freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Michal Kulczewski
Hi,

I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it
because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to
any suggestions.

Cheers,
 Michal
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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread freebsdemail
Hi Michael,

Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using 
both the nv driver as well as nvidia.

My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 dedicated memory 
and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1 and 8.0(Current) with all 
malloc debugging features disabled as well as kernel debugging options turned 
off. I've also tried switching back to UFS filesystems from ZFS(root install) 
to no avail.

In the end I ended up using kde3 due to endless headaches. I felt I'd share 
this in hopes someone has managed to get it to run reasonably well.

Regards,

Tom
--Original Message--
From: Michal Kulczewski
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: freebsd7  kde4  performance
Sent: Oct 11, 2008 12:18 AM

Hi,

I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it
because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to
any suggestions.

Cheers,
 Michal
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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Brian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Michael,

Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using 
both the nv driver as well as nvidia.

My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 dedicated memory 
and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1 and 8.0(Current) with all 
malloc debugging features disabled as well as kernel debugging options turned 
off. I've also tried switching back to UFS filesystems from ZFS(root install) 
to no avail.

In the end I ended up using kde3 due to endless headaches. I felt I'd share 
this in hopes someone has managed to get it to run reasonably well.

Regards,

Tom
--Original Message--
From: Michal Kulczewski
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: freebsd7  kde4  performance
Sent: Oct 11, 2008 12:18 AM

Hi,

I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it
because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to
any suggestions.

Cheers,
 Michal



Here is some additional info, I too am doing v3.

http://freebsd.kde.org/instructions.php

Brian


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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Michal Kulczewski


Brian wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Michael,

 Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've
 tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia.

 My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512
 dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1
 and 8.0(Current) with all malloc debugging features disabled as well
 as kernel debugging options turned off. I've also tried switching back
 to UFS filesystems from ZFS(root install) to no avail.

 In the end I ended up using kde3 due to endless headaches. I felt I'd
 share this in hopes someone has managed to get it to run reasonably well.

 Regards,

 Tom
 --Original Message--
 From: Michal Kulczewski
 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: freebsd7  kde4  performance
 Sent: Oct 11, 2008 12:18 AM

 Hi,

 I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
 I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
 drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it
 because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to
 any suggestions.

 Cheers,
  Michal
 
 
 Here is some additional info, I too am doing v3.
 
 http://freebsd.kde.org/instructions.php


well, there is no much information available though. IMHO it's a pity
that once fancy gui is available, freebsd users can not make use of it.
I have to switch to gnome (somehow I don't like kde3).

Cheers,
 Michal
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Re: dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date

2008-10-11 Thread Matthew Seaman

Richard Smith wrote:

Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 7.0 Release along with Windows XP on my PC. I found 
that when I set the clock to the correct timedate, next time I boot into FreeBSD 
it changes and reports the wrong timedate. Both BIOS and Windows reports the time 
correctly.

dmesg shows the following message:
Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date!

Can't figure out what's wrong... any help will be appreciated.


Is the time out by an exact number of hours?[*]  Does the offset
correspond to your localities' timezone offset from UTC?

If so, then what is happening is this: Windows will only deal with
one timezone at a time, and it expects the system clock (and
consequently the CMOS clock on the motherboard) to be set to the
local wall-clock time.

Unix in comparison allows each process to be run in an arbitrary
timezone, simply by setting the TZ environment variable.  It
expects the system clock and the CMOS clock to be set to UTC, and
it calculates the local offset as required.

When you reboot the machine, the internal system clock is set from
the cmos clock, so one or the other OS will end up thinking local
wall-clock time is UTC or vice-versa.  Unless you have the happy 
fortune to be living in this Sceptered Isle (but only during the wintertime), or in certain parts of West Africa that's going to

cause problems.

If you need to dual-boot, FreeBSD provides a mechanism for allowing
the CMOS clock to be set to wallclock time.  You can toggle the
setting using /usr/sbin/tzsetup -- if there is a zero length file 
/etc/wall_cmos_clock then your system is running in compatability
mode.  Note: this file should not appear on a box that is dedicated
to running FreeBSD[+] -- the tzsetup default is the /wrong/ choice
in this case.

Cheers,

Matthew

[*] Assuming you don't live in Newfoundland or one of the other odd
places with timezones that have a 30 minute offset.

[+] or that only dual boots to *BSD or Linux or MacOS X or Solaris
etc.

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RE: dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date

2008-10-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Seaman
 Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:49 AM
 To: Richard Smith
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date
 
 
 Richard Smith wrote:
  Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 7.0 Release along with Windows 
 XP on my PC. I found that when I set the clock to the correct 
 timedate, next time I boot into FreeBSD it changes and reports 
 the wrong timedate. Both BIOS and Windows reports the time correctly.
  
  dmesg shows the following message:
  Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date!
  
  Can't figure out what's wrong... any help will be appreciated.
 
 Is the time out by an exact number of hours?[*]  Does the offset
 correspond to your localities' timezone offset from UTC?
 
 If so, then what is happening is this: Windows will only deal with
 one timezone at a time, and it expects the system clock (and
 consequently the CMOS clock on the motherboard) to be set to the
 local wall-clock time.
 
 Unix in comparison allows each process to be run in an arbitrary
 timezone, simply by setting the TZ environment variable.  It
 expects the system clock and the CMOS clock to be set to UTC, and
 it calculates the local offset as required.
 
 When you reboot the machine, the internal system clock is set from
 the cmos clock, so one or the other OS will end up thinking local
 wall-clock time is UTC or vice-versa.  Unless you have the happy 
 fortune to be living in this Sceptered Isle (but only during the 
 wintertime), or in certain parts of West Africa that's going to
 cause problems.
 
 If you need to dual-boot, FreeBSD provides a mechanism for allowing
 the CMOS clock to be set to wallclock time.  You can toggle the
 setting using /usr/sbin/tzsetup -- if there is a zero length file 
 /etc/wall_cmos_clock then your system is running in compatability
 mode.  Note: this file should not appear on a box that is dedicated
 to running FreeBSD[+] -- the tzsetup default is the /wrong/ choice
 in this case.
 

No, it's not.

There is nothing wrong with running the CMOS clock on wall-clock
time even on a dedicated system.  You can do it any way you please.
Any real server should be synced by NTP in any case since the
internal RTC clock chip in a PC is not reliable or accurate.

Note that if you do run the CMOS clock on UTC that if your BIOS/CMOS
has a fancy auto-adjusting daylight savings time thingie in it, you
should disable that.

Ted
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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar

well it's KDE. what do you expect ;)


On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Michal Kulczewski wrote:


Hi,

I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it
because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to
any suggestions.

Cheers,
Michal
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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:33:08PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
 Forwarding original msg to freebsd-questions mailing list.
  
 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:06:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
  I am trying to download 7.0 stable release through cvsup, but it fails. I 
  tried changing the server, but still get those errors. 
  
  - ERROR ---
  
  Checkout src/share/doc/psd/15.yacc/ss..
  Updater failed: Error in
  /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7: 
  Cannot rename 
  /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/#cvs.cvsup-7219.0 to
  /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7: No 
  such filer or directory
  
   SUPFILE -
  default stable-cvsup from /usr/share/examples/cvsup
  -- 
  
  pls, indicate what i am doing wrong here?

1) Your setup looks very custom.  I see SMB/CIFS in use, and you're
using a non-standard directory for the cvsup CVS data (the default is
/usr/sup).  You're either starting cvsup with some custom arguments or
your supfile *is* in fact modified.

2) Check permissions and ownership of all directories leading up to
/usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all.  Yes, check every single
one.

3) Ensure your umask is 022 before starting cvsup.  This could be a side
result of item #2.

4) I'm not sure why you're using cvsup on a 7.x box when csup comes with
the base system.

I would also try doing this as a last resort:

rm -fr /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all
rm -fr /usr/src/*
csup -h cvsupserver -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile

However, with regards to use of /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
see my above comment; yours may be modified.

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Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:17:24 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

People will use whatever gets the job done for them.  If it doesn't,
users *will* switch to another operating system, and there is
absolutely nothing wrong with that.  Why?  Because reality states:
solving problems is more important than advocacy or superiority.

I could not have said it better myself. While the hobbyist can afford
to spend whatever time they have available on their hobby; in a business
environment, results are what matter first and foremost. Neither
software nor hardware, irregardless of cost, is of any use if it does
not work, and work well. A pseudo elitist attitude is just not
acceptable in a corporate atmosphere.

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RE: proflibs

2008-10-11 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Are they needed for compiling anything from ports?

