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FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE doesn't correctly detect USB mouse/keyboard
I am running vanilla 9.2-RELEASE on an HP Z230. Strangely, my USB keyboard and mouse don't work. When I attach, here is what shows: Oct 11 12:36:39 waridi kernel: usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored) Oct 11 12:36:39 waridi kernel: ugen0.2: Unknown at usbus0 (disconnected) Oct 11 12:36:39 waridi kernel: uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device Oct 11 12:36:48 waridi kernel: usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored) Oct 11 12:36:48 waridi kernel: ugen0.2: Unknown at usbus0 (disconnected) Oct 11 12:36:48 waridi kernel: uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device Oct 11 12:36:55 waridi kernel: usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored) Oct 11 12:36:55 waridi kernel: ugen0.2: Unknown at usbus0 (disconnected) Oct 11 12:36:55 waridi kernel: uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device $ uname -a FreeBSD waridi.kihingovillage.com 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255898: Thu Sep 26 22:50:31 UTC 2013 r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj /usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I am wondering if there is something obvious I am missing? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. ___ 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
Frequent NMI warnings
Hi, $ uname -a FreeBSD ..com 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I'm getting a lot of these errors in the logs: +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ... going to debugger +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ... going to debugger +NMI ... going to debugger +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ... going to debugger +NMI ... going to debugger +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ... going to debugger +NMI ... going to debugger +NMI ISA 30, EISA 0 +NMI ... going to debugger Can anyone suggest how I could diagnose these errors? I saw some suggestions that memory faults might be a cause of similar problems but Memtest came up clear. Please cc me because I'm not a subscriber. Thanks in advance, Peter Risdon ___ 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
9.1 VM nfs3 locks over VPN
So let me explain my environment - I have 1 FreeBSD 7.1 server, multiple Linux boxes, and a FreeBSD 9.0 server. The 9.0 server is providing NFS3 mounts to all the other systems. I've built a remote VM (FreeBSD 9.1 offered by Hosting provider), and connected it to my network via OpenVPN. I copied my rc.conf from 9.0 server to 9.1 in order to grab the proper requirements for mount NFS3, and it worked fine until I ran my lock test (perl script). Which really sucks because I've already gotten just about everything else I need working :( I cannot get a lock from any OS on this side of the VPN. There are no errors logged anywhere, and adding rpcbind_flags=-l -L just tells me that the local servers are contacted. Oct 11 09:43:58 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(mountd) Oct 11 09:44:07 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to dump() Oct 11 09:44:15 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(nfs) Oct 11 09:44:16 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(mountd) Oct 11 09:44:21 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(nlockmgr) Yes lockd is running and the logs show a connection is made to it. I even tried binding rpcbind to just the VPN IP. What I couldn't do was enable debugging, the -d flag just caused rpcbind to hang. So I'm currently here: nfs_server_enable=YES nfs_server_flags= -u -t -n12 nfs_client_enable=YES portmap_enable=YES mountd_enable=YES mountd_flags= -r rpcbind_enable=YES rpc_lockd_enable=YES rpc_statd_enable=YES rpcbind_flags= -l -L #rpc_lockd_flags=-h 10.9.8.6 #rpc_statd_flags=-h 10.9.8.6 rpcinfo -p 9.0server and rpcinfo -p 9.1server match program vers proto port service 10 4 tcp 111 rpcbind 10 3 tcp 111 rpcbind 10 2 tcp 111 rpcbind 10 4 udp 111 rpcbind 10 3 udp 111 rpcbind 10 2 udp 111 rpcbind 10 4 local 111 rpcbind 10 3 local 111 rpcbind 10 2 local 111 rpcbind 15 1 udp 994 mountd 15 3 udp 994 mountd 15 1 tcp 994 mountd 15 3 tcp 994 mountd 13 2 udp 2049 nfs 13 3 udp 2049 nfs 100024 1 udp 1016 status 100024 1 tcp 1016 status 13 2 tcp 2049 nfs 13 3 tcp 2049 nfs 100021 0 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 0 tcp 726 nlockmgr 100021 1 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 1 tcp 726 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 3 tcp 726 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 4 tcp 726 nlockmgr I'm kinda lost. I tried getting NFSv4 working, but I couldn't mount the test export nfsv4_server_enable=YES nfsuserd_enable=YES nfs_client_enable=YES /nlsysvol/home -maproot=vpopmail -network 172.16.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 V4: /mnt /mnt/first -maproot=root: -network 172.16.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 The problem with using v4 is that I don't want to upgrade my 7.1 box - it just works as is :) But if that's what I have to do, then that's what I have to do. Can someone give me a push in the right direction? I've been fighting this for a full day now. Here's my perl lock script - #!/usr/bin/perl use Fcntl qw(:flock); my $lock_file = 'lockfile'; open(LOCKFILE,$lock_file) or die Cannot open $lock_file: $!\n; print Opened file $lock_file\n; flock(LOCKFILE, LOCK_SH) or die Can't get shared lock on $lock_file: $!\n; print Got shared lock on file $lock_file\n; sleep 2; close LOCKFILE; print Closed file $lock_file\n; exit; ___ 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
Use /usr/local/bin/itweb-javaws to open *.jnlp files
