Re: Formatting a 4k disk on FreeBSD with ext2

2017-05-13 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 08.05.2017 um 17:42 schrieb HSR Hackspace: > Hi folks; > > I'm trying to format a 300 GB partition on x86_64 box running running > BSD 10.1 with HW RAID configuration. All my attempt so far have > failed. Below are the logs for same. > > Logs: > > 1. pod1208-wsa07:rtestuser 106] ./mkfs.ext3

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-26 Thread Matthias Andree
first before you start deinstalling would reduce the downtime, though. Hope that helps a little. Best regards Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing

2013-04-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 23.04.2013 09:44, schrieb Alexander Motin: Let me disagree. bootverbose keeps dmesg readable for average user, while quirks are specific driver workarounds and their names may confuse more then really help. If every driver print its quirks, dmesg would be two times bigger. There is

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-04-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 20.04.2013 23:29, schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: My feeling is that the stalls are mostly from the error handler and the overall time the drive is frozen gets shorter. If it had not _felt_ faster, I'd not have left that in sysctl.conf in the first place. Your understanding of what that sysctl

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-04-04 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 04.04.2013 03:05, schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: Please provide gpart show -p ada1 output, both here and in the PR, if you could. =63 1953525105ada1 MBR (931G) 63 209714337 ada1s1 freebsd [active] (100G) 209714400 800 - free - (400k)

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-04-03 Thread Matthias Andree
I have just sent more information to the PR at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=157397 The short summary (more info in the PR) is: - limiting tags to 31 does not help - disabling NCQ appears to help in initial testing, but warrants more testing - error happens during

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-04-03 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 04.04.2013 01:38, schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: ... While skimming Linux libata code and commits in the past, the only glaringly obvious bug/issue I see is with SB600/SB700 chipsets (the hardware revision apparently matters) and port multiplier (PMP) support and soft resets. Are you using a

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-04-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 31.03.2013 23:02, schrieb Scott Long: So what I hear you and Matthias saying, I believe, is that it should be easier to force disks to fall back to non-NCQ mode, and/or have a more responsive black-list for problematic controllers. Would this help the situation? It's hard to justify

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-04-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 01.04.2013 17:07, schrieb Stefan Esser: Am 01.04.2013 15:14, schrieb Victor Balada Diaz: Being able to configure quirks from loader.conf for disks AND controllers would be great and is not hard to do. If you want i can do a patch in two weeks and send it to you. That way it's easy to

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-31 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 31.03.2013 06:00, schrieb Peter Wemm: We're talking about 10.x, so if you want it fixed, you need update with 10.x information. Please put 10.x diagnostics in the PR. I will not. The PR was filed four months before 10-CURRENT branched; I have no reason to assume it were to be no longer

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-30 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 27.03.2013 22:22, schrieb Alexander Motin: Hi. Since FreeBSD 9.0 we are successfully running on the new CAM-based ATA stack, using only some controller drivers of old ata(4) by having `options ATA_CAM` enabled in all kernels by default. I have a wish to drop non-ATA_CAM ata(4) code,

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-30 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.03.2013 16:31, schrieb Scott Long: On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 09:17 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: On 28.03.2013 02:43, Adrian Chadd wrote: My main concern with the new stuff is that it requires CAM and that's reasonably big

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-20 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 19.02.2013 19:54, schrieb Mikhail T.: These were, indeed, complaints, but not about the port not working after I broke it. My complaint is that, though the port works out of the box, the office@ maintainers have given up on the base compiler too easily -- comments in the makefile make no

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-03 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 03.01.2013 16:36, schrieb Eitan Adler: On 3 January 2013 02:32, Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote: Please do not quote addresses. Not all web archives and copies hide them properly. Hiding email addresses is useless for spam control. Obfuscating them makes it harder to follow

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-03 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 03.01.2013 23:15, schrieb Mark Andrews: In message 50e5a7d1.4080...@freebsd.org, Matthias Andree writes: Am 03.01.2013 16:36, schrieb Eitan Adler: On 3 January 2013 02:32, Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote: Please do not quote addresses. Not all web archives and copies hide them

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 02.01.2013 06:31, schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, Thank God! I'd hate to think that after unwinding years accumulated CVS process, to rewind it for SVN, only to have to do it again for GIT, just seems a bit masochistic. do not worry. It will come. Seriously, I do not understand many

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 03.01.2013 01:50, schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:02:11 +0100 Matthias Andree ...@FreeBSD.org wrote: Please do not quote addresses. Not all web archives and copies hide them properly. The migration was made in order to get things inside the OS ... improved at all

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 31.12.2012 21:40, schrieb Chris H: IM(NS)HO; SVN is an inferior RCS created so Windows users wouldn't feel left out. No, and it has nothing to do with Windows. CVS does work on Windows. SVN 1.5 or newer is CVS done right, if you want the server-client split model, and can waive the

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-21 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 20.08.2011 19:34, schrieb Dan Langille: This is an older system. I suspect insufficient ventilation. I'll look at getting a new case fan, if not some HDD fans. The answer is quite simple, get new drives. They have gone for some 24000 hours, IOW, at least 3 years (assuming 24x7), and at

Re: [SOLVED] Re: labelling root file system (RELENG_8)

2011-06-09 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 08.06.2011 19:59, schrieb Rob Farmer: Also, I've seen the sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 thing in zfs tutorials and such, but haven't seen where it's actually necessary. I think this is outdated and changed circa 8.0. Possibly - it's still a de-facto standard reflex action whenever a newer

labelling root file system (RELENG_8)

2011-06-08 Thread Matthias Andree
Greetings, I've tried to re-label an existing (and up to date) 8-STABLE installation's root partition. This failed, tunefs reports it cannot write the super block. I have attempted this sequence: 1. reboot (through BIOS and loader) directly into single-user mode (boot -s) 2. sysctl

[SOLVED] Re: labelling root file system (RELENG_8)

2011-06-08 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 08.06.2011 15:11, schrieb nickolas...@gmail.com: 1. Change your root fstab record to /dev/ada0s4a (not label!), reboot to single mode and try to re-label partition. Indeed not mounting from the label was (apparently) the key to solve this. Thank you. In fact the successful procedure was:

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-24 Thread Matthias Andree
. Feel free to ping me off-list if you want me to try if narrowing down 8-STABLE drivers is any help for the kernel hackers. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Double installation of liblzma.so.5 breaks libarchive.so.5

2011-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 06.05.2011 20:37, schrieb Michael Hoffmann: I cannot reconstruct why 'pkgdb -Fu' did not tried to prevent me from using 'archivers/xz' furthermore, allthough it now seems to be marked as IGNORE. I also don't know how this LD_LIBRARY thing ever popped up in csh.cshrc, but it seems to

Re: Kernel memory leak in 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-04-05 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 05.04.2011 15:51, schrieb Andriy Gapon: Boris, ARC is an adaptive cache (as its name says), but the adaption doesn't happen instantly. So, when your applications do not use a lot of memory, but there is steady filesystem usage, then ZFS ARC is going to gradually grow to consume an

Re: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-09 Thread Matthias Andree
, the file system didn't recover speed (I'm not sure if that's a zfs or zpool feature), and I attribute that (and the failure to rm files from a 100% full file system) to the write-ahead-logging behaviour of ZFS. Any comments? -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd

Re: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-09 Thread Matthias Andree
-- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: bin/139146 still not right in FreeBSD 8.2 (-m32 on amd64)?

2011-03-09 Thread Matthias Andree
experienced the same some time ago - but: Shouldn't this (-B/usr/lib32) be subsumed under the -m32 switch in the future? Best regards -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: PR - submitting a patch

2011-02-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 24.02.2011 12:44, schrieb Damien Fleuriot: Cheers, I've done just that :) Merci. I've just forwarded the PR to the maintainer for dis- or approval. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

recent 8.2-STABLE commits break nullfs for tinderbox?