 -Original Message-
 From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: October 11, 2008 5:59 AM
 To: Ansar Mohammed
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: proflibs
 
 On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
  Can anyone explain what are the proflibs on the install media, and
 what they
  are for?
 
 They're special versions of all the libraries that come with FreeBSD
 which contain profiling code (code for determining the amount of time
 spent within or between two functions).
 
 They're for developers.
 
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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
Forwarding original msg to freebsd-questions mailing list.
 
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:06:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
 I am trying to download 7.0 stable release through cvsup, but it fails. I 
 tried changing the server, but still get those errors. 
 
 - ERROR ---
 
 Checkout src/share/doc/psd/15.yacc/ss..
 Updater failed: Error in
 /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7: 
 Cannot rename 
 /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/#cvs.cvsup-7219.0 to
 /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7: No 
 such filer or directory
 
  SUPFILE -
 default stable-cvsup from /usr/share/examples/cvsup
 -- 
 
 pls, indicate what i am doing wrong here?
 
 - Moin

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Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar

they're committing a sin by using another operating system.  Open source
is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the
job done, and Linux does, then use Linux!  If Windows works for you, use
Windows!  There's absolutely no shame in that.  Blind, one-sided


except when it's not advocacy but superiority, for example i would rather 
seek other hardware than run linux.

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Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
 Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install 
 FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk 
 controller)?

This information is too vague.  We need to know *exactly*:

1) What motherboard model,
2) What SATA controller you're using (nVidia chipset is too vague),
3) If you're using BIOS-level RAID or not,
4) What version of 7.x you're trying to install.

Please note that FreeBSD often does not support brand-spanking-new
hardware.  For example, there are Asus motherboards out right now
which use a Marvell ATA/PATA controller which FreeBSD does not have
support for.  Linux adopts brand-spanking-new hardware much quicker than
we do.

Finally, these problems are difficult to solve; it's a chicken-and-egg
problem.  Even if you can get into the Fixit CD's Fixit# prompt and
type dmesg, you probably don't have serial console or anything hooked
up, so getting us the dmesg output would be very difficult.

 I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck.  Just out of 
 curiosity, I downloaded and ran Ubuntu 8.x, and it recognized all of 
 my hardware automatically.  The FreeBSD installer (both in 7.x and 
 8.x), though, can't find my hard drive or CD-ROM.

There have been *tons* of changes to the ATA/SATA layer between
different 7.x versions.  I would urge you to try 7.1-BETA (do not let
the term BETA scare you away) and see if it works for you:

ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/
ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/

There are some of us which have this problem on CURRENT (8.0).  For
example, in my case, my Promise TX4310 card is not even seen on the PCI
bus during boot-up, while it works just fine in RELENG_7.

 I *really* don't want to have to resort to Linux, not after using 
 FreeBSD for 12 years now, but if I can't find a solution to this 
 problem, I'll have no choice.  :-(

I'm not sure why people resort to saying things like this, like somehow
they're committing a sin by using another operating system.  Open source
is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the
job done, and Linux does, then use Linux!  If Windows works for you, use
Windows!  There's absolutely no shame in that.  Blind, one-sided
advocacy only harms open source projects.

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Re: proflibs

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
 Can anyone explain what are the proflibs on the install media, and what they
 are for?

They're special versions of all the libraries that come with FreeBSD
which contain profiling code (code for determining the amount of time
spent within or between two functions).

They're for developers.

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Re: proflibs

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
 Are they needed for compiling anything from ports?

I have yet to find a port that *requires* profiled libraries.

They are only needed for developers wishing to benchmark code
(determine how long the system/processor stays within a specific
function), and use of profiled libraries has to be explicitly requested
(using gcc -p).

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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread RW
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:18:10 +0200
Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on
 freebsd7. I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both,
 radeon and ati drivers, 
 but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work
 with it. Is it because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm
 looking forward to any suggestions.

Have you tried turning-off all the effects.

Personally I prefer KDE3, I don't think KDE4 is ready for serious use. 
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Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:44:03PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 they're committing a sin by using another operating system.  Open source
 is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the
 job done, and Linux does, then use Linux!  If Windows works for you, use
 Windows!  There's absolutely no shame in that.  Blind, one-sided

 except when it's not advocacy but superiority, for example i would rather 
 seek other hardware than run linux.

What the OP described is definitely advocacy; I've been using FreeBSD
for 12 years and insert-sympathetic-cry-here.

The sooner users and system administrators stop toting this my-os
rocks!  It's better than yours!  It's better than other-os! attitude
the more mature and serious said operating system will appear to the
world, and to commercial vendors.

Speaking solely with regards to Linux: it has the upper hand in many
regards.  As someone who used Linux from 1992 until 1997, and switched
to BSD, I have experience in both worlds.  Linux today has:

- More kernel developers that know the innards well.  FreeBSD has no
  where near the quantity of said kernel folks, which means our guys
  are over-worked and stressed most of the time, and if a key person
  goes on hiatus, there's no guarantee issues will get dealt with while
  they are gone (see below),

- Multiple (read: more than one) kernel developers who are dedicated
  to parts of the kernel.  FreeBSD has many very key/important pieces
  which are maintained by *one individual ONLY*.  If that individual is
  busy with their job, real life, out sick, or even death (yes, this
  has happened!), it means that a key part of the kernel ends up being
  neglected for an indefinite amount of time (usually years),

- Full support from hardware manufacturers/vendors.  Linux developers
  are able to get development/test-bed cards (and usually documentation)
  for developing a new driver, sometimes for hardware/chips that aren't
  even on the market yet.  FreeBSD *very* rarely, if ever, gets this.
  We resort to looking at NetBSD or OpenBSD code (and they are in the
  same boat we are), hoping they have support for said hardware.  If
  not, we resort to looking at Linux code (which is immensely different
  from ours).  Vendors often ignore us.  I can expand on why I believe
  this is, but I have no example cases to back my opinions up,

- Turn-around time on fixes or bugs is significantly faster than ours,
  especially in kernel-land.  This is a direct result of having more
  regularly-operating eyes,

- Larger user base.  This means more bug reports, which I consider a
  good thing -- it means more things are getting fixed,

- More user-friendly interface pieces.  There are many aspects of
  FreeBSD which require knowledge of C, or require that someone write
  a C wrapper to get certain pieces of data from the kernel.  Linux
  has numerous methods which allow someone using Python or Ruby or
  Perl to access said data.  FreeBSD can accomplish this, there's
  nothing stopping us except time/effort, so it's not really a
  negative against FreeBSD; but people *are* picking Linux because
  of this,

- A significantly different attitude when it comes to support.  Back
  when I used Linux, the attitude was *horrible* (which is why I
  moved to BSD), but it has improved greatly in the past 10 years.
  I can expand on this if need be, but you'll just have to trust me
  for now.  One of the attitudes we have which is very unrealistic is
  you have the source, you can fix it yourself -- I'd say 80% of
  our community does not have the ability (or time) to do this.  It is
  rude and unprofessional of us to expect this of our users.

This is reality, I'm sorry to say; no form of advocacy, T-shirt-wearing,
or blogging FreeBSD rocks! will change it.  In my opinion, it's better
to embrace the above facts (because nothing is perfect, Linux
included!), and try to improve on them.

People will use whatever gets the job done for them.  If it doesn't,
users *will* switch to another operating system, and there is absolutely
nothing wrong with that.  Why?  Because reality states: solving problems
is more important than advocacy or superiority.

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warning message when starting opera-9.60.20081004 on amd64

2008-10-11 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi All,

when I start opera on my amd64 machine running freebsd 6.3 I get the following 
warning message on my console:

[: missing ]
grep: ]: No such file or directory
exec: /usr/local/share/opera/bin//operapluginwrapper.linux: not found
opera: Search operapluginwrapper: No response from wrapper after five seconds. 
Probe stopped.
opera: Shared object libjvm.so not found, required by opera

It i strange it asks me for a .linux file, while I'm on freebsd.

uname -a
FreeBSD amd_desktop.telfort.nl 6.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #21: Wed 
Oct  1 08:07:27 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  
amd64

And opera itself gives me the following warning message about my plugins:

Opera encountered a problem during plug-in setup.

Plug-ins will not work properly.

Check your installation.

 
Could not start plug-in executable 'operapluginwrapper'

 
 
Searched directory:

 
/usr/local/share/opera/bin/

The version of opera I'm using is:
pkg_info | grep opera
opera-9.60.20081004 Blazingly fast, full-featured, standards-compliant browser,

Does anyone know what's wrong on my system and what I could do?
As a consequence, the java plugin is not working on opera while it does work on 
firefox.

Brgds
Dino





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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 05:38:26AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:33:08PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
  Forwarding original msg to freebsd-questions mailing list.
   
