ATA/boot problems with 6.2-release and 7-prerelease

2008-02-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
t0=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata0: stat1=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata0: reset tp2 stat0=50 stat1=50 devices=0x3 I see this a couple of times for ata1 as well, but the stat1 line is different and we end up detecting ad2/acd0 which are on ata1. Any ideas? -- Matt Emmerton dmesg.6

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
obsolete" or something I intend to stop supporting. Well, you could find (or hire) someone to fix the driver in 6.x, which would save you the cost of re-deploying hardware. (I'm assuming that the PR is a statement of "brokenness", and not one that has a patch that fixes the proble

Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-21 Thread Matt Emmerton
> > just five of its columns. I can do it in C++, but that seems like > > overkill. How would I go about doing it with sed or a similar > > utility? > > cat file | awk -F"," '{ printf "%s,%s,%s,%s,%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5 }' > > newfil

Re: 6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0 and ancient hardware [ updated ]

2006-03-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:39:19PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > > [ Asked on -questions on Friday; re-asking now on -stable without > > > cross-post] > > > > > > I recently upgrad

Re: 6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0 and ancient hardware

2006-03-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:39:19PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > [ Asked on -questions on Friday; re-asking now on -stable without > > cross-post] > > > > I recently upgraded a 4.11-REL machine to 6.0

Re: 6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0, FFS corruption and ancient hardware

2006-03-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > [ Asked on -questions on Friday; re-asking now on -stable without > cross-post] > > I recently upgraded a 4.11-REL machine to 6.0-REL and have run into some > snags. While the installation from CD went fine, after

6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0, FFS corruption and ancient hardware

2006-03-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
the *second* panic, since I figure this is the more critical issue. -- Matt Emmerton Script started on Sat Mar 18 12:58:13 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel.debug vmcore.0 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_l

Re: FreeBSD 6 non-GENERIC kernel build fails

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Emmerton
suggestions or would like to participate in the implementation and testing, please drop me a line in private email. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Strange problem with kldload and pf

2005-12-28 Thread Matt Emmerton
mysteriously, and more helpful error messages are dumped in /var/log/messages. But only sometimes. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On Thursday 15 December 2005 03:49 pm, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > I know this has been discussed ad nauseum, but here's my $0.02: > > > > Why not mark these entries as 'mandatory' in /usr/src/sys/conf/files* > > instead? > > This will cause conf

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Emmerton
ll cause config to error out if they are not specified in the config, and handles the common case (normal users). . For those power users who really want to disable the devices, we should smarten up the nodevice handling in config(8) to that (nodevice && mandatory) is not an error. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Well done with FreeBSD 6.0

2005-11-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
ded to 6.0-RC1 the other night and it was better than I would have imagined. I still have a lot of 4.x machines, and they will be skipping the 5.x experiment and moving right to 6.0. Kudos to all involved. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freeb

Re: Nogobble, nogobble

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Emmerton
INT" in /usr/src/sys//conf. Perhaps this should be part of buildworld and the release procedure so that the proper LINT kernel is available "out of the box". -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Emmerton
if '04' is not > correctly decoded, regardless of the numeric base in use.) Not to belittle the point, but '04' is invalid for base-2/3/4. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible?

2005-07-07 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:03:34PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > >Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is > >possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable? > > The only thought/concern I hav

Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible?

2005-07-07 Thread Matt Emmerton
good guide for doing this migration. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Matt Emmerton wrote: > > > > Processor: Intel Pentium II 266 MHz (Slot 1) > > Is the above typo, or have you underclocked it ? > > (from the dmesg : CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (*232.67-MHz* > 686-class CPU) Likely a typo -- I built this machine a long

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On 6/30/05, Matt Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400 > > > Matt Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > to be frozen. Next, I installed 4.10 (which installs fine) and tried > &g

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Matt Emmerton wrote: > > I gave precise descriptions of what happened on 5.[234] > > and can provide more details if requested > > Please provide dmesg output from 4.x, as this will help us help you! See http://www.gsicomp.on.ca/~matt/5x/dmesg.

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:18:16PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > - dmesg output from 4.11 (or 4.10) > > Don't have it anymore. > > > - describe in detail your buildworld problems (and any other problems), > > specifically any error messages you might get. > &g

Re: Problems with 5.x [ boot-loader related, NOT hardware related ]

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On 2005-Jun-30 18:18:16 -0400, Matt Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> More information required (as almost always): > >> - type and model of maxhine? > > > >It's home-made. It doesn't have a type or model. FWIW, it's ran Fr

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400 > Matt Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > to be frozen. Next, I installed 4.10 (which installs fine) and tried > > to cvsup to -stable, but had problems with buildworld. > > More information required (as almost alway

Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
help me get 5.x (-stable) installed on this machine? The machine is a clunker - P2-266 with 48MB RAM and a couple of 2GB ATA drives. Thanks, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 5.3-R and D-Link DFE500TX cards [ SOLVED ]

2005-03-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:24:25 -0500, "Matt Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > I just installed 5.3-R on a spare machine, which is equipped with a > D-Link > > > DFE-530TX network card. > > > This is a "typical&

Re: 5.3-R and D-Link DFE500TX cards [ corrected ]

2005-03-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:24:25 -0500, "Matt Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I just installed 5.3-R on a spare machine, which is equipped with a D-Link > > DFE-530TX network card. > > This is a "typical" Digital 21440A-based

5.3-R and D-Link DFE530TX cards

2005-02-28 Thread Matt Emmerton
... ) de0: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.2 de0: address unknown Any ideas of what I can do to get this card working? I am going cvsup to -STABLE as soon as I can find another card that works. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing