Gnome-terminal
Gone back to trying to get gnome-terminal to work. So far...no joy. When I try to load the program I get this error message: ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Can someone give me a heads up on this. Thanks... 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: ld-elf related problems
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 04:15:06AM +1100, alex wrote: Ruben de Groot wrote: So? It's just an OS. Some will switch to linux and try to make that better. Thats evolution. I hate linux to be honest, I have always highly praised FreeBSD to my friends and colleagues in the industry. But sadly enough, linux is performing significantly better in a number of areas than FreeBSD at the moment (yes I know the reasons why there is no zfs on linux, funny isnt it). This stupid licensing issue with the gnu development tools is a major setback, what will it take before someone says Hey, gcc 4.2.x can no longer produce code that makes us competitive performance wise with other open source operating systems ,we need to upgrade? Are we going to wait years on end until llvm is mature enough? I don't think this just me echoing your ideas, but they do jibe with my experience with FBSD since 1995. As a server, things-BSD are unbeatable. As a desktop, bzzzt. Ubuntu wins there; mostly for fun-stuff, true. Audio/video apps just work. HEre, it's beyond painful. And having gone thru a torturous 7+ week server migration, I don' need no mo' misery.--That coughed up, I have to add that the friendships and support of this tiny bunc hh of geek has been outstanding. just my two penny's worth, gary, who iss still testing things. .. ___ 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 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.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: FreeBSD beastie plush toy?
Yeah, I'm very interested in one as well. ___ 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: FreeBSD beastie plush toy?
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:41:05 -0500 Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: Where can I purchase a FreeBSD beastie plush toy? Something like http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdbeanie?id=NkWSe8g8mv_pc=144 ? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: [NOT SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
Leslie Jensen wrote: You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-) Thank you! You where right, but it's the wrong order They must be loaded in the reverse order. Sorry This is purely empirical knowledge, and I can't back it up by documentation. If module A requires module B to function, but not to load, module B will be loaded after module A. Have you tried changing which module you specifically load (i.e. if you now have module A specified in loader.conf and module B is demand loaded, try removing module and specify module B instead) to see if it reverses the order? It probably won't, since that would imply circular dependencies, but I'd try it anyway, if for nothing else, just to rule the possibility out. ___ 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
kernel panic on SATA drive
Dear John, Any progress for bellow? I have the same problem with PCI SATA Controller ST-Lab A-173 Sil3512 It's not RAID, but when copying to HDD: LOG--- ad6:FAILURE - device detached g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=38007275520, length=131072)]error = 6 /usr: got error 6 while accessing filesystem panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: unrecovered I/O error cpuid = 0 Uptime: 2m18s Physical memory: 243 MB Dumping 58 MB:unknown: timeout waiting to issue command unknown: error issuing WRITE_DMA command ** DUMP FAILED (ERROR 5) ** Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press any key on the console to abort ---END LOG- Brgrds, Alex I've been having an intermittent problem, wonder if someone on the list has any ideas. First my setup: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE (amd64) quad-core Phenom processor mobo: MSI K9N2G Neo chipset: NVIDIA GeForce 8200, which FreeBSD recognizes as nForce (not sure how that works) I have a 3ware RAID card (RAID 1), which is the boot device. A seagate drive connected via SATA A WD external drive via USB I will have the system running fine, then the seagate will apparently fall off the bus, resulting in a panic. The dump fails as well, presumably due to the 3ware driver not being able to handle the panic? not sure... If anyone knows a way I can get the dump to succeed, I'd appreciate that info, too. See below output for details. ___ 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
Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?
I've been trying to figure out where gfortran went since it doesn't appear in the /usr/ports collection in FreeBSD 7.2 (i386). I need it to build plots of numerical things and use the following lots: ./configure \ CC=gcc -arch i386 \ CXX=g++ -arch i386 \ OBJC=gcc -arch i386 \ F77=gfortran -arch i386 \ FC=gfortran -arch i386 \ --with-python \ --with-openssl My web searches turn up lots of on-responses (i.e. you shouldn't be using fortran anway's it's dead...), and I seem to have gcc42 installed. $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-undermydesk-freebsd Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] $ A little help please? Thanks, Jeff. Jeff Hamann, PhD PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421 541-754-2457 jeff.hamann[at]forestinformatics[dot]com http://www.forestinformatics.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
Compiling only shared libraries?
We have a bunch of libraries to support our product and as far as I know we only link to the shared library version. I'd like to skip the build of the static version of our libraries to speed up our builds and save on disk space, but I don't see any way to do that via directives in the Makefiles. I didn't see anything in bsd.lib.mk which would indicate this can be done. Is this even possible? (I am not subscribed to -questions, so please cc: me on responses). Thanks, matthew ___ 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: Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:14:22PM -0800, Jeff Hamann wrote: I've been trying to figure out where gfortran went since it doesn't appear in the /usr/ports collection in FreeBSD 7.2 (i386). I need it to build plots of numerical things and use the following lots: ./configure \ CC=gcc -arch i386 \ CXX=g++ -arch i386 \ OBJC=gcc -arch i386 \ F77=gfortran -arch i386 \ FC=gfortran -arch i386 \ --with-python \ --with-openssl My web searches turn up lots of on-responses (i.e. you shouldn't be using fortran anway's it's dead...), and I seem to have gcc42 installed. $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-undermydesk-freebsd Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] $ A little help please? Install the lang/gcc44 port which includes Fortran support. The Fortran compiler will be installed as gfortran44. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ 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: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network
On Monday 21 December 2009 09:56:11 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are bound to specific modems. This can probably be fixed from the ISP side. It should probably be some antispoofing rule that drops the packets you are sending via the wrong interface. You could try communicating the problem to the ISP and hope for the best... I'd rather not go that route. However, I might ask the ISP to move swap two IP's, so that I have two consecutive IPs on two modems and can use /31 notation for the pool. Source hash should then work better. So I'm wondering if using stick-address with a round-robin nat pool is really sufficient to do load balancing of outgoing traffic and not get into session problems with various protocols. Has anybody had similar experiences? I have no experience on this, but theoretically a state can expire while the upper layers are still active... so, I *think* you may have problems... Of course, you could increase the lifetime of states True, I'm mostly worried about DNS queries and other UDP protocols. TCP should theoretically be fine. Thanks for your feedback. -- 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: how to make vimage jail permanent by configuring rc.conf?
Hello, I also wanted to have it work, but failed and just had to patch my /etc/rc.d/jail until it's resolved. The first problem is that currently /etc/rc.d/jail creates jails using the parameterless form of jail(8). Another issue is that after the jail is created, it currently seems not possible to squeeze the ifconfig vnet ... in between jail ... and jexec ... -- I mean using *_exec_afterstart and *_exec_poststart in the order they are invoked now by the jail rc script. I had to invent a kind of exec_earlypoststart locally, and call all routines the following order: 1. /usr/sbin/jail called in the parameter-aware mode 2. _exec_earlypoststart 3. _exec_afterstart 4. _exec_poststart Then the rc.conf would look like: cloned_interfaces=$cloned_interfaces epair0 ifconfig_bridge0=addm epair0a $ifconfig_bridge0 ifconfig_epair0a=up jail_list=$jail_list QQ jail_QQ_flags=-l -U root vnet persist name=QQ jail_QQ_name=QQ jail_QQ_rootdir=/usr/jails/QQ jail_QQ_hostname=QQ.localhost jail_QQ_exec_earlypoststart0=ifconfig epair0b vnet QQ jail_QQ_exec_afterstart1=ifconfig epair0b 10.1.1.1 jail_QQ_exec_afterstart2=ifconfig epair0b inet6 2001::1:1:1 prefixlen 128 jail_QQ_exec_afterstart3=ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 jail_QQ_exec_afterstart4=route -n add default 10.0.0.1 # bridge0 jail_QQ_exec_afterstart5=route -n add -inet6 default 2001::1 # bridge0 jail_QQ_exec_afterstart6=/bin/sh /etc/rc Note that the /bin/sh /etc/rc which is the default in the current jail rc script is called here explicitly, because parameter form of jail(8) cannot run commands inside jails. Markiyan. Mel Flynn wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009 13:40:47 Kouichiro Iwao wrote: I want to make it permanent. I want jails to start automatically when I rebooted the host environment. I add the following lines into rc.conf. jail_jail01_flags=-c vnet jail_jail01_rootdir=/usr/jail/jail01 jail_jail01_hostname=jail01.example.jp jail_jail01_ip=192.168.100.101 However, I failed /etc/rc.d/jail onestart jail01 to start up the jail. How to configure rc.conf in order to make vimage jail permanent? rc.d/jail only support traditional jails? Please show the output, with rc_debug turned on in /etc/rc.conf. ___ 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
koffice-kde4 - kipi.7
ot lucky: FreeBSD 8.0, KDE 4.3.4: make install clean === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: eigen=2.0.b3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: gmm++=3.0.4 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-corelib=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-phonon=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-qmake=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-moc=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-porting=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-rcc=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-uic=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-uic3=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: kde4-shared-mime-info=1 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automoc4 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/cmake - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: GraphicsMagick++.1 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: exiv2.7 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: fontconfig.1 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: freetype.9 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: lcms.1 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: poppler-qt4.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: IlmImf.6 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: png.5 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: jpeg.10 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: tiff.4 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: wpg-0.1 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: qimageblitz.4 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: boost_thread.4 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: qca.2 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: GLEW.1 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: gsl - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: wv2.4 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on shared library: kipi.7 - not found ===Verifying install for kipi.7 in /usr/ports/graphics/kdegraphics4 === Returning to build of koffice-kde4-2.1.0 Error: shared library kipi.7 does not exist *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde4. Mitja http://starikarp.redbubble.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
