Re: Trouble Shutting down
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using FreeBSD amd64 8-0-Current I set up window maker to start by startx command, but when I exit the window maker the screen just turns black nothing works so I'm force to unplug the power each time. This happens sometimes other times the terminal shows up and I can shutdown manually. Since I'm using a snapshot version of FreeBSD is this a bug? I'm not sure what logs to copy and paste here for more information. Do you have the drivers for your graphics card installed? What type of graphics card is this? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble Shutting down
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2008 17:41:40 you wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using FreeBSD amd64 8-0-Current I set up window maker to start by startx command, but when I exit the window maker the screen just turns black nothing works so I'm force to unplug the power each time. This happens sometimes other times the terminal shows up and I can shutdown manually. Since I'm using a snapshot version of FreeBSD is this a bug? I'm not sure what logs to copy and paste here for more information. Do you have the drivers for your graphics card installed? What type of graphics card is this? My laptop is HP Pavilion tx2510us and uses the graphics card ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics everything works expect even when the terminal does come up it gives this error xauth: (argv):1: bad display name replay.free-bsd.net:0 in remove command ideas? Please don't only reply to me, if your initial question was towards the list -- someone else may see something I'm missing. You never answered my initial question. Are the proper xorg drivers for your graphics card installed? I ask again, because I've seen several situations where non-existent or incorrect graphics drivers make X do bad/odd things when exiting -- I've experienced this situation myself. I know nothing about ATI, other than it doesn't play well with any of the OSes I use, so I don't buy it. -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble Shutting down
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure, when I first installed FreeBSD X -configure did everything in KInfoCenter the X-Server seems to be ok maybe since its snapshot version of FreeBSD the graphics drivers are in testing? What driver does /etc/X11/xorg.conf have listed for your graphics driver? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root | su
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jos Chrispijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of stopping root from su'ing to another user? Short of disabling the user account you are `su'ing to (or disabling root), no. Root can do anything. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble Shutting down
** Forgot to CC the list, in case anyone is actually watching this thread.** Theirs nothing in the /etc/X11 folder or a xorg.conf file, I think Xorg automatically did everything Well, if you say you ran 'X -configure', it should've created an xorg.conf file. If you ran it as root (which you almost probably had to), check in /root From what you've told me before, I can pretty well guess that you don't have your necessary Xorg drivers installed for your graphics card. I suggest reading the manual on how to resolve this -- but don't expect miracles as far as ATI goes. If you don't know how to manage Xorg, I doubt you should be running -CURRENT. -- Glen Barber -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Don Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers accurate? As far as I know, these numbers can only be accurate if the administrator enables (installs?) stats reporting. You can add 1 to FreeBSD, because I don't allow stats reporting. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running linux programs
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:19 PM, prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i want to run a linux program that is not offered in the linux-* collection, can i compile it so that it will be run through the emulator rather than as a freebsd program? You could use linux binary compatability. for instance, i want to run chessdb (a maintained version of scid which is in the ports) and there is a tarball for unix: ChessDB-3.6.18.tar.gz UNIX/Linux tarball. (http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/downloads/) but it doesn't seem to compile properly on freebsd. What errors do you get? What `./configure' options do you give it? i was wondering if i could compile it in linux, but there doesn't seem to be any compiler present in /compat/linux ... -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a quick?
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:36 PM, david mellick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how long does it normally take GNOME to install? Your question is extremely vague. Install *how*? Ports or from pkg_add? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a quick?
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:39 PM, david mellick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah i should be more specific on a pentium VIA ports But this no longer matters apparently I ran out of space I guess the schools systems are ancient 5.1 Gigs You should have made sure ample space was available in the first place. so any advice on cleaning up the mess. deinstall wont work since it did not completely install. `make distclean` should do it. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a quick?
You could also do `rm -rf /usr/ports/x11/gnome2/work' -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. There is a package available. I installed it yesterday. Look at the ftp site. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7 .1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Where did you get the package from or what name did you use for the package? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.4-release/All/openoffice.org-2.4.1_2.tbz -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry You could disable include original message. Or use better software. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root /etc/csh
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 7.0 comes with the user root with start up shell /bin/csh As normal user I use bash (/usr/local/bin/bash installed) I would prefer to have bash also when working as root (su). Of course I can do # bash [root ~]# or I could change the startup shell in /etc/passwd, but would that be a wise thing to do or not? It is never recommended to change root's default shell to something outside of the base install. The main reason is, for example, if you update your non-base shell (via ports), and it breaks, you can no longer log in as root. If you decide you still want to have a non-base shell for your root user, keep root's shell default, and enable your toor user. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange messages by fetchmail: Server certificate verification error
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, when I installed my new FreeBSD 7 system along with fetchmail-6.3.8_4, no matter what I do I get these messages: fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the first certificate fetchmail: No mail for foo at pop.bar.com fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the first certificate fetchmail: No mail for pups at pop.furz.com But message retrieval works fine. I do get them from every POP3 server I have in the list. On my older FreeBSD 5 system with fetchmai-6.2.5_2, I don't get these messages, but message retrieval works there as well - with the same configuration files (~/.fetchmailrc). How can I get rid of these messages? Is it possible *not* to use any certification, just the way the older fetchmail version seemed it to do? IIRC, when I used fetchmail and saw similar messages, installing the 'CA Root Certificate' port did the trick. I believe it is security/ca or something similar. (Not in front of my BSD box ATM.) -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and USBmemorystick
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed (pkg_ad -r) desktopbsd-tools following instructions from http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:desktopbsd_tools_in_freebsd I did: # chgrp wheel /dev/da0 # chmod g+w /dev/da0s1 (I believe USB key is /dev/da0) # chgrp wheel /dev/ad0 # chmod g+w /dev/ad0s1 (anyway, did that too) # sysctl vfs.usermount=1 # chmod 1775 /media # ls -la / | grep media drwxrwxr-t root wheel /media # sysctl vfs.usermount=1 started $ /usr/local/bin/dbsd-traymounter inserted an USB memory key In Konqueror still nothing to see in /media what's wrong?? Have you edited '/etc/devfs.conf' and '/etc/devfs.rules' ? -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use nspluginwrapper
