cam_periph_mapmem: attempt to map 2779097930 bytes, which is greater than 65536

2013-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada3: Previously was known as ad12 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-c

Re: rcs

2013-10-09 Thread Bruce Cran
installation was a post-install task, for once the system was up and running. I think that might be changing with bsdinstall getting pkgng support, but it did seem like a fairly major regression at the time. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

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

2013-04-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On 04/04/2013 09:00, Matthias Andree wrote: Any good "concurrent write" exercise tools for Unix that I could run on the Linux ext4 partition that you would propose? benchmarks/fio is good for that. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@f

Re: [HEADSUP] current switched by default to pkgng

2012-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
: cannot resolve pkg.freebsd.org: No address associated with name -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots

2012-10-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On 05/10/2012 15:29, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Unofficial snapshots can be downloaded from https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ for a long time (bootonly.iso too) I'm baffled as to why those aren't just made official. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: PCIe hotplug

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On 21/07/2012 03:04, Julian Elischer wrote: Is anyone looking at PCIe hotplug support? There's a (mostly empty) wiki page at http://wiki.freebsd.org/PCIHotplug . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: [IMPORT] bsdconfig(8)

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Cran
config password" gets run before the post-install configuration menu is shown and therefore the text saying to set the root password in the welcome screen is unnecessary, or it doesn't get run and it's possible to quit bsdconfig without se

Re: [IMPORT] bsdconfig(8)

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Cran
ord, bsdinstall can now (like sysinstall) ask the user if they'd like to visit the configuration menu one last time to make any additional changes (and bsdconfig -- no arguments -- would provide that menu). You forgot to explain the 'express' mode that b

Re: [IMPORT] bsdconfig(8)

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Cran
root password. Doesn't that mean that bsdconfig would be invoked as "bsdconfig password" which would bypass the welcome screen and so by the time the user does see it the root password (and timezone) will have been set? -- Bruce Cran

Re: [IMPORT] bsdconfig(8)

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Cran
On 14/07/2012 20:49, Devin Teske wrote: The goal is to have bsdinstall drop those functionalities and instead link to bsdconfig. Won't that mean it'll be possible to end up with an installation without a root password set? --

Re: [IMPORT] bsdconfig(8)

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Cran
stall will have already done that. "...look at the 'Packages' item in this menu." and on the main page - "Most importantly, you can use the Packages utility..." - I don't see a Packages entry in the menu. -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: [HEADS-UP] Import of src/usr.sbin/bsdconfig from sysutils/bsdconfig (ports)

2012-06-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On 28/06/2012 00:11, Devin Teske wrote: I'd like to announce that I intend to import bsdconfig(8) today. I haven't seen this get committed yet - was there a problem? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: [CFT] sysutils/bsdconfig: Replacement for sysinstall(8) post-install configuration abilities

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On 27/06/2012 02:11, Devin Teske wrote: Fixed. Thanks! The mouse daemon flags text still seems to have an upper-case 'S' ('Please Specify'). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: [CFT] sysutils/bsdconfig: Replacement for sysinstall(8) post-install configuration abilities

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Cran
[-C chroot_directory] [zoneinfo_file | zoneinfo_name] SYNOPSIS bsdconfig [-h] bsdconfig command [-h] bsdconfig [OPTIONS] [command [OPTIONS]] -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CFT] sysutils/bsdconfig: Replacement for sysinstall(8) post-install configuration abilities

2012-06-24 Thread Bruce Cran
t a TCP/IP network interface to configure" doesn't need "TCP/IP". bsdconfig nameservers: "Please enter the new TCP/IP address of the DNS nameserver" should just be "IP address". "TCP/IP" is being used where just "IP" was needed in o

"random device not loaded; using insecure entropy" during boot

2012-05-14 Thread Bruce Cran
IC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 random device not loaded; using insecure entropy I guess something's wanting random data before its been initialized? Once booted kern.random shows that it is loaded and working. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: ACPI 'driver bug: Unable to set devclass'

2012-05-13 Thread Bruce Cran
: (unknown)) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Default directory used for 'zpool import' broken (/dev/dsk)?