Wireless interface says privacy OFF
What does privacy mean and why isn't it explained in any man page? Here's my ifconfig: wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:14:a5:2a:a5:db inet 192.168.2.254 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid FriedrichAir channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:17:3f:f1:3d:50 country US authmode WPA privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL This wlan0 is configured to a NDIS wrapped Windows Ethernet driver. New in 8.0, the bwi driver supports the same hardware. When I get the ifconfig for wlan0 when it's configured for he bwi driver, privacy said ON. What exactly does privacy mean and do I want it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portsnap fetch update
ajtiM wrote: I did portsnap fetch update and I have in /usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde4 now. I thought that is version 2.1 but it is 1.6 still... I did check http://www.freshports.org/ but there are no koffice-kde4 and search also didn't find it. Is it something wrong on my system (FreeBSD 8.0) or is something other, please? Thanks. Mitja http://redbubble.com It seems the latest version of kofficed that is ported to FreeBSD is still 1.6. So there is nothing wrong with your system. You will just have to wait a bit longer until a newer version of koffice is ported. -- - 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: ld-elf related problems
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:19:12 -0600 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Hi, I'm running 8.0-RELEASE amd64, and various applications randomly coredump and exit with signal 10; this has started apparently after installing numpy from ports, which also pulled gcc44. Right after that basically all apps i had running crashed, and they wouldn't start. The error was something about unrecognized symbols or something in ld-elf-something. I can't be more specific, because after a reboot, stuff worked again - mostly. Now applications periodically coredump, but then start again. Does anyone have any insights? Thanks. Have you installed /usr/ports/misc/compat7x ? -- Adam Vande More No; do i have to? Also, pkg_version prints this (although it seems to work fine): pkg_version: read_plist: unknown command '@comm' (package tools out of date?) pkg_version: read_plist: unknown command '@co' (package tools out of date?) ___ 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: Source of closed port RST responses
DAve wrote: I will be installing pf this week, I just need to write up my rule sets for these servers. I had been working on the webservers first. Is there a rule I can use to log connection attempts to closed ports? pf doesn't really know anything about whether there is a listener at a particular port or not. However, you can log suspicious traffic using a 'capture everything' rule, which should log and then block or drop all traffic that matches it. You then override that with more specific rules to allow the traffic to the services you want to publish on the net. [pf is a 'last matching rule wins' type firewall, so you write the rules in order from most generic to most specific.] Something like this: ext_if=em0 # alter to match your hardware set skip on lo0 set loginterface $ext_if set state-policy if-bound scrub in block log all pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $ext_if port http flags S/SA keep state [...] (You'll need more pass rules than that -- especially to allow your host to do things like query the DNS, allow SSH in and out, connect to remote web/ftp sites, etc.) Remember to run pflogd to have the logged packets saved to disk. Be aware that the log output in /var/log/pflog is actually in pcap format, so you'll need to use tcpdump -r /var/log/pflog to turn it into something human readable. /var/log/pflog can get recycled fairly rapidly depending on network conditions. Or you can just run tcpdump -i pflog0 to get a live view of rejected packets. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?
My understanding from a previous post in this list (Around december 18th) was that VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run was specifically tied to the Linux kernel This also what I experimented. Regards, Eric Le Goff On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Ed Jobs olori...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 20 December 2009 12:24, Yuri wrote: Oleg Ginzburg wrote: You need for Install Guest Additional How do I do this? I have VBOXADDITIONS_3. CDROM image in the virtual Linux. But how to install it? mount it in the guest (linux) system and there is a file callled VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run as root all you need to do is cd in the mounted folder and run: ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. ___ 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: ld-elf related problems
b. f. wrote: Our base system compiler suite is stuck at a patched version of gcc 4.2 because of licensing issues Thats absolutely *ridiculous* that we have to use stone age development tools because of stupid and trivial license politics. This matter was also bought up in a recent thread by myself regarding binutils, seeing that the version of binutils that ships with freebsd is incapable of compiling applications like mplayer on amd64. Is this the reason why people are pushing for llvm, just to avoid the GPL license type of later releases of the gnu c compiler and tools? Thats really sad. llvm has a long way to go before it can be considered a worthy competitor against gcc. The newer versions of gcc probably produce better code than the ancient version shipped with freebsd. Yeah I am aware you can install newer versions from ports, but it is ridiculous to do this and it doesnt always work as planned (like the OP of this thread shows), I tried to use gcc44 in the past, most things compiled ok, I was having these sort of problems too with some binaries when running them, undefined symbols etc. Linux is going to leave us for dust at this rate. The recent phoronix benchmarks comparing the recently released freebsd 8 against linux and solaris should be enough of an incentive to get this issue sorted. I am certain the OS will benefit from being compiled with a current version of gnu compiler. It just seems like nobody wants to address this issue, the word stagnation comes to mind. ___ 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: binary package dependencies
