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Hello there! Here's my story, hopefully some of you won't follow my steps and avoid some troubles :) Yesterday I've decided that's about time to test zfs functionality on my home server PC (i386 FreeBSD 7.1-pre) . A couple of weeks ago I bought new desktop PC (with SATA), so I had a bunch of PATA disks from old one to use in server. Lucky me - there was 3 HDD at size 40GB -

Hello, I need some advice how to debug this issue ... Recently I got a new mainboard for a router, it's a Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI with two onboard re(4) NICs. The problem is that re0 works fine and re1 doesn't: It doesn't receive any packets. Tcpdump displays all outgoing packets, but no incoming ones on re1. Ifconfig shows the link correctly (100 or 1000 Mbit, depending on where I

Hello, I have recently updated a machine to 7-stable. ACPI doesn't seem to work correctly on this machine. With earlier versions of FreeBSD (including the latest RELENG_6), I got this line in dmesg: ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. And everything was fine. The box runs perfectly well with ACPI disabled. (I can't get a BIOS update because the mainboard is too

Hi, This happened to me repeatedly (but not always), even after updating to the latest RELENG_7 yesterday ... 1. Boot into single user mode 2. fsck / # finishes successful! 3. mount -u / 4. Do a few edits to files in /etc 5. mount -u -o ro / softdep_waitidle: Failed to flush worklist for 0xc1f36b30 mount: /dev/ad0s1a : Device busy I can't remount the root file system read-only, so

Hello, I've got a (P)ATA disk in a special frame. The disk itself supports UDMA-100 (and has an 80-ribbon cable), but the frame isn't compatible with that. By default, FreeBSD negotiates UDMA-100, and the console starts to fill with ICRC errors. In the past, I used a patch to ata-all.c that enabled the following entry in loader.conf to force the disk to UDMA-33, so it worked fine:

> I recently did something like this. I have a webserver in a jail that > needs to talk to a database, and the webserver is the only thing that > should talk to the databse. > My solution was to use 2 jails: one for the webserver, and another for the > database. > Jail 1: > * runs webserver > * binds to real interface with real, routable IP > Jail 2: > *

Hello, I bought a LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus Adapter today. According to the box it is "v6". The ral(4) man- page mentions only v2, but that one is ancient and can't be bought anymore. So, enabling the debug sysctl gives this in dmesg: cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x0 cardbus0: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) cardbus0: CIS pointer

Hi, Somehow[TM] an installation of 4.11 to ad0s3 managed to wipe out my existing disklabel for 7.0 on ad0s4. I now need to recover the disklabel to get my system to boot! There were three labels - ad0s4a: UFS, exact size unknown. Is it possible to infer this from the UFS partition size? I can mount this already, as I simply wrote an 'a' label of maximum size to the disklabel - ad0s4b:

Hi, Recently there have been advisories and patches for SuSE and RedHat (and probably a few others) regarding a vulnerability in Vixie Cron. The details say that there's insufficient checking of the return value of setuid, which can lead to priviledge escalation and lets users run cron jobs with root priviledges. As far as I know, FreBSD also uses Vixie Cron (at least the cron(8) manpage

Hello, when testing FreeBSD-7.1-BETA i discovered that the floppy disk controller doesn't work correctly. Trying to format a floppy (perhaps with bad blocks) i get: Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Device not configured instead of the normal E letter. I then checked the same problem is present on FreeBSD-6.3 and it has been reported by Beech Rintoul (*) in 2006! Of course the floppy disk

One of our FreeBSD boxes has a SCSI controller and disk, which showed problems earlier this week. There was a lot of of chatter from the SCSI driver in /var/log/messages and to the console. However, the console is unattended and we only discovered the problem subsequently because /var/log/console.log didn't show any of the chatter. console.log is otherwise working, and very helpful (e.g. it

I got roughly the same performance results when I use the openssl speed test with and without a hifn 7956 cryto card Here's what I did: After the card is plugged in, kldload hifn; kldload cryptodev; I got the message: hifn0 mem 0xfc8f0000-0xfc8f7ffff, 0xfc8f0000-0xfc8f7ffff, 0xfc8f0000-0xfc8f7ffff irg 28 at device 3.0 on pci1 hifn0: Hifn 7956, rev 0, 32KB dram, pll=0x800<pci clk, 4x

Hello BSDers, I'm running Apache in a chroot jail with suPHP. It needs an /etc/ passwd in the chroot so that suPHP can setuid to the owner of the PHP script, but there's nothing that requires the passwords to be valid. Does anyone have a script strips passwords out of master.passwd, sets all shells to nologin, etc and writes it to the chroot etc dir? I've looked around but

Hi, Just to say that this report may well seem a little sparse, but I really don't know what exactly to look for so if anybody needs extra information just shout and I will get it for you ASAP. When I check the X.org log file, it says direct rendering: enabled on my graphics device (it attaches its i810 driver to the kernel's i915 DRM device). This would appear to me to suggest that

Hello http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1536 "Integer underflow in the file_printf function in the "file" program before 4.20 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow." Is FreeBSD 5.x/6.x affected too? It looks the System has file 4.12. The port has 4.20. Regards, Thomas -- Terry

Hey, RELENG_7 isn't -STABLE yet, so the issue mention in the commit mail beolow will not get a Security Advisory. This only affects applications using DTLS, and I doubt there are many of those, but users should still upgrade to get this fix, just in case. See the OpenSSL advisory for some more details: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20071012.txt If anybody were wondering, and

Hey, RELENG_7 isn't -STABLE yet, so the issue mention in the commit mail beolow will not get a Security Advisory. This only affects applications using DTLS, and I doubt there are many of those, but users should still upgrade to get this fix, just in case. See the OpenSSL advisory for some more details: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20071012.txt If anybody were wondering, and

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:02:34 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bodo_R=FCskamp?= <jordbaer@mac.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: misc patches to FreeBSD (Geode, USB, kqueue, ObjC) Message-ID: <5E112B5E-7897-11D7-BB6A-000393DB98F8@mac.com> Hi, I have compiled a list of patches for FreeBSD on <http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/index.html>. They are the result of

Hi everyone, today I got an e-mail from a company claiming that my server is doing port scans on their firewall machine. I found that hard to believe so I started checking the box. The company rep told me that the scan was originating at port 80 with destination port 8254 on their machine. I couldn't find any hints as to why that computer was subject to the alleged port scans. Searching

I have post a message about this topic @questions but I have not get feed back. My laptop has an ALi M5451 Sound Card. I am using FreeBSD4.8-STABLE with the "device pcm" activated in the kernel. At boot time I get this output from the kernel: pcm0: <Acer Labs M5451> at device 4.0 on pci0 pcm0: unable to map register space device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6 Searching