Re: 8.0 upgrade geometry does not match label
Am 29.04.2010 16:29, schrieb Marcel Moolenaar: On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, as far as I know my disk is not operating in dangerously dedicated mode. Despite this I'm unable to upgrade to freebsd 8.0. Please explain how or why you can't upgrade. The information you gave does not point towards any problems. All looks good. Also, the subject line mentions geometry does not match label, but you did not mention anything it in your email about it. Again, it by itself does not indicate a problem. Thanks, the kernel reboots and one of the last lines contains the well known geometry string and a bufwrite error -- and no entry in any logfile. Currently I'm preparing a kernel with debugging enabled to track down the issue. I don't believe the disk geometry problems are responsible for the reboot, but having solved this issue should help. ___ 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
Parent Child SIGPIPE and write problem
I am writing a process that has a parent running as a daemon process
that has to spawn an appropriate child to parse whatever the parent has
in one of several formats (hence the variety of child parsers)
I am getting occasional SIGPIPE errors (and the boring bit is that I
have put in code that I think _should_prevent the SIGPIPE occurring
any comments or guidance welcome ...
parent pseudo code
main()
{
daemon
while(1)
{
get test data
pipe()
fork()
in Parent
read(child-parent pipe) until \n
log string to logfile
write(parent-child pipe) real data to child for
processing
close(parent-child pipe)
read(child-parent pipe) until EOF for result
waitpid(child)
get return code
in Child
set stdin nonblocking so child will inherit
execve the correct parser
}
}
child pseudo code
main()
{
read cmdline params
write(child-parent pipe) my PID
read(parent-child pipe) intil EOF
process through flex/bison parser
write(child-parent pipe) the result
return (code)
}
I am catching SIPPIPE in the parent and logging it, and have a
test on the parent write for EPIPE and am doing a go-around twice loop
through
the write before giving up.
Murray Taylor
Bytecraft Systems
Special Projects Engineer
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Re: Gaming
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:46:15PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Yes probably, but for now I can play urban terror as well. Which features are missing ? -- Demelier David First, it's shaders support. I've used to play toribash a lot, and it requires OpenGL 1.3 which mesa does support, but it could not use cell-shading and graphics were not-too-good. Second, i do not know what feature does it require, but i'm a pretty-long-time dwarf fortress player, and with ATI i can not play graphics version (where graphics are just .bpm tiles) stonesence does not even run with wine. (whell.. ascii rocks, but i like watching what have i created in 3d-version :)) Third, i used to play wurm online, that does not require high-end graphics, but is unplayeble (e.g. it doesn't even run with ATI). And, of course, missing s3tc support that disallows playing some newer commercial games. But don't take me wrong, i like ATI, and the only feature that i really miss and because of which i use now nvidia-graphics card -- vdpau, while waiting for stabilization of mplayer-mt patches (e.g. on some of video-files it crashes) -- Wbr, Krutov Mikle ___ 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: Gaming
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:41:33AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: I agree. There's a wiki entry detailing the process: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d There are a few problems with the network interfaces on the 32-64 bit bridge; which will intefere with some network related games (eg: EVE Online), but on the whole the experience is very positive. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz -- If everything's under control, you're going too slow - Mario Andretti As for me, the worst thing with wine on amd64 is that wineserver is using 100% cpu all the time and so it is kind of slowier than wine on i386. The only game i play for now is dwarf fortress, it is really cpu-using game, and on my pretty-old laptop with i386 and 2.2GHz cpu it runs little faster than on amd64 3.0GHz machine. Btw, does that wineserver behavior reproduce for anyone? -- Wbr, Krutov Mikle ___ 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: Gaming
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:54 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. ? You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the game. :-) Where is that upvote button when you need 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: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote:
One more problem: there should be a quote at the end of the last line.
attach 100 {
device-name ugen[0-9].[0-9];
match vendor 0x04b8;
match product 0x010a;
action usb_devaddr=`echo $device-name | sed 's#^ugen##'` \
chown root:saned /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.* \
chmod 0660 /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.*
Shouldn't there be a ; at the end of the action line also? Because every
line above ends with it too. I also ended the total attach 100 statement
with }; because that seems the case in the rest of devd.conf.
Yes, sorry about that. Next time I'm going to post the whole section instead
of trying to edit it down.
To see if these changes work I'll have to reboot later because I'm updating
my ports, and this can take a while...
There's '/etc/rc.d/devd restart', but it's probably not something to
experiment with during updates.
After the changes in devd.conf the scanner now works as user! It has the
user as owner and saned as group.
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
Marco
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Broken port 'py-sqlite3'... or maybe something else?
