Re: Fixit mode (live CD): can't find /etc/rc.conf

2009-08-13 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 21:58:05 Nerius Landys wrote: By convention /etc should be on ad0s1a. If it's not, but /boot is there, you may need to fsck. Yeah, When I tired to mount ad0s1a, it gave me something like permission denied or bad superblock. How do I fix this with fsck from the

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2009-08-13 Thread Stephen Mutai
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How to make CS server autostart on reboot

2009-08-13 Thread Anton
Hello everybode, Can you help me in subject? Cause, if I even place the start script in /= etc/rc.local - it do not starts -- -- Best regards, Anton= ;[1]mailto:an...@sng.by Administrator Feel free to contact me via ICQ 363780596

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Powell
Roland Smith wrote: [sni[p] - Powersupply: check the voltages (preferably under load) with a monitoring app like mbmon. If that's not possible, check in the BIOS. A failing powersupply can give weird unreproducable errors. If you have ever heard a popping noise from the machine it

Question about supported motherboard (ASUS L1N64 Dual Socket)

2009-08-13 Thread Under
I searched for information on your official website, but I didn't found anything... Does FreeBSD support ASUS L1N64-SLI WS Dual Socket 1207 and nVidia nForce 680a? If it doesn't, can you tell me some motherboard with Dual Socket that FreeBSD supports? Thanks for your time, Matteo Rapone.

The Brand-New TAXI we've built for you

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Re: How to make CS server autostart on reboot

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Stapper
Hello, What do you mean by a CS server? I'm sure there are better of pretier solution but you can use cron to do this for you. As the user which should run this service do: crontab -e then add a rule like: @reboot command Then save and exit. Now next time on reboot the command will be run.

8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Stapper
Hello, I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram. Strangely enough, it says the following: [r...@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB) and [r...@carmen ~]# sysctl

Re[2]: How to make CS server autostart on reboot

2009-08-13 Thread Anton
Hello Mark, under CS server - I mean server for Counter-strike... I've also tried this variant - it is starting. as if from rc.local - but= then it shuts down, and I could not find out why Thursday, August 13, 2009, 2:26:35 PM, you wrote: Hello, What do you mean by a

port sysutils/hal - fixed_mountpoints - what does this mean?

2009-08-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
in port sysutils/hal there is an option fixed_mountpoints= which is off by default. Is the meaning of this option documented somewhere? I've had lots of trouble with hal/dbus/X in the past I wonder if my options are to blame. many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's

Re: Re[2]: How to make CS server autostart on reboot

2009-08-13 Thread Kalle Møller
No logfiles ?? Sounds like something needs to be started prior to the CS-server 2009/8/13 Anton an...@sng.by Hello Mark, under CS server - I mean server for Counter-strike... I've also tried this variant - it is starting. as if from rc.local - but then it shuts down, and I could

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. That's

Re: port sysutils/hal - fixed_mountpoints - what does this mean?

2009-08-13 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 13:37 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: in port sysutils/hal there is an option fixed_mountpoints= which is off by default. Is the meaning of this option documented somewhere? This option tells hal to use fixed names for /media mount points instead of volume

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:54:31PM -0400, PJ wrote: Well, I've been looking at the disk(s) and I have found some interesting shei**e that doesn't make sense. 1. The fbsd minimal installation that I had set up for recovery of the previous crash does not boot... Now, why

Re: Racoon VPN

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph Olatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:35:08PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:26:45AM -0700, Joseph Olatt wrote: It appears that racoon2 has been removed from the ports. Superseded by: ipsec-tools Look closely. security/racoon was removed, not security/racoon2! Thanks for the

RE: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

2009-08-13 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:32:46 +0200 From: st...@mapper.nl To: freebsd-am...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Subject: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram Hello, I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. However, it does not seem to be able to use all

Re: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

2009-08-13 Thread Glen Barber
need to enable PAE mode in the kernel Not for amd64. Mark, What is the output of 'uname -a'? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Fixit mode (live CD): can't find /etc/rc.conf

2009-08-13 Thread Nerius Landys
fsck_ffs -p /dev/ad0s1a Thanks you so much for your genius information. My computer boots again! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var...

2009-08-13 Thread B. Cook
Here is the full error: Aug 13 09:29:57 gameface savecore: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var: bad dir ino 3485849 at offset 3584: mangled entry The error causes the machine to keep rebooting on its own over and over again. i386 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Wed May 20 16:56:48 EDT

Re: Mathematica 7 license manager

2009-08-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
(redirecting to freebsd-emulation@, please trim freebsd-questions@) Rich Winkel r...@math.missouri.edu writes: I'm trying to run mathlm for mathematica version 7 under linux_base-fc-4_13 on freebsd 7.1-release-p7. It demonizes and appears to be happy until I try to run mathematica, then it

Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support it. Was I dreaming? -- Regards, Doug

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: Ok, I've had all night to (subliminally) think about all this and actually, I am tending more toward problems in FreeBSD...