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while since I used this and decided to use it again because gnash looks like is getting harder to use and becoming very buggy. I've installed linu-flashplugin and now I want to installed the plugin using nspluginwrapper and I've trying to install it like this: nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so but it doesn't install it, what is the right way of doing it? ___ `nspluginwrapper -a -v -i' has always worked for me. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Xfce console
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list When exiting xfce to return to my console, xfce put my graphicscard in an unusable state i.e no picture and my monitors led blinks slowly as if it where in powersave/suspend mode. This do not happen with fluxbox, windowmaker or twm. Commenting out the Virtual directive helps but then I have to set the reolution every time xfce is started. The other WM's get really strange resolutions if Virtual is commented out, like 2880x1400 and such. Is it a driver or xfce issue? %uname -a FreeBSD testbox 7.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Thu Aug 28 14:13:44 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 xorg.conf Section Device Identifier his radeon 3870 Driver radeon # BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option DDCMode 1Driver specific option Option PanelSize 1280x1024 Driver specific option EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device his radeon 3870 Monitor Hitachi CM752ET DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 Virtual 1280 1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Are you using the proper driver? Is the driver up to date? I have posted several times on this list regarding this issue. I have had the same problem with my nVidia card (when I don't have the driver installed). Did you install the driver from ports, pkg_add? (Or at all?) -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Xfce console
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glen Barber skrev: I have posted several times on this list regarding this issue. I have had the same problem with my nVidia card (when I don't have the driver installed). Does that affect ANY windowmanager or just xfce? I was using TWM, XFCE, KDE and ION when I had these problems. I'd double check your driver config (in ports) and rebuild it, at least to double check. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official FreeBSD Forums
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:56:28 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means attracting NO IT IS NOT! Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;) I cannot begin to express how disappointed I am that a potential user's question turned into a flamewar. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official FreeBSD Forums
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Glen Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:56:28 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means attracting NO IT IS NOT! Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;) I cannot begin to express how disappointed I am that a potential user's question turned into a flamewar. Well.. Wasn't really a 'question', but you get my point. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official FreeBSD Forums
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...snip...] I strongly recommend all of You to stop this bad trend. Could you please stop trolling? You're not contributing to anything here. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broke pakage mysql50-client
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello group clean cd install of freebsd 7.0 release installing php5-extensions the mysql50-client is broke had to cd into /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client ftp get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.0-RELEASE/packages/databases/mysql-client-5.0.45_1.tbz then ran install mysql50-client then the php5-extensions package installed as needed You never mentioned how you were installing these applications? Using ports or pkg_add? Did you csup/cvsup/portsnap the tree first? -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broke pakage mysql50-client
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 6:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used pkg_add the ports, same thing happin. the MYSQL post only had a make file in it Please reply to the list, not just to me. The ports tree is only supposed to have the Makefile (and a few other files). I suggest you read the ports manpage. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? The boot manager can be whichever you want. If you are installing on a VM, chances are you're not dual-booting it, so yes, Standard Boot Manager would be a 'good' choice. The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have networking set up. Do you have NAT or Bridged only? If NAT, use rc.conf with the inet address of your choice and the netmask for your NAT. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Glen Barber wrote: The PC with WMware is connect to internet. Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one enter?? This would be contingent on how you have networking set up. Do you have NAT or Bridged only? If NAT, use rc.conf with the inet address of your choice and the netmask for your NAT. My PC is connected to Internet using an ADSL modem to connect to an ISP. It uses IP 10.0.0.somevalue, netmask 255.255.255.0, no gateway specified and two DNS server IP addresses which my ISP asked to use. Is this 'NAT' or 'Bridged'. You'd have to tell me; it's your VM. Check the network settings in the management interface. Can I enter values and then what values, for host, domain, IPV4 gateway, Name server, IPV4 address, netmask in the screen presented during FreeBSD install or should i use Cancel in that screen and make changes in system files (and what changes in what system files)? Either will work. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD/Windows 2003 Server
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to setup a test server that will be able to boot either FreeBSD to Windows Server 2003 R2. I have tried to use the BSD Boot manager and the Windows Boot manager. In either case I have run into problems. When using the BSD boot manager, it will cause the Windows server to crash at boot. Windows manager will not boot to the BSD partition. I have googled it and have not found much other than 3rd party boot manager. Is there a best practices I could follow on this? Has anyone got this combination to work? Thanks for your help. I am not aware of any bootloader changes between XP and Server 2003, but ideally, you should install Server 2K3 first, and FreeBSD second, using the FreeBSD Boot Manager at the boot manager selection. I haven't tested this dual boot, but as I said, to my knowledge the bootloader has not changed. Could you provide us with specific details on the errors (preferably from both instances). -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Temporarily blocking ports
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Jos Chrispijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone hint me how I can block ports for let's say 30 minutes if someone repeatedly tries to do a SSH login? I use ipfw as firewall... You could also take a look at sshguard. http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/security/sshguard-ipfw -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:37 AM, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD 4.8 on it has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition to a fresh IDE disk with cp -pR and tried to boot from that. Unfortunately, loader gives me this: can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' and offers prompt. I tried almost any combination of the loader command (like 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader) but still the same. The kernels are right there: /kernel and /kernel.old. Can't the root partition be copied this way? Should their location on disk be hardcoded somewhere? Please help me with bootblocks etc. as I'm desperately running out of time. Short of using dump/restore, you should append the -p flag to `cp', because it preserves permissions. Follow the advice posted by RW, however. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to root's entry in my password file: root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. This is why you shouldn't edit password files directly. Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is there any way I can fix this on my own? Do you have sudo installed? If not, your only other option is to boot into single user mode. But that won't help if you're not at the console. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which ISO do i need
