Re: after pkgng update, daily run still using pkg_info
On 30/09/2013 06:09, Gary Aitken wrote: On 09/28/13 10:52, Gary Aitken wrote: After switching to pkgng, I noticed that my daily run output constantly complains about the installed packages being corrupt, e.g.: pkg_info: the package info for package 'asciidoc-8.6.8_1' is corrupt The problem is with etc/periodic/daily/490.status-pkg-changes which is still using pkg_info instead of pkg info Was this script supposed to be automatically updated as part of the conversion? What's the right way to upgrade this on a 9.1 release system? Or should I just edit the script by hand and be done with it? On 09/28/13 13:57, Mark Felder wrote: Run pkg_info. If there is anything listed you have not fully converted to pkgng and have some old broken/corrupt packages. You'll want to clean this up. What does clean this up mean, and how does one go about it, given the system is converted to using pkgng? There is no /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db Some of the packages reported as corrupt were installed *after* the conversion to pkgng, so why is pkg_info even noticing them? pkg info reports 705 packages installed, and installs and re-installs using portmaster seem to be working. pkg_info reports 14 good packages and 658 corrupt packages. If pkg_info is picking up packages installed after the conversion, why doesn't the sum of good and corrupt packages equal the number pkg reports? It was my understanding that after switching to pkgng, the pkg_* cmds should no longer be used. If that's the case, shouldn't the daily script have been modified by the upgrade process? Hi, Gary, Yes, you're correct that the pkg_info command should no longer be used after pkgng-ifying your system. Not because it's harmful or lead to any sort of breakage but simply because it won't return any meaningful information. Ideally, there shouldn't really be any of the old style package metadata left in /var/db/pkg after running pkg2ng but the conversion process may occasionaly stumble over the odd port or two. (In which case force the port in question to re-install. If you're using a package repository, that's 'pkg install -f pkgname' -- otherwise, just use the normal portmaster / portupgrade command you'ld have used pre-pkgng.) If you are a portmaster user be aware that it does store various bits to do with managing distfiles in /var/db/pkg/pkgname-ver/ subdirectories. These shouldn't be confused with old style pkg_install metadata -- the distinguishing feature is if they contain a +CONTENTS file. As to why pkg2ng doesn't disable pkg_install related periodic jobs -- pretty much because no one has implemented that. pkg comes with it's own set of periodic job scripts which should give you the equivalent set of reports via the pkg local database, so all we'd need to do is turn off any old pkg_install script and turn on the pkg equivalent. I've just created a new issue on github for that: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/599 Patches -- or even better, pull requests -- are welcome. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: after pkgng update, daily run still using pkg_info
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013, at 23:09, Gary Aitken wrote: Some of the packages reported as corrupt were installed *after* the conversion to pkgng, so why is pkg_info even noticing them? The only way this is possible is if they are in the old package format. Did you happen to convert your packages to pkgng and then install some software from ports without putting WITH_PKGNG=YES in your make.conf? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Contributing to FreeBSD
Hi all, I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration, database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++. I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However, I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started. So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project that would require my field of knowledge. Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page but found the similar problems as above. Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to go through before starting to contribute. -- Regards :) Karan ___ 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: Contributing to FreeBSD
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM, karan garg karangar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration, database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++. I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However, I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started. So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project that would require my field of knowledge. I suppose that depends on your interests and your habilities. You can check the Ideas Page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage Ports need work too, so you can try to port something new that people want: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts or adopt an orphaned port: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=36243 Contributing documentation is always welcomed AFAIK. Cheers. Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page but found the similar problems as above. Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to go through before starting to contribute. -- Regards :) Karan ___ 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: Contributing to FreeBSD
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:16:54 +0530 karan garg articulated: Hi all, I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration, database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++. I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However, I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started. So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project that would require my field of knowledge. Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page but found the similar problems as above. Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to go through before starting to contribute. Well, if you really want a suggestion, you could try updating the linux_base-f10-10_7 port that was released by Fedora on November 25, 2008 to something newer, say the Fedora 19, released July 2, 2013. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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
Vulnerability
Has this been rectified: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-5710 -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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
cause of reboot
Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ I checked dmesg -a , it has only generic things no other things. I checked /var/log/messages I wrote script and checked swapinfo , cpu and memory but all of them was normal before reboot. I checked crontab and scripts. I checked crashinfo but no dump from kernel. I didn't find any useful info from this commands. I checked praudit /var/audir/20130930..CrashRecovery and I didn't understand very well from this file but I think this means my machine crash and reboot isn't it?? And How can I understand what is the reason of rebooting my FreeBSD8.3 server. Please help I need to find cause of reboot.. ___ 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: Contributing to FreeBSD
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:16:54 +0530 karan garg articulated: Hi all, I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration, database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++. I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However, I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started. So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project that would require my field of knowledge. Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page but found the similar problems as above. Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to go through before starting to contribute. Well, if you really want a suggestion, you could try updating the linux_base-f10-10_7 port that was released by Fedora on November 25, 2008 to something newer, say the Fedora 19, released July 2, 2013. Thanks Jerry, But as this is my first experience, can you give me some links to go through before I start? According to what I found, portsnap is one of the tools that will help me for this. Also, is this the correct mailing list to keep posting on for this purpose? -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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 -- Regards :) Karan ___ 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: cause of reboot
Did you check for the command reboot in all of the periodic scripts and cron jobs as well as the command shutdown ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:24, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ I checked dmesg -a , it has only generic things no other things. I checked /var/log/messages I wrote script and checked swapinfo , cpu and memory but all of them was normal before reboot. I checked crontab and scripts. I checked crashinfo but no dump from kernel. I didn't find any useful info from this commands. I checked praudit /var/audir/20130930..CrashRecovery and I didn't understand very well from this file but I think this means my machine crash and reboot isn't it?? And How can I understand what is the reason of rebooting my FreeBSD8.3 server. Please help I need to find cause of reboot.. ___ freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: cause of reboot
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:24:18 +0300 Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ That's likely something in the daily run going wrong, try disabling items in there one by one (by editing /etc/periodic.conf - which probably doesn't yet exist so create it and look in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for details) until you get through a night without a reboot. Then the next step is to figure out why whatever is crashing the system does so, but first let's find out what. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.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: Vulnerability
On 9/30/2013 10:05, Jerry wrote: Has this been rectified: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-5710 Yes. http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:13.nullfs.asc http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisionrevision=255442 -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. It is not logical. Please don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted 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
Re: Vulnerability
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Has this been rectified: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-5710 If you read the page at that link, you will find the answer. ___ 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: cause of reboot
Yes I checked also it , such as ; grep -i 'reboot' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'halt' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'shutdown' /root/scripts/* -R 30.09.2013, 17:33, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net: Did you check for the command reboot in all of the periodic scripts and cron jobs as well as the command shutdown ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:24, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ I checked dmesg -a , it has only generic things no other things. I checked /var/log/messages I wrote script and checked swapinfo , cpu and memory but all of them was normal before reboot. I checked crontab and scripts. I checked crashinfo but no dump from kernel. I didn't find any useful info from this commands. I checked praudit /var/audir/20130930..CrashRecovery and I didn't understand very well from this file but I think this means my machine crash and reboot isn't it?? And How can I understand what is the reason of rebooting my FreeBSD8.3 server. Please help I need to find cause of reboot.. ___ freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-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: Vulnerability
This was announced on security-advisor...@freebsd.org on September 10th, 2013. The relevant commits, as taken from the announcement, are: Branch/path Revision - - stable/8/ r255445 releng/8.3/ r255446 releng/8.4/ r255447 stable/9/ r255443 releng/9.1/ r255448 releng/9.2/ r255444 - - On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Has this been rectified: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-5710 -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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: cause of reboot
And /etc/ ? And /var/cron ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:00, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Yes I checked also it , such as ; grep -i 'reboot' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'halt' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'shutdown' /root/scripts/* -R 30.09.2013, 17:33, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net: Did you check for the command reboot in all of the periodic scripts and cron jobs as well as the command shutdown ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:24, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ I checked dmesg -a , it has only generic things no other things. I checked /var/log/messages I wrote script and checked swapinfo , cpu and memory but all of them was normal before reboot. I checked crontab and scripts. I checked crashinfo but no dump from kernel. I didn't find any useful info from this commands. I checked praudit /var/audir/20130930..CrashRecovery and I didn't understand very well from this file but I think this means my machine crash and reboot isn't it?? And How can I understand what is the reason of rebooting my FreeBSD8.3 server. Please help I need to find cause of reboot.. ___ freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: cause of reboot