  On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:06:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
   I am trying to download 7.0 stable release through cvsup, but it fails. I 
   tried changing the server, but still get those errors. 
   
   - ERROR ---
   
   Checkout src/share/doc/psd/15.yacc/ss..
   Updater failed: Error in
   /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7: 
   Cannot rename 
   /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/#cvs.cvsup-7219.0 to
   /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7: 
   No such filer or directory
   
    SUPFILE -
   default stable-cvsup from /usr/share/examples/cvsup
   -- 
   
   pls, indicate what i am doing wrong here?
 
 1) Your setup looks very custom.  I see SMB/CIFS in use, and you're
 using a non-standard directory for the cvsup CVS data (the default is
  Yes, I am using mount_smbfs to mount a network harddrive to store all my 
devel code.
  I don't want to overcrowd the the root disk

 /usr/sup).  You're either starting cvsup with some custom arguments or
 your supfile *is* in fact modified.

  I am using X11 cvsup stable-supfile. This is the snapshot of my modified 
cvsup file

# Defaults that apply to all the collections
#
# IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
# listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
*default host=cvsup3.de.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/
*default prefix=/usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/src/
# The following line is for 7-stable.  If you want 6-stable, 5-stable,
# 4-stable, 3-stable, or 2.2-stable, change to RELENG_6, RELENG_5,
# RELENG_4, RELENG_3, or RELENG_2_2 respectively.
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
*default delete use-rel-suffix

# If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try
# commenting out the following line.  (Normally, today's CPUs are fast enough
# that you want to run compression.)
*default compress

## Main Source Tree.
#
# The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the src-all
# mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual src-* collections.
# Please note:  If you want to track -STABLE, leave this uncommented.
src-all

 
  
 
 2) Check permissions and ownership of all directories leading up to
 /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all.  Yes, check every single
 one.
 
 3) Ensure your umask is 022 before starting cvsup.  This could be a side
 result of item #2.
   umask is 0022
 
 4) I'm not sure why you're using cvsup on a 7.x box when csup comes with
 the base system.

  I don't know why ? :-) . But I did as it was listed in the FreeBSD handbook.
 
 I would also try doing this as a last resort:
 
 rm -fr /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all
 rm -fr /usr/src/*
 csup -h cvsupserver -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile

As a lost resort, I did a cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile, with just changing the 
HOST part without changing other entries in stable-supfile, and I was 
successful to download the code.

Currently, I am trying out to figure why the customised way is failing.  


 - Moin

 
 However, with regards to use of /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
 see my above comment; yours may be modified.
 
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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi Michael,
 
  Unfortunetly I've been having the same
 difficulty with KDE4. I've
  tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia.
 
  My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600
 gs with 512
  dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory.
 I've tried using 7.0, 7.1
  and 8.0(Current) with all malloc debugging
 features disabled as well
  as kernel debugging options turned off. I've
 also tried switching back
  to UFS filesystems from ZFS(root install) to no
 avail.
 
  In the end I ended up using kde3 due to endless
 headaches. I felt I'd
  share this in hopes someone has managed to get it
 to run reasonably well.
 
  Regards,
 
  Tom
 well, there is no much information available though. IMHO
 it's a pity
 that once fancy gui is available, freebsd users can not
 make use of it.
 I have to switch to gnome (somehow I don't like kde3).
 
 Cheers,
  Michal

Michal, can you describe in more detail just what is performing poorly?  Things 
like what effects, what actions you're taking, what your settings are that 
effect those actions, etc?  I'm running KDE4.1.1 from ports on 7-STABLE and 
have no performance problems at all with an AthlonX2, 2gigs of memory, and a 
GeForce6200 card using nvidia binary drivers.  One thing I have come up against 
was the nvidia black windows bug with OpenGL effects turned on, but turning 
them off doesn't signifigantly hinder my enjoyment of KDE4, or make it too much 
less sexy to be honest.  The performance was also fine even with them turned 
on; it simply caused that bug to occur which made it less usable.  
Generally speaking, I've found GNOME to run with more performance issues 
despite less bells and whistles than KDE every time on any system where I've 
tried it.  
If you provide some more information, maybe I can direct you to some setting 
tweaks, etc, but as I said it's working just lovely for me (and this is with a 
ton of apps open, by the way - several seamonkey windows, a bunch of kpdf, 
eclipse, many many konsole tabs, xmms, ktorrent, and more.  
One thing I am curious of is if you're running i386 FreeBSD, or another 
architecture (amd64, ia64, etc?)  
Take care.  
- mdh



  
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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:21:31AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
  1) Your setup looks very custom.  I see SMB/CIFS in use, and you're
  using a non-standard directory for the cvsup CVS data (the default is
   Yes, I am using mount_smbfs to mount a network harddrive to store all my 
 devel code.
   I don't want to overcrowd the the root disk

I'm left wondering if there are some permissions or ownership issues as
a result of this.

   I am using X11 cvsup stable-supfile. This is the snapshot of my modified 
 cvsup file
 
 # Defaults that apply to all the collections
 #
 # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
 # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
 *default host=cvsup3.de.FreeBSD.org
 *default base=/usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/
 *default prefix=/usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/src/
 # The following line is for 7-stable.  If you want 6-stable, 5-stable,
 # 4-stable, 3-stable, or 2.2-stable, change to RELENG_6, RELENG_5,
 # RELENG_4, RELENG_3, or RELENG_2_2 respectively.
 *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
 *default delete use-rel-suffix
 
 # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try
 # commenting out the following line.  (Normally, today's CPUs are fast enough
 # that you want to run compression.)
 *default compress
 
 ## Main Source Tree.
 #
 # The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the src-all
 # mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual src-* collections.
 # Please note:  If you want to track -STABLE, leave this uncommented.
 src-all
 

I have no idea what an X11 cvsup stable-supfile is, so I assume you
mean you've used /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile as a template
supfile, but have your own somewhere else.

The reason I was confused: you first stated you're using the ones in
/usr/share/examples/cvsup, and I assumed that mean you were using it
directly.  You shouldn't modify any files in /usr/share/examples, as
they will be replaced/overwritten during installworld.

Your pasted supfile looks fine, however.

  2) Check permissions and ownership of all directories leading up to
  /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all.  Yes, check every single
  one.

Please do this.

  3) Ensure your umask is 022 before starting cvsup.  This could be a side
  result of item #2.
umask is 0022
  
  4) I'm not sure why you're using cvsup on a 7.x box when csup comes with
  the base system.
 
   I don't know why ? :-) . But I did as it was listed in the FreeBSD handbook.

Are you sure?  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- see
the first Note: paragraph.

  I would also try doing this as a last resort:
  
  rm -fr /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all
  rm -fr /usr/src/*
  csup -h cvsupserver -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
 

 As a lost resort, I did a cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile, with just
 changing the HOST part without changing other entries in
 stable-supfile, and I was successful to download the code.

I don't see how that would fix or change anything.  In fact, I'm fairly
certain it doesn't.

The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you I tried to rename
a file, but couldn't.  This often implies a permissions or ownership
thing.  Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS
share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem
(somehow).

 Currently, I am trying out to figure why the customised way is failing.  

I see nothing wrong with your supfile.

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Re: Audio Production

2008-10-11 Thread t-u-t
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:


 On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:50 +0200, marshc wrote:
  


 My only advice on this point is to subscribe to the multimedia list and
 ask your questions there (I'll be watching this list too, have been for
 some time now due to my htpc issues- I desperately want to use FreeBSD
 for a/v, and I suffer the same issues you do in terms of multitasking in
 the cpu level, but the main problem with BSD for me is the driver
 problems).



 From my experience (and I use FreeBSD for many different needs), FreeBSD
 can run a/v and multimedia programs, write to multiple components
 simultaneously, serve a small amount services, run X, and still respond
 happily to your hammering at the CPU while it serves you coffee! It is
 mainly dependent on your hardware capabilities (dma, bus bandwidth,
 buffers, etc), and obviously the quality of the programs you run. If you
 run a shitty program that is poorly written then it won't go as well,
 but still perform admirably. But most of the programs ported wouldn't
 have been added if they were like that, so you're mostly safe.

 So for a/v I find it performs far better than linux. Linux I still have
 trouble with, but it performs better than window$. Linux is a happy
 medium in between, and I'll explain why;

 Driver support for the more advanced hardware is not always forthcoming
 with FreeBSD, but it is for linux. Most manufacturers aren't very
 supportive of open source, and if they do they usually gravitate toward
 a linux base because of user popularity. On the upside, there is a
 brilliant coder who is extending the linux compat base for hardware side
 as well, but you do need to be nearly expert. It is controversial, but
 you should be able to use the hardware until native drivers are written.

