Re: FreeBSD 13.0 terrible performance in KVM

2021-04-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 24.04.2021 um 15:03 schrieb Jeff Love : > > I'm running 12.2 and 13.0 on KVM using virtio and zfs. I am not having disk > I/O issues. UFS or ZFS does not make a difference for me. ZFS is faster on read due to compression - that’s why back in the XenServer days I didn’t even realize it

Re: FreeBSD 13.0 terrible performance in KVM

2021-04-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 24.04.2021 um 11:25 schrieb dashdruid via freebsd-stable > : > > Hello List, > > I hope some other folks out there running FreeBSD on KVM as well. I set up a > base VM while doing so I noticed that the disk operations are very slow. Many > times I edit a file in vim or try to run a comm

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 17.04.2021 um 23:09 schrieb Cejka Rudolf : > > Did you try aws.update.freebsd.org also? The problem with that is that it probably doesn’t have a fixed IP and not all our firewalls can whitelist a domain (and freebsd-update doesn’t work through our sophos

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 16.04.2021 um 10:17 schrieb Ferdinand Goldmann : > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> >> >> It’s OK-ish most of the time here (CH). >> >> It does *NOT* work through a proxy, due to the use of pipelined >> http-requests.

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 15.04.2021 um 14:20 schrieb Ferdinand Goldmann : > > Hello, > > I've noticed that ever since update3.freebsd.org is gone (which was in Czech > republic I think), FreeBSD updates are often quite slow for me (= > Austria/Europe) > Especially so for major release upgrades. In fact so slow th

Re: Update to the 13.0-RELEASE schedule

2021-03-31 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 31.03.2021 um 17:58 schrieb Glen Barber : > > A small set of updates that we consider blocking the 13.0 release have > been brought to our attention. As such, the 13.0-RELEASE schedule has > been updated to include a fifth release candidate (RC5). > > The updated schedule is available on

Re: Help with applying a differential

2021-03-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 22.03.2021 um 17:59 schrieb Warner Losh : > > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 10:19 AM Rainer Duffner <mailto:rai...@ultra-secure.de>> wrote: > > > > Am 22.03.2021 um 16:34 schrieb Juraj Lutter > <mailto:ju...@lutter.sk>>: > > >

Re: Help with applying a differential

2021-03-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 22.03.2021 um 16:34 schrieb Juraj Lutter : > > > To which branch do you want to apply those patches? > > Judging from the original patch date, I’d say that they have been developed > against 13.0 at some point. > That being said, you may want to try to apply them manually against 13.0 >

Help with applying a differential

2021-03-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I need help applying this differential https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24428 Me and a co-worker (who is one order of magnitude better at all things git than me) are unable to get this to apply. rduffner@suse5:~/freebsd-src/sys/dev/smartpqi> git apply --check ~/Downloads/D24428.diff err

Re: vmware/vmx causing problems

2020-08-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 10.08.2020 um 07:27 schrieb Daniel Braniss : > > hi, > suspend/resume/migrate works fine up to 11.3, > in 12.1 it usually becomes very unresponsive, ping can take several minutes > after a suspend/migrate. > switching to em works fine. > > any ideas on how to save this? > You need to

Re: Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 17.03.2019 um 15:58 schrieb Karl Denninger : > > I've long argued that the VM system's interaction with ZFS' arc cache > and UMA has serious, even severe issues. 12.x appeared to have > addressed some of them, and as such I've yet to roll forward any part of > the patch series that is foun

Re: php56

2019-01-13 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 13.01.2019 um 18:10 schrieb Daniel Duerr : > > +1 on this request. I have a mission critical app server running an old PHP > 5.6 application which will not work on PHP 7+. The system is effectively > unmaintainable right now in terms of pkg/ports updates. The quarterly cut (2019Q1)

Re: php

2019-01-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Did you open PRs for the ports that don’t compile for you? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How do you boot the debug kernel installed from kernel-dbg.txz?

