Re: ia64 stable/10 r286316: hang at Entering /boot/kernel/kernel

2015-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
If > >it made things better, I=E2=80=99ll commit it. If it didn=E2=80=99t, = > >then > >I=E2=80=99m not going to commit it. > > No, I don't think it made any difference. > > >Anything more involved will take more time than I=E2=80=99m > >willing to put into ia64 at this time

Re: Trying to clone a ZFS drive, can't get ashift=12

2015-04-01 Thread Peter Wemm
you might not want 4k - this changes the base allocation size to be 8 times larger. You might find your space efficiency less than ideal if you have a lot of tiny files. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV UTF-8: for when a ' or ... just won\342\200

Re: Problem with zfsloader on 9.2-BETA2

2013-08-07 Thread Peter Wemm
it if it is 128. As things stand, the -n entries option is basically make my system unusable. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV UTF-8: for when a ' just won\342\200\231t do. brueffer ZFS must be the bacon of file systems. everything's better with ZFS

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

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
where it is in the NCQ error handling, disallows removal of the old driver. (Last checked with 9.1-RELEASE at current patchlevel.) 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. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
and are license contamination that we don't need. But that's the fault of the port, not a fundamental property of using svn. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV bitcoin:188ZjyYLFJiEheQZw4UtU27e2FMLmuRBUE

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
dependencies like both python and perl for apr, and so on. If you made a port just to turn on the static option, it is equally as fail as before. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV bitcoin:188ZjyYLFJiEheQZw4UtU27e2FMLmuRBUE

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Peter Wemm pe...@wemm.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 23 January 2013 19:17, Emanuel Haupt eha...@freebsd.org wrote: devel/subversion already has an option to build a static version. A solution could

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Peter Wemm pe...@wemm.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Peter Wemm pe...@wemm.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 23 January 2013 19:17, Emanuel Haupt eha...@freebsd.org wrote: devel/subversion already

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Peter Wemm
to all branches of FreeBSD. A number of folks have expressed a desire to see the transition from src to ports be as seamless and painless as possible. I think its a fairly safe bet that it'll happen for FreeBSD-10. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Peter Wemm
, but it is time to move on. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV bitcoin:188ZjyYLFJiEheQZw4UtU27e2FMLmuRBUE ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: No more torrents.....

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Wemm
tracker. as required, run py-bittornado for a week or so, and/or well connected folks preload their clients via ftp. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection

Re: No more torrents.....

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Wemm
a machine reboot until we did some evil scripts with screen. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-24 Thread Peter Wemm
be a RELENG_10* anything in cvs. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-24 Thread Peter Wemm
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Peter Wemm pe...@wemm.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.com wrote: Excerpt from announcement by Ken Smith kensm...@buffalo.edu: With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been decided

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-23 Thread Peter Wemm
. You can do your own personal svnsync all the way from rev 0, but it takes some time. It's more time efficient to start with a seed and let it catch up. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-23 Thread Peter Wemm
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@freebsd.org wrote: On 23 Aug 2012, at 20:41, Peter Wemm pe...@wemm.org wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been decided to not export the 9.1

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Wemm
would come from. Nothing is shared, nothing is marked or unmarked. All of these operations happen outside of user visibility. We don't even have a way to report specific errors to the user, they're reported on the console. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Wemm
, as it comes from the kernel malloc pool(). -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:34 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org writes: ... There is no way to interfere because it is done outside of user space entirely, **after** the file has been copied out of the file system. You can do whatever you like to the file

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Wemm
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 03/30/12 22:15, Peter Wemm wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 03/30/12 18:46, Konstantin Belousov wrote: Reread what I wrote to you. Also, it pays off learning how

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Wemm
an entirely different thing. But this thread is about your tools finding DT_TEXTREL in a .ko kernel file, not userland .so files. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Wemm
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 04/02/12 14:46, Peter Wemm wrote: Remember.. ASLR is a userland thing.  .ko files, which is what this thread is about, already use random address layout.  When you do a kldload virtio.ko, you have no way to predict

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Wemm
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 04/02/12 15:37, Peter Wemm wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 04/02/12 14:46, Peter Wemm wrote: Remember.. ASLR is a userland thing.  .ko files, which is what

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
, then lets see a proof-of-concept. I have given you a detailed explanation of why it's not a problem. If you want to continue, then reply with details, not hearsay or theories. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
a warning on the gentoo tools on i386 because we simply used 'ld -shared' output as a container or transport. We use a different format by default on amd64, but the code is generated exactly the same way as on i386 and has exactly the same relocations in the same places. -- Peter Wemm - pe

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ 2500

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Wemm
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage

Re: -m32 broken on bi-arch amd64 systems?

