OT: web-based applications and security...
This is completely off topic, (as indicated in the subject line): Is it just me being paranoid, or is all this 'online' and 'live' aka web-based applications and data storage like... the biggest security threat in the Universe? Not only from the perspective of the company offering said services selling you out, but also in the fact that it creates a high-value target (tons of data in one place) for the entire world to try and exploit. Thoughts? -Modulok- ___ 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: Restarting hal
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:43:50 -0400, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get hal to reload its configuration withou rebooting? I've tried sending a HUP signal and I've tried rc.d/hal restart, but so far rebooting is the only thing that works properly. Maybe it's neccessary to restart DBUS as well - just a wild guess, im not using DBUS or HAL because I like my X working. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: OT: web-based applications and security...
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:05:00 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me being paranoid, or is all this 'online' and 'live' aka web-based applications and data storage like... the biggest security threat in the Universe? No. The biggest security threat is the human nature, participating in operating these facilities. Not only from the perspective of the company offering said services selling you out, but also in the fact that it creates a high-value target (tons of data in one place) for the entire world to try and exploit. Gaining information, especially those that have a certain worth (such as corporate data), is one important goal of criminals across the whole Internet. Offering opportunities, given by the fact that such online live storage clients and servers run MICROS~1 software (which is very well known for its high quality, haha), may turn such data silos into interesting targets. I'm sure that criminals have already found out about this fact, they're just waiting for more and more corporate decision carriers to adopt to all these modern techniques: If we store our valueable data on those web servers, it will save us backup costs! Maybe they're just waiting for some data to arrive where conventional espionage and sabotage would be too complicated. It's always nice when your victim delivers the loot willingly, isn't it? In fact, the situation you described isn't quite new. For many years now, data is stored on servers that are connected to the Internet, delivering certain services to the users. With the goal of decentralized computing, processing and working, the in-house solution seems to get less and less important. Thoughts? Yes. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: OT: web-based applications and security...
servers run MICROS~1 software (which is very well known for its high quality, haha) Isn't that high data availability (to the others) ? Have a nice week-end, Olivier ___ 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
need help: crashing appears to be caused by/within console screen saver
I do not know where I should ask for help but I have core files from July 24, 23, 21 (x2), 19, 16 (x2) and May 17. All of the July crashes appear similar. The May crash was unrelated but shows that things were relatively stable until the first of these glitches. I am currently using the nvidia driver version 180.60 from ports on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0. The crashes typically take place when running through port rebuilds and upgrades, which I often do from the 3rd terminal. It usually occurs when I am away, but I just saw it where it looked like it was going to load the terminal screen saver and the screen just sat blank for maybe 10 seconds and then the system was restarting. I have since unloaded logo_saver.ko but would still like to resolve the source of the crashes if possible. Any suggestions where I should go from here and what other information would be helpful? At the end I copied a kgdb with a backtrace; It is what lead me to see that it crashed each time as the screen saver was activating (or so it now seems likely). Thanks again, Edward Sutton # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.22 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd... Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: panic: pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory cpuid = 0 Uptime: 11h49m19s Physical memory: 2031 MB Dumping 233 MB: 218 202 186 170 154 138 122 106 90 74 58 42 26 10 Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/splash_bmp.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/splash_bmp.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/splash_bmp.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/vesa.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/vesa.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/vesa.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/geom_vinum.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/geom_vinum.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/geom_vinum.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/linux.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/linux.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/linux.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/snd_ich.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/snd_ich.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/snd_ich.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/sound.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/sound.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/sound.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/aio.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/aio.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/aio.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/sem.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/sem.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/sem.ko Reading symbols from /boot/modules/nvidia.ko...done. Loaded symbols for /boot/modules/nvidia.ko Reading symbols from /boot/modules/kqemu.ko...done. Loaded symbols for /boot/modules/kqemu.ko Reading symbols from /boot/modules/ltmdm.ko...done. Loaded symbols for /boot/modules/ltmdm.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/acpi.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/linprocfs.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/linprocfs.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/linprocfs.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko Reading symbols from /usr/local/modules/rtc.ko...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/modules/rtc.ko #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 196 __asm __volatile(movl %%fs:0,%0 : =r (td)); (kgdb) bt #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 #1 0xc0590dbf in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:418 #2 0xc0591084 in panic (fmt=Variable fmt is not available. ) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:574 #3 0xc07ffc54 in pmap_mapdev_attr (pa=3489660928, size=268435456, mode=0) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c:4349 #4 0xc07ffcfe in pmap_mapdev (pa=3489660928, size=268435456) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c:4366 #5 0xc09b51d5 in vesa_set_mode (adp=0xc08e5620, mode=259) at /usr/src/sys/modules/vesa/../../i386/isa/vesa.c:835 #6 0xc642ea58 in logo_saver (adp=0xc08e5620, blank=1) at /usr/src/sys/modules/syscons/logo/../../../dev/syscons/logo/logo_saver.c:117 #7 0xc04909f6 in splash (adp=0xc08e5620, on=1) at /usr/src/sys/dev/fb/splash.c:211 #8 0xc04da60c in scsplash_saver (sc=0xc08f2960, show=1) at /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c:1957 #9 0xc04dc72e in scrn_timer (arg=0xc08f2960) at /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c:1767 #10 0xc05a27af in softclock (dummy=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_timeout.c:274 #11
Re: FreeBSD + HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, Pre-install questions.
From what I gathered on the net, the problem seems to be coming from Firewire, or more specifically, the sdp module, They suggested disabling Firewire from BIOS setup, install then build a custom kernel with sdp commented, the problem is, There's no option to disable Firewire in my BIOS setup so I'm back to square 1. Anyone knows how can I boot (from DVD !!) with sdp disabled ?? Thanks References: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/198376.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/198410.html http://www.nabble.com/run_interrupt_driven_hooks:-still-waiting-after-300-seconds-for-xpt_config-td23492390.html On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk) m...@nasreddine.com wrote: I have a problem booting the DVD on this laptop, with ACPI enabled, it crashes after the usb part, check the screenshot http://omploader.org/vMjBqbA I tried with ACPI disabled, the whole system stops responding even before the USB part. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk) m...@nasreddine.com wrote: Hello, I recently bought an HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, it's 2.4Ghz Core 2 DUO, 4G RAM, 2x250 Gb Hard Disk --- lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller 06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller 06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller 06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller 06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller --- lspci What is critical for me is: Wifi: Intel 5100 AGN Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 9600M GT Resolution: 1440x900 Sound: Intel High definition Audio, Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X Since I have 2x250Gb, I would like to use ZFS, I heard FreeBSD can boot from ZFS now, is it stable ? Thanks in advance for your feedback. -- Wael Nasreddine Blog: http://wael.nasreddine.com E-mail : wael.nasredd...@gmail.com gTalk : wael.nasredd...@gmail.com Tel : +33.6.32.94.70.13 Skype : eMxyzptlk Twitter : @eMxyzptlk Sabayon Linux Chief Development Officer - http://www.sabayonlinux.org PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :. -- Wael Nasreddine Blog: http://wael.nasreddine.com E-mail : wael.nasredd...@gmail.com gTalk : wael.nasredd...@gmail.com Tel : +33.6.32.94.70.13 Skype : eMxyzptlk Twitter : @eMxyzptlk Sabayon Linux Chief Development Officer - http://www.sabayonlinux.org PGP:
jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the complete gnome2 environment plus e.g. firefox, gimp, openoffice. What's really bad however is that all information about the dependencies that were there before is now gone, i.e. the system has no clue that e.g. gnome2 was installed. Fortunately, in my particular case, I did a pkg_info -Rx jpeg- prior to that pkg_delete so at least I have clue as to the state of my ports that depend on jpeg-* before that pkg_delete. So here are my questions: o) Do I really have to re-build every port that depends on jpeg-* from scratch; i.e. make make installing every port? (i.e. take the list from pkg_info (see above) and build everything by hand) o) Is there a less painful way to upgrade everything that depends on jpeg-* Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald PS: To my understanding the information in /usr/ports/UPDATING is a little misleading without mentioning anything that pkg_delete basically removing all dependencies leaving the system in a state with the dependent packages deleted having no clue as to what was there before. Maybe a little hint about this would possibly keep others from falling into similar traps ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the complete gnome2 environment plus e.g. firefox, gimp, openoffice. What's really bad however is that all information about the dependencies that were there before is now gone, i.e. the system has no clue that e.g. gnome2 was installed. Fortunately, in my particular case, I did a pkg_info -Rx jpeg- prior to that pkg_delete so at least I have clue as to the state of my ports that depend on jpeg-* before that pkg_delete. So here are my questions: o) Do I really have to re-build every port that depends on jpeg-* from scratch; i.e. make make installing every port? (i.e. take the list from pkg_info (see above) and build everything by hand) o) Is there a less painful way to upgrade everything that depends on jpeg-* try portmaster -r jpeg PS: To my understanding the information in /usr/ports/UPDATING is a little misleading without mentioning anything that pkg_delete basically removing all dependencies leaving the system in a state with the dependent packages deleted having no clue as to what was there before. Maybe a little hint about this would possibly keep others from falling into similar traps yes, this wasn't the best advice -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg It says nothing of pkg_delete. depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the complete gnome2 environment plus e.g. firefox, gimp, openoffice. pkg_delete -r package - recursively delete package and all others that depend on it. What's really bad however is that all information about the dependencies that were there before is now gone, i.e. the system has no clue that e.g. gnome2 was installed. Yep, because pkg_delete removed their entries from the registry. Fortunately, in my particular case, I did a pkg_info -Rx jpeg- prior to that pkg_delete so at least I have clue as to the state of my ports that depend on jpeg-* before that pkg_delete. So here are my questions: o) Do I really have to re-build every port that depends on jpeg-* from scratch; i.e. make make installing every port? (i.e. take the list from pkg_info (see above) and build everything by hand) That's going to be the best bet, yes. o) Is there a less painful way to upgrade everything that depends on jpeg-* You could try installing prebuilt packages, but they might not all have been updated yet to use the new version of jpeg. PS: To my understanding the information in /usr/ports/UPDATING is a little misleading without mentioning anything that pkg_delete basically removing all dependencies leaving the system in a state with the dependent packages deleted having no clue as to what was there before. Maybe a little hint about this would possibly keep others from falling into similar traps Read the relevant entry again. It mentions nothing about running pkg_delete. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpWdOudX4FgG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
Ooops! My apologies - it seems that an earlier version of UPDATING did indeed say to pkg_delete. Ewald, I'm sorry for sounding so patronising - I feel like a total fool now. ~blush Dan On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg It says nothing of pkg_delete. depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the complete gnome2 environment plus e.g. firefox, gimp, openoffice. pkg_delete -r package - recursively delete package and all others that depend on it. What's really bad however is that all information about the dependencies that were there before is now gone, i.e. the system has no clue that e.g. gnome2 was installed. Yep, because pkg_delete removed their entries from the registry. Fortunately, in my particular case, I did a pkg_info -Rx jpeg- prior to that pkg_delete so at least I have clue as to the state of my ports that depend on jpeg-* before that pkg_delete. So here are my questions: o) Do I really have to re-build every port that depends on jpeg-* from scratch; i.e. make make installing every port? (i.e. take the list from pkg_info (see above) and build everything by hand) That's going to be the best bet, yes. o) Is there a less painful way to upgrade everything that depends on jpeg-* You could try installing prebuilt packages, but they might not all have been updated yet to use the new version of jpeg. PS: To my understanding the information in /usr/ports/UPDATING is a little misleading without mentioning anything that pkg_delete basically removing all dependencies leaving the system in a state with the dependent packages deleted having no clue as to what was there before. Maybe a little hint about this would possibly keep others from falling into similar traps Read the relevant entry again. It mentions nothing about running pkg_delete. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpszwDjGvazU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: Ooops! My apologies - it seems that an earlier version of UPDATING did indeed say to pkg_delete. Ewald, I'm sorry for sounding so patronising - I feel like a total fool now. Hi Dan, Now I understand - in my UPDATING that comes from a cvsup I did yesterday it reads: -- Cut here -- 20090719: AFFECTS: users of graphics/jpeg AUTHOR: din...@freebsd.org jpeg has been updated to 7.0. Quick instructions: pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 Please rebuild all ports that depends on it. -- Cut here -- whereas the /usr/ports/UPDATING in a system I cvsup-ed just a minute ago reads: -- Cut here -- 20090719: AFFECTS: users of graphics/jpeg AUTHOR: din...@freebsd.org jpeg has been updated to 7.0. Please rebuild all ports that depends on it. If you use portmaster please use: portmaster -r jpeg* If you use portupgrade please use: portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg -- Cut here -- At least this problem is sorted out now in UPDATING so others fall into this trap. As for my problem I think I'm gonna rebuild my ports by hand... -ewald ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg It says nothing of pkg_delete. Not anymore, no. This is what's in my UPDATING: quote 20090719: AFFECTS: users of graphics/jpeg AUTHOR: din...@freebsd.org jpeg has been updated to 7.0. Quick instructions: pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 Please rebuild all ports that depends on it. /quote I thought it to be the most stupid upgrade strategy ever, but indeed it was there in the beginning. -- http://www.boosten.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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:16:54PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg It says nothing of pkg_delete. Not anymore, no. This is what's in my UPDATING: quote 20090719: AFFECTS: users of graphics/jpeg AUTHOR: din...@freebsd.org jpeg has been updated to 7.0. Quick instructions: pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 Please rebuild all ports that depends on it. /quote I thought it to be the most stupid upgrade strategy ever, but indeed it was there in the beginning. Yes, now that I look at it, it does seem a little brain damaged... I must admit that when I went through the update a few days ago, I automatically used portupgrade - didn't even notice it said pkg_delete... Here's a list of things I've learnt today: * Don't gob off before you have all the facts to hand. * Being a clever bastard has the unfortunate tendency to backfire, leaving one looking like a prat. *facepalm* Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpw7dDrOEX29.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
2009/7/24 Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:16:54PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg It says nothing of pkg_delete. Not anymore, no. This is what's in my UPDATING: quote 20090719: AFFECTS: users of graphics/jpeg AUTHOR: din...@freebsd.org jpeg has been updated to 7.0. Quick instructions: pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 Please rebuild all ports that depends on it. /quote I thought it to be the most stupid upgrade strategy ever, but indeed it was there in the beginning. Yes, now that I look at it, it does seem a little brain damaged... I must admit that when I went through the update a few days ago, I automatically used portupgrade - didn't even notice it said pkg_delete... Here's a list of things I've learnt today: * Don't gob off before you have all the facts to hand. * Being a clever bastard has the unfortunate tendency to backfire, leaving one looking like a prat. *facepalm* Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and upgraded. It would be invaluable in this situation as you could see what was removed and it would be fairly easy to recover. It just may take a little time. ___ 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: (Maybe)OT: Apache22 mod_rewrite question
