Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default
X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please
set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this
error.
Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby installed? I
think once I have that installed, I should be able to get port-upgrade
fixed and then maybe be able to get some patches downloaded... I would
really appreciate any tips or suggestions.
output of uname -a:
FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov
3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
There was major change about Xorg; For more details, plase see here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-May/001131.html
I think the upgrade was/is mandatory, not optional ;;
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it isn't really very helpful. I
guess I didn't clarify the catch-22 in my previous post.
In order to get X upgraded, I need to get portupgrade working. This
requires that X already be upgraded. This, in return requires
portupgrade...
I was starting with trying to get Ruby because that addressed the
vulnerabilities I was trying it initially address. However, that's
pretty irrelevant at the moment.
Where I'm stuck is getting either portupgrade working or getting X
upgraded, both of which seem to be dependent on the other having
already happened...
Thanks,
Keith
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Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
On Friday 26 October 2007, Keith Seyffarth said:
On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set
default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE,
please set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this
error.
Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby
installed? I think once I have that installed, I should be able
to get port-upgrade fixed and then maybe be able to get some
patches downloaded... I would really appreciate any tips or
suggestions.
output of uname -a:
FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0:
Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
There was major change about Xorg; For more details, plase see
here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-May/0011
31.html
I think the upgrade was/is mandatory, not optional ;;
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it isn't really very helpful.
I guess I didn't clarify the catch-22 in my previous post.
In order to get X upgraded, I need to get portupgrade working. This
requires that X already be upgraded. This, in return requires
portupgrade...
I was starting with trying to get Ruby because that addressed the
vulnerabilities I was trying it initially address. However, that's
pretty irrelevant at the moment.
Where I'm stuck is getting either portupgrade working or getting X
upgraded, both of which seem to be dependent on the other having
already happened...
Thanks,
Keith
Make sure your ports tree is 100% up to date.
Uninstall portupgrade all it's dependencies.
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make install clean
Read and follow the instructions in UPDATING for updating xorg
Cheers,
Beech
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Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
On 10/27/07, Keith Seyffarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default
X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please
set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this
error.
Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby installed? I
think once I have that installed, I should be able to get port-upgrade
fixed and then maybe be able to get some patches downloaded... I would
really appreciate any tips or suggestions.
output of uname -a:
FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov
3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
There was major change about Xorg; For more details, plase see here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-May/001131.html
I think the upgrade was/is mandatory, not optional ;;
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it isn't really very helpful. I
guess I didn't clarify the catch-22 in my previous post.
In order to get X upgraded, I need to get portupgrade working. This
requires that X already be upgraded. This, in return requires
portupgrade...
I was starting with trying to get Ruby because that addressed the
vulnerabilities I was trying it initially address. However, that's
pretty irrelevant at the moment.
Where I'm stuck is getting either portupgrade working or getting X
upgraded, both of which seem to be dependent on the other having
already happened...
Thanks,
Keith
Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with
portinstall?
ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\*
That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg.
Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then upgrade the
packages that depended on xorg.
It's probably not as simple as portupgrade, but you'll probably have more
luck.
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Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
I used to have issues with portupgrade as well. I traced my problem to using the wrong portupgrade. I have been using portupgrade for several months without an issue ( except the Xorg 7 transition ). Make sure to use /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade and not /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade I also follow the following port method, as per the handbook suggestion: portsnap fetch portsnap update method. This has worked without an issue for me. I am running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. I hope this helps. - Antonio Arredondo PhD Student NMSU Computer Science Department http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~aarredon/ - On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Did you have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING ? (I guess you have got a problem with the latest gnome.) Regards, Uli. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
Antonio Arredondo wrote: I used to have issues with portupgrade as well. I traced my problem to using the wrong portupgrade. I have been using portupgrade for several months without an issue ( except the Xorg 7 transition ). Make sure to use /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade and not /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade I also follow the following port method, as per the handbook suggestion: portsnap fetch portsnap update method. This has worked without an issue for me. I am running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. I hope this helps. - Antonio Arredondo PhD Student NMSU Computer Science Department http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~aarredon/ - snip All ports managment utilities have been moved to ports-mgmt quite some time ago. So if you still have a sysutils/portupgrade you should update your portstree. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /usr/ports/sysutils | grep portupgrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Harddisk encryption with geli: key's block size
Hi, I want to encrypt my mobile computer's data-partition with a passphrase, 128 bit AES and HMAC/MD5. A lot of people use different block sizes to generate keys with dd. There are examples with block sizes of 64, 32k and 128k in geli's man-page, but I couldn't find out why they were used. Spidering 'geli + key bs' discovered that there are some more values used, i.e. 128, 512 and 1k. What is a reasonable block size to use? Bye Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?
Dear FreeBSD folks, I want to upgrade my ports but as I'm following the /usr/ports/UPDATING file, it advised me to run the command pkgdb -Ff. When I do I get this: pkgdb -Ff --- Checking the package registry database Duplicated origin: devel/autoconf261 - autoconf-2.53_4 autoconf-2.61_2 Unregister any of them? [no] I don't know how to respond actually. The questioned packages are installed: pkg_info | grep autoconf autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.53_4 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.61_2 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-wrapper-20070404 Wrapper script for GNU autoconf What is wisdom here? Which one of them can I unregister? Thanks in advanced. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Harddisk encryption with geli: key's block size
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:40:00 +0200 Thomas Hobbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to encrypt my mobile computer's data-partition with a passphrase, 128 bit AES and HMAC/MD5. A lot of people use different block sizes to generate keys with dd. There are examples with block sizes of 64, 32k and 128k in geli's man-page, but I couldn't find out why they were used. Spidering 'geli + key bs' discovered that there are some more values used, i.e. 128, 512 and 1k. What is a reasonable block size to use? It doesn't matter, the output of /dev/random is generated from a 256 bit yarrow key, so anything more than dd /dev/random bs=32 count=1 is pointless. As you are only using 128 encryption, 256 bit of entropy is overkill anyway. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenSSL upgrade.
