Re: kernel panic
On 2009-Jan-09 00:05:47 -0800, Kamlesh Patel shilp.ka...@yahoo.com wrote: How do i recover the system from this error. I can't reload the loader.old If you press any key during the first spinner, you should get a prompt similar to the following: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: You can then enter the name of the program you wish to run - eg /boot/loader.old (or directly load /boot/kernel/kernel) See the following for a more complete description: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bootapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASEformat=html -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpGuVVF4OejW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Linux binary execution performance hit
Hi list, Question, what sort of performance hit does FreeBSD 7.0 have on running linux binaries? The program in question is Ruby, I'm looking at putting ruby compiled on a linux box over onto a FreeBSD system so I can take advantage of the Oracle Instant client. But will look at other options if this is going to be a lot slower. Mikel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Linux binary execution performance hit
Question, what sort of performance hit does FreeBSD 7.0 have on running linux binaries? The program in question is Ruby, I'm looking at putting ruby compiled on a linux box over onto a FreeBSD system so I can take advantage of the Oracle Instant client. But will look at other options if this is going to be a lot slower. no it won't be much slower. linux programs's speed under FreeBSD is comparable to same under linux. it's not emulation in strict sense, rather second ABI. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: does IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel config do anything
On 1/11/09, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
For the last year I have been using IPI_PREEMPTION in my kernel config
and I know back then it helped quite a bit on the performence of my dual
core... now I am setting a 4 core machine using 7.1pl1 (i386) [on the
dual core I {and will continue} to use -current] and was just wondering
if IPI_PREEMPTION actually maeans anything anymore
IPI_PREEMPTION is used only with 4bsd scheduler.
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Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
I have to use paper-sneakernet because
- no network connectivity yet
- tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up
with the 'mount' command
It won't mount automatically, unless you have the automounter
configured. If you want to mount USB drives as a normal user, you have
to run the command 'sysctl vfs.usermount=1' as root. To make this change
permanent, put 'vfs.usermount=1' in /etc/sysctl.conf.
Next, you have to make a directory to mount it. I would suggest
/mnt/$USER (where $USER is your username). Make sure that _you_ own that
directory.
Next, you'll need read/write access to the devices. I would suggest to
create a group called usb, and make yourself a member of this group. See
pw(8). With that done, you chould add a rule to /etc/devfs.rules. See
the EXAMPLES in devfs.rules(5).
If all of that is sorted, you should see one or more /dev/daXsY devices
appear when you plug in the USB drive, X and Y being numbers,
e.g. /dev/da0s1. This means first slice [s1] on the first da(4) device [da0].
To mount this device if it is formatted as FAT partition do:
mount_msdosfs -m 644 -M 755 -l -o noatime -o sync -o noexec -o nosuid \
/dev/da0s1 /mnt/$USER
no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x2abf103c chip=0x816810ec
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RTL 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
class = network
subclass= ethernet
This should be recognized by the re(4) driver. This driver is present in
the generic kernel. Are you running a custom kernel? ('uname -i' can
tell you the name of the kernel you are running) If so, try running
'kldload if_re.ko'. The device should then show up as /dev/net/re0.
If this works, you'll have to load the module on the next boot, by
adding 'if_re_load=YES' to /boot/loader.conf. You will also have to
configure the device in etc/rc.conf. This is covered in the
handbook. You can find the english version at [1]. It is also available
on the FreeBSD site.
If you are running the GENERIC kernel and it does not recognize this
chip, try upgrading to the latest release. If that doesn't work, you
should probably file a problem report with send-pr(1).
