VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Running a FreeBSD 8.0-REL/amd64 box with a quad core CPU and 8 GB of ram I intended also to operate Windows XP_32 within VirtualBox. So far, VirtualBox is up and running, as well as Windows XP. But I do not have network connectivity. Befor going deeper into my config I will report some strange

Re : cvs authentication

2009-11-27 Thread Alexandre L.
I haven't set authentification process to sync my sources with freebsd cvsup server. Have you try to sync your sources with another cvsup server ? You can find the list here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, Dominic Fandrey

Re: Gnome Terminal

2009-11-27 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 27 November 2009 05:11:41 Rem P Roberti wrote: There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within Fluxbox I get this error

8.0 release php5 port not working

2009-11-27 Thread Fbsd1
Have a clean install of 8.0 and trying to do cvs make install of port php5 just to turn on apache module. The php5 make install is complaining that autoconf262, pkg-config and libxml2 as non-existent -- dependency list incomplete. I installed these as packages and they show up in pkg_info.

Re: Re : cvs authentication

2009-11-27 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Alexandre L. wrote: --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de a écrit : Should the CVS/SVN mirrors really require authentication? -- Running /usr/bin/csup

NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Staals
When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from what I've read specific make options to build the kernel/base system should be in /etc/src.config. The manpage of src.conf specifies the option

Re: Re : cvs authentication

2009-11-27 Thread Alexandre L.
I don't know what is the problem but I thinking about this thing : Is this cvsup servup wasn't in synchronization (due to the release of 8.0-RELEASE) and this server was locked for this reason ? --- En date de : Ven 27.11.09, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de a écrit : De: Dominic Fandrey

Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

2009-11-27 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and

Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD?

2009-11-27 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:50:31 -0800 (PST), Unga unga...@yahoo.com a écrit : The same printer prints very well on a older Linux system with a older Gutenprint driver! What am I still missing? Try to change the usb mode, there are two modes : one use ulpt and one use unlpt. You can change it

Re: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING

2009-11-27 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from what I've read specific make options to build the kernel/base system should be in

Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2009-11-27 Thread Unga
--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: From: Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org Subject: Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 8:19 PM Le Thu, 26 Nov 2009

8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. When I switch to the debug tty, I see da0, and all my

Re: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING

2009-11-27 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from what I've read specific make options to build the kernel/base

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. Anyways, has anyone successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick

Re: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING

2009-11-27 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Friday 27 November 2009 12:44:55 pm Michael Powell wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, however from

Re: 2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed

2009-11-27 Thread Michael Powell
cronfy wrote: Hello. I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about 114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every time,

FreeBSD torrent tracker give wierd numbers?

2009-11-27 Thread James Phillips
Hello, On the Development list somebody mentioned the BitTorrent tracker: http://torrents.FreeBSD.org:8080/ Looking at this page: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/stats.html?info_hash=329525ff9a0fbd43ee25e50c510564919255403e I noticed that it lists everyone as being connected for about 8

Re: VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Norbert Papke
On November 27, 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: Befor going deeper into my config I will report some strange behaviour of needed kernel modules vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko Both are needed for networking on VirtualBox and they get loaded at startup vi /boot/loader.conf. But to have a working

replacing faulty disk in a gmirror

2009-11-27 Thread Vincent Zee
Hi, I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but it fails. This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. The disk on channel 3 (ad6), which was identical to the disk on channel 2 (ad4), was faulty and I

Re: VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Norbert Papke npa...@acm.org wrote: On November 27, 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: Befor going deeper into my config I will report some strange behaviour of needed kernel modules vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko Both are needed for networking on VirtualBox

8.0 Ext3/Ext4 support

2009-11-27 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi there, Is there Ext3/Ext4 read support in FreeBSD 8? Can we use fs with 256-byte inodes? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

MimeDefang: Perl core dump

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello My goal is to add to all outgoing mail a small boilerplate. My system: FreeBSD acsvfbsd06.acutronic.ch 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 17 17:53:59 CEST 2009 mar...@acsvfbsd06.acutronic.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 sendmail.mc: [snip] MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang',

Re: Gnome Terminal

2009-11-27 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.11.27 10:42:55 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 05:11:41 Rem P Roberti wrote: There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from

Re: black-friday ads -- ASUS-EEE's

2009-11-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/11/26 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org:        Folks,        IF any/everone would keep an eye out for national Black FRiday        adds that offer a 9-10 ASUS-EEE, I'd appreciate it.   (I've been        poking around for much of today, but zip.)  The stores that are        open obv'ly want

Re: how to add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2

2009-11-27 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 07:37 + schrieb dhaneshk k: I need to install openoffice in my FreeBSD7.2 laptop (IBMT60 coreduo) , without doing a port installation how can I do it with package addition pkg_add -r what_the_name_of_openoffice_package I need to

Re: replacing faulty disk in a gmirror

2009-11-27 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Vincent Zee wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but it fails. This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. The disk on channel 3 (ad6),

Re: how to add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2

2009-11-27 Thread Rod Person
Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 07:37 + schrieb dhaneshk k: I need to install openoffice in my FreeBSD7.2 laptop (IBMT60 coreduo) , without doing a port installation how can I do it with package addition pkg_add -r what_the_name_of_openoffice_package I need to supply in #

How to diagnose server crashed.

2009-11-27 Thread Roger
Hello all, I'm running a dedicated server and today I was not able to ssh to it. I contacted technical support and they reported to me that the machine had frozen (they could not see anything on the screen neither type anything). So I was forced to do a hard reboot. Is there anything that I can

Re: how to add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2

2009-11-27 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:17:55PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: Not official but I've never had a problem with these, but I don't use gnome either. ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/ I used a package from this site the other week, it works fine. Beats waiting 3-4 days

Re: replacing faulty disk in a gmirror

2009-11-27 Thread Vincent Zee
Hi Stan, thanks for your answer. On 27 November 2009, at 20:30, stan wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Vincent Zee wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but it fails. This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each containing two

Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that a couple GUI network managers are around: sysutils/desktopbsd-tools includes a wireless network configurator according to its pkg-descr, haven't used myself though. Chris

Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-11-27 Thread Yuri
Boris Samorodov wrote: Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf. I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always gave me good results. I placed 'webfonts' into xorg.conf after 'misc' but firefox still shows Cyrillic texts in a messed up way. Also

nice for disk I/O

2009-11-27 Thread cronfy
Hello. It is well known that nice allows to change CPU scheduling priority. But is there something that would tune disk I/O priority for a particular process? Thanks in advance. -- cronfy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. I used freebsd-update to upgrade a system from 7.1 to 7.2. The main upgrade went fine, but upgrading the ports had huge problems. It could not find most (but not all) of the packages to upgrade. A typical part of the failure looks like: --- Checking for the latest package of