2018-11-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 07.11.2018 um 01:40 schrieb Pete Wright : > > I may be mistaken, but I don't think you actually need to boot the > debug-kernel and modules (in fact I don't think you can), rather those files > are intended for being read by kgdb while debugging a core that is generated > by savecore(8)

How do you boot the debug kernel installed from kernel-dbg.txz?

2018-11-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I need to install a debug-kernel. I didn’t install the debug-kernel when I installed the system (11.2), but I downloaded the archive. I can unpack it - but how do I then select the kernel at boot? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p13 fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2018-09-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
After upgrading to 11.2-RELEASE-p2, the server constantly reboots instead of hanging at the crash-dump. Still, I don’t get a crash dump in /var/crash kern.corefile: %N.core kern.coredump_devctl: 0 kern.nodump_coredump: 0 kern.coredump: 1 kern.capmode_coredump: 0 kern.sugid_coredump: 0 kern.cor

Re: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p13 fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2018-09-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 09.09.2018 um 11:08 schrieb Eugene Grosbein : > > This list strips attachments, so you should upload it somewhere and post a > link. Well actually, the text you get when you post one says it’s awaiting moderator approval. But I found a way to upload it without signing up for some site

FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p13 fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2018-09-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I got a kernel panic This a a HP Gen10 system. It has this new Microsemi SAS HBA that only got the driver with 11.2. It’s running a syslog-server (syslog-ng) I have attached a screenshot of the panic, hopefully it comes through. dumpdev is set to „AUTO“, but I don’t find any crashdumps in

Re: freebsd-update: cannot open patchlist

2018-05-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 27.05.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Randy Bush : > > indeed, that fixes it. thank you. ;-) BTDTGTT This is (or was) especially a problem with ezjail’s use of freebsd-update. Most of the time, freebsd-update works - but when it gets confused, the quickest solution is often to start from scratc

Re: freebsd-update: cannot open patchlist

2018-05-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 27.05.2018 um 04:05 schrieb Randy Bush : > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.1-RELEASE Does it still happen when you run rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update/* freebsd-update -r 11.1-RELEASE upgrade ? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Now that the meltdown-patches are in STABLE...

2018-02-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am I right to assume they aren’t being backported to 11.1 and we have to wait for 11.2? Don’t get me wrong - I’d rather have a stable system when random reboots during the daily or weekly runs. But for my own planing, I’d really like to know what the way forward is going to look like. https

Re: package building performance (was: Re: FreeBSD on AMD Epyc boards)

2018-02-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 17.02.2018 um 10:09 schrieb Don Lewis : > > It is unfortunate that there don't seem to be any server-grade Ryzen > motherboards. They all seem to be gamer boards with a lot of > unnecessary bling. That’s because few people use servers to build packages. Increasingly, all the other thin

Re: error instaling any ports

2017-10-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 17.10.2017 um 19:29 schrieb Denis Granato : > > Hello everyone > > I have a 9.1 freebsd server, and every ports I try to install I get > the follow error > > > > > > > > *server# cd /usr/ports/devel/subversionserver# make install > clean"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk

Re: Mirror the freebsd-update server?

2017-09-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 13.09.2017 um 00:09 schrieb Jason Tubnor : > > I found this useful. I made some adjustments for what I needed but those > updates are sweet now :-) > https://wiki.freebsd.org/VladimirKrstulja/Guides/FreeBSDUpdateReverseProxy >

Re: Mirror the freebsd-update server?

2017-09-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 12.09.2017 um 23:45 schrieb Chris Gordon : > > Take a look at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/hubs/index.html > . This doc > discusses setting up a mirror (found via quick Google search). Yes, but it doesn’t talk about fr

Re: HP Smart array P440 support

2017-09-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 07.09.2017 um 23:13 schrieb Priyadarshana Chandrasena : > > I have not installed FreeBSD using iLo and virtual CD method. I will read > about this method and try it out. You will need an iLO license for that. Also, enjoy Gen10 servers, where even more features are going to be „pay-for