Gary Hartl said: Hi all; Ok so I 'm going with the reinstall option me thinks and I'm gonna try 7.0. I want to do a install over ftp since my just too lazy to burn all those disks. Since 7.1 is in -RC1 status, why not go with that? Would I just need the bootonly.iso? I'm doing a sparc64 install. Not sure about sparc, but yes, the bootonly will be sufficient under normal circumstances. Thanks Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: update packages or reinstall
Gary Hartl said: I'm considering just wiping the system clean and starting from scratch to say either 6.4-release or 7.0 release. For what it's worth, I've (so far) had 50% luck with 7.1. My home server runs nothing special, mostly development stuff and the occasional X session. I attempted to upgrade to 7.1 from 6.3-STABLE yesterday, and to make a long story short, am now running 6.4-RELEASE. If you do decide to go with 7.1, I'd test drive it first, before committing that machine to that OS. So far, I've had no problems with 6.4-* on any of my machines. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Release schedules
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: When it's ready used to be the scheduling principle. Then came 5.0 debacle: behind schedule big-time (and arguably not ready when it went out the door). I remember discussion afterwards, where there seemed to be agreement there ought to be a more-or-less regular schedule of major releases every two years (plus or minus) with minor releases every few months. Looking at www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html, that's getting stretched. The RC-1 announcement for 7.1, originally scheduled for early September, is now listed as last week ... and didn't actually happen. (Unless I missed the memo.) The RC-1 announcement for 7.1 did come out last week (check the stable@ archives). I personally would rather wait for quality than pushed quantity. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ 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: Release schedules
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: This discussion has come up countless number of times and the answer is always the same - all of us would rather wait for quality, but we'd also like some very rough timeline estimates that don't fall back into the past. Notice that I said nothing about them having to be 100% accurate. The questions are about the published timelines, the answers are about the process. Hence, nothing ever gets resolved. It makes no sense at all to have a published timeline, but claim that it is irrelevant because it's done when it's done. Do you not agree? I agree to a point. I wouldn't push something out if it was less than what could/should be expected. I haven't been a FreeBSD user long enough to remember the (previously quoted) 5.0 debacle, but I'm sure if I waited for a new release only to be disappointed, who knows what OS I may have went with. Yes, keeping users informed on the status of releases is nice -- that's what we have the ML for. For example, RC2 builds were scheduled for 29 September 2008. When that day comes (or same week perhaps), whoever has the ability to change the release schedule page should update it regardless of what happened. If RC2 builds started, that should be reflected in the 'actual' column. Otherwise, if it's a minor change in the timeline, put the new expected date in. As is the case of 7.1 release, if the person honestly has no idea when RC2 will happen, put in 'December', 'January', 'Second half of January'... 'Sometime next year' if it's that uncertain. Anything at all; it takes 5 minutes to do. In the worst case, your estimate will need to be updated again in a month or two. In the best case, the release will be made before the expected date. I, for one, promise not to complain about that. :) If the sacrifice is an out-of-date column in a webpage while bugs are being worked out, in my opinion, that's fine with me. (IMHO) -- Glen Barber ___ 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: skype
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Daniel Leal dl...@webvolution.net wrote: Hi ! Is there a problem if I use skype as root? like sudo skype. Because, if not i will get no sound! You should never run any network-connected software as root, as it is a huge security hole. Fix your permissions for your sound. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ 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: is there a way to get an ACK from the mutt version of FBSD?
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, i did something to evolution (or mail) so it sends a your mail was opened on u...@foo.com. i've been hunting thru the mutt docs; i do not see how to get a similar ack from mutt as evo. is there, perhaps a sendmail.[cf|mc] way lost in the reams of pages in my sendmail book? [2 da ago i send cold-call mail to a few experts; one at least read my paragraph. i'd like to know at least that my mail arr and hopefully was glanced at!] I believe you're looking for a receipt confirmation tool, but I don't believe mutt has that capability, as its job is to write mail, and direct it to the MTA. Either way, receipt confirmations are not always accurate, as I never send confirmations that I have received mail -- then I'd *need* to reply. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ 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: Release schedules
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, As a community, we should be ashamed of this: ``volunteer effort'' just isn't a good enough excuse - and those of us who haven't volunteered need to find out how we can help get things back on track for the next release. When I first raised this, I asked if there was anything I could do to help the release engineering team with communication. Zbigniew Szalbot made a similar offer. Thank you Jonathan - I cannot give much to FBSD as I am not a programmer either but - again - if I can be of any use communication-wise, I am happy to join the community and serve. I second that, and would be happy to participate as well. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: freebsd-c...@? indeed. with this and other non-freebsd topics You, yourself, spawn this kind of digression into off-topicness every now and then. Perhaps *you* should reserve some of *your* comments for freebsd-chat, too. And certainly will AFTER such offtopic discussion won't be appearing here. i mean such offtopic discussion like: - comparision of things that can't be compared, and are not FreeBSD specific, like what is better windoze or KDE I have yet to see a topic on questions@ regarding windows vs KDE. - how to make some very basic things is KDE/Gnome - it's not FreeBSD specific, of course we can answer how to do it without KDE/Gnome :) I agree with this, to a point. That's what freebsd-kde@, freebsd-gnome@ are for, but sometimes questions are too generalized, and end up here. - When there will be 64-bit Nvidia Xorg support - ask NVidia or Xorg team. It's not part of FreeBSD It is, indirectly. Although the FreeBSD developers shouldn't be responsible for this kind of thing, they most probably have more direct contact and inside information with these type of vendors. after there will be stopped, i will stop complaining Doubtful. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: You remind me of a tech I once worked with who thought all customers were stupid. Maybe they were... the difference is that FreeBSD is free software. or is not? How is that relevant? -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ 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: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: The name is `freebsd-questions' not `freebsd-questions-about-the-base-system-only'. Wojciech, I am aware that this is probably going to be hardly enough to convince you, but you are _harming_ the Project by posting this sort of it's only Your opinion. My opinion is different. This list gets totally polluted by OT traffic that DO HARM the Project, because it's more and more difficult to get help, and give help to people that posts ON-TOPIC. It's complete mess! So i WILL respond NTG or OT to questions that are NTG/OT. I really wish I had your free time. I am happy, however, that you were promoted to questions@ police. EOT from me about this. How about making it EOT from you about everything that is not contributional? ___ 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 -- Glen Barber ___ 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: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:51 PM, vuthecuong vuthecu...@luvina.net wrote: Hi all Firstly I'm terribly sorry for wrongly posted question not related to freebsd. I will pay attention so that this wrong posting will not occurr again. This is my fault. No, it is not. Questions@ is a general list for general FreeBSD questions. Getting something FreeBSD related to work, regardless of base-vs-ports, is FreeBSD related. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: Some of us disagree with the 'off topic police'. If you have questions about programs that _run_ on FreeBSD, please keep asking here. Nothing has changed. Umm ... while one can ask those questions here (questions@) and hore to get answered, I believe the sanctioned forum is po...@. It's rather lower traffic, which is not a bad thing. I agree that they probably *should* be asked on ports@, but because it is lower traffic, there is a lesser chance of getting a solution to a problem. I didn't see any clear definition on the lists.freebsd.org site stating questions@ was base only. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:17:38 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: The conversations on ports@ seem to be mostly concerned with the needs of port maintainers rather than the users of ports. If you have problems getting a port to build or a package added, it feels like the right place to get help. But I'm not sure whether it's the place for questions that come up after the initial install. questions@ seems to be the place for those. I think you got that right. lists.freebsd.org says: freebsd-ports Porting software to FreeBSD freebsd-questions User questions It's nice to have a list for people who are *porting* software, but the list for general `user questions' is here. I certainly agree, and hope every time Wojciech posts NTG or OT the OP's thread doesn't get turned into a flamewar on Where this post should go.. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Suitability question
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin patrick.bald...@studsvik.com wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of limited usefulness here. Are you willing to maintain the machine for him? I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? I think the idea's good, as long as you are willing to fix it when if it breaks on him. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Suitability question
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer? From personal experience, nspluginwrapper is a memory hog, and only supports Flash 7 (last I used it). -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:27 PM, BSD_Newbie it_mana...@gmx.com wrote: e) as root, executed the following command. chown svn:repo_admin /home/my_repos f) verified that the file permissions for /home/my_repos is correctly set after the change in ownership. Here is the problem I encountered When I log in as svn, I am placed in the folder /home/svn. As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos), I get the error Permission denied. Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that directory? However, I have no problem deleting a directory under /home/svn. My guess is you should've used the -r flag with chown (recursive). -- Glen Barber ___ 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: error reading SATA DVDRW
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Ivan Carey i...@careytech.com.au wrote: I am unable to install FreeBSD because of the following error acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG_MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x21 ascq=0x00 The computer reboots during install. I have read that this error can be due to the DVD drive being a master, as it is a SATA drive it is assigned as a master in the BIOS Is there a way this can be resolved. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-11/msg00327.html -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ 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
error reading SATA DVDRW
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Ivan Carey i...@careytech.com.au wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Ivan Carey i...@careytech.com.au wrote: I am unable to install FreeBSD because of the following error acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG_MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x21 ascq=0x00 The computer reboots during install. I have read that this error can be due to the DVD drive being a master, as it is a SATA drive it is assigned as a master in the BIOS Is there a way this can be resolved. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-11/msg00327.html Thanks Glen I have already read that article, safe mode does not help. I'm installing FreeBSD 7.0 and also trying the latest PCBSD The OP in the article said safe mode did not work for them either. Try another cd if possible; that's why I posted the link. Also, please CC the list on replies; don't send them to me alone. I forgot to CC the list. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ 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: Snow in my Server
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: you could do me a favor and pack it all up in a cooler and ship it to me here in thailand, we dont see snow here, last i saw snow was like 7 years ago, i hear russia is also seeking snow in moscow this year, hrmmm might want to put it up on ebay see who wins. Natural Canadian snow. $39.99/lb - Buy-it-now! Disclaimer: Buyer must provide insurance. Not responsible for condition of contents. Sold by weight, not volume. (etc, etc) Happy holidays, everyone. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Could not find package - using ports
I'm upgrading all the ports I have installed and the command I used is portupgrade -aP, exluding ruby and portupgrade itself. Sad news is that for every single package it tries to fetch it doesn't find anything, so it uses the ports, and it needs lots of time to compile everything. (gnome, X, firefox are not so fast to compile!) Am I doing something wrong or are the packages really missing? Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile using ports. Packages are built once, when the X.X-RELEASE comes out. Did you read the portupgrade man page? I'm using freeBSD 7.0-release on a i386 architectyre and I'm trying to update the ports after having done portsnap fetch update, so it should be trying to install the latest version of the ports. If you upgraded (you never specified from what version you upgraded from), say from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RC1, you will get the latest packages by deinstalling your current packages and reinstalling using pkg_add. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Could not find package - using ports
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile using ports. Packages are built once, when the X.X-RELEASE comes out. Did you read the portupgrade man page? That's not entirely true. The portupgrade port installs a program called portinstall. According to its manpage, portinstall can -a- install from ports (compile), -b- install from packages or -c- install from packages only (where it works similar to pkg_add). That's good to know. Last port* tool I used besides 'make' was portmaster -- that was a year and several broken ports ago. Needless to say, I manage them myself now. :) -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Snow in my Server
This may be kind of late to bring this up, but... I sincerely hope the OP did not have a real issue... Cheers. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Cpu and memory clock tool
