Re: Strange issue with Samba on 8.0rc1

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:29:51PM -0700, David Ehrmann wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
> >This looks like too much problems at the same time to be a problem in 
> >samba or FreeBSD.
> >
> >For what it's worth, here are some ideas and data points:
> >
> >- FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 installs and runs perfectly normal in VMWare ESXi 
> >with LSI emulation
> >- If it is a disk problem (bad cable? controller?) it could manifest 
> >itself or at least give some clue if you did 'zpool scrub'. ZFS is 
> >checksummed - it should give you IO errors if the data gets corrupted.
> >- There are several versions of Samba in the ports - can you try 
> >another one?
> >- Before you do anything, have you updated to the latest 8.0 source?
> 
> Odd.  Trying to rebuild world, csup failed with "Receiver: Connection 
> reset by peer."  cvsup didn't do any better.  I didn't have this problem 
> with the VM (where I'm actually going to build everything, then copy it 
> over).  Could a buggy network driver cause this problem?  It's a Via 
> gigabit ethernet (vge) device.
> 

I vaguely remember some vge(4) users who have VT613x PCIe variants
reported driver instabilities. So I guess there are some silicon
changes in newer VT613x controllers. If you're using PCIe version
of the controller you may see the same issue. If you have a spare
NIC or USB NIC how about trying other ethernet driver to rule out
possible vge(4) issues?

I managed to find a site in China that sells a stand-alone PCIe
VT6130 card and ordered it but it was not delivered yet. Don't know
how long it would take.