2012-05-13 Thread Bruce Cran
When running 'zpool import' without -d I get the error: "cannot open '/dev/dsk': must be an absolute path" zpool(8) suggests the default should have been updated for FreeBSD: "If the -d option is not specified, this command searches for devices in "/dev

ACPI 'driver bug: Unable to set devclass'

2012-05-13 Thread Bruce Cran
ource devname: (unknown)) cpu2: on acpi0 driver bug: Unable to set devclass (class: acpi_sysresource devname: (unknown)) cpu1: on acpi0 driver bug: Unable to set devclass (class: acpi_sysresource devname: (unknown)) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-cu

Re: ECC memory driver in FreeBSD 10?

2012-04-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On 6 Apr 2012, at 12:48, "O. Hartmann" wrote: > I'm looking for a way to force FreeBSD 10 to maintain/watch ECC errors > reported by UEFI (or BIOS). > Since ECC is said to be essential for server systems both in buisness > and science and I do not question this, I was wondering if I can not > rep

Re: ABI/architecture identification for packages

2012-03-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On 20 Mar 2012, at 10:20, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > i386-32 and amd64-64 is weird and confusing. > > IMO, you should go either with x86-{32,64} names, or with i386/amd64, > not with a mix. Would we ever want to support something like x32 from Linux (which might be amd64-32)? http://www.linu

Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool

2012-01-04 Thread Bruce Cran
e curve in usefulness, that I think that putting a bullet in its head now and forcing a mini-crisis to implement something better is not a bad idea, even though it may violate POLA. I can see that people prefer bsdinstall so I'll stop trying to keep sysinstall going.

Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool

2012-01-03 Thread Bruce Cran
et.ru/sade/ - I'm hoping to find some time to finish it off and import it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On 29/12/2011 21:30, Chris Rees wrote: Nah, pkg_add -r works and grabs anything you need. Try it with something monstrous (like gcc...) But then you have to know the exact name of the package, which isn't always obvious. -- Bruce Cran ___ fr

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
ches would be even more appreciated, since real life has intervened to steal most of my FreeBSD time. There was talk in the past that any future installer should be based around the pc-sysinstall backend - has there been any progress towards moving bsdinstall to it? --

Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall

2011-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
here would be any support for it, I'd try and find time to plug in the sade(4) rewrite into sysinstall - it has a rather nice UI and supports ZFS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-27 Thread Bruce Cran
I think such a tool should /not/ be a port, since I expect it would include a package browser in it. I think it's something that could really help new users get used to FreeBSD without having to trawl through man pages right at the start. -- Bruce Cran Sent from my iPad On 27 Dec 201

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-18 Thread Bruce Cran
with him to get him what he needs. Who's 'reppie'? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-17 Thread Bruce Cran
ems with ULE on a dual-socket quad-core Xeon machine with 16 logical CPUs. If I run "tar xf somefile.tar" and "make -j16 buildworld" then logging into another console can take several seconds. Sometimes even the "Password:" prompt can take a couple of seconds to app

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Cran
correct value of this, seemingly, important tunable. Note that I said "for example" :) I was suggesting that there may be sysctl's that can be tweaked to improve performance. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org ma

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Cran
'm wondering if the installer should ask people what the typical use will be, and tune the scheduler appropriately. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscri

Re: Dog Food

2011-12-08 Thread Bruce Cran
ports zfs: http://butcher.heavennet.ru/sade/ Unfortunately it was never completed because of the difficulties of using ncurses/dialog. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On 04/12/2011 09:08, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: It's not unthinkable. However, IMHO we're then gradually edging closer to various Linux distros that need lots of packages installed to do anything useful. And that, of course, brings up the question - why not just use Linux in the first place? For

Re: possible array out of bounds access in sys/netinet/sctp_output.c

2011-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
port much more than stdint.h out of C99. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: 9.0-RC2 - bsdinstall - ifconfig

2011-11-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On 23/11/2011 14:06, Stefan Bethke wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=162787 That's a much better PR than the one I submitted about the problem last year: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/151229 :) -- Bruce

Re: 9.0-RC1 fails to boot ("run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting...")

2011-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On 13/11/2011 01:07, Bruce Cran wrote: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 doesn't boot on my Tyan S7025 system: it gets stuck at xpt_config: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_c

9.0-RC1 fails to boot ("run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting...")

