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

2009-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:26:56PM -0400, B. Cook wrote: [/etc/defaults]# 2 grep dumpdev * rc.conf:dumpdev=AUTO # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or NO). rc.conf:savecore_flags= # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present. Those are the defaults. Do you have anything

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, PJ wrote: Subject: Re: boot sector f*ed 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

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:41:48 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? I could guess defective RAM here... I suggest running memtest for

Re[2]: Kernel panic

2009-08-14 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 12 августа 2009 г., 19:59:39: MF On Wednesday 12 August 2009 08:01:07 Коньков Евгений wrote: Aug 12 15:59:08 host savecore: reboot after panic: integer divide fault Aug 12 15:59:08 host savecore: writing core to vmcore.4 How to obtain which process cause system

Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread George Liaskos
Try the following options in your Device section: Option AccelMethod EXA Option MigrationHeuristicgreedy On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I installed 7.2 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A305 SP6926A and it looks

Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via

Re: Managing encrypted disks

2009-08-14 Thread Modulok
[snip] 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 doesn't say much in this regard, and I couldn't find out by listing /dev

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-14 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: [snip] Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? All that I am seeing is that there is either a problem with the bios (which I even reinstalled and that changed

Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Mak Kolybabi wrote: 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.

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me

Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Thanks George, that worked!. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com --- On Fri, 8/14/09, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote: From: George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A To: Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com Cc:

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
There are also some interesting responses in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc about this (I opened a thread there too). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 =

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 =

More on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness contrast. This machine has this control in Windows by clicking the [FN Key]+F6/F7. Does anyone knows how to enable this in FreeBsd? Thanks in advance, Leonardo. ___

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Definately. before ldconfig is run, only the system libraries in /lib and /usr/lib are known. Doing a su -m root at that time, as /etc/rc.d/ppp is doing, will

Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, August 14, 2009 05:47, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Mak Kolybabi wrote: 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

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Thank you Ruben :-) :-) I wouldn't have thought in a million years that could be the issue, but what you have said makes perfect sense. Looks like its back to /bin/sh for root. Cheers, Alex. Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Actually I did

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:48 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot partitions in the installer. No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Gustafson
No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you need to bootstrap a system. That's a silly answer. The way to get more people to use FreeBSD is to make the

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you need to bootstrap a system. That's a silly answer. The way to get

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:58 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be built into the installer. With a few machines, yes. Once you get to 5 or 6, start building your own custom internal ISOs, and maintain your configuration templates in

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Gustafson
I'm responding to two people's comments here in one response. :) From: Brian A. Seklecki sekle...@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us I make the suggestions because you're asking about an advanced topic, so I gave you an honest answer. Honest answers are appreciated. :) I'm not saying that the way you

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jason Garrett wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:48, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some how-to documents for setting it up in a hacky kind

bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Eitan Adler
I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170 I installed them and loaded them. However pciconf -lv|grep bwi produces no output and ifconfig does not mention any wireless cards. What should I

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: From: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com I don't use ZFS, UFS2 works fine for me. I would find it ridiculous to see ZFS support in the installer, but all GEOM should be supported. Especially the raid3 and mirror. So, you like the idea of including

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:41 +, Eitan Adler wrote: I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: If the driver didn't attach because IBM chose some exotic OEM PCI ID, then the grep wont find it. You really should post the full

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adlereitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170 I installed them and loaded them. However pciconf -lv|grep bwi

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Gustafson
Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental. When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect ZFS support in the installer in the same expectation I

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental. When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect ZFS

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. Ah . . . sorry, got mixed up with mailing lists. Thanks for correcting me! -- Mel

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Neal Hogannealho...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. Ah . . . sorry, got

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Eitan Adler
You really should post the full pciconf(8) and dmesg(8) for us, as well as kldstat(8) -v. http://pastebin.com/f368e0550 http://pastebin.com/f7d5f883d http://pastebin.com/f7500570e http://pastebin.com/f606e2c81 -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually

7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem

2009-08-14 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I'm trying to get my CD drive to work without so much success. Reading is fine, but when I try to burn a CD I get errors in dmesg. Using cdrecord -blank=fast dev=3,0,0 I get: [...] Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported

ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-08-14 Thread Ricky Tompu Breaky
Dear my friends, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: startx . I can see the GUI but I can not do anything on it. I can not click anything and I can not type nothing on it. My computer use

Re: ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-08-14 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ricky Tompu Breakyricky.bre...@uni.de wrote: Dear my friends, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: startx . I can see the GUI but I can not do

Re: More on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness contrast. This machine has this control in Windows by clicking the [FN Key]+F6/F7. Erm, you are *clicking* the keys on the keyboard? With the

Re: 7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
First thing I'd suspect is that your drive is a read-only, write-only, but no rewrite, so that means it's unable to blank RW medium. The 'DVDR' and CDDVDW both indicate a write once kind of mindset. does the bezel on the drive itself say rewrite anywhere? --TJ On 8/14/09, Fernando Apesteguía

Re: 7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem

2009-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:47:48 -0600, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: First thing I'd suspect is that your drive is a read-only, write-only, but no rewrite, so that means it's unable to blank RW medium. The 'DVDR' and CDDVDW both indicate a write once kind of mindset. does the bezel on

Re:firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

2009-08-14 Thread ajtiM
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