Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
On 11/16/2012 08:52 AM, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hi Andreas, do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is a rolling procedure? Hi No it only updates the release you have. To upgrade you wil have to use -r and specify the release In other words to upgrade use freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade I ask this because I could not find a parameter etc. in the man page which may influent this, e.g. to limit updates to stay in a main release (9.0, 9.0-p1, 9.0-p., 9.0-p12) but don't upgrade to 9.1. Kind regards, Matthias Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 00:25 CET, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net schrieb: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Matthias Petermann wrote: Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Yes, it is. This e-mail message, including any attachment(s), is intended solely for the addressee or addressees. Any views or opinions presented herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of OSE. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please return this e-mail message and the attachment(s) to the sender and delete and destroy all copies. ___ 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: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:04:17 -0800 mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Andreas Yes, it is. Can I go from 8.3 directly to 9.1, or should I stop over at 9.0 first? Once 9.1 will be release soon, you will see something like that: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html You should of course backup your data. I did an upgrade from 8.3 to 9.1-RC3 recently without problems. But keep in mind that you will have to recompile/ reinstall all installed ports. I usually delete all installed ports before the upgrade to a new major version. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 ___ 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: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:52:02 +0100 Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net wrote: do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is a rolling procedure? I ask this because I could not find a parameter etc. in the man page which may influent this, e.g. to limit updates to stay in a main release (9.0, 9.0-p1, 9.0-p., 9.0-p12) but don't upgrade to 9.1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 ___ 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: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:38:43 +0100, Andreas Rudisch wrote: But keep in mind that you will have to recompile/ reinstall all installed ports. This is not required as long as you install the compatn-1x port. But as soon as you update some port, or maybe want to install something new, things tend to break unexpectedly (especially in library land). I usually delete all installed ports before the upgrade to a new major version. The EXAMPLES section of man portmaster has a nice instruction of how to do this. It's definitely the preferred way for a clean installation. -- 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: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?
On 11/15/12 15:56, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Trying to rebuild ports, I'm consistently getting the following: ahcich1 Timeout on slot 13 port 0 ^ slot varies g_vfs_done() ada0p6 [WRITE(offset=38838571008 length=4096)]error=6 That seems familiar, maybe others have reported it. Is this a motherboard controller, or add-in? mobo. Asus M4A89TD PRO/USB3 specs say AMD SB850 controller After a backup, I'd make sure the motherboard and controller BIOS are up to date. And also the SSD firmware. Thanks for the reminder, I see there is a new one. ~$ gpart show ada0 = 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) / 419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap 429917788388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) /var 513803864194304 5 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) /tmp 55574690 192216088 6 freebsd-ufs (91G) /usr 2477907782278869- free - (1.1G) It would not cause this problem, but those partitions are not aligned. That would only affect speed, not reliability. geezes, it's not even on a 4K boundary from the get-go; not sure how that happened. let-alone the 1M boundary I just learned about. 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: Advanced Format Drive ?
On 2012-11-15 17:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: (This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew what I was doing, but...) OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew from the manpage examples, and then followed those up with two commands from your tutorial. /sbin/gpart create -s GPT ada0# manpage example is wrong, ad0 - ada0 /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr ad0 # manpage wrong again, pmbr - mbr gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l gpboot -b 40 -s 512K ada0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 That last one, done at the suggestion of your tutorial page, has me completely perplexed, because of what is said, very explicitly, in the gpart(8) manpage: bootcode Embed bootstrap code into the partitioning scheme's metadata on the geom (using -b bootcode) or write bootstrap code into a partition (using -p partcode and -i index). Please note the use of the word or. The man page is telling me to _either_ use the -p option _or else_ use the -p and -i options together. But you are telling me to use all three in one go! Forgive me, but I'm confused. (As you can tell by now, I am often easily confused. Sorry.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I saw this, and well started wondering myself, as I have been using this while doing work on booting FreeBSD via ZFS (of course using -p /boot/gptzfsboot), I got the line from a tutorial on booting from ZFS. Never thought much of it, until now, but I believe I see now why, the secret is the pmbr, notice the p. Its the protective mbr, it lets formatting tools that understand mbr, but not gpart know that there is something there, the actual boot code is in the partition. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/ ___ 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: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
On 2012-11-15 15:57, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hello, from a freshly installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I did a freebsd-update to bring it to the latest patch level. After: # freebsd-update fetch I got this message: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next 2 months. What does this exactly mean? Is the whole 9.0 Series approaching EOL, or does this only apply to the initial 9.0-RELEASE _AND NOT_ to e.g. 9.0-RELEASE-p3 ? Where can I find more information on the planned lifecycles of the current and upcoming releases? Are there any? Thanks kind regards Matthias Its all on the website, Current Release Information: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ Release engineering Information: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ Next release information: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html Its running a touch behind (11-12-2012 was target release announcement), but I am glad they prefer to do it right rather than on time. FreeBSD 9.0-RElEASE-p4 is actually current, but I believe the p4 doesn't show up unless you do a build world. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/ ___ 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
odd phantom directory