2011-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
ci0 pci0: at device 31.3 (no driver attached) pcib10: on acpi0 pci128: on pcib10 pcib11: at device 0.0 on pci128 pci132: on pcib11 pcib12: at device 1.0 on pci128 pci131: on pcib12 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: replacement of ataidle for freebsd 9

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On 22/10/2011 16:21, Eugene Dzhurinsky wrote: ataidle -P 0 /dev/ada0 ataidle: error opening /dev/ada0 Thanks for reporting the breakage, I'll see if I can get it fixed in time for 9.0. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing

Re: replacement of ataidle for freebsd 9

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Why do you not want to use ataidle? -- Bruce Cran (ataidle maintainer) On 22 Oct 2011, at 11:36, Eugene Dzhurinsky wrote: > Hello, can somebody please advice how to disable APM power management for HDD > on laptops? > >> camcontrol cmd ada0 -a "EF 05 00 00 00 00 0

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-12 Thread Bruce Cran
to be less than a CD, at 610MB. Are they expected to contain more data over time, or could 'dvd' be removed? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-19 Thread Bruce Cran
tly) there was a discussion about bumping the default to 128 kB or more for the freebsd-boot partition. Will 64 kB be enough for 9.x? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: ataidle + notebook hdd + 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-14 Thread Bruce Cran
/dev/ada0" to see what features the disk supports? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 Available...

2011-09-07 Thread Bruce Cran
or" screen I had to press Ctrl-C. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Unusually high LA without any load at FreeBSD9-BETA2

2011-09-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On 06/09/2011 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: What is "LA"? Load Average? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-c

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Bruce Cran
ibute too, since I know quite a bit about Windows and FreeBSD, and I'd be keen to learn about Linux (it would give me a reason to read the copy of Essential Linux Device Drivers I bought!). However I don't have a lot of time at the moment so I certainly couldn't lead the proj

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Bruce Cran
ks, kernel scheduler specs,...) in here? I migh be wrong, but IMHO "core devs" and "power users" wont spend time to deeply investigate on the other systems. You're wrong :) I write Windows drivers for a living, so I care about that stuff. -- Bruce Cran

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Bruce Cran
ows really grok multi-socket, multi-core HyperThreaded systems and prefer real cores on the same NUMA node when running a multi-threaded application, whereas it seems FreeBSD struggles sometimes. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: USB keyboard problems at mountroot

2011-08-08 Thread Bruce Cran
-pr.cgi?pr=133989 but it hasn't seen much action.. I also recall a thread recently but my google-fu fails me for the moment.. Does anyone have a work around for it? I think setting kern.cam.scsi_delay has worked for me in the past. -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: libdialog strangeness after source upgrade to head/9.0BETA1

2011-08-08 Thread Bruce Cran
when there are more than 2 fields. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: bsdtar(1) can't extract new ISO images

2011-08-07 Thread Bruce Cran
aw a few weeks ago on OS X Lion when trying to extract an ISO of Windows Server 2003 R2: neutrino:tmp brucec$ tar -xvf en_win_srv_2003_r2_standard_with_sp2_cd2_X13-68583.iso neutrino:tmp brucec$ echo $? 0 It would be nice if bsdtar exited with a non-zero code in this case.

Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues

2011-08-02 Thread Bruce Cran
and French documentation sets but pressing OK just returns back to the final menu. I can't see any log files in /tmp, /root or /var/tmp. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

9.0-BETA1 installer issues

2011-08-02 Thread Bruce Cran
do anything once you select "OK". The shell menu should perhaps have a newline after "making", to avoid "configuration" wrapping. Also, the partitioning screen should maybe have "Continue" instead of &qu

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Bruce Cran
is one of the better installers I've come across, and lets you fine-tune the configuration. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to &

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25/07/2011 02:08, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 07/24/11 20:03, Bruce Cran wrote: On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote: 1) no "back" button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well, unacceptable. 2) n

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Bruce Cran
installer uses changes the way navigation is done: on Linux and in the previous version on FreeBSD it's possible to press to change focus to the buttons and different UI elements. That doesn't work any more. -- Bruce Cran ___ freeb

8th July snapshot: bsdinstall not creating homedir

2011-07-24 Thread Bruce Cran
I've installed FreeBSD snapshots a couple of times this week. With Virtualbox 4.1 on both Windows and OS X with a 20GB disk I've found the installer forgets to create the homedir - /home doesn't exist, so when you get placed at / when logging in. Unfortunately pub.allbsd.org seems to be queued