2010-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Greetings, I'm tracking 8.2-PRERELEASE, and it appears that recent commits to nullfs, zfs, vfs, or thereabouts have broken Tinderbox for me. I'm mounting my ports tree via nullfs, which has been working fine for a year. Any ideas, or further info needed? Best regards Matthias

Re: recent 8.2-STABLE commits break nullfs for tinderbox?

2010-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 22.12.2010 13:44, schrieb Mike Tancsa: On 12/22/2010 7:03 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: Greetings, I'm tracking 8.2-PRERELEASE, and it appears that recent commits to nullfs, zfs, vfs, or thereabouts have broken Tinderbox for me. I'm mounting my ports tree via nullfs, which has been

Re: recent 8.2-STABLE commits break nullfs for tinderbox?

2010-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 22.12.2010 14:29, schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 02:21:20PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 22.12.2010 13:44, schrieb Mike Tancsa: On 12/22/2010 7:03 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: Greetings, I'm tracking 8.2-PRERELEASE, and it appears that recent commits to nullfs

Re: recent 8.2-STABLE commits break nullfs for tinderbox?

2010-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 22.12.2010 14:53, schrieb Paul B Mahol: On 12/22/10, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 02:21:20PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 22.12.2010 13:44, schrieb Mike Tancsa: On 12/22/2010 7:03 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: Greetings, I'm tracking 8.2

Re: 8.1-stable kernel compile error

2010-12-04 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 04.12.2010 15:24, schrieb Irakli: mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -I/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NS /usr/src/sys/modules/ae/../../dev/ae/if_ae.c === aesni (depend) @ - /usr/src/sys machine -

Re: GSSAPI (for OpenLDAP) on FreeBSD 8?

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 01.09.2010 18:33, schrieb Jan Henrik Sylvester: I have got problems with GSSAPI authentication to OpenLDAP: ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80) additional info: SASL(-1): generic failure: GSSAPI Error: No credentials were supplied, or

Re: cname replace in mail address? [off-topic] (Re: Attn Ronald Klop)

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Andree
for it. May have been RFC0974, perhaps in connection with others - January 1986... -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: freebsd-update 7.2-7.3 manul merging of all files

2010-03-29 Thread Matthias Andree
but no others? I'm wondering if the etcmerge stuff should just ignore conflicts on the $FreeBSD$ line. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: RELENG_7: gdm after portupgrade does not allow logins

2009-12-17 Thread Matthias Andree
? Thanks in advance! Make sure that /proc is mounted, see the GNOME FAQ for details on how to set /etc/fstab to make that happen automatically on boot. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Turn off rebooting in single-user mode after fail.

2009-08-06 Thread Matthias Andree
that rsync before fsck could have recovered quite a lot of such data (I can't tell, as I didn't have full image backups). Probably not fsck's fault, but if there is a major file system corruption, it can wreak havoc. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd

Fix bin/102299 (has patch in PR)?

2009-06-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Greetings, could anybody have a look at bin/102299 please? The PR contains a patch to fix malloc() differences between GNU libc and FreeBSD's libc, so this should be little effort. Thank you. Best regards -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable

Re: RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE?

2009-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
experienced when upgrading from 7.1-R to 7.2-R. Careful there - RELENG_7 is _newer_ than RELENG_7_2. The latter is branched off RELENG_7 at some point and progresses much slower (as in: errata and security, but no development), so that's no update, but often the reverse. -- Matthias Andree

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Andree
the Release Notes? They[1] were still empty when I checked yesterday, and I find that makes it more difficult than necessary to actually test the RC. Nevermind the schedule, and release when it's done. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/7-STABLE/relnotes/new.html -- Matthias Andree