Hi all, I ran into a rather odd issue this morning with my FreeBSD 9.0-Release system running ZFS v28. This system serves as an RSYNC host which all of our other systems back up to each night. Last night, I started getting the following error: file has vanished: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki Now, usually when I get a file has vanished error during an RSYNC run, it indicates that the source file/directory on the system that is sending the rsync backup has been deleted or moved before rsync got a chance to actually send it. That doesn't appear to be the case here. /backup/ldap1/etc/pki is the destination directory on my Freebsd/ZFS server. I take a look in /backup/ldap1/etc on my Freebsd server and the pki subdirectory is no longer listed. Ok, so I run mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following error: mkdir: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: File exists. Odd Just to double check, I run ls -la /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following: ls: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory Alright, how about a simple touch? touch: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory Fine. Maybe there is something funky about the /backup/ldap1/etc directory that is preventing me from doing any of this. mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki2. That works just fine. What the heck? Looking at the output of my daily security run, I see the following: Checking setuid files and devices: find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.avail: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory So, it looks like there are a few files/directories in /backup/ldap1/etc that were affected. Looking through dmesg and /var/log/messages, I don't see anything out of the ordinary. I'm running a zpool scrub now just to be on the safe side, but I haven't seen any checksum or other errors so far. Any thoughts as to what might be causing this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advanced Format Drive ?
On 11/16/12 14:07, dweimer wrote: On 2012-11-15 17:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: (This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew what I was doing, but...) OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew from the manpage examples, and then followed those up with two commands from your tutorial. /sbin/gpart create -s GPT ada0# manpage example is wrong, ad0 - ada0 /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr ad0 # manpage wrong again, pmbr - mbr gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l gpboot -b 40 -s 512K ada0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 That last one, done at the suggestion of your tutorial page, has me completely perplexed, because of what is said, very explicitly, in the gpart(8) manpage: bootcode Embed bootstrap code into the partitioning scheme's metadata on the geom (using -b bootcode) or write bootstrap code into a partition (using -p partcode and -i index). Please note the use of the word or. The man page is telling me to _either_ use the -p option _or else_ use the -p and -i options together. But you are telling me to use all three in one go! Forgive me, but I'm confused. (As you can tell by now, I am often easily confused. Sorry.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I saw this, and well started wondering myself, as I have been using this while doing work on booting FreeBSD via ZFS (of course using -p /boot/gptzfsboot), I got the line from a tutorial on booting from ZFS. Never thought much of it, until now, but I believe I see now why, the secret is the pmbr, notice the p. Its the protective mbr, it lets formatting tools that understand mbr, but not gpart know that there is something there, the actual boot code is in the partition. pmbr serves two purposes. It's both the first stage boot code, as a traditional BIOS always loads the first block of the disk into memory and runs it to boot the machine regardless of whether you've got an MBR or GPT disk, and it contains a traditional MBR that shows the entire disk is occupied by the first DOS partition (slice in BSD terminology) and that is of type 0xee. The latter means that GPT ignorant utilities see the disk as fully occupied by a partition of unknown type, which should mean they won't touch anything. The pmbr boot code understands the GPT table and runs through the partition entries looking for one of type freebsd-boot. When it finds one, it then loads the contents of the partition (or the first 545k if it's larger) into memory and jumps to the second stage boot loader. ___ 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: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: ~$ gpart show ada0 = 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) / 419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap 429917788388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) /var 513803864194304 5 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) /tmp 55574690 192216088 6 freebsd-ufs (91G) /usr 2477907782278869- free - (1.1G) It would not cause this problem, but those partitions are not aligned. That would only affect speed, not reliability. geezes, it's not even on a 4K boundary from the get-go; not sure how that happened. let-alone the 1M boundary I just learned about. That's a normal install. It's fine for 512-byte devices. I have other suggestions too, but let's save that until the problem is fixed. ___ 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
virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? ___ 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 NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
Mario Lobo wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? ___ 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 NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name Issueing VirtualBox from host command line gets this msg. Failed to open the x11 display VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name assumes that there a vb guest all ready configured which is not my case. There is no man page for VBoxHeadless command. How do a configure a vb guest from the host command line? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? ___ 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 NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name Issueing VirtualBox from host command line gets this msg. Failed to open the x11 display VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name assumes that there a vb guest all ready configured which is not my case. There is no man page for VBoxHeadless command. How do a configure a vb guest from the host command line? You can start VirtualBox from an ssh session (with X-forwarding enabled) from you desktop to your desktopless host. Ssh will forward the VBox window to your screen. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? ___ 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 NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name Issueing VirtualBox from host command line gets this msg. Failed to open the x11 display VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name assumes that there a vb guest all ready configured which is not my case. Right! I assumed you already had the VM ready. Sorry. There is no man page for VBoxHeadless command. There are those: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/UserManual.pdf and http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ VBoxHeadless is covered on both. How do a configure a vb guest from the host command line? VBoxManage can do all that from command line. Check it out or follow my previous e-mail. Sorry for not being more thorough on my last post. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ 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: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?
