version
Hello, I would like to download the FreeBSD but am unsure which version to download. I have a Pentium dual core t4200 processor. thanks ___ 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
Accurately determine contact surface pressures, stresses and alignments
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Re: Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot
On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:46:35 +0200 Leslie Jensen wrote: System 7.2-RELEASE I made the first reboot after freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE freebsd-update install and I'm now stuck at the mountroot prompt that says trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ROOT MOUNT ERROR The command ? to list valid boot devices gives List of GEOM managed disk devices: cd0 ufsid/452b81499eec5ac8 ad0a acd0 ad0 fd0 Seems that your system is using a so-called dengerously dedicated disk (mind ad0a). I've tried ufs:/dev/da0s1a and ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Try ufs:/dev/ad0a With no luck Any suggestions on how to get booted? -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ 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: version
Lacsap Ona wrote: Hello, I would like to download the FreeBSD but am unsure which version to download. I have a Pentium dual core t4200 processor. thanks ___ 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 Hello Lacsap, Check out the FreeBSD Handbook. It is the best place to get started. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Regards, Coert ___ 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: [#24493341] Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot
Hi, Please let us know if there is anything which we can assist you with, thanks. -- Best Regards Ramon Server engineer Hosting Services, Inc. ___ 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: version
2010/5/11 Lacsap Ona lacsap...@ymail.com: Hello, Hi welcome to the jungle :) I would like to download the FreeBSD but am unsure which version to download. I have a Pentium dual core t4200 processor. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ Dont forget read the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-hardware.html Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: replies from mpcustomer.com
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Recently, when posting to this list, I've been getting replies to my messages like below: Any ideas what's going on? As Chuck Swiger said this is just someone's childish prank. In the future you could report problems like this to postmas...@freebsd.org (make sure to include the full headers of the email). In this case it has already been reported and it is being worked on. ___ 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
What driver goes with what PCI device
I ran the following command and I was wondering how I could figure out what drivers are needed for each of the following. $pciconf -lv|grep -A 4 none no...@pci0:0:31:3: class=0x0c0500 card=0x3a1d17aa chip=0x29308086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller' class = serial bus subclass = SMBus no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x088000 card=0x3d9b17aa chip=0x2382197b rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.' device = 'JMB38X SD/MMC Host Controller (JMB38X)' class = base peripheral no...@pci0:2:0:2: class=0x080501 card=0x3d9a17aa chip=0x2381197b rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.' class = base peripheral subclass = SD host controller no...@pci0:2:0:3: class=0x088000 card=0x3d9c17aa chip=0x2383197b rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.' device = 'JMB38X MS Host Controller (JMB38X)' class = base peripheral ___ 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: version
On 12/05/2010 06:25, Lacsap Ona wrote: Hello, I would like to download the FreeBSD but am unsure which version to download. I have a Pentium dual core t4200 processor. thanks ___ 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 What do you mean by version. Personally i'd get the amd64 version if that's what you mean. ZFS works out of the box on it, even with low ram configuration. greetz Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
7.3-RELEASE: unable to compile custom kernel
Hello. I trying to build custom kernel to enable packet-filter. # uname -a FreeBSD host.net 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Mar 21 05:25:24 UTC 2010 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # export declare -x BLOCKSIZE=K declare -x FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES declare -x HISTCONTROL=ignorespace declare -x HOME=/root declare -x LOGNAME=root declare -x MAIL=/var/mail/root declare -x MC_CONTROL_FILE=/tmp/mc.822.control declare -x MC_CONTROL_PID=822 declare -x OLDPWD=/usr/src/sys/amd64 declare -x PAGER=more declare -x PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin declare -x PWD=/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf declare -x SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash declare -x SHLVL=2 declare -x SSH_CLIENT=my ip declare -x SSH_CONNECTION=my ip declare -x SSH_TTY=/dev/ttyp0 declare -x TERM=xterm declare -x USER=root # pwd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf # diff GENERIC ALTERKERN 22c22 ident GENERIC --- ident ALTERKERN 43c43 options NFS_ROOT# NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT --- #options NFS_ROOT# NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT 76a77,92 # PF device pf # enable PF OpenBSD packet-filter firewall device pflog # logging support interface for PF device pfsync # Synchronization interface for PF device carp# Common Address Redundancy Protocol # PF traffic shaper options ALTQ options ALTQ_CBQ# Class Bases Queueing options ALTQ_RED# Random Early Detection options ALTQ_RIO# RED In/Out options ALTQ_HFSC # Hierarchical Packet Scheduler options ALTQ_CDNR # Traffic conditioner options ALTQ_PRIQ # Priority Queueing options ALTQ_NOPCC # Required for SMP build 238,252c254,268 devicewlan# 802.11 support devicewlan_wep# 802.11 WEP support devicewlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support devicewlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support devicewlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm devicewlan_scan_ap# 802.11 AP mode scanning devicewlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning devicean # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. deviceath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's deviceath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 # enable AR5416 tx/rx descriptors deviceath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath deviceawi # BayStack 660 and others deviceral # Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless NICs. devicewi # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs. --- #device wlan# 802.11 support #device wlan_wep# 802.11 WEP support #device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support #device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support #device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm #device wlan_scan_ap# 802.11 AP mode scanning #device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning #device an # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. #device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's #device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) #options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 # enable AR5416 tx/rx descriptors #device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath #device awi # BayStack 660 and others #device ral # Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless NICs. #device wi # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs. # cd ../../../ make -j16 buildkernel KERNCONF=ALTERKERN ...snip... === zyd (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99 -nostdinc -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALTERKERN/opt_global.h -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALTERKERN -mcmodel=kernel -mno-red-zone -mfpmath=387 -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -msoft-float -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c /usr/src/sys/modules/zyd/../../dev/usb/if_zyd.c ld -d -warn-common -r -d -o if_zyd.ko.debug if_zyd.o : export_syms awk -f /usr/src/sys/conf/kmod_syms.awk if_zyd.ko.debug export_syms | xargs -J% objcopy % if_zyd.ko.debug
Re: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/2 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk 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? I believe that FreeBSD does support more than 8 partitions on a disk (apparently up to 20 using gpart), but that you need sufficient entries for these partitions to be created in the disklabel, viz. gpart create -n 20 ... Some testing seems to indicate that you can manually override this by changing by byte 0x28a of the disk from 0x08 to 0x14, and that bsdlabel / gpart will then allow you to create further partitions on the disk. Kind regards, Christopher Key Thanks Christopher I am not sure if I understand all of if. And I wouldn't like to wipe the drive to test if is possible to mass produce partitions like that. Could be useful in another situation, though. My knowlodge of GEOM and its utilities is very limited. Since I have succeded in creating the two slices with fdisk and subsequently populate them with bsdlabel, my only problem is how to create the last partition from the unpartioned space on da0s2. As mentioned in the beginning of this post, I have tried with both bsdlabel (from a file) and by issuing the gpart add command. With no luck. Would it be any help to give more specific about the drive/slice? The output of df -h | grep dev/da0 is: /dev/da0s2a 3.9G 630M2.9G17%/ /dev/da0s2g97G 160K 89G 0%/home /dev/da0s2e 3.9G 129M3.4G 4%/tmp /dev/da0s2f48G 6.6G 38G15%/usr /dev/da0s2d 9.7G 151M8.8G 2%/var /dev/da0s2h 3.9G 1.5M3.6G 0%/var/log and of gpart show da0: = 0 1759551255 da0s2 BSD (839G) 0 1048576 - free - (512M) 1048576 8318064 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) 9366640 7303168 - free - (3.5G) 16669808 8388608 1 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 2505841620971520 4 freebsd-ufs (10G) 46029936 8388608 5 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 54418544 104857600 6 freebsd-ufs (50G) 159276144 209715200 7 freebsd-ufs (100G) 936891344 8388608 8 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 377379952 1382171303 - free - (659G) and, finaly, of bsdlabel da0s2: # /dev/da0s2: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a:8388608 166698084.2BSD0 0 0 b:83180641048576 swap c: 1759551255 0unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 20971520 250584164.2BSD0 0 0 e:8388608 460299364.2BSD0 0 0 f: 104857600 544185444.2BSD0 0 0 g: 209715200 1592761444.2BSD0 0 0 h:8388608 3689913444.2BSD0 0 0 In my desparate effort to understand these informations/data, i have put them into a spreadsheet and rearranged them - including some of my own calculations and assumptions. bsdlabel output - sorted by sector offset: #size offset (GB*) c 1.759.551.2550839 b 8.318.0641.048.576 4 a 8.388.608 16.669.808 4 d 20.971.520 25.058.416 10 e 8.388.608 46.029.936 4 f 104.857.600 54.418.544 50 g 209.715.200 159.276.144100 h 8.388.608 368.991.344 4 gpart show output - sorted by sector offset: (#) (size)(offset) (GB) (offset*) (GiB*)(i) 1.048.57600,5 01 free b 8.318.0641.048.576 4 1.048.5764 2 7.303.1689.366.6403,5 9.366.6403 free a 8.388.608 16.669.808 4
Re: More than 8 partitions
On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another drive, use gpart to create enough partitions and then dd the old content back. I could easily use a standard disk layout, but the other approach will add some to my FreeBSD knowledge.. Just pointing out a rabbit hole here . . . You should be aware, too that if you want to _change_ the size (or any of several other params) of the filesystem, you don't really want dd, you want to dump(8) the filesystem and then use restore(8) -- as the man page says, this is the only reliable way to change various filesystem params. Using dd will be fine only if the sizes and all other params are to be identical (which is the case in Chris' comment, but not in the general case). Andrew. ___ 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 : What driver goes with what PCI device
For the SMBus Controller, the driver you can load is : ichsmb To load it every reboot : #echo 'ichsmb_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf To load it one time : #kldload ichsmb For the others drivers, I don't know. --- En date de : Mer 12.5.10, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com a écrit : De: Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com Objet: What driver goes with what PCI device À: questi...@freebsd.org Date: Mercredi 12 mai 2010, 8h03 I ran the following command and I was wondering how I could figure out what drivers are needed for each of the following. $pciconf -lv|grep -A 4 none no...@pci0:0:31:3: class=0x0c0500 card=0x3a1d17aa chip=0x29308086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller' class = serial bus subclass = SMBus no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x088000 card=0x3d9b17aa chip=0x2382197b rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.' device = 'JMB38X SD/MMC Host Controller (JMB38X)' class = base peripheral no...@pci0:2:0:2: class=0x080501 card=0x3d9a17aa chip=0x2381197b rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.' class = base peripheral subclass = SD host controller no...@pci0:2:0:3: class=0x088000 card=0x3d9c17aa chip=0x2383197b rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.' device = 'JMB38X MS Host Controller (JMB38X)' class = base peripheral ___ 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: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/12 A. Wright and...@qemg.org On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another drive, use gpart to create enough partitions and then dd the old content back. I could easily use a standard disk layout, but the other approach will add some to my FreeBSD knowledge.. Just pointing out a rabbit hole here . . . You should be aware, too that if you want to _change_ the size (or any of several other params) of the filesystem, you don't really want dd, you want to dump(8) the filesystem and then use restore(8) -- as the man page says, this is the only reliable way to change various filesystem params. Using dd will be fine only if the sizes and all other params are to be identical (which is the case in Chris' comment, but not in the general case). Andrew. Thanks again That was a very good point. I think I'll wait until tomorrow. But I'll get back here if I run into troubles. :-I 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