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Available

2009-04-24 Thread Matthias Andree
already? The /relnotes.html main links point to empty documents, the snapshots point to 7.0 release notes. Particularly, can FreeBSD 7.2 support 256-byte inodes in ext2fs? -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: problem with cold hardware? [Was: panic in callout_reset: bad link in callwheel]

2009-02-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Andriy Gapon schrieb: on 28/01/2009 21:22 Andrew Snow said the following: Andriy Gapon wrote: Previously I heard about problems with hardware running hot, but not with it being cold. I put the word in quotes, because the system is in a room with normal room temperature. Any

7.1-RELEASE growfs/fsck_ffs woes

2009-01-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Greetings, I have a hard time with file system access. Here's the story: I'd been unhappy about GEOM_JOURNAL within the same provider as my /usr and /var partitions (used JOURNAL on a fresh install), it would occasionally give up on fsync() for lock messups (FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2). Several

make delete-old misses files, breaking KRB5-related builds

2008-08-20 Thread Matthias Andree
use install -C (probably to avoid excessive recompiling or relinking). So what's the canonical way to installworld into a staging area so I can just compare or rsync --del system directories? -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

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

2006-10-08 Thread Matthias Andree
) is sufficient anyways -- the module will probably reprobe everything upon reload; OTOH you can check usbd and devd and things if you can pin devices to certain ordering. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

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

2006-10-07 Thread Matthias Andree
, but the Windows 2000 drivers (all versions I could find, RATech and Edimax) for RATech 2500 WLAN chips for instance is plain growse and next to unusable; the Linux driver is flakey, the FreeBSD 6.1 driver however is rock solid (but unusable, among other IEEE 802.11 stuff, under 6.0...) -- Matthias Andree

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

2006-10-07 Thread Matthias Andree
is on which port with Fs:/disk/karl usbdevs -v ...until the moment one is un- and re-plugged, right? At least my two USB printers (easily told apart from the vendor ID) like to rearrange their ordering frequently on Linux... -- Matthias Andree

Re: gzip is faster with -O3

2006-08-09 Thread Matthias Andree
time is better than wallclock time. gzip compiled with -O3: # date ; nice -10 ./gzip -c9 testfile testfile.gz ; date Wed Aug 9 08:01:21 CDT 2006 -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: portupgrade bug: -M no longer works after v2.1.0

2006-07-11 Thread Matthias Andree
omit the env in /bin/sh, bash, (pd)ksh and other Bourne-like shells): env APACHE_HARD_SERVER_LIMIT=1024 portinstall www/apache13 (Isn't it time to migrate to a newer Apache version anyways? 8-) ) -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Installation on Linux LVM Logical Volumes (LV)?

2006-06-13 Thread Matthias Andree
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good morning! Ever thought that there might be more than Europe and Africa on the lists? [...] Does FreeBSD support Linux LVM2? No. You need a primary partition. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable

Re: How can I know which files a proccess is accessing?

2006-06-06 Thread Matthias Andree
) to the process and see if it leaks file descriptors. This may fail due to permissions however. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Problem with modern Postfix on 4.7

2006-05-23 Thread Matthias Andree
for 4.10 and 4.11 at this time. The ports tree has been requiring FreeBSD 4.8 at a minimum for a very long time now, and I'd expect that even that it requires 4.11 soon enough. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Matthias Andree
-starter for me unless someone funds that work. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

port vs. packages vs. FreeBSD updating (was: FreeBSD Security Survey)

2006-05-22 Thread Matthias Andree
to packages to prevent their being installed on incompatible systems. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-12 Thread Matthias Andree
about ral(4) and other nasty stuff such as tmpfs/mdmfs panics in 6.0 - ral(4) is what prompted me to do the 5.4-6.0 upgrade). -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers

2006-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
is the brand and model of your so-called hardware RAID? -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-02 Thread Matthias Andree
RAID controller. You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1. (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) It's a matter of the BIOS: will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk? -- Matthias Andree

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Tenebrae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matthias Andree wrote: RAID1 is _not_ a backup, but an availability aid. If going for RAID1, be sure to add a backup solution. More to think about...thank you. I am trying to get some peace of mind on a budget, though. I suppose I

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
on are extremely destructive, been there, seen that -- with a test machine and only a small 2 MB on-drive write cache. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: Which PCI SATA controller?