List, I tried to install 'py-sqlite3' with the usual 'make install clean' routine. Instead, I got this: === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for py25-sqlite3-2.5.1_1 = No MD5 checksum recorded for python/Python-2.5.1.tgz. = No SHA256 checksum recorded for python/Python-2.5.1.tgz. = No suitable checksum found for python/Python-2.5.1.tgz. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/py-sqlite3. What does it mean? And...how do I go about getting 'py-sqlite3' installed in light of it? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Network Card Ordering
Hi all, I am using FreeBSD 7 and all my computers have built in intel lan cards. When you boot you get em0 and em1. On some pc's I add an additional network card which shows up as em2 and em3. The problem I have is that on certain hardware that network card will take the spaces em0 and em1, and the onboard cards will shuffle. Now for various reasons this is a problem - is there any way to specify/force cards on boot. I don't want to rename them because I can't tell when this will/wont happen; I would rather force it somehow to prefer the onboard cards? Thanks for the help Dave ___ 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: Wireless networking question
Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info: I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class = network From here: http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=174 It looks like someone has already patched 8.0-STABLE: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6310highlight=Atheros+AR9285 The link to the .diff file 404's now, though. How can I get a copy? Or maybe I should just upgrade to STABLE? Well.., personally, I'd ping the patch author to confirm, but Yes, bumping to next STABLE would be the preferred option myself.., Regards, S Roberts ___ 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: Rosegarden seg faults
Still heard no word now, and I've tried the ports list several days ago now. Can anyone tell me what the next step in this process is? Do I contact the maintainer directly? On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:25 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I've installed rosegarden for a task my missus has to do. The only problem is its seg faults and can't do anything. I can run rosegarden at the prompt, but when I click notation or sequencer it fails with a seg fault. The symptoms are the same as bug #346448 at the debian bugs site, but that is 2006 and is supposedly resolved; although the version in freebsd hasn't seemed to have changed since then. I running Freebsd 8, rosegarden 2.1pl2. Running gdb I find: 0x000800c938b2 in _XtCountVaList () from /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6 The fault was apparently solved in 2.1pl4-2. Cheers ___ 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: iwi0 and spontaneous reboot on /etc/rc.d/netif restart
Hello, I just upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE-p2 from 7.2 and I'm also seeing kernel crashes and reboots after running /etc/rc.d/netif restart, which didn't occur with 7.2. This is reproducible on demand. After writing this email I found the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/144755 % /etc/rc.d/netif restart Apr 30 08:57:04 met wpa_supplicant[1785]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Apr 30 08:57:04 met wpa_supplicant[1719]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Apr 30 08:57:04 met wpa_supplicant[1719]: Trying to associate with 0:xxx:aa (SSID='blah' freq=2447 MHz) Apr 30 08:57:04 met wpa_supplicant[1785]: Trying to associate with 00:xx:aa (SSID='blah' freq=2447 MHz) Apr 30 08:57:04 met wpa_supplicant[1785]: Associated with 00:xx:aa Apr 30 08:57:04 met kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP Apr 30 08:57:05 met kernel: iwi0: firmware error Apr 30 08:57:04 met wpa_supplicant[1719]: Associated with 00:xx:aa Apr 30 08:57:05 met kernel: iwi0: need multicast update callback Apr 30 08:57:10 met kernel: iwi0: device timeout Apr 30 08:57:15 met wpa_supplicant[1719]: Authentication with 00:xx:aa timed out. Apr 30 08:57:15 met wpa_supplicant[1785]: Authentication with 00:xx:aa timed out. Apr 30 08:57:15 met kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN Apr 30 08:57:15 met wpa_supplicant[1719]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys Apr 30 08:57:15 met wpa_supplicant[1785]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys Apr 30 08:57:24 met dhclient[1876]: send_packet: Network is down Apr 30 08:58:01 met last message repeated 2 times ...crash and reboot... % kgdb kernel /var/crash/vmcore.0 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ... This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd... Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: wlan0: ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending SCAN - AUTH transition lost Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xc49331d5 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0ad5b0c stack pointer = 0x28:0xc43bbb7c frame pointer = 0x28:0xc43bbc34 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 (iwi0 taskq) trap number = 12 panic: page fault Uptime: 1m42s Physical memory: 1518 MB Dumping 69 MB: 54 38 22 6 % kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 95 0xc040 656394 kernel 21 0xc0a57000 b69c if_fxp.ko 32 0xc0a63000 2698cmiibus.ko 41 0xc0a8a000 f528 if_iwi.ko 56 0xc0a9a000 3fc40wlan.ko 61 0xc0ada000 7194 snd_ich.ko 72 0xc0ae2000 567b0sound.ko 81 0xc0b39000 87d8 atapicd.ko 91 0xc0b42000 4f6c atapicam.ko 101 0xc0b47000 d87c cpufreq.ko 111 0xc0b55000 30228iwi_bss.ko 121 0xc0b86000 2f2b0iwi_ibss.ko 131 0xc0bb6000 2f578iwi_monitor.ko 141 0xc0be6000 2ee0 wlan_acl.ko 151 0xc4858000 8000 linprocfs.ko 161 0xc4895000 26000linux.ko 171 0xc48f6000 3000 wlan_wep.ko 181 0xc48f9000 4000 wlan_tkip.ko 191 0xc48fe000 7000 wlan_ccmp.ko 201 0xc4cae000 9000 i915.ko % less /boot/loader.conf hw.ata.ata_dma=1 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 kern.maxdsiz=734003200 kern.ipc.semmni=256 kern.ipc.semmns=512 kern.ipc.semmnu=256 sem_load=YES atapicd_load=YES atapicam_load=YES cpufreq_load=YES if_fxp_load=YES snd_ich_load=YES # stuff for wireless legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES wlan_acl_load=YES Here are the relevant parts from /etc/rc.conf wlans_iwi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP % cat /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MY_KERNEL_CONFIG cpu I686_CPU ident MET_ATH_CX_2010-04-29 options SCHED_ULE options PREEMPTION #Enable kernel thread preemption options INET #InterNETworking options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols options SCTP # Stream Control Transmission Protocol options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL #Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories options UFS_GJOURNAL # Enable gjournal-based UFS journaling options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device options NFSCLIENT #Network Filesystem Client options NFSSERVER #Network Filesystem Server options NFSLOCKD #Network Lock Manager options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options PROCFS #Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS #Pseudo-filesystem framework options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization options COMPAT_43TTY # BSD 4.3 TTY compat [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options COMPAT_FREEBSD6 # Compatible with FreeBSD6 options COMPAT_FREEBSD7 # Compatible with FreeBSD7