 Just to clarify, in the development side of FreeBSD there is some
 mention of Hats (correct me of I'm wrong here guys), and so any side
 projects are kept under a particular hat, the mailing list that relates
 to your interest in FreeBSD will be monitored by those working under
 these hats will be better able to guide you. This list is just a general
 discussion and help list for newbies, but when you get in to more depth
 like this you'll want to get to the experts on the subject who monitor a
 particular list more closely.

 Have fun and good luck.


thanks, i subscribed to multimedia and move queries there in future and not
bother folks here.
i have been trying to reply to this but have been busy, and just like to
recap briefly.

in a nutshell, i am very new to bsd, not even a teenager in dog years, and
have tried ever flavour these past months - (fbsd/pcbsd - i386/amd64 -- 6/7)
and finally settled on 7.1 amd64.
i still have some settings to go through/figure out, and have the occasional
system freeze, but i don't have the sluggish/bad
installs i had trouble with earlier.

before you sent this post i had given up and moved to ubuntu studio, decided
to give it another go, and got the best performance ever
by installing pcbsd 1.5.1 amd64 (based on 6.3) and enabling ULE. so i got an
idea of what fbsd was capable of on my machine with the right setup.
(graphics driver aside, it even felt *smoother* than studio64).

anyway. will be working on this from now on and my project over the next
year, so we'll see what happens on multimedia mailing list.
i was just putting together a list of packages and might port there sometime
soon and close this from this list.

thanks for this post
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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:21:31AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
   1) Your setup looks very custom.  I see SMB/CIFS in use, and you're
   using a non-standard directory for the cvsup CVS data (the default is
Yes, I am using mount_smbfs to mount a network harddrive to store all my 
  devel code.
I don't want to overcrowd the the root disk
 
 I'm left wondering if there are some permissions or ownership issues as
 a result of this.
 
I am using X11 cvsup stable-supfile. This is the snapshot of my modified 
  cvsup file
  
  # Defaults that apply to all the collections
  #
  # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
  # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
  *default host=cvsup3.de.FreeBSD.org
  *default base=/usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/
  *default prefix=/usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/src/
  # The following line is for 7-stable.  If you want 6-stable, 5-stable,
  # 4-stable, 3-stable, or 2.2-stable, change to RELENG_6, RELENG_5,
  # RELENG_4, RELENG_3, or RELENG_2_2 respectively.
  *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
  *default delete use-rel-suffix
  
  # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, 
  try
  # commenting out the following line.  (Normally, today's CPUs are fast 
  enough
  # that you want to run compression.)
  *default compress
  
  ## Main Source Tree.
  #
  # The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the src-all
  # mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual src-* collections.
  # Please note:  If you want to track -STABLE, leave this uncommented.
  src-all
  
 
 I have no idea what an X11 cvsup stable-supfile is, so I assume you
 mean you've used /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile as a template
 supfile, but have your own somewhere else.
 
 The reason I was confused: you first stated you're using the ones in
 /usr/share/examples/cvsup, and I assumed that mean you were using it
 directly.  You shouldn't modify any files in /usr/share/examples, as
 they will be replaced/overwritten during installworld.
 
 Your pasted supfile looks fine, however.
 
   2) Check permissions and ownership of all directories leading up to
   /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all.  Yes, check every single
   one.
 
 Please do this.
 
   3) Ensure your umask is 022 before starting cvsup.  This could be a side
   result of item #2.
 umask is 0022
   
   4) I'm not sure why you're using cvsup on a 7.x box when csup comes with
   the base system.
  
I don't know why ? :-) . But I did as it was listed in the FreeBSD 
  handbook.
 
 Are you sure?  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- see
 the first Note: paragraph. 

 As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to have a single Code Versioning 
system.  
 Several methods put newbies in dilemma to decide upon the best suitable 
procedure. 
 I feel there should be one unique source code management system.
 
   I would also try doing this as a last resort:
   
   rm -fr /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all
   rm -fr /usr/src/*
   csup -h cvsupserver -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
  
 
  As a lost resort, I did a cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile, with just
  changing the HOST part without changing other entries in
  stable-supfile, and I was successful to download the code.
 
 I don't see how that would fix or change anything.  In fact, I'm fairly
 certain it doesn't.
 
 The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you I tried to rename
 a file, but couldn't.  This often implies a permissions or ownership
 thing.  Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS
 share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem
 (somehow).

 Jeremy, as pointed by N.J. Mann  recently in a reply in this thread, there 
is a semicolon in the filename
 where the rename faliure happened. Because the file checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7 
had : in it, which was not created subsequently due to SMB limitation for 
:-based filenames.  
 Because this the cvsup checked-out halted at this point. Morever, as indicated 
by Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] the case-insensitiveness would lead to missing 
files. 
I think, I should format my Network drive to NFS to make it really UNIX 
friendly.

  N.J. Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted 

Does the file system that you are using support colons (:) in file
names?  If it is FAT, HPFS or NTFS, or a derivative of one of those, it
probably doesn't and I suspect that is your problem.  Of course I could
be very wrong.  ;-)


  - Moin 
 
  Currently, I am trying out to figure why the customised way is failing.  
 
 I see nothing wrong with your supfile.
 
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Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
Hi,

I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly
related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one
of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed stable.
I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K emails. (All have
to go through mimedefang, procmail and sendmail... So the system was a bit
sluggish. I started to get things like :

Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: kdb_backtrace(c3053200,1,dbb54c04,dbb54bf0,c0
73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(dbb54be0,0,1,cc1c81e8,1) at getdi
rtybuf+0x27
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c305354c,1,dbb54c04) at flush_d
eplist+0x34
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,715e,c089bcf8,c0
808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(dbb54ca0) at softdep_sy
nc_metadata+0x8c
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(dbb54ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c3549600,dbb54d04,1,1,286) at fsync+0x1
03
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(2f,2f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0) at syscall+
0x227
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, fsync), eip =
 0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 ---


and


Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: kdb_backtrace(c345fe80,1,daf32c04,daf32bf0,c0
73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(daf32be0,0,1,cc22e334,1) at getdi
rtybuf+0x27
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c295a34c,1,daf32c04) at flush_d
eplist+0x34
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,72b7,c089bcf8,c0
808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(daf32ca0) at softdep_sy
nc_metadata+0x8c
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(daf32ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c2bc0600,daf32d04,1,1,286) at fsync+0x1
03
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(bfbf002f,bfbf002f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0)
 at syscall+0x227
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, fsync), eip =
 0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 ---

infact.

himinbjorg% grep KDB: stack spool
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:09:23 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:09:57 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:10:08 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:10:43 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:

Since its 5.5, and the system seems to potentially not be with it
hardware wise, think its worth persuing what happened here?

Thanks, Tuc
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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
  Are you sure?  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- 
  see
  the first Note: paragraph. 
 
  As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to have a single Code Versioning 
 system.  
  Several methods put newbies in dilemma to decide upon the best suitable 
 procedure. 
  I feel there should be one unique source code management system.

csup and cvsup function the same, and they both rely on the same source
versioning system.  However, cvsup requires Modula3/ezm3 (an external
dependency), while csup was written entirely in C and comes with the
FreeBSD base system.

Does this explain the difference?

Thus: pkg_delete cvsup and ezm3 (if installed) from your system, and
start using csup.  :-)

  I don't see how that would fix or change anything.  In fact, I'm fairly
  certain it doesn't.
  
  The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you I tried to rename
  a file, but couldn't.  This often implies a permissions or ownership
  thing.  Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS
  share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem
  (somehow).
 
  Jeremy, as pointed by N.J. Mann  recently in a reply in this thread, there 
 is a semicolon in the filename

You mean colon, but I understand what you meant.

  where the rename faliure happened. Because the file
  checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7 had : in it, which was not created
  subsequently due to SMB limitation for :-based filenames.  

  Because this the cvsup checked-out halted at this point. Morever, as
  indicated by Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] the case-insensitiveness
  would lead to missing files. 

 I think, I should format my Network drive to NFS to make it really
 UNIX friendly.

NFS is a transport protocol, not a filesystem type.  You don't format a
disk to be NFS-friendly.  You can use NFS with any type of filesystem;
UFS/FFS, ZFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, NTFS, MS-DOS, etc...

The problem is that you're using an NTFS across smbmount(8).  NTFS does
not support some characters in filenames, and also is case-insensitive.
You are being limited by NTFS, and also possibly by smbmount(8).

What you need is to install another disk in your FreeBSD box, or
allocate space somewhere on the existing filesystem(s) for your
development stuff.