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CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU
Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I hardly ever get to more than 5%, regardless of how long I watch top. A snapshot of my top output looks like this: last pid: 96102; load averages: 1.28, 1.15, 1.06 up 22+08:33:16 13:55:03 122 processes: 2 running, 119 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 67.3% user, 0.0% nice, 32.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 474M Active, 974M Inact, 186M Wired, 68M Cache, 213M Buf, 93M Free Swap: 4064M Total, 4064M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 635 root1 1220 27304K 2644K select 656:38 1.27% syslog-ng 844 www20 200 411M 300M kserel 360:13 0.00% java 837 user1 3 200 29048K 5672K kserel 34:30 0.00% radiusd 788 pgsql 1 960 13516K 3824K select 10:03 0.00% postgres 785 pgsql 1 1150 120M 7436K select 9:02 0.00% postgres 787 pgsql 1 80 120M 41112K nanslp 5:15 0.00% postgres syslog-ng is quite busy as I use it to capture logs of more than 50 remote sites. I have lots of slow queries in my postgres logs that I think are related to this bottleneck, though unoptimised queries and an ever growing amount of data are more likely to take the blame for that. High disk I/O in this regard could explain the high system utilisation, however. I found out that I've been bitten by the freebsd-update bug (http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc) which replaced my SMP kernel with a GENERIC one and I'm taking corrective action early tomorrow morning, but surely even with just a single CPU the load average should never be as high? Where are those phantom CPU hogging processes? Gunther ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I hardly ever get to more than 5%, regardless of how long I watch top. A snapshot of my top output looks like this: last pid: 96102; load averages: 1.28, 1.15, 1.06 up 22+08:33:16 13:55:03 122 processes: 2 running, 119 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 67.3% user, 0.0% nice, 32.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 474M Active, 974M Inact, 186M Wired, 68M Cache, 213M Buf, 93M Free Swap: 4064M Total, 4064M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 635 root1 1220 27304K 2644K select 656:38 1.27% syslog-ng 844 www20 200 411M 300M kserel 360:13 0.00% java 837 user1 3 200 29048K 5672K kserel 34:30 0.00% radiusd 788 pgsql 1 960 13516K 3824K select 10:03 0.00% postgres 785 pgsql 1 1150 120M 7436K select 9:02 0.00% postgres 787 pgsql 1 80 120M 41112K nanslp 5:15 0.00% postgres syslog-ng is quite busy as I use it to capture logs of more than 50 remote sites. I have lots of slow queries in my postgres logs that I think are related to this bottleneck, though unoptimised queries and an ever growing amount of data are more likely to take the blame for that. High disk I/O in this regard could explain the high system utilisation, however. I found out that I've been bitten by the freebsd-update bug (http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc) which replaced my SMP kernel with a GENERIC one and I'm taking corrective action early tomorrow morning, but surely even with just a single CPU the load average should never be as high? Where are those phantom CPU hogging processes? By default top doesn't display system (kernel) processes, which can take up lots of CPU time. To show these, run top with the -S flag. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I hardly ever get to more than 5%, regardless of how long I watch top. A snapshot of my top output looks like this: last pid: 96102; load averages: 1.28, 1.15, 1.06 up 22+08:33:16 13:55:03 122 processes: 2 running, 119 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 67.3% user, 0.0% nice, 32.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 474M Active, 974M Inact, 186M Wired, 68M Cache, 213M Buf, 93M Free Swap: 4064M Total, 4064M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 635 root1 1220 27304K 2644K select 656:38 1.27% syslog-ng 844 www20 200 411M 300M kserel 360:13 0.00% java 837 user1 3 200 29048K 5672K kserel 34:30 0.00% radiusd 788 pgsql 1 960 13516K 3824K select 10:03 0.00% postgres 785 pgsql 1 1150 120M 7436K select 9:02 0.00% postgres 787 pgsql 1 80 120M 41112K nanslp 5:15 0.00% postgres syslog-ng is quite busy as I use it to capture logs of more than 50 remote sites. I have lots of slow queries in my postgres logs that I think are related to this bottleneck, though unoptimised queries and an ever growing amount of data are more likely to take the blame for that. High disk I/O in this regard could explain the high system utilisation, however. I found out that I've been bitten by the freebsd-update bug (http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc) which replaced my SMP kernel with a GENERIC one and I'm taking corrective action early tomorrow morning, but surely even with just a single CPU the load average should never be as high? Where are those phantom CPU hogging processes? A couple of points: 1) top -S will show what the kernel is doing, which may be relevant. 2) Because it only samples once a second (by default), top is bad for monitoring of any short-lived processes that may be using CPU for brief periods and then exiting. Don't know if you have any on this workload though. 3) In 6.x threaded applications do not generate CPU usage data in top. , i.e. java is probably using more than 0% of your CPU :) I think this is fixed in 7.0 and maybe also with libthr. Chances are you want to use libthr even in 6.x for performance reasons (libkse has attrocious performance). Use libmap.conf to switch the libraries. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rebuilding world
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when running make buildworld, this occours: Before anyone gets on my friends case he is using 6.2 (i386) with the current cvsup files on a dual core (1MB RAM). Also note I told him to post this note. May I ask why you want to run 8-CURRENT? It's almost certainly not suitable for someone just starting out with FreeBSD due to the constant breakages which occur, both in terms of kernel code and compatibility with installed software. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?