Opera 10.5 - bad looking fonts on printer
Hi Daemons, if I print from Opera via CUPS (Samsung ML 1610 on fileserver, CUPS client from workstation) I get very ugly results. The proportions of the letters dont fit, sometimes letters overlapping. No matter what font comes from the website to print - Opera chooses always this bad font, the font spacing is terrible. Other programs like Abiword, OpenOffice a.s.o. print well. My question: Does anybody have such troubles with BSD-Opera 10.5 too? Is there any font-port I have to install to get decent results? Is this a bug in the Opera BSD-port? All ideas welcome - I have no clue whats causing this problems.. Thanks! herb langhans -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ 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 ISOs available at very fast download
Hi, I work for a young company who developed a fast download platform for huge files (we mix central servers and pear to pear). I convinced my managers to put some ISO files in the platform and leave them available free of charge. So if you have users interested to download ISO very fast feel free to give them the download links. Our webpage for FreeBSD : http://linux-iso.voddnet.com/distribution.php?d=freebsd We mainly focus on Linux but we wanted to put at least one BSD distribution. The download links (you can put on any webpage) : CD FreeBSD 8.0 i386 - http://central-c-001.voddnet.com/command/servlet/Command?type=3client=4auto=trueoeuvre=499 CD FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 - http://central-c-001.voddnet.com/command/servlet/Command?type=3client=4auto=trueoeuvre=500 We can change and put the ISO you wish, as long as we still have enough disk space on our machines ;) Any remark is welcomed. Regards, David -- David Voisin SAS VODDNET Tél. : 04 99 64 33 76 Fax. : 04 99 64 33 76 Courriel : d.voi...@voddnet.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
Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
I have recently upgraded my system to 8.0, and in the course of doing so, have migrated most filesystems onto a new drive. I have noticed, since the upgrade, several instances where a very long pause occurs during which time one or more process is in uninterruptible device wait. This seems to most commonly happen when both reading and writing tasks are active -- I am unsure whether reads writes must be in the same partition, or whether two partitions on the same drive are sufficient. These pauses are quite long, on the order of 10 seconds or more, and happen during tasks that ran quite happily before the upgrade (example: if doing a lengthy compile, or subversion update, then opening an editor will hang while attempting to open the executable). As I am in the situation of switching from 7.2-8.0 and at the same time using a new drive, I would like to eliminate one of these from the equation first. Before I will be able to move on to chasing down the manufacturer if the drive is faulty, I will need some good data. While I will run some further tests here, I thought I would ask: Is anyone else seeing poor disk I/O scheduling or locking behaviour in 8.0? Is anyone aware of any of the filesytem changes that have occurred since 7.2 that may explain this? Does anyone have any thoughts on how to conclusively prove that the drive is at fault? I have not seen any errors logged to dmesg. Thanks, Andrew. ___ 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: md5(1) and cal(1)
On 05/11/2010 06:47 AM, Warren Block wrote: cal on FreeBSD 8 does highlight the current date. And then we have ncal(1), which, besides highlighting of the current day, also has the following nice features: It starts the weeks on Monday. It can print the number of the week below each week column. ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:46 AM, A. Wright and...@qemg.org wrote: I have recently upgraded my system to 8.0, and in the course of doing so, have migrated most filesystems onto a new drive. Did you dd it across? If so, that's kind of a no-no in some situtation as the boundries won't be aligned resulting in slow disk. You should use a different tool like dump/restore. This seems to most commonly happen when both reading and writing tasks are active -- I am unsure whether reads writes must be in the same partition, or whether two partitions on the same drive are sufficient. If this is one of them eco drives, you may wish to investigate things like firmware updates etc. You can also try using achi, it has quite a benefits including speed. Make sure to read up on it first. -- 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
Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes
Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install 7.3-RELEASE. The install once again hung right around the time when the system would normally announce Timecounters tick every xxx msec. Since disabling ACPI and PnP doesn't seem to help, I'm wondering what might have changed between 6.x and 7.3 as it relates to the kernel bootstrapping process at this stage? I am actually netbooting this install, so I have the ability to compile a custom kernel to troubleshoot this further. I'd really like to install 8.0 on this hardware and get a few more years of life out of it. Thanks, Steve On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Steve Bernacki wrote: 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
Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Steve Bernacki free...@f.copacetic.netwrote: Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install 7.3-RELEASE. The install once again hung right around the time when the system would normally announce Timecounters tick every xxx msec. Since disabling ACPI and PnP doesn't seem to help, I'm wondering what might have changed between 6.x and 7.3 as it relates to the kernel bootstrapping process at this stage? I am actually netbooting this install, so I have the ability to compile a custom kernel to troubleshoot this further. I'd really like to install 8.0 on this hardware and get a few more years of life out of it. Try updating the BIOS, and tweaking settings there. -- 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
Re: [#24493945] Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
Hi, Please check ticket 24493915 -- Best Regards Dennis Server Engineer Hosting Services, Inc. ___ 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: user friendliest gui
As for directions: Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the device, virus scan, and unmount the device. Display prompts and results with dialog(1). Print results if desired. I do not know any language, other than DOS , which is why I asked Configure devd.conf(5) to detect USB mass storage device connect and run the program. This I know how to do References: file(1), dialog(1), devd.conf(5), mount_msdosfs(8), mount_ntfs(8), security/clamav[-devel] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: Try updating the BIOS, and tweaking settings there. Hi Adam, The BIOS is at it's latest version. It is an ancient system, so perhaps it's time to just retire the hardware, but I didn't want to give up without poking at it a bit more. Steve ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