2009/12/20 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org: .. Somehow I had naively assumed that apache20 and apache22 were incompatible and could not simultaneously be installed. Did the binary package load ignore all conflicts? What's the proper way to approach these issues. Looking in the apache20 Makefile I see it conflicts with earlier apache, but how can it conflict with a later one? I think that it should. As I read it, apache22 registers a conflict with apache20, but the reverse is not true. If you had installed them in the other order, it would've refused to install. apache20 is the default, so the official package was built depending on that. I think this should be entered as a bug, but I'm not quite positive... clearly A conflict B is supposed to be a symmetric relation, but I guess in this case when I install apache22 it's the entire ports system that needs to record the conflicts. I don't think it's reasonable for an individual port to know that a future conflict may arise. -- Robin Becker ___ 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
cvs-ports = svn-ports
Is there an svn equivalent to the cvs-ports mailing list? Regards -- 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: cvs-ports = svn-ports
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:45:51 +0100 Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de wrote: Is there an svn equivalent to the cvs-ports mailing list? ports are still stored in a cvs repository, unlike src. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Setting fonts and other defaults in Xorg
doug wrote: 2) fonts: There are a couple of cool commands, fc-list and xfontsel to list the ... A lot of basic font configuration can be done in /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/ From there you can simply symlink to settings files in /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.avail/ -- 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: ld-elf related problems
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: No; do i have to? Also, pkg_version prints this (although it seems to work fine): pkg_version: read_plist: unknown command '@comm' (package tools out of date?) pkg_version: read_plist: unknown command '@co' (package tools out of date?) I'd give it a shot. Did you upgrade this machine? It looks like you may not have recompiled ports against new kernel. -- 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
[solved] Re: Ghostscript8 portupgrade failure
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:29:06PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: Don't know. I'd guess not cleaning the failed build out of the work dir with 'make clean', but portupgrade should do that automatically. It's built now. I just did: % cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8 % make deinstall % make distclean % make rmconfig Then, rebooted (not sure if that has had anything to do with the success of the build or not) Then: % cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8 % make install clean and that did it. Jamie pgpEg3ccUqBO0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?
Have a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I had a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I am quite new in FreeBsd but in my case it does not work , ie : I start a xfce4 session for a (non-root) user open the wifimgr from the 'network' menu provide root password as requested but then it hangs forever on my laptop Did anyone successfully used wifimgr ? If yes, what could I check to make it work ? PS : I am using FreeBsd 8.0 on an (old) Thinkpad laptop with ipw-2100 wireless card Regards Eric On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: How do I launch network manager that allows to visually manage WiFi and LAN connections? I have FreeBSD on a laptop and I have to establish WiFi connections manually -- it's very inconvenient. You can always edit wpa_supplicant.conf(5) - you don't need to use WPA/WPA2... In Kubuntu this problem is solved and WiFi management is very easy. It's the same Looking for the same in FreeBSD. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: ld-elf related problems
Thanks all; This is a fresh install and all ports are up to date. I don't have the time to debug and fiddle with all the applications that are crashing, so i'll just do a clean reinstall of the OS, and hope that it won't happen again (won't be installing numpy). As a sidenote, i installed numpy on another box which had gcc44 already installed, along with the /etc/make.conf and libmap.conf settings specified in the handbook (which i also added to this system, to no avail), and there are no crashes there. Slightly off-topic, as stated above, this second box is set up to use gcc44 for ports, and i'm seeing quite a noticeable performance improvement with PostgreSQL, compared to when it's compiled with base gcc. This kind of sucks, because i have more work to do in order to get more performance, extra work and complications that add up when doing multiple installations. It certainly adds to the frustration knowing that there are no real technical reasons for this... ___ 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: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware
On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend switching to VMware ESXi if at all possible. I have a lot of FreeBSD VMs running under ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 that work just great with kern.hz=100 and openntpd. I loaded ESXi and a FreeBSD 8.0 guest last night and this morning it is still keeping time OK without any changes to loader.conf. We actually kept everything running on Linux+VMware Server 1.0 until we could make the switch to ESXi; the VMware Server 2.0 product wasn't reliable for us at all and was a total pain to manage. I am using vSphere to manage, but I see even the standard version requires licensing in the amount of $795. Is there a free management software, or better yet, a way to manage via Linux? That's definitely something I like about VMware Server, that I can manage via a browser. I have not had any major problems with VMware Server 2.0 all running on CentOS 5.x hosts. --Robert ___ 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: ld-elf related problems