Dino Vliet wrote: Dear FreeBSD folks, I want to upgrade my ports but as I'm following the /usr/ports/UPDATING file, it advised me to run the command pkgdb -Ff. When I do I get this: pkgdb -Ff --- Checking the package registry database Duplicated origin: devel/autoconf261 - autoconf-2.53_4 autoconf-2.61_2 Unregister any of them? [no] I don't know how to respond actually. The questioned packages are installed: pkg_info | grep autoconf autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.53_4 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.61_2 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-wrapper-20070404 Wrapper script for GNU autoconf What is wisdom here? Which one of them can I unregister? Hi, Dino: Answer yes to the question shown above. You will then be asked whether you would like to unregister autoconf-2.53_4, leaving the installed files intact. If, at this point, the system looks like it has the concept, go ahead and allow it to change the package database. After doing this for what seems like forever (well, maybe, maybe not), you should have a pkgdb that portupgrade is comfortable with. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. -- Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Did you have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING ? (I guess you have got a problem with the latest gnome.) Regards, Uli. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany Of course, that is my first action whenever I finish the update. Unless I missed something but I doubt it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Storage cluster with FreeBSD
Norberto Meijome wrote: indeed. Well, as I said in OP, similar to what Lustre offers. I don't know what Lustre has so my response might or might not be what you need... Let's see : what I am after is a way to hook up a few computers ( say, 6) with a few HD (say, 6 x 400 GB), and setup across the whole thing a RAID that would let me : - keep running with no loss of data in case of a disk or node failure (or minimal in case of a node failure) - can be accessed by clients over standard network protocols (NFS, CIFS, etc) - the clients see volumes of x GB (maybe 1 of the total size, maybe 3 of different sizes...doesn't matter) All this until hear seems doable with FBSD + GEOM architecture. Now the tricky ones : May or may not. Do you want to have the drives attached to individual machines, then exported via ggate, then mounted on each machine and then RAID-ed together? This looks like it needs a large overhead in administration. If you have the drives attached to individual machines and then one machine that imports them all in some way (ggate) and exports them via NFS and CIFS, then you have a single point of failure. In truth, there appears to be only one volume manager that's close to being usable, and that's ZFS in 7. But there's nothing automatic in the way it can use the drives and (re) export them via NFS, etc. There is no distributed file systems for FreeBSD. - scales linearly - if I add 90 storage hosts, the system doesnt get bogged down with the management of the disks / stripe distributoin The only things you have with GEOM are low-level building blocks: RAID transformations and network devices. If you calculate for yourself that, (a silly example) if you create a RAID1 out of 90 hosts you can survive the data being explicitely sent to each of the hosts individually, then go ahead. There is no magic or smart behaviour involved anywhere. - I can add new hosts (from 6 to 10) and the new storage is available for the cluster. If I had LVM, I could simply add the new disks to the physical group, and then grow the logical volume... I don't see how 7.0's recursive partitioning can help me here Can you please explain ? Only ZFS can do that on 7. In truth, FreeBSD is really bad for storage works, and probably noone has ever done what you need (it's just not supported). The reasons are: - there are no distributed file systems for freebsd (meaning ones that have built-in support for operation on multiple nodes) - UFS panics on the slightest IO error and is not mountable by multiple hosts at the same time *at all*, even over gmirror - gmirror over ggate sort-of works but ggate network and IO errors will (at best) disconnect one of the drives and you'll need to manually reconnect them to the gmirror. After that you'll need to rebuild the whole drives (which is slow over the network). I.e. there's no automatic failover. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenLDAP 2.3/pam_ldap/nss_ldap: not working in FreeBSD 7.0-PRE!
Alexandre Biancalana wrote: On 10/26/07, O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: playing with ldapsearch gets results as expected. Doing ldapsearch witch -D and dn of the admin results in the whole DIT as expected, accessing the DIT with uid=user,ou=users,dc=... the same. Accessing LDAP server from client via LUMA (tool) is also ok. Try to change the nss_base_passwd line from: nss_base_passwd ou=users,dc=office,dc=de?one to nss_base_passwd ou=users,dc=office,dc=de?sub Well, on a test machine, I setup a testenvironment equal or nearly equal to that which is not working on a potentially production box. First of all, I think there is a misunderstanding in how to setup /etc/nsswitch.conf, because most trouble seems to be sourced there. When setting # # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file # $FreeBSD: src/etc/nsswitch.conf,v 1.1 2006/05/03 15:14:47 ume Exp $ # group: files ldap group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files ldap passwd_compat: nis shells: files services: compat services_compat: nis protocols: files rpc: files restarting OpenLDAP results in this, but after two minutes or so it starts up (the time is inacceptable and it does not change anything reverting the order from 'files ldap' to 'ldap files' for passwd and group). The great question is: Do I need to have these entries? Neither in the nsswitch.conf manpage nor in nss_ldap manpage it's mentioned to set 'ldap' as an option, I took this from one of the many tutorials out there. Oct 27 15:55:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 4 seconds)... Oct 27 15:55:31 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:31 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:31 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:31 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Oct 27 15:55:39 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:39 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:39 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:39 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 16 seconds)... Oct 27 15:55:55 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:55 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:55 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:55:55 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 32 seconds)... Oct 27 15:56:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:56:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:56:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps:///: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 27 15:56:27 20.6 thor slapd[81911]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 64 seconds)... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. From /usr/ports/UPDATING: Portupgrade users: # pkgdb -Ff # portupgrade -f -o textproc/rarian textproc/scrollkeeper # portupgrade -a Seems like a PEBKAC. From http://code.google.com/p/rarian/ : Rarian (formerly Spoon) is a documentation meta-data library, designed as a replacement for Scrollkeeper. Not a portupgrade issue. Best regards, Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
Jona Joachim wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. From /usr/ports/UPDATING: Portupgrade users: # pkgdb -Ff # portupgrade -f -o textproc/rarian textproc/scrollkeeper # portupgrade -a Seems like a PEBKAC. From http://code.google.com/p/rarian/ : Rarian (formerly Spoon) is a documentation meta-data library, designed as a replacement for Scrollkeeper. Not a portupgrade issue. Knowing how this will probably cause flame issues, it *could* be argued that it is a portupgrade issue and not necessarily a pebkac issue. These tools are supposed to automate upgrade and figure and sort dependency issues and such automatically as much as possible. Slowly I see more and more instances of people having to refer to UPDATING to do more manual alterations to sort issues out. Where is the line drawn between too much manual supplemental fixes and people wanting to be able to issue a couple of commands to upgrade their system without breaking something, perhaps something they rely on in a production environment? Just a thought. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0 and 6.3
Hi Kris, On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:17 +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to one over the other? 7.0 is the recommended choice; 6.3 is only for people who cannot update to the new branch yet. http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf I'll be loving 7.0-RELEASE. Good job! -- I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. -- Michael Corleone, Chapter 27, page 382 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Did you have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING ? (I guess you have got a problem with the latest gnome.) From my experience I think anyone upgrading on 8-CURRENT (and from reports perhaps 7-) will have the same issue I had this issue yesterday when upgrading Gnome on 6.2-RELEASE-p7. It's not just 7-FOO and 8-CURRENT that're affected. The solution that worked for me was this: 1. Force uninstall scrollkeeper. 2. Manually install rarian. 3. pkgdb -F to fix the stale links to scrollkeeper. 4. Restart the portupgrade process. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
project management software for freebsd?