Roland
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Re: freebsd-update install
At Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:16:25 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: Thanks for all this infos. I have another question about the zfs kernel module : is it still in the GENERIC kernel in the release 7.1 ? Or do I need to include it and recompile the kernel before the first reboot ? the module is included in the standard kernel, you just have to tell the boot loader to load it on startup (/boot/loader.conf): zfs_load=YES and if your root filesystem is zfs vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:rpool/root toni -- Don't forget, there is no security | toni at stderror dot at -- Wulfgar | Toni Schmidbauer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
Is there an easy way to tell whether the new 7.1 release will officially support my hardware? I looked at this url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html#PROC and cannot easily tell from there. There must be something in the boot code (or drivers) that looks at the signature (maybe device name and manufacturer) and decides whether it knows the card. If I could find either documentation or some configuration or source code file to look at, then I could have an idea before actually trying it whether freebsd 7.1 actually will recognise this driver on its own. By the way, two other cards were not recognised. That's why it labelled it 'none2'. There was also a none0 and a none1. However those cards are lower priority for my application. -Will Michael Powell wrote: William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the problem. I had to write them down on paper and walk over to this room to type them. Please pardon any typos: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x2abf103c chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass= ethernet This may be supported by the re driver. Run your ifconfig setup commands against re0 and see what happens. This should be present in the GENERIC kernel, if you have a custom kernel with it removed just kldload the module. You should also be able to grep re out from your dmesg. [snip] Question 1. Is it possible that FreeBSD 7.1 would do a better job? Sometimes with these adapters not every chipID makes it into the driver code. Usually this takes care of itself as time goes on, eg newer is better. If you are just starting out with a new machine and a fresh install you might want to consider 7.1-RELEASE. [snip] fwe is ethernet emulation driver for firewire. post output of pciconf -lv. [snip] -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work
Hi perryh! Glad to hear that you managed to get your problem fixed.., I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: Appears to connect and authenticate successfully to my office's VPN concentrator Once (apparently) connected, I can't access any resources on the company network (mail / servers, etc), nor can I ping anything.., Wondering if you can point me to where you found the info on the various options I can try to continue debugging this problem, please. The FW guys at the office aren't exactly forthcoming where non-MS windows is concerned, you see.., Thanks. Regards, S Roberts On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ... It turned out the only problem was the absence of NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp in vpnc.conf. (Presumably not all configurations of the Cisco 3000 will need that, else it would be the default, but it seems to be correct for the one involved here.) I never did figure out why that kept the interface from responding to a ping of its own address :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:39:05AM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Is there an easy way to tell whether the new 7.1 release will officially support my hardware? I looked at this url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html#PROC Look at this manual page for the re(4) driver: [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=reapropos=0sektion=4manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASEformat=html] This seems to match what you see with pciconf: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x2abf103c chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass= ethernet This driver is part of the GENERIC kernel. So it should be recognized by 7.1-RELEASE. Try downloading the bootonly CD-image and booting from it. I've used realtek devices in the past (cheap rl(4) based cards) but wasn't really impressed. One one of those cards, download speed was OK, but upload maxed out @ 200 kB/s. :-( Better get a card based on an Intel PRO/100 chip [fxp(4) driver] or 3COM 3c905 [xl(4) driver]. If you need gigabit, try Intel PRO/1000 [em(4)]. and cannot easily tell from there. There must be something in the boot code (or drivers) that looks at the signature (maybe device name and manufacturer) and decides whether it knows the card. Drivers try to probe for the card. If they get a good reaction, the device is enabled. If I could find either documentation or some configuration or source code file to look at, then I could have an idea before actually trying it whether freebsd 7.1 actually will recognise this driver on its own. Look at /usr/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpOhk4NC1bj6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PHP setup question
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:22:36AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. Just wondering if you've resolved the problems you had with this. I installed amapche on an Ubuntu mahcine, and folowed the same procedure (except for quoting the rss variables). Once again when I went to write the config file, I had to download it to the machine that I was running the web browser on. Once I did that, and located the appropriate place on the Ubuntu machine, everything worked as expected. I am building a music catalog as we speak on that machine. This leads me to suspect that there is something wrong with the way I am seting it up on the FreeBSD machine. Going through the _exact_ same procdure as on the Ubuntu machine results in the following when I try to procedd to step 3 in the web installer. Error: Config file detected, Ampache is already installed (displayed in the browser). Can we idntify exactly what causes this error message? If so, maybe I cna check that on the FreeBSD machine. I really need this to work on the FreeBSD machine, as it is where the music is stored, and it's the web serer accessible from outside. Thanks, -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?