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:18:11PM +1100, alex typed: b. f. wrote: Our base system compiler suite is stuck at a patched version of gcc 4.2 because of licensing issues Thats absolutely *ridiculous* that we have to use stone age development tools because of stupid and trivial license politics. - Calling it ridiculous does not make the licencing problem go away. - The base-system compiler is there to compile the base system. - There's plenty of development tools in ports. - gcc 4.2.x isn't exactly stone age. (I'm still administering some HP-UX boxes with gcc 2.95 on them. It's old, but compiles pretty workable code.) Is this the reason why people are pushing for llvm, just to avoid the GPL license type of later releases of the gnu c compiler and tools? Thats really sad. llvm has a long way to go before it can be considered a worthy competitor against gcc. I think it is, and I share your concern. But really, the gcc people made their choice and we have to live with it. Linux is going to leave us for dust at this rate. So? It's just an OS. Some will switch to linux and try to make that better. Thats evolution. ___ 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: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware
On 12/21/09 09:49, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend switching to VMware ESXi if at all possible. I have a lot of FreeBSD VMs running under ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 that work just great with kern.hz=100 and openntpd. I loaded ESXi and a FreeBSD 8.0 guest last night and this morning it is still keeping time OK without any changes to loader.conf. I'm trying to test this out now without openntpd, but with kern.hz=100 still set. You will definitely want kern.hz=100 or something lower than the default of 1000, otherwise your guests will use up a decent portion of your hosts CPU time, even when idle. Try it and see the difference. We actually kept everything running on Linux+VMware Server 1.0 until we could make the switch to ESXi; the VMware Server 2.0 product wasn't reliable for us at all and was a total pain to manage. I am using vSphere to manage, but I see even the standard version requires licensing in the amount of $795. Is there a free management software, or better yet, a way to manage via Linux? That's definitely something I like about VMware Server, that I can manage via a browser. I have not had any major problems with VMware Server 2.0 all running on CentOS 5.x hosts. ESXi can be managed by the VI (Virtual Infrastructure) Client, which I believe is windows-only, vSphere, or even the Remote-CLI and the barebones service console that can be unlocked. There is no browser management interface. Performance, however, is much better than VMware Server 1.0 and 2.0. -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
Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2896643group_id=151951atid=782616 I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules! Thanks /Leslie ___ 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: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2896643group_id=151951atid=782616 I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules! Thanks /Leslie ___ 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 Can't you load the modules from /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK VirtualBox places its modules in /boot/modules, which makes them loadable by load_modulename=YES in /boot/loader.conf, where modulename should be replaced by the filename of the module(s), omitting the leading path and the .ko suffix, e.g. nvidia_load=YES loads /boot/modules/nvidia.ko. ___ 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: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware
On 12/18/09 12:39, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't used Xen, but for ESX: I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vmtools available for FreeBSD do not support synchronizing the host time to the guest OS. I know it is supported (and works) for Linux, but by what mechanism I do not know. On OpenBSD the kernel can be built to present a device which will use the synchronize time with guest feature of VMware to provide a clock source which can be specified in ntpd.conf. Perhaps you're right and all it takes is the switch in ESX. I've disabled ntpd on one of my VMs and I'll see if it drifts any by tomorrow. FYI the system has started to drift on the order of 100ms every 6 hours. OK. This leads me to believe that the synchronize time with guest feature of ESXi is not sufficient in FreeBSD with VMware tools. While using NTP, the system would reliably keep in sync within 30ms of local NTP relays. You supposedly need to re-run it periodically or enable an internal in some .vmx config file; see Enabling Periodic Synchronization: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf Even with the following set in the virtual machine's .vmx configuration file, the clock still drifts without ntpd: tools.syncTime = TRUE $ ntpdate -q pool.ntp.org server 209.114.111.1, stratum 2, offset -2.093494, delay 0.10614 server 66.250.45.2, stratum 2, offset -2.082546, delay 0.04468 server 169.229.70.201, stratum 3, offset -2.092357, delay 0.11055 21 Dec 11:29:06 ntpdate[12781]: step time server 66.250.45.2 offset -2.082546 sec The vmware_timekeeping.pdf document also states that By default, the daemon checks the guest operating system clock only once per minute., meaning that we shouldn't have to adjust any of the other options to maintain synchornization. If this doesn't work in FreeBSD guest VMs, has anyone filed a bug report with them? I have not filed a bug report. I'm using open-vm-tools and have not tried the VMware-provided tools yet. I'll give them a shot if I get a chance and I'll see if will actively sync the time by itself. Can anyone else chime in on whether or not the tools.syncTime option and setting kern.hz=100 have been sufficient in keeping the time in sync with a FreeBSD guest? ___ 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: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2896643group_id=151951atid=782616 I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules! Thanks /Leslie Can't you load the modules from /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK VirtualBox places its modules in /boot/modules, which makes them loadable by load_modulename=YES in /boot/loader.conf, where modulename should be replaced by the filename of the module(s), omitting the leading path and the .ko suffix, e.g. nvidia_load=YES loads /boot/modules/nvidia.ko. I read in the same post that the loading order was important, and the way I understood it was that, if I load via loader.conf I be sure that the order is correct! ___ 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: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2896643group_id=151951atid=782616 I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules! Thanks /Leslie Can't you load the modules from /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK VirtualBox places its modules in /boot/modules, which makes them loadable by load_modulename=YES in /boot/loader.conf, where modulename should be replaced by the filename of the module(s), omitting the leading path and the .ko suffix, e.g. nvidia_load=YES loads /boot/modules/nvidia.ko. Correction I read in the same post that the loading order was important, and the way I understood it was that, if I load via loader.conf I could not be sure that the order is correct! ___ 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: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2896643group_id=151951atid=782616 I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules! Thanks /Leslie Can't you load the modules from /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK VirtualBox places its modules in /boot/modules, which makes them loadable by load_modulename=YES in /boot/loader.conf, where modulename should be replaced by the filename of the module(s), omitting the leading path and the .ko suffix, e.g. nvidia_load=YES loads /boot/modules/nvidia.ko. Correction I read in the same post that the loading order was important, and the way I understood it was that, if I load via loader.conf I could not be sure that the order is correct! If the order is important, one probably depends on the other. Try loading only one of them and see if it automagically loads the other one. Or I guess you could simply load them from /etc/rc.local. Though that is, AFAIK, no longer a recommended way to do things, it does still work. I start a few things from there, simply because I couldn't be bothered with writing an rc.d script. ___ 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: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive
After panic data *is* getting corrupted anyway - MySQL tables that were open are broken, soft-updates are unsync'ed etc etc. If it's an option for you, you may want to look into disabling soft updates as well so that you don't have to just hope that everything gets synced before the end of the world. Depending on your usage, however, this might result in unacceptably poor performance. I am thinking about it. I am using RAID controller with battery and write cache enabled, but I just did not test performance for Softupdates vs no Softupdates + Write cache. Probably, someone have done this already? -- // 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
Re: ld-elf related problems
Ruben de Groot wrote: So? It's just an OS. Some will switch to linux and try to make that better. Thats evolution. I hate linux to be honest, I have always highly praised FreeBSD to my friends and colleagues in the industry. But sadly enough, linux is performing significantly better in a number of areas than FreeBSD at the moment (yes I know the reasons why there is no zfs on linux, funny isnt it). This stupid licensing issue with the gnu development tools is a major setback, what will it take before someone says Hey, gcc 4.2.x can no longer produce code that makes us competitive performance wise with other open source operating systems ,we need to upgrade? Are we going to wait years on end until llvm is mature enough? ___ 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
[SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
On 2009-12-21 18:02, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2896643group_id=151951atid=782616 I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules! Thanks /Leslie Can't you load the modules from /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK VirtualBox places its modules in /boot/modules, which makes them loadable by load_modulename=YES in /boot/loader.conf, where modulename should be replaced by the filename of the module(s), omitting the leading path and the .ko suffix, e.g. nvidia_load=YES loads /boot/modules/nvidia.ko. Correction I read in the same post that the loading order was important, and the way I understood it was that, if I load via loader.conf I could not be sure that the order is correct! If the order is important, one probably depends on the other. Try loading only one of them and see if it automagically loads the other one. Or I guess you could simply load them from /etc/rc.local. Though that is, AFAIK, no longer a recommended way to do things, it does still work. I start a few things from there, simply because I couldn't be bothered with writing an rc.d script. You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-) Thank you! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?
On Monday 21 December 2009 12:48, Eric Le Goff wrote: My understanding from a previous post in this list (Around december 18th) was that VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run was specifically tied to the Linux kernel This also what I experimented. i read it again, but what i get from the older post is that when the additions are meant for linux guest. i could of course be wrong, because i haven't tried the additions myself under FBSD, but i think that the additions would run properly . -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?
Eric Le Goff wrote: but then it hangs forever on my laptop Did anyone successfully used wifimgr ? If yes, what could I check to make it work ? It hangs for me too. I contacted the maintainer and he says he is aware of the problem and next version will fix it. But as I understand it's merely an editor of wpa_supplicant.conf file. I am not sure it will function just like kde or gnome network manager in ubuntu. Also it's amazing there is nothing working available on FreeBSD. Do people enjoy editing those files by hand every time they connect to a new network? 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
Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?