upgrading from i386 to AMD64
Based upon a different question in this forum, I find myself motivated to upgrade my i386 install to AMD64. Can this be done by a simple kernel rebuild or a binary upgrade? Is a full reinstallation necessary? ___ 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
upgrading from i386 to AMD64
Neil Short writes: Based upon a different question in this forum, I find myself motivated to upgrade my i386 install to AMD64. Can this be done by a simple kernel rebuild or a binary upgrade? Is a full reinstallation necessary? Perhaps not strictly necessary, but the path of least resistance and lowest risk. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
I am new to BSD
Here is what I want to use it for. I have background in the Avaya/Lucent PBX world and I know how reliable Unix is. I would like to install a version of unix on a computer and just use it for the following purposes. 1. I want to add a couple terabyte drives to it and share them on my network. I want my kids and wife to be able to backup their files from a Windows XP, Windows7 or Vista machine to these terabyte drives. 2. I want to be able to load Asterisk on this machine and utilize a couple digitrex boards. 3. I may attach a printer to this box and share it across my network. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks reid David (Reid) Magel Department of Information Services Local Telephone Service-Tech Support Post Office Box 42442 Olympia, WA 98504-2442 Office: (360) 902-3350 Pager: (206) 819-3256 Fax: (360) 586-6280 email davi...@dis.wa.gov text page: 2068193...@vtext.com Magel, Reid (DIS).vcf ___ 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: I am new to BSD
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:52:50AM -0700, Magel, Reid (DIS) wrote: Here is what I want to use it for. I have background in the Avaya/Lucent PBX world and I know how reliable Unix is. I would like to install a version of unix on a computer and just use it for the following purposes. 1.I want to add a couple terabyte drives to it and share them on my network. I want my kids and wife to be able to backup their files from a Windows XP, Windows7 or Vista machine to these terabyte drives. 2.I want to be able to load Asterisk on this machine and utilize a couple digitrex boards. 3.I may attach a printer to this box and share it across my network. Let me know your thoughts. Sounds like a good idea. Samba can handle connections from the MS machines. I am not familiar with Asterisk, but it is in the ports at /usr/ports/net/asterisk You may want to go with an AMD64 type CPU system rather than i386 because the sizes you are talking about are pretty big - though far from too big for either. jerry Thanks reid David (Reid) Magel Department of Information Services Local Telephone Service-Tech Support Post Office Box 42442 Olympia, WA 98504-2442 Office: (360) 902-3350 Pager: (206) 819-3256 Fax: (360) 586-6280 email davi...@dis.wa.gov text page: 2068193...@vtext.com Magel, Reid (DIS).vcf ___ 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: I am new to BSD
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Magel, Reid (DIS) davi...@dis.wa.govwrote: 1. I want to add a couple terabyte drives to it and share them on my network. I want my kids and wife to be able to backup their files from a Windows XP, Windows7 or Vista machine to these terabyte drives. 2. I want to be able to load Asterisk on this machine and utilize a couple digitrex boards. 3. I may attach a printer to this box and share it across my network. 1 3 are certain possible depending on particulars. Samba/cups would likely handle most setups like this. 2(a) is also not a problem, 2(b) you'd need to see if there's a driver available. I'm not familar with digitrex, is it a TDM based product? I'd guess you'd have some trouble in that area, FreeBSD and asterisk require special consideration when hardware is involved. You can ask further on the freebsd asterisk mailing list. -- 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
'at' command syntax
I'm am unable to figure out the proper syntax of the 'at' command. I've read the man page over and over. I've attempted Google searches but there is a lot of 'at' in the world. Can someone please point out what's wrong with this syntax? at noon '/usr/local/bin/curl -u user:pass -d status=New products added to catalog. Check out the demo videos! - http://bit.ly/7dtLny; https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' I've tried various ways of specifying time but always get at: incomplete time. However if I just enter 'at noon', then I am in an interactive mode where I can paste the command, end with ctrl-D, and my job gets scheduled. What am I missing? Thanks, Drew ___ 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: 'at' command syntax
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:52:26AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Hi Drew, at reads its job from standard input, so basically you have to $ echo '$yourcommand' | at noon An alternative is to save you command in a small text file, and either $ cat $file | at noon or $ at -f $file noon Hope this helps Regards, Thomas I'm am unable to figure out the proper syntax of the 'at' command. I've read the man page over and over. I've attempted Google searches but there is a lot of 'at' in the world. Can someone please point out what's wrong with this syntax? at noon '/usr/local/bin/curl -u user:pass -d status=New products added to catalog. Check out the demo videos! - http://bit.ly/7dtLny; https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' I've tried various ways of specifying time but always get at: incomplete time. However if I just enter 'at noon', then I am in an interactive mode where I can paste the command, end with ctrl-D, and my job gets scheduled. What am I missing? Thanks, Drew ___ 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
help
How may I resolve this problem *** $ pine The /home/oba/mail subdirectory already exists, but it is not writable by Pine so Pine cannot run. Please correct the permissions and restart Pine. ** There was no problem until I upgraded to 8.0. Thank you. Bartholomew ___ 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: 'at' command syntax