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody. I've been fiddling with some memory modules on my laptop and realized that I had no idea what frequency memory was running. So is there any tool to measure such things like FSB and memory clocks under FreeBSD? Not sure of how detailed the output will be regarding FSB (check your BIOS for that), but you could always use `sysctl -a' to look at system information. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I cant register
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Eric Turgeon corpsemassa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Eric Turgeon corpsemassa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I cant register in your forum because: Image verification could not be verified due to server issues. Please try again later. Please check the problem please. 1 month lather never have access to the forum. The forum is maintained separately. Please contact the forum administrator(s). do you have the mail please for because i dont have it Please reply to the list, not just to me. Use the contact form on the page. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: SOLVED: Snow in my Server
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Gary Hartl gha...@gmail.com wrote: Well to all who responded to my emails I thank you...I plus I'm sure everyone else enjoyed the responses and to those who might have considered that I really had a problem...well well I got nothing... Surely you recognize my last email was sent in humor. :) Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Kwanza, or whatever it is you enjoy / celebrate this holiday season, and if you're one of those types that doesn't celebrate anything this time of year...well...enjoy yourself. Enjoy! -- Glen Barber ___ 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: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Hello I'd like to make it easier for my dad to shutdown a server. Instead of having him plug a keyboard, log on as root (with a complicated password) and finally type shutdown -h now, is it possible to assign this command to some unused key like eg. Syst? Even better, send this command only if the key is hit eg. three times within 2 seconds? You could add him to the operator group, which would not require him to be root. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How do I obtain a copy of the FreeBSD operating system
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:59 PM, theresascottie theresascot...@bellsouth.net wrote: How can I download or obtain a copy of FreeBSD? You found the mailing list, but not the download link? http://www.freebsd.org/where.html -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: user and group whit gnome
Please, do not reply to me off-list. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Eric Turgeon corpsemassa...@gmail.com wrote: ok In gnome menu you have shoftware call user and group is halo you to add remove user group. it work good in FreeBSD 7.0 but in 7.1rc and 6.4 in cant do noting whit in the root like user. is like if I dont have the permision to do the change on root. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Eric Turgeon corpsemassa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi my name is Eric Turgeon I use freebsd 7.0, 6.4 7.1rc with gnome. But my big probleme with 6.4 7.1 is user and group cant be use in root what is the problem we have with gnome2.22 and not 2.20. please help tanks. Your response is unclear, at best. Could you provide specific details about what you need/want? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: Hi, At this moment I have problems installing FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 7.0. After booting from CD the system I get the menu. I have tried all possible options. The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can anyone help me. I never had this problems before on other systems. Have you tried disabling DMA or ACPI? hw.ata.ata_dma=0 -- Glen Barber ___ 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: starting Tomcat6
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Joseph Simmons josephdsimm...@gmail.com wrote: I have tomcat6_enable=YES in rc.conf and I don't see any tomcat process when I ps aux. When I try to start the script, nothing is returned either, I'd expect there to be some success or failure message as there is when starting apache22. After entering the rcvar to rc.conf, did you *start* tomcat again? Doesn't tomcat also require apache22_enable=YES in rc.conf? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: starting Tomcat6
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Joseph Simmons josephdsimm...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I tried starting it again and got the same result as before which is nothing at all happened. Apache HTTP server works fine, it starts with the computer in fact. I'm not sure if Apache's configuration would effect Tomcat, if so, the following is in rc.conf apache22_enable=YES apache22_profiles= apache22limits_enable=NO apache22_flags= apache22limits_args=-e -C daemon apache22_http_accept_enable=NO Try this: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat rcvar -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Going back to generic kernel
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, I have a test machine with a custom kernel, which I copied (as the handbook suggests) to /root/kernels/. However, I do not really need it. My question is how do I switch back to the generic kernel? Many thanks and all the best to you all! cd /usr/src; make kernel; reboot -- Glen Barber ___ 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: boot0 loader minor problems
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:47 PM, EforeZZ efor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a minor problem with boot0 loader on Acer Extensa 5220. I have four slices: FreeBSD, Windows, FreeBSD, FreeBSD. The problem is that sometimes boot0 code loads OS from active partition no matter which of F[1-4] I press. Sometimes boot0 code starts loading OS from the default slice and gives me no chances to select the slice to boot from (I have ticks=12000!) Should it be a problem with my buggy BIOS? Or a corrupt bootsector. One way to test if it is hardware/software related would be to install sysutils/grub -- Glen Barber ___ 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: running asfiles on windowmaker...
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:13 PM, luizbcampos luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How do I configure PHP to use curl?
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:16 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I just ran into something that has me stumped. It's probably a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out... I'm trying to add curl support to my PHP installation, but when I run 'make config' in the /usr/ports/lang/php5 directory, curl is not one of the very small set of options given. PHP has a million options, so how do you set one that is not in the 'make config' box? Have a look at lang/php5-extensions -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How do I configure PHP to use curl?
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:16 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I just ran into something that has me stumped. It's probably a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out... I'm trying to add curl support to my PHP installation, but when I run 'make config' in the /usr/ports/lang/php5 directory, curl is not one of the very small set of options given. PHP has a million options, so how do you set one that is not in the 'make config' box? Have a look at lang/php5-extensions Whoops. My mailbox just updated; didn't realize this was answered. Sorry for that! -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: Scaner setup question
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 09:43 -0500, stan wrote: I am trying to set up my HP C2520A scanner on 7.1 san-find-scanner finds it at /dev/pass0, byt that device is only acessible to root: crw--- 1 root operator0, 104 Dec 30 18:10 /dev/pass0 Now obviously I could change this, but i am wondering what the correct way to allow ordinary users to access tis device is? Have a look at the man pages for devd, devfs.conf and devfs.rules. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: ssh and X11 problem
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors: usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name unix:10.0 in remove command /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad display name unix:10.0 in add command And I cannit get ssh to foward the X protocol. Yes I have added ForwardX11 yes to /etc/ssh/ssh_config What am I doing wrong? I assume you have xserver on the FreeBSD box? Check your display name. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be 'hostname:0:0'. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: ssh and X11 problem
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors: usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name unix:10.0 in remove command /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad display name unix:10.0 in add command And I cannit get ssh to foward the X protocol. Yes I have added ForwardX11 yes to /etc/ssh/ssh_config What am I doing wrong? I assume you have xserver on the FreeBSD box? Check your display name. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be 'hostname:0:0'. Perhaps I was not clear. Yes I do have the X server running on the FreeBSD machine, but that should not matter, as I am ssh'ing _from_ the Linux box which does have a working X server on it also, and can ssh to other machines and get X fowarded corectly. You need an xserver to connect *to*, which is why I asked. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: ssh and X11 problem
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: No, Stan is right; an X server is only needed on the machine that actually hosts the display. The xauth error message are indicating the problem, but I don't know what they're telling us. The hostname should probably be localhost, and sshd_config is set up to do that by default. Right. The host is hosting the display -- his Linux machine is the client *to* the Xserver. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: ssh and X11 problem
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, stan wrote: On the FreeBSD machine? I may be confused, but I think that on the FreeBSD machine the client tassk (eg xclock) is run, and it is pointed to the server on the machine that I am connecting _from_. Am I confused? The task runs on the host machine (using the Xserver) and is forwarded over SSH to the client machine. The client task you refer to is on the host machine. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: (no subject)
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Sydney Longfellow syd...@panhistoria.com wrote: Greetings. I am having a problem with processes building up until the server locks up. By viewing top what I'm seeing is it going up to 400 processes with most sleeping and a lot of lockf and sbwait states on the processes. Any idea what would cause this? FYI: Most people will mark emails without a subject as spam. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in xU should I get? When it comes to rackmounts, 1U = 1.75 inches. 2U would be 3.5 inches, etc. I'll let you do the measuring and math. ;) -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk on it's side (i.e. it lays flat when the tower is up right but on it's side squeezed into a rack) The ideal answer is 'no'. The 'safe' answer is 'possibly'. In other words, I wouldn't do it personally, but I don't expect it to cause harm. I'd suspect it'd be more succeptible to a head crash in a vertical position. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: Suggestion
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ryan da Silva rdasi...@greenfield.com wrote: Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and forward person so I'll just say it. Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only thing that says amateur about the product. I would try to make the change myself for myself, but i am not a programmer. I love this product and would like to suggest changing that screen. To what? I don't know. Maybe instead of the large logo simply put FreeBSD version XXX, copy right etc. Or heck, maybe a color bootscreen like GRUB has in Linux (from what i've seen in Centos/Trixbox). I am not a linux person. I think FreeBSD is the way for professionals. But the inner perfectionist in me HAD to send this ridiculous email in hopes to see a change in v 7.1 RTM. The FreeBSD community welcomes people making the product better, regardless of what they contribute (source code, documentation, etc.). Why not create a new logo yourself and submit it? -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: 7.1 release / apache22 / php5
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Jim Pazarena fqu...@ccstores.com wrote: for some odd reason, with this latest install (7.1), apache22 complains that it cannot find libphp5.so I usually compile php5 from ports and apache22 from ports after I think about it, I have never actually placed libphp5.so anywhere. I am not even sure who/what causes php5 module to be added to /usr/local/libexec/apache22/libphp5.so it's present on my 7.0 system, and missing on my 7.1 system. advice would be much appreciated. Did you remember to build the apache module when compiling php5? -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: 7.1 release / apache22 / php5
stan wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:52:10PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: for some odd reason, with this latest install (7.1), apache22 complains that it cannot find libphp5.so I usually compile php5 from ports and apache22 from ports after I think about it, I have never actually placed libphp5.so anywhere. I am not even sure who/what causes php5 module to be added to /usr/local/libexec/apache22/libphp5.so it's present on my 7.0 system, and missing on my 7.1 system. advice would be much appreciated. I don't know if it's a change, but on the 7.1 machine I just built. the lang/php5 port was not configured by default to build the Apache module. It's been that way as far as I can remember (at least since 6.2-RELEASE). -- Glen Barber ___ 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: PHP setup question
stan wrote: I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. I have installed the port, which puts it's files in /usr/local/www/a,pcache. I Considering seeing a few of your questions on this list, and the excessive typos in this post alone, I'd double check your configs for typos and look at the error log. [[ snip ]] -- Glen Barber ___ 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: schedule the test
Gustavo Millani wrote: Hi, Where can I schedule the test for certification? I found the site of Prometric and Vue. Have a look here: http://www.bsdcertification.org/ -- Glen Barber ___ 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: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this question to. I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the bcmwl5_sys.ko to /boot/kernel and added *bcmwl5_sys_load=YES* to my /boot/loader.conf. Now the machine will not boot. It crashes when it reaches the ndis0 line. I've tried booting in all the modes but they all fail to boot. I can escape to prompt, but am unsure what, if anything, I can do in that mode to deal with the situation. With other releases (6.4 and 7.0) the machine would panick when I attempted to ifconfig ndis0. However, I was able to boot in single user mode and temporarily move the rc.conf file so that I cound boot in the default mode. With 7.1, I don't appear to have that option. Is there anything I can do, short of a fresh install, to eliminate this problem? I'm not too worried about getting the wifi up (although, I won't turn down any advice). I just want the machine to boot. I discovered a wierd hack to resolve this. Remove the line(s) from loader.conf, and create an /etc/rc.local file containing the following: /sbin/kldload /boot/modules/bcmwl5_sys.ko That should survive a reboot. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this question to. I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the bcmwl5_sys.ko to /boot/kernel and added *bcmwl5_sys_load=YES* to my /boot/loader.conf. Now the machine will not boot. It crashes when it reaches the ndis0 line. I've tried booting in all the modes but they all fail to boot. I can escape to prompt, but am unsure what, if anything, I can do in that mode to deal with the situation. With other releases (6.4 and 7.0) the machine would panick when I attempted to ifconfig ndis0. However, I was able to boot in single user mode and temporarily move the rc.conf file so that I cound boot in the default mode. With 7.1, I don't appear to have that option. Is there anything I can do, short of a fresh install, to eliminate this problem? I'm not too worried about getting the wifi up (although, I won't turn down any advice). I just want the machine to boot. I discovered a wierd hack to resolve this. Remove the line(s) from loader.conf, and create an /etc/rc.local file containing the following: /sbin/kldload /boot/modules/bcmwl5_sys.ko That should survive a reboot. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin Glen, I tried your suggestion (which I appreciate) and it did survive rebooting. However, bcmwl5_sys.ko was not loaded because there was no ndis interface. So, I change the rc.local to /sbin/kldload /boot/kernel/bcmwl5_sys.ko Upon reboot, the system panicked when it loaded the rc.local file. I don't know . . . Any additional modules should be placed in /boot/modules, not /boot/kernel. What happens if you manually load the module after the system is running? -- Glen Barber Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin ___ 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: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this question to. I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the bcmwl5_sys.ko to /boot/kernel and added *bcmwl5_sys_load=YES* to my /boot/loader.conf. Now the machine will not boot. It crashes when it reaches the ndis0 line. I've tried booting in all the modes but they all fail to boot. I can escape to prompt, but am unsure what, if anything, I can do in that mode to deal with the situation. With other releases (6.4 and 7.0) the machine would panick when I attempted to ifconfig ndis0. However, I was able to boot in single user mode and temporarily move the rc.conf file so that I cound boot in the default mode. With 7.1, I don't appear to have that option. Is there anything I can do, short of a fresh install, to eliminate this problem? I'm not too worried about getting the wifi up (although, I won't turn down any advice). I just want the machine to boot. I discovered a wierd hack to resolve this. Remove the line(s) from loader.conf, and create an /etc/rc.local file containing the following: /sbin/kldload /boot/modules/bcmwl5_sys.ko That should survive a reboot. Glen, I tried your suggestion (which I appreciate) and it did survive rebooting. However, bcmwl5_sys.ko was not loaded because there was no ndis interface. So, I change the rc.local to /sbin/kldload /boot/kernel/bcmwl5_sys.ko Upon reboot, the system panicked when it loaded the rc.local file. I don't know . . . Any additional modules should be placed in /boot/modules, not /boot/kernel. What happens if you manually load the module after the system is running? After rethinking my last statement, with the module in /boot/kernel *and* an entry in loader.conf you are loading the module twice. Move the module to /boot/modules where it should be. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: Glen, Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed the *bcmwl5-stuff* to begin again. Note that *kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko* output that there was no such file. Below is some info as to what lead to the panic (it's info I gave in response to another generous fellow on the list). Just use `kldload bcmwl5_sys` without the `.ko' at the end. I have not formally sync'd the system and source. But what I did prior to the panicking was freshly install 7.0-RELEASE from disc, did not add any packages, before upgrading to 7.1-RELEASE, using *freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE install* I then installed downloded the ports tree via ftp and added a few packages. This could be causing a problem if the kernel and userland (ndis included) are out of sync. The bcmwl5_sys.ko was generated using *ndisgen /mnt/flash/bcmwl5.inf /mnt/flash/bcmwl5.sys* When it came time to make the .ko file, it reported a syntax error on the last line of the .inf file. I removed that line and the .ko file was generated. As far as using the correct driver is concerned . . . my Broadcom card is a BCM94309, version 4.10.40, in Windows XP Home. I got the driver, with those specs, from the HP website. The only difference was that my hardware specs under XP dates the card version as 11/2/2005 and the driver, on the HP site, is dated 2/17/2006. Try using an older/newer .inf and .sys file. Panic info . . . there was not much time to get all of the info before it reboot and, at this point, I've uninstalled the driver stuff to avoid panic. I do remember it saying something about a *fatal trap 12* Fatal trap 12 is kind of a generic error message. What appears before that actual trap is the important part. I hope this was info. you were looking for. Again, thanks for your consideration. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really a matter of trying different ones? It was for me. It took me 3 tries before I found one that 'worked'. I updated the driver this morning to a new version. Is that not the driver that I'll use for the ndiswrapper? Should an older version, perhaps the one that was originally installed? If I remember correctly, the version I use is 3 versions back from the latest update. I apologize if these questions are rather simple and naiive. Not at all. Broadcom is difficult sometimes. This is one of those times. -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 ___ 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: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
Neal Hogan wrote: Well, it took me all day, but I did synch-up the source with the kernel. However, being new to the ways of fBSD I (accidentally) ended up building the -CURRENT source and kernel (8.0). I tried ndisgen on the latest driver and it didn't work . . . I'll tell you why in a second. Lesson learned, I suppose. I'm a bit uncomfortable dealing with current. I'd rather go back to the 7.1-RELEASE, which claims to have better ndis support. FYI - I've dual booted fBSD, and am merely experimenting with it. So, while it may seem odd that I continue to move between versions, I do have access to other machines that have more familiar environments (oBSD and XP). Well, if you are going back to 7.X, I'd start from scratch. If you haven't gotten WiFi working yet, I assume you haven't gotten much else configured on the system. Doing a fresh install will alleviate some headaches, in my opinion. Now, the *ndisgen path/to/inf path/to/sys* didn't work because it said that the .inf file was in a different format than it expected. So, I attempted to convert it to ascii using *iconv -c -f utf-16 -t ascii path/to/inf .inf.ascii* and use the new file as the .inf. Again, it said it was the wrong format. That's when I bailed. So as not to waste my time with 8.0, because I wish to pursue expermenting on 7.1. Anyway . This could be due to something in -CURRENT. I'm not sure. . . at this time, I have one more question regarding the driver that will end up being successfull (hopefully there is one). Should I have to manipulate the .inf file? There is the wrong format issue, mentioned above, and when setting up ndis in the panicky situation, ndisgen claimed that the last line of the .inf file was bad (I forget the actual teminology used). So, I deleted that line and it Besides `iconv' if needed, no, you shouldn't have to edit anything in the .INF and .SYS files. If they don't work, something else is wrong. successfully generated the .ko file. It seems odd to me that I would have to manipulate the driver information so much and that it may the source of some of my ndis problems. Another way of asking this question . . . will the successful driver just work (i.e., not need such manipulations)? Ideally, yes, it should 'just work'. Thanks for you patience. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm getting an error message every week and I can't seem to understand why nor manage to fix it. Here it is: [snip] # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a989M 53M857M 6%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ar0s1g 48G8.5G 36G19%/backup /dev/ar0s1d989M 44K910M 0%/tmp /dev/ar0s1f387G168G189G47%/usr /dev/ar0s1e7.7G398M6.7G 5%/var As you see there's 910MB free space in /tmp. Should be plenty to run the weekly locate script? Have you recently had disk failures? When was your last `fsck' ? What is the output of `du -h /tmp' ? To rule out if 910M is not enough, you could `mv' /tmp to /tmp.bak and do a hard link pointing a new /tmp somewhere with more space, for example /usr/faketmp. I don't know how this will affect fstab or mount, however. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why are the Zionist leaders in Israel so happy about the newPresident?