2009/12/21 Yuri y...@rawbw.com: Eric Le Goff wrote: but then it hangs forever on my laptop Did anyone successfully used wifimgr ? If yes, what could I check to make it work ? It hangs for me too. I contacted the maintainer and he says he is aware of the problem and next version will fix it. But as I understand it's merely an editor of wpa_supplicant.conf file. I am not sure it will function just like kde or gnome network manager in ubuntu. Also it's amazing there is nothing working available on FreeBSD. Do people enjoy editing those files by hand every time they connect to a new network? Umm . . . yes? But more seriously, FreeBSD is still very much a server operating system, expecting it to be exactly like Torvalds 2.6 OS or BiGa 0.7alpha right now is a bit much. -- -- ___ 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
Problem with GPA
When starting GPA from xfce4, I find numerous keys that I never placed there. I am sure, because this is a fresh installation. Furthermore, it is impossible for me to remove them. The following three links show screen captures of what I am experiencing. http://imagebin.ca/view/tFZKiY.html http://imagebin.ca/view/9KQrIzgi.html http://imagebin.ca/view/QcRONo4O.html I tried to delete all GPG2 related programs, etc. and did fresh installs of all of them; however, the problem persists. Since I am not sure where GPA is getting these keys from, I don't know how to remove them. -- Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | A hacker does for love what others would not do for money. ___ 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: [NOT SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-) Thank you! You where right, but it's the wrong order They must be loaded in the reverse order. Sorry ___ 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 enable network manager in KDE?
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:46:48 -0500, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: Umm . . . yes? But more seriously, FreeBSD is still very much a server operating system, [...] Really? I'm using it exclusively on the desktop since version 4.0, but okay... well... I'm completely insane. :-) I found that FreeBSD is an excellent multi-purpose OS. It runs well on servers, but on desktops, too, as well as on mixed forms (e. g. desktops that provide some server functionality). Of course there are some problems getting things to work on FreeBSD especially in the desktop setting, such as ink-pee electrical paper sheet feeders and Flash make-the-web-unusable stuff. :-) FreeBSD is strong where other OSes are very week. As a developer, this especially applied to DOCUMENTATION. As far as I experienced, Linux is absolutely worse in this field. Integrity, consistency and well-intended layouts and principles (instead of arbitrary decisions that vary with each release or distribution) are another topic. -- Polytropon 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: How to enable network manager in KDE?
ill...@gmail.com wrote: Umm . . . yes? But more seriously, FreeBSD is still very much a server operating system, expecting it to be exactly like Torvalds 2.6 OS or BiGa 0.7alpha right now is a bit much. Really? I was using FreeBSD as a desktop system for at least 10 years and it works quite well as a desktop. There are few defects, like the lack of network manager. If it was very much a server operating system, what are kde and gnome teams doing in your opinion? They seem to be completely unaware of that either. 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
FreeBSD beastie plush toy?
Where can I purchase a FreeBSD beastie plush toy? Google reveals some very old links that no longer work. thanks, Alex ___ 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: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network
On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are bound to specific modems. This can probably be fixed from the ISP side. It should probably be some antispoofing rule that drops the packets you are sending via the wrong interface. You could try communicating the problem to the ISP and hope for the best... So I'm wondering if using stick-address with a round-robin nat pool is really sufficient to do load balancing of outgoing traffic and not get into session problems with various protocols. Has anybody had similar experiences? I have no experience on this, but theoretically a state can expire while the upper layers are still active... so, I *think* you may have problems... Of course, you could increase the lifetime of states A few, mostly random thoughts, Nikos ___ 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: SUIDDIR on ZFS?
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Emil Smolenski am...@raisa.eu.org wrote: In fact, you're right. I used only the g+s file mode and it worked for both UFS and ZFS. Sorry for the confusion. Any clues would be appreciated. Maybe ZVOL will be sufficient? It just works: # zfs create -V 1g tank/tmp/test1 # newfs /dev/zvol/tank/tmp/test1 # mkdir /tmp/test1 # mount -o suiddir /dev/zvol/tank/tmp/test1 /tmp/test1 # mkdir /tmp/test1/user1dir # chmod 4777 /tmp/test1/user1dir # chown user1:user1 /tmp/test1/user1dir # su - user2 $ cd /tmp/test1/user1dir $ touch test $ ll test -rw--- 1 user1 user1 - 0 Dec 21 00:14 test Emil- Yes. That works. I had that thought shortly after sending my last email. I'm going to try it. I guess the downside is that it doesn't give me the dyanmic size abilities of ZFS, but I can probably just dedicate a large chunk of storage to the ZVOL. Thanks, Ben ___ 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
debugging slow network
From: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk Subject: debugging slow network 20091220132250.ga94...@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk I seem to have a very slow network connection at work. All local switches are supposed to be gigabit, and my network card is gigabit as well. But download speed seems to be much lower. I'm not a networks person, but I understand there could many factors affecting the speed. There appear to be a multitute of different network related commands just in base OS. Which should I start with to get some idea of the actual network speed? netstat? And should I be looking for? You might also check that all your cables are Cat5e or Cat6. If you have a Category 4 cable in there somewhere it could be causing errors and retries or forcing the network interfaces to revert to a lower speed after enough errors. ___ 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: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware
On 12/21/2009 10:22 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I loaded ESXi and a FreeBSD 8.0 guest last night and this morning it is still keeping time OK without any changes to loader.conf. I'm trying to test this out now without openntpd, but with kern.hz=100 still set. You will definitely want kern.hz=100 or something lower than the default of 1000, otherwise your guests will use up a decent portion of your hosts CPU time, even when idle. Try it and see the difference. Yes, I see the difference using 100, thanks. I guess we're not able to install vmware-tools for 8.0 since the install does not find a FreeBSD8.0 kernel module? Not that I used them much on VMware Server, I was curious if they work any better on ESXi for FreeBSD8.0. Had to make changes to the script used to restart before and it didn't show IP, etc. I assume this hasn't changed though? --Robert ___ 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 enable network manager in KDE?
