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 /d

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

2013-06-26 Thread Matthias Andree
iliar with automating this, not familiar with poudriere, and it requires a bit of work to get your options transferred to these build systems. Such a "build all packages first before you start deinstalling" would reduce the downtime, though. Hope that helps a little. Best regards Matthias A

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 boot

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 tha

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 -

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 us

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 WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUE

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

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 > jus

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 long

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 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 c

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: 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 ma

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 wrote: >>>> Please do not quote addresses. Not all we

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 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 > mak

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 g

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 underst

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 "dist

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 a

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 new

[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:

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 kern.geom.de

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

2011-05-24 Thread Matthias Andree
s trying block 3, it should seek to 4704; OTOH if anywhere block sizes get out of synch, that might explain it. Perhaps truss can help if its output doesn't get scratched in the panic. The interesting question is, which devices are affected,

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

2011-03-09 Thread Matthias Andree
gcc command line, e.g.: > > echo "int main () { }" > t.c && gcc -v --help 2>&1 | grep m32 && gcc > -m32 -B/usr/lib32 t.c > > Then it should work. I experienced the same some time ago - but: Shouldn't this (-B/usr/lib32) be subsumed under

Re: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-09 Thread Matthias Andree
ide pages, and possibly also from the FreeBSD ZFS manual pages. HTH Matthias -- 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: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-09 Thread Matthias Andree
e me a much better performance on a 5400/min disk than I've ever had with a halfway filled ZFS on the 7200/min RAID-class disk. And bulk transfer rates of both drives are beyond any doubt. In other words, the file system didn't recover speed (I'm not sure if that's

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.freebs

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 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: >>> >&

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

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. >&g

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: 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 -> /usr/src/sys/i38

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,

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

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Andree
7; will have good reasons 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,

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

2010-03-29 Thread Matthias Andree
ut 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 a

Re: RELENG_7: gdm after portupgrade does not allow logins

2009-12-17 Thread Matthias Andree
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/free

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

2009-08-06 Thread Matthias Andree
ck 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-stable@f

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-s

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

2009-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
hen 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

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Andree
] 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 A

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Available

2009-04-24 Thread Matthias Andree
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://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

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 temperatu

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 weeks

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

2008-08-20 Thread Matthias Andree
ke installworld" would be the easiest thing to do... but some parts of the system 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 direct

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

2006-10-08 Thread Matthias Andree
aps un-/reloading the kernel driver modules (if compiled as module) 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 _

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

2006-10-07 Thread Matthias Andree
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 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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

2006-10-07 Thread Matthias Andree
e 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 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gzip is faster with -O3

2006-08-09 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/9/06, Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >1. gzip isn't usually used to compress incompressible data. > > > >2. use "time" to figure out how much CPU time it actually burns. > >

Re: gzip is faster with -O3

2006-08-09 Thread Matthias Andree
c options don't help with that, so CPU 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-stabl

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

2006-07-11 Thread Matthias Andree
apaci` ap_cpystrn.c > ... > > Note the -DHARD_SERVER_LIMIT=512 above. Does it work if you type (you can 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

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 ___ fr

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

2006-06-06 Thread Matthias Andree
to fail: you may try attaching a syscall tracer such as truss, ktrace or strace (the latter from ports) to the process and see if it leaks file descriptors. This may fail due to permissions however. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: Fwd: Problem with modern Postfix on 4.7

2006-05-23 Thread Matthias Andree
stem security fixes are only provided 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-sta

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

2006-05-22 Thread Matthias Andree
and maximum OSVERSION required" tags 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 Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Matthias Andree
nvolve ripping out the minimum fix out of a larger patch set, it'll pretty much be a non-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]"

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-12 Thread Matthias Andree
, 6.1 is a real and visible improvement over 6.0 for me. 6.1 is usable, where 6.0 toppled over every few minutes (I'm talking 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 _

Re: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers

2006-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
so that particular bit is extremely hard to find :-( What 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
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 peac

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

2006-04-02 Thread Matthias Andree
reasonable motherboards disk controller >> is just as fast as any 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: wi

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

2006-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
controller with battery backup unit (rare with SATA) and use copyback (writeback) caching. But don't ever dare use write caching without at least a dedicated UPS: the corruption patterns of UFS with write caches on are extremely destructive, been there, seen that -- with a test machine and only a

Re: Which PCI SATA controller?

