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I am running FreeBSD 4.9 and have just installed KDE 3.2 from the ports
without any errors. I know for a fact I have X configured so it couldnt
be that. I added exec startkde to my .xinitrc file and ran 'startx' and
I get the following
There was an error setting up inter-process communications
This should get you going
ports/arabic
ports/chinese
ports/french
ports/german
ports/hebrew
ports/hungarian
ports/japanese
ports/korean
ports/polish
ports/portuguese
ports/russian
ports/ukrainian
ports/vietnamese
doc/da_*
doc/de_*
doc/el_*
doc/es_*
doc/fr_*
doc/it_*
doc/ja_*
doc/nl_*
doc/no_*
On Sunday 15 February 2004 11:19, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
I am running FreeBSD 4.9 and have just installed KDE 3.2 from the
ports without any errors. I know for a fact I have X configured so it
couldnt be that. I added exec startkde to my .xinitrc file and ran
'startx' and I get the following
Is there any provision to automatically degrade a mirror RAID array (in
particular, a software array constructed with atacontrol) when the individual
members may have become inconsistent due to a crash or power failure? I know
it would be a layer-crossing hack, but if there is a file system
Hi,
I just installed freebsd 5.2.1 RC1 and after configuring the network
with sysintall I notived that the ip to the nameserver is not correctly
set up. Running nslookup it keep me saying that the nameserver I use is
the same as the name of my machine, but If I go to the sysinstall
network
OK. That problem fixed. Now when I 'startx' It hangs when Loading
Peripherals and then the splash screen goes away and it just sits there
making me have to do a Control+Alt+Backspace. Any ideas?
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:48:39AM +0200, Andy Fawcett wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2004 11:19, Bryan
I got it working, thanks you guys.
-Original Message-
From: Alex de Kruijff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15. helmikuuta 2004 1:39
To: Vulpes Velox
Cc: Markus Kovero; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ipfw bandwidth limit
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:25:22PM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote:
Hello there
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 05:23:31AM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
OK. That problem fixed. Now when I 'startx' It hangs when Loading
Peripherals and then the splash screen goes away and it just sits there
making me have to do a Control+Alt+Backspace. Any ideas?
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:03:14PM -0700, fbsdq wrote:
Sorry about the earlier question, that was more or less just blank
Hello,
About a week ago I started noticing 3,000 or more requests coming from
several ips for the following DNS queries:
XX+/128.255.203.200/./ANY/ANY
Hi :)
I was just wondering how CFLAGS were managed with make.conf and ports
building.
Indeed, today I just realized that what's in make.conf overwrite the default
build for ports.
I have this in my make.conf:
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
I though those were the right settings for building the world, but,
JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for this sample, but it exceeds my script coding ability.
I added some comments to your sample but I may be lost.
#!/bin/sh
updater_prog = /usr/local/bin/noip2# program to run
if [ x$reason = xREBOOT ] ||\ # is this an reboot
Today I've been trying to restore a filesystem with surprising
results. The backup file was on a netwroked machine and not on a tape
so I'd exclude any type of medium defect. Nevertheless, the restore
program reported a tape read error.
Sounds really strange to me. Here is the session log:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, matthew wrote:
One would make sure that
device apm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management
is in their running kernel.
Not with that disable in there, which disables it. On every desktop
system I've tried, a simple
device apm
is enough.
February 15, 2004
I am presently running FreeBSD version 5.2.
Question # 1:
When I type 'su' and subsequently type in my password, I am taken to the
root. However, certain programs; i.e., 'portupgrade' will not run. If I then
subsequently type 'su' I a, presented with a new prompt although no
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:20:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question # 1:
When I type 'su' and subsequently type in my password, I am taken to the
root. However, certain programs; i.e., 'portupgrade' will not run. If I then
subsequently type 'su' I a, presented with a new prompt
Thanks for the in-sight into the script code.
I could not get the /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks.sh to run at reboot.
After doing some research I found that dhclient-script
was checking for /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks.
Changed /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks.sh to /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks
and it worked.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:53:42AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
Howdy,
I have a problem with powering down my system. When I give the command
shutdown -p now then the system powers down, waits a couple of seconds
and the reboots. I've checked the BIOS but can't find anything wrong
with it.