Re: HP Smart array P440 support

2017-09-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 03.09.2017 um 15:04 schrieb Priyadarshana Chandrasena : > > In UEFI mode the boot process does not read the installation media usb. > Never booted from the usb in UEFI mode! Hm. Interesting. Can you try 11.1 then? I think I had that problem around the 9.x days, with G7 hardware. Or I thin

Re: HP Smart array P440 support

2017-09-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 03.09.2017 um 14:53 schrieb Priyadarshana Chandrasena : > > I have tried to install FreeBSD 10.3 in a HP DL20 Gen 9 server with P440 > smart array. My installation media is in a USB drive. > > In BIOS I set the Boot mode to Legacy boot mode. Why? It should work in UEFI. That said, w

Re: HP Smart array P440 support

2017-09-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 02.09.2017 um 15:48 schrieb Priyadarshana Chandrasena : > > I have HP DL20 Gen 9 server. But I can not install FreeBSD 10.2 in it. I > have a HP smart array P440 in my server. I can not find out anywhere if ciss > driver support include HP Gen 9 storage controllers. Could you please > updat

Re: Problem with FreeBSD as a XenServer Guest - how to debug?

2017-02-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 04.02.2017 um 10:48 schrieb Florian Ermisch > : > > Hi Rainer, > > isn't Amazon AWS xen-based? > I know Colin Percival (cperciva@) is running > tarsnap.com on AWS, maybe he knows how > to tune it properly? It’s not a question of tuning. It’s a factor of 5 that FreeBSD is slower. On SSD

Problem with FreeBSD as a XenServer Guest - how to debug?

2017-02-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I’ve opened a PR on this: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212681 and asked on freebsd-virtualization. But nothing came out of it. Basically, I/O is very slow inside the FreeBSD guest. Linux guests are OK. FreeBSD 10 or 11 doesn’t make a difference. Haven’t been able to try

Re: zfs receive leads to a stuck server

2016-11-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 01.10.2016 um 18:02 schrieb Rainer Duffner : > > Hi, > > I posted this before, but I didn’t really get an answer and I’m still looking > for ways to debug this. > > I have to servers (HP DL 380 Gen8, 192 GB RAM, 6C CPU). > I’ve outfitted them with HP’s H22x

zfs receive leads to a stuck server

2016-10-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I posted this before, but I didn’t really get an answer and I’m still looking for ways to debug this. I have to servers (HP DL 380 Gen8, 192 GB RAM, 6C CPU). I’ve outfitted them with HP’s H22x cards (really OEMed 9207-8x, three altogether) that I recently cross-flashed to LSI’s latest firmw

Re: FreeBSD 10.1 can't upgrade to FreeBSD 11-RC1 via freebsd-update

2016-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 20.08.2016 um 22:34 schrieb Doug Hardie : > > >> On 20 August 2016, at 11:50, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> >> FreeBSD 10.3 works. >> >> FreeBSD 10.1 complains about a failed integrity check etc (which the EN was >> supposed to fix, I assume) >

FreeBSD 10.1 can't upgrade to FreeBSD 11-RC1 via freebsd-update

2016-08-20 Thread Rainer Duffner
FreeBSD 10.3 works. FreeBSD 10.1 complains about a failed integrity check etc (which the EN was supposed to fix, I assume) I did run freebsd-update to update to the latest patch-level and freebsd-version said, I was on p37. ___ freebsd-stable@free

I/O is very slow for FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 guest running on Citrix XenServer 6.5

2016-08-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I had to realize this week that my VMs on Citrix XenServer are very slow, compared to Linux. I’m getting maybe 8 or 10 MB/s, wheres an Ubuntu 14 guest gets 110+ MB/s (Megabyte). Independent of the filesystem, just wiping the disks with dc3dd. This went unnoticed, because not much I/O is do

Re: HP DL 585 / ACPI ID / ECC Memory / Panic

2016-05-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 12.05.2016 um 21:03 schrieb Steven Hartland : > > I wouldn't rule out a bad cpu as we had a very similar issue and that's > what it was. >> IIRC, the AMD-servers of HP had numerous problems for the first few generations. Some worked well (I think we have a handful of 385 G1/G2/G5 still

