VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour
Running a FreeBSD 8.0-REL/amd64 box with a quad core CPU and 8 GB of ram I intended also to operate Windows XP_32 within VirtualBox. So far, VirtualBox is up and running, as well as Windows XP. But I do not have network connectivity. Befor going deeper into my config I will report some strange behaviour of needed kernel modules vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko Both are needed for networking on VirtualBox and they get loaded at startup vi /boot/loader.conf. But to have a working network, I have to unload and then reload them, since if they get loaded at startup, networking is broken in virtual box! My FreeBSD-based config is simple. I have a bridged NIC (msk0), a tap0 device which is member of the bridge. But follwoing setups known from Qemu with tap0 do not work. So far. On Windows XP side I use as 'physical' device PCnet FAST III (doesn't matter whether it is II or III), 'Attached to' is 'Bridged adapter' and 'Name' is either msk0 or tap0, where only mask0 shows activity. My virtual box does have its own regular IP, so I tried setting the IP of Windows's adapter to this and after this attempt failed, I set it to the very same of the host. I never get a running network with this. I also switched off (or making it transparent) the filtering facility (pf), but with no effect. Has anybody similar trouble? Thanks, Oliver ___ 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 : cvs authentication
I haven't set authentification process to sync my sources with freebsd cvsup server. Have you try to sync your sources with another cvsup server ? You can find the list here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de a écrit : De: Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de Objet: cvs authentication À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Jeudi 26 Novembre 2009, 15h39 Should the CVS/SVN mirrors really require authentication? -- Running /usr/bin/csup -- Parsing supfile /etc/csup/sources Connecting to cvsup8.de.freebsd.org Connected to 212.118.165.142 Server software version: SNAP_16_1h Authentication required by the server and not supported by client *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Gnome Terminal
On Friday 27 November 2009 05:11:41 Rem P Roberti wrote: There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within Fluxbox I get this error message: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting As usual, all help much appreciated. Rem You can try adding gnome-settings-daemon to .xinitrc / .xsession. It should start the gconf daemon. I believe dbus is also required to work. -- Pieter de Goeje ___ 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
8.0 release php5 port not working
Have a clean install of 8.0 and trying to do cvs make install of port php5 just to turn on apache module. The php5 make install is complaining that autoconf262, pkg-config and libxml2 as non-existent -- dependency list incomplete. I installed these as packages and they show up in pkg_info. Only thing i can think of is the php5 make file is looking for the port make files of these so call non-existent ports to check that dependent is there when it should be checking the pkg-db to check if dependent is installed. Question is how do I force the port make install of php5 to accept the package versions of the dependents so the compile will start? ___ 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: Re : cvs authentication
Alexandre L. wrote: --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de a écrit : Should the CVS/SVN mirrors really require authentication? -- Running /usr/bin/csup -- Parsing supfile /etc/csup/sources Connecting to cvsup8.de.freebsd.org Connected to 212.118.165.142 Server software version: SNAP_16_1h Authentication required by the server and not supported by client *** Error code 1 I haven't set authentification process to sync my sources with freebsd cvsup server. Have you try to sync your sources with another cvsup server ? You can find the list here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html Yes, all other servers work. Still, this one should, too. I do not choose the CVS servers I use: SUPHOST=`/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Qc de` -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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
NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING
When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from what I've read specific make options to build the kernel/base system should be in /etc/src.config. The manpage of src.conf specifies the option WITHOUT_PROFILING, which seemed to be the flag that I was looking for. Just to be certain I always keep the 'Rebuilding World' chapter of the handbook close, however that still specifies to use NO_PROFILE in make.conf. So now my question: What is the desired way of turning of profiling: NO_PROFILE in make.conf or WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf ? Thanks in advance -- - Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re : cvs authentication
I don't know what is the problem but I thinking about this thing : Is this cvsup servup wasn't in synchronization (due to the release of 8.0-RELEASE) and this server was locked for this reason ? --- En date de : Ven 27.11.09, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de a écrit : De: Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de Objet: Re: Re : cvs authentication À: Alexandre L. axel...@ymail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Vendredi 27 Novembre 2009, 10h59 Alexandre L. wrote: --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de a écrit : Should the CVS/SVN mirrors really require authentication? -- Running /usr/bin/csup -- Parsing supfile /etc/csup/sources Connecting to cvsup8.de.freebsd.org Connected to 212.118.165.142 Server software version: SNAP_16_1h Authentication required by the server and not supported by client *** Error code 1 I haven't set authentification process to sync my sources with freebsd cvsup server. Have you try to sync your sources with another cvsup server ? You can find the list here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html Yes, all other servers work. Still, this one should, too. I do not choose the CVS servers I use: SUPHOST= `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Qc de` -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection.. Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another link: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.confsektion=5 Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks. The OP is aware, but the auto-selection of wpa_supplicant sucks: I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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 print using cups on FreeBSD?