Why don't you bring your hatred outta here. This is a family-oriented channel. Next time, even when you put OOT label on subject, I still will call it crap. If you name me Jewish lover, well, I'm Asian, that means I'm a chink. But it's Mr. Chink to you, thank you very much. Mark it as spam and move on. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Buildworld error
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Terry te...@bluelight.org.uk wrote: I am trying to upgrade from 7.0-STABLE to 7.1 Release. I used RELENG_7_1 as my cvsup tag. But no matter what I try I get error's during make buildworld --- /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/sched-ebb.c: In function 'schedule_ebbs': /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/sched-ebb.c:542: internal compiler error: in find_idf, at tree-into-ssa.c:1040 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int. *** Error code 1 -- I did read on google that one person got around it by installing ccache but it didnt work for me also the error is not all ways the same -- /include -c asn1_HostAddress.c -o asn1_HostAddress.So asn1_HostAddress.c: In function 'decode_HostAddress': asn1_HostAddress.c:52: internal compiler error: in find_idf, at tree-into-ssa.c:1040 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/kerberos5/lib/libasn1. Do you have anything obscure in make.conf ? When it fails in succession, does it fail *after* the last point of failure, or is it randomized? When was your last c(v)sup? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Nvidia, GDM, Xorg 7.4
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/131016 -- Glen Barber ___ 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: flashplugin7 doesn't play video
Wojciech Puchar said: youtube-dl from ports is your friend Very true. But unfortunately, there are many sites that overbearingly (and often times hinderingly) use flash for nonsense. Such as banks that play flash videos that hide the login box, etc... -- Glen Barber ___ 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: flashplugin7 doesn't play video
Polytropon said: Today, Flash is being used for the purposes that animated GIFs have been serving in the past. But with Flash, you can annoy the user not only with jumping, popping and dancing graphics, but with beeping, boinging and crunching sounds, and furthermore, with lots of annoying and needless interaction. In other words, Flash is a replacement for HTML. :-) Well, FWIW, it wouldn't be my bank without bouncing and crunching. Certainly not without boinging. ;) -- Glen Barber ___ 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: chkrootkit
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:13 PM, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! My system: new installed FreeBSD 7.1, KDE 3.5.10 I ran chkrootkit and I got: ... Checking `sshd'... /usr/bin/strings: Warning: '/' is not an ordinary file ... ... Searching for t0rn's default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... Possible t0rn v8 \(or variation\) rootkit installed... Have you properly updated chrootkit? If so, it appears you have a rootkit on your system. How old is the installation? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Restarting new Xorg freezes system
Luke Dean wrote: The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the radeon driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was built from scratch by Xorg -configure, plus I added Option AllowEmptyInput off to the ServerLayout section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new Xorg. This is a desktop system. I launch X with startx from the console. I can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking for. If I later restart X with startx, some corrupted graphical junk appears on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into the system either. I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Do I need to switch to hal? Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: chkrootkit
ajtiM said: I red and supposed to be libproc.a problem I don't have experience with the chkrootkit and it is not clear for me where it found a rootkit: which file, dir... The link Eitan posted is very clear. It is (most likely) a false alarm. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Sendmail DNS strangeness
Chris Rees said: For about four days now, I've had these emails stuck in my mailqueue, and I don't understand what the problem is. Sure it says it has a DNS failure, but what does it mean? Jan 29 16:03:19 amnesiac sm-mta[38492]: n0RM2Hlj021695: to=**, ctladdr=x...@amnesiac. (80/80), delay=1+18:01:02, xdelay=00:00:14, mailer=esmtp, pri=8221553, relay=mail2.ukrhosting.com. [91.196.0.5], dsn=4.3.0, stat=Deferred: 451 DNS temporary failure (#4.3.0) Do you have 'hostname' set in rc.conf? 'amnesiac' is the default hostname if you haven't set one. Also, do you have your hostname in /etc/hosts ? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: ISOs
IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR said: 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso Contains just enough to get the installer running. This is a network install disc. 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso This is the required disc to get a base install w/o installing over the/a network. This disc does contain the docs. 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc3.iso These contain packages that you can usually add using pkg_add. 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-docs.iso Self explanatory. 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso IIRC, a conglomeration of discs 1 through 3. 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso This is not a live cd. I've never used it, so I don't know what it *does*. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: ISOs
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:41 PM, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR ten...@bh90210.net wrote: DVD is inclusive of the documentation) and Mr. Barber, who indicated in his email to me that the DVD is NOT inclusive of the documentation (only the three CDs, I did not include his email but can if you wish to see it). I had stated that the DVD contains discs 1 through 3, and previously stated disc1 contains the docs. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: (EE) intel(0): [DRI] Locking deadlock. (EE) intel(0): [DRI] Unlocking inconsistency:
Antonio Rieser said: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 on an ACER Aspire 1680 laptop. Something is writing so many errors to my Xorg.0.log and kdm-bin.log files that it fills up the /var filesystem and locks my system. (I just had my first encounter with the fixit disk - scary but successful...) I've enclosed the output of dmesg (starting at my most recent boot, without my Wacom tablet or any USB devices), followed by an excerpt of the Xorg.0.log.old file. The errors at the end of the latter are repeated until the end of the file. The errors always begin after some lines about the Wacom tablet. Is that a coincidence or a probable cause? If Xorg can't find a tablet device (Wacom), it will show errors about it, which you can avoid by commenting out wacom devices in xorg.conf. Have these problems recently surfaced after upgrading Xorg to 7.4? If so, did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: (EE) intel(0): [DRI] Locking deadlock. (EE) intel(0): [DRI] Unlocking inconsistency:
Antonio Rieser said: 1) If I boot with the tablet plugged in, everything is fine. 2) If I remove the tablet from the computer (I've only tried it during an X session), the system panics and shuts down. Removing USB devices without cleanly disabling the device will do that, but I've personally only seen it using flash drives and such. I have no tablet device(s) to test with. Should I repost this thread to freebsd-ports or freebsd-usb? No, but I think you may want to reconsider the Subject: line of this email, as you may get more responses. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems
Antonio Rieser said: 2) If I remove the tablet from the computer (I've only tried it during an X session), the system panics and shuts down, whether or not I stop the wacom driver before removing the tablet. Can you replicate this while viewing the console [ctrl+alt+f1] rather than an X session, to see exactly what the kernel is panicing from? (I know systems don't really like being forcibly paniced, but it may help figure out what is happening.) -- Glen Barber ___ 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