Re: Poll: FreeBSD userbase in 2016

2016-02-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 27.02.2016 um 00:24 schrieb Andy Farkas : > > On 27/02/2016 13:09, Lucius Rizzo wrote: >> I am wondering who else (these days) uses FreeBSD commercially and/or any >> major names to understand current userbase. Is there any data on this? >> > > The FreeBSD web site (https://www.freebsd.or

Re: After BIOS-Upgrade, I can't (UEFI-) boot anymore

2015-11-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 18.11.2015 um 14:33 schrieb O'Connor, Kevin > : > > > > From the wiki > > The boot process proceeds as follows: > >UEFI firmware runs at power up and searches for an OS loader in the EFI > system partition. The path to the loader may be set by an EFI environment > variable, with a

After BIOS-Upgrade, I can't (UEFI-) boot anymore

2015-11-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I have a HP DL380 G9, that I boot from an internal SmartArray Controller provided RAID1 into FreeBSD 10.1 amd64. I have upgraded the BIOS to the 2015-10 release and on reboot, I now get a message that /boot/loader.efi can’t be found. I can legacy boot it into mfsbsd and the file is ther

ZFS UEFI boot?

2015-09-20 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, according to the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#Tasks it’s still unsolved and hasn’t even been started. According to the status report: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.html#ZFS-Support-for-UEFI-Boot/Loader

Re: pkg does bad things after upgrade from 8.4 to 9.3

2015-09-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 09.09.2015 um 17:45 schrieb Michael R. Wayne : > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:06:02PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> >>> Am 08.09.2015 um 22:55 schrieb Michael B. Eichorn : >>> >>> But you must reinstall everything. You upgraded your ABI

Re: pkg does bad things after upgrade from 8.4 to 9.3

2015-09-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 08.09.2015 um 22:55 schrieb Michael B. Eichorn : > > > > But you must reinstall everything. You upgraded your ABI going 8->9 so > everything needs rebuilt/reinstalled. See next. >> Exactly. Or unpack the compat8x package by hand. Or don’t delete the old libraries upon upgrading… >> >

Re: SSH Chroot FreeBSD 10.1 and 10.2

2015-08-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 22.08.2015 um 15:45 schrieb Brandon Allbery : > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Johan Hendriks > wrote: > > chroot is what it says on the tin: once set, the specified directory is > "/". Every file accessed from that point on MUST be available from a tree > in which the specified chroot

Re: freebsd-update upgrading 9.2 -> 9.3

2015-06-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 14.06.2015 um 20:51 schrieb Dave Duchscher : > >> On Jun 14, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> >> >>> Am 14.06.2015 um 15:46 schrieb Dave Duchscher : >>> >>> Trying to upgrade a system from 9.2 -> 9.3 with freebsd-update and

Re: freebsd-update upgrading 9.2 -> 9.3

2015-06-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 14.06.2015 um 15:46 schrieb Dave Duchscher : > > Trying to upgrade a system from 9.2 -> 9.3 with freebsd-update and I get the > output below. Search has seen reports but not solutions. I also tried > upgrading to 10.1 and seeing similar issue those the "No such file or > directory" erro

Re: CARp comatibility between 9 and 10

2015-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 07.06.2015 um 12:33 schrieb Pete French : > > I have a pair of firewalls running FreeBSD 9 to upgrade > to 10 next week. I know CARp was rewritten, but I was wndering a few > things before I started. Mainly is it possible to have one > machine running 9 and one running 10 with the failover w

Re: OVH KS-2G Random Reboots [FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p6]

2013-08-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.08.2013 um 23:09 schrieb Paul Chakravarti : > > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone else is having reboot issues running FreeBSD 9.1 on > the OVH KS-2G low-cost dedicated servers (amazingly cheap at £2.49/month - > see http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml). > > I am run

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:32:47 -0700 (PDT) schrieb "Chris H" : > Greetings Stephen, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. > > On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: > > > >> So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only > >> recourse at this point to > >> # cd / > >> # rm -rf . > >