Le Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:50:31 -0800 (PST), Unga unga...@yahoo.com a écrit : The same printer prints very well on a older Linux system with a older Gutenprint driver! What am I still missing? Try to change the usb mode, there are two modes : one use ulpt and one use unlpt. You can change it under cups (http://localhost:631) If this does not do the trick I don't know. Regards. ___ 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: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING
On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from what I've read specific make options to build the kernel/base system should be in /etc/src.config. The manpage of src.conf specifies the option WITHOUT_PROFILING, which seemed to be the flag that I was looking for. Just to be certain I always keep the 'Rebuilding World' chapter of the handbook close, however that still specifies to use NO_PROFILE in make.conf. So now my question: What is the desired way of turning of profiling: NO_PROFILE in make.conf or WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf ? Thanks in advance WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf. The NO_xxx options are obsolete and should not be used. -- Pieter de Goeje ___ 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 print using cups on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]
--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: From: Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org Subject: Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 8:19 PM Le Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:50:31 -0800 (PST), Unga unga...@yahoo.com a écrit : The same printer prints very well on a older Linux system with a older Gutenprint driver! What am I still missing? Try to change the usb mode, there are two modes : one use ulpt and one use unlpt. You can change it under cups (http://localhost:631) If this does not do the trick I don't know. Regards. ___ 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 Thanks Patrick, you knew enough :) That was the problem. Best regards Unga ___ 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
8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!
Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. When I switch to the debug tty, I see da0, and all my device parameters. I've even created a second USB stick, and stuck it in and tried. No joy. Anyways, has anyone successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up? Thanks! - Derek ___ 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: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from what I've read specific make options to build the kernel/base system should be in /etc/src.config. The manpage of src.conf specifies the option WITHOUT_PROFILING, which seemed to be the flag that I was looking for. Just to be certain I always keep the 'Rebuilding World' chapter of the handbook close, however that still specifies to use NO_PROFILE in make.conf. So now my question: What is the desired way of turning of profiling: NO_PROFILE in make.conf or WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf ? Thanks in advance WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf. The NO_xxx options are obsolete and should not be used. Yes - src.conf is used for the system. make.conf will contain options you want to apply to building ports. They were split to separate them. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. When I switch to the debug tty, I see da0, and all my device parameters. I've even created a second USB stick, and stuck it in and tried. No joy. Anyways, has anyone successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up? Thanks! - Derek That's really weird. I can't say that I've seen this problem. It sounds like you're trying to load the livefs - can you bring up a normal fixit shell prompt and see what entries you have in /dev for da0*? There should be a da0a. Due to sysinstall weirdness, adding this USB support was somewhat of a hack, as it doesn't look for da0 - it looks for da0a. :P -- 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
Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. Anyways, has anyone successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up? can you bring up a normal fixit shell prompt and see what entries you have in /dev for da0*? There should be a da0a. Due to sysinstall weirdness, adding this USB support was somewhat of a hack, as it doesn't look for da0 - it looks for da0a. :P When I do Fixit/Shell and switch to tty3 I do: find /dev/ -name da0* and get: ./da0 ./da0a Is this what you mean by normal fixit shell? - Derek ___ 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: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING
On Friday 27 November 2009 12:44:55 pm Michael Powell wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from what I've read specific make options to build the kernel/base system should be in /etc/src.config. The manpage of src.conf specifies the option WITHOUT_PROFILING, which seemed to be the flag that I was looking for. Just to be certain I always keep the 'Rebuilding World' chapter of the handbook close, however that still specifies to use NO_PROFILE in make.conf. So now my question: What is the desired way of turning of profiling: NO_PROFILE in make.conf or WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf ? Thanks in advance WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf. The NO_xxx options are obsolete and should not be used. Yes - src.conf is used for the system. make.conf will contain options you want to apply to building ports. They were split to separate them. -Mike Yes, src.conf is used for the system and that's where WITHOUT_PROFILING should go, yet still, you might should take a look in here first: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/stable7_build_options/ and see what might happen if you use it. read this thread (the whole thing) before going any further ..: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-November/013561.html Best Regards Gonzalo Nemmi ___ 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: 2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed
cronfy wrote: Hello. I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about 114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every time, on every request, the problem is reproducible. Apaches are the same, the only difference between them that they are working from different users to serve different sites. Same binary, same config. First Apache used to work in the same way some time ago - it spent ~120ms to read the file. But once it changed and now it is working fast. Restarts of Apache do not look to affect on anything. The file that Apache should read is 315k long. Apache reads it by small blocks of 4096 bytes each. May be FreeBSD has some memory about how process is working with files and after some time enables some optimization or caching? I just do not have any clue... :( Can anyone explain this please? Caching is coming into play if the first read takes longer than subsequent reads. It may not be uniform as older objects move in and out of cache being replaced by newer. The OS will have some space for buffer caching and when Apache makes a 'hit' on this cache retrieval will happen faster. This buffer space is dynamic in nature, and will shrink as Apache fills up memory. As Apache needs more memory the OS will attempt to provide as much as it can within reason by shrinking the buffer allocation space. If this is a static file which needs to be read by all pages served, some other form of caching should be investigated. In the meantime you may want to try the following in httpd.conf if not already doing so: EnableMMAP on EnableSendfile on You may also want to see if you can set aside a little RAM and cache it there, ala: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mem_cache.html Another approach is a reverse proxy such as Varnish in front of the web server. But the first most immediate thing you can try and measure is to turn on sendile() if you're not using it. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD torrent tracker give wierd numbers?
Hello, On the Development list somebody mentioned the BitTorrent tracker: http://torrents.FreeBSD.org:8080/ Looking at this page: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/stats.html?info_hash=329525ff9a0fbd43ee25e50c510564919255403e I noticed that it lists everyone as being connected for about 8 minutes. This leads to strange results like my download speed being listed as 1.89 MB/sec when it is in fact capped at 100kB/sec. Before downloading, I was wondering why everybody seemed to have such fat pipes :P Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.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: VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour
On November 27, 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: Befor going deeper into my config I will report some strange behaviour of needed kernel modules vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko Both are needed for networking on VirtualBox and they get loaded at startup vi /boot/loader.conf. But to have a working network, I have to unload and then reload them, since if they get loaded at startup, networking is broken in virtual box! The vboxnetadp.ko is needed for the host-only adapter mode, I tend not to load it. For bridged mode, you need vboxnetflt.ko. I have been having good luck by always loading vboxnetadp.ko manually rather than from loader.conf. My FreeBSD-based config is simple. I have a bridged NIC (msk0), a tap0 device which is member of the bridge. I do not use a tap device. It should not be needed. I bridge the physical device directly. Has anybody similar trouble? The modules are a somewhat temperamental. When I follow the above, it works great. When I deviate, I sometimes have trouble. 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
replacing faulty disk in a gmirror