At 09:46 AM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: While I will run some further tests here, I thought I would ask: Is anyone else seeing poor disk I/O scheduling or locking behaviour in 8.0? Hi, On my backup server I am seeing somewhat better throughput/performance, at least with ZFS, but I have not done any rigorous comparisons. Certainly nothing perceptible from userland Is anyone aware of any of the filesytem changes that have occurred since 7.2 that may explain this? There are a lot, but then again the act of installing / upgrading could just mean you are now hitting bad sectors on the drive ? Does anyone have any thoughts on how to conclusively prove that the drive is at fault? I have not seen any errors logged to dmesg. Start with smartmontools to ask your disk if it has logged any errors and check once a day or so to see if sectors are being remapped. ---Mike Thanks, Andrew. ___ 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 Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,m...@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Steve Bernacki free...@f.copacetic.netwrote: The BIOS is at it's latest version. It is an ancient system, so perhaps it's time to just retire the hardware, but I didn't want to give up without poking at it a bit more. This may or may not apply your situation, but there are some tweaks there which might help. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-April/031549.html -- 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
Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/5/11 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f snip tunefs: volume label: (-L) usr It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/label, /dev/ufs, /dev/vol ! Aaah ! So I understand everything now ! Is this written somewhere ? See §19.6 (Labeling Disk Devices) in the FreeBSD Handbook. However, it is not mentioned there that labels are removed when the partition is mounted. Maybe that behavior is recent? I am not the original poster, but I tried again and I now am mostly using labels and the labels are still showing in /dev/ufs/. I didn't have labels showing in /dev/ufs, but I changed fstab to what they should be and rebooted. The system came up using the labels and they are showing in /dev/ufs/ and using 'glabel status'. I say mostly because the /usr partition isn't recognized for some reason, even though dumpfs and tunefs show the label. That label is also not shown in /dev/ufs or using 'glabel status'. That made the reboot a little tricky since I had to manually mount /usr in order to get an editor to edit fstab to continue the boot. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: user friendliest gui
On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:39:46 +, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: As for directions: Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the device, virus scan, and unmount the device. Display prompts and results with dialog(1). Print results if desired. I do not know any language, other than DOS , which is why I asked Denial Of Service is a language? Where is it spoken, in Kaputnikstan? :-) If one would really want to go with X, Tcl/Tk, as it has been mentioned by others (and me), is a good way to go. There are helpful examples installed when you install it on your system. It's a very easy to learn, but still powerful scripting language that very well interacts with command line processing. Just look at the examples, you'll find much inspiration there. For text mode and using dialog (as for example sysinstall does), it's another easy way to go, because you can entirely keep your scripting in /bin/sh syntax and don't need much dependencies. Furthermore, you have a portable solution. No special needs for a high-end GPU and an appropriate driver. Even a 100 MHz box with a 2 GB hard disk could then be used for this particular job. You could even attach a simple dotmatrix line printer for printing the receipt. :-) -- 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: glabel nor tunefs save my labels
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/5/11 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f snip tunefs: volume label: (-L) usr It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/label, /dev/ufs, /dev/vol ! Aaah ! So I understand everything now ! Is this written somewhere ? See §19.6 (Labeling Disk Devices) in the FreeBSD Handbook. However, it is not mentioned there that labels are removed when the partition is mounted. Maybe that behavior is recent? I am not the original poster, but I tried again and I now am mostly using labels and the labels are still showing in /dev/ufs/. I didn't have labels showing in /dev/ufs, but I changed fstab to what they should be and rebooted. The system came up using the labels and they are showing in /dev/ufs/ and using 'glabel status'. When I did my testing, I did not reboot the system. Maybe that is the difference? I say mostly because the /usr partition isn't recognized for some reason, even though dumpfs and tunefs show the label. That label is also not shown in /dev/ufs or using 'glabel status'. That made the reboot a little tricky since I had to manually mount /usr in order to get an editor to edit fstab to continue the boot. That is odd indeed. Maybe a misspelling in the label? Anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages. 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) pgpdBZjBu5aBi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: user friendliest gui
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:02, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:39:46 +, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: As for directions: Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the device, virus scan, and unmount the device. Display prompts and results with dialog(1). Print results if desired. I do not know any language, other than DOS , which is why I asked Denial Of Service is a language? Where is it spoken, in Kaputnikstan? :-) No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating System. Funny, though. snip ___ 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: user friendliest gui
On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:24 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating System. Funny, though. Well, and Disk Operating System is a language then? :-) Okay okay, of course I knew that he was refering to batch programming with DOS commands when using DOS as a language. When people mention DOS, I fist think about DOS/360 and afterwards about DOS (as CP/M successor) implementations for the PC. Shows how old I am. :-) Anyway, a bit of DOS batch programming experience helps people intending to write a /bin/sh shell script, and if this task is done, a GUI wrapper, either using text mode with dialog, or using Tcl/Tk in X is quite easy. -- 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: user friendliest gui