Read the man page...that should shed light on the issue. Sent from my electronic slavery device. On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:52, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: I'm am unable to figure out the proper syntax of the 'at' command. I've read the man page over and over. I've attempted Google searches but there is a lot of 'at' in the world. Can someone please point out what's wrong with this syntax? at noon '/usr/local/bin/curl -u user:pass -d status=New products added to catalog. Check out the demo videos! - http://bit.ly/7dtLny; https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' I've tried various ways of specifying time but always get at: incomplete time. However if I just enter 'at noon', then I am in an interactive mode where I can paste the command, end with ctrl-D, and my job gets scheduled. What am I missing? Thanks, Drew ___ 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
More than 8 partitions
Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # sizeoffset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like gpart: index '9': No space left on device I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? Regards, Jon ___ 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: 'at' command syntax
On 4/30/2010 10:11 AM, Allie Daneman wrote: Read the man page...that should shed light on the issue. Sent from my electronic slavery device. [snip] I've read the man page over and over. Thanks for your reply. I started there but guess I am dense. However Thomas' post told me that I have to use 'echo' or 'cat' and the pipe to feed 'at' from the command line. I wasn't grasping that I had to do it in this manner. Cheers, Drew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disk Usage
On 23 April 2010 12:24, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:06:14 -0400 ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com articulated: 64bit executables are going to be larger, sometimes as much as 2x, but do you now have a bunch of (large) /boot/kernel/*.symbols files now? I have 1115 total files in that directory. It appears that half of them are *.symbols files. I'm pretty sure that you don't actually need those for day to day running (I assume they have something to do with GDB). They can pretty safely be rm(1)ed. -- -- ___ 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 determine /dev/ad* from mount label
On 27 April 2010 18:29, Mark G. mark-fbsd-quest-10+20100...@giovannetti.ca wrote: On 04/27/2010 00:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Mark G.mark-fbsd-quest-10+20100...@giovannetti.ca writes: [...] I just wanted to know if there was a utility to tell me which actual device was mounted. I also tried camcontrol devlist and atacontrol list. The latter allowed me to determine that /dev/label/rootfs0 is ad2s1a based on the actual disk size and a process of elimination. Does anyone know a magic incantation to output this label-device mapping? Try looking at glabel(8). I don't know what option will list which is mounted, but 'glabel status' shows the names and what partitions they are associated with. That's the ticket, I knew I was missing something. Thanks! if the verbosity isn't high enough geom label list or glabel list will certainly cover that. -- -- ___ 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: I am new to BSD
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:52:50AM -0700, Magel, Reid (DIS) wrote: Here is what I want to use it for. I have background in the Avaya/Lucent PBX world and I know how reliable Unix is. I would like to install a version of unix on a computer and just use it for the following purposes. 1. I want to add a couple terabyte drives to it and share them on my network. I want my kids and wife to be able to backup their files from a Windows XP, Windows7 or Vista machine to these terabyte drives. 2. I want to be able to load Asterisk on this machine and utilize a couple digitrex boards. 3. I may attach a printer to this box and share it across my network. Let me know your thoughts. Sounds like a good idea. Samba can handle connections from the MS machines. I am not familiar with Asterisk, but it is in the ports at /usr/ports/net/asterisk Info about the ports collection is at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Best thing is to agree to install ports collection during OS installation. This does not install all sourcecode, just the index. The traditional way to install is cd to the port folder and do make, make install, make clean. cd /usr/ports/net/asterisk make (get a snack) make install make clean I prefer to use portinstall and portupgrade. Be sure to use portsnap to freshen up your ports tree and when you add a new port to an existing system do a portupgrade -a first so what you already have is up to date. Be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING before you update anything. Have fun! Gary Dunn Open Slate Project ___ 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: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code
Dan, thanks for your reply: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 29), Joerg Bruehe said: For some long, unknown time, the MySQL code contains a variable net_retry_count which is by default set to 10 (ten) for all platforms, but to 100 (1 million) for FreeBSD (during configure phase). The source code comment about this variable reads If a read on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up. [[...]] I'm pretty sure this is a holdover from when FreeBSD only had a user pthreads package (libc_r). libc calls that would normally block got converted into non-blocking versions and a select() loop would execute threads as the events they were waiting on occurred. Incoming signals would cause all threads waiting on read() to return EINTR. If you have other threads doing work and sending/receiving signals, this can add up to a lot of extra EINTR's. Interesting information - thanks. I never heard that before, but it explains a lot. FreeBSD 5.0 (released in 2003) was the first version to have kernel-based pthread support, so the original reason for raising net_retry_count has long since disappeared. It is quite possible that nobody checked this: If it ain't broken ... A related question might be, though: Should that variable even exist? EINTR isn't technically a failure, and most programs that read from sockets simply wrap their read()s in a loop that retries when EINTR is received. Only mysql actually counts the number of times through the loop. I know and agree that EINTR is no failure if a system call takes long, like read() or write() from/to a socket (or other slow device) on sufficiently large data. But my current action is not to change the code, rather it is a cleanup in the build system (you may have heard we are changing from the autotools to cmake), so currently I won't change that loop dealing with possible system call interruptions (by not counting). So you are saying it might all be obsolete, and current versions of FreeBSD don't need this special setting. This sounds like I should do a build without it and then run tests. Thanks! Regards, Jörg -- Joerg Bruehe, MySQL Build Team, joerg.bru...@sun.com Sun Microsystems GmbH, Komturstrasse 18a, D-12099 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB161028 ___ 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: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code