Hi, I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but it fails. This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. The disk on channel 3 (ad6), which was identical to the disk on channel 2 (ad4), was faulty and I replaced it with a larger disk this morning. The new disk is a Western Digital 640 GB. The steps I took sofar: #gmirror forget mirror1 #gmirror insert mirror1 ad6 A gmirror status shows the new disk being added to mirror1. It then starts to write to the new disk but stops after a few seconds and when I do gmirror status again the new disk is gone again. Any ideas? Here is some info about the system: piggie# uname -a FreeBSD piggie.int.daemon.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 piggie# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 ST3500630A/3.AAE ATA/ATAPI revision 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: ad2 ST3500630A/3.AAE ATA/ATAPI revision 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 ST3500320AS/SD15 Serial ATA v1.0 Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 WDC WD6400AACS-00D6B1/01.01A01 Serial ATA II Slave: no device present piggie# gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/mirror0 COMPLETE ad0 ad2 mirror/mirror1 DEGRADED ad4 piggie# gmirror list Geom name: mirror0 State: COMPLETE Components: 2 Balance: round-robin Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2181652091 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/mirror0 Mediasize: 500107861504 (466G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r5w5e6 Consumers: 1. Name: ad0 Mediasize: 500107862016 (466G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 1890757270 2. Name: ad2 Mediasize: 500107862016 (466G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2188477788 Geom name: mirror1 State: DEGRADED Components: 2 Balance: round-robin Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 8 SyncID: 4 ID: 3490083122 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/mirror1 Mediasize: 500107861504 (466G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Consumers: 1. Name: ad4 Mediasize: 500107862016 (466G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: NONE GenID: 8 SyncID: 4 ID: 2123128362 TIA, /\ Vincent ___ 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: VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Norbert Papke npa...@acm.org wrote: On November 27, 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: Befor going deeper into my config I will report some strange behaviour of needed kernel modules vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko Both are needed for networking on VirtualBox and they get loaded at startup vi /boot/loader.conf. But to have a working network, I have to unload and then reload them, since if they get loaded at startup, networking is broken in virtual box! The vboxnetadp.ko is needed for the host-only adapter mode, I tend not to load it. For bridged mode, you need vboxnetflt.ko. I have been having good luck by always loading vboxnetadp.ko manually rather than from loader.conf. My FreeBSD-based config is simple. I have a bridged NIC (msk0), a tap0 device which is member of the bridge. I do not use a tap device. It should not be needed. I bridge the physical device directly. Has anybody similar trouble? The modules are a somewhat temperamental. When I follow the above, it works great. When I deviate, I sometimes have trouble. Cheers, Yeah I assume the issue is vboxnetflt.ko needs eth device to be loaded to actually bind to. I do this with /etc/crontab to work around: @reboot root/sbin/kldload /boot/modules/vboxnetflt.ko -- Adam Vande More ___ 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
8.0 Ext3/Ext4 support
Hi there, Is there Ext3/Ext4 read support in FreeBSD 8? Can we use fs with 256-byte inodes? Thanks in advance. ___ 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
MimeDefang: Perl core dump
Hello My goal is to add to all outgoing mail a small boilerplate. My system: FreeBSD acsvfbsd06.acutronic.ch 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 17 17:53:59 CEST 2009 mar...@acsvfbsd06.acutronic.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 sendmail.mc: [snip] MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang', `S=local:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, T=S:1m;R:1m')dnl define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `mimedefang')dnl [snip] sendmail version: ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:58:56 +0100 (CET) acsvfbsd06# mimedefang.pl -test Filter /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/mimedefang-filter seems syntactically correct. acsvfbsd06# mimedefang.pl -features MIMEDefang version 2.67 Archive::Zip : yes HTML::Parser : yes Net::DNS : yes Path:CONFDIR : yes (/usr/local/etc/mimedefang) Path:QUARANTINEDIR: yes (/var/spool/MD-Quarantine) Path:SENDMAIL : yes (/usr/sbin/sendmail) Path:SPOOLDIR : yes (/var/spool/MIMEDefang) SpamAssassin : yes HTML:TokeParser : no HTMLCleaner : no Unix::Syslog : no Virus:AVP : no Virus:AVP5: no Virus:BDC : no Virus:CLAMAV : no Virus:CLAMD : no Virus:CSAV: no Virus:FPROT : no Virus:FPROTD : no Virus:FPROTD6 : no Virus:FPSCAN : no Virus:FSAV: no Virus:HBEDV : no Virus:KAVSCANNER : no Virus:NAI : no Virus:NOD32 : no Virus:NVCC: no Virus:SAVSCAN : no Virus:SOPHIE : no Virus:SOPHOS : no Virus:SymantecCSS : no Virus:TREND : no Virus:TROPHIE : no Virus:VEXIRA : no Anomy::HTMLCleaner: missing Archive::Zip : Version 1.30 Digest::SHA1 : Version 2.12 HTML::Parser : Version 3.64 HTML::TokeParser : missing IO::Socket: Version 1.31 IO::Stringy : Version 2.110 MIME::Base64 : Version 3.08 MIME::Tools : Version 5.427 MIME::Words : Version 5.427 Mail::Mailer : Version 2.04 Mail::SpamAssassin: Version 3.002005 