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:33:03 -0500 Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: I am starting up a wiki with moinmoin. Currently when I type in http://mydomain.com it brings me to the main page and the browser shows http://mydomain.com/moin.cgi. When I click on a link from the front page, the browser displays http://mydomain.com/moin.cgi/SearchedText Basically, I want to remove the moin.cgi and just end up with this being displayed http://mydomain.com/SearchedText. For a working example of what I want, just go to http://wiki.freebsd.org. Can this be done with mod_rewrite and/or with apache in general? ___ 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 I do this with mercurial, it's quite simple. ScriptAliasMatch ^(.*)/full/path/hg/www/hgwebdir.cgi$1 ___ 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: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT borderline. We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has two processors, and 8GB of memory. All the client wants to use this box for is a single instance of Windows web hosting. Knowing the sites the client wants to aggregate into IIS, I know that the box is far over-rated. Making a long story short, they have agreed to allow us to put their Windows server inside of a virtual-ized container, so we can use the unused horsepower for other vm's (test servers etc). My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). The following is what I have, followed by my benchmark findings: # 7.2-RELEASE AMD64 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5150 @ 2.66GHz (2666.78-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB) avail memory = 8273620992 (7890 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7: Did you give the VM 4 virtual processors as well? How much RAM did it have? What type of storage does the server have? Did the VM just get a .vmdk on VMFS? What version of ESX? Benchmarks: # time make -j4 buildworld (under vmware) 5503.038u 3049.500s 1:15:46.25 188.1% 5877+1961k 3298+586716io 2407pf+0w # time make -j4 buildworld (native) 4777.568u 992.422s 33:02.12 291.1%6533+2099k 25722+586485io 3487pf+0w Note that the user time is within your 15% margin (if you round to the nearest percent). The system time is what's running away. My guess is that that is largely due to disk I/O and virtualization of same. What you can do to address this depends on what hardware you have. Giving the VM a raw slice/LUN/disk instead of a .vmdk file may improve matters somewhat. If you do use a disk file be sure that it lives on a stripe (or whatever unit is relevant) boundary of the underlying storage. Ways to do that (if any) depend on the storage. Improving the RAID performance, etc. of the storage will improve your benchmark overall, and may or may not narrow the divide. The (virtual) storage driver (mpt IIRC) might have some parameters you could tweak, but I don't know about that off the top of my head. ...both builds were from the exact same sources, and both runs were running with the exact same environment. I was extremely careful to ensure that the environments were exactly the same. I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. See above about storage. Similar questions come up periodically; searching the archives if you haven't already may prove fruitful. You may want to try running with different kernel HZ settings for instance. I would also try to isolate the performance of different components and evaluate their importance for your actual intended load. CPU and RAM probably perform like you expect out of the box. Disk and network I/O won't be as close to native speed, but the difference and the impact are variable depending on your hardware and load. A lightly-loaded Windows server is the poster child of virtualization candidates. If your decision is to dedicate the box to Winders or to virtualize and use the excess capacity for something else I would say it's a no-brainer if the cost of ESX isn't a factor (or if ESXi gives you similar performance). If that's already a given and your decision is between running a specific FreeBSD instance on the ESX host or on its own hardware then you're wise to spec out the performance differences. HTH, JN ___ 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
X won't start after port upgrade
I've followed every advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING The portmaster -r jpeg* returns No match. portmaster -r jpeg-7 rebuilds only jpeg-7 no other ports! After this upgrade my X won't start :-( Any hints? Thanks Leslie -- snip --- (II) LoadModule: synaptics (WW) Warning, couldn't open module synaptics (II) UnloadModule: synaptics (EE) Failed to load module synaptics (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No input driver matching `synaptics' (**) default pointer: Device: /dev/sysmouse (==) default pointer: Protocol: Auto (**) Option AlwaysCore (**) default pointer: always reports core events (==) default pointer: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) default pointer: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) default pointer: Buttons: 9 (**) default pointer: Sensitivity: 1 (**) default pointer: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 (**) default pointer: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00 (**) default pointer: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms (**) default pointer: (accel) set acceleration profile 0 (II) default pointer: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 4, hw.model is 0 (II) default pointer: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ 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: K3b-DVD
On July 20, 2009, ajtiM wrote: My system: FreeBSD 7.2, KDE 3.5.10 Same here. I did try to burn data DVD with my NEC DVD ND-1300A but I got an error: :-( Media is not formatted or unsupported When I run cdrecord with an invalid option, I get the following output. I draw attention to the line stating that there is no support for DVD-R/DVD-RW. I speculate that this may be related to the problem you are seeing. I have not explored cdrecord-ProDVD. # cdrecord xxx cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (amd64-unknown-freebsd7.1) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�rg Schilling scsidev: '5,0,0' scsibus: 5 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'HL-DT-ST' Identifikation : 'DVD-RAM GH22NS30' Revision : '1.01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD. cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open 'xxx'. Cheers, -- Norbert Papke. npa...@acm.org http://saveournet.ca Protecting your Internet's level playing field ___ 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: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB) avail memory = 8273620992 (7890 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7: Did you give the VM 4 virtual processors as well? How much RAM did it have? What type of storage does the server have? Did the VM just get a .vmdk on VMFS? What version of ESX? I gave it all four procs to use, and all available memory. See below about storage system. The system time is what's running away. My guess is that that is largely due to disk I/O and virtualization of same. What you can do to address this depends on what hardware you have. Giving the VM a raw slice/LUN/disk instead of a .vmdk file may improve matters somewhat. If you do use a disk file be sure that it lives on a stripe (or whatever unit is relevant) boundary of the underlying storage. Ways to do that (if any) depend on the storage. Improving the RAID performance, etc. of the storage will improve your benchmark overall, and may or may not narrow the divide. The storage system is the following, with 512MB cache. I'm trying to figure out if the cache has a battery backup installed, as I've read that disk performance could be affected without it. kernel: ciss0: HP Smart Array P400i With six Fujitsu MHW2120BS 120GB 5.4k SATA laptop drives. After performing multiple in-OS and outside-of-OS benchmark tests, the maximum read speed I can achieve is ~7MBps. Before I reconfigured the machine from the default RAID6 to RAID1+0, I was capped at ~5. This is certainly a huge bottleneck. I'm not impressed in any way with that type of performance, when a lesser system that I have running FBSD 7.2 and ZFS can achieve ~160MBps. I know the drives are only 5.4k, but ~7MB just isn't right. I'm off to see what we can do about that. Thanks John, Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT borderline. We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has two processors, and 8GB of memory. All the client wants to use this box for is a single instance of Windows web hosting. Knowing the sites the client wants to aggregate into IIS, I know that the box is far over-rated. Making a long story short, they have agreed to allow us to put their Windows server inside of a virtual-ized container, so we can use the unused horsepower for other vm's (test servers etc). My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). The following is what I have, followed by my benchmark findings: # 7.2-RELEASE AMD64 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5150 @ 2.66GHz (2666.78-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB) avail memory = 8273620992 (7890 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7: Benchmarks: # time make -j4 buildworld (under vmware) 5503.038u 3049.500s 1:15:46.25 188.1% 5877+1961k 3298+586716io 2407pf+0w # time make -j4 buildworld (native) 4777.568u 992.422s 33:02.12 291.1%6533+2099k 25722+586485io 3487pf+0w ...both builds were from the exact same sources, and both runs were running with the exact same environment. I was extremely careful to ensure that the environments were exactly the same. I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. Off-list is fine. Cheers, Steve I haven't actually done any benchmarks to compare the performance, but I have been running production FreeBSD servers on VMware for a couple of years. I currently have two 6.2 systems running CUPS, one on VMware Server, and the other on ESX 3.5. I also have a 7.0 system and two 7.1 systems running Squid on ESX 3.5 as well. The thing that I noticed as the biggest bottle neck for any guest within VMware is the Disk I/O (with the exception of video which isn't an issue for a server). Compiling software does take longer, because of this, however if you tune your disks properly the performance under real application load doesn't seem to be an issue. Using soft updates on the file system seems to help out a lot, but be aware of the consequences. That being said, on the Systems I have running squid we average 9G of traffic a day on the busiest system with about 11% cache hit rate, These proxies sit close to idle after hours. Looking at the information from systat -vmstat, the