Re: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var...

2009-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:25:21PM -0400, B. Cook wrote: Here is the full error: Aug 13 09:29:57 gameface savecore: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var: bad dir ino 3485849 at offset 3584: mangled entry The error causes the machine to keep rebooting on its own over and over again. You

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: Ok, I've had all night to (subliminally) think about all this and actually, I am tending more toward

df -k vs. du -s

2009-08-13 Thread Don O'Neil
My /var partition is showing a different value for a df -k on the file system vs a du -s on the file system: df -k Filesystem1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 202603088954497440448%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
partitions and write them to the external harddisk. Say that you have mounted the external harddisk at /mnt/backups. The following command makes a backup of the entire root partition, and compresses it to save space: dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - / |gzip -1 /mnt/backups/root-20090813.gz

this is csup ?

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Please, please reassure me that I do come from Mars: What am I missing in the following? (direct quote from http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html : Then copy this script to /usr/local/sbin/ and run it when you want to update your ports, source docs. #!/bin/sh # # Update source,

Re: df -k vs. du -s

2009-08-13 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 13 August 2009 12:37:00 Don O'Neil wrote: My /var partition is showing a different value for a df -k on the file system vs a du -s on the file system: FAQ. Search = good(tm). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF -- Mel

Re: this is csup ?

2009-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:47:25 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Please, please reassure me that I do come from Mars: What am I missing in the following? (direct quote from http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html : Then copy this script to /usr/local/sbin/ and run it when

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
and write them to the external harddisk. Say that you have mounted the external harddisk at /mnt/backups. The following command makes a backup of the entire root partition, and compresses it to save space: dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - / |gzip -1 /mnt/backups/root-20090813.gz If you have /usr

Re: df -k vs. du -s

2009-08-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:37:00PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: My /var partition is showing a different value for a df -k on the file system vs a du -s on the file system: df -k Filesystem1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 202603088954497440448%

Re: this is csup ?

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:47:25 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Please, please reassure me that I do come from Mars: What am I missing in the following? (direct quote from http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html : Then copy this script to /usr/local/sbin/

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
/mnt/backups/root-20090813.gz How about 7zip instead of gzip? does better compression, from what I learned ??? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi PJ, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: You probably won't get much helpfull response. When troubleshooting, it's allways best to try to break down the problem

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Ruben de Groot wrote: Hi PJ, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: You probably won't get much helpfull response. When troubleshooting, it's allways

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:22:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: How about 7zip instead of gzip? does better compression, from what I learned ??? Possible, but gzip is part of the OS, while 7zip needs to be installed manually. On a live system CD (FreeBSD, FreeSBIE) is is usually not

Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-13 Thread Mak Kolybabi
On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support it. Was I dreaming? (Forgot

Re: this is csup ?

2009-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:20:17 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Well, I'm a bit confused about this script - something doesn't make sense - what are you supposed to call the script? The script is intended to automate updating a bit. It still relies on the presence of csup or cvsup AND its

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Neal Hogan
Right now I'm just fixing up a new set up of 7.2 on another disk and we'll see what that does. Then I will re-setup the files I had recoverd, see if they work and then do a last and final install of everything and see if that works. And if there is a problem then, then I will know for sure

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
PJ wrote: Ruben de Groot wrote: Hi PJ, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: You probably won't get much helpfull response. When troubleshooting, it's

Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-13 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I installed 7.2 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A305 SP6926A and it looks like Xorg is too slow on this machine. Does anyone have this notebook, can share its xorg.conf? uname -a FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun 7 10:23:49 UTC

Re: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var...

2009-08-13 Thread B. Cook
On Thu, August 13, 2009 3:15 pm, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:25:21PM -0400, B. Cook wrote: Here is the full error: Aug 13 09:29:57 gameface savecore: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var: bad dir ino 3485849 at offset 3584: mangled entry The error causes the machine to

Managing encrypted disks

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I boot many of my storage machines from thumb drives that contain /boot and /etc/fstab. Everything else is loaded/mounted from GELI encrypted disks within the box. Backups/archives on some of these boxes are not within the standard AMANDA regimen. They are under special (manual) backup

Re: Managing encrypted disks

2009-08-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:10:19 -0400 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: What I'd like to know, is if it's possible to somehow check to see if there are any GELI 'attach'ed disks on a given system that have not yet been mounted (or, iow, were umount'd, but were left attached). #dmesg

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:12:27PM -0400, PJ typed: Ruben de Groot wrote: Hi PJ, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: You probably won't get