In the last episode (Apr 30), Joerg Bruehe said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 29), Joerg Bruehe said: For some long, unknown time, the MySQL code contains a variable net_retry_count which is by default set to 10 (ten) for all platforms, but to 100 (1 million) for FreeBSD (during configure phase). The source code comment about this variable reads If a read on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up. [[...]] I'm pretty sure this is a holdover from when FreeBSD only had a user pthreads package (libc_r). libc calls that would normally block got converted into non-blocking versions and a select() loop would execute threads as the events they were waiting on occurred. Incoming signals would cause all threads waiting on read() to return EINTR. If you have other threads doing work and sending/receiving signals, this can add up to a lot of extra EINTR's. Interesting information - thanks. I never heard that before, but it explains a lot. This may also have been due to a bug in the early libc_r code. Appropriate use of sigwait() and pthread_sigmask() should let the pthreads library know which read() calls it can silently retry on behalf of threads that are ignoring signals (and thus shouldn't have their syscalls aborted with EINTR). I have email records talking about libc_r problems with signal masking from the FreeBSD 2.2.7 days (~1998). It's possible that later libc_r versions had fixed the bug. I used to have copies of the ancient mysql source code around (3.22 and 3.23 era), but have since deleted them, so I don't know when the 100 workaround was added. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code
Dan, your info is very valuable - thanks: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 30), Joerg Bruehe said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 29), Joerg Bruehe said: For some long, unknown time, the MySQL code contains a variable net_retry_count which is by default set to 10 (ten) for all platforms, but to 100 (1 million) for FreeBSD (during configure phase). The source code comment about this variable reads If a read on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up. [[...]] I'm pretty sure this is a holdover from when FreeBSD only had a user pthreads package (libc_r). [[...]] Interesting information - thanks. I never heard that before, but it explains a lot. This may also have been due to a bug in the early libc_r code. Appropriate use of sigwait() and pthread_sigmask() should let the pthreads library know which read() calls it can silently retry on behalf of threads that are ignoring signals (and thus shouldn't have their syscalls aborted with EINTR). I have email records talking about libc_r problems with signal masking from the FreeBSD 2.2.7 days (~1998). It's possible that later libc_r versions had fixed the bug. I used to have copies of the ancient mysql source code around (3.22 and 3.23 era), but have since deleted them, so I don't know when the 100 workaround was added. The readily available revision control history of the MySQL source code goes back to the year 2000 only (the system used was changed back then, without history transfer), but a colleague checked that this workaround is documented in the manual of 3.22. All this seems to be a good indication we should get rid of this. Thanks for your help, Jörg -- Joerg Bruehe, MySQL Build Team, joerg.bru...@sun.com (+49 30) 417 01 487 Sun Microsystems GmbH, Komturstrasse 18a, D-12099 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB161028 ___ 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
Fwd: More than 8 partitions
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. You should create a new slice (da0s3) and then create new partitions on it or use the whole slice (ad0s3c). Regards Alberto Mijares Thanks Alberto So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. The next problem is that i made fdisk create the two slices covering all the space of the disk. Can I somehow - using FreeBSD tools - shrink the size of da0s2 without data loss? Regards, Jon - reposting this to the list... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Fwd: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/1 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # sizeoffset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like gpart: index '9': No space left on device I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? Use vinum - thats what I needed to do. Mind I had around 15 partitions to work out so it is effective... Maybe I should consider that too. But this installation is quite experimental, and I just thought that it would be a simple task to make a few extra partitions, since that was what I read about when 8.0 was released. But I haven't found any documentation on the issue. I guess I either have to use some non-FreeBSD tool to change the size of my slices or backup the installation to another drive, rerun fdisk etc., and copy the system back. 'Regards, Jon ___ 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: More than 8 partitions
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(8) supports only 8 partitions (including the whole disk): http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabelsektion=8 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabelapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASEformat=html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: nfe0 startup
Hi, Many thanks to those who responded to my question. It seems that waiting for the network to start up is a common problem. Recently Jeremy Chadwick proprosed adding a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/waitnetwork script. In response others have suggested the more radical step of replacing /etc/rc.d with launchd. See Message-ID 20100418213727.ga98...@icarus.home.lan etc. I will await developments. Cheers, Rob Jenssen ___ 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: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(8) supports only 8 partitions (including the whole disk): http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabelsektion=8 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabelapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASEformat=html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ I am very far from being an expert on these issues. And this link is certainly not documentation: http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible. Regards, Jon ___ 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: Wireless networking question