system is almost idle during the day under the full load as well, you just can't touch FreeBSD with only 2 DSL lines for web traffic. Its faster than the old native system was, however there is an iSCSI SAN behind the ESX server for disk access, and we went from a Dell PowerEdge 850 to a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It does share that server with around 15 or more other servers (Mostly windows, some Linux) depending on the current load. Which brings us to another point, It seems to do just fine when VMware VMotion moves it between servers. Not sure if this information helps you out any, but my recommendation would be that if your application will be very disk intensive, avoid the Virtual machine. In my case with the Squid, gaining the redundancy of the VMware coupled with VMotion was worth the potential hit in performance. As we are soon implementing a second data center across town that will house additional VMware servers and thanks to a 10G fiber ring, will allow us to migrate servers while running between datacenters. Also keep in mind that as of vSphere 4 (We will be upgrading to this once the new data center is complete, just waiting on the shipment of the racks at this point), VMware does officially support FreeBSD 7.1, so you might want to go with that instead of 7.2, as there may be a performance issue with 7.2, but it's also just as likely that it was a timing issue on releases that 7.1 is supported and 7.2 isn't. As of ESXi 4.0 (released 5-21-2009), I believe it has the same code base as vSphere 4, so the same guests should be supported. Thanks, Dean Weimer Network Administrator Orscheln Management Co ___ 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
linux emulator
Let's try 3 questions, all related. 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have installed linux-base-fc4. Installation stops on linux-atk (accessibility). It seems there exists an .so file from version 1.9.1_3 - needless to say, this is rather strange as I never installed linux-atk. Now, maybe it was part of the base-fc4 port; but the accessibility/linux-atk version is 1.9.1-1, something less than 1.9.1_3 I would think. What is going on here? 3. I have another FreeBSD 7.1 machine on which I have installed ogle and it runs very, very nicely. But pkg_info tells me there is a linux-atk-1.9.1_3 installed; yet, again, the accessibility/linux-atk version is 1.9.1_3. Huh? Funny, but there was not problem installing ogle - ran immediately without problem. Needless to say, I am a bit dismayed. There doesn't seem to be any clear indication on Gaggle or the manual about which emulator to use or how to use it. Thanks for any clarifications, solutions, hints or suggestions. PJ -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php ___ 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: Restarting hal
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:57:43AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:43:50 -0400, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get hal to reload its configuration withou rebooting? I've tried sending a HUP signal and I've tried rc.d/hal restart, but so far rebooting is the only thing that works properly. Maybe it's neccessary to restart DBUS as well - just a wild guess, Yea, someone already e-mailed me and suggested I restart dbus along with hal. I've just recently made the switch to Xorg and I'm still a bit fuzzy about how things interrelate , so it hadn't occurred to me to restart dbus when I reconfigured hal. im not using DBUS or HAL because I like my X working. :-) Aside from the ctrl-alt-bksp bug, this has been the easiest X setup I've ever done. I've tried it with and without hal and both are easy to set up. Given my level of ignorance, that's saying something. I've seen a lot of complaints about Xorg's new system, but I like it. Thanks for your response. It's great that there are so many helpful people on this list. ___ 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
intel atom mobo support; ASUS AT3GC ?
Hey List, I'm looking into running on of these: ASUS AT3GC http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2model=3129l1=3l2=192l3=0l4=0 Now it seems to differ from the stock intel Atom setup in that it's using a Realtek 8112 NIC and I can't seem to find any documentation showing support for that NIC. Anyone have any luck with that board or know if it will work? From some forum posts it seems to be similar to the 8111 series, but one never knows. I'm picking this board because of the heatsink / fan setup over the stock intel one. I'd be using either 7-STABLE or if I have to 8-CURRENT. One will be a dual-homed box, so I need both the onboard and the single PCI slot. Thanks. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net - God, root, what is difference? Pitr; UF ___ 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: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. See above about storage. Similar questions come up periodically; searching the archives if you haven't already may prove fruitful. You may want to try running with different kernel HZ settings for instance. You should certainly try setting both kern.hz and vfs.read_max in the FreeBSD VM. I would recommend: In loader.conf: kern.hz=100 In /etc/sysctl.conf: vfs.read_max=32 You may also try increasing vfs.hirunningspace. I've had good results with setting it to 32MB on write-intensive systems. Tuning vfs.read_max can give some boosts to physical-hardware FreeBSD systems as well. -Steve Polyack ___ 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 emulator
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:58:05 -0400 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Let's try 3 questions, all related. 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have installed linux-base-fc4. What are you trying to do exactly? Ogle is in ports, and has no linux dependencies. ___ 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
disk encryption with geli
hi all i am going to encrypt my /home directory which is mounted in /etc/fstab like /dev/ad0s2f /home ufs rw,noatime 2 2 I did like is wrote in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html everything looks good. ad0s2f.eli appears in /dev and so on. I can mount it, umount and so. but after reboot, I am dropped to single user mode because of en error message which says that there is an inconsistency at /dev/ad0s2f do i have to encrypt whole ad0 or it is possible to encrypt only my /home? ___ 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
Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to
Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386). I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with options COM_MULTIPORT and loaded the puc(4) module. I don't have any new ttyd? or cuad? devices in /dev. After reading the handbook(26.2) and man puc(4), sio(4). man sio(4) talks about adding /boot/device.hints but not for my particular hardware. I'm at a loss on how to continue. Suggestions, pointers, URLs welcome. -- Regards, Doug ___ 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: disk encryption with geli
In response to Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com: hi all i am going to encrypt my /home directory which is mounted in /etc/fstab like /dev/ad0s2f /home ufs rw,noatime 2 2 I did like is wrote in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html everything looks good. ad0s2f.eli appears in /dev and so on. I can mount it, umount and so. but after reboot, I am dropped to single user mode because of en error message which says that there is an inconsistency at /dev/ad0s2f do i have to encrypt whole ad0 or it is possible to encrypt only my /home? You can do what you're attempting, I'm doing it in several places without problem. I suspect that you have the startup config wrong in /etc/rc.conf or in /etc/fstab. Make sure you're mounting the encrypted partition in /etc/fstab (i.e. /dev/ad0s2f.eli and not /dev/ad0s2f) and make sure you have all the geli startup config in /etc/rc.conf per the document you referenced. If that's not enough to help you, please provide your /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/fstab, along with copy/paste of the exact error message you're seeing. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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: disk encryption with geli
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:17:49 +0200 Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote: hi all i am going to encrypt my /home directory which is mounted in /etc/fstab like /dev/ad0s2f /home ufs rw,noatime I think that should be /dev/ad0s2f.eli in fstab. ___ 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 emulator
RW wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:58:05 -0400 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Let's try 3 questions, all related. 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have installed linux-base-fc4. What are you trying to do exactly? Ogle is in ports, and has no linux dependencies. You're right... I'm so out of it with all the problems of installing that I got sidetracked. It's mplayer that I'm trying to install, not ogle. Ogle is installed and should be ok. But the questions are still valid. ___ 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 -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php ___ 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: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