Re: ZFS Panic after freebsd-update

2013-07-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 01.07.2013 um 20:56 schrieb "Steven Hartland" : > - Original Message - From: "Scott Sipe" >> So I realize that neither 8.2-RELEASE or 8.4-RELEASE are stable, but I >> ultimately wasn't sure where the right place to go for discuss 8.4 is? >> Beyond the FS mailing list, was there a bett

Re: Problem with ftp-proxy

2013-06-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 18.06.2013 um 13:32 schrieb "Mark Felder" : > On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:11:43 -0500, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> I use ftp-proxy, together with the patch that starts multiple instances: >> > > I recommend avoiding f

Problem with ftp-proxy

2013-06-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I use ftp-proxy, together with the patch that starts multiple instances: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/158171 I use it in a combination with pure-ftpd on the backend-server. on the proxy: 1434 ?? Ss 0:17.06 /usr/sbin/ftp-proxy -vv -b 127.0.0.2 -R 192.168.91.42 92

How to get pkgng work through a proxy?

2013-05-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I have this host (a cloned VM, FreeBSD 9.1 AMD64) behind an Astaro Web-Proxy: (blahost ) 70 # pkg update [12:00] Updating repository catalogue repo.txz3% 10KB 0.5KB/s 0.0KB/s - stalled -pkg: http://pkgng.our.repo/91amd64-91patch/rep

Re: Why does poudriere always rebuild nginx and GraphicsMagick13?

2013-02-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
> > > Hi Baptiste, > > so I upgraded to 2.3.1 but it still rebuilds those two ports every single > time I run a bulk build. > > … > >> Options changed, deleting: GraphicsMagick-nox11-1.3.16_1.txz > >> Options changed, deleting: nginx-1.2.6,1.txz > ... > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel

Re: Why does poudriere always rebuild nginx and GraphicsMagick13?

2013-02-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 12.02.2013 um 23:11 schrieb Baptiste Daroussin : > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:59:28PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> poudriere 2.2 here, running on 9.1-amd64 >> >> Of the 730-ish ports, whenever I run a build, it always rebuilds the above >>

Why does poudriere always rebuild nginx and GraphicsMagick13?

2013-02-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, poudriere 2.2 here, running on 9.1-amd64 Of the 730-ish ports, whenever I run a build, it always rebuilds the above two ports. Even if nothing changed. Is there are specific reason for this? I don't really mind nginx, because it builds so quickly - but GraphicsMagick takes a bit too long.

Re: pkgng and updated packages

2013-01-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.01.2013 um 18:31 schrieb Glen Barber : > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:28:02PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> I go from PERL 5.10 to PERL 5.16, for example and it complains that >> perl5.16 conflicts with perl5.10... >> >> This I needed, too: >>

Re: pkgng and updated packages

2013-01-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:52:20 +0100 schrieb Baptiste Daroussin : > pkg upgrade -f will upgrade everything. to avoid you to shoot > yourself when upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1 we also provide a pkg-static > binary so that even if pkg itself is linked against libraries that > has disappeared in 9.1 you c

Re: pkgng and updated packages

2013-01-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:52:20 +0100 schrieb Baptiste Daroussin : > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:51:20AM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I run my own pkgng repo (via poudriere) and it seems to work great. > > However, I've got more questions... > >

pkgng and updated packages

2013-01-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I run my own pkgng repo (via poudriere) and it seems to work great. However, I've got more questions... - when PHP got updated to 5.3.21 (from 5.3.20), all the other stuff that depends on it (PECL-*, pear-*) got rebuilt, too. (In my ports-tree, I just imported the update of PHP and not

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:57:17 -0800 schrieb 'Jeremy Chadwick' : > Though your OPTIONS recommendations work for you, they do not work for > everyone. Some people sit behind firewalls where HTTP or HTTPS are > the only viable means (native SVN or SVN+SSH will not work for > them). But then, cvs

Re: Anothe pkgng question: signing a repository

2012-12-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:01:43 -0500 (EST) schrieb Garrett Wollman : > In article <20121227162311$6...@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>, > rai...@ultra-secure.de writes: > > >I'm creating my own repository and have created a key for it. > [...] > >What does pkg expect to be in this file? > > A public key.