Also . . . grep -ri . . . On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:06, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net wrote: And /etc/ ? And /var/cron ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:00, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Yes I checked also it , such as ; grep -i 'reboot' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'halt' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'shutdown' /root/scripts/* -R 30.09.2013, 17:33, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net: Did you check for the command reboot in all of the periodic scripts and cron jobs as well as the command shutdown ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:24, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ I checked dmesg -a , it has only generic things no other things. I checked /var/log/messages I wrote script and checked swapinfo , cpu and memory but all of them was normal before reboot. I checked crontab and scripts. I checked crashinfo but no dump from kernel. I didn't find any useful info from this commands. I checked praudit /var/audir/20130930..CrashRecovery and I didn't understand very well from this file but I think this means my machine crash and reboot isn't it?? And How can I understand what is the reason of rebooting my FreeBSD8.3 server. Please help I need to find cause of reboot.. ___ freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: cause of reboot
On 9/30/13 11:08 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Also . . . grep -ri . . . On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:06, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net wrote: And /etc/ ? And /var/cron ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:00, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Yes I checked also it , such as ; grep -i 'reboot' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'halt' /root/scripts/* -R grep -i 'shutdown' /root/scripts/* -R 30.09.2013, 17:33, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net: Did you check for the command reboot in all of the periodic scripts and cron jobs as well as the command shutdown ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:24, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ I checked dmesg -a , it has only generic things no other things. I checked /var/log/messages I wrote script and checked swapinfo , cpu and memory but all of them was normal before reboot. I checked crontab and scripts. I checked crashinfo but no dump from kernel. I didn't find any useful info from this commands. I checked praudit /var/audir/20130930..CrashRecovery and I didn't understand very well from this file but I think this means my machine crash and reboot isn't it?? And How can I understand what is the reason of rebooting my FreeBSD8.3 server. Please help I need to find cause of reboot.. ___ freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Firstly, does this machine have the kernel debugger installed? if not then a kernel page fault will look like a reboot. if you know when this is going to occur, then I suggest that you set up some logging of every new process run, to a second machine, or possibly you might just ssh int the machine and leave 'top' running when it reboots you shoud get a snapshot of what's going on. you could just rename 'reboot' and see if it still happens. If not, then replace reboot (and friends) with a script that reports who called it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: cause of reboot
Le Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:24:18 +0300, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com a écrit : Hi, my server reboots every night and same o'clock last 10 days. But this machine's uptime was 96days. Suddenly reboot this machine and now this continue every night again and again. I didn't find any reason and I didn't change anything else. I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ The last time It happened (one month ago) to me it was the hard disk (periodic scripts read a large part of the disk). If the disk is smart capable try a full test with smartctl (sysutils/smartmontools) HTH, 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: cause of reboot
Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: [snip] I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ The last time It happened (one month ago) to me it was the hard disk (periodic scripts read a large part of the disk). If the disk is smart capable try a full test with smartctl (sysutils/smartmontools) My gateway/firewall/mail/ids router box at home has 2 GB RAM in it, so normally it has enough extra room that nothing ever pushes over into swap with one exception: the periodic run at 0300. It is generally never more than just a few kilobytes, but I find it slightly surprising nonetheless. If a sector (or more) on the drive that is backing the swap partition has gone bad it might not even be noticeable until something pages out to swap (like my 0300 periodic run). If the drive is a WD the 'Quick' test using the manufacturers' wddiags utility should spot it, and is non-destructive. I have occasionally seen the full test not destroy data - but I wouldn't count on it being non- destructive. However, as long as the remap area isn't full the long test will repair the drive by relocating and mapping out the bad spot. When this silent fading away of magnetic media occurs wrt to higher-end RAID controllers the scrub function in the controller BIOS is where you would want to go. The other problem relative to this that I've run into is the apple before the cart syndrome around backups. I have seen dump fail to allow for backing up data prior to using the full wddiags to repair a drive so you kinda get stuck. If the full test is going to wipe the drive and you can't generate a fresh current backup you're stuck only being able to restore whatever is the last good backup you have on hand. Wouldn't surpise me at all if this were to turn out to be the drive just recently grew one or more bad spots. A bad spot or few on an old drive that gets repaired I might continue to use the drive for a while, maybe even for like a year time-frame wise. If 2 months later it starts growing more bad spots the drive goes in the rubbish bin. -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
CAM / FC Security features
what, if any security features are capable using cam and ctladm for fiber channel targets ?? I dont see alot of documentation on it, and it appears a lun appears on all available WWPNs... is this correct ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?
How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?
