portupgrade problem

2009-04-10 Thread Canhua
hi, I ran the following to upgrade on my 7.0-release FreBSD: env PACKAGEROOT=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Late st/ portupgrade -aPPR and it would failed with this error: fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.orgpub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/pub/FreeBSD/po

MediaWiki extensions in the ports?

2009-04-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, The page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importing_a_Wikipedia_database_dump_into_MediaWiki mentions some PHP extensions which must be installed to use an imported Wiki dump: extensions/ extensions/README extensions/Cite.php extensions/ParserFunctions extensions/ParserFunctions/Expr.php

Re: portupgrade problem

2009-04-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:49:44 pm Canhua wrote: hi, I ran the following to upgrade on my 7.0-release FreBSD: env PACKAGEROOT=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable /Late st/ portupgrade -aPPR The Handbook says this should be PACKAGESITE. When I set it in my

Re: flex from ports kills buildworld?

2009-04-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:53:09 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Probably doing something stupid, but on the off chance I'm not: - Had to install a newer flex from ports for something. - Had to move the system flex to avoid hacking reams of bad makefiles - Did a buildworld, and

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-10 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:31:22AM +, Da Rock wrote: I know this may be OT, but I could use some help on this one. I've completed a major changeover in network provider, and I've now got a proper static ip including ptr records for my mail server (the only service that really counts on

Re: memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-10 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:43:08 -0700 (PDT), Dino Vliet wrote: DV I have just installed 4 x 2gb kingston memory banks (Kingston HyperX 4GB 800mhz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 (5-5-5-15) DIMM) onto my AMD 64 system with a X2 5200 CPU. The motherboard I have in this system is MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital. DV DV The

Question about support for HP D1560 printer under FreeBSD

2009-04-10 Thread Manish Jain
Hi, I am about to buy a new printer (my first one actually) and my retailer strongly recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I just want to confirm whether I could get this printer

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:31:22 +, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: I know this may be OT, but I could use some help on this one. I've completed a major changeover in network provider, and I've now got a proper static ip including ptr records for my mail server (the only service

RE: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-10 Thread Da Rock
From: keram...@ceid.upatras.gr To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:08:19 +0300 On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:31:22 +, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: I know this may

Re: portupgrade problem

2009-04-10 Thread Canhua
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Kent Stewart kstew...@owt.com wrote: On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:49:44 pm Canhua wrote: env The Handbook says this should be PACKAGESITE. When I set it in my .cshrc, I have setenv. I haven't set it on my 7-stable but on 6-stable, it looks like setenv

Re: Question about support for HP D1560 printer under FreeBSD

2009-04-10 Thread GESBBB
 From: Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com Hi, I am about to buy a new printer (my first one actually) and my retailer strongly recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
2009/4/10 Rajeev Sharma rajb3...@gmail.com: Hello Sir,     First of all i am very thankfull for your reply. I just followed the instruction given by BSD DVD.  i instaled all the options including X windows, gname etc. After login : -- startx command is also not working Hi,

Re: Question about support for HP D1560 printer under FreeBSD

2009-04-10 Thread Manish Jain
Jerry wrote: According to the [1]http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html site, your printer is supported. Install the '/print/hplip' port. Be sure to read the docu mentation on configuring the program. I have hplip and cups installed on my system to support two HP wireless printer s,

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bob Johnson wrote: - reduced energy use for everyone. I think the difference in energy use would be so small as to be pointless. If I have a system that consumes 75 kilowatt hours per month, and I spend an extra 0.05 kilowatt hour per month updating ports, is the difference (less than 1/10

Re: cannot kill process with kill -9

2009-04-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:26:51PM -0600, Joshua Gimer typed: You might also find a little bit information about what the process is waiting on by attaching to it with strace (in ports under devel) (strace -p PID). why would you install strace from ports? truss does the same job. Ruben On

sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's volume is small (while the system mixer is almost 100:100). Is there anyway to have a bigger sound in Pidgin?

Re: cannot kill process with kill -9

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:10:04 +0200 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:26:51PM -0600, Joshua Gimer typed: You might also find a little bit information about what the process is waiting on by attaching to it with strace (in ports under devel) (strace -p PID).