On Apr 30 2010 13:39, S Roberts wrote: Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info: I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class = network From here: http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=174 It looks like someone has already patched 8.0-STABLE: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6310highlight=Atheros+AR9285 The link to the .diff file 404's now, though. How can I get a copy? Or maybe I should just upgrade to STABLE? Well.., personally, I'd ping the patch author to confirm, but Yes, bumping to next STABLE would be the preferred option myself.., Regards, S Roberts Just for closure: upgrading to 8.0-STABLE went smoothly, and the wireless device works! Thanks for the help. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.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: More than 8 partitions
On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible. Obviously, this refers to the possible letters a, b, c, ..., z as partition identifiers instead of numerical ones (e. g. ad0p7). -- 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: I am new to BSD
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:34:52 HST, o...@aloha.com wrote: Best thing is to agree to install ports collection during OS installation. This does not install all sourcecode, just the index. The traditional way to install is cd to the port folder and do make, make install, make clean. ^^ Forgive me that I do mention this, but please use the correct terminology. FreeBSD has directories, not folders. It also has files, not sheets of paper. :-) cd /usr/ports/net/asterisk make (get a snack) make install Get another snack while run dependencies are installed. :-) Okay, Asterisk is not that problematic in terms of time consumption. I prefer to use portinstall and portupgrade. The tool portmaster is also worth looking at. Be sure to use portsnap to freshen up your ports tree and when you add a new port to an existing system do a portupgrade -a first so what you already have is up to date. Also keep your package database in good condition using pkgdb -aF. Be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING before you update anything. Additionally, read man 7 ports which gives many helpful information about how ports work, which make targets are supported and which means of configuration you can use to optimize the whole process for you. Have fun! The most important hint! :-) -- 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: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/1 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible. Obviously, this refers to the possible letters a, b, c, ..., z as partition identifiers instead of numerical ones (e. g. ad0p7). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... Sure. It could be so. All I know is that the bdslabel error message tells me that I can't add a label outside the range a-h. And I must admit that I can't find any official documentation saying that I should be able to do so. I guess it has been the intention, but that it hasn't been implemented (yet). Regards, Jon ___ 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
ziz a dumb question?
i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. still, getting-real, i checked out the power stats for the various chipsets. right now, everybody is racing for efficiency. not here yet. i'm thinking of buying another dell dual-core and using it as a backup Sever. DNS, web, mail. also it would function as my new tao. if the freebsd.ORG wants my present dell, 2.4ghz computer, great. i'll ship it off on my dime. what i'm wondering is:: how good is this PC-BSD at being a server? i mean, if it's good at being a toy [to listen to A/V STreams and other less-nerdy things], it probably can't be that solid on handling DNS ... at least not as well as FreeBSD. If anybody onlist has messed around with PC-BSD for *server* stuff, i'd be very interested in hearing about it. tia, y'all gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel ___ 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: ziz a dumb question?
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you mean that a modern desktop PC consumes as much power as my old AS/400e with 10 hard disk drives - as loud a a common PC, 2 times as big and 4 times as heavy? :-) right now, everybody is racing for efficiency. not here yet. I would say racing for efficiency will start if people do recognize that in many settings, networked terminals are a much better solution than one full-featured modern PC per desk. At the moment, industry is just trying to sell energy efficiency to those who are interested in it, but they get the same crap as anybody else, but more expensive. :-) what i'm wondering is:: how good is this PC-BSD at being a server? i mean, if it's good at being a toy [to listen to A/V STreams and other less-nerdy things], it probably can't be that solid on handling DNS ... at least not as well as FreeBSD. Basically, it's still FreeBSD under the hood, so you can run the basic services. Of course, you will have to install them in either of the non-supported ways (i. e. PBI packages usually won't be available for server-centered applications), via pkg_add or by ports. Because GUI operations vs. DNS workload won't be an issue in terms of resource consumption, you probably will be lucky. Serving web pages and maybe streams, and other server stuff will be possible, too. PC-BSD performs acceptably even under load. If anybody onlist has messed around with PC-BSD for *server* stuff, i'd be very interested in hearing about it. In any case, check ports and firewall. PC-BSD intends to make the experience to the user as comfortable as possible. This, sadly, means to abandon well intended means of security. So there may (!) be something that makes your machine interesting for attackers - allthough you don't participate in 99.998% of market share. :-) I've tested PC-BSD on some occiassions, but I never really used it for anything that would allow me to call it a server, so I can't be more specific. -- 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
8.0-RELEASE install freezes