Antoine Jacoutot disturbed my sleep to write:
Connection from 127.0.0.1
kvm_read(*, 1, 0xbfbfd89c, 4) = -1: kvm_read: Bad address
auto_nlist failed on nswdev at location 1
Hm...based on this link
http://dbforums.com/arch/180/2003/5/787694
the FAQ may answer this:
I'm setting up Nagios, and I want to show the OS that's on a given machine
using it's map graphics.
Anyone know where I can find a small FreeBSD image? (PNG preferred).
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neither liberty nor safety.
I'm running 4.7 Release on a colocated system without access to
bios/console. This system currently has a Highpoint RocketRaid 100
controller driving four WD 60gb (WD600JB, 8mb cache) drives in a raid 0+1
config. I had a drive fail and the controller kept the system up and
functioning, but
On Sunday 15 February 2004 19:54, stan wrote:
I'm setting up Nagios, and I want to show the OS that's on a given machine
using it's map graphics.
Anyone know where I can find a small FreeBSD image? (PNG preferred).
There is already an FreeBSD png shipping with Nagios if you have the latest
Dear friends,
Unfortunately I've got a HP Scanjet 5100C parallel port scanner and I'd like to make
it work under FreeBSD.
I know it can be used by patching the linux kernel with ppscsi*.patch
How do I use this scanner under FreeBSD?
Thanks.
Davide
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:57:37PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
Hi :)
I was just wondering how CFLAGS were managed with make.conf and ports
building.
Indeed, today I just realized that what's in make.conf overwrite the default
build for ports.
I have this in my make.conf:
CFLAGS= -O
At 12:54 2/15/2004, stan, wrote:
I'm setting up Nagios, and I want to show the OS that's on a given machine
using it's map graphics.
Anyone know where I can find a small FreeBSD image? (PNG preferred).
http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/gif/bsd/logos.html
If you can't convert, let me know.
Start
Hi Alvin Gunkel,
you wrote.
AG -Raid 10 or 5? Compared to the 0+1 I have now, 10 would be a nice
AG improvement as loss of the one drive effectively took out two of my
AG drives.
I'm not so sure whether this is entirely true. The RAID 10 thing
always seemed to be more of a marketing scam than
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:55:16PM -0600, Chris wrote:
I see the above mentioned is on the site under ISO's
But the release candidate has not yet been announced, so these may
change at any time. Don't use them until the announcement comes out,
because you might encounter
This is my second call for help regarding ftp and network connections - if
anyone out there can help, I would greatly appreciate some advice.
I have loaded an older pc with FreeBSD 4.8 to run as a webserver. It is
behind a USR8000A router - the router has DHCP, NAT and firewall enabled.
There
My last email - read: Most recently, I have been trying to
install Samba to better network with the Windows machine - I cannot
download
files - aaarrgghhh!
What is meant here is that I could not download the ports upgrade tar file.
Invariably file transfers from the FreeBSD server (and most
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 11:52:17PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2004 21:16, Kris Kennaway wrote:
We discussed this the other day on this very list..the answer is that
this is not possible, and the contents of CFLAGS is what will be used
for port builds (except a few
Hi
On Friday 13 February 2004 06:42, Niraj Kumar wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create some Linux patches to be able to read ufs2.
Interested (those who are having both Linux and FreeBSD on same box) may
try them .
The work-in-progress patches are available from
To: FreeBSD advisors:
Re: CDROM
Dear Sir/Madam
I am currently using FreeBSD to operate some digitizing equipment. I
cannot upgrade
to a newer version of FreeBSD because all the current equipment is somewhat
locked to it.
I am using FreeBSD 2.2.7-CAM. My motherboard is a Super P6SNE II,
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:58:34PM -0800, Mardoc Inc. wrote:
I am using FreeBSD 2.2.7-CAM. My motherboard is a Super P6SNE II, circa
1997.
This wasn't ever a supported FreeBSD release, let alone that 2.x
releases have been out of support for years. However,
I am trying to read from a CD.
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:20:08 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't recall seeing an announcement about 5.2.1-RC (presumably RC1)
anywhere (I am subscribed to freebsd-announce).
It was announced in freebsd-current. Here is a copy of the announcement
of the second release candidate:
From
On Sunday 15 February 2004 08:58 pm, Mardoc Inc. wrote:
To: FreeBSD advisors:
Re: CDROM
Dear Sir/Madam
I am currently using FreeBSD to operate some digitizing equipment. I
cannot upgrade
to a newer version of FreeBSD because all the current equipment is somewhat
locked to it.
I am
From an general over view, sounds like you have your network
connection mis-configured. Post /var/run/dmesg.boot, /etc/rc.conf,
files do an ifconfig and ps ax commands an post what they display.