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/8/09, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: The drawback I can see is the disk space required to keep several generations of packages online - if the

Kernel panic on disk timeout with 3ware controller

2009-04-10 Thread Jan Catrysse
Hello, I am using FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE on a system with a 3Ware RAID controller, the system resides on a RAID volume. I get kernel panics complaining about page faults, swap space and a drive timeout. This is, I think, due to a faulty disk. The 3ware controller detects a timeout,

mouse problems-version 7.1

2009-04-10 Thread gahn
Hi all: After I did portupgrade -fa -y and I have mouse problem: it works under the test of sysinstall but it would not work when I start KDE environment. What went wrong? How could i fix this? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread gahn
Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem=1G# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the # and change that to 2G? Interestingly, the sysctl indicates the parameter of hw.physmem is not changeable. Any guru

Re: Question about support for HP D1560 printer under FreeBSD

2009-04-10 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:06:14 +0530 Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jerry, Thanks for your message. I checked up the list, which says that the D1560 is indeed supported, but it also says that the minimum version of hplip required for this is 2.8.5, while the latest port

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:51:35 +0700, kyanh xky...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. First, maybe mplayer is a bit heavy stuff for notification sounds. What are these files? If

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:25:13 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Is there a quick way to find out how big are the tarballs without downloading them all or adding them up one by one? I think it's possible to obtain an FTP ls listing and then use awk to get the column with the size

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
gahn wrote: Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem=1G# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the # and change that to 2G? Yes, but, would it make a difference? Interestingly, the sysctl indicates the

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:32 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem=1G                # Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the # and change that to 2G? Yes, but if your purpose is

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
2009/4/10 Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:32 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem=1G                # Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
gahn wrote: Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem=1G# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the # and change that to 2G? Interestingly, the sysctl indicates the parameter of hw.physmem is not changeable.

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:51:35PM +0700, kyanh wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's volume is small (while the system mixer is almost

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:25:13 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Is there a quick way to find out how big are the tarballs without downloading them all or adding them up one by one? I think it's possible to obtain an FTP ls listing and then use awk to get the

Re: find command question

2009-04-10 Thread Jay Hall
It has to wait for completion to see the exit status. Thanks. I misunderstood what I read. Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

hplip port update to version 2.8.5

2009-04-10 Thread Manish Jain
Hi, I am about to buy a new printer and my retailer strongly recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I checked up the hplip site. The site says that the D1560 is indeed supported, but

xfce4, flash freeze

2009-04-10 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
Hello, My sistem is a FreeBSD-7.1-STABLE with xfce4 on a pretty ok hardware (intel 2.66 Mhz, 1GB ram, etc.). The problem I'm having is flash player related. I have forefox3 and opera 9.x installed and in every one of them when playing flash movies (youtube, etc), every 10 or so seconds

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread gahn
Thanks for the detailed information. Best --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: loader.conf To: ipfr...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd general questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date:

Re: hplip port update to version 2.8.5

2009-04-10 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:19:35 +0530 Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am about to buy a new printer and my retailer strongly recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I

How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Yuri
I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things on it under Windows. I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an extremely long time, 24hrs. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-10 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:21:17 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com said: G I've been playing with various flavors of *nix off and on for almost twenty G years, but not doing much development the make process often causes me G issues - as is the case with samba. This is why I only use the

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things on it under Windows. i would rather make FAT32 partition newfs_msdos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem=1G# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the # and change that to 2G? # mean commented out. leave it as is or delete. you don't have to specify it unless you

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-10 Thread Adam Vandemore
Karl Vogel wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:21:17 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com said: G I've been playing with various flavors of *nix off and on for almost twenty G years, but not doing much development the make process often causes me G issues - as is the case with samba.

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Yuri
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i would rather make FAT32 partition Unfortunately FAT32 has a file size limit 2^32-1 bytes (~4GB) And I talk about HD 1TB and files might me larger. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:33:13 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Unfortunately FAT32 has a file size limit 2^32-1 bytes (~4GB) And I talk about HD 1TB and files might me larger. The easiest way would be to format it inside a Windows PC that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
Just a small sidenote according to your shell script: You're defining # echo without newline necho () { echo $* | tr -d '\012' } Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead of involving another program to do something that echo can do

Re: Re: Loading sound drivers

2009-04-10 Thread af300wsm
On Apr 9, 2009 9:20am, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: You even need sound_load=YES in the loader.conf. snd_via8234 pulls it upon loading. Yup, pathetic that I missed it, but that's what I was missing. Thanks everyone. I've added _load to the lines. Andy

disk usage statistics

2009-04-10 Thread Michal
Hello. Could you suggest me how can I get my disk usage statistics in terms of percentage of the possible disk activity (like in gstat) or megabytes per second (like in iostat), please? I need something that gives actual usage statistics, not any averages. And something that prints what I want

Re: disk usage statistics

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello. Could you suggest me how can I get my disk usage statistics in terms of percentage of the possible disk activity (like in gstat) or megabytes per second (like in iostat), please? systat then type :vmstat ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

ULE scheduler

2009-04-10 Thread Dave Stegner
have a stock 7.0 release. I rebuilt the kernel with ULE scheduler, I think. How can I tell if it is running ULE or 4BSD?? David R. Stegner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: disk usage statistics