From: John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net Subject: Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:22 AM On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT borderline. We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has two processors, and 8GB of memory. All the client wants to use this box for is a single instance of Windows web hosting. Knowing the sites the client wants to aggregate into IIS, I know that the box is far over-rated. Making a long story short, they have agreed to allow us to put their Windows server inside of a virtual-ized container, so we can use the unused horsepower for other vm's (test servers etc). My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). The following is what I have, followed by my benchmark findings: # 7.2-RELEASE AMD64 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5150 @ 2.66GHz (2666.78-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB) avail memory = 8273620992 (7890 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7: Did you give the VM 4 virtual processors as well? How much RAM did it have? What type of storage does the server have? Did the VM just get a .vmdk on VMFS? What version of ESX? Benchmarks: # time make -j4 buildworld (under vmware) 5503.038u 3049.500s 1:15:46.25 188.1% 5877+1961k 3298+586716io 2407pf+0w # time make -j4 buildworld (native) 4777.568u 992.422s 33:02.12 291.1% 6533+2099k 25722+586485io 3487pf+0w Note that the user time is within your 15% margin (if you round to the nearest percent). The system time is what's running away. My guess is that that is largely due to disk I/O and virtualization of same. What you can do to address this depends on what hardware you have. Giving the VM a raw slice/LUN/disk instead of a .vmdk file may improve matters somewhat. If you do use a disk file be sure that it lives on a stripe (or whatever unit is relevant) boundary of the underlying storage. Ways to do that (if any) depend on the storage. Improving the RAID performance, etc. of the storage will improve your benchmark overall, and may or may not narrow the divide. The (virtual) storage driver (mpt IIRC) might have some parameters you could tweak, but I don't know about that off the top of my head. ...both builds were from the exact same sources, and both runs were running with the exact same environment. I was extremely careful to ensure that the environments were exactly the same. I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. See above about storage. Similar questions come up periodically; searching the archives if you haven't already may prove fruitful. You may want to try running with different kernel HZ settings for instance. I would also try to isolate the performance of different components and evaluate their importance for your actual intended load. CPU and RAM probably perform like you expect out of the box. Disk and network I/O won't be as close to native speed, but the difference and the impact are variable depending on your hardware and load. A lightly-loaded Windows server is the poster child of virtualization candidates. If your decision is to dedicate the box to Winders or to virtualize and use the excess capacity for something else I would say it's a no-brainer if the cost of ESX isn't a factor (or if ESXi gives you similar performance). If that's already a given and your decision is between running a specific FreeBSD instance on the ESX host or on its own hardware then you're wise to spec out the performance differences. HTH, JN If I recall correctly from ESX (well, VI) training*, there may be a minor scheduling issue affecting things here. If you set up the VM with 4 processors, ESX schedules time on the CPU only when there's 4 things to execute (well, there's another time period it also uses, so even a single thread will get run eventually, but anyway...). The physical instance will run one thread immediately even if there's nothing else waiting, whereas the VM will NOT execute a single thread necessarily immediately. I would retry using perhaps -j8 or even -j12 to make sure the 4 CPUs see plenty of work to do and
Re: linux emulator
RW wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:58:05 -0400 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Let's try 3 questions, all related. 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have installed linux-base-fc4. What are you trying to do exactly? Ogle is in ports, and has no linux dependencies. It's rather strange that I now, when I tried to make install clean mplayer after the first abort., the error is no longer with linux-atk, but linux ldconfig. /compat/llinux/sbin/ldconfig : ELF binary type '3' not known syntax error: ( unexpected - error code 2 -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php ___ 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: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
Richard Mahlerwein wrote: If I recall correctly from ESX (well, VI) training*, there may be a minor scheduling issue affecting things here. If you set up the VM with 4 processors, ESX schedules time on the CPU only when there's 4 things to execute (well, there's another time period it also uses, so even a single thread will get run eventually, but anyway...). The physical instance will run one thread immediately even if there's nothing else waiting, whereas the VM will NOT execute a single thread necessarily immediately. I would retry using perhaps -j8 or even -j12 to make sure the 4 CPUs see plenty of work to do and see if the numbers don't slide closer to one another. For what it's worth, if there were a raw LUN available and made available to the VM, the disk performance of that LUN should very nearly match native performance, because it IS native performance. VMWare (if I understood right in the first place and remember correctly as well, I supposed I should * this as well. :) ) doesn't add anything to slow that down. Plugging in a USB drive to the Host and making it available to the guest would also be at native USB/drive speeds, assuming you can do that (I've never tried to use USB drives on our blade center!). I've isolated the problem to the SATA RAID system (or subsystem). Booting from CD/USB key and running a wide array of bench tests, I can not read from the RAID setup faster than 10MBps. Regardless of anything else, this is my priority. RAID 0 is the only config where I can read faster than ~7MBps. The board does not have any standard IDE interfaces, and I don't have any PCIe-IDE cards that aren't in use, so I can't really bypass the HP RAID card. I will however slap a 200GB USB drive against the box, and see if I can get faster performance from USB than I can the native SATA setup. FWIW, I do have the battery backed cache installed... Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
From: Dean Weimer dwei...@orscheln.com Subject: RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: st...@ibctech.ca Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:49 AM [snip] servers while running between datacenters. Also keep in mind that as of vSphere 4 (We will be upgrading to this once the new data center is complete, just waiting on the shipment of the racks at this point), VMware does officially support FreeBSD 7.1, so you might want to go with that instead of 7.2, as there may be a performance issue with Awesome news! That's teach me to keep shuttling the nearly-spam I get from VMware into the trash can right away. I'd love to hear about your experience with the upgrade and how things go later. We're looking to do something very similar sometime in the next 6 to 9 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: linux emulator-almost solved
PJ wrote: Let's try 3 questions, all related. 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have installed linux-base-fc4. Installation stops on linux-atk (accessibility). It seems there exists an .so file from version 1.9.1_3 - needless to say, this is rather strange as I never installed linux-atk. Now, maybe it was part of the base-fc4 port; but the accessibility/linux-atk version is 1.9.1-1, something less than 1.9.1_3 I would think. What is going on here? 3. I have another FreeBSD 7.1 machine on which I have installed ogle and it runs very, very nicely. But pkg_info tells me there is a linux-atk-1.9.1_3 installed; yet, again, the accessibility/linux-atk version is 1.9.1_3. Huh? Funny, but there was not problem installing ogle - ran immediately without problem. Needless to say, I am a bit dismayed. There doesn't seem to be any clear indication on Gaggle or the manual about which emulator to use or how to use it. Thanks for any clarifications, solutions, hints or suggestions. PJ Looks like some of the problems were caused by an older version of linux_base-fc4. Reinstalling allowed the mplayer installation to continue. I still would like to know what are all the other linux_base ports? Which to use, how, when why? -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php ___ 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 emulator
On Friday 24 July 2009 06:58:05 PJ wrote: Let's try 3 questions, all related. 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? fc4 is the default. But Skype for example, really wants fc6 or higher. I would use fc6 on new installs. 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have installed linux-base-fc4. Installation stops on linux-atk (accessibility). It seems there exists an .so file from version 1.9.1_3 - needless to say, this is rather strange as I never installed linux-atk. Now, maybe it was part of the base-fc4 port; but the accessibility/linux-atk version is 1.9.1-1, something less than 1.9.1_3 I would think. What is going on here? Could you not paraphrase but copy and paste the error? -- Mel ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and upgraded. It would be invaluable in this situation as you could see what was removed and it would be fairly easy to recover. It just may take a little time. Err, this is available through cvs log/cvs diff. -- Mel ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:28:14 -0800 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and upgraded. It would be invaluable in this situation as you could see what was removed and it would be fairly easy to recover. It just may take a little time. Err, this is available through cvs log/cvs diff. I believe he's referring to a log of package installs and deletes. What would probably be more useful, is to periodically write out an ordered list of leaf-origins, then you can just diff today's file with an older copy. I used to have a script for it, but it fell-off. I think package-cut-leaves keeps a similar list. ___ 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
Evolution 2.24.5 Exchange can't Subscribe to Other user's Calendar
