever
network related statistics that you have from netstat,
ifconfig etc. What is the OS on the SQL server
box?
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> i think about jailing some "processes" on a new
> freebsd-system. Is there also another way, to harden freebsd
> e.g. like selinux?
Start here:
Mandatory Access Control
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mac.html
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ml> (And, as well, that you do not even understand the role the core plays
ml> in the project. Hint: it is not primarily technical in nature.)
For those curious to know how the project works, the following online
resources may help:
A project model for the FreeBSD Project
http://www.freebsd.
phk> Bring to system administration what source code
phk> version control brought to programming.
www.infrastructures.org
www.isconf.org
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mk> The question I have. Does Intel CPU have HTT in amd64
mk> mode?
jk> Yes, AFAIK.
mk> Would you tell me how to enable HTT?
mk> I've set 2 parameters
mk> hyperthreading_allowed="1"
mk> hlt_logical_cpus="0"
mk> but FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE does not start logical CPU
Please check if your CPU supports
mk> The question I have. Does Intel CPU have HTT in amd64 mode?
Yes, AFAIK.
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mm> If you have a Ferrari 4005 WMli and you made work with the
mm> FreeBSD 6.0 64bit Release, please do not hesitate to share
mm> you config files with me, since i have a tough time in
mm> configuring the system so far.
It would help if you could tell us where you've managed to
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EØ> Yea yea ;) Working on it..
EØ> Is there a way to force ACPI-safe on the slower system?
# sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=
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On 11/26/05, Eirik Øverby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
EØ> [Cross-posting after lack of response on -stable]
The first step would be do some performance debugging.
- What do top/vmstat/systat say about what the OS and
apps are doing? Is the CPU pegged at 100%? What's
the load seen by the d
yr> This is the output of dmesg with my boot
yr> /boot/kernel.old/kernel:
You use a number of devices in your machine that I'm
unfamiliar with. So, YMMV with the advice below :).
yr> FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 #9: Thu Oct 20 21:36:39 AST 2005
yr> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL
yr> m
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
> I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I
> disable some modules during kernel bootup and unset some
> variables but no luck!
> Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC
> kernel to at least boot so I built it but it panicke
> Just created a server using FreeBSD 6.0, and it's quite
> stable and fast. One glitch, though: Jobs scheduled to
> run at midnight via /etc/crontab are running at 6 PM
> (midnight GMT). I've double checked, and the CMOS clock
> is set to local time and the time zone is specified as
> Mountain Sta
> AFAICT cross-compiling amd64 on a i386 machine isn't supported
> yet. I ran into a similar problem when I upgraded an i386
> machine to amd64. I thought I could just set CPUTYPE=athlon-64
> and buildworld would do the right thing. Apparently not.
Bootstrapping a single machine is supported:
# m
> Would I have to export every filesystem mount point on the
> hosts then? Or does an -alldirs option do the trick (in
> exports)?
I use a self-contained '/' partition on the machines where I
need to cross-install.
Note that one still needs to run mergemaster or etcmerge after
the cross-install s
sr> i have some kernel dumps only , the size is 288mb, should i
sr> send one of them?
Just the backtrace please.
sr> CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (551.25-MHz 586-class CPU)
sr> Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12
sr> Features=0x8021bf
sr> AMD Features=0x8800
You could try t
> I've just upgraded my home server from 6-BETA4 (that was
> stable and worked without reboots for months) to 6.0-release.
- What kind of machine is this? Please show the output of
dmesg.
- Have you enabled DDB and kernel debugging support. Can
you take a crash dump.
- Are there any messages
> Starting out trying to upgrade the amd64 hosts, I export the
> two obj directories via NFS, and mount them as /usr/obj on the
> amd64 hosts that need upgrading.
I done upgrades the other way, by having the build machine
mount the clients to-be-root partition and installing to it
using NFS.
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jk>AFAIR, "PERFMON" only supports Pentium and Pentium Pro CPUs.
sh> Yeah, wasn't sure... I know the Athlon has a performance
sh> counter, but wasn't sure if it was supported etc. Assumed
sh> not, but just thought I'd mention it in case it's supposed to
sh> work.
The Athlon's performance counters
> A custom kernel compiled with options PERFMON and cputype=athlon when ran on
> an athlon causes ATA to not probe devices on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. dmesg
> seems normal except the ata probe is never done, so the only boot devices
> available is the floppy.
AFAIR, "PERFMON" only supports Pentium an
> dmesg and output of kern.timecounter sysctl can be found here :
Changing your timecounter to "i8254" may help.
Bug 43491 and 72338 seem to be related:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72338
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=43491
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> My CPU is now 54 deg. after running fresh FreeBSD 6.0 RC1
> installation with no actual load.
Does top or systat show anything consuming CPU time?
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> path, and now cannot logon as root. I¹ve tried every command I
> can think of, but cannot get anywhere. Obviously, I¹m new to
> FreeBSD, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW
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> Can anyone give me a clude to look for?
1) Does it start if you invoke it using
# sh -x /etc/rc.d/inetd start
2) What does `file /usr/sbin/inetd` show?
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> FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Wed May 25 05:00:48 CEST 2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
WITNESS will cause terrible slowdowns.
You may want to try without options WITNESS, INVARIANTS and
INVARIANT_SUPPORT.
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> I'm preparing to build desktop box
> with amd64 processor and some GF3
> motherboard and ati9550 video card.
You may want to look at the list of known good AMD64 motherboards
here:
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
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> Yes, I expect many parallel connections...
Use an event-based server design if possible.
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To u
> Here is some of the dmesg - I infer from the Features line
> that HTT means this is hyperthread-enabled:
The CPUID feature bit only indicates that the processor is
HTT-"capable". It could still have only one core on chip.
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> For several years now I upgrade FreeBSD this way with no
> problem.
You may have CVSup'ed the CVS tree in between two MFCs.
Please check that you have the following file revisions:
sys/kern/subr_bus.c1.156.2.6 2005/04/14 04:54:15 njl
sys/sys/bus.h 1.62.2.3 2005/04/14 18:11:1
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