2006-02-20 Thread Matthias Andree
ds that work with 3.3 and 5 V, 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

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.

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

2005-01-30 Thread Matthias Andree
ume "#!/usr/bin/perl" works. >=> removing a symlink to create 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 b

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

2005-01-30 Thread Matthias Andree
rm style is probably an infeasible 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 speci

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

2005-01-30 Thread Matthias Andree
on the first line of > the script will work correctly. As mentioned 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

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

2005-01-29 Thread Matthias Andree
y break after upgrading both perl and the port, 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]"

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 par

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

2005-01-19 Thread Matthias Andree
0 ... # camcontrol modepage da0 -m10 RLEC: 0 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: 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 >>

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

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
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 "[

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 >Releas

Re: remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
MFC sufficient) still open > bin/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]"

Re: remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
so with patches 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://list

remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-17 Thread Matthias Andree
46866 (false data from getpwent, easy to fix) 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

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 ht

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

2005-01-04 Thread Matthias Andree
e than one. That will limit the potential damage on the disk to one block rather than the whole of the cache, which is between 2 and 8 MB on the common drives sold today. -- 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-Announce] FreeBSD-4.11 Release Candidate 1 Available

2004-12-20 Thread Matthias Andree
ps MFC suffices) kern/44260 LINT 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
code? Likely. The same 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 PROTE

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
uary 2004 (on FreeBSD 4 though), see 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.free

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
problem. May be a while while before I see the problem again, 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 __

5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
disk drive (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

Re: New 5.x packages uploaded

2004-11-14 Thread Matthias Andree
ssues in ports fixed, for instance 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 ar

Re: Status of 4-STABLE branch.

2004-10-13 Thread Matthias Andree
intainer for FreeBSD 4 perhaps? Søren may not have 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

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

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias Andree
ually 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

Re: help needed debugging SCSI bus problem

2003-10-12 Thread Matthias Andree
TS) if you want one, 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 GnuP

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-10-01 Thread Matthias Andree
77), 32 MB PC66 + 64 MB PC100 RAM (66 MHz FSB), 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 PR

"disable ata" in kernel configuration not working?

2003-06-03 Thread Matthias Andree
ot;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: postfix

2003-06-03 Thread Matthias Andree
THEM CAREFULLY!) -- 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
arm, the Disk Fitness Test was able to repair the > bad sectors without any major problems. Really good. Nope. It hid the problems at the expense of spare sectors. 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
d. I'm not entirely sure that it's NOT the board I/O timing, 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.

mcd(4) status

2002-10-01 Thread Matthias Andree
l, and I'm away from that machine). NT4 (it's a dual-boot machine) was fine. Is this anything easily fixed? Thanks, -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

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

Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release

2002-06-18 Thread Matthias Andree
all these objections do not help the regression or displeasing users. And the latter is a Bad Thing®. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release

2002-06-18 Thread Matthias Andree
x 2.4 and 2.5 ATA sub systems have higher troughput on sequential read than FreeBSD 4.6-RC ATA. Never looked 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 294

Re: 4.6-RELEASE delayed

2002-05-31 Thread Matthias Andree
f disabled altogether? Or will 4.6 ship with ata as it is today, with the risk that it breaks some 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

Re: 4.4/4.5-STABLE and ATA tags?

2002-02-01 Thread Matthias Andree
ly), but if the implementation in the drive has changed, I'm interested to see what will happen soon, as I expect more drives to support tagged queueing now that it's been in the ATA drafts for some time. -- Matthias Andree "They that can give up essential liberty

tcpd not installed on 4.5-PRERELEASE

2001-12-27 Thread Matthias Andree
d just 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
example? Would 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] wi

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