[Lowell Gilbert] Uit een eerder bericht van 10-1-2009 15:51 :: Could be hardware trouble, I suppose. I know FreeBSD can detect hardware probs better than other OS'es; but why didn't 6.x detect this malfunction then? I believe Murphy and his law, but for mee it seems a little bit too accidentally L-) regards, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the problem. I had to write them down on paper and walk over to this room to type them. Please pardon any typos: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x2abf103c chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass= ethernet There seems to have been some breakage of the re(4) and rl(4) drivers in the 7.1 release cycle. See [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130011] You should try to get the files mentioned in the abovementioned link on your machine, and rebuild your kernel. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp6Wtvn4gccI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gname
Grant Peel wrote: Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Well it is big, but since you are installing from a clean system all the gnome dependencies will also have to install their dependencies and so on. So basically you have to install a *lot* of ports which may take quite some space/time if you do not clean up nicely. Use 'make install clean' or 'make install distclean' to install your ports (if you didn't allready) that will order the make process to remove the files it uses during it's build (and distclean also cleans the downloaded distfiles in the distfiles dir ) Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr shows ... 7.0G ports. 1.8G local Check inside ports what is taking up the most space, most likely your distfiles dir is huge as well as the build directories inside a lot of ports itself. You can manually remove the distfiles for ports you allready installed from /usr/ports/distfiles. If that does not help enough also remove some of the work directories for the ports you installed allready but are not cleaned by make yet and resume your build. (so if for example you see gnome-session is allready installed ( pkg_info -Ex gnome ) remove /usr/ports/x11/gnome-session/work/ ) Regards, -- - Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that should be fine, it was just mounted under /mnt normally and used for backups. My problem is that I installed 7.1 and was careful not to erase any data on that drive, but my only options for a partition to mount is /dev/ad2s1. When I try to mount that it gives me mount: /dev/ad2s1 : Operation not permitted, what can I do to get the data off of it? I only really care about my /etc information but it would be nice to get all of the information off of it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
creating own CVSup server
Hi all, I decided to set up my own CVSup server just for my local network. After reading all related stuff I should find, I have solid knowledge about this issue but one thing disturbed my mind. My pc, server which I will mirroring from, is also downloading source tree from another server (cvsup.at.freebsd.org) to /usr/src directory. I will download my src tree once a week. When I am going to set up cvsup server on my own, cvsup-mirror asks me, where I want to download files I just purchased. Default directory is /home/ncvs. My question is, can be downloading directory /usr/src ? Which reason should I place downloading files to /home/ncvs for? Does it matter ? Can I serve my own src tree for other computers? Does it have to be stored twice? thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: creating own CVSup server
Hi, me again, I also havent noticed, that there is a choice among -current or -stable. If I want to mirror just -stable (this is possible with cvsup stable-supfile), can I? thank you again On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I decided to set up my own CVSup server just for my local network. After reading all related stuff I should find, I have solid knowledge about this issue but one thing disturbed my mind. My pc, server which I will mirroring from, is also downloading source tree from another server (cvsup.at.freebsd.org) to /usr/src directory. I will download my src tree once a week. When I am going to set up cvsup server on my own, cvsup-mirror asks me, where I want to download files I just purchased. Default directory is /home/ncvs. My question is, can be downloading directory /usr/src ? Which reason should I place downloading files to /home/ncvs for? Does it matter ? Can I serve my own src tree for other computers? Does it have to be stored twice? thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: setfib+pf
2009/1/7 Dimitar Vasilev dimitar.vassi...@gmail.com Hello, I'd like to ask on the best options for using setfib and pf in a non-BGP environment. I will run 2 uplinks, with VLANs for internal networks and want to fail over external links if one of them fails. Currently pf supports to the best of my knowledge: a) rtable - this means i can create the routing tables with setfib and then use pass from rtable N( N 1 16) or give out directly network ranges b) route-to - pass in/out on X from ... route-to c) packet tagging - i can tag networks and use standalone or through routing tags. Anyone aware if is it ok to use /etc/gateways without running routed or how can i label routes alternatively? d) pass in from route N(192.168.1.1 from example) to... - saw this on http://www.mail-archive.com/p...@benzedrine.cx/msg07220.html and requires BGP to make tags speak anything but network numbers. e) use the vlan id's I'd much appreciate if someone thinks with me for the best options of using the setfib features along with pf. Thanks! Best regards, Dimitar Vassilev Hi, could someone confirm which of the features above are working with setfib? Seeking for the laziest and most efficient ways. If no answer received, I will try all of them 2-3 weeks later when my gear arrives. Thanks. Best regards, Dimitar Vassilev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: issue with extra top level domain appened to mail