If you really want Windows and FreeBSD to play well together, your
best option is to run Samba on the FreeBSD box and use UFS2 filesystems,
then make the Windows machine mount shares from the FreeBSD machine.
The other way around (FreeBSD--Windows) creates problems like the ones
you've experienced.

Hope this helps.  Cheers!

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Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote:
   I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly
 related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one
 of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed 
 stable.

memtest86+ would definitely detect a DIMM slot being bad, so running it
for 25 hours successfully means the DIMM and the DIMM slot is likely fine.

 I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K emails. (All have
 to go through mimedefang, procmail and sendmail... So the system was a bit
 sluggish. I started to get things like :
 
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: 
 kdb_backtrace(c3053200,1,dbb54c04,dbb54bf0,c0
 73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(dbb54be0,0,1,cc1c81e8,1) at 
 getdi
 rtybuf+0x27
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c305354c,1,dbb54c04) at 
 flush_d
 eplist+0x34
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: 
 flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,715e,c089bcf8,c0
 808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(dbb54ca0) at 
 softdep_sy
 nc_metadata+0x8c
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(dbb54ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c3549600,dbb54d04,1,1,286) at 
 fsync+0x1
 03
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(2f,2f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0) at 
 syscall+
 0x227
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f
 Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, fsync), 
 eip =
  0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 ---

This looks more like a filesystem problem, not a memory problem.  All
of the functions listed in the backtrace show UFS/FFS problems and
filesystem metadata issues of some kind.

Booting the machine in single-user mode and run fsck -y.  I'm betting
you'll find errors.  If not, then it's probably a kernel bug -- see
below, however.

I doubt you're going to get much support on this, since you're running
FreeBSD 5.5, which is no longer supported.  Believe me: you will get
continual push-back from the rest of the FreeBSD developers asking for
support on 5.5.  The RELENG_6 series is on its way out as well, so
you should consider installing RELENG_7 (specifically 7.1-BETA at
this point).

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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
  On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
   Are you sure?  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- 
   see
   the first Note: paragraph. 
  
   As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to have a single Code 
  Versioning system.  
   Several methods put newbies in dilemma to decide upon the best suitable 
  procedure. 
   I feel there should be one unique source code management system.
 
 csup and cvsup function the same, and they both rely on the same source
 versioning system.  However, cvsup requires Modula3/ezm3 (an external
 dependency), while csup was written entirely in C and comes with the
 FreeBSD base system.
 
 Does this explain the difference?
 
 Thus: pkg_delete cvsup and ezm3 (if installed) from your system, and
 start using csup.  :-)
 
   I don't see how that would fix or change anything.  In fact, I'm fairly
   certain it doesn't.
   
   The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you I tried to rename
   a file, but couldn't.  This often implies a permissions or ownership
   thing.  Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS
   share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem
   (somehow).
  
   Jeremy, as pointed by N.J. Mann  recently in a reply in this thread, 
  there is a semicolon in the filename
 
 You mean colon, but I understand what you meant.
 
   where the rename faliure happened. Because the file
   checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7 had : in it, which was not created
   subsequently due to SMB limitation for :-based filenames.  
 
   Because this the cvsup checked-out halted at this point. Morever, as
   indicated by Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] the case-insensitiveness
   would lead to missing files. 
 
  I think, I should format my Network drive to NFS to make it really
  UNIX friendly.
 
 NFS is a transport protocol, not a filesystem type.  You don't format a
 disk to be NFS-friendly.  You can use NFS with any type of filesystem;
 UFS/FFS, ZFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, NTFS, MS-DOS, etc...
 
 The problem is that you're using an NTFS across smbmount(8).  NTFS does
 not support some characters in filenames, and also is case-insensitive.
 You are being limited by NTFS, and also possibly by smbmount(8).
 
 What you need is to install another disk in your FreeBSD box, or
 allocate space somewhere on the existing filesystem(s) for your
 development stuff.
 
 If you really want Windows and FreeBSD to play well together, your
 best option is to run Samba on the FreeBSD box and use UFS2 filesystems,
 then make the Windows machine mount shares from the FreeBSD machine.
 The other way around (FreeBSD--Windows) creates problems like the ones
 you've experienced.

 I am never going to do a Windows-FreeBSD mount as it is not required for me.
 I rather go for extra space on my FreeBSD box. Is there any method to increase
 the size of my FreeBSD partition??  

 Thanks,
Moin
 
 Hope this helps.  Cheers!
 
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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:41:34AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
  I am never going to do a Windows-FreeBSD mount as it is not required for me.
  I rather go for extra space on my FreeBSD box. Is there any method to 
 increase
  the size of my FreeBSD partition??  

Do you mean partition as in I have separate partitions for Windows and
FreeBSD, or do you mean partition as in I want to grow /usr to be
larger?

If the lesser: there are commercial utilities out there (such as
Partition Magic) which let you resize partitions.  However, I cannot
stress this enough: *back up all of your data* before doing this.  I
have been bit by bugs in PQMAGIC *twice* in my lifetime (the program
panic'ing at 99% and causing me to lose all of my data).

If the latter: some people will tell you about growfs(8), but I'm
not sure how reliable it is.  You'll need to become familiar with
bsdlabel(8) and fdisk(8) before you can use that.

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Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:41:34AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
  On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
   On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Are you sure?  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html 
-- see
the first Note: paragraph. 
   
As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to have a single Code 
   Versioning system.  
Several methods put newbies in dilemma to decide upon the best suitable 
   procedure. 
I feel there should be one unique source code management system.
  
  csup and cvsup function the same, and they both rely on the same source
  versioning system.  However, cvsup requires Modula3/ezm3 (an external
  dependency), while csup was written entirely in C and comes with the
  FreeBSD base system.
  
  Does this explain the difference?
  
  Thus: pkg_delete cvsup and ezm3 (if installed) from your system, and
  start using csup.  :-)
  
I don't see how that would fix or change anything.  In fact, I'm fairly
certain it doesn't.

The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you I tried to rename
a file, but couldn't.  This often implies a permissions or ownership
thing.  Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS
share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem
(somehow).
   
Jeremy, as pointed by N.J. Mann  recently in a reply in this thread, 
   there is a semicolon in the filename
  
  You mean colon, but I understand what you meant.
  
where the rename faliure happened. Because the file
checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7 had : in it, which was not created
subsequently due to SMB limitation for :-based filenames.  
  
Because this the cvsup checked-out halted at this point. Morever, as
indicated by Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] the case-insensitiveness
would lead to missing files. 
  
   I think, I should format my Network drive to NFS to make it really
   UNIX friendly.
  
  NFS is a transport protocol, not a filesystem type.  You don't format a
  disk to be NFS-friendly.  You can use NFS with any type of filesystem;
  UFS/FFS, ZFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, NTFS, MS-DOS, etc...
  
  The problem is that you're using an NTFS across smbmount(8).  NTFS does
  not support some characters in filenames, and also is case-insensitive.
  You are being limited by NTFS, and also possibly by smbmount(8).
  
  What you need is to install another disk in your FreeBSD box, or
  allocate space somewhere on the existing filesystem(s) for your
  development stuff.
  
  If you really want Windows and FreeBSD to play well together, your
  best option is to run Samba on the FreeBSD box and use UFS2 filesystems,
  then make the Windows machine mount shares from the FreeBSD machine.
  The other way around (FreeBSD--Windows) creates problems like the ones
  you've experienced.
 
  I am never going to do a Windows-FreeBSD mount as it is not required for me.
  I rather go for extra space on my FreeBSD box. Is there any method to 
 increase
  the size of my FreeBSD partition??  
 
  Thanks,
 Moin
Never mind. I have dropped the plan for new disk in my freeBSD box. Instead, My 
Western Digital Network Harddrive 
exports both SMB and NFS shares. So now I can mount it as NFS. Internally, this 
harddrive is ext2 formatted
and the NFS and SMB exports are exported. 

  
  Hope this helps.  Cheers!
  
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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Matt
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
 I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
 drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it
 because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to
 any suggestions.

I've had good experience with the latest KDE4 ports using 7-STABLE and
the ULE scheduler on i386 even with desktop effects enabled.  Hardware
is a dual-core Opteron 2.5GHz with 2GB mem and a NVidia 6800GS video
card (with NVidia binary drivers).  Using only a couple of performance
hints found on the mailing lists:

QT/glib issue -
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2008-August/003612.html
Konqueror tweak -
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2008-September/003893.html
NVidia driver settings (not applicable if you're using ATI hardware,
obviously) - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118088

Of the three things listed above, the glib and NVidia settings
resulted in very noticeable performance improvements for me.  Also,
remember that hal and dbus need to be enabled and running.