Hello, I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am looking for. I do not want a simple task list. Rather something more like project management software (best if installed from ports but it is not really necessary). Many thanks in advance for your recommendations! Kind regards, Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. This is one of the main reasons users are having a serious look at Linux distros like Fedora or some Debian-ish ones. I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum update/upgrade. I used to love spending my Friday nights updating my FreeBSD ports - then, as you are finding out - it's just getting tedious. I'm unsure if there is the makings of a whole new way to update/upgrade the ports, but it's something that should be considered. Please - I know what some of you out there will say, Then why don't you do it - I'm not criticizing, simply commenting on my experiences. -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hardware not recognized
Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0: class=0x02 card=0x118a8086 chip=0x10798086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet If I explicitly load if_em via loader.conf, everything's fine. I'm guessing the identification codes aren't in the right list. Who do I talk to about this? (By the way, count me as a converted true believer in em-based NICs.) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hardware not recognized
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:22:21PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow
and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel.
However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0: class=0x02 card=0x118a8086 chip=0x10798086
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
If I explicitly load if_em via loader.conf, everything's fine.
I'm guessing the identification codes aren't in the right
list. Who do I talk to about this?
(By the way, count me as a converted true believer in em-based
NICs.)
Do you have 'device em' in you kernel config ? If you don't you will
of course have to load if_em as a module via loader.conf.
('device em' should be in GENERIC, but if you have customized your kernel
you might not have it.)
If it is not that simple you will probably need to give more information,
like which version of FreeBSD you are using, because normally there should
be no difference between having a driver directly in the kernel or loaded as
a module.
--
Insert your favourite quote here.
Erik Trulsson
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Re: project management software for freebsd?
On 2007-10-27 zbigniew szalbot wrote: I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am looking for. I do not want a simple task list. Rather something more like project management software (best if installed from ports but it is not really necessary). Many thanks in advance for your recommendations! You may wish to take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj. Quoted from project's description: OpenProj by Projity is a desktop replacement of Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a familiar user interface and even opens existing MSProject files. OpenProj is interoperable with Project, with a Gantt Chart and PERT chart etc -- Bahman Movaqar With and without, And who'll deny it's what the fightings all about? -Pink Floyd ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: project management software for freebsd?
On 2007-10-27 Bahman M. wrote: On 2007-10-27 zbigniew szalbot wrote: I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am looking for. I do not want a simple task list. Rather something more like project management software (best if installed from ports but it is not really necessary). Many thanks in advance for your recommendations! You may wish to take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj. Quoted from project's description: OpenProj by Projity is a desktop replacement of Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a familiar user interface and even opens existing MSProject files. OpenProj is interoperable with Project, with a Gantt Chart and PERT chart etc Forgot to add that I haven't tested OpenProj on FreeBSD yet. But I think as it's Java (Swing) based all you're required to have is Ant and JDK. -- Bahman Movaqar From the moment that we are born we die. -Marcus Manilius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:38:39 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. This is one of the main reasons users are having a serious look at Linux distros like Fedora or some Debian-ish ones. I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum update/upgrade. Of course it is, that's because someone has already done the work, equivalent to what's in UPDATING, when the packages were built. If you want to build from source you have to do it yourself. I used to love spending my Friday nights updating my FreeBSD ports - then, as you are finding out - it's just getting tedious. Sounds like rose-tinted glasses to me. Upgrading Gnome used to involve running an script in single-user mode, and by the admission of the authors, even that wasn't reliable. UPDATING is no more complex now than it was in the past, less so if anything. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. What would you like to see from ports? I mean, in the great tradition of BSD, let's work out what the problem is and write a script. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hardware not recognized
Erik Trulsson writes: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: If I explicitly load if_em via loader.conf, everything's fine. Do you have 'device em' in you kernel config ? If you don't you will of course have to load if_em as a module via loader.conf. Custom kernel, no device em, -CURRENT. However, it was my understanding anything probed at boot whose PCI id was known would automatically have the appropriate driver loaded. Am I misinformed? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
Make sure your ports tree is 100% up to date. Got it, I think. Ran cvsup again, got a bunch of stuff... Uninstall portupgrade all it's dependencies. Have done, as far as I can tell. cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make install clean Generates the same error mentioned previously - can't set default X11BASE. Setting X11BASE in make.conf does not make a difference. Read and follow the instructions in UPDATING for updating xorg Again, requires portupgrade, and it appears that just about anything (including portupgrade) requires that X already be upgraded... Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hardware not recognized
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:26:57PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Erik Trulsson writes: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: If I explicitly load if_em via loader.conf, everything's fine. Do you have 'device em' in you kernel config ? If you don't you will of course have to load if_em as a module via loader.conf. Custom kernel, no device em, -CURRENT. However, it was my understanding anything probed at boot whose PCI id was known would automatically have the appropriate driver loaded. Am I misinformed? You were misinformed. The PCI-id is known only to the driver, so if the driver is not loaded there is nothing which knows which driver to use. (During boot each driver which is loaded gets asked for each PCI-id if that id is something the driver knows about. If there is some driver which can handle the device, it gets to attach to the device.) There are some situations where kernel modules are loaded 'automatically'. One example is that if you have 'linux_enable=YES' in /etc/rc.conf then the boot scripts will automatically load the Linux emulation kernel module if it is not already loaded. I think there has been some discussion about similarily having ifconfig(8) automatically load the appropriate kernel module when trying to access some unknown network interface, but I believe the conclusion was that there were good reasons not to do this. So, if you want to use an em(4) card then you need to have either 'device em' in your kernel config, or have 'if_em_load=YES' in /boot/loader.conf It doesn't really matter which one of these two methods you use. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Atheros wireless
Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use it, i compiled modules; # cd /sys/modules/ath # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_hal # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_rate_sample # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_acl # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_wep # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_xauth # make; make load Then i added following lines to the /boot/loader.conf if_ath_load=YES ath_hal_load=YES ath_rate_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_acl_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_xauth_load=YES And i restarted my machine to be sure. When i use kldstat command to see modules, i see this output; # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 19 0xc040 70794c kernel 21 0xc0b08000 2cf4 wlan_acl.ko 31 0xc0b0b000 1b88 wlan_xauth.ko 41 0xc2d1f000 16000linux.ko Where is my if_ath module and the other ath modules? Where is the problem? And of course, still my wireless does not work. -- Necati Demir http://demir.web.tr ndemir [~] demir.web.tr necati83 [~] gmail.com -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Atheros wireless
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:20PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use it, i compiled modules; # cd /sys/modules/ath # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_hal # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_rate_sample # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_acl # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_wep # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_xauth # make; make load Then i added following lines to the /boot/loader.conf if_ath_load=YES ath_hal_load=YES ath_rate_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_acl_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_xauth_load=YES And i restarted my machine to be sure. When i use kldstat command to see modules, i see this output; # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 19 0xc040 70794c kernel 21 0xc0b08000 2cf4 wlan_acl.ko 31 0xc0b0b000 1b88 wlan_xauth.ko 41 0xc2d1f000 16000linux.ko Where is my if_ath module and the other ath modules? Where is the problem? And of course, still my wireless does not work. The default kernel (GENERIC) already contains all the other modules. Kldstat only lists those modules that have been loaded separately. If you run 'kldstat -v' then all the modules, both those in the kernel, and those loaded as modules, should be listed. There was also no need for you to compile any modules since all of them should already be installed by default anyway. (Yes, even those which are included directly in the kernel.) As to why it does not work you have not given enough information. What is the output of 'ifconfig', 'pciconf -lv', and 'dmesg' ? -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Now can't get past the copyright info. What next?