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
USB keyboard that often doesn't work at the root mount prompt, recovery can be a bit tricky. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Cran
t. Attached patch should solve the problem by using more strict > check, and I only hope it won't break anything else. Try it please. That seems to have fixed it. Thanks! -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Cran
IFY timed out LBA=0 The full dmesg is at http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/freebsd/dmesg.verbose_ata_20110420.txt . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send a

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:21:48 +0300 Alexander Motin wrote: > Verbose dmesg from the fresh system would be appreciated. I've put a verbose dmesg at http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/freebsd/dmesg.verbose_20110420.txt -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Cran
ining issues. I've not checked recently with -current, but at least on the latest 8-stable there's a problem with using ATA_CAM on Xen: during boot there's a pause for a minute after which "run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_confi

Finding typos using codespell

2011-04-19 Thread Bruce Cran
anges) can be found at http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/freebsd/codespell_sys.diff . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-curren

Re: Getting /usr/src/ from SVN directly?

2011-03-25 Thread Bruce Cran
base/head, base/stable/8 etc. svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: how to build kernel with CTF data for DTrace?

2011-03-23 Thread Bruce Cran
t/kernel/kernel does not contain .SUNW_ctf data > > Is instruction in wiki outdated? I think you need to specify WITH_CTF=1 on the commandline, e.g. make WITH_CTF=1 buildkernel -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: /etc/rc.d/powerd vs. lack of OID dev.cpu.0.freq

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:46:01 + Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:41:35 +0200 > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > The OID in question should be provided by cpufreq driver. > > You should be looking at dmesg and other kernel-related things to > > find out

Re: /etc/rc.d/powerd vs. lack of OID dev.cpu.0.freq

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Cran
ks - it's just that querying the value always fails unless EST is enabled. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Cran
ple Debian's 35 MB business-card CD is great when you can only download at 50 kB/s. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-cur

Re: Next ZFSv28 patchset ready for testing.

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Cran
gies for the noise. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Next ZFSv28 patchset ready for testing.

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Cran
adds SIGNOF and highbit and the second then removes the file. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Next ZFSv28 patchset ready for testing.

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Cran
CURRENT but that's because the changes have already been added. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Cosmetic path to bsdinstall

2011-02-24 Thread Bruce Cran
e if I can get something similar committed so at least another part of suspend/resume works. I think someone mentioned there was documentation somewhere that was going to be put on the Wiki about what needs done in order to get suspend/resume working properly. Does anyone know where that m

Re: Cosmetic path to bsdinstall

2011-02-24 Thread Bruce Cran
n, so doesn't know to spin-down disks etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Cran
related to repair partitions and FreeBSD too (http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Laptops), so they must read the MBR too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe,

Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-22 Thread Bruce Cran
all to a gmirror > with sysinstall?" It's not been added because everyone thinks sysinstall code is horrible and won't touch it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-21 Thread Bruce Cran
rns about GPT, ZFS, gmirror etc. in sysinstall could all be resolved in a couple of days by ripping out the existing partitioning code and replacing it with ae@'s new version of sade from /user/ae/usr.sbin/sade . However since the future is pc-sysinstall I've

Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-21 Thread Bruce Cran
rns about GPT, ZFS, gmirror etc. in sysinstall could all be resolved in a couple of days by ripping out the existing partitioning code and replacing it with ae@'s new version of sade from /user/ae/usr.sbin/sade . However since the future is pc-sysinstall I've

Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-19 Thread Bruce Cran
install as it currently is is simple enough that there shouldn't be any compatibility issues: it uses gpart for partitioning, runs tools like tzsetup to configure settings etc. so there's far less to go wrong than sysinstall's custom code which for exampl

Re: Non-SCSI cam layer based device noise (was Re: Intermittent pauses copying from one usb drive to another)

2011-02-05 Thread Bruce Cran
sd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-November/004650.html . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Loading uart module fails

2011-01-19 Thread Bruce Cran
g -CURRENT from a couple of weeks ago so it if it's an old bug it apparently hasn't been fixed yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Loading uart module fails

2011-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:46:06 -0500 John Baldwin wrote: > Can you get devinfo -rv output before you try to kldload uart? I've attached the devinfo output. -- Bruce Crannexus0 cryptosoft0 padlock0 npx0 ram0 I/O memory addresses: 0x0-0x9fbff 0x9fc00-0x9

Re: why panic(9) ?