Dear folks, For a while I have been trying to fix an issue about opening *.jnlp files, i.e, itweb-javaws is not launching iced-tea web plugin :( I check test java installation and java is working correctly: I visit: https://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp I see: Your Java configuration is as follows: Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. Version: Java SE 6 Update 32 Operating System: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE Java Architecture: 64-bit I launch *.jnlp file: I don't see anything, nothing works I want to launch gradebook application: $ /usr/local/bin/itweb-javaws --help Your custom JRE /usr/local/openjdk6 read from deployment.properties under key deployment.jre.dir as /usr/local/openjdk6 is not valid. Using default (/usr/local/openjdk6/jre/bin/java, /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/rt.jar) in attempt to start. Please fix this. Error: could not find libjava.so Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment. ___ 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
Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)
Greetings. I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that the ports version is approximately 14 months old: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=asymptote I tried to contact the maintainer via email, but got no response. What would be the correct procedure for trying to get that port updated? 1. Somehow get in contact with the maintainer. How? (I tried.) 2. Try to become a maintainer. How? 3. Something else? Thank you very much in advance for your responses. Jarmo ___ 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: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 19:14 +0300, Jarmo Hurri wrote: I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that the ports version is approximately 14 months old: I guess that if software should depend on many other software, you can't get latest software versions working on FreeBSD that easy, if at all. Have you tested Debian's FreeBSD port? Debian GNU/kFreeBSD perhaps does provide a more current user space. https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD ___ 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: 9.1 VM nfs3 locks over VPN
Update - I've install a 9.1 VM locally, and I don't have the lock issue. I've also allowed access straight over the internet, and locks don't work. Now the non-working VM is not pristine like the test VM, but even so the kernels appear to match based on uname,so I'm guessing it's a problem with virtio block driver (which is not installed on the local test VM) or something funky with the hosting providers virtualization. Does that shed any light on things? Quoting Rick Romero r...@havokmon.com: So let me explain my environment - I have 1 FreeBSD 7.1 server, multiple Linux boxes, and a FreeBSD 9.0 server. The 9.0 server is providing NFS3 mounts to all the other systems. I've built a remote VM (FreeBSD 9.1 offered by Hosting provider), and connected it to my network via OpenVPN. I copied my rc.conf from 9.0 server to 9.1 in order to grab the proper requirements for mount NFS3, and it worked fine until I ran my lock test (perl script). Which really sucks because I've already gotten just about everything else I need working :( I cannot get a lock from any OS on this side of the VPN. There are no errors logged anywhere, and adding rpcbind_flags=-l -L just tells me that the local servers are contacted. Oct 11 09:43:58 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(mountd) Oct 11 09:44:07 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to dump() Oct 11 09:44:15 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(nfs) Oct 11 09:44:16 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(mountd) Oct 11 09:44:21 nl101 rpcbind: connect from 172.16.1.21 to getport/addr(nlockmgr) Yes lockd is running and the logs show a connection is made to it. I even tried binding rpcbind to just the VPN IP. What I couldn't do was enable debugging, the -d flag just caused rpcbind to hang. So I'm currently here: nfs_server_enable=YES nfs_server_flags= -u -t -n12 nfs_client_enable=YES portmap_enable=YES mountd_enable=YES mountd_flags= -r rpcbind_enable=YES rpc_lockd_enable=YES rpc_statd_enable=YES rpcbind_flags= -l -L #rpc_lockd_flags=-h 10.9.8.6 #rpc_statd_flags=-h 10.9.8.6 rpcinfo -p 9.0server and rpcinfo -p 9.1server match program vers proto port service 10 4 tcp 111 rpcbind 10 3 tcp 111 rpcbind 10 2 tcp 111 rpcbind 10 4 udp 111 rpcbind 10 3 udp 111 rpcbind 10 2 udp 111 rpcbind 10 4 local 111 rpcbind 10 3 local 111 rpcbind 10 2 local 111 rpcbind 15 1 udp 994 mountd 15 3 udp 994 mountd 15 1 tcp 994 mountd 15 3 tcp 994 mountd 13 2 udp 2049 nfs 13 3 udp 2049 nfs 100024 1 udp 1016 status 100024 1 tcp 1016 status 13 2 tcp 2049 nfs 13 3 tcp 2049 nfs 100021 0 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 0 tcp 726 nlockmgr 100021 1 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 1 tcp 726 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 3 tcp 726 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 611 nlockmgr 100021 4 tcp 726 nlockmgr I'm kinda lost. I tried getting NFSv4 working, but I couldn't mount the test export nfsv4_server_enable=YES nfsuserd_enable=YES nfs_client_enable=YES /nlsysvol/home -maproot=vpopmail -network 172.16.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 V4: /mnt /mnt/first -maproot=root: -network 172.16.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 The problem with using v4 is that I don't want to upgrade my 7.1 box - it just works as is :) But if that's what I have to do, then that's what I have to do. Can someone give me a push in the right direction? I've been fighting this for a full day now. Here's my perl lock script - #!/usr/bin/perl use Fcntl qw(:flock); my $lock_file = 'lockfile'; open(LOCKFILE,$lock_file) or die Cannot open $lock_file: $!\n; print Opened file $lock_file\n; flock(LOCKFILE, LOCK_SH) or die Can't get shared lock on $lock_file: $!\n; print Got shared lock on file $lock_file\n; sleep 2; close LOCKFILE; print Closed file $lock_file\n; exit; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questionsTo 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: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:14:48 +0300 Jarmo Hurri jarmo.hu...