W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a FreeBSD 4.9 Samba file server that boots but hangs after the Regents of the University of California text. Is there some way to fix this? Boot from a CD? Put the hard drive in another computer? Those would be good things to try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Atheros wireless
On 27/10/2007, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:20PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use it, i compiled modules; # cd /sys/modules/ath # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_hal # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_rate_sample # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_acl # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_wep # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_xauth # make; make load Then i added following lines to the /boot/loader.conf if_ath_load=YES ath_hal_load=YES ath_rate_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_acl_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_xauth_load=YES And i restarted my machine to be sure. When i use kldstat command to see modules, i see this output; # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 19 0xc040 70794c kernel 21 0xc0b08000 2cf4 wlan_acl.ko 31 0xc0b0b000 1b88 wlan_xauth.ko 41 0xc2d1f000 16000linux.ko Where is my if_ath module and the other ath modules? Where is the problem? And of course, still my wireless does not work. The default kernel (GENERIC) already contains all the other modules. Kldstat only lists those modules that have been loaded separately. If you run 'kldstat -v' then all the modules, both those in the kernel, and those loaded as modules, should be listed. There was also no need for you to compile any modules since all of them should already be installed by default anyway. (Yes, even those which are included directly in the kernel.) Thanks for the information. As to why it does not work you have not given enough information. What is the output of 'ifconfig', 'pciconf -lv', and 'dmesg' ? The outputs: # pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x02f310de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x02fa10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:2: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x02fe10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:3: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x02f810de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:4: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x02f910de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:5: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x02ff10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:6: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x027f10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x027e10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0: class=0x060400 card=0x0040 chip=0x02fc10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:0: class=0x060400 card=0x0040 chip=0x02fd10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x060400 card=0x0040 chip=0x02fb10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5:0: class=0x03 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x024710de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= display subclass = VGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x05 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x027010de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0:class=0x060100 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x026010de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= bridge subclass = PCI-ISA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:1: class=0x0c0500 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x026410de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= serial bus subclass = SMBus [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:0:class=0x0c0310 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x026d10de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:1:class=0x0c0320 card=0xc0241631 chip=0x026e10de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:13:0: class=0x01018a card=0xc0241631 chip=0x026510de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class= mass storage subclass = ATA
Re: Atheros wireless
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:31:12PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: On 27/10/2007, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:20PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use it, i compiled modules; # cd /sys/modules/ath # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_hal # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_rate_sample # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_acl # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_wep # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan_xauth # make; make load Then i added following lines to the /boot/loader.conf if_ath_load=YES ath_hal_load=YES ath_rate_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_acl_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_xauth_load=YES And i restarted my machine to be sure. When i use kldstat command to see modules, i see this output; # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 19 0xc040 70794c kernel 21 0xc0b08000 2cf4 wlan_acl.ko 31 0xc0b0b000 1b88 wlan_xauth.ko 41 0xc2d1f000 16000linux.ko Where is my if_ath module and the other ath modules? Where is the problem? And of course, still my wireless does not work. The default kernel (GENERIC) already contains all the other modules. Kldstat only lists those modules that have been loaded separately. If you run 'kldstat -v' then all the modules, both those in the kernel, and those loaded as modules, should be listed. There was also no need for you to compile any modules since all of them should already be installed by default anyway. (Yes, even those which are included directly in the kernel.) Thanks for the information. As to why it does not work you have not given enough information. What is the output of 'ifconfig', 'pciconf -lv', and 'dmesg' ? The outputs: [snip] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x3065168c chip=0x001c168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class= network subclass = ethernet That is a fairly new chip. I don't know if it is supported yet. - # dmesg | grep -i ath ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath0: Atheros 5424 mem 0xfedf-0xfedf irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath0: Atheros 5424 mem 0xfedf-0xfedf irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 interface if_ath.1 already present in the KLD 'kernel'! interface ath_rate.1 already present in the KLD 'kernel' Here we see that the Atheros driver tries to attach, but the HAL claims that this hardware revision is not supported, and thus it will not work. If you are running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, you could try updating to either the latest 6-STABLE, or the upcoming 7.0, both of which have a newer HAL. If that doesn't help either I don't think there is much you can do. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LaTeX oder teTeX
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is. According to the teTeX website there will be no further development (at least not from its original author Thomas Esser). Is LaTeX a better candidate? There should be some support for (or by) LyX, because I would like to use LyX to get start. I know that TeX has a steep learning curve and I hope to reduce it with LyX so that I can dive into TeX while working on my projects. Regards Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHI879ND6QF/amlKsRAq4hAJ0RxhfKVe1kPQrQLpqhF87nTN7bcwCdFHTd oMUTC/sod0fvEEdtbs/RW0A= =rH3o -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?