2006-02-20 Thread Matthias Andree
, they have two of these notches. See http://www.digi.com/pdf/prd_msc_pcitech.pdf for discussion of voltages in PCI cards. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-30 Thread Matthias Andree
before, #! /usr/bin/env perl is the canonic SHORT way to run perl, longer ways are in perlrun(1). -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-30 Thread Matthias Andree
task (recall 840 ports use /usr/bin/perl, and that's not counting the others that use another hardcoded variant of /usr/local/bin/perl). Well, broken ports are marked broken and removed after some months. How would broken Perl ports justify special treatment? -- Matthias Andree

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-30 Thread Matthias Andree
lots_of_trouble(tm) is not the freebsd-ish way of live. this single symlink is needed. The admin who wishes to have that symlink can place one himself. Why burden the base system with it if it has no use for Perl? -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-30 Thread Matthias Andree
Holger Kipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT, especially as most perl programmers assume /usr/bin/perl to be the correct path. POLA doesn't apply to -CURRENT. -- Matthias Andree

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-29 Thread Matthias Andree
, they deserve no better. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

4.11-RC3: SCSI+UFS+softupdates corruption (write cache DISABLED!)

2005-01-19 Thread Matthias Andree
Queue Algorithm Modifier: 1 QErr: 0 DQue: 0 ... -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.11-RC3: SCSI+UFS+softupdates corruption (write cache DISABLED!)

2005-01-19 Thread Matthias Andree
Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so apparently, three (checkouts.cvs:., . and ..) or four files (perhaps the # file) have disappeared. I'm not sure if fsck will revive them, I want to avoid destroying data useful for debugging. OK, I dd'd the whole partition to an SLR tape and ran

Re: remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-18 Thread Matthias Andree
Ken Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: critical: kern/60313 (silent data corruption on block devices) still open, may be FreeBSD 4 specific after the GEOM flurry in FreeBSD 5 and 6. I took a look

remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
) still open non-critical: kern/44260 (missing device in LINT configuration) is long-standing although trivial to fix (patch included) -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
attached remain unfixed in 4.11-RC3 when a reminder has been sent after 4.11-RC1... What this means for code quality is left to the reader's appreciation. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
/46866 (false data from getpwent, easy to fix) still open -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 GCC preprocessor failure

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
Submitter-Id: current-users Originator:Matthias Andree Organization: Confidential: no Synopsis: FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 GCC preprocessor failure Severity: critical Priority: high Category: gnu Class: sw-bug Release: FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 i386 Environment

Re: gnu/76381: FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 GCC preprocessor failure

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
the tarball, cd e2fsprogs-1.36rc2, then proceed with mkdir build ; cd build ... as shown above. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: fsck: broken file system with background check remains broken after bootup

2005-01-04 Thread Matthias Andree
. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fsck: broken file system with background check remains broken after bootup

2005-01-04 Thread Matthias Andree
Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OTOH, I am not convinced that fsck (particularly bgfsck) is bug-free, I Make that fsck and ufs are bug-free... -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD-4.11 Release Candidate 1 Available

2004-12-20 Thread Matthias Andree
does not list pseudo-device tap (trivial to fix) -- Matthias Andree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-11-25 Thread Matthias Andree
can be seen for CPUs, more and more specialization is in the compiler. Ask Intel, Sun or Mips how much they're spending on chip development and how much on compiler development. :) -- Matthias Andree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
(Western Digital Caviar AC420400D, a rebranded IBM DJNA drive)? I gather that ATA drives are supposed to flush their caches on software (command) and hardware resets (reset line active). I did not power cycle. -- Matthias Andree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
, these are very scarce fortunately (actually, the first SOFTDEP issue on this machine at all). OTOH, this is an IBM desktop drive in disguise, so the blatant firmware errors should be known by now. -- Matthias Andree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
though), see URL:http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?m38yj15m59.fsf for the archived post, including logs. So that makes two for me and some more for Dan. -- Matthias Andree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: New 5.x packages uploaded