Hope that helps,
Matt

 Cheers,
  Michal
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newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Kelly Jones
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.

This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:

zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz

and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different
results because the file is now messages.5.gz

Improving my cow-orkers intelligence would be the ideal solution, but
has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files
messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a constant
name that doesn't change and then delete them after how many ever
days?

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Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
 newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
 messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
 
 This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:
 
 zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz
 
 and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different
 results because the file is now messages.5.gz

Is it possible to educate your co-workers into looking at timestamps on
files before randomly assuming that EVERYTHING ends up in .4.gz?  :-)
Surely your co-workers aren't that dense.

Or you can have them use zgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.*.gz
and tell them pay close attention to the timestamps shown!!  That
might work as a better work-around.

 Improving my cow-orkers intelligence would be the ideal solution, but
 has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files
 messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a constant
 name that doesn't change and then delete them after how many ever
 days?

I'd vote for the following strftime(3) format: %Y%m%dT%H%M.  Otherwise
known as: MMDDThhmm

 = Year (4-digit)
  MM = Month (01 to 12)
  DD = Day (01 to 31)
   T = Literal ASCII string T
  hh = Hour (24-hour time, e.g. 00 to 23)
  mm = Minute (00 to 59)

The T aspect is optional, but it's what we use at my workplace,
and makes recognising the hour-minute portion easier.

I don't think we need second-level granularity on this stuff; even
minute granularity is questionable (because not all logs will get
rotated at exactly 00 minutes; they might take 20 minutes to compress
based on system load, etc...), since you'd have inconsistencies in
the filenames, e.g.:

messages.20081005T.gz
messages.20081006T0001.gz
messages.20081007T0001.gz
messages.20081008T.gz
messages.20081009T0002.gz

And so on.

Food for thought.

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ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Desmond Chapman

Anyone with experience using and setting this up, please contact me. I need to 
learn how to work with and on it. 

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Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Doug Hardie


On Oct 11, 2008, at 09:46, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:


On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:

newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.

This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:

zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz

and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different
results because the file is now messages.5.gz


Is it possible to educate your co-workers into looking at timestamps  
on

files before randomly assuming that EVERYTHING ends up in .4.gz?  :-)
Surely your co-workers aren't that dense.

Or you can have them use zgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.*.gz
and tell them pay close attention to the timestamps shown!!  That
might work as a better work-around.


Improving my cow-orkers intelligence would be the ideal solution, but
has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files
messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a  
constant

name that doesn't change and then delete them after how many ever
days?


I'd vote for the following strftime(3) format: %Y%m%dT%H%M.   
Otherwise

known as: MMDDThhmm


Either approach would sure increase the typing when searching for log  
entries for a specific day.  I keep 30 days of maillogs and reasonably  
frequently have to search them for a specific day a week or 2 ago.   
Given that I usually run about 5 searches to find all the relevant  
entries, that would sure add to the typing.  Also, I have no immediate  
idea how newsyslog would be able to still retain 30 backups. The dates  
on the files are not necessarily accurate.  They can get changed  
easily.  Searching with maillog.* is a horrible waste of computer and  
people time.  Puts a real load on the mail server and I wait for quite  
awhile.

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Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
 
 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote:
  I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly
  related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one
  of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed 
  stable.
 
 memtest86+ would definitely detect a DIMM slot being bad, so running it
 for 25 hours successfully means the DIMM and the DIMM slot is likely fine.

Sorry, 2 corrections. :)  

1) I ran memtest86+ 3.4
2) If I tried to run the memory test on the slot I thought was bad, 
it looked like whatever is underneath the memtest86+ (Linux?) would crap out
within 6 seconds of startup. I've only tested the B slot after running into
so many issues with the A slot (And I checked, you can run one slot only
on this laptop... Dell Inspiron 8200)
 
  I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K emails. (All have
  to go through mimedefang, procmail and sendmail... So the system was a bit
  sluggish. I started to get things like :
  
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: 
  kdb_backtrace(c3053200,1,dbb54c04,dbb54bf0,c0
  73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(dbb54be0,0,1,cc1c81e8,1) at 
  getdi
  rtybuf+0x27
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c305354c,1,dbb54c04) at 
  flush_d
  eplist+0x34
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: 
  flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,715e,c089bcf8,c0
  808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(dbb54ca0) at 
  softdep_sy
  nc_metadata+0x8c
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(dbb54ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c3549600,dbb54d04,1,1,286) at 
  fsync+0x1
  03
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(2f,2f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0) at 
  syscall+
  0x227
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at 
  Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f
  Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, fsync), 
  eip =
   0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 ---
 
 This looks more like a filesystem problem, not a memory problem.  All
 of the functions listed in the backtrace show UFS/FFS problems and
 filesystem metadata issues of some kind.

Yup, sorry. I should have said that I realized it was a disk issue, but
that I was thinking that maybe it wasn't really the OS's fault that there are
deeper problems with the laptop that could be manifesting themselves here.
When I sent all sorts of copious debug to Dell they just told me to replace
the motherboard completely. I didn't want to spend the $$. At first all the
problems manifested as memory, memtest86+ would lock up, crash, etc with the
memory I had. I bought new memory ($50 for a gig) BEFORE Dell just told me to
replace the whole motherboard. With the new memory in, only using the B slot,
it appeared more stable. I found these issues only accidentally. I tend to
type dmesg when my fingers are idle and my brain is spinning thinking of
something and thats when I saw this cruft.

 Booting the machine in single-user mode and run fsck -y.  I'm betting
 you'll find errors.  If not, then it's probably a kernel bug -- see
 below, however.

Probably could use it, yea. It had locked up a few times so I'm
sure the filesystems weren't in great shape. I thought I had offline 
fsck'd them, but now not so sure.
 
 I doubt you're going to get much support on this, since you're running
 FreeBSD 5.5, which is no longer supported.  Believe me: you will get
 continual push-back from the rest of the FreeBSD developers asking for
 support on 5.5.  The RELENG_6 series is on its way out as well, so
 you should consider installing RELENG_7 (specifically 7.1-BETA at
 this point).
 
Well, that was 1/2 of the reason why I asked if it was even
worth it to trace it out. 1/2 was the fact its 5.5, the other 1/2 was
that I've already been told to replace the motherboard. :)

I tried going to 6.X on this machine for a few weeks once before, 
constantly locked up in the booting of the kernel. I haven't had a spare 
second otherwise to consider going to 7. I didn't think anyone would
really want to help on 5.5, but figured I'd toss it out there and see if
anyone thought it worth while.

Thanks Jeremy.

Tuc
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Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
 
  Booting the machine in single-user mode and run fsck -y.  I'm betting
  you'll find errors.  If not, then it's probably a kernel bug -- see
  below, however.

Ya lost the bet All filesystems were supposedly fine.

Tuc
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Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway

Drew Tomlinson wrote:
First, I must say I love the ports system!!!  It keeps me from suffering 
as I am now.  :)


Anyway, I'm attempting to install a web log analysis software from 
Google named Urchin.  The installation docs say it's supported on FBSD 
6.2+.  As I am dedicating a machine to this software, I've performed a 
brand new install of 7.1-PRERELEASE.  I'm using the amd64 version on a 
Intel Core 2 Duo processor.


With help from the list, I overcame the first library issue by 
installing the compat6x libraries from ports.  Now the install script is 
complaining that /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libncurses.so.6 
not found.  I used ldd on the executable the script is attempting to 
run and get this output:


   libncurses.so.6 = not found (0x0)
   libcrypt.so.3 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libcrypt.so.3 (0x280be000)
   libz.so.3 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libz.so.3 (0x280d7000)
   libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libstdc++.so.5 
(0x280e8000)

   libm.so.4 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libm.so.4 (0x281be000)
   libc.so.6 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libc.so.6 (0x281d4000)

I did search my system and found /usr/local/lib/compat/libncurses.so.6.  
I tried adding a symlink to /usr/local/lib32/compat but then received an 
...unsupported layout... error when attempting to run the executable:  
I assume that is because the libncurses.so.6 library is a 64 bit 
version?  I've removed the symlink.


Assuming my assumptions are correct, how can I get a 32 bit 
libncurses.so.6 version on my system?  Or if I'm wrong, what do I need?


The lib/compat/libncurses.so.6 file comes from the compat6x package. 
However, as you found, that package on amd64 installs the amd64 compat 
libraries.  You can grab the i386 version of the package from the FTP 
site and manually extract the libraries into the lib32/compat directory 
(it's just a .tbz file).


Kris
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Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:42:09PM -0400, Tuc wrote:
  
  On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote:
 I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly
   related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to 
   one
   of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed 
   stable.
  
  memtest86+ would definitely detect a DIMM slot being bad, so running it
  for 25 hours successfully means the DIMM and the DIMM slot is likely fine.
 