Hello, I've already asked the below question in the Evolution mailing-list with no response; maybe someone of the FreeBSD net folks can bring a bit light into this. Using the mentioned environment (on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT) I can't Subscribe to Other user's Calendar in the Exchange server (don't blame me for this, using Exchange :-)) . It fails with a more or less stupid message about wrong password. I've watched with TCPDUMP what's happening when I access in the Menue 'Subscribe to Other user's Calendar': it does a DNS lookup for kerberos.OCLC.org which is failing (yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is our DNS server, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is my laptop): 10:43:53.583797 IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.34455 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53: 43976+ SRV? _kerberos._udp.OCLC.ORG. (41) 10:43:53.585520 IP yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.34455: 43976 NXDomain 0/1/0 (91) 10:43:53.586181 IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.51100 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53: 48460+ SRV? _kerberos._tcp.OCLC.ORG. (41) 10:43:53.587866 IP yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.51100: 48460 NXDomain 0/1/0 (91) 10:43:53.588479 IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.23102 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53: 46661+ SRV? _kerberos._http.OCLC.ORG. (42) 10:43:53.590098 IP yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.23102: 46661 NXDomain 0/1/0 (92) 10:43:53.590505 IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.57028 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53: 45174+ A? kerberos.OCLC.ORG. (35) 10:43:53.592087 IP yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.57028: 45174 NXDomain 0/1/0 (85) 10:43:53.592241 IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.54405 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53: 45175+ ? kerberos.OCLC.ORG. (35) 10:43:53.593850 IP yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.53 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.54405: 45175 NXDomain 0/1/0 (85) The domain OCLC.ORG is the part of my mail addr, i.e. my addr is xx...@oclc.org. The IT folks of my company gave me the hint that the above nslookup should not be, for example, '_kerberos._udp.OCLC.ORG', but '_kerberos._udp.oa.OCLC.ORG' (i.e. in the zone oa.OCLC.ORG) which indead is working with nslookup: $ nslookup -type=SRV '_kerberos._udp.oa.OCLC.ORG' Server: yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy Address:yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy#53 Non-authoritative answer: _kerberos._udp.oa.OCLC.ORG service = 0 100 88 oadc5server.oa.oclc.org. _kerberos._udp.oa.OCLC.ORG service = 0 100 88 oadc01ewbe.oa.oclc.org. _kerberos._udp.oa.OCLC.ORG service = 0 100 88 oadc1server.oa.oclc.org. _kerberos._udp.oa.OCLC.ORG service = 0 100 88 oadc2server.oa.oclc.org. ... Why Evo is asking for '_kerberos._udp.OCLC.ORG' and not for '_kerberos._udp.oa.OCLC.ORG'? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD. ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
2009/7/24 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.netmel.flynn%2bfbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and upgraded. It would be invaluable in this situation as you could see what was removed and it would be fairly easy to recover. It just may take a little time. Err, this is available through cvs log/cvs diff. -- Mel are you talking about cvs syncing the ports tree? I was refering to make install, make deinstall, pkg_add, pkg_delete etc of packages ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
2009/7/24 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:28:14 -0800 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.netmel.flynn%2bfbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and upgraded. It would be invaluable in this situation as you could see what was removed and it would be fairly easy to recover. It just may take a little time. Err, this is available through cvs log/cvs diff. I believe he's referring to a log of package installs and deletes. What would probably be more useful, is to periodically write out an ordered list of leaf-origins, then you can just diff today's file with an older copy. I used to have a script for it, but it fell-off. I think package-cut-leaves keeps a similar list. ___ 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 yep i was i think portmanager can do stuff with leave ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg Which, unfortunately, does not build /x11/kdelibs3 with the updated jpeg library. I had to make a link from the old library to the new one to get the update to work correctly. I know that some have suggested that, that is not the proper way to do it; however, the fact that it works is all I was interested in. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe. ___ 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: X won't start after port upgrade
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:34:35 +0200 Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: I've followed every advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING The portmaster -r jpeg* returns No match. portmaster -r jpeg-7 rebuilds only jpeg-7 no other ports! After this upgrade my X won't start :-( Any hints? Including the log output, it there is any, might be a good idea. Personally, I like 'portmanager' for fixing problems like this. Since you gave no indication of what the problem might be, you could try this for starters. Rebuild the xorg-7.4_2 meta port. Be sure to update you ports tree first, then run: portmanager x11/xorg -p -y -l If X still won't start, you may have to rebuild your window manager as well. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com If you could only get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything. ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Friday 24 July 2009 20:51:18 Jerry wrote: Which, unfortunately, does not build /x11/kdelibs3 with the updated jpeg library. I had to make a link from the old library to the new one to get the update to work correctly. I know that some have suggested that, that is not the proper way to do it; however, the fact that it works is all I was interested in. I upgraded jpeg port. qt33 port had to be rebuilt in order to run KDE3 applications properly. Also I ugraded kdebase3 and kdelib3 and all KDE3 ports I installed which all depend on qt33. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Friday 24 July 2009 09:51:18 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg Which, unfortunately, does not build /x11/kdelibs3 with the updated jpeg library. It should, otherwise the tool you're using does the wrong thing and you should file a bug report for that tool. kdelibs3 uses libmng and qt33 and those should be rebuilt before kdelibs3 by the upgrade tool. -- Mel ___ 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
vim port have a lot of broken links ??
When I try to install vim from ports it tries 4-5 sites which all have to time out... and with a 200 files.. thats a lot of timeouts.. Who should I poke to, so the mirrors would be updated ?? -- Med Venlig Hilsen Kalle R. Møller ___ 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: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Friday 24 July 2009 10:51:18 am Jerry wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg Which, unfortunately, does not build /x11/kdelibs3 with the updated jpeg library. I had to make a link from the old library to the new one to get the update to work correctly. I know that some have suggested that, that is not the proper way to do it; however, the fact that it works is all I was interested in. There is the -L option for pkgdb, which fixes lost dependencies. I ran it on a system that I have been having problems upgrading and it seemed to fix all of the ones giving me grief. If the -fr didn't work, then you may need to use the -L option to get things back in order. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ 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: INN configuration
Le Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:11:47 -0400,
Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com a écrit :
My server has a static IP (optonline.net) that has no ports
blocked. From my laptop client I can connect to news.optonline.net
and grab a full feed of all the newsgroups. What I'm trying to do is
setup my own news server using news.optonline.net as a peer. The
error I get from my client when I connect to my local news server is:
No newsgroups found even though I have the full list of newsgroups
from isc.org installed.
How? You should perform a ctlinnd newgroup with each group to add, or
use a checkgroup message.
Your server should reply the newsgroups list to a command list
baby-jane:~$ telnet news.davenulle.org 119
Trying 91.121.44.19...
Connected to news.davenulle.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 news.davenulle.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.3 ready (no
posting).
list
215 Newsgroups in form group high low flags.
{.list.}
.
I haven't been able to find a how-to on the internet (The
FreeBSDDiary has a workable how-to that only addresses a local news
server) and the instructions listed on the isc-inn site don't seem to
address my issue.
/var/log/messages show no errors that relate to inn*
INN logs are in /var/log/news, you may have to set syslog.conf (I don't
remember)
Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly?
Sure, works fine here. It's hard to say what problem you have without
precision. Note: with INN, *always* use the news account when you
work on it.
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Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:57:42 -0800 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 09:51:18 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg Which, unfortunately, does not build /x11/kdelibs3 with the updated jpeg library. It should, otherwise the tool you're using does the wrong thing and you should file a bug report for that tool. kdelibs3 uses libmng and qt33 and those should be rebuilt before kdelibs3 by the upgrade tool. I used portupgrade exactly as shown above. Once I made the soft link for the updated library, it built fine. I never got around to using 'portmanager' on it. I probably should have since it nearly always works when portupgrade fails. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Your supervisor is thinking about 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
How to Benchmark zpool?
I'm familiar with testing read speed of regular hard drive like this: dd if=/dev/daX of=/dev/null bs=65536 How would I go about testing the read speed of a version 13 zfs raid1z zpool? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.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: vim port have a lot of broken links ??