Net::DNS : Version 0.65 Unix::Syslog : Version 1.1 ps -ax shows 6722 ?? S 0:00,19 /usr/local/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor -l -p /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.pid -z /var/spool/MIMEDefang -m 2 -x 10 -U The -l option means to log all stuff to syslog. /var/log/all.log shows: Nov 27 17:57:18 acsvfbsd06 kernel: pid 9919 (perl), uid 26: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Nov 27 17:57:18 acsvfbsd06 mimedefang-multiplexor[6722]: Reap: slave 0 (pid 9919) exited due to signal 11 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY) Nov 27 17:57:18 acsvfbsd06 mimedefang-multiplexor[6722]: Slave 0 resource usage: req=0, scans=0, user=0.158, sys=0.067, nswap=0, majflt=0, minflt=2832, maxrss The above will repeate any 30 seconds. I also ant find the core files but I could not find it! (Or I did not find the correct directory) Any ideas what is going wrong here? -- Martin Schweizer off...@pc-service.ch PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; ___ 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: Gnome Terminal
On 2009.11.27 10:42:55 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 05:11:41 Rem P Roberti wrote: There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within Fluxbox I get this error message: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting As usual, all help much appreciated. Rem You can try adding gnome-settings-daemon to .xinitrc / .xsession. It should start the gconf daemon. I believe dbus is also required to work. Dbus daemon is running, and when I run top I see that gconf is present. I'm not sure what is going on here. I've tried a couple of things with .xinitrc with no luck. Either X fails to open, or I still get the Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting message when I try to run gnome-terminal. Rem ___ 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: black-friday ads -- ASUS-EEE's
2009/11/26 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: Folks, IF any/everone would keep an eye out for national Black FRiday adds that offer a 9-10 ASUS-EEE, I'd appreciate it. (I've been poking around for much of today, but zip.) The stores that are open obv'ly want to build suspense; this is a win re that notebook. For me anyway:-) tia, y'all What's a good price? Beast Buy has the 1005HA in pathetic, pale pink for $280 on line, which is a gorb-dorfle cheap yo, if'n y'ask me ( I'm not sure if the above counts, but I'm goin' with it here). -- -- ___ 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 add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2
Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 07:37 + schrieb dhaneshk k: I need to install openoffice in my FreeBSD7.2 laptop (IBMT60 coreduo) , without doing a port installation how can I do it with package addition pkg_add -r what_the_name_of_openoffice_package I need to supply in # pkg_add -r ? Is there an official FreeBSD package for OOo ? I done 3rd party binary installations for open office from lamrelle.net . but all the time it crashed some of my gnome applications ..such as firefox, evolution etc.. any hints much appreciated.. dhanesh _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org FreeBSD hasn't an official package for downloading. You have to compile it on the hard way... And very important: Don't forget to set LOCALIZED_LANG variable!!! ___ 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: replacing faulty disk in a gmirror
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Vincent Zee wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but it fails. This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. The disk on channel 3 (ad6), which was identical to the disk on channel 2 (ad4), was faulty and I replaced it with a larger disk this morning. The new disk is a Western Digital 640 GB. The steps I took sofar: #gmirror forget mirror1 #gmirror insert mirror1 ad6 A gmirror status shows the new disk being added to mirror1. It then starts to write to the new disk but stops after a few seconds and when I do gmirror status again the new disk is gone again. Any ideas? I have several Sun X2100's, and the have a problem with the riser connector for the drives. I have seen behaviios like this, when I had a hardware problem. Might that be your issue? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ 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 add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2
Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 07:37 + schrieb dhaneshk k: I need to install openoffice in my FreeBSD7.2 laptop (IBMT60 coreduo) , without doing a port installation how can I do it with package addition pkg_add -r what_the_name_of_openoffice_package I need to supply in # pkg_add -r ? Is there an official FreeBSD package for OOo ? I done 3rd party binary installations for open office from lamrelle.net . but all the time it crashed some of my gnome applications ..such as firefox, evolution etc.. any hints much appreciated.. dhanesh Not official but I've never had a problem with these, but I don't use gnome either. ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/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
How to diagnose server crashed.