Yes it does have the feel of a wayward '.' but... get this... If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.com', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.com If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.nz', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.nz If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.com.au', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.com.au If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.govt.nz', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.govt.nz BUT.. If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.co.nz', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.co.nz.co.nz If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.org.nz', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.org.nz.org.nz If I rename my box to 'matdav.telecom.co.nz', email comes thru from r...@matdav.telecom.co.nz.co.nz I see the same issue with 6.3/6.4. I've not tested 6.2, but 6.1 I don't see this issue. I'm hoping someone may have the seen the same issue, or take the time to build a box and replicate this to confirm it's not just me being a plonka. For now I'll just have to rename my 6.3+ boxes to hostname.datacom.com to work around it. Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gname
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:49:37 -0500 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr shows ... 7.0G ports. 1.8G local The problem is that when you install something for the first time you end up with a lot of cruft in the ports tree because all the work directories for the dependencies get left-behind. When you later update Gnome with portupgrade (or whatever) the tool cleans as it goes. If you have portupgrade installed I would run portsclean -CD, and start again. If /usr is on a separate partition, and you have a lot of space elsewhere then I would suggest you either symlink /usr/ports there or set WRKDIRPREFIX. Some desktop ports need huge amounts of temporary space to build - it doesn't make much sense to allocate it under /usr. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
Well isn't that just great. I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference. The link says the poster expects it will be fixed before 7.1-RELEASE is out. (Posting date was in late December.) I just tried the FreeBSD 7.1 bootonly and the configure window at least listed the device, which is an improvement over before. Now if it only lists it but the driver doesn't work, then I still will have a communication problem where I can't easily get the correct file to the machine. I'll just try installing 7.1 for now and see how it looks. Thanks for the heads up anyway. -Will Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the problem. I had to write them down on paper and walk over to this room to type them. Please pardon any typos: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x2abf103c chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass= ethernet There seems to have been some breakage of the re(4) and rl(4) drivers in the 7.1 release cycle. See [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130011] You should try to get the files mentioned in the abovementioned link on your machine, and rebuild your kernel. Roland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:17:35PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Well isn't that just great. I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference. It shouldn't really. AFAIK the code for the network interface drivers is architecture independant. On amd64 I also had some troubles with re(4) based cards, but I had an old xl(4) based card lying around, and with the upgrade to 7.1 the age(4) chip on my mobo also became usable. So I ditched the re(4) based card. snip I just tried the FreeBSD 7.1 bootonly and the configure window at least listed the device, which is an improvement over before. Now if it only lists it but the driver doesn't work, then I still will have a communication problem where I can't easily get the correct file to the machine. The network configuration of sysinstall only shows devices that actually show up in /dev/net. That means that the driver was at least able to initialize the hardware. So chances are that it works. As I've mentioned before I had upload speed troubles with re(4) based cards, but I don't know if rl(4) based cards have/had the same problems. Copying large files with nc(1) over a cross-cable link between two machines will rapidly show you if you can max out the link. I'll just try installing 7.1 for now and see how it looks. That's probably the best solution. It is always best to upgrade to the latest released version before asking questions about hardware support, because updating is probably the first advice you'd get. Thanks for the heads up anyway. You're welcome. :-) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp6qTsVLIgB0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PHP setup question