   Sorry, 2 corrections. :)  
 
   1) I ran memtest86+ 3.4
   2) If I tried to run the memory test on the slot I thought was bad, 
 it looked like whatever is underneath the memtest86+ (Linux?) would crap out
 within 6 seconds of startup. I've only tested the B slot after running into
 so many issues with the A slot (And I checked, you can run one slot only
 on this laptop... Dell Inspiron 8200)

Yes, memtest86 and memtest86+ are both Linux-based.

   I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K emails. (All have
   to go through mimedefang, procmail and sendmail... So the system was a bit
   sluggish. I started to get things like :
   
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: 
   kdb_backtrace(c3053200,1,dbb54c04,dbb54bf0,c0
   73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(dbb54be0,0,1,cc1c81e8,1) 
   at getdi
   rtybuf+0x27
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c305354c,1,dbb54c04) at 
   flush_d
   eplist+0x34
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: 
   flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,715e,c089bcf8,c0
   808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(dbb54ca0) at 
   softdep_sy
   nc_metadata+0x8c
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(dbb54ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c3549600,dbb54d04,1,1,286) at 
   fsync+0x1
   03
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(2f,2f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0) at 
   syscall+
   0x227
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at 
   Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f
   Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, 
   fsync), eip =
0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 ---
  
  This looks more like a filesystem problem, not a memory problem.  All
  of the functions listed in the backtrace show UFS/FFS problems and
  filesystem metadata issues of some kind.
 
   Yup, sorry. I should have said that I realized it was a disk issue, but
 that I was thinking that maybe it wasn't really the OS's fault that there are
 deeper problems with the laptop that could be manifesting themselves here.
 When I sent all sorts of copious debug to Dell they just told me to replace
 the motherboard completely. I didn't want to spend the $$. At first all the
 problems manifested as memory, memtest86+ would lock up, crash, etc with the
 memory I had. I bought new memory ($50 for a gig) BEFORE Dell just told me to
 replace the whole motherboard. With the new memory in, only using the B 
 slot,
 it appeared more stable. I found these issues only accidentally. I tend to
 type dmesg when my fingers are idle and my brain is spinning thinking of
 something and thats when I saw this cruft.

Okay, so now we're talking about disk issues.  So all we've confirmed at
this point is 1) you have bad memory or a bad RAM slot, and 2) you have
a disk that has problems, a corrupted filesystem, or both.

I suppose it's possible for filesystem corruption to occur due to bad
memory, but it's much more likely that you'd experience a kernel panic
before that even had a chance of happening.

At this point I'm really not sure what to tell you, or if FreeBSD can
even help.  You've confirmed you have bad hardware, so the solution at
this point should be obvious.  :-)

  Booting the machine in single-user mode and run fsck -y.  I'm betting
  you'll find errors.  If not, then it's probably a kernel bug -- see
  below, however.
 
   Probably could use it, yea. It had locked up a few times so I'm
 sure the filesystems weren't in great shape. I thought I had offline 
 fsck'd them, but now not so sure.

I'd recommend setting background_fsck=no in /etc/rc.conf in the
future.  Backgrounded fsck does not catch all filesystem errors; this
has been discussed very thoroughly on the -stable list.

  I doubt you're going to get much support on this, since you're running
  FreeBSD 5.5, which is no longer supported.  Believe me: you will get
  continual push-back from the rest of the FreeBSD developers asking for
  support on 5.5.  The RELENG_6 series is on its way out as well, so
  you should consider installing RELENG_7 (specifically 7.1-BETA at
  this point).
  
   Well, that was 1/2 of the reason why I asked if it was even
 worth it to trace it out. 1/2 was the fact its 5.5, the other 1/2 was
 that I've already been told to replace the motherboard. :)
 
   I tried 

Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 First, I must say I love the ports system!!!  It keeps me from
 suffering as I am now.  :)

 Anyway, I'm attempting to install a web log analysis software from
 Google named Urchin.  The installation docs say it's supported on
 FBSD 6.2+.  As I am dedicating a machine to this software, I've
 performed a brand new install of 7.1-PRERELEASE.  I'm using the amd64
 version on a Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

 With help from the list, I overcame the first library issue by
 installing the compat6x libraries from ports.  Now the install script
 is complaining that /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object
 libncurses.so.6 not found.  I used ldd on the executable the script
 is attempting to run and get this output:

libncurses.so.6 = not found (0x0)
libcrypt.so.3 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libcrypt.so.3 (0x280be000)
libz.so.3 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libz.so.3 (0x280d7000)
libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libstdc++.so.5
 (0x280e8000)
libm.so.4 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libm.so.4 (0x281be000)
libc.so.6 = /usr/local/lib32/compat/libc.so.6 (0x281d4000)

 I did search my system and found
 /usr/local/lib/compat/libncurses.so.6.  I tried adding a symlink to
 /usr/local/lib32/compat but then received an ...unsupported
 layout... error when attempting to run the executable:  I assume that
 is because the libncurses.so.6 library is a 64 bit version?  I've
 removed the symlink.

You can explore it by the command 
% file /usr/local/lib/compat/libncurses.so.6

 Assuming my assumptions are correct, how can I get a 32 bit
 libncurses.so.6 version on my system?  Or if I'm wrong, what do I
 need?

You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said.
And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is
definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer).


WBR
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Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway

Boris Samorodov wrote:


You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said.
And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is
definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer).


I don't think it's a port bug, but it would be useful to have an 
official way to install the i386 compat libraries on amd64.  This should 
probably be a separate slave port.


Kris

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Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Boris Samorodov wrote:

 You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said.
 And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is
 definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer).

 I don't think it's a port bug, but it would be useful to have an
 official way to install the i386 compat libraries on amd64.  This
 should probably be a separate slave port.

The port installs both amd64 and i386 libraries (look at the port
pkg-plist.amd64). Isn't it an official way? Imho yes.

One library is missing. Isn't it a port bug? Well, imho, yes. ;-)


WBR
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Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway

Boris Samorodov wrote:

Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Boris Samorodov wrote:


You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said.
And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is
definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer).

I don't think it's a port bug, but it would be useful to have an
official way to install the i386 compat libraries on amd64.  This
should probably be a separate slave port.


The port installs both amd64 and i386 libraries (look at the port
pkg-plist.amd64). Isn't it an official way? Imho yes.

One library is missing. Isn't it a port bug? Well, imho, yes. ;-)


OK then :)

Kris
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Re: ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway

Desmond Chapman wrote:
Anyone with experience using and setting this up, please contact me. I need to learn how to work with and on it. 


Replace options SCHED_4BSD with options SCHED_ULE in your kernel 
config file, compile/install kernel in the usual way, reboot.  End of story.


Kris

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LDAP+login classes

2008-10-11 Thread J. Johnston
Hello,

I was wonder if anyone has an idea if its possible to use login classes
when using nss_ldap
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Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Michal Kulczewski
mdh wrote:


 Michal, can you describe in more detail just what is performing poorly?  
 Things like what effects, what actions you're taking, what your settings are 
 that effect those actions, etc?  I'm running KDE4.1.1 from ports on 7-STABLE 
 and have no performance problems at all with an AthlonX2, 2gigs of memory, 
 and a GeForce6200 card using nvidia binary drivers.  One thing I have come up 
 against was the nvidia black windows bug with OpenGL effects turned on, but 
 turning them off doesn't signifigantly hinder my enjoyment of KDE4, or make 
 it too much less sexy to be honest.  The performance was also fine even with 
 them turned on; it simply caused that bug to occur which made it less usable. 
  
 Generally speaking, I've found GNOME to run with more performance issues 
 despite less bells and whistles than KDE every time on any system where I've 
 tried it.  
 If you provide some more information, maybe I can direct you to some setting 
 tweaks, etc, but as I said it's working just lovely for me (and this is with 
 a ton of apps open, by the way - several seamonkey windows, a bunch of kpdf, 
 eclipse, many many konsole tabs, xmms, ktorrent, and more.  
 One thing I am curious of is if you're running i386 FreeBSD, or another 
 architecture (amd64, ia64, etc?)  

I'm running 7.0 stable with ULE scheduler on i386 architecture (since
it's Pentium M). I've tried to use kde4 out of the box (after
compilation). Whole kde is running poorly. I have to wait seconds for
any action to complete (right mouse button, moving windows, moving
widgets, etc), so, as you can imagine, I'm not that patient to tweak any
settings while using kde4. Now I see that many of you are using nvidia
binary drivers, maybe this is the answer why my kde4 is running so slow.
However, beryl is working quite fast for me. kde4 is using only 4% of
processor, hal and dbus are enabled and running.