Hi, I have an ancient Pentium II 350Mhz system that I've used as a home firewall for several years. I decided to try to upgrade it from 6.1 to 8.0 today, but I was unable to get the kernel to boot without freezing. The point at which it froze was: vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Thinking it may be some ACPI related issue, I tried disabling ACPI in the kernel and from the boot prompt, but still no joy. I also tried fiddling with the PnP BIOS settings with no luck. Placing system into verbose logging mode, it gets as far as printing out: Device configuration finished. procfs registered And then freezes, right before it normally displays the Timecounters tick every xxx msec line. I have attached the full dmesg from the working 6.1 system. I know it's a shot in the dark, but does anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to what I could do to try to get this thing to boot? I've gotten many years of service out of this system, but I'd still like to squeeze out a few more. :) Thanks, Steve === 6.1 dmesg === Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 r...@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (367.50-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE3 6,MMX,FXSR real memory = 268369920 (255 MB) avail memory = 253128704 (241 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: 123456 AWRDACPI on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff,0x4000-0x4041,0x5000-0x500f on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge mem 0xd000-0xd3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 3.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf0 00-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 15 at device 7 .2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: bridge at device 7.3 (no driver attached) pcib2: PCI-PCI bridge at device 11.0 on pci0 pci2: PCI bus on pcib2 fxp0: Intel 82557 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0xd000-0xd01f mem 0xd910-0xd9100fff,0xd7 00-0xd70f irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus on fxp0 nsphy0: DP83840 10/100 media interface on miibus0 nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:c9:1b:01:5c dpt0: DPT Caching SCSI RAID Controller port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 14.0 on p ci2 dpt0: DPT PM2044W FW Rev. 07M1, 1 channel, 64 CCBs dpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fxp1: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0xe400-0xe43f mem 0xd9301000-0xd9301fff,0xd9 00-0xd90f irq 15 at device 12.0 on pci0 miibus1: MII bus on fxp1 inphy0: i82555 10/100 media interface on miibus1 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp1: Ethernet address: 00:50:bf:00:00:41 fxp2: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0xe800-0xe83f mem 0xd930-0xd9300fff,0xd9 20-0xd92f irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 miibus2: MII bus on fxp2 inphy1: i82555 10/100 media interface on miibus2 inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp2: Ethernet address: 00:50:bf:00:00:42 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: Standard parallel printer port port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xcc000-0xccfff on isa0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A
Re: 'at' command syntax
On Apr 30, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 4/30/2010 10:11 AM, Allie Daneman wrote: Read the man page...that should shed light on the issue. Sent from my electronic slavery device. [snip] I've read the man page over and over. Thanks for your reply. I started there but guess I am dense. However Thomas' post told me that I have to use 'echo' or 'cat' and the pipe to feed 'at' from the command line. I wasn't grasping that I had to do it in this manner. Cheers, Drew BSD users are normally more civil and will at least point you to the section of the manual or even a good how to if we don't have the time to write one for you. RTFM responses are normally left to the Linux crowd and their lists. I hope that Thomas' note earlier shed some light on the subject. Cheers, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ 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: ziz a dumb question?
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you mean that a modern desktop PC consumes as much power as my old AS/400e with 10 hard disk drives - as loud a a common PC, 2 times as big and 4 times as heavy? :-) Yeah, gee-whiz :) right now, everybody is racing for efficiency. not here yet. I would say racing for efficiency will start if people do recognize that in many settings, networked terminals are a much better solution than one full-featured modern PC per desk. At the moment, industry is just trying to sell energy efficiency to those who are interested in it, but they get the same crap as anybody else, but more expensive. :-) i've thought about this for at Least ten years why not have 4 CRT's or xterminals hanging off one very beefy machine? but do they have anything with graphics and keyboard + mouse that can work via one USB port/jack? i'm sure my wasted cycles could be put to very good use. but it would mean haning off a second display/kybd/mouse. the ARM/A-9 chip looks great. its a RISC chip that is super efficient. gang four A9's in one package:: low power and at least 2GHZ the only drawback is that the a9 is only 32bits. So we cannot try to calcale the 7th root of infinity, :-) i mean, come-on-people, get real. 4G of ram ought to be Plenty!! what i'm wondering is:: how good is this PC-BSD at being a server? i mean, if it's good at being a toy [to listen to A/V STreams and other less-nerdy things], it probably can't be that solid on handling DNS ... at least not as well as FreeBSD. Basically, it's still FreeBSD under the hood, so you can run the basic services. Of course, you will have to install them in either of the non-supported ways (i. e. PBI packages usually won't be available for server-centered applications), via pkg_add or by ports. Because GUI operations vs. DNS workload won't be an issue in terms of resource consumption, you probably will be lucky. Serving web pages and maybe streams, and other server stuff will be possible, too. PC-BSD performs acceptably even under load. i'm trying to// or i'm =thinking about= getting rid of my pfSense machine. i used ifp for *yesrs* with no breakins. So NOBODY got into my poetry!! If anybody onlist has messed around with PC-BSD for *server* stuff, i'd be very interested in hearing about it. In any case, check ports and firewall. PC-BSD intends to make the experience to the user as comfortable as possible. This, sadly, means to abandon well intended means of security. So there may (!) be something that makes your machine interesting for attackers - allthough you don't participate in 99.998% of market share. :-) according to my /var/log/foo.log files, the only crackins were from kiddie-scripters. i squashed them. I've tested PC-BSD on some occiassions, but I never really used it for anything that would allow me to call it a server, so I can't be more specific. thanks for your POV. any others? it may be that using PC-BSD would mean that pfSense would be wise. i'm just tired of having to use Linux for fun stuff, and it frequently breaks, and relying on FreeBSD too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel ___ 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: ziz a dumb question?