@syk.fi wrote: Greetings. I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called The extent to which any given port is kept up to date depends on the maintainer. asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that the ports version is approximately 14 months old: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=asymptote I tried to contact the maintainer via email, but got no response. What would be the correct procedure for trying to get that port updated? 1. Somehow get in contact with the maintainer. How? (I tried.) A non-responding maintainer may be for any number of reasons including having lost all interest, but sometimes they're just temporarily unavailable (on holiday, busy with other things ...) and will get back to it later. 2. Try to become a maintainer. How? Step one would be to try bringing the port up to date yourself, sometimes it is as easy as editing the Makefile, changing the version and running make makesum to update the checksums. Sometimes the patches need to be adjusted in which case much depends on how much patching was needed in the first place. In the case of asymptote it looks like the only patch is adjusting the path to exampledir in Makefile.in which ought to be pretty easy to handle. The porters handbook has a lot of useful information on what to do when things get tricky. If you succeed in bringing the port up to date then your problem is solved (you have an up to date version) and if you use send-pr to submit the changes to bring it up to date then there's a good chance that you'll solve the same problem for everyone else who may want it. 3. Something else? Wait for someone else to do it. FreeBSD is a volunteer project and the best way to make it better is to scratch your itches and contribute the result. -- 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
Do I really have to install 80 packages?
FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? ___ 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: Do I really have to install 80 packages?
On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? Actually I think you want x11-toolkits/gtk20..? Would pkg_add work for you? Best, --Glenn ___ 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: Do I really have to install 80 packages?
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:54:24 -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? Actually I think you want x11-toolkits/gtk20..? Would pkg_add work for you? Maybe graphics/librsvg2 is better suited (even though it's version 2 of the library). The problem initially mentions will remain: lots of installation dependencies. Sadly, that seems to be normal today as modern software tends to rely on layers of libraries of abstraction of tools of utilities of stuff of layers of layers of other abstractions. :-) As you see: gnome-desktop and gtk20. That should bring your warning lights up: lots of dependencies ahead! When you try to install a simple desktop environment, you'll be confronted with hundreds of packages to be installed, some of them you've probably never had thought of in regards of what you need to install a desktop, such as two or more different databases, LaTeX, translators, and other surprising stuff. This will probably apply to most complex components and parts of desktop environments or X11 toolkits (as mentioned above). As I mentioned, the librsvg2 port will install lib/librsvg-2.so. It might require you to re-install your target application to link against that library. A library libsvg.so (without version number) doesn't seem to be in the ports tree by that name. My lazy man's method of searching what port might contain the library: Midnight Commander, go to /usr/ports, Meta-?, seach in pkg-plist, search for text librsvg and examine the results with PF3. This method relies on approaches that might be wrong... :-) Note that my (locally installed) ports tree is not up to date anymore so you should consider performing a search on a recent tree to make sure I didn't miss anything. -- 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: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)
Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org writes: 2. Try to become a maintainer. How? Step one would be to try bringing the port up to date yourself, sometimes it is as easy as editing the Makefile, changing the version and running make makesum to update the checksums. Sometimes the patches need to be adjusted in which case much depends on how much patching was needed in the first place. In the case of asymptote it looks like the only patch is adjusting the path to exampledir in Makefile.in which ought to be pretty easy to handle. If you succeed in bringing the port up to date then your problem is solved (you have an up to date version) and if you use send-pr to submit the changes to bring it up to date then there's a good chance that you'll solve the same problem for everyone else who may want it. Sounds reasonable. I think I'll give this a try once 10.0 is officially out. FreeBSD is a volunteer project and the best way to make it better is to scratch your itches and contribute the result. It would be interesting to know how the number of volunteers has changed during the past couple of years. Thanks! Jarmo ___ 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: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: Have you tested Debian's FreeBSD port? Debian GNU/kFreeBSD perhaps does provide a more current user space. https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD Hmm, I think I would prefer a distribution with a relatively large user base. The Wikipedia page also states that there are still major bugs in the system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD Still, thanks for the tip. Jarmo ___ 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