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Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Garance A Drosehn

At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote:


...but has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files
messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a
constant name that doesn't change and then delete them after
how many ever days?


It would be bad to change the default behavior, but there have
been several people who wished for some option for newsyslog
which would make it use some alternate naming scheme.  There's
at least one PR about it, for instance.

It is on my list of things to do, but I've had a long stretch
of time where I have too many things on that list.  I wouldn't
go for a naming scheme that's as long as the above suggestion,
though.

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Re: FreeBSD as PF/Router/Firewall dying on the vine

2008-10-11 Thread Michael K. Smith
Hello Jeremy:


On 10/6/08 9:30 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:08:50PM -0700, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
 Hello All:
 
 We have a load balanced pair of PF boxes sitting in front of a whole bunch of
 server doing all manner of things!  It's been working great up until today
 when it, well, didn't.  Here's what I see in top -S.
 
   PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZERES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU
 COMMAND
14 root 1 -44 -163 0K 8K CPU1   0  44:21 88.18% swi1:
 net
11 root 1 171   52 0K 8K RUN0  24:58 53.32% idle:
 cpu0
10 root 1 171   52 0K 8K RUN1  17:44 35.50% idle:
 cpu1
24 root 1 -68 -187 0K 8K *Giant 0   5:30 11.62% irq16:
 em2 uhci3
23 root 1 -68 -187 0K 8K WAIT   0   1:27  3.08% irq25:
 em1
25 root 1 -68 -187 0K 8K WAIT   1   1:16  2.64% irq17:
 em3
 
 This is 6.3 with Intel 1000 Fiber and Copper interfaces, all using the 'em'
 driver.  Also, there are 15 VLAN's configured on one of the NIC's for subnet
 separation.
 
 If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.  My google-fu is coming up empty with
 the swi1: net 
 
 Can you explain what the problem is?

Sorry it took so long to reply.  We actually got the issue resolved, but I
wanted to make sure our fix actually worked.  Here is what the
problem/solution is.

The problem was significant packet loss and connectivity issue to and
through the PF server.  Even pinging the loopback address on the server
itself was returning 4 ms times.

The problem was a very busy NFS server with clients on the same VLAN, but on
a different subnet.  So, we had a VLAN interface on em1 that had two address
ranges attached, 10.255.0.0/16 and 10.212.6.0/16.  The NFS server was on the
10.255 and the clients were on the 10.212.

Even though they were on the same VLAN, they weren't directly ARP'able, so
all traffic (400 - 600 Mb/sec) between them had to be processed by the
server.  When we moved the clients on to the same subnet as the server,
everything stabilized.

I think this was an issue of bad design on my part.

Regards,

Mike

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Re: ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in few days old RELENG_7 it's great, much better than anything before. 
there are something to fix with realtime priority threads scheduling, i 
contacted the author and i think it will be fixed soon.


in case of usual work - just use it. it's very good.


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The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-09-21 - 2008-10-11

2008-10-11 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical 
examples and how-to guides.  This message is posted weekly
to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people
know what's available on the website.  Before you post a question
here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list 
archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists 
and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. 

These are the articles posted during this period:

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 Mailing lists can outlive their usefulness 
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Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson

Kris Kennaway wrote:

Boris Samorodov wrote:

Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Boris Samorodov wrote:


You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said.
And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is
definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer).

I don't think it's a port bug, but it would be useful to have an
official way to install the i386 compat libraries on amd64.  This
should probably be a separate slave port.


The port installs both amd64 and i386 libraries (look at the port
pkg-plist.amd64). Isn't it an official way? Imho yes.

One library is missing. Isn't it a port bug? Well, imho, yes. ;-)


OK then :)

Kris


Thank you both!  I'll figure out how to file a proper PR.

Thanks,

Drew


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rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-11 Thread Gary Kline
I have two desktop computers; three, if you count my new 
ThinkPad.  The TPad needs a new CAT5 cable, so for now I'm only
considereing the two tower computers.

On the Ubuntu computer I am /home/kline; on my main computer,
my home is /usr/home/kline.   The following sh script worked
perfected when my home on tao [FBSD] was /home/kline:

P
#!/bin/sh

PWD=`pwd`;
echo This directory is [${PWD}];

scp -qrp  ${PWD}/* ethos:/${PWD}
###/usr/bin/scp -rqp -i /home/kline/.ssh/zeropasswd-id ${PWD}/* \ klin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/${PWD}

Question #1: is there any /bin/sh method of getting rid of the
/usr?  I switch off between my two computers especially when
get mucked up, as with my upgrade to kde4.  (Otherwise, I do
backups of ~kline as well as other critical directories.)

Is there a way of automatically using rsync rather that my
kwik-and-dirty /bin/shell script?

thanks, people,

gary


PS: Complete disclosure: it works one way [tao to ethos] because
I have created a /usr/home/kline/* tree on ethos.   

PPS:  if this seems like a numbskull query, i only caught a few
  hours sleep last night!





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Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg

On Oct 10, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:


Could you downgrade Mailman and see if the problem still persists?
I run the combination you have (except Mailman is 2.1.9 and FreeBSD is
6.3) and I haven't had an issue. Might be a bug introduced in Mailman
2.1.11


I'm running mailman 2.1.11 (installed from ports) without the  
described problem.


So in at least one case, Apache, FreeBSD and Mailman 2.1.11 work  
without exhibiting the described problem.


-j

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Re: rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-11 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On the Ubuntu computer I am /home/kline; on my main
 computer,
   my home is /usr/home/kline.   The following sh script
 worked
   perfected when my home on tao [FBSD] was
 /home/kline:
 
 P
 #!/bin/sh
 
 PWD=`pwd`;
 echo This directory is [${PWD}];
 
 scp -qrp  ${PWD}/* ethos:/${PWD}
 ###/usr/bin/scp -rqp -i /home/kline/.ssh/zeropasswd-id
 ${PWD}/* \ klin
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/${PWD}
 
   Question #1: is there any /bin/sh method of getting rid of
 the
   /usr?  I switch off between my two computers
 especially when
   get mucked up, as with my upgrade to kde4.  (Otherwise, I
 do
   backups of ~kline as well as other critical directories.)
 
   Is there a way of automatically using rsync rather that my
   kwik-and-dirty /bin/shell script?
 
   thanks, people,
 
   gary

If what you wish to do is simply get rid of /usr in a string, you can use sed 
like so:
varWithoutUsr=`echo ${varWithUsr} |sed -e 's/\/usr//'`
After running this, where $varWithUsr is the variable containing a string like 
/usr/home/blah, the variable $varWithoutUsr will be equal to /home/blah.  I 
create simple scripts like this all the time to rename batches of files, for 
example.  

The easier way is probably just to not specify a dir to scp's remote path 
though, since it defaults to the user's home directory.  

- mdh



  
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the impossible! get java 1.5 running on FB6.2?

2008-10-11 Thread Kayven Riese
I am a dum-dum.  I don't know what happened, but suddently my
FreeBSD7.0-STABLE running on
my 160GB HD froze.  I fsck-ed mounted, later from the older hard drive I am
running now:

% uname -a
FreeBSD  6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC
2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
%

I know 6.2 is not supposed to be supported anymore, but I have never been
able to get buildworld
to go, and I know people tell me I am supposed to wipe hard drives, and
maybe after I get just
one more hard drive I might start get up to mirroring speed or something.

What I really need to do is get Java 1.5 going

 ^
../../nachos/threads/PriorityScheduler.java:508: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable waitQueue
location: class
nachos.threads.PriorityScheduler.ThreadStateAndTime.PriorityQueue

Lib.assertTrue(waitingOn.waitQueue.remove(threadStateAndTime));
^
100 errors
gmake: *** [nachos/userprog/UserKernel.class] Error 1
% java -version
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack
location
java version 1.4.2_12
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_12-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_12-b03, mixed mode)
% java -version
java version 1.5.0
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build diablo-1.5.0-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build diablo-1.5.0_07-b01, mixed mode)

Trying again, but this build I am pretty sure will end in failure:

/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.6/src/sql
# pwd
/usr/ports
# cd java
# cd jdk15
# make install clean
===   jdk-1.5.0p3_5 depends on executable in : gm4 - found
===   jdk-1.5.0p3_5 depends on executable in : zip - found
===   jdk-1.5.0p3_5 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so - found
===   jdk-1.5.0p3_5 depends on file: /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/bin/javac -
found
===   jdk-1.5.0p3_5 depends on

it's still compiling.. I think I will reply to this when it is done.
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