~$ gpart show ada0 = 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) / 419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap 429917788388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) /var 513803864194304 5 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) /tmp 55574690 192216088 6 freebsd-ufs (91G) /usr 2477907782278869- free - (1.1G) It would not cause this problem, but those partitions are not aligned. That would only affect speed, not reliability. geezes, it's not even on a 4K boundary from the get-go; not sure how that happened. let-alone the 1M boundary I just learned about. That's a normal install. It's fine for 512-byte devices. I have other suggestions too, but let's save that until the problem is fixed. aaahhh. Vague recollections of getting this to boot up first time around. How about suggestions anyway, as I'm going to build an sata disk and move things to that as part of the process to see what's wrong. May as well get it right-ish the first time; then repartition the SSD. 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: odd phantom directory
It looks like this may be the same issue as reported here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-October/027902.html but that thread seems to have just died off about a year ago. Zfs scrub is still running, but not reported errors so far. I'm going to run a zdb -ccv backup once that is done. From looking over this other thread, I tried just a simple ls /backup/ldap1/etc and /backup/ldap1/etc/pki does show up if I do ls without any arguments. If I do an ls -l then it doesn't show up. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brian Gold Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:37 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: odd phantom directory Hi all, I ran into a rather odd issue this morning with my FreeBSD 9.0-Release system running ZFS v28. This system serves as an RSYNC host which all of our other systems back up to each night. Last night, I started getting the following error: file has vanished: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki Now, usually when I get a file has vanished error during an RSYNC run, it indicates that the source file/directory on the system that is sending the rsync backup has been deleted or moved before rsync got a chance to actually send it. That doesn't appear to be the case here. /backup/ldap1/etc/pki is the destination directory on my Freebsd/ZFS server. I take a look in /backup/ldap1/etc on my Freebsd server and the pki subdirectory is no longer listed. Ok, so I run mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following error: mkdir: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: File exists. Odd Just to double check, I run ls -la /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following: ls: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory Alright, how about a simple touch? touch: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory Fine. Maybe there is something funky about the /backup/ldap1/etc directory that is preventing me from doing any of this. mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki2. That works just fine. What the heck? Looking at the output of my daily security run, I see the following: Checking setuid files and devices: find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.avail: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory So, it looks like there are a few files/directories in /backup/ldap1/etc that were affected. Looking through dmesg and /var/log/messages, I don't see anything out of the ordinary. I'm running a zpool scrub now just to be on the safe side, but I haven't seen any checksum or other errors so far. Any thoughts as to what might be causing this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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: odd phantom directory
Ok, really confused now. I just ran an rm -rf /backup/ldap1, which errored out when trying to rm /backup/ldap1/etc/pki, /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf, and /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.avail. Everything else got purged correctly, except for those phantom files. I then reran my rsync script, which DIDN'T error this time, shipped all the files over, and I can now read those phantom files/folders just fine. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brian Gold Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:23 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: odd phantom directory It looks like this may be the same issue as reported here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-October/027902.html but that thread seems to have just died off about a year ago. Zfs scrub is still running, but not reported errors so far. I'm going to run a zdb -ccv backup once that is done. From looking over this other thread, I tried just a simple ls /backup/ldap1/etc and /backup/ldap1/etc/pki does show up if I do ls without any arguments. If I do an ls -l then it doesn't show up. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brian Gold Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:37 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: odd phantom directory Hi all, I ran into a rather odd issue this morning with my FreeBSD 9.0-Release system running ZFS v28. This system serves as an RSYNC host which all of our other systems back up to each night. Last night, I started getting the following error: file has vanished: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki Now, usually when I get a file has vanished error during an RSYNC run, it indicates that the source file/directory on the system that is sending the rsync backup has been deleted or moved before rsync got a chance to actually send it. That doesn't appear to be the case here. /backup/ldap1/etc/pki is the destination directory on my Freebsd/ZFS server. I take a look in /backup/ldap1/etc on my Freebsd server and the pki subdirectory is no longer listed. Ok, so I run mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following error: mkdir: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: File exists. Odd Just to double check, I run ls -la /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following: ls: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory Alright, how about a simple touch? touch: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory Fine. Maybe there is something funky about the /backup/ldap1/etc directory that is preventing me from doing any of this. mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki2. That works just fine. What the heck? Looking at the output of my daily security run, I see the following: Checking setuid files and devices: find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.avail: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory So, it looks like there are a few files/directories in /backup/ldap1/etc that were affected. Looking through dmesg and /var/log/messages, I don't see anything out of the ordinary. I'm running a zpool scrub now just to be on the safe side, but I haven't seen any checksum or other errors so far. Any thoughts as to what might be causing this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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
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Re: odd phantom directory
Brian Gold bgold at simons-rock.edu writes: Hi all, I ran into a rather odd issue this morning with my FreeBSD 9.0-Release system running ZFS v28. This system serves as an RSYNC host which all of our other systems back up to each night. Last night, I started getting the following error: file has vanished: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki Now, usually when I get a file has vanished error during an RSYNC run, it indicates that the source file/directory on the system that is sending the rsync backup has been deleted or moved before rsync got a chance to actually send it. That doesn't appear to be the case here. /backup/ldap1/etc/pki is the destination directory on my Freebsd/ZFS server. I take a look in /backup/ldap1/etc on my Freebsd server and the pki subdirectory is no longer listed. Ok, so I run mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following error: mkdir: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: File exists. Odd Just to double check, I run ls -la /backup/ldap1/etc/pki and get the following: ls: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory ... There have been cases like that reported in the past. One was dated 2006: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-April/018069.html I assume the backup host was on UFS. This comment seems to be interesting: Such behavior usually caused by lost vnode reference and/or bugs in the vnode traversal code. ... Next dated 2011: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/carsten-c-otto-de-ftpsync-freebsd-ftp-ftp-1013-rsync-ERROR-on-2011-03-04-09-23-00-td4073512.html I assume the backup host was on UFS2. There was a fix commited: ...John Baldwin commited very promising MFC yesterday, see http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219744 . Next dated 2011: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-October/027902.html The backup host was on ZFS. Yours is similar to the last one. Perhaps looking for the solution to this problem should start at top VFS layer ? The description in /usr/src/sys/sys/vnode.h is a good reference. I would suggest you file a PR# to get VFS and fs devs have a look at it. jb ___ 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: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11
Well... apparently I was able to get this to work on my own. To recap, I
have an ExoPC Slate running FreeBSD 9.0 and xorg 1.7 with an eGalax
USB HID touch screen. Out of the box, ums(4) claims it but doesn't
like it.
After investigating a bit more, I found that the screen has multiple HID
collections associated with it:
Collection type=Application page=Digitizer usage=Touch_Screen
Collection type=Physical page=Digitizer usage=Finger
Collection type=Application page=Generic_Desktop usage=Pointer
Collection type=Physical page=Generic_Desktop usage=Pointer
Collection type=Application page=Microsoft usage=0x0001
Collection type=Application page=Digitizer usage=Touch_Screen
Collection type=Physical page=Digitizer usage=Stylus
Collection type=Application page=Digitizer usage=Device_Configuration
Collection type=Physical page=Digitizer usage=Finger
The ums(4) driver is trying to use the 'Pointer' collection, but I think
it may be getting confused by the X/Y ranges:
Collection type=Application page=Generic_Desktop usage=Pointer
Collection type=Physical page=Generic_Desktop usage=Pointer
Input rid=1 size=1 count=1 page=Button usage=Button_1, logical range 0..1,
physical range 1..2047
Input rid=1 size=1 count=1 page=Button usage=Button_2, logical range 0..1,
physical range 1..2047
Input rid=1 size=16 count=1 page=Generic_Desktop usage=X, logical range
0..4095, physical range 0..4095
Input rid=1 size=16 count=1 page=Generic_Desktop usage=Y, logical range
0..4095, physical range 0..4095
End collection
End collection
There are two problems. First, the ranges are a little unusual. I think
other mouse devices only have ranges from -127 to +127. Second, the input
flags for the X and Y axis entries are 0x2 (HI_VARIABLE) and not HI_RELATIVE,
which is what the usm(4) driver expects. This causes it to ignore the X and Y
axis entries and only handle the button entries. I tried changing the code to
accept just the HI_VARIABLE flag, but that still didn't make the cursor move.
In any case, I was wrong that the problem is that the FreeBSD ums(4) driver
doesn't handle gestures: it's just not flexible enough to handle this
oddball pointer design.
Anyway, go get it to work with X as a standard pointer device, I finally
ended up doing the following:
1) Edited the uhid_probe() function in sys/dev/usb/input/uhid.c to comment
out the code that excludes UIPROTO_MOUSE devices:
/*
* Don't attach to mouse and keyboard devices, hence then no
* nomatch event is generated and then ums and ukbd won't
* attach properly when loaded.