2011-01-12 Thread Bruce Cran
the system down. I always get that warning because my driver was ported from FreeBSD, including a panic() function. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe,

Loading uart module fails

2011-01-09 Thread Bruce Cran
Hi, I removed uart from my kernel configuration - when I tried to load it later as a module I got the following error: acpi_timer0: couldn't allocate resource (port 0x4008) driver bug: Unable to set devclass (devname: (null)) -- Bruce

Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
ersion of libdialog. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: a few OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc improvements

2010-12-14 Thread Bruce Cran
atch. I'm wondering if people might be surprised to find sade gone if they set WITHOUT_SYSINSTALL - one's an installer, the other a partitioning program. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: two issues with cdfs

2010-11-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:28:00 +0200 Andriy Gapon wrote: > What's cdfs? :-/ Apparently it's another name for ISO 9660 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 - which we call cd9660. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mail

Re: sound config problem

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Cran
e of > things, so it just seems sensible to start with the really simple > things. Apologies if you've done this already. :) The simplest test is: cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list h

src/bin and src/sbin now building with clang without NO_WERROR

2010-11-22 Thread Bruce Cran
I've just committed some fixes to src/bin and src/sbin so those directories now build using clang without needing to use WERROR and NO_WERROR. I'm planning to start going through usr.bin and usr.sbin next. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@f

Re: panic with devclass_get_name (dc=0xdeadc0dedeadc0de)

2010-11-22 Thread Bruce Cran
tection fault while in kernel mode I wonder if this is related to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/133286 ? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscri

Re: tmpfs out of space (ZFS related?)

2010-11-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:43:03 +0300 Eir Nym wrote: > Which type of MFS do you use? I think you shold use "swap-backed" for > your /tmp, not "malloc-based". Last type is only for in-kernel file > system. It's tm

zfs/vm panic: vm_object_page_collect_flush failed

2010-11-20 Thread Bruce Cran
at /usr/src/head/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c:938 #30 0x8044dd42 in Xfast_syscall () at /usr/src/head/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S:381 #31 0x0008006e567c in ?? () -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
't > make it into src \ tree. by now it's probably outdated and needs to > be reworked quite a bit. > > does anybody know something about this? Google suggests that the work was a GSoC project in 2005 on a pluggable disk scheduler. -- Bruce Cran _

Ctrl-alt-delete in syscons pause/scrollback mode breaks system

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
were killed and I could still break into the debugger but otherwise the system was unresponsive. Trying to repeat it after rebooting I ended up with a system that won't even break into the debugger. Is this expected? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@f

siftr LOR: PFil hook read/write mutex vs. tcp

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
() witness_checkorder() _rw_rlock() siftr_chkpkt() pfil_run_hooks() ip_input() netisr_dispatch_src() ether_demux() ether_input() msk_handle_events() msk_intr() intr_event_execute_handlers() ithread_loop() fork_exit() fork_trampoline() --- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xff8123559cf0, rbp = 0 --- -- Bruce Cran

Re: Corruption of UFS filesystems after using md(4)

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
2 2 It's a totally standard installation from a HEAD snapshot which is now running r214509. I've now seen the problem on a xen VPS, a desktop and a laptop. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Corruption of UFS filesystems after using md(4)

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 19:12:14 Bruce Cran wrote: > I've noticed in recent months that I appear to be getting silent corruption > of my UFS filesystems - and I think it may be linked to using md(4) or > creating sparse files. I've confirmed this is a UFS bug rela

Corruption of UFS filesystems after using md(4)

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
- on another server those files were reported as being 8TB. I've disabled background fsck so the filesystems should have been clean when the system booted, and I'm not using SU+J. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards

2010-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
EIST or C1E? I also saw it today when I connected to the virtual VGA console on my Xen VPS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

panic after entering blank line at mountroot prompt

2010-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
gh because instead of another line, I got a panic: "failed to (re-)mount root". Should the mountroot parser be failing if it doesn't find a valid root to mount on the first line? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Small /etc/src.conf

2010-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
that for example editors/vim doesn't pull in X11. I also set DISTDIR and WRKDIRPREFIX to directories under my homedir so I can build ports as an unprivileged user. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: installer unable to find device node

2010-10-20 Thread Bruce Cran
PowerPC Mac then I don't know where the Apple Partition Table entries are stored. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

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