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:58, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:24 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating System. Funny, though. Well, and Disk Operating System is a language then? :-) Okay okay, of course I knew that he was refering to batch programming with DOS commands when using DOS as a language. When people mention DOS, I fist think about DOS/360 and afterwards about DOS (as CP/M successor) implementations for the PC. Shows how old I am. :-) We might be of similar ages. :) Anyway, a bit of DOS batch programming experience helps people intending to write a /bin/sh shell script, and if this task is done, a GUI wrapper, either using text mode with dialog, or using Tcl/Tk in X is quite easy. Absolutely. 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
Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:46 AM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts on how to conclusively prove that the drive is at fault? I have not seen any errors logged to dmesg. Start with smartmontools to ask your disk if it has logged any errors and check once a day or so to see if sectors are being remapped. Thanks for the tip. So I ran the short test, and am now running the long test. After the short test, I have been examining the output (using smartctl -a), and there seem to be no errors reports. I just noticed, however, the following two interesting lines that /var/log/messages seems to have acquired: May 12 15:44:00 qemg kernel: ad8: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED May 12 16:05:27 qemg kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 294, size: 8192 The first dates from the point at which I turned on SMART data logging. The second one, however looks more interesting to me -- am I correct in thinking that there is no good reason why the swap_pager error would appear, aside from some sort of hardware related failure? Thanks, Andrew. ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
Hi-- On May 12, 2010, at 12:48 PM, A. Wright wrote: So I ran the short test, and am now running the long test. After the short test, I have been examining the output (using smartctl -a), and there seem to be no errors reports. Show us the output of smartctl -a...? It can be a bit difficult to interpret the results until you've gotten some practice Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
At 03:48 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: I just noticed, however, the following two interesting lines that /var/log/messages seems to have acquired: May 12 15:44:00 qemg kernel: ad8: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED May 12 16:05:27 qemg kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 294, size: 8192 The first dates from the point at which I turned on SMART data logging. The second one, however looks more interesting to me -- am I correct in thinking that there is no good reason why the swap_pager error would appear, aside from some sort of hardware related failure? When I see errors from the OS, but not on the actual disk itself, apart from driver errors (relatively rare on FreeBSD) it can be a cable issue or bad SATA port. But as chuck said, post all of the output from smartctl -a ---Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
Sorry to follow myself up . . . On Wed, 12 May 2010, A. Wright wrote: I just noticed, however, the following two interesting lines that /var/log/messages seems to have acquired: May 12 15:44:00 qemg kernel: ad8: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED May 12 16:05:27 qemg kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 294, size: 8192 It turns out that dmesg output has a number of these, scattered over the last day; there were a bunch at 02:30 this morning; which at least indicates that the SMART logging has triggered this behaviour. A. ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On May 12, 2010, at 12:48 PM, A. Wright wrote: So I ran the short test, and am now running the long test. After the short test, I have been examining the output (using smartctl -a), and there seem to be no errors reports. Show us the output of smartctl -a...? It can be a bit difficult to interpret the results until you've gotten some practice Here is it, in all its glory -- note that the long test is still in progress. Andrew. smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity:1,500,301,910,016 bytes Device is:Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is:Wed May 12 17:26:28 2010 ADT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x85) Offline data collection activity was aborted by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress... 80% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (29400) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities:(0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities:(0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability:(0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time:( 255) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time:( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time0x0027 151 147 021Pre-fail Always - 9441 4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 12 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 383 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0032 100 253 000Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 11 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000Old_age Always - 10 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 189 189 000Old_age Always - 4 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 108 106 000Old_age Always - 44 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x0032 200 200 000Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus
Re: Mixing different versions of PHP extensions
T, 11 mai 2010 kirjutas Antonio Kless antoniok@gmail.com: 2010/5/11 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee Is it possible to rebuild just the php52-gd extension to a newer version of php52-gd-5.2.13 and have it working with existing php5-5.2.9 and all the existing extensions, or would it be asking for trouble? It is possible as a interim measure, but to have your ports in tip-top state and to not to have any troubles with dependencies, you have to have the same versions of php and all of it's extensions. I tried it out and it seems to work indeed. This is big help in my situations, because now I can split one big software upgrade on a production server into two smaller, more manageable ones. -- Toomas Aas ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Isnt that one of those Western Digital Green drives ? I seem to recall a number of people complaining about similar issues where the drive stalls. Perhaps a firmware update ? Or perhaps a way to disable the power saving/spin down features ? Is your controller set to AHCI, or regular SATA. what does /var/run/dmesg.boot show ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,m...@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Why doesn't this startup script run?
I'm working on integrating p0f with amavisd-new, and the command I need
to run at startup is a little unwieldy:
p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/bin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345
At first, I tried putting that in /etc/rc.local. No luck, don't know why
it doesn't run. Ok, I tell myself, rc.local is a dinosaur anyway, take a
second and make a simple rc.d script.