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you mean that a modern desktop PC consumes as much power as my old AS/400e with 10 hard disk drives - as loud a a common PC, 2 times as big and 4 times as heavy? :-) Yeah, gee-whiz :) Incorrect values: 4 times as big and 8 times as heavy - but the same power consumption. :-) i've thought about this for at Least ten years why not have 4 CRT's or xterminals hanging off one very beefy machine? but do they have anything with graphics and keyboard + mouse that can work via one USB port/jack? Don't confuse my use of network terminal with classic serial terminals. Look, for example, at the devices AXEL builds, or already present for many years: Sun Ray terminals. They also have audio I/O, card reader, and USB connectors (where the keyboard and mouse usually are connected). A regular monitor (maybe with speakers) makes it a full-featured workstation. But no data users can mess around with, and its power requirements are really low. Our university's library had many of them, and I liked them because they were completely silent (in difference to the boring beige PC boxes they scattered around the library). You can find specs of an AXEL terminal as exemple here: http://www.axel.com/usa2/prod_ax3.html?mv2_pos=1 They're calling it thin client, but it's terminal. A box where you plug in a screen and a keyboard and connect it to a network IS a terminal. :-) i'm sure my wasted cycles could be put to very good use. Today's average users are treating their high-end HPC PCs as worse typewriters, so there are enough cycles to use. :-) but it would mean haning off a second display/kybd/mouse. Which is no problem using network terminals, everything you need is a LAN (or maybe even WLAN) connection. Still, multiple GPUs is possible, but results in a major raise of power consumption (because you have to use a modern GPU). Multiple input devices is no problem via USB. the ARM/A-9 chip looks great. its a RISC chip that is super efficient. gang four A9's in one package:: low power and at least 2GHZ the only drawback is that the a9 is only 32bits. So we cannot try to calcale the 7th root of infinity, :-) ARM is an efficient platform in terms of energy, and I think it will be more and more important in the future, especially if you consider the mobile devices market. And when it's good at running on battery, it's good on running on AC power. When the industry comes up with extra new energy efficient PC hardware, we already know that it existed for years. :-) i mean, come-on-people, get real. 4G of ram ought to be Plenty!! Hey, 640 kB should be enough for everyone. :-) i'm trying to// or i'm =thinking about= getting rid of my pfSense machine. i used ifp for *yesrs* with no breakins. So NOBODY got into my poetry!! That's what they want to make you believe. :-) according to my /var/log/foo.log files, the only crackins were from kiddie-scripters. i squashed them. By using means of blocking for known script-kiddie sources, you can get rid of a lot of useless traffic - and possible trouble. -- 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 create msdosfs on HD?
Fbsd1 wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512k count=10 fdisk -i /dev/da0 newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 Thank you very much. Thats the answer I was hoping for. For the archives here is a detailed explanation. Create MS/Windows file system on a Hard Drive so it will be recognized on an MS/Windows system. The goal here is to initialize a hard drive that was previous initialized with a non-Microsoft Windows file system, with a single active partition populated with Microsoft Windows 32 bit FAT (LBA) file system. So this hard drive will be recognized as containing a valid MS/Windows file system when used on a Microsoft Windows system. I have an old IDE 3.5” hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it as external USB attached disk on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB adapter cable. It will work with 2.5” 3.5” IDE drives and SATA drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5” IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in “control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives” as there, but “windows explorer” does not assign a drive letter for it so I can not reformat it. All PC’s running a MS/Windows system inspect sector 0 of the hard drive for the partition/slice table to determine the sysid of each partition/slice. If the sysid value is 12 then it’s a valid Microsoft Windows file system and gets assigned a drive letter in “windows explorer”. Any other sysid value means non-Microsoft Windows file system and the device is seen in “control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives” as there but “windows explorer” does not assign a drive letter to it. There are 2 ways to initialize ((2.5” or 3.5”) (IDE or SATA)) hard drives with a valid MS/Windows file system. Using the Microsoft “fdisk” program or the FreeBSD “fdisk” program. The Microsoft “fdisk” program defaults to sysid =12. The FreeBSD “fdisk” program defaults to sysid = 165, but has alternate way to assign any sysid value you want. Microsoft method. Replace the 2.5” hard drive in your laptop with the 2.5” hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. If 3.5” hard drive then open your desktop PC, remove the data cable ribbon and power connection from the existing hard drive and attach them to the 3.5” hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. Put the Microsoft XP, Vista, or Windows7 install CD in the cdrom drive and boot. Select fdisk option from the install menu to populate the hard drive with official ntfs file system. No need to continue with the install after fdisk complete. FreeBSD method. You need a PC with a running FreeBSD system and USB hardware to attach the 2.5” or 3.5” IDE or SATA hard drives with. A USB external hard drive housing will work fine for 3.5” IDE and SATA drives. For 2.5” IDE or SATA drives you will need a USB adapter cable. The 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable I purchased works with 2.5” 3.5” IDE drives and SATA drives, cost $10 USA. If you have a 3.5” IDE or SATA hard drive and FreeBSD is running on a desktop PC, you could open it up and add it as a second hard drive on the data ribbon. Attach the hard drive to the USB equipment and plug into USB port on the PC running FreeBSD. Best if you are logged in as “root”. You will see the USB console messages as the USB hard drive is connected. In most cases the USB drive will be assigned da0 as the device name. The following instructions are for initializing the hard drive as a single MS/Windows partition occupying the whole hard drive. Wipe clean the sector 0 slice table # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 The following is what you would do if the initialized msdosfs hard drive will only be used on a FreeBSD system. The slice table is populated with the sysid of 165, which means FreeBSD is using this slice, but the slice contains a MSDOS FAT32 file system. The newfs_msdos command is really acting like the msdos format command. The larger your hard drive the longer this command will take to complete. #fdisk -BI /dev/da0 #newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 This creates the sector 0 slice table and loads the default bios boot code and activates a single slice covering the entire disk. If at this point you un-plugged the USB cable from the FreeBSD system and plugged it into a Microsoft Windows PC. The USB drive would be un-accessible by “windows explorer” because no drive letter gets assigned. That’s because Window’s see this hard drive as a non-windows drive. Which is