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:17, Eric Le Goff eleg...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I had a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I am quite new in FreeBsd but in my case it does not work , ie : I start a xfce4 session for a (non-root) user open the wifimgr from the 'network' menu provide root password as requested but then it hangs forever on my laptop Did anyone successfully used wifimgr ? If yes, what could I check to make it work ? PS : I am using FreeBsd 8.0 on an (old) Thinkpad laptop with ipw-2100 wireless card This worked just fine for me on my T61 with xfce4. It's just the wpi0 interface itself I'm having problems with at the moment. Kurt ___ 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-8.0 ZFS issue: How to set kva_pages=512 when using the kernel from the Install dvd
Hi all, I’m trying to an install a ZFS-only system using this recipe: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/UFSBoot When I copy the FreeBSD-base to the new zfs file system, everything stops. I get a kernel panic with this message: panic: kmem_malloc()16384): kmem_map to small, and the whole box freezes. The FreeBSD handbook recommends to set KVA_PAGES=512. But how do you do that if your installing on a new blank hard disk, using the install DVD? I don’t have more than 1024 mb ram on my machine, so it’s maybe difficult to run ZFS on it anyway? Snorre D. Øverbø ___ 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: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...
As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error. Perhaps, but I've had situations in which fdisk would not alter a PC partition (slice) table. Particularly a table on a disk which the operating itself is running off of. I attempted to delete some unused slices (not the one FreeBSD was one) and the master boot record remained unaltered. I tried the same with gpart and everything worked fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though. -Modulok- On 12/20/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote: Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work correctly. If you see errors such as fdisk: Class not found, use gpart(8) instead. As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error. In the cases where I've seen it, fdisk still carried out the command it was given. I've always just ignored it. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ 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: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...
Just to clarify, when I say 'unused slices', I mean those of other operating systems I was no longer interested in having around, not as in 'marked as free space'. Thanks! -Modulok- On 12/21/09, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error. Perhaps, but I've had situations in which fdisk would not alter a PC partition (slice) table. Particularly a table on a disk which the operating itself is running off of. I attempted to delete some unused slices (not the one FreeBSD was one) and the master boot record remained unaltered. I tried the same with gpart and everything worked fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though. -Modulok- On 12/20/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote: Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work correctly. If you see errors such as fdisk: Class not found, use gpart(8) instead. As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error. In the cases where I've seen it, fdisk still carried out the command it was given. I've always just ignored it. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ 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: ld-elf related problems
On 12/21/09, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: This is a fresh install and all ports are up to date. I don't have the time to debug and fiddle with all the applications that are crashing, so i'll just do a clean reinstall of the OS, and hope that it won't happen again (won't be installing numpy). That might be wise. Let us know the error messages if it happens again. Adam's point was, I think, that recently many people have been updating to a new version of FreeBSD, and not: (1) cleaning off stale base system files, including libraries, that may cause problems (this can be done, for example, with a 'make -C /usr/src delete-old delete-old-libs', and/or by using find(1)/rm(1) with some timestamp criteria.); (2) rebuilding and reinstalling ports, which is a good idea (many old ports work if you have the necessary COMPAT_FREEBSD_N options in your kernel, and have the corresponding misc/compatN ports installed; but it's a good idea to rebuild if you can). ... It certainly adds to the frustration knowing that there are no real technical reasons for this... Perhaps I should have said mostly for licensing reasons. It does take time and effort to import and test a new compiler and toolchain, and many base system developers are busy with other tasks. But I just meant to point out a possible source of problems, not to reignite this argument. If you're interested in exploring alternatives, but don't have time to roll your own, there is the clangbsd project that uses the clang interface to llvm as the base system compiler. b. ___ 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