I have a similar problem with gnu-automake, it seems to be required by the kde meta port: # pkg_info | grep kde-3 kde-3.5.7 The meta-port for KDE kdeartwork-xscreensaver-kde-3.5.7 Support for xscreensaver blankers in KDE # pkg_info | grep gnu-aut gnu-automake-1.10 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (GNU unmodified) # portupgrade -a cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/gnu-automake ** Package 'gnu-automake' has been removed from ports tree. ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: Presence of FPX breaks self-tests. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. # ll /usr/ports/devel/gnu-automake ls: /usr/ports/devel/gnu-automake: No such file or directory # pkgdb -Ff --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'devel/gnu-automake': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'devel/gnu-automake' was removed on 2007-09-10 because: No longer required with new autotools system - Hint: gnu-automake-1.10 is required by the following package(s): kde-3.5.7 - Hint: checking for overwritten files... - No files installed by gnu-automake-1.10 have been overwritten by other packages. Deinstall gnu-automake-1.10 ? [no] yes --- Deinstalling 'gnu-automake-1.10' pkg_delete: package 'gnu-automake-1.10' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: kde-3.5.7 ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! gnu-automake-1.10 (pkg_delete failed) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_deinstall gnu-automake-1.10 I managed to get rid of gnu-autoconf by answering no to deinstall? It then asked if I wanted to unregister it: Unregister any of them? [no] yes Unregister gnu-autoconf-2.61 keeping the installed files intact? [no] yes - gnu-automake-1.10 is kept. -- Saving the gnu-autoconf-2.61's +CONTENTS file as /var/db/pkg/gnu-automake-1.10/+CONTENTS.gnu-autoconf-2.61 -- Unregistering gnu-autoconf-2.61 -- Done. [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 724 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done] Stale dependency: gnu-automake-1.10 - gnu-autoconf-2.61 (devel/gnu-autoconf): cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/gnu-automake - Deleted. (irrelevant) Stale dependency: kde-3.5.7 - gnu-autoconf-2.61 (devel/gnu-autoconf): - Deleted. (irrelevant) But I don't get asked to unregister gnu-automake. Can I force it, without breaking anything, somehow? -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:38:39AM -0500, Chris wrote: E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. This is one of the main reasons users are having a serious look at Linux distros like Fedora or some Debian-ish ones. That's ironic, considering I used Debian because Fedora wasn't stable enough, and switched to FreeBSD in part because even Debian wasn't stable enough. . . . and Debian itself is far more stable than the other Debian-ish distros. I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum update/upgrade. . . . except when they break something. It's a lot easier to fix broken software on FreeBSD than with a binary packaged based Linux distribution, in my (recent) experience. I used to love spending my Friday nights updating my FreeBSD ports - then, as you are finding out - it's just getting tedious. I've never found updating the software on a system fun. That's part of the reason I find I prefer FreeBSD: it doesn't break shit as often, and thus doesn't make it even *more* un-fun. I'm not criticizing, simply commenting on my experiences. Likewise, the above are only my experiences. I realize they are not necessarily objectively true. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LaTeX oder teTeX
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +, Christian Walther wrote: a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is. According to the teTeX website there will be no further development (at least not from its original author Thomas Esser). Is LaTeX a better candidate? It looks like the LaTeX in ports is even older than teTeX. The best TeX distribution for UNIX these days is TeXLive. It is a very complete TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt distribution. You can download an iso image here: http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html You'll have to build the binaries yourself, because the pre-built FreeBSD binaries are for 4.x, i.e. out of date. But it's not that difficult. There should be some support for (or by) LyX, because I would like to use LyX to get start. I know that TeX has a steep learning curve and I hope to reduce it with LyX so that I can dive into TeX while working on my projects. If you're relatively new to the TeX world, start with the ConTeXt macro package for TeX, because it is very actively developed. And it's easier than plain TeX. If you want something easier, and you don't care if it doesn't look quite as nice as (La)TeX try OpenOffice or Koffice. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpfsnOMn5aq4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Name resolution
Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I downloaded just a few days ago) I get this: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/ Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz: No address record pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/ Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz' by URL I checked inetd.conf and resolv.conf. ftp is working in inetd.conf but when I went to look in resolv.conf, there was no file by that name. So I created one with my local nameservers and the ISP's nameservers. All of my servers are connected to local network and public. I have the name servers set to respond to requests from public network only (I do not want anyone finding out the address numbers I use on the private network) But I am not sure whether these changes require that I reboot the machine. The connection is live and working. I can ping another of my static ip addresses, and other machines running on the private nework. But if I ping one of my websites by name the ping cannot find it. so I know it is a resolver issue, with no name server running on this machine. I have to assume there is a local resolver, but since it is just a library, and not a process, as I understand it, I am thinking that something needs to be redone to use the file with the changes. This is because after adding the file /etc/resolv.conf I still get the above complaints. I am doing this to keep in step with FreeBSD and I have a lot of software I want to install for use with email. In the past I have bypassed ports with programs like Apache, php, mysql and have had little problems. But now I am 'growing up' to the idea that managing changes and removals will be much easier if I do use ports. I just need to figure out what it wants and expects, and what I can and should expect. For instance, If I want to install Apache with php with gd and a lot of other extensions that have to be built separately by hand so php can include them and/or use them, how is that accomplished with ports? Or, suppose I have Apache already installed and want to install ssl. In the manual method ssl has to be prebuilt and configured specific to Apache before Apache is built. Could I expect a series of configure questions from the ports installation process to pick and choose what I want included, or how I want it configured? Thanks in advance Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:34:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum update/upgrade. . . . except when they break something. It's a lot easier to fix broken software on FreeBSD than with a binary packaged based Linux distribution, in my (recent) experience. I rarely see port breakage. If I do it's usually a case of PEBKAC, :-) Having said that, switching between major versions of FreeBSD can be a hassle with ports. I used to love spending my Friday nights updating my FreeBSD ports - then, as you are finding out - it's just getting tedious. I've never found updating the software on a system fun. That's part of the reason I find I prefer FreeBSD: it doesn't break shit as often, and thus doesn't make it even *more* un-fun. In my experience it is much easier to keep ports updated every other week or so than to to it after a couple of months. Only when switching between major versions of FreeBSD it is time for drastic measures. I usually delete and reinstall all ports after making such a switch. It is the best way to keep the amount of old cruft on the system to a minimum. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpK2OTBKccag.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Name resolution