On 9/30/2013 15:01, Brett Glass wrote: How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone. --Brett Glass Just upgraded a system running in KVM, working like a charm. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. It is not logical. Please don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted 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
9.2
Hi! I have to used FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1 for a while but it was to difficult for me. I run FreeBSD on iMac 11,1 which has: Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4850 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID:0x944a Revision ID: 0x ROM Revision: 113-B9110C-425 EFI Driver Version: 01.00.383 Displays: iMac: Display Type: LCD Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Built-In: Yes Connection Type: DisplayPort On FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1 it worked very good but for me 3D is not important. I installed FreeBSD 9.2 one hour ago without problem and run portsnap fetch extract and I like to install Xorg and KDE. Do I need to have in make.conf with_new_xorg=yes, please? Does xorg t need hal?. Does anyone has Radeon 4850 GPU type, please and it works? I had problems with sound settings on CURRENT and I note that will be better now. Thank you very much. Mitja http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa ___ 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: Contributing to FreeBSD
On 09/30/2013 04:30 PM, karan garg wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:16:54 +0530 karan garg articulated: Hi all, I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration, database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++. I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However, I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started. So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project that would require my field of knowledge. Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page but found the similar problems as above. Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to go through before starting to contribute. Well, if you really want a suggestion, you could try updating the linux_base-f10-10_7 port that was released by Fedora on November 25, 2008 to something newer, say the Fedora 19, released July 2, 2013. Thanks Jerry, But as this is my first experience, can you give me some links to go through before I start? According to what I found, portsnap is one of the tools that will help me for this. Also, is this the correct mailing list to keep posting on for this purpose? -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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 Hi Karan, you should take a look at the FreeBSD porter's handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ and I think questions@ is the general purpose mailing list for all things :) If your uncertain about some options in your first port I'm sure the friendly people over at ports@ will help you! Greetings, Pascal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?
Le Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:01:26 -0600, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net a écrit : Hello, How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone. I've seen two problems if you use poudriere (on ZFS only?) which occur in some loads (ie desktop running gvfsd). One fix is in 9-STABLE and the other one should be mfced soon. May be there will be an errata for 9.2-RELEASE for this ? I think that would be nice because 9.2 is stable as a Windows 3.11 with my load :-) 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: after pkgng update, daily run still using pkg_info
On 09/30/13 07:15, Mathew Seaman wrote: On 09/28/13 10:52, Gary Aitken wrote: After switching to pkgng, I noticed that my daily run output constantly complains about the installed packages being corrupt, e.g.: pkg_info: the package info for package 'asciidoc-8.6.8_1' is corrupt The problem is with etc/periodic/daily/490.status-pkg-changes which is still using pkg_info instead of pkg info Was this script supposed to be automatically updated as part of the conversion? What's the right way to upgrade this on a 9.1 release system? Or should I just edit the script by hand and be done with it? On 09/28/13 13:57, Mark Felder wrote: Run pkg_info. If there is anything listed you have not fully converted to pkgng and have some old broken/corrupt packages. You'll want to clean this up. What does clean this up mean, and how does one go about it, given the system is converted to using pkgng? There is no /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db Some of the packages reported as corrupt were installed *after* the conversion to pkgng, so why is pkg_info even noticing them? pkg info reports 705 packages installed, and installs and re-installs using portmaster seem to be working. pkg_info reports 14 good packages and 658 corrupt packages. If pkg_info is picking up packages installed after the conversion, why doesn't the sum of good and corrupt packages equal the number pkg reports? It was my understanding that after switching to pkgng, the pkg_* cmds should no longer be used. If that's the case, shouldn't the daily script have been modified by the upgrade process? Yes, you're correct that the pkg_info command should no longer be used after pkgng-ifying your system. Not because it's harmful or lead to any sort of breakage but simply because it won't return any meaningful information. Ideally, there shouldn't really be any of the old style package metadata left in /var/db/pkg after running pkg2ng but the conversion process may occasionaly stumble over the odd port or two. (In which case force the port in question to re-install. If you're using a package repository, that's 'pkg install -f pkgname' -- otherwise, just use the normal portmaster / portupgrade command you'ld have used pre-pkgng.) thanks. I was a bit confused; the ones that need to be reinstalled are the ones which pkg_info does *not* complain about. So now the daily/490.status-pkg-changes script will complain about all of them :-) Consistency is good. If you are a portmaster user be aware that it does store various bits to do with managing distfiles in /var/db/pkg/pkgname-ver/ subdirectories. These shouldn't be confused with old style pkg_install metadata -- the distinguishing feature is if they contain a +CONTENTS file. As to why pkg2ng doesn't disable pkg_install related periodic jobs -- pretty much because no one has implemented that. pkg comes with it's own set of periodic job scripts which should give you the equivalent set of reports via the pkg local database, so all we'd need to do is turn off any old pkg_install script and turn on the pkg equivalent. I've just created a new issue on github for that: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/599 Patches -- or even better, pull requests -- are welcome. Thanks for the clarification. Bit of a delay responding because something's screwed up with my mail service. It's been a while since I converted, so I'm fuzzy on what pkg2ng actually did. However, $ which pkg /usr/sbin/pkg $ pkg info pkg pkg-1.1.4_6 $ pkg which /usr/sbin/pkg /usr/sbin/pkg was not found in the database I was trying to find the set of pkg's own periodic job scripts but I don't see them, and I'm not really sure what to look for. I tried grepping for similarly numbered 490.status and similarly named status-pkg-changes and came up empty, although I see the file 490.status-pkg-changes.in in the distfile. Questions: 1. Is there some reason pkg which doesn't find itself? 2. Where is pkg supposed to install its own set of periodic job scripts and what do the names look like? 3. After reinstalling the ports reported by pkg_info as ok, one of them, x11-toolkits/wxgtk28 reinstalls fine but when done /var/db/pkg/wxgtk2-2.8.12_2 still contains old format files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45 Aug 26 22:43 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3609 Aug 26 22:43 +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel178 Aug 26 22:43 +DESC -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17553 Aug 26 22:43 +MTREE_DIRS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel137 Sep 30 13:54 distfiles Is it safe to simply delete the first four? Wasn't sure whether to file a bug on this or not, so I haven't. Gary ___ 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
# portmaster -r pixman fails with !#/bin/sh list too long
Dear folks, In updating ports I encounter above issue and cannot proceed. 20130929: AFFECTS: users of x11/pixman AUTHOR: zeis...@freebsd.org The library version of x11/pixman has changed, and portrevision has been bumped in all dependent ports. If you have external software that depends on pixman, this software needs to be recompiled. To recompile all software dependent on pixman, run: # portmaster -r pixman or # portupgrade -rf pixman The messages are that a pkg texlive-ub* and that #!/bin/sh list too long. I try to run # portmaster -d -r pixman -x 'texlive-*' but it still fails in the same place :( I am using texlive-freebsd from Romain Tartiere's googlecode page in case it is important. Please advice me so I can succeed to fix these issue. I lost X because I failed to read the /usr/src/UPDATING advice and then I realized that I overlooked this :( Best Regards, Antonio ___ 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: cause of reboot
kpn...@pobox.com wrote: [snip] While we're throwing ideas onto the table let me mention power supplies. Power supplies and hard drives are in a race to see which one will fail first. It may be that the power supply is marginal and added load from the drives being hit hard may send it over the edge. How heavily loaded is the machine in question? Absolute and total agreement with this. As they age and the filter caps leak and dry out more it will eventually become apparent. But in the meantime the output DC can just about meet spec up until really loaded. Then the ripple becomes so excessive it's not quite DC any longer. You can clearly see it using an oscilloscope. The 0300 AM periodic does hammer a machine enough to possibly push a marginal power supply over the edge. I once had a box where the RAM chips would sing with a high-pitched whistle only during the 0300 periodic run. It sounded just like the horizontal output on a television right before destruction. :-) [snip] -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: cause of reboot
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:32:39 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: kpn...@pobox.com wrote: [snip] While we're throwing ideas onto the table let me mention power supplies. Power supplies and hard drives are in a race to see which one will fail first. It may be that the power supply is marginal and added load from the drives being hit hard may send it over the edge. How heavily loaded is the machine in question? Absolute and total agreement with this. The idea of a hardware problem looks more and more obvious here. A software configuration problem could be located by diff'ing the currently used files against stock files, or by checking the logs of a versioning system (if you use one to track your local configuration file changes, for example in a CVS reposi- tory). It could be a matter of power (by more than usual drain when the machine is heavily loaded), but also a file system inconsis- tency is possible. In case the machine is using a background fsck that silently fails to deal with a specific damage, using background_fsck=NO in /etc/rc.conf to _definitely_ bring the file systems up _clean_ prior to multi-user mode booting would probably be a good idea. Using smartctl to check the hard disks SMART data would make sure the disk is not dying (and the reboot is an effect of that). Monitoring the server when (or while) it reboots would surely be interesting. Maybe open some sessions to have a close look at programs like top, systat -v and mbmon (to check for temperatures and voltages) - and when run at 1 second intervals, it should be possible to obtain a good system status diagram of the last state before reboot, when the connection drops. I once had a box where the RAM chips would sing with a high-pitched whistle only during the 0300 periodic run. It sounded just like the horizontal output on a television right before destruction. :-) I have heared something comparable from a graphics card when developing some OpenGL demo stuff. :-) -- 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