2004-11-14 Thread Matthias Andree
cups-base, open-motif, others? Yeah I know send patches, but my ressources are limited and committers are also overworked already... The general question I'd like to raise is how long will we allow ports with known security flaws linger around before they are marked BROKEN? -- Matthias Andree

Re: Status of 4-STABLE branch.

2004-10-13 Thread Matthias Andree
the resources (time, interest, funds) of supporting multiple trees at the same time -- however, leaving the bug open and unassign it would have been the right thing to do. -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred

HELP: ServerWorks data corruption after 350 MB with BerkeleyDB 4.0?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias Andree
used on ServerWorks boards, are there hardware detection/configuration issues in the kernel? Anything known? Thanks in advance, -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: help needed debugging SCSI bus problem

2003-10-12 Thread Matthias Andree
, but they're around twice as expensive as their flagship ATAPI CD writer. I'm sure there are other good alternatives for either component (SCSI HA and CD writer), but I can only talk about those I know first-hand. -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-10-01 Thread Matthias Andree
), nothing server-class, but it seems to be fine even under load with SuSE Linux 8.1 or 8.2 (dual-boot). -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: postfix

2003-06-03 Thread Matthias Andree
!) -- Matthias Andree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

disable ata in kernel configuration not working?

2003-06-03 Thread Matthias Andree
no such device. Is this a known issue or should I file a PR? TIA, -- Matthias Andree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk

2003-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
. Backup your data and have the drive replaced. See the pertinent DTLA FAQs on the web. These drives need special treatment. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)?

2002-10-03 Thread Matthias Andree
, but if it was, I'd shrug over why NT then worked. However, if the changes are NOT to 4-STABLE, then I'm out. I cannot migrate that machine to 5-CURRENT, in that case, testing would have to wait until 5-STABLE. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: How do I know the 'bogomips' of my system ?

2002-07-03 Thread Matthias Andree
Brossin Pierrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Under Linux it was easy to find it.. /proc Under FreeBSD I can't find it.. Reboot into Linux, look at the BogoMIPS, then boot FreeBSD :-) Run real benchmarks if you want hard figures. BogoMIPS only calibrates delay loops. -- Matthias Andree

Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release

2002-06-18 Thread Matthias Andree
for latency through the file system (and cannot, as the Linux 2.4.19-pre BSD FFS file system is hosed.) (OTOH, FreeBSD 4.6-RC SCSI -- at least the aic stuff with an Adaptec 2940 UW Pro -- has better throughput than Linux with my U160 drive.) -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release

2002-06-18 Thread Matthias Andree
or displeasing users. And the latter is a Bad ThingĀ®. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: 4.6-RELEASE delayed

2002-05-31 Thread Matthias Andree
systems 4.5 ata did work on? -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

tcpd not installed on 4.5-PRERELEASE

2001-12-27 Thread Matthias Andree
not part of the system? -- Matthias Andree They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

fsync semantics and directory changes

2001-08-20 Thread Matthias Andree
opening a directory and fsync()ing flush all pending changes to the directory and guarantee fsync() does not return before writes are written (assuming write caches in the disk drive are switched off, of course)? -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: [NFS] Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export (was: Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, ReiserFS)

2001-01-23 Thread Matthias Andree
t. Use NFS v2 instead." The question remains: Linux kernel problem or FreeBSD client problem? -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: ftpd incoming security

2000-12-27 Thread Matthias Andree
quot;SITE UMASK" that will allow that... I guess it is back to using an alternate ftpd for complete security... I feared just that, that's why I asked. You might of course disable those SITE commands or restrict them. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u