Gnome-terminal

2009-12-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
Gone back to trying to get gnome-terminal to work. So far...no joy. When I try to load the program I get this error message: ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Can someone give me a heads up on this.

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 04:15:06AM +1100, alex wrote: Ruben de Groot wrote: So? It's just an OS. Some will switch to linux and try to make that better. Thats evolution. I hate linux to be honest, I have always highly praised FreeBSD to my friends and colleagues in the industry. But sadly

Re: FreeBSD beastie plush toy?

2009-12-21 Thread Nerius Landys
Yeah, I'm very interested in one as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD beastie plush toy?

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:41:05 -0500 Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: Where can I purchase a FreeBSD beastie plush toy? Something like http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdbeanie?id=NkWSe8g8mv_pc=144 ? -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: [NOT SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-) Thank you! You where right, but it's the wrong order They must be loaded in the reverse order. Sorry This is purely empirical knowledge, and I can't back it up by documentation. If module

kernel panic on SATA drive

2009-12-21 Thread Alex
Dear John, Any progress for bellow? I have the same problem with PCI SATA Controller ST-Lab A-173 Sil3512 It's not RAID, but when copying to HDD: LOG--- ad6:FAILURE - device detached g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=38007275520, length=131072)]error = 6 /usr: got error 6

Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?

2009-12-21 Thread Jeff Hamann
I've been trying to figure out where gfortran went since it doesn't appear in the /usr/ports collection in FreeBSD 7.2 (i386). I need it to build plots of numerical things and use the following lots: ./configure \ CC=gcc -arch i386 \ CXX=g++ -arch i386 \ OBJC=gcc -arch i386 \ F77=gfortran

Compiling only shared libraries?

2009-12-21 Thread Matthew Fleming
We have a bunch of libraries to support our product and as far as I know we only link to the shared library version. I'd like to skip the build of the static version of our libraries to speed up our builds and save on disk space, but I don't see any way to do that via directives in the Makefiles.

Re: Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:14:22PM -0800, Jeff Hamann wrote: I've been trying to figure out where gfortran went since it doesn't appear in the /usr/ports collection in FreeBSD 7.2 (i386). I need it to build plots of numerical things and use the following lots: ./configure \ CC=gcc -arch

Re: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 21 December 2009 09:56:11 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the

Re: how to make vimage jail permanent by configuring rc.conf?

2009-12-21 Thread Markiyan Kushnir
Hello, I also wanted to have it work, but failed and just had to patch my /etc/rc.d/jail until it's resolved. The first problem is that currently /etc/rc.d/jail creates jails using the parameterless form of jail(8). Another issue is that after the jail is created, it currently seems not

koffice-kde4 - kipi.7

2009-12-21 Thread ajtiM
ot lucky: FreeBSD 8.0, KDE 4.3.4: make install clean === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: eigen=2.0.b3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: gmm++=3.0.4 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0 depends on package: qt4-corelib=4.5.3 - found === koffice-kde4-2.1.0

Wireless interface says privacy OFF

2009-12-21 Thread Steven Friedrich
What does privacy mean and why isn't it explained in any man page? Here's my ifconfig: wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:14:a5:2a:a5:db inet 192.168.2.254 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 media: IEEE 802.11

Re: portsnap fetch update

2009-12-21 Thread Frank Staals
ajtiM wrote: I did portsnap fetch update and I have in /usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde4 now. I thought that is version 2.1 but it is 1.6 still... I did check http://www.freshports.org/ but there are no koffice-kde4 and search also didn't find it. Is it something wrong on my system (FreeBSD

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread Ghirai
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:19:12 -0600 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Hi, I'm running 8.0-RELEASE amd64, and various applications randomly coredump and exit with signal 10; this has started apparently after

Re: Source of closed port RST responses

2009-12-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: I will be installing pf this week, I just need to write up my rule sets for these servers. I had been working on the webservers first. Is there a rule I can use to log connection attempts to closed ports? pf doesn't really know anything about whether there is a listener at a

Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?

2009-12-21 Thread Eric Le Goff
My understanding from a previous post in this list (Around december 18th) was that VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run was specifically tied to the Linux kernel This also what I experimented. Regards, Eric Le Goff On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Ed Jobs olori...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 20

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread alex
b. f. wrote: Our base system compiler suite is stuck at a patched version of gcc 4.2 because of licensing issues Thats absolutely *ridiculous* that we have to use stone age development tools because of stupid and trivial license politics. This matter was also bought up in a recent thread by

Re: binary package dependencies

2009-12-21 Thread Robin Becker
2009/12/20 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org: .. Somehow I had naively assumed that apache20 and apache22 were incompatible and could not simultaneously be installed. Did the binary package load ignore all conflicts? What's the proper way to approach these issues.

cvs-ports = svn-ports

2009-12-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Is there an svn equivalent to the cvs-ports mailing list? Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

Re: cvs-ports = svn-ports

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:45:51 +0100 Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de wrote: Is there an svn equivalent to the cvs-ports mailing list? ports are still stored in a cvs repository, unlike src. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Setting fonts and other defaults in Xorg

2009-12-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
doug wrote: 2) fonts: There are a couple of cool commands, fc-list and xfontsel to list the ... A lot of basic font configuration can be done in /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/ From there you can simply symlink to settings files in /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.avail/ -- A: Because it fouls the

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: No; do i have to? Also, pkg_version prints this (although it seems to work fine): pkg_version: read_plist: unknown command '@comm' (package tools out of date?) pkg_version: read_plist: unknown command '@co' (package tools

[solved] Re: Ghostscript8 portupgrade failure

2009-12-21 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:29:06PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: Don't know. I'd guess not cleaning the failed build out of the work dir with 'make clean', but portupgrade should do that automatically. It's built now. I just did: % cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8 % make deinstall % make

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Eric Le Goff
Have a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I had a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I am quite new in FreeBsd but in my case it does not work , ie : I start a xfce4 session for a (non-root) user open the wifimgr from the 'network' menu provide root password as requested but then it hangs forever on

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread Ghirai
Thanks all; This is a fresh install and all ports are up to date. I don't have the time to debug and fiddle with all the applications that are crashing, so i'll just do a clean reinstall of the OS, and hope that it won't happen again (won't be installing numpy). As a sidenote, i installed

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:18:11PM +1100, alex typed: b. f. wrote: Our base system compiler suite is stuck at a patched version of gcc 4.2 because of licensing issues Thats absolutely *ridiculous* that we have to use stone age development tools because of stupid and trivial license politics.

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/21/09 09:49, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server

Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here:

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here:

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/18/09 12:39, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't used Xen, but for ESX: I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vmtools available for FreeBSD do not support synchronizing the host time to the guest