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:13:43PM +0200, Kalle Mller wrote: When I try to install vim from ports it tries 4-5 sites which all have to time out... and with a 200 files.. thats a lot of timeouts.. Who should I poke to, so the mirrors would be updated ?? -- Med Venlig Hilsen Hi Kalle, If several servers are timing out, there's a good chance that the problem is at your end. Either you or your ISP might be having a problem. If you haven't changed anything (hardware, software, configuration, ISP), then the problem is likely to be temporary. If the problem is a spike in activity that's overburdoning the servers, the following may help: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/fastest-sites Med venlige hilser til deg ogsaa. ___ 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
Restarting daemons after portupgrade/portmanager
Hello! I have a question concerning port upgrades. mysql51-server stops automatically during upgrade (using portupgrade or portmanager), and is properly started again based on a AFTERINSTALL setting in pktools.conf. So far, so good. But what about the other daemons that still seem to run after upgrade (Apache, Courier IMAP etc)? Are the new version running fine after the upgrade, or should I set AFTERINSTALL to do a restart of these daemons, to make sure they run the upgraded version? Thanks! Axel ___ 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: How to Benchmark zpool?
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm familiar with testing read speed of regular hard drive like this: dd if=/dev/daX of=/dev/null bs=65536 How would I go about testing the read speed of a version 13 zfs raid1z zpool? To get a qd result, I usually install mkfile: # pkg_add -r mkfile ...and then in a few terminal windows to get the write speed: # mkfile 50g bigfile.1 # mkfile 50g bigfile.2 # mkfile 50g bigfile.3 while in another terminal window, I watch: # zpool iostat 1 ...to get the read speed while still having the iostat term open: # dd if=bigfile.1 of=/dev/null bs=65536 amanda# zpool iostat 1 capacity operationsbandwidth pool used avail read write read write storage 1.53T 292G 1.02K 0 130M 0 storage 1.53T 292G 1.05K 0 134M 0 storage 1.53T 292G 1.02K 0 129M 0 storage 1.53T 292G 1.02K 0 129M 0 storage 1.53T 292G 1.05K 0 134M 0 Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??
Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department (its on a 10 G link :D ) I just made a make distclean and make again = vim-7.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /tmp/ports/distfiles/vim. = Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/. fetch: transfer timed out = Attempting to fetch from http://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/vim/unix/. vim-7.2.tar.bz2 100% of 7034 kB 254 kBps 00m00s This takes 2-3 min And the 24-7 site only have to around 190 the last 40 needs to wait for both primary and 24-7 to timeout before the 3rd site delivers Looked a little deeper... It seems like I can wget http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 But i cannont fetch http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 wget goes smoothly but fetch times out On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:13:43PM +0200, Kalle Mller wrote: When I try to install vim from ports it tries 4-5 sites which all have to time out... and with a 200 files.. thats a lot of timeouts.. Who should I poke to, so the mirrors would be updated ?? -- Med Venlig Hilsen Hi Kalle, If several servers are timing out, there's a good chance that the problem is at your end. Either you or your ISP might be having a problem. If you haven't changed anything (hardware, software, configuration, ISP), then the problem is likely to be temporary. If the problem is a spike in activity that's overburdoning the servers, the following may help: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/fastest-sites Med venlige hilser til deg ogsaa. ___ 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 -- Med Venlig Hilsen Kalle R. Møller ___ 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: vim port have a lot of broken links ??
Kalle Møller wrote: Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department (its on a 10 G link :D ) I just made a make distclean and make again = vim-7.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /tmp/ports/distfiles/vim. = Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/. fetch: transfer timed out = Attempting to fetch from http://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/vim/unix/. vim-7.2.tar.bz2 100% of 7034 kB 254 kBps 00m00s This takes 2-3 min And the 24-7 site only have to around 190 the last 40 needs to wait for both primary and 24-7 to timeout before the 3rd site delivers I don't know which network department you work in at your ISP, but in this ISP's network department, we *never* disclaim the possibility of having an issue until the problem has been resolved, and we know *exactly* _what_ it was, and _where_ it was (yes, I'm a little sensitive to blind claims that it's not our fault ;) Looked a little deeper... It seems like I can wget http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 But i cannont fetch http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 wget goes smoothly but fetch times out Both work here: # fetch -4 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 7.2.002 100% of 1462 B 9327 kBps # wget -4 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 [...snip...] 2009-07-24 21:52:01 (113 MB/s) - `7.2.002.1' saved [1462/1462] However, it seems as though ftp.vim.org is IPv6 enabled, but both fetch and wget time-out when trying to reach it over IPv6. eg: # wget -6 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 --2009-07-24 22:02:13-- http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 Resolving ftp.vim.org... 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42, 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:43 Connecting to ftp.vim.org|2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ^C Are you IPv6 ready? If not, do you have v6 enabled in some fashion that could be interfering with proper Internet communication? Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??
Steve Bertrand wrote: Kalle Møller wrote: Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department (its on a 10 G link :D ) I just made a make distclean and make again = vim-7.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /tmp/ports/distfiles/vim. = Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/. fetch: transfer timed out = Attempting to fetch from http://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/vim/unix/. vim-7.2.tar.bz2 100% of 7034 kB 254 kBps 00m00s This takes 2-3 min And the 24-7 site only have to around 190 the last 40 needs to wait for both primary and 24-7 to timeout before the 3rd site delivers I don't know which network department you work in at your ISP, but in this ISP's network department, we *never* disclaim the possibility of having an issue until the problem has been resolved, and we know *exactly* _what_ it was, and _where_ it was (yes, I'm a little sensitive to blind claims that it's not our fault ;) Looked a little deeper... It seems like I can wget http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 But i cannont fetch http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 wget goes smoothly but fetch times out Both work here: # fetch -4 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 7.2.002 100% of 1462 B 9327 kBps # wget -4 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 [...snip...] 2009-07-24 21:52:01 (113 MB/s) - `7.2.002.1' saved [1462/1462] However, it seems as though ftp.vim.org is IPv6 enabled, but both fetch and wget time-out when trying to reach it over IPv6. To elaborate, the ftp.vim.org is reachable via IPv6: # ping6 ftp.vim.org PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2607:f118::b6 -- 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42 16 bytes from 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42, icmp_seq=0 hlim=55 time=113.550 ms ^C So that means that the issue is likely due to the FTP application's interaction with v6 at the network layer that is the issue. I've found this to be common, and very acceptable as IPv6 adoption moves forward. I'd suspect that your machine is trying v6 first, and failing after a timeout. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
A question for developers
Forgive the verbosity. Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war does ensue, I ask that you refrain from responding. I'm looking for a new editor. I continue to claim that I am not a programmer, but I'm getting to the point where my current editor can not do what I need it to do for the programming I have been doing (90% Perl, a bit of C and the rest is shell/awk stuff if you want to call that programming). Currently, I use ee. The ONLY reason I have outgrown it, is due to the fact that I can't find an easy way to change my \t to four chars instead of eight. My normal work environment consists of a Windows XP workstation in a dual-monitor setup. I normally use Poderosa (a tabbed SSH client) to communicate with my work. It is not uncommon for me to have two instances of the SSH client running, with multiple tabs open in each one. When I am developing, one monitor displays the file I'm coding in, and the other displays a screen in which I can run the program. I know what my options are, and I'm willing to follow a learning curve. However, I'm looking for valuable input from those who understand what I'm looking for so I can hone in on specifics: My desires/don't mind: - easily set tab width - fingers near home row - I'm competent/comfortable with CTRL, SHFT etc - *very* quick basic movements within a file (preferably a single keyboard gesture will pg-up/dn, end of line, start of line, top, bot, erase line, cp line, insert line etc) - smooth copy/paste with a mouse if I want to transfer from devel box to my workstation, and back into a different window - syntax highlighting (opening/closing braces/brackets/parens) would be really nice, but since my win32 client seems black/white, I think this is a pipe dream. I can easily live without this. As a matter of fact, I negate this statement - simple in-editor search/replace would be a nice-have (especially if it either understood everything as text, or comprehended Perl-type regexp - be able to have multiple files open simultaneously for editing, and an easy way to flip back and forth (a virtual 'tab' system, if you please) Honestly, the only reason I want to switch is because I want a four char tab...really. I don't want/need an excessive amount of features, just something that will just work. In the last few weeks, I've been leaning toward vim. If you've read this far, then I very much welcome your feedback. Thanks, Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??
