Re: QT4.5 packages

2008-12-06 Thread Warren Liddell
You can find many packages for several releases under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 ___ Yeah that was the first palced i checked, but there is only 4.4.1 and at the least i need 4.4.2, but a lot of things im now running require 4.5

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR. some people rarely boot other OS :)

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:43:39AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: On 12/2/08, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 2008-12-02 00:41:58 UTC-0600, Javier Vasquez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and 26... If I got it

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] there was another error in that kernel at the very beginning - the SCHEDULE_4BSD was SCHEDULE_UNO or something like that.. but it was commented out...perhaps these glitches happened through some kind of accidental typos in vi [snip] SCHED_4BSD is being replaced

Re: cups issue, unsupported format

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the hplip port and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there was an HPLIP in a list in one of the pages during the setup. My printer is an old HP LaserJet 4+ which I've connected

Re: Sticky mouse pointer on machine with high load

2008-12-06 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:23:48PM -0800, Yuri wrote: Often when my machine has load is 2 or higher it becomes very visible that mouse motion isn't smooth. Mouse moves in a series of quite long jumps. I believe this effect is especially pronounced when some applications read/write a lot of

Disappearing mount point

2008-12-06 Thread lhecking
I have a really weird problem. After changing the mount point of a Linux ext3 fs to a different device, the mount point disappears after mounting and is inaccessible. Disk layout: ad4s1 Linux ext3 ad4s2 FreeBSD ad4s3 Linux ext3 ad4s4 ext ad4s5 Linux swap ad4s6 Linux ext3 ad4s7 Linux

Re: ipfw and bridged interface

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:33:23 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that I read, many years ago, something about the way ipfw interacts with the IP stack. AFAIR, ipfw would be called on layer 2, where only certain rules would be applied, then on the IP layer where

Re: FreeBSD on Cisco IDS 4235

2008-12-06 Thread Peter
Hello, I have fixed the problem myself. If anyone ever experience this problem the solution is: Replace cisco BIOS with Dell BIOS for Poweredge 1650, revision 32. Then FreeBSD 7 install like charm. Link to DELL's site:

Re: QT4.5 packages

2008-12-06 Thread matt donovan
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find many packages for several releases under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 ___ Yeah that was the first palced i checked, but there is only 4.4.1 and

Re: Sticky mouse pointer on machine with high load

2008-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not guaranteed, but it has worked for several people in the past - try rebuilding your kernel with the SCHED_ULE scheduler, instead of the make sure you have quite new FreeBSD 7-* branch, as it was quite improved few months ago. you may try to tune it up by changing kern.sched.interact

Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 box with 4 SATA drives configured in a RAID-10 using gmirror, gstripe, and gjournal. Normally, I use dump and rsync for periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a one-time backup such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want to assuming you do

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-11-16 - 2008-12-06

2008-12-06 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: FreeBSD cannot power down

2008-12-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:42:51AM -0800, Unga wrote: --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD cannot power down To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 11:22 PM Hi all After a kernel recompilation

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:28:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ... AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing important -- because it doesn't have a

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Wojciech Puchar wrote: periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a one-time backup such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want to assuming you do gmirror first and then gstripe of gmirror then use dd to read last sectors of each disk drive and each gmirror device. and backup disklabels Thanks for the suggestion. I did, in fact, create a

Re: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating

2008-12-06 Thread Fbsd1
G magicman wrote: And incomplete yes i agree that the doc does need to be updated and examples (more) need to be added. --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Dean Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dean Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating To:

Error Kernel Compiling

2008-12-06 Thread Federico Cicciarella
linking kernel.debug if.o(.text+0x1027): In function `if_setlladdr': /usr/src/sys/net/if.c:2646: undefined reference to `arp_ifinit' igmp.o(.text+0x45): In function `igmp_sendpkt': /usr/src/sys/netinet/igmp.c:472: undefined reference to `loif' ip_output.o(.text+0xae9): In function `ip_output':

FreeBSD /dev/fd0

2008-12-06 Thread Cynical Nihilist
Hi, I am having issues configuring and using my external floppy drive on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. It's a parallel port floppy drive. /dev/fd0 is not present and dmesg shows fdc0: floppy drive controller (FDE) port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] when using dmesg | grep