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:22:36AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. Just wondering if you've resolved the problems you had with this. I played witht his a bit more this weekend, and had a friend of mine look at it. he points out that after you put the config file in place, and you get the File Not Found error from the web browser that teh URL that it is pointing at is http://beachcave.net/update.php. This is wrong, if you manually enter http://beachcave/net/ampache/update.php you get to a pahe that shows some diagnostices. The first item on that page that _does not_ show OK is Ampache.cfg.php Configured? [ ERROR ] I am wondiering if I ahve somethinf set up incorectly here. What should I look for? BTW, I did install amapche on an Ubuntu system, and get it configured and working, so my problem must have something to do witht eh configuration on the FreeBSD system, right? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed to fail writing to the hard drive. I got this during installation: Progress Extracting GENERIC into /boot directory... Message Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) /mtrt: write failed, filesystem is full. - I think I allocated decent size partitions for /, /var, swap, /tmp, /usr. I made multiple attempts. Kept getting errors. I may just have to fall back on Ubuntu, just to get something running on this machine. -Will Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:17:35PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Well isn't that just great. I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference. It shouldn't really. AFAIK the code for the network interface drivers is architecture independant. On amd64 I also had some troubles with re(4) based cards, but I had an old xl(4) based card lying around, and with the upgrade to 7.1 the age(4) chip on my mobo also became usable. So I ditched the re(4) based card. snip I just tried the FreeBSD 7.1 bootonly and the configure window at least listed the device, which is an improvement over before. Now if it only lists it but the driver doesn't work, then I still will have a communication problem where I can't easily get the correct file to the machine. The network configuration of sysinstall only shows devices that actually show up in /dev/net. That means that the driver was at least able to initialize the hardware. So chances are that it works. As I've mentioned before I had upload speed troubles with re(4) based cards, but I don't know if rl(4) based cards have/had the same problems. Copying large files with nc(1) over a cross-cable link between two machines will rapidly show you if you can max out the link. I'll just try installing 7.1 for now and see how it looks. That's probably the best solution. It is always best to upgrade to the latest released version before asking questions about hardware support, because updating is probably the first advice you'd get. Thanks for the heads up anyway. You're welcome. :-) Roland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
bash versus sh test builtin
The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. $ /bin/sh $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi [: -ne: unexpected operator $ exit $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash [jeff...@dobby ~/src/mount-rsnap]$ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi not root Does anyone have a recommendation of how to run this simple test in / bin/sh and how to write tests reasonably portably? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash versus sh test builtin
In the last episode (Jan 11), Jeffrey Goldberg said: The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. $ /bin/sh $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi [: -ne: unexpected operator $ exit $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash [jeff...@dobby ~/src/mount-rsnap]$ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi not root Does anyone have a recommendation of how to run this simple test in / bin/sh and how to write tests reasonably portably? UID=$(id -u) if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi UID is not a variable set by /bin/sh, which is why the test fails. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_05_03 -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work
I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: Appears to connect and authenticate successfully to my office's VPN concentrator Once (apparently) connected, I can't access any resources on the company network (mail / servers, etc), nor can I ping anything.., Including the IP address of your tun0 interface? (If you can ping that, but nothing beyond, you have a different problem than I had.) Wondering if you can point me to where you found the info on the various options I can try to continue debugging this problem, please. That line came from the output of vpnc --long-help. Other things to look at are the vpnc(8) manpage, the /usr/local/share/doc/vpnc/README file, and the TODO file in /usr/ports/security/vpnc/work/vpnc-0.4.0. There's more detail of what I think is going on in this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-January/020638.html By the time you get it working again, you will probably have learned more about the workings of vpnc than you really cared to know :) The FW guys at the office aren't exactly forthcoming where non-MS windows is concerned, you see.., Not surprising :( Too many security types act as if obscurity helped security, not realizing that it inconveniences only their customers and not their enemies. Any chance they would be willing to say what config change they made on their end about the time it stopped working, without reference to what is running on your end? Another thing to check is whether your ISP changed something. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
mojo fms fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that should be fine, it was just mounted under /mnt normally and used for backups. My problem is that I installed 7.1 and was careful not to erase any data on that drive, but my only options for a partition to mount is /dev/ad2s1. When I try to mount that it gives me mount: /dev/ad2s1 : Operation not permitted, what can I do to get the data off of it? I only really care about my /etc information but it would be nice to get all of the information off of it. Supposing ad2s1 is in fact the slice containing the filesystem in question, and the filesystem was originally made directly on that slice without partitioning it, it should be possible to run dump(8) against it and pipe the output to restore(8). This should work if the slice is readable, even if it cannot be mounted. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to grow partition size on RAID volume?