Hello all, I'm running a dedicated server and today I was not able to ssh to it. I contacted technical support and they reported to me that the machine had frozen (they could not see anything on the screen neither type anything). So I was forced to do a hard reboot. Is there anything that I can do to find out what happened? I'm currently running 7.2-p4. I looked over some logs and the only weird thing that I saw was a lot of: Limiting closed port RST response from xxx to xxx. I'm only running a ssh server with minimal amount of software and running the generic kernel. I recently finished doing a re-installation so I do not have a firewall in place yet. Any tip or suggestions would be appreciated. -r ___ 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 add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:17:55PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: Not official but I've never had a problem with these, but I don't use gnome either. ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/ I used a package from this site the other week, it works fine. Beats waiting 3-4 days for the port to build anyway. -- Jamie Website: http://www.koderize.com PGP Key: wget http://www.koderize.com/jpg-gnupg.asc pgp57K4WILKV3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: replacing faulty disk in a gmirror
Hi Stan, thanks for your answer. On 27 November 2009, at 20:30, stan wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Vincent Zee wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but it fails. This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. The disk on channel 3 (ad6), which was identical to the disk on channel 2 (ad4), was faulty and I replaced it with a larger disk this morning. The new disk is a Western Digital 640 GB. The steps I took sofar: #gmirror forget mirror1 #gmirror insert mirror1 ad6 A gmirror status shows the new disk being added to mirror1. It then starts to write to the new disk but stops after a few seconds and when I do gmirror status again the new disk is gone again. Any ideas? I have several Sun X2100's, and the have a problem with the riser connector for the drives. I have seen behaviios like this, when I had a hardware problem. Might that be your issue? The sata drives are on a cheap controller: atapci1: SiI SiI 3512 SATA150 controller port 0xdc00-0xdc07, 0xe000-0xe003,0xe400-0xe407,0xe800-0xe803,0xec00-0xec0f mem 0xdf002000-0xdf0021ff irq 10 at device 20.0 on pci0 I looked at dmesg and found this error message: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror1: rebuilding provider ad6. interrupt storm detected on irq10:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq10:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq10:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq10:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq10:; throttling interrupt source ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=35200 ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=358528 GEOM_MIRROR: Synchronization request failed (error=5). ad6[WRITE(offset=183500800, length=131072)] GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror1: provider ad6 disconnected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror1: rebuilding provider ad6 stopped. /\ Vincent___ 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: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
Warren Block wrote: As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that a couple GUI network managers are around: sysutils/desktopbsd-tools includes a wireless network configurator according to its pkg-descr, haven't used myself though. Chris ___ 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: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?
Boris Samorodov wrote: Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf. I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always gave me good results. I placed 'webfonts' into xorg.conf after 'misc' but firefox still shows Cyrillic texts in a messed up way. Also in Belarussian texts letters і and ў stand out (ex. http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org). And Opera shows Cyrillic texts very neatly. I don't quite understand what causes such difference. Ubuntu Linux doesn't have such problem at all, not in firefox and not in opera. Yuri ___ 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
nice for disk I/O
Hello. It is well known that nice allows to change CPU scheduling priority. But is there something that would tune disk I/O priority for a particular process? Thanks in advance. -- cronfy ___ 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
portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely
Greetings again. I used freebsd-update to upgrade a system from 7.1 to 7.2. The main upgrade went fine, but upgrading the ports had huge problems. It could not find most (but not all) of the packages to upgrade. A typical part of the failure looks like: --- Checking for the latest package of 'lang/python25' --- Fetching the package(s) for 'python25-2.5.4_3' (lang/python25) --- Fetching python25-2.5.4_3 fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/All/python25-2.5.4_3.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) ** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1 ** Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/All/python25-2.5.4_3.tbz fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/All/python25-2.5.4_3.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) ** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1 ** Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/All/python25-2.5.4_3.tgz ** Failed to fetch python25-2.5.4_3 ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! python25-2.5.4_3 (fetch error) --- Fetching the latest package(s) for 'python25' (lang/python25) --- Fetching python25 fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/python25.tbz: Protocol error ** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1 ** Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/python25.tbz fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/python25.tgz: Protocol error ** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1 ** Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/python25.tgz ** Failed to fetch python25 ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! python25@ (fetch error) ** Could not find the latest version (2.5.4_3) ** No package available: lang/python25 It then goes on to the next package. It only got about 10% of the ports. Am I missing something obvious here? --Paul Hoffman ___ 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