Anothe pkgng question: signing a repository

2012-12-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I'm creating my own repository and have created a key for it. I've created a CSR for it and used that to generate a certificate via our internal CA. Because there was no other information available, I used the profile that we use to generate SSL-certificates for web servers. I copied the cer

Question: /usr/sbin/pkg vs /usr/local/sbin/pkg in 9.1

2012-12-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, as I see it, pkgng is actually included in 9.1 as /usr/sbin/pkg, right? But when I define WITH_PKGNG=yes in /etc/make.conf the ports-system wants to install the pkgng-package (because it looks for pkgng in /usr/local/sbin). Is there a way to say "I have the pkg tool in base already"? Or is

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:18:44 -0500 schrieb Mark Saad : > So what is the short summary ? From what I can see, the wiki is out > of date again. the ISO are on the master server, and working out to > the mirrors. FreeBSD update is still not updated. Does someone just > need to just update the wiki w

Re: simple patch for portsnap to use wget

2012-11-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:13:43 + schrieb Vincent Hoffman : > On 29/11/2012 14:08, Devin Teske wrote: > > What… > > > > env http_proxy=user:pass@server:port fetch ... > > > > doesn't work for you? > I think he means that setting > env http_proxy=user:pass@server:port portsnap fetch > > doent wor

Re: simple patch for portsnap to use wget

2012-11-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:22:09 +0200 schrieb Alexander Yerenkow : > Do you aware that if wget tries download from https, and there is > self-signed certificate, then it fails, and ask for > --no-check-certificate option? > How do your patch deal in that case? So portsnap and freebsd-update don't ca

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:56:45 -0400 schrieb Rick Miller : > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > > Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) > > schrieb Brett Glass : > > > >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how >

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:56:45 -0400 schrieb Rick Miller : > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > > Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) > > schrieb Brett Glass : > > > >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how >

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:06:26 -0400 schrieb Mark Saad : > Hp did a presentation at work 2 weeks ago about the g8 . Hp said you > can swap out a daughter card in the 360/380/580 for nic options like > broadcom 4 port gigabit nic , melenox infinbabd, intel pro1000 4 port > nic , qlogic 8Gb fc-al and

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:34:20 -0400 schrieb Mark Saad : > > > > On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > > > Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) > > schrieb Brett Glass : > > > >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Brett Glass : > I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait > until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed

Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

2012-10-20 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:14:01 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber : > The grub prompt for (Open)Solaris? Or do you use grub on FreeBSD? I thought it was a linux grub (the Firmware-Update DVD is linux-based and I thought it had gone postal. But I came to realize that it was the Solaris grub. We only use Fr

Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

2012-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:11:30 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber : > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > If I select the "entire disk" for FreeBSD, I think it's a reasonable > > assumption that the MBR should replaced, too. > > Please d

Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

2012-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:32:49 -0700 schrieb Adrian Chadd : > Guys/girls/etc, > > I do suggest that someone actually spends some time coming up with a > table of "what the current state is", "what we could do", "what would > happen if we did that." > > Right now there's a lot of possibilities (new

Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

2012-10-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:31:56 -0500 schrieb Chuck Burns : > On 10/18/2012 11:05 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Kimmo Paasiala > > wrote: > > > >> Such question does not make sense if the disk is GPT partitioned > >> which is the default now. The boot loader is inst

9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

2012-10-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I tried to install 9.1-RC2 amd64 on two disks that previously had some version of Solaris installed (with grub as boot-manager). The installation would always be successful, but it would just boot to grub and then sit there. It's a rather old G1 BL460C blade, but 9.0 installs flawlessly. I

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-23 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:43:01 -0600 schrieb Ian Lepore : > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: > > > > I found two good primers: > > http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committer

t_delta too long / too short messages?