2008-12-23 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm first introduce the ability to run i386 binaries on amd64. -- Steve Ok, let's bury this topic then. Thanks for the confirmation and sorry for the noise. -Garrett A patch can be extraced from http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/hammer.diff that makes it work, but its not right

Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Wemm
and using the PS/2 adapter plug on the keyboard. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert

Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Wemm
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Volker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/11/08 19:55, Peter Wemm wrote: ... * There were other consequences of using the partition ID hack - I think I remember it turning off the apic for msdos mode. Your problems may be different, but mine were caused

Re: Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts

2008-11-07 Thread Peter Wemm
to have eliminated all that. Hmm, it might make sense to increase the timeout on SATA connections to 2 or 3 minutes by default. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage

Re: sidetrack [was Re: 'at now' not working as expected]

2008-10-09 Thread Peter Wemm
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Andrew D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ian, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Peter Wemm wrote: [..] My tolerance for hacking at(1) code was exceeded when I added hacks for 'at sunrise' and 'at sunset' support to a local version. It wasn't pretty

Re: 'at now' not working as expected

2008-10-08 Thread Peter Wemm
) code was exceeded when I added hacks for 'at sunrise' and 'at sunset' support to a local version. It wasn't pretty, especially when handling things like '30 minutes before sunrise' etc. (I use this for home automation stuff) -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: Would anybody port DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER fs to FreeBSD?

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Wemm
is a porting bug or an underlying ZFS bug. Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, but having a solid starting point is very important. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-19 Thread Peter Wemm
the fault I'm seeing is the system asserting a fatal error by doing a HT ECC flood to halt everything. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would

Re: Looking for a GPT-aware boot manager

2008-07-10 Thread Peter Wemm
could do a simple menu in the loader scripts that did something like: set currdev=disk0p3: boot kernel .. to select the root partition that you wanted. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KI6FJV All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5

Re: Looking for a GPT-aware boot manager

2008-07-10 Thread Peter Wemm
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm attempting quad-boot my notebook with STABLE and CURRENT, both i386 and AMD64. I installed them manually by booting from a thumb

Re: tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-26 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:46 AM, Peter Wemm wrote: Correct. We roll our own build snapshots periodically, but we also keep a pretty careful eye on what's going on in the -stable branches. Okay, that makes sense to me ;-) I

Re: tracking -stable in the enterprise

2008-06-25 Thread Peter Wemm
wanted to cause ourselves that much pain for no good reason, we'd go get a pencil and stab ourselves in the eye. We don't upgrade machines that have been deployed unless there is a good reason to. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing

Re: 6.3-RELEASE versus 5.2-RELEASE

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Wemm
with 6.2-R. So far we don't even know which of the 59 variants of bge hardware Jo wants to run with, nor which 3ware driver.. let alone the 3ware variants. I don't recall him mentioning whether it is twe or twa. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: Digitally Signed Binaries w/ Kernel support, etc.

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Wemm
downloading a self-built irc client or bot and running it, then yes, requiring signed binaries would be useful. In any case, there are legitimate uses for signed binaries. But I'm not volunteering to do it. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing

Re: /var with capacity -1%

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Wemm
that could cause pervasive accounting problems. A fsck fixes that one. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution

Re: list spam

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Wemm
the queue, then sends with the right address and it goes through. Later on, the message is approved and we get a duplicate on the list. -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
file. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a reasonable chance that this mail will leave here over IPv6 for some of the recipients. It will almost certainly

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-03-05 22:42, Peter Wemm wrote: Oh, one more thing. If you are IPv6-enabled, you get to bypass the 10 minute greylisting delay on mx1.freebsd.org. Your email goes through instantly instead of potentially

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
'ping of death' in the early 90's? you could send a packet with a zero-length option to random hosts and instantly kill them) -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage collection

Re: lists.freebsd.org is down?

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Wemm
, it was my netboot environment for doing machine migration/installations. On the minus side, I took out 12 other machines at once. Oops. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 If Java had true garbage

Re: RELENG_7_0: KVA_PAGES=375, BTX halted

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Wemm
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: ath compile error on releng_5

2006-04-19 Thread Peter Wemm
can't mix 32 and 64 bit binaries. Myy recollection is that on 5.x, the only hal is for i386. Assuming that my recollection is right, you'd have to go to 6.x. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:49 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 22:27:43 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Jon Noack wrote: On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
else is happening, eg: you're running out of KVM or something silly like that. I know we're right on the brink at 8GB. The layout of the devices may be just enough to tip it over the edge. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
ISO version of memtest86 that you could try. Thats what the port does.. It produces a bootable floppy or ISO. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5

Re: undefined reference to `memset'

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Wemm
at all, but I couldn't make it happen even then. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Weird messages

2003-03-28 Thread Peter Wemm
things too. Now, we're using spamc to test messages and then forwarding the clean original untouched messages ones to the list *without* any spamassassin headers. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go

Re: Weird messages

2003-03-28 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: I can probably fix what is going on, but I need a good before-and-after example of how it got mangled. Can somebody who is posting to the lists and is their posts munched explicitly CC: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on a post? I can then see what Mailman is objecting to about

Re: Another possible solution for non-sendmail users

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Wemm
Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: http://people.freebsd.org/~gshapiro/mta-start Opinions? Enthusiastic thumbs-up from me! :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe

Re: Temperature

1999-12-29 Thread Peter Wemm
-- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message