On Friday 24 July 2009 17:37:37 Kalle Møller wrote: Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department (its on a 10 G link :D ) I just made a make distclean and make again = vim-7.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /tmp/ports/distfiles/vim. = Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/. fetch: transfer timed out = Attempting to fetch from http://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/vim/unix/. vim-7.2.tar.bz2 100% of 7034 kB 254 kBps 00m00s This takes 2-3 min And the 24-7 site only have to around 190 the last 40 needs to wait for both primary and 24-7 to timeout before the 3rd site delivers Looked a little deeper... It seems like I can wget http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 But i cannont fetch http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.002 wget goes smoothly but fetch times out Check your environment for the HTTP_PROXY value, aside from IPv6 like Steve said. Additionally, you can sort various master sites to your preferences: - /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk lists various master sites for ports that have many. - In there we see: .if !defined(IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_VIM) MASTER_SITE_VIM+= \ http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/ \ http://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/vim/unix/ \ ... etc .. - So we can put in /etc/make.conf: IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_VIM=yes MASTER_SITE_VIM=list_of_sites_that_work_best I regularly change this master sites based on geographical location. -- Mel ___ 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: A question for developers
On Friday 24 July 2009 18:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: Forgive the verbosity. Forgiven, yet snipped ;) My desires/don't mind: - easily set tab width See securemodelines.vim below sig. Put in $LOCALBASE/share/vim/vim72/plugin. And the modeline below in C-style comments, within the first or last 5 lines of a file will set the TabStop to 4, will use 4 for ShiftWith (Number of spaces to use for each step of (auto)indent.), set the TextWidth to 78, will NOt ExpandTabs to spaces, enable AutoIndent if syntax is recognized. /* * vim: ts=4 sw=4 noet tw=78 ai */ Additionally you want to copy $LOCALBASE/share/vim/vim72/vimrc_example.vim to ~/.vimrc so you're not stuck in vi compatible mode. - fingers near home row Home/End works, as well as ctrl-a/crtl-e in edit mode. - I'm competent/comfortable with CTRL, SHFT etc Ctrl-R is redo, Ctrl-L refresh screen, shift-; aka : activates command line, some useful ones: :r /foo/bar Read file /foo/bar into current position :r!make -C /usr/ports/editors/vim -V MAINTAINER Read output of command into current position (this particular one is handy for send-pr) :set paste :set nopaste Turn off/on auto indenting, so that the OS/Desktop buffer can be pasted unmodified. :split Split current file into two windows, switchable with two times ctrl-w :split ../include/foo.h Split current file into two windows, where the top one now loads ../include/foo.h :vsplit Split windows vertically, rather then horizontally Split is repeatable and will keep adding virtual windows. Use :close or :quit to close a window. - *very* quick basic movements within a file (preferably a single keyboard gesture will pg-up/dn, end of line, start of line, top, bot, erase line, cp line, insert line etc) pg-up/dn, works $, for EOL, ^ for SOL gg for top of file, G for EOF dd for erase line, or S for erase and insert (Substitute) yy for yank line, I for insert SOL, A for insert EOL v for visual mode, which allows selecting regions to do stuff with. - smooth copy/paste with a mouse if I want to transfer from devel box to my workstation, and back into a different window It's turned on by default in .vimrc, but I turned it off cause Konsole allows me to copy/paste to my desktop. By default vim uses it's own clipboard, which means it's limited to current instance or requires closing of vim, so that the new instance reads the clipboard contents from ~/.viminfo. If your client doesn't copy/paste smoothly, this might be an issue. - syntax highlighting (opening/closing braces/brackets/parens) would be really nice, but since my win32 client seems black/white, I think this is a pipe dream. I can easily live without this. As a matter of fact, I negate this statement Syntax highlighting depends on what your client can support and what terminal emulation you're advertising. The default .vimrc mentioned above respects $TERM and checks it's termcap for color support. So, this depends more on how much time you want to spend figuring out why your terminal emulation doesn't support colors. Also, the default assumed background is light, if you're really using a dark background (white on black terminal), you will want to add: set bg=dark to .vimrc. The used colorscheme then changes accordingly. - simple in-editor search/replace would be a nice-have (especially if it either understood everything as text, or comprehended Perl-type regexp :%s/search/replace/g replaces all occurrences in a file, using a dialect of basic re. You will want to read :help sub-replace-special and :help pattern. - be able to have multiple files open simultaneously for editing, and an easy way to flip back and forth (a virtual 'tab' system, if you please) ctrl-w ctrl-w you'll get used to. To use securemodelines.vim, put in .vimrc: set modelines=0 let g:secure_modelines_allowed_items = [ \ textwidth, tw, \ softtabstop, sts, \ tabstop, ts, \ shiftwidth, sw, \ expandtab, et, noexpandtab, noet, \ filetype,ft, \ foldmethod, fdm, \ readonly,ro, noreadonly, noro, \ backup, bkp, nobackup, nobkp, \ autoindent, ai, \ syntax, syn \ ] -- Mel vim: set sw=4 sts=4 et ft=vim : Script: securemodelines.vim Version: 20070518 Author: Ciaran McCreesh ciar...@ciaranm.org Homepage: http://ciaranm.org/tag/securemodelines Requires: Vim 7 License: Redistribute under the same terms as Vim itself Purpose: A secure alternative to modelines if compatible || v:version 700 finish endif if (! exists(g:secure_modelines_allowed_items)) let g:secure_modelines_allowed_items = [ \ textwidth, tw, \ softtabstop, sts, \ tabstop, ts, \ shiftwidth, sw,
Re: intel atom mobo support; ASUS AT3GC ?
Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net wrote: [snip Q about support of Realtek 8112 NIC] One will be a dual-homed box, so I need both the onboard and the single PCI slot. Or, perhaps, a one-slot dual-port NIC using already-supported devices -- provided someone still makes such. ___ 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: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?
Randi Harper wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote: Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu: Hello I found here that some bios does have problem with booting from partitions they do not know So first I initialize the USB stick with == dd count=100 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 fdisk -BI da0 sade == than edit the partitions... ls /dev/da* should show da0s1 da0s2 than disklabel -wB da0s1 disklabel -wB da0s2 newfs -L Freebsd7 da0s1a newfs -L Freebsd8 da0s2a boot0cfg -vB da0 mount the partitions, copy the files boot from the usb... it will show you the F1 F2 chooser for me, this worked Sergio Just to clarify, are you trying to boot from a USB stick that you've installed FreeBSD onto, or is this a USB stick that you've dd'ed the memstick.img to? You should NOT use disklabel on a usb stick that you're dd'ing the memstick.img to. -- randi ___ 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 Here I will try to re-state the problem. I have two USB Flash Memory sticks. One is a 2GB stick and the other is a 8GB stick. I can install Freebsd 8.0 from disc1 cd onto the 2GB stick or dd the memstick.img to the 2GB stick and in both cases it will boot just fine. When I repeat the same procedure using the 8GB stick it will not boot. AS a test I have fdisk'ed the 8GB stick under MS/XP and loaded files to it ok. The only thing I see different between the 2 memsticks is in the messages 7.2 issues when the sticks get plugged in. Take note of the revision level differences between them. 2.00/1.00 versus rev 2.00/2.00 The only other guess I have is that the usb code in 7.2 has am error in it. Brand new 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 120 purchased 7/16/09 umass0: Kingston DataTraveler 120, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Kingston DataTraveler 120 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 7643MB (15654848 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 974C) GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid/4a615a2cc673eb3d. # 3 year old 2GB Kingston DataTraveler umass1: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 3 on uhub1 da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 da1: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da1: 1.000MB/s transfers ___ 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