2012-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I run 8.3 AMD64 in a VM (on esx 5u1). Install went flawless, but on reboot, it takes a very long time to get to the login-prompt and the console displays all these t_delta 15.fe49d775fc69de00 too short t_delta 16.03698e84842065e0 too long t_delta 15.fe47fbbbc968bdc0 too short t_delta 15.fe49a

Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

2012-07-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:53:19 -0400 schrieb Mark Saad : > > > On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > > AFAIK, there are no VMware-tools for FreeBSD9 (yet). > > So, if you need to use ESXi/vSphere, then stay with 8.3 for the time > > being. >

Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

2012-07-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:43:06 +0100 schrieb Pete French : > So, my work surprise for a Thursday morning is an urgent requirement > to see if we can run a set of FreeBSD machines under virtualised > servers. I have not done this before personally, but I notice from > post here that it doesnt seem un

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 06.06.2012 um 20:59 schrieb Dave Hayes: > > > I believe this is the first time I've seen more documentation labeled as > "extraneous". :) I had thought to suggest an implementation by having a > simple pkg-option-desr file which describes the options and implications > in each port. Are you s

Re: environment declared, yet problem to compile HipHop in FreeBSD9-RELEASE

2012-04-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 17.04.2012 um 20:41 schrieb Zenny: > Hi: > > I tried to follow the instructions here > (https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Building-and-Installing-on-FreeBSD-8.2), > everything went well except when I tried to 'cmake .', got > configuration error: > > "CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:

Re: What ZFS version will be in 8.3?

2012-03-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.03.2012 um 20:43 schrieb Steven Hartland: > Hi guys which version of ZFS support will be included in 8.3? V28, AFAIK. Has been available as a back-port for 8.2 for some time. Hopefully, it's stable. ;-) Rainer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org m

Re: about thumper aka sun fire x4500

2012-01-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 17.01.2012 um 23:09 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:59:08PM +0100, peter h wrote: >> I have been beating on of these a few days, i have udes freebsd 9.0 and 8.2 >> Both fails when i engage > 10 disks, the system craches and messages : >> "Hyper transport sync flood" will

Re: FTPS Server?

2012-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 05.01.2012 um 20:26 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 05:16:43PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> >> Am 05.01.2012 um 16:37 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> * Matthew Seaman [120105 14:38]: >>>&g

Re: FTPS Server?

2012-01-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 05.01.2012 um 16:37 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker: > Hi everyone, > > * Matthew Seaman [120105 14:38]: >> On 05/01/2012 12:47, Karl Denninger wrote: >>> Not SFTP (which is supported by the sshd) but FTPS is it supported >>> by FreeBSD? > >> No, not supported in the base system. > >>> [..] >>

Upgrading from 7.3 to 8.1: uname -a still shows 7.3p3

2010-11-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, I have the 8.1 sources, did a buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld. Now I have 8.1 binaries: server# file /bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 8.1, stripped but not the ke

apache hanging on 8.0 AMD64

2010-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, we have an "interesting" problem with FreeBSD 8.0 AMD64: The server is a HP DL380G5 with two Harpertown-class CPUs and 8 GB RAM. It is running MySQL, Apache (worker MPM) and PHP as CGI with Fast-CGI and SUEXEC. It has over 500 ZFS filesystems that comprise various customers websites, each ru

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Ondra Holecek wrote: hello, i have bought new notebook - Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1650G it has problems with acpi (eg. acpiconf -s3 does not work, etc.), and it has also integrated 802.11b/g card - recognized as ath0. I can set it up, but it has no signal - i gues it is because it should be

Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card

2005-07-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Brett Wildermoth wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Brett Wildermoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: To all my fellow FreeBSD users, I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I h

Problem booting 5.4

2005-05-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
x1) Does anybody have an idea about what's going on here? I've used various 3ware-controllers in various environments and never faced this problem. Rainer -- IP Tech AG Rainer Duffner Glärnischstrasse 46 CH-9500 Wil SG Telefon +41 71 929 90 70 Telefax +41 71 929 90 71