2009-04-10 Thread Bill Moran
Michal m...@infosec.pl wrote: Could you suggest me how can I get my disk usage statistics in terms of percentage of the possible disk activity (like in gstat) or megabytes per second (like in iostat), please? I need something that gives actual usage statistics, not any averages. And

Re: ULE scheduler

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:17:28 -0700, Dave Stegner dsteg...@earthlink.net wrote: I rebuilt the kernel with ULE scheduler, I think. How can I tell if it is running ULE or 4BSD?? I think that's what you're looking for: % sysctl kern.sched.name kern.sched.name: ULE --

Re: xfce4, flash freeze

2009-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: My sistem is a FreeBSD-7.1-STABLE with xfce4 on a pretty ok hardware (intel 2.66 Mhz, 1GB ram, etc.). The problem I'm having is flash player related. I have forefox3 and opera 9.x installed and in every one of them when playing flash movies

Re: xfce4, flash freeze

2009-04-10 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
I don't see that problem with xfce4, firefox3, and flash video, but this is on a Radeon X1650. Possibly a problem with your X video driver. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Mine is a Nvidia fx5500 (agp). Tbh, I quite forgot to check the driver; will do that, thx for the

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Ok here's an improved description of how it works. The key to the whole thing is the snapshot of the ports tree. Everything else follows from that. Build process: A predetermined set of packages is built from a ports tree. The most benefit comes with packages which would acceptable for use with

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. (I did use mkntfs successfully with the 1.13.1 version, but never tried with 2.0.0. ntfsresize from 2.0.0 failed for me when 1.13.1 did work.) Jan Henrik

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread Wes Morgan
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, kyanh wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's volume is small (while the system mixer is almost 100:100). Is there anyway to

Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-10 Thread Agus
Hi guys, Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su... /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by -su Then i remove bash and change to tcsh and was ok... but then again, this one when

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Glen Barber wrote: Manolis, Thanks again for taking the time for this. [snip] The site does not yet contain any other pages or info, as Glen is still working on the web content. Please send us your feedback (including problems, suggestions and success stories!) either on the list or

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-10 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: When you have a minute please would you have a look at a proposal for changes to the packages system I posted which is kind of a ports equivalent of freebsd-update involving a 'ports-snapshot'. [snip] I

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:06:39 -0500 (CDT) Wes Morgan morg...@chemikals.org wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, kyanh wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:35:04 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:51:35 +0700, kyanh xky...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. First, maybe

NX dumps core on 7.1-RELEASE

2009-04-10 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
Hi. I asked freebsd-users-jp mailing list how to solve the problem below but nobody replied. I moved freebsd-question ml ask you. I'm in trouble using net/freenx port. My system is 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and I installed freenx from the ports tree. I already installed gnome desktop environment and I can

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:04 -0600 Geoff Fritz gfr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:51:35PM +0700, kyanh wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the

Re: NX dumps core on 7.1-RELEASE

2009-04-10 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
Sorry, I was not sure how attached file is treated. Here's the log. http://www.club.kyutech.ac.jp/~meta/temp/nxserver_error.log -- Iwao, Koichiro m...@club.kyutech.ac.jp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-10 Thread Tamouh Hakmi
You'd need to provide us with more details as your version #, what are you running...etc. Try to ln -s to libintl.so.8 from other directories as well such as /usr/libexec and /usr/local/libexec Tamouh -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, The easiest way would be to format it inside a Windows PC that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you don't have such a PC at hand... Maybe a (very overcomplicated) solution is to (install and then) run some kind of Windows in a VM and format the disk from there... I

Re: Error Message when starting Apache

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:14:21 +0200 Michael Heitmeier mhe...@gmail.com wrote: After installing Apache 2.2 it does not start and apachectl start fails with the error message /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object xchgptr not found, required by libapr-1.so.3 Searching on the Web and archives did

Deluge 1.1.5 From FreshPorts

2009-04-10 Thread David M. Patronis
*I thought it might be of interest that a recent change to the Makefile for this port caused a build to halt with error code -1, gcc43 failure. I'm using 7.1 AMD64. When I replaced the Makefile with the previous version (1.54) everything went smoothly. I think this might be the line that

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-10 Thread gabe g
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Agus agus@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su... /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by -su Then i remove

Re: hplip port update to version 2.8.5

2009-04-10 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Jerry, I think I would give some credence to the stated requirements on the site. The reason I raised the point was I know of people using D15XX (but where XX 80) with hplip versions well below 2.8.5, and HP now claims 2.8.5 to be the minimum for those printers too, as well as for a