*/
if ((uaa-info.bInterfaceClass == UICLASS_HID)
(uaa-info.bInterfaceSubClass == UISUBCLASS_BOOT)
((uaa-info.bInterfaceProtocol == UIPROTO_BOOT_KEYBOARD)/* ||
(uaa-info.bInterfaceProtocol == UIPROTO_MOUSE) */)) {
return (ENXIO);
}
Note: this will make it match all mice. I could have fixed it to
be more selective, but for now I just wanted things to work.
2) Recompiled the kernel with the ums(4) and uhid(4) drivers removed.
3) Edited /boot/loader.conf to load the uhid(4) module:
uhid_load=YES
4) Renamed /boot/kernel/ums.ko to something else so that the system would
stop trying to automatically load it all the time. (Grrr...)
5) Installed the ports collection.
6) Downloaded the following file:
http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/patch-zz-input-mouse9
6) Copied it to /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse/files
7) Recompiled and re-installed the xf86-input-mouse driver:
# cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
# make
# make deinstall
# make install
8) Edited my xorg.conf to include the following:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver mouse
Option Collection 2
Option Protocol usb
Option Device /dev/uhid0
Option Emulate3Timeout 10
EndSection
The touch panel is now detected as uhid0 instead of ums0 and the mouse
input driver now handles it directly instead of going through /dev/sysmouse.
Note that the 'Collection 2' option line is critical here. The driver
defaults to using collection 1, which is the touch screen. However this
doesn't provide a working pointer. Collection 2 is for the mouse emulation
mode, which is not ideal, but at least it allows me to move the cursor with
my finger now.
Button presses are a little tricky. There are 3 possible results:
1) Quick press -- button 1
2) Press and hold for a few seconds - button 2
3) Tap, release for a second, then press and hold -- button 3
I put the complete output of usbuhidctl -r and my xorg.conf file here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/expoc
Note that I'm using the VESA driver for now as the Intel driver seems to
lock up when used with the Intel Pineview graphics controller in this
tablet.
Also note that it looks like you can use pretty much any other USB mouse
this way too, just remember to remove
Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: ~$ gpart show ada0 = 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) / 419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap 429917788388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) /var 513803864194304 5 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) /tmp 55574690 192216088 6 freebsd-ufs (91G) /usr 2477907782278869- free - (1.1G) It would not cause this problem, but those partitions are not aligned. That would only affect speed, not reliability. geezes, it's not even on a 4K boundary from the get-go; not sure how that happened. let-alone the 1M boundary I just learned about. That's a normal install. It's fine for 512-byte devices. I have other suggestions too, but let's save that until the problem is fixed. aaahhh. Vague recollections of getting this to boot up first time around. How about suggestions anyway, as I'm going to build an sata disk and move things to that as part of the process to see what's wrong. May as well get it right-ish the first time; then repartition the SSD. Okay. The disk setup article shows alignment and using GPT labels, so I'll skip those. Additional SSD suggestions: when creating partitions, leave out the swap partition. If you have lots of memory, leave out the /tmp partition. Add that extra space to the /usr partition. Format the UFS filesystems with -Ut, for soft updates and TRIM support. (Make sure your SSD supports TRIM, almost all do.) (I don't use soft updates journaling.) Use dd(1) to make a zero-filled file on /usr somewhere, say /usr/swap. Make it the size you want swap to be, and do not make it a sparse file. Tell the system to use the swapfile in /etc/rc.conf: swapfile=/usr/swap Use tmpfs for /tmp in /etc/fstab: tmpfs /tmptmpfs rw,mode=01777 0 0 It's possible to limit the size, but not necessary. This /tmp will be cleared on reboot. Now: why? Using a swapfile through the filesystem gives three advantages: 1. Disk space is not tied up in an unused swap partition. 2. Swap can be resized without repartitioning. 3. Swap goes through the filesystem, using TRIM, helping the SSD maintain performance. /tmp as tmpfs is auto-sizing, efficient, and self-clearing on reboot. It doesn't tie up disk space in a mostly-unused partition. I use tmpfs for /usr/obj also. It doesn't improve speed, but reduces writes to SSD and is also self-clearing. ___ 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: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Plant wrote: I looked over the GPT sample and have a question. In the fstab entries, something that uses msdosfs, (thumb drive maybe). %%% Can you enter it directly in the fstab after the basic partitions and other /dev have been entered in the initial setup? Short answer: yes, but... Longer answer: most flash drives have an MBR partition setup with one partition filling the whole device. Since it's not GPT, it won't/can't have GPT labels on the partitions. But the GEOM system will create a label for the MSDOS filesystem if it has been given a volume name. That label will appear in /dev/msdosfs/ and can be used in an /etc/fstab entry. ___ Thanks,, For the sage advice. % ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name Issueing VirtualBox from host command line gets this msg. Failed to open the x11 display VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name assumes that there a vb guest all ready configured which is not my case. Right! I assumed you already had the VM ready. Sorry. There is no man page for VBoxHeadless command. There are those: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/UserManual.pdf and http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ VBoxHeadless is covered on both. How do a configure a vb guest from the host command line? VBoxManage can do all that from command line. Check it out or follow my previous e-mail. I read the UserManual and think I am barking up the wrong tree. So lets start over again with what the wanted desired result is. I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to install XP in the second half and have a duel boot config. Then I find out XP has to be install first on the HD meaning I have to install 9.0 from scratch again. I read a post on this list where it was suggested to run Virtualbox on my 9.0 host and then run XP as a guest. I want to boot the 9.0 host and login to the 9.0 host, start the Virtualbox XP guest and enter the XP guest [IE: be in the XP OS windows environment], can I do all that from the host command line? I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. I do not want to use an second PC to login to the VB XP guest over ssh. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name Issueing VirtualBox from host command line gets this msg. Failed to open the x11 display VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name assumes that there a vb guest all ready configured which is not my case. Right! I assumed you already had the VM ready. Sorry. There is no man page for VBoxHeadless command. There are those: http://download.virtualbox.**org/virtualbox/UserManual.pdfhttp://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/UserManual.pdf and http://www.virtualbox.org/**manual/ http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ VBoxHeadless is covered on both. How do a configure a vb guest from the host command line? VBoxManage can do all that from command line. Check it out or follow my previous e-mail. I read the UserManual and think I am barking up the wrong tree. So lets start over again with what the wanted desired result is. I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to install XP in the second half and have a duel boot config. Then I find out XP has to be install first on the HD meaning I have to install 9.0 from scratch again. I read a post on this list where it was suggested to run Virtualbox on my 9.0 host and then run XP as a guest. I want to boot the 9.0 host and login to the 9.0 host, start the Virtualbox XP guest and enter the XP guest [IE: be in the XP OS windows environment], can I do all that from the host command line? I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. I do not want to use an second PC to login to the VB XP guest over ssh. I think I am misunderstanding your ask, so I will describe what I have which sounds awfully similar. I have a headless 9.0 box with plenty of CPU cycles and HDD/RAM to spare. I have installed virtualbox on it, as well as phpVirtualBox (might have the wrong name there). Using phpVirtualBox, I can start/stop/config virtual machines on the host. So I used my Win7 box to create a virtual Win7 (or in your case WinXP) and got it all installed and setup using my laptop. Once it was configured, I copied the virtual hard drive to the fileserver, configured a new virtual machine to use that hard drive and set the network to bridged. After starting the virtual machine on my FreeBSD box I was able to remote to the virtual machine using terminal services (built into windows). The installation of virtualbox on my fileserver did install x11 components, but by using phpVirtualBox, it is all started headless. Hope this helps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I read the UserManual and think I am barking up the wrong tree. It's called the XY problem, and it's resolved by asking better questions. So lets start over again with what the wanted desired result is. I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to install XP in the second half and have a duel boot config. Then I find out XP has to be install first on the HD meaning I have to install 9.0 from scratch again. I read a post on this list where it was suggested to run Virtualbox on my 9.0 host and then run XP as a guest. I want to boot the 9.0 host and login to the 9.0 host, start the Virtualbox XP guest and enter the XP guest [IE: be in the XP OS windows environment], can I do all that from the host command line? Yes. Although you certainly wouldn't use the headless mode since you want a head. I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. This would be your problem. -- 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: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:18:10 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name Issueing VirtualBox from host command line gets this msg. Failed to open the x11 display VBoxHeadless -startvm vm name assumes that there a vb guest all ready configured which is not my case. Right! I assumed you already had the VM ready. Sorry. There is no man page for VBoxHeadless command. There are those: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/UserManual.pdf and http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ VBoxHeadless is covered on both. How do a configure a vb guest from the host command line? VBoxManage can do all that from command line. Check it out or follow my previous e-mail. I read the UserManual and think I am barking up the wrong tree. So lets start over again with what the wanted desired result is. I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to install XP in the second half and have a duel boot config. Then I find out XP has to be install first on the HD meaning I have to install 9.0 from scratch again. I read a post on this list where it was suggested to run Virtualbox on my 9.0 host and then run XP as a guest. I want to boot the 9.0 host and login to the 9.0 host, start the Virtualbox XP guest and enter the XP guest [IE: be in the XP OS windows environment], can I do all that from the host command line? I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. I do not want to use an second PC to login to the VB XP guest over ssh. To access the XP graphics interface, you NEED a graphics environment! I, at least, don't know of a way to access a graphics interface from a text console and you're not willing to do an RDP/VNC session from another machine. I'm sorry but you're stuck ! I can't help you any further. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ 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: Light word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet
On 15 November 2012 04:06, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: Hello I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older hardware is very long. Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build? If I can get an alternative to Calc also it's a plus but not a big problem. The main work I do will still be done on machines that can build LibreOffice. Now and then I need to open an attached file, maybe edit it and send it back. It's for that purpose I need the light version. Maybe because 20+ years ago I learnt wordstar, so if you grew up on pointin' clickin' you'll be sorely dis- appointed, but I enjoy the jstar mode of editors/joe (or actually editors/jupp, some dif'rence, mostly). Pathetic writer, from siag isn't half bad, but you'll have to build from sources all by your lonesome, it ain't gonna work at first. The downside is the general inability to simply open /certain proprietary formats/ which libre- open-office have. But then I'm a fan of editing writing with a simple editing writing program saving all the font other extraneous formatting nonsense to a proper layout program (the old Aldus PageMaker was nice back in the 1990s, haha): print/scribus might be an option, except that it pulls in every accursed KDE/qt4 thing on Earth. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. This would be your problem. How so? Surely virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse, and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.) Fbsd8 fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com wrote: I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to install XP in the second half and have a duel boot config. Then I find out XP has to be install first on the HD ... The easiest solution might be to dd the first 100gb (containing the FreeBSD installation) to the second 100gb, mark the first 100gb as unused, and install XP there if it needs to be in the lowest- addressed part of the disk. Back up the FreeBSD installation first! Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: To access the XP graphics interface, you NEED a graphics environment! XP itself, when running directly on the hardware, provides its own graphics environment. It should be able to do the same running on a VM with a virtualized keyboard, mouse, and display. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:10 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. This would be your problem. How so? Surely virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse, and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.) I see what you are saying but that isn't possible currently with Virtualbox. The closest piece of tech I know of the OP's request is Xen VGA passthrough. -- 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: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?
On 11/16/12 12:10, Warren Block wrote: ~$ gpart show ada0 = 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) / 419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap 429917788388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) /var 513803864194304 5 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) /tmp 55574690 192216088 6 freebsd-ufs (91G) /usr 2477907782278869- free - (1.1G) It would not cause this problem, but those partitions are not aligned. That would only affect speed, not reliability. geezes, it's not even on a 4K boundary from the get-go; not sure how that happened. let-alone the 1M boundary I just learned about. That's a normal install. It's fine for 512-byte devices. I have other suggestions too, but let's save that until the problem is fixed. aaahhh. Vague recollections of getting this to boot up first time around. After upgrading the mobo bios I re-partitioned and so far so good although ports are messed up and I'll have to rebuild them. Did not implement the suggestions below as I needed to get back up and figured it would take me a while to get it right. Will do that on the new disk. How about suggestions anyway, as I'm going to build an sata disk and move things to that as part of the process to see what's wrong. May as well get it right-ish the first time; then repartition the SSD. Okay. The disk setup article shows alignment and using GPT labels, so I'll skip those. Additional SSD suggestions: when creating partitions, leave out the swap partition. If you have lots of memory, leave out the /tmp partition. Add that extra space to the /usr partition. Format the UFS filesystems with -Ut, for soft updates and TRIM support. (Make sure your SSD supports TRIM, almost all do.) (I don't use soft updates journaling.) Use dd(1) to make a zero-filled file on /usr somewhere, say /usr/swap. Make it the size you want swap to be, and do not make it a sparse file. Tell the system to use the swapfile in /etc/rc.conf: swapfile=/usr/swap Use tmpfs for /tmp in /etc/fstab: tmpfs/tmptmpfsrw,mode=0177700 It's possible to limit the size, but not necessary. This /tmp will be cleared on reboot. Not necessary because it is constrained by the swap file size? Now: why? Using a swapfile through the filesystem gives three advantages: 1. Disk space is not tied up in an unused swap partition. 2. Swap can be resized without repartitioning. 3. Swap goes through the filesystem, using TRIM, helping the SSD maintain performance. /tmp as tmpfs is auto-sizing, efficient, and self-clearing on reboot. It doesn't tie up disk space in a mostly-unused partition. I use tmpfs for /usr/obj also. It doesn't improve speed, but reduces writes to SSD and is also self-clearing. 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: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/16/12 12:10, Warren Block wrote: Additional SSD suggestions: when creating partitions, leave out the swap partition. If you have lots of memory, leave out the /tmp partition. Add that extra space to the /usr partition. Format the UFS filesystems with -Ut, for soft updates and TRIM support. (Make sure your SSD supports TRIM, almost all do.) (I don't use soft updates journaling.) Use dd(1) to make a zero-filled file on /usr somewhere, say /usr/swap. Make it the size you want swap to be, and do not make it a sparse file. Tell the system to use the swapfile in /etc/rc.conf: swapfile=/usr/swap Use tmpfs for /tmp in /etc/fstab: tmpfs/tmptmpfsrw,mode=0177700 It's possible to limit the size, but not necessary. This /tmp will be cleared on reboot. Not necessary because it is constrained by the swap file size? Yes, but also because /tmp usually doesn't need much space. On this desktop system, du shows all of /tmp is only 52K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
how to correct corrupted ports tree?
so, after updating bios, repartitioning, etc,
things seem to be stable, modulo the following:
decided to rebuild ports for peace of mind,
but my basic ports tree is hosed:
# portmaster -t --clean-distfiles
...
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.php.mk, line 335: Malformed conditional
(${_USE_PHP_VER${PHP_VER}:Myes} != )
...
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
=== No DISTINFO_FILE in /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
Makefile, line 20: Could not find
/usr/ports/mail/enigmail-thunderbird3/../enigmail/Makefile
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
Sure enough:
# ls /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
CVS Makefilepkg-descr
I didn't see anything in the handbook about how to get the ports tree itself
back to a sane condition. Do I have to blow the whole thing away and do a
fresh extract? I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files
like distinfo when portsnap thinks the port is up to date.
Gary
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Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?
On 17/11/2012 15:26, Gary Aitken wrote: decided to rebuild ports for peace of mind, but my basic ports tree is hosed: I didn't see anything in the handbook about how to get the ports tree itself back to a sane condition. Do I have to blow the whole thing away and do a fresh extract? I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files like distinfo when portsnap thinks the port is up to date. portsnap extract will always install the entire tree, if you have made any modifications they will be overwritten, but new ports folders you have added should remain, sometimes this can also cause old folders to be left behind. Worst case is to delete the existing /usr/ports and extract a clean set. Another option is partial extraction - portsnap extract lang/php5-extensions will extract just the one port portsnap extract lang/php5 will match all lang ports starting with php5 portsnap extract lang will extract all the lang ports I think that you will find your issue comes from the fact that all the php4 ports have been deleted - you seem to have some old folders left behind. Could be from extracting over an existing cvs checkout. Maybe you want a clean start. If you still have php4 installed then you should be able to use portmaster -o lang/php5-extensions lang/php4-extensions to get it to update with the new version find /usr/ports -type d -and -name php4* | xargs rm -R will delete any remaining php4 folders find /usr/ports -name CVS | xargs rm -R will remove all the cvs garbage left behind. ___ 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
confessions of a FreeBSD purist
Dear FreeBSD community, It has been wonderful being a full-fledged member of this community, an administrator running FreeBSD on bare hardware (in his basement) for years. This is the coolest, hippiest, historically pure, and most technically advanced UNIX community on the planet (I'm one of the more long in the tooth members.) I used Dummynet about four years ago to replay bad Internet weather and prove my hypothesis of what servers caused failure in a multi-tier, forex trading system failure. This week I reformatted the last two machines in my basement running FreeBSD. I feel really guilty. I installed Ubuntu (10.04) because its GUI is great, its very well supported, and I had a heck of a time keeping my FreeBSD jails configured and stable, and I'd stopped running a web site for a while now. I installed 10.04 instead of 12.04 because on another machine I had attempted to upgrade to 12.04 LTS while running the dual boot configuration, and it trashed my MBR (a known defect.) You have been warned, etc. It also has that radically different GUI, and really annoying, an entirely different directory tree on the disk. FreeBSD contributors would never tamper so much with something that worked so well. However, I do need to run a web site again, and I am more than convinced on the superior performance, and hardening possible with FreeBSD bind, and Apache running in jails. However, I'd like to run FreeBSD in a VMWare or VirtualBox VMs. This gives me the ability to take snapshots to recover easily when I break something. Computing resources are like candy these days. My fast box has 4 screaming fast processors with 8 GB of RAM, and that is a three year old machine. There is no reason FreeBSD cannot run with adequate performance in a VM and run bind, and perhaps on another physical box, have a FreeBSD VM running Apache, both in jails. I know others are doing it. Could anyone be kind enough to recommend a free, or share their own FreeBSD VM image that has bind pre-configured in a jail, and / or an Apache web server pre-configured in a jail, for a non-commercial site? With this configuration I can revert after breaking something as an over-eager, semi-qualified system administrator. Cheers, Matthew (in Toronto) ___ 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