Hi all- I need some help figuring out how to expand the existing partition on my RAID volume to take advantage of a new disk I just added -- without newfs'ing the volume and starting from scratch. I added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB RAID5). I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform Online Capacity Expansion. The controller migrated the existing data across all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB. Now, I'm not quite sure how to get FreeBSD to recognize the extra space. I know that in order to use growfs, I first have to use disklabel to increase the partition size. However, disklabel doesn't like this big RAID volume: # disklabel /dev/da0 disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported and the existing partition doesn't seem to have a label: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found I'm unsure how to proceed here. CAn anyone shed some light as to how I might proceed? Thanks in advance for any and all help, Darren David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash versus sh test builtin
On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: UID=$(id -u) if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi UID is not a variable set by /bin/sh, which is why the test fails. Ah. Thank you. I was, as you see, barking up the wrong tree. Thank you for setting me strait on this. Cheers, -j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash versus sh test builtin
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:18PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. $ /bin/sh $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi [: -ne: unexpected operator $ exit $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash [jeff...@dobby ~/src/mount-rsnap]$ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi not root Does anyone have a recommendation of how to run this simple test in / bin/sh if [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]; then ... As to why your test isn't working as expected, rewrite your script to read: #!/bin/sh echo $UID and you'll discover that UID is a bash environmental variable. and how to write tests reasonably portably? That's a different question, and merits a much longer discussion probably better had elsewhere. I'd suggest comp.unix.shell. -- George ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
In Brief: idea summary
hEy guys, Here's my idea, And since I'm publishing on the most open of the open-source list, it'll be hard for anybody to ``steal'', assuming it is _worth_ stealing. People seem to be reading less; fact. Listening more. I'm sure there are a slew onlist who still plop down before the TV after a long day of coding, and so forth. My idea isn't intended for this group. It is for those of us who do read news of the web, sci-tech journals, and even forums. Of course, if you use konq or have firefox set up to read whatever you mouse-swipe, you can listen to the TTS reader while you sort your paper, or other miscellany. If you miss something--at least with festival, you can always back up and re-listen. There are at least two problems with this model as it stands. The first is _if_ the story/article is continued on pages 2,3,4, and 5. Also, when you swipe the text to be read and there is an IMG=foo.jpghttp://bar.com with a series of vertical-bar, vertical-bar. Or more annoying things read. When things get too far off-story, I kill the reader, stop and focus on the page, blow it up so it is easy to read, then read it. It cost major bux to have a professional reader record articles and be stored online. What I have in mind would let the tts software read the story, no | or . Shouldn't be that difficult for online site to implement. Am I on to something?? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org First update of http://transfinite.thought.org/ab/ in seven months. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work
Hi perryh! Thanks for the reply.., On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: Appears to connect and authenticate successfully to my office's VPN concentrator Once (apparently) connected, I can't access any resources on the company network (mail / servers, etc), nor can I ping anything.., Including the IP address of your tun0 interface? (If you can ping that, but nothing beyond, you have a different problem than I had.) Nope - same as yours.., Wondering if you can point me to where you found the info on the various options I can try to continue debugging this problem, please. That line came from the output of vpnc --long-help. Other things to look at are the vpnc(8) manpage, the /usr/local/share/doc/vpnc/README file, and the TODO file in /usr/ports/security/vpnc/work/vpnc-0.4.0. There's more detail of what I think is going on in this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-January/020638.html By the time you get it working again, you will probably have learned more about the workings of vpnc than you really cared to know :) The FW guys at the office aren't exactly forthcoming where non-MS windows is concerned, you see.., This is great - I had a peek, so will pour over these and see how I get on with further debugging.., Its not TOO bad on my side, as I do have a Linux OS that I have access to that strangely does use vpnc successfully. Will press on with the pointers you've provided here. Thanks for the help! Regards, S Roberts Not surprising :( Too many security types act as if obscurity helped security, not realizing that it inconveniences only their customers and not their enemies. Any chance they would be willing to say what config change they made on their end about the time it stopped working, without reference to what is running on your end? Another thing to check is whether your ISP changed something. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