So, I made /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p0fd containing:
---
#!/bin/sh
#
. /etc/rc.subr
name=p0f
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command=/usr/local/bin/p0f
command_args=-l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/bin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345
pidfile=/var/run/$name.pid
# read configuration and set defaults
load_rc_config $name
: ${p0f_enable=NO}
run_rc_command $1
---
If I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p0fd start it fires right up. However, it
still continues to refuse to run on boot.
Any suggestions?
(yes, it's executable, and yes I have p0f_enable=YES in rc.conf)
Thanks,
Andy
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Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Isnt that one of those Western Digital Green drives ? I seem to recall a number of people complaining about similar issues where the drive stalls. Perhaps a firmware update ? Or perhaps a way to disable the power saving/spin down features ? Is your controller set to AHCI, or regular SATA. what does /var/run/dmesg.boot show ? In addition to what I pointed out earlier, I believe that is also a 4k sector drive. You'll need to align your partitions accordingly. -- 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
Re: Why doesn't this startup script run?
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:20:12PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote:
I'm working on integrating p0f with amavisd-new, and the command I need
to run at startup is a little unwieldy:
p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/bin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345
At first, I tried putting that in /etc/rc.local. No luck, don't know why
it doesn't run. Ok, I tell myself, rc.local is a dinosaur anyway, take a
second and make a simple rc.d script.
So, I made /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p0fd containing:
---
#!/bin/sh
#
Quoting rc(8):
Each script should contain rcorder(8) keywords, especially an appropriate
“PROVIDE” entry, and if necessary “REQUIRE” and “BEFORE” keywords.
. /etc/rc.subr
name=p0f
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command=/usr/local/bin/p0f
command_args=-l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/bin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345
pidfile=/var/run/$name.pid
# read configuration and set defaults
load_rc_config $name
: ${p0f_enable=NO}
run_rc_command $1
---
If I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p0fd start it fires right up. However, it
still continues to refuse to run on boot.
Any suggestions?
(yes, it's executable, and yes I have p0f_enable=YES in rc.conf)
Thanks,
Andy
---
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Xecunet, Inc.
www.xecu.net
301-682-9972
---
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Re: Why doesn't this startup script run?
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:20:12PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote: I'm working on integrating p0f with amavisd-new, and the command I need to run at startup is a little unwieldy: p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/bin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345 At first, I tried putting that in /etc/rc.local. No luck, don't know why it doesn't run. Ok, I tell myself, rc.local is a dinosaur anyway, take a second and make a simple rc.d script. So, I made /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p0fd containing: --- #!/bin/sh # Quoting rc(8): Each script should contain rcorder(8) keywords, especially an appropriate “PROVIDE” entry, and if necessary “REQUIRE” and “BEFORE” keywords. Thanks for the reply. I added this to the script (and renamed it p0f instead of p0fd): # PROVIDE: p0f # REQUIRE: LOGIN # BEFORE: securelevel # KEYWORD: shutdown It did not change the result, it still fails to start on boot, and still works if I call /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p0f start once I login to the box after it boots. Any other suggestions? I have to assume it has something to do with either the redirection of stdout and stderr to a script that is then backgrounded? If I do something that doesn't involve all of that, it starts fine on boot. How do I correct this? Earlier attempts went as far as to make a script to start the process, and then call the script from /etc/rc.local. I even tried doing a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p0f start in /etc/rc.local. Nothing works until I go in and run the startup script by hand. Thanks, Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---___ 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: user friendliest gui
Anyway, a bit of DOS batch programming experience helps people intending to write a /bin/sh shell script, and if this task is done, a GUI wrapper, either using text mode with dialog, or using Tcl/Tk in X is quite easy. Don't mean to sound TOO ignorant, but which Tcl should I be installing? This one? /usr/ports/lang/p5-Tcl ___ 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: user friendliest gui
Don't mean to sound TOO ignorant, but which Tcl should I be installing? This one? /usr/ports/lang/p5-Tcl p5-Tcl is the perl interface for Tcl. Try lang/tcl86 ___ 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
security/libassuan's distinfo missing something ?