Use 'script /root/display.lst' command to capture all content going
to screen from commands you enter.
I posted some days before I intend to install FreeBSD on the first partition
of a master disk on the secondary channel. I was lucky nobody replied The
installation fails just when the partitions are to be written.
I have noticed that the installer detects one disk as ad4 (master, primary
Hello list,
How would I install/obtain a compatible binary for OpenOffice 1.1. I don't
have 4+GB for a ports build of it. Either that, or how would I go about
merging my /usr and /home partitions so that they're one and the same (like I
should have done from install).
Thanks!
--
Eric F
I am new to FreeBSD. I am evaluating it as a possible replacement for my
in house desktops and ultimately a replacement for my redhat Internet
server.
I installed 4.9 without a hitch and decided to go ahead and install 5.2 in
order to avoid potential upgrade issues mentioned on the BSD wed site.
/etc/rc.conf
I am new to FreeBSD. I am evaluating it as a possible replacement for my
in house desktops and ultimately a replacement for my redhat Internet
server.
I installed 4.9 without a hitch and decided to go ahead and install 5.2 in
order to avoid potential upgrade issues mentioned on
FBSD sees each partition on each hard drive as an separate hard
drive, just like windows does.
I see. Thanks for the info. I now have to find out why the installer cannot
write the root filesystem.
Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial
Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my
Hi,
i want to cross-compile FreeBSD 5.2.1 to PowerPC, my host server is an AMD
AthlonXP, == i686.
How could i does this?
--
Thanks Regards
Luís Vitório Cargnini
Master Degree Student @ PUC-RS
Computer Science Bacharelor
PUC-RS
Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio Grande do Sul
Brasil
At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote:
[snip]
My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166
[snip]
It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small
files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new
terminal to kill the
FBSD sees each partition on each hard drive as an separate hard
drive, just like windows does.
I see. Thanks for the info. I now have to find out why the installer
cannot
write the root filesystem.
On second thoughts, is it not that the s1 after ad6, is counting the
primary partitions on
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Rob wrote:
At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote:
[snip]
My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166
[snip]
It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small
files, most times the process stalls. I generally
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 11:13:37PM -0300, Lu?s Vit?rio Cargnini wrote:
Hi,
i want to cross-compile FreeBSD 5.2.1 to PowerPC, my host server is an AMD
AthlonXP, == i686.
How could i does this?
PowerPC is still very much in development, I hope you don't have high
expectations of what you'll
Hi
I'm having problems with FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE getting
the proper disk geometry.
When I was installing I passed the correct info and
installed, but once I rebooted the info is wiped off
and again it has the wrong geometry what makes my
system very crashy
PS: is there a way to do this in lilo or
So, the other day I was ripping some CDs...
Upon restart, there was a message that ad0 had an unrecoverable error (media
changed). It's a hard disk. I didn't notice any gnomes breaking into my
computer and changing it on me. No matter. It won't boot. I installed
FreeBSD on an empty partition
Eric,
Have you considered installing the pre-compiled packages? If you aren't
aware, they are available at:
http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/
I have installed the 1.1 version on both fbsd 4.9 and 5.2.1 - they work
fine for me although I haven't done extensive work with oo on either sys.
HtH,
Is is me? Or has something changed in 5.2 that tends to make systems freeze up
during portupgrade? Mainly - KDE-3.2.0
That being said, I seem to be seeing this more often on other upgrades.
Strange thing is, I considered it to be my PC however, I never seem to run
into the total freeze when
On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:46 pm, Chris wrote:
Is is me? Or has something changed in 5.2 that tends to make systems
freeze up during portupgrade? Mainly - KDE-3.2.0
That being said, I seem to be seeing this more often on other
upgrades. Strange thing is, I considered it to be my PC
The network settings are usually in the rc.conf file in /etc/. For
DHCP, you should have the line
ifconfig_interface=DHCP
where *interface* is the given nic you are using - in other words, it is
*not* the word interface.
If you are trying to set a static IP addy and gateway, then your rc.conf
does anyone know how to config synce with multisynce ? don't ask me to
google it, I did it and I try all method, none of them are working for me,
Thanks.
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Evan Dower wrote:
So, the other day I was ripping some CDs...
Upon restart, there was a message that ad0 had an unrecoverable error
(media changed). It's a hard disk. I didn't notice any gnomes breaking
into my computer and changing it on me. No matter. It won't boot. I
installed FreeBSD
Hi,
Thanks for testing this stuff.