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I downloaded just a few days ago) I get this: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/ Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz: No address record It's called cvsup-without-gui, but you don't actually need it because csup (a rewrite in C of the non-gui version of cvsup) is in the base system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: evil idea
On 2007-10-26 23:34, Astrodog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to use -CURRENT for all my installs) Any thing I should watch out for here (I know I need to use NFS or something like it to share files between the host and guest OS's) There's actually a known system that will work for this. You can use your existing swap partition, as an extra root partition, installing there, then booting to that, then rebuild/install to your original partition. Its the same basic idea as the method for updating from 4.x-7.x, and should be on the lists. (Note to docs, might be worth putting it somewhere.) I don't think Aryeh wants to install i386 over his current amd64. What he seems to be asking is if he can run *two* versions, one of them as a virtualized host under qemu. That should work, AFAIK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with portinstall? ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\* That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg. Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then upgrade the packages that depended on xorg. Well, now that x is uninstalled, you still can't install it without having already installed it... It still generates the 'can't set default xbase' error. Any recommendations now that X has been uninstalled? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Name resolution
On Oct 27, 2007, at 4:54 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I downloaded just a few days ago) I get this: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/ Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz: No address record It's called cvsup-without-gui, but you don't actually need it because csup (a rewrite in C of the non-gui version of cvsup) is in the base system. thank you; your right it is cvsup, but the handbook indicates that I could use csup in place of cvsup in the command line on v6.2 and up. But that does not seem to effect the resolver issue (unless I am mistaken here and the resolver is actually working and it is just the reference) Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LaTeX oder teTeX
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +, Christian Walther wrote: a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is. According to the teTeX website there will be no further development (at least not from its original author Thomas Esser). Is LaTeX a better candidate? It looks like the LaTeX in ports is even older than teTeX. The best TeX distribution for UNIX these days is TeXLive. It is a very complete TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt distribution. You can download an iso image here: http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html You'll have to build the binaries yourself, because the pre-built FreeBSD binaries are for 4.x, i.e. out of date. But it's not that difficult. There should be some support for (or by) LyX, because I would like to use LyX to get start. I know that TeX has a steep learning curve and I hope to reduce it with LyX so that I can dive into TeX while working on my projects. If you're relatively new to the TeX world, start with the ConTeXt macro package for TeX, because it is very actively developed. And it's easier than plain TeX. If you want something easier, and you don't care if it doesn't look quite as nice as (La)TeX try OpenOffice or Koffice. Roland teTeX is a standard distribution of TeX and Latex for Unix and Unix like OS. You need to install teTeX-base which will get you everything you need. Of course it is old since I believe that TeX code is completely frozen since 2001. On the other note teTeX distribution is discontinued last year in favor of TeXLive. TeXLive is not in ports as there are many issues with dependencies. Since TeX is a very old peace of software many things depend on teTeX . People work actively on porting TeXLive but I do not know of single OS or a Linux distro that recommends it at the moment. You can run TeXLive from live DVD however. You can get it from ctan web site. I have teTeX on 3 FreeBSD boxes and one OpenBSD box and I also use TeXLive as I am using the Latex class of presentation powerdot which is not ported for FreeBSD and I could not get it install manually since it requires some new fonts not contained in the teTeX version which is ported for FreeBSD. OpenBSD will also not see TeXLive at least until 4.3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD distribution
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, Im an IT manager. I am just wondering why you do not have a DVD distribution. [I know about workarounds] Could you do something about that, it would be really helpful and handy? FreeBSD per se does not have any distribution. FreeBSD only puts out the ISO-s that are available free on the main or one of the mirror sites. There are some companies that pick up the ISO images and make a distribution. That is permitted under the FreeBSD license. Usually they sell it for a bit over cost and include a printed version of the Handbook. Most of them contribute a portion of their receipts back to the FreeBSD foundation to help in development. So, either you can convince one of the packaging companies - they are listed in the web site - to make a DVD distibution or you can start doing it and selling it yourself. jerry Thanks a lot. Michel Ali * Avant d'imprimer cet e-mail, merci de penser à notre environnement Before printing this mail, please consider our environment. Antés de imprimir este correo, por favor, piense en nuestro medio ambiente. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: evil idea
Hello, Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a number of programs that are only available on i386 and for a number of reasons I would prefer to run them within a jail. I've searched the Internet and have not found anybody who has done it. My guess is that running a i386 program within a jail would run faster and perhaps be more stable than running the same program within qemu. Any tips on desirability, feasibility or how to do it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks On Sat, 27 October 2007 20:33:44 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-26 23:34, Astrodog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to use -CURRENT for all my installs) Any thing I should watch out for here (I know I need to use NFS or something like it to share files between the host and guest OS's) There's actually a known system that will work for this. You can use your existing swap partition, as an extra root partition, installing there, then booting to that, then rebuild/install to your original partition. Its the same basic idea as the method for updating from 4.x-7.x, and should be on the lists. (Note to docs, might be worth putting it somewhere.) I don't think Aryeh wants to install i386 over his current amd64. What he seems to be asking is if he can run *two* versions, one of them as a virtualized host under qemu. That should work, AFAIK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: evil idea
mv wrote: Hello, Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a number of programs that are only available on i386 and for a number of reasons I would prefer to run them within a jail. I've searched the Internet and have not found anybody who has done it. My guess is that running a i386 program within a jail would run faster and perhaps be more stable than running the same program within qemu. Any tips on desirability, feasibility or how to do it would be greatly appreciated When I was first looking at this that was my idea but as far I can tell the jail needs to run the same kernel as the jailing OS. -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not Business, Friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD distribution
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I’m an IT manager. I am just wondering why you do not have a DVD distribution. [I know about workarounds] Could you do something about that, it would be really helpful and handy? FreeBSD per se does not have any distribution. FreeBSD only puts out the ISO-s that are available free on the main or one of the mirror sites. There are some companies that pick up the ISO images and make a distribution. That is permitted under the FreeBSD license. Usually they sell it for a bit over cost and include a printed version of the Handbook. Most of them contribute a portion of their receipts back to the FreeBSD foundation to help in development. So, either you can convince one of the packaging companies - they are listed in the web site - to make a DVD distibution or you can start doing it and selling it yourself. jerry Thanks a lot. Michel Ali * Avant d'imprimer cet e-mail, merci de penser à notre environnement Before printing this mail, please consider our environment. Antés de imprimir este correo, por favor, piense en nuestro medio ambiente. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually FreeBSD has DVD distribution. I think, I saw on the internet that somebody in Germany was selling FreeBSD DVDs. There are lots of Germans on this mailing list so they might give you better answer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: evil idea
What would be ideal is if you can tell the OS to treat one CPU as a virtual machine and run that inside a jail and/or qemu wrapper (wrapper in that it looks like it is a seperate [emulated] machine to the host OS but in reality it is just running on partioned CPU and memory on the same machine) -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not Business, Friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD distribution
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:19:01 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I’m an IT manager. I am just wondering why you do not have a DVD distribution. [I know about workarounds] Could you do something about that, it would be really helpful and handy? FreeBSD per se does not have any distribution. FreeBSD only puts out the ISO-s that are available free on the main or one of the mirror sites. There are some companies that pick up the ISO images and make a distribution. That is permitted under the FreeBSD license. Usually they sell it for a bit over cost and include a printed version of the Handbook. Most of them contribute a portion of their receipts back to the FreeBSD foundation to help in development. So, either you can convince one of the packaging companies - they are listed in the web site - to make a DVD distibution or you can start doing it and selling it yourself. jerry Thanks a lot. Michel Ali * Avant d'imprimer cet e-mail, merci de penser à notre environnement Before printing this mail, please consider our environment. Antés de imprimir este correo, por favor, piense en nuestro medio ambiente. Actually FreeBSD has DVD distribution. I think, I saw on the internet that somebody in Germany was selling FreeBSD DVDs. There are lots of Germans on this mailing list so they might give you better answer. Perhaps the Op might mean, Why isn't there a DVD ISO to download? Granted, I didn't see the original post - perhaps the Op didn't mean that at all. -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD distribution
Actually FreeBSD has DVD distribution. I think, I saw on the internet that somebody in Germany was selling FreeBSD DVDs. There are lots of Germans on this mailing list so they might give you better answer. Localized or allow user localization? -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not Business, Friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
On Saturday 27 October 2007, Keith Seyffarth said: Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with portinstall? ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\* That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg. Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then upgrade the packages that depended on xorg. Well, now that x is uninstalled, you still can't install it without having already installed it... It still generates the 'can't set default xbase' error. Any recommendations now that X has been uninstalled? try: setenv X11BASE /usr/X11R6 then rebuild portupgrade. -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: evil idea
On 2007-10-27 21:49, mv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to use -CURRENT for all my installs) On Sat, 27 October 2007 20:33:44 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I don't think Aryeh wants to install i386 over his current amd64. What he seems to be asking is if he can run *two* versions, one of them as a virtualized host under qemu. That should work, AFAIK. Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I don't know if that would 'solve' the problem, but one major difference from qemu is that a jailed host runs the same kernel with the master. This means that i386 programs do not run in 'native' i386 mode, but in emulated mode. The FreeBSD kernel already includes support for running i386 programs in emulated mode, but since I haven't done this I am not sure how feasible or useful it is. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Name resolution
thank you; your right it is cvsup, but the handbook indicates that I could use csup in place of cvsup in the command line on v6.2 and up. But that does not seem to effect the resolver issue (unless I am mistaken here and the resolver is actually working and it is just the reference) Jeff K Try pinging google. If it works, great. If not, then the simplest way I've found to read local changes to resolv.conf into the system is to boot into single user mode and then ctrl-d out of it. Just type: shutdown NOW And you'll be taken to single user mode. Assuming your resolv.conf is correct, great. If not, we'll work on fixing that. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Panic With Large Network Copy
On Jun 4, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Scott Willson wrote: On May 29, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 03:36:49PM -0700, Scott Willson wrote: I am seeing hard (often no core dump) crashes on a new AMD64 box running 6.2 RELEASE. When I try to rsync 10+ GB of backup files to the new box, I can reliably crash it after about 20 minutes; often quicker if I do something else intensive at the same time, like compile MySQL. Here are the box specs: ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard AMD A64 3800+ 2.4G CPU ... Most times, I don't even get a core dump. Here's one I did get: panic: double fault ... #9 0x804371f0 in m_freem (mb=0x0) at uma.h:303 #10 0x80634125 in nve_ospackettx (ctx=0xff00798aac00, id=0xb19ea6d0, success=0) at /usr/src/sys/dev/nve/if_nve.c: 1551 This looks like a nve driver bug to me. You may wish to try the nfe driver. Kris OK, my box is running nicely now. The nfe driver was indeed a good idea, thanks! Here are the details if anyone else has similar problems. 10baseT hub + nve = kernal panics under high load This is the default FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE configuration. 10baseT hub + nfe + e100phy patch = errors under high load (tx v2 error 0x6204UNDERFLOW, watchdog timeout) http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html This is a replacement driver + recommended path for my hardware. No panics, but many errors. 10baseT hub + nfe with no patches = errors under high load (tx v2 error 0x6204UNDERFLOW, watchdog timeout) 10/100/1000baseT switch + nfe + e100phy patch = errors under high load (tx v2 error 0x6204UNDERFLOW, watchdog timeout) 10/100/1000baseT switch + nfe = No errors! This is a new switch and the nfe driver with no patch. In dmesg, I see 'ukphy0' when I boot. So, as you may have surmised, my motherboard + an old 10baseT hub doesn't work right with any driver. I replaced my very old hub with a new switch, and I am now running the nfe driver with ukphy0. This combination works great. Well, turns out after all that, the root cause was something else again. Fiddling with the driver and the switch helped matters, but I still experienced random drops and warnings. Once I installed Gnome, the system began to bomb regularly with oversized frames. Turns out that both the USB controller and the NIC were on the same IRQ. I'm not a hardware engineer (obviously) but it seems that software that probed the USB ports would cause problems for the Ethernet NIC. I don't need USB at all, so I disabled it in the BIOS, and no problems for real this time. Just wanted to post this for the equally clueless. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: project management software for freebsd?
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, zbigniew szalbot wrote: Hello, I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am looking for. I do not want a simple task list. Rather something more like project management software (best if installed from ports but it is not really necessary). Many thanks in advance for your recommendations! Some content management systems come with project management abilities (ports/deskutils/egroupware comes to my mind, but probably there are more). They will make your projects available via intranet or internet. Greetings, Uli. Kind regards, Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