Hi, as a dependency to gnupg i tried to install security/libassuan and noticed that Makefile's verify section contains a reference to a .sig file which isn't in the distinfo. There are ongoing pr's about this port (ports/144186). Though i don't think this is related this pr would perhaps fix this issue too. The error i get is: === gnupg-2.0.14_1 depends on package: libassuan=1.0.4 - not found ===Verifying install for libassuan=1.0.4 in /usr/ports/security/libassuan === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = libassuan-1.0.5.tar.bz2.sig is not in /basejail/usr/ports/security/libassuan/distinfo. = Either /basejail/usr/ports/security/libassuan/distinfo is out of date, or = libassuan-1.0.5.tar.bz2.sig is spelled incorrectly. *** Error code 1 Did anyone run into this problem ? TIA, Leon pgpDxxxlSJ44W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Opera 10.5 - bad looking fonts on printer
Same thing happens in firefox. Sometimes I open a word doc in abiword and get a similar issue, the solution is to select all and change the font to Bitstream or something open-source, I suspect the issues may be similar, but I have no idea how to get micro$oft fonts into bsd, or how to change opera/firefox's font. could be totally unrelated too. it's been around a long time, must be an issue no one else has - did you build operta from ports or download the package? Maybe some magic needs to go in /etc/make.conf - that's the only way half the ports will work with cups at all; doesn't fix firefox, however. Good luck with that. There are certain things FreeBSD is bad at fixing, and they all relate to the desktop. Had to put Fedora on my notebooks so I could sleep them reliably. Still use BSD when I can though (desktops, servers). Steve On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:17 AM, herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Daemons, if I print from Opera via CUPS (Samsung ML 1610 on fileserver, CUPS client from workstation) I get very ugly results. The proportions of the letters dont fit, sometimes letters overlapping. No matter what font comes from the website to print - Opera chooses always this bad font, the font spacing is terrible. Other programs like Abiword, OpenOffice a.s.o. print well. My question: Does anybody have such troubles with BSD-Opera 10.5 too? Is there any font-port I have to install to get decent results? Is this a bug in the Opera BSD-port? All ideas welcome - I have no clue whats causing this problems.. Thanks! herb langhans -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ 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
can't access FreeBSD boot CD data (but can boot just fine) using IP KVM fake drives
Most modern IP KVMs allow you to specify a ISO image, and they will feed it to the computer via USB and allow you to boot arbitrary cds. However, I notice problems in both standard FreeBSD install discs and FreeBSD-based live CDs, wherein the CD will boot and run just fine, but when it comes time to read data off of the CD, the running system cannot access it. So, for instance, I boot with my KVM attached and I see this in dmesg: ums0: Startech.com server remote control device_attach: ums0 attach returned 6 and the system continues booting, but then: [*] Extracting filesystems /dist/mountcd: Can't open /dist/mountcd: No such file or directory [*] Error Extracting Filesystems (this was with ROFreeSBIE) With the plain old FreeBSD disc 1, I can go all the way through the install, but I cannot choose CD/DVD as install media, I have to ue the FTP option ... somehow I can boot up and use the install CD, but I cannot read any data on it. ... so my question is: What flags/options/whatever can I feed the booting CD, in the loader, to tell it just keep using that same old USB CD ? Thanks. ___ 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: glabel nor tunefs save my labels
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/5/11 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f snip tunefs: volume label: (-L) usr It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/label, /dev/ufs, /dev/vol ! Aaah ! So I understand everything now ! Is this written somewhere ? See §19.6 (Labeling Disk Devices) in the FreeBSD Handbook. However, it is not mentioned there that labels are removed when the partition is mounted. Maybe that behavior is recent? I am not the original poster, but I tried again and I now am mostly using labels and the labels are still showing in /dev/ufs/. I didn't have labels showing in /dev/ufs, but I changed fstab to what they should be and rebooted. The system came up using the labels and they are showing in /dev/ufs/ and using 'glabel status'. When I did my testing, I did not reboot the system. Maybe that is the difference? It might be, but I had rebooted more than once previously. This time I mounted them using the labels, so maybe *that* is the difference. I have another system running in VirtualBox from Linux (this one is not a virtual machine) and I don't remember having any similar problems with labels on it. It doesn't make sense to me so I really don't know. I say mostly because the /usr partition isn't recognized for some reason, even though dumpfs and tunefs show the label. That label is also not shown in /dev/ufs or using 'glabel status'. That made the reboot a little tricky since I had to manually mount /usr in order to get an editor to edit fstab to continue the boot. That is odd indeed. Maybe a misspelling in the label? Anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages. I have checked many times and can't find anything different about that FS compared with the others. It isn't a misspelling because there isn't anything in /dev/ufs except the other 4 labels that I am already using. There is nothing in the logs except the boot error in dmesg when it couldn't find /usr to mount it. The system works so I am not really worried about it. It just irritates me when I can't get things to work as I think they should. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
Hi-- On May 12, 2010, at 1:27 PM, A. Wright wrote: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 383 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0032 100 253 000Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 11 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000Old_age Always - 10 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 189 189 000Old_age Always - 4 Thanks for real data to work from. There's no signs of surface failure with high reallocated sectors or anything, but your drive is parking it's heads nearly 100 times an hour. Someone else suggested this was a green firmware drive, so it might be spinning down and so forth trying to save power, and the OS is complaining because it takes a while to spin back up and become online. I've heard rumors that there exists an WDIDLE utility which might be able to tweak the firmware which might help. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: File system
On Mon, May 10, 2010 10:53 am, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. Is there any way to have FreeBSD run on a better file system that wont crap out on me everytime I do and unclean shutdown? I am really surprised no one proposed geom journaling. With gjournal, I never had to do a manual full fsck and have had plenty of unclean shutdowns. I also occasionally do fsck the filesystem and there were no errors ever found. It definitely adds the ease factor I am looking for in a journaling sollution in the case of an unclean shutdown... Correct me if I'm wrong, but since this FreeBSD install is running inside of a VM, in addition to any of the precautions suggested here to get data written or journaled to the disk as safely as possible, isn't there still the issue of whether the VM actuall commits these writes to the physical disk? ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.netmailto:m...@sentex.net wrote: At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Isnt that one of those Western Digital Green drives ? I seem to recall a number of people complaining about similar issues where the drive stalls. Perhaps a firmware update ? Or perhaps a way to disable the power saving/spin down features ? Is your controller set to AHCI, or regular SATA. what does /var/run/dmesg.boot show ? This is indeed one of the so-called eco drives. The controller is set to SATA (no mention of ahci, though I will now look at it as suggested earlier to see if I can control the problem that way). In addition to what I pointed out earlier, I believe that is also a 4k sector drive. You'll need to align your partitions accordingly. As far as I can tell, it is a standard 512 byte sector. The general lack of documentation with this drive (shipped in a plastic coffin -- the only docs supplied with it were the label itself), but on the WD site, they indicate: Formatted Capacity 1500301 MB Used Sectors Per Drive 2930277168 Assuming a megabyte is 10^6 bytes, as is standard with storage vendors (1500301 * 1000 * 1000) / 2930277168 = 511.99968 So it appears that at least I don't have *that* particular problem. Thanks for the suggestions; I had not looked at AHCI before, and it may well be part of my ticket out of this problem. A. ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Thanks for real data to work from. Thanks for the assistance! There's no signs of surface failure with high reallocated sectors or anything, but your drive is parking it's heads nearly 100 times an hour. Someone else suggested this was a green firmware drive, so it might be spinning down and so forth trying to save power, and the OS is complaining because it takes a while to spin back up and become online. Thanks for reading the tea-leaves for me and pointing that out. I'm sure that that is the problem, as this would explain all the symptoms, as I am guessing that quite a large I/O queue can be generated if it is insisting on going into park that often. I've heard rumors that there exists an WDIDLE utility which might be able to tweak the firmware which might help. I will look into it, and see if there is a path out of the woods here. I'll report back once something else is known. Thanks all, for the help. A. ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, A. Wright and...@qemg.org wrote: This is indeed one of the so-called eco drives. The controller is set to SATA (no mention of ahci, though I will now look at it as suggested earlier to see if I can control the problem that way). In addition to what I pointed out earlier, I believe that is also a 4k sector drive. You'll need to align your partitions accordingly. As far as I can tell, it is a standard 512 byte sector. The general lack of documentation with this drive (shipped in a plastic coffin -- the only docs supplied with it were the label itself), but on the WD site, they indicate: Formatted Capacity 1500301 MB Used Sectors Per Drive 2930277168 As I understand it, all the 64MB EARS model drive have the WD Advanced Format eg 4k sectors. I don't have one and I'm pulling this (from the depths of memory || out of my ass), but I think those drives also have something funky going on where they report normal 512 sector when in fact they do have 4k ones. Either way, it wouldn't hurt to align on 1MB boundaries. -- 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
Re: ml110 g6
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:49 AM, captainhastings captainhastings ccaptainhastings...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello I have bought an intel 110 g6 server with intel quad core cpu. It is a 64bit machine. Do I use the amd64 iso even though its intel ? Quick answer: Sure. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-processors.html Longer answer: FreeBSD has excellent documentation: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html A good place to start is the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Please don't hesitate to read it as you attempt to install and configure FreeBSD and all of the wonderful additional software available in the ports system. After you've successfully completed the install, read it again -- and review :) There is much to learn, but the journey is well worth it. Plus, I believe you'll have a lot of FUN along the way... Also, you probably want to check out the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list, it's a great place to get information and answers regarding general FreeBSD items and issues. Good Luck! -Brandon ___ 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: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, A. Wright and...@qemg.orgmailto:and...@qemg.org wrote: As far as I can tell, it is a standard 512 byte sector. The general lack of documentation with this drive (shipped in a plastic coffin -- the only docs supplied with it were the label itself), but on the WD site, they indicate: Formatted Capacity 1500301 MB Used Sectors Per Drive 2930277168 As I understand it, all the 64MB EARS model drive have the WD Advanced Format eg 4k sectors. I don't have one and I'm pulling this (from the depths of memory || out of my ass), but I think those drives also have something funky going on where they report normal 512 sector when in fact they do have 4k ones. Either way, it wouldn't hurt to align on 1MB boundaries. I just got confirmation back from WD, and your nether regions are correct -- this _is_ a 4096 byte sector drive. I have suggested to WD that they may wish to mention this salient fact somewhere. Thanks again, Andrew. ___ 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 force end-of-line in man page source
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:36:20PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? You can generally override the hyphenation mode with .hy 0 Thank You very much. That works. But it is only in effect for one section header .Sh command. I added the .hy 0 (0 is zero) command after each .Sh command in the man page and it looks so much better now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: X is broken after upgrade
Jamie Griffin wrote: If you have moused enabled, you can select text with the left mouse button, and insert text with the middle mouse button. If you don't have a middle mouse button, press the wheel down. If you don't have a wheel, press the left and the right mouse button at the same time. Thanks for the tip, i didn't know I could do that. According to the error message, mentioning /usr/local/lib/xorg/ modules/drivers/intel_drv.so, I would think a modular component of xorg, maybe the drivers component, or a specific kernel module (for Intel video) needs a separate update. I did try recompiling the drivers after i read about a similar issue in a post i found in the archives but that did not fix it. Jamie. I just had a similar issue on a new install In my case it was because X could not find my configuration file. In your first post i notice that your x.org.log lists the default configuration. Double check that your xorg.conf file wasn't deleted or renamed accidentally. Mine was xorg.config instead of xorg.conf. Colin ___ 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
From Arthur Sentsov - Questions from beginner
Hi I have some questions. 1. I have freebsd server running apache and mysql. In logs i see around 100 attempts to hack the server. Is that normal? what i have to do that after three wrong attempts to enter password server will block ip address?! 2. I use SSH to sonnect to server and work on it! Is that secure? 3. How to setup SAMBA on server?! I want my users to be able to upload files and download files from their folder. Users use windows. Thank you -- www.baptistmp3.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