Vladimir Kushnir wrote:
First off - thanks a bunch, now I don't need to reboot every time I forgot to
copy some files to Linux.
Tested and works here: ad0: 57241MB WDC WD600JB-00CRA1;
ad0s2 - current -CURRENT (everything in UFS2);
ad0s5 - Mandrake 9.2 +
after the install, can i run a curses based slice/partition editor like
those used in sysinstall without actually running sysinstall?
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You should be installing 4.9, all the 5.x series is from the
development branch of the code tree, it's where all the new and
untested code is first tested out. 5.2 has many show stopper bugs
dealing with the install process to any thing other than the first
partition on the primary IDE master
On Sunday 15 February 2004 08:51 pm, you wrote:
Eric,
Have you considered installing the pre-compiled packages? If you aren't
aware, they are available at:
http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/
I have installed the 1.1 version on both fbsd 4.9 and 5.2.1 - they work
fine for me although I
I originally had problems with that error, too. I ran 'pkg_add -r
openoffice-1.1' making sure that the openoffice-1.10_1.tgz was in the
/usr/ports/distfiles directory. I can't remember having any issues
after that. (Oh, I also made sure that /usr/ports/java/jdk14 was
installed before going
On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:51 pm, Steven N. Fettig wrote:
I originally had problems with that error, too. I ran 'pkg_add -r
openoffice-1.1' making sure that the openoffice-1.10_1.tgz was in the
/usr/ports/distfiles directory. I can't remember having any issues
after that. (Oh, I also
I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and if there is a fix for
it. When I run firefox and then exit the program the process remains
resident, and it starts eating up the CPU. Does anyone know of a fix for
this. I have been manually killing the process, but this seems like a
horrible
Eric F Crist wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:51 pm, Steven N. Fettig wrote:
I originally had problems with that error, too. I ran 'pkg_add -r
openoffice-1.1' making sure that the openoffice-1.10_1.tgz was in the
/usr/ports/distfiles directory. I can't remember having any issues
after
On Sunday 15 February 2004 11:09 pm, Steven N. Fettig wrote:
I'm grasping here, but try:
pkg_add -r openoffice-1.1 (w/ out any of the trailing info). See if it
simply tries to use the openoffice tgz that you have downloaded. I
remember working on this for quite a while until figuring out
On Sunday, 15 February 2004 at 23:25:19 -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote:
after the install, can i run a curses based slice/partition editor like
those used in sysinstall without actually running sysinstall?
No. But you can run sysinstall for only this function. There's a
special 'w' command to
Well, it worked mostly. I've got the partition table back and reinstalled
boot0, but I must be confused about the later boot stages, because I can't
get the partition I want to boot properly. I can boot from ad0s1a, but I
want to boot from ad0s2a. I can mount ad0s1a and ad0s2a as well as
Hi Rob:
Thank you for this help. Thanks also to all others who replied this
evening.
I just came home and it is late so I will pursue all suggestions tomorrow
evening.
My gut sense is that it is the nic setup - at first I thought it might be my
router (and maybe it is part of the problem but I
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Graham North wrote:
Hi Rob:
Thank you for this help. Thanks also to all others who replied this
evening.
I just came home and it is late so I will pursue all suggestions tomorrow
evening.
My gut sense is that it is the nic setup - at first I thought it might be my
Chris wrote:
Is is me? Or has something changed in 5.2 that tends to make systems freeze up
during portupgrade? Mainly - KDE-3.2.0
That being said, I seem to be seeing this more often on other upgrades.
Strange thing is, I considered it to be my PC however, I never seem to run
into the total
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:00 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Chris wrote:
Is is me? Or has something changed in 5.2 that tends to make systems
freeze up during portupgrade? Mainly - KDE-3.2.0
That being said, I seem to be seeing this more often on other upgrades.
Strange thing is, I
On Sunday 15 February 2004 07:04 pm, Chris wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:00 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Chris wrote:
Is is me? Or has something changed in 5.2 that tends to make
systems freeze up during portupgrade? Mainly - KDE-3.2.0
That being said, I seem to be seeing
Hello, everybody!
I need to install a scsi system on my 4.9 freebsd box and used the scsi card
Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter and external cabinet with the IBM drive:
IBM IC35L146UWDY10-0 S23C. After stratup FreeBSD detected Adaptec and hard
drive, I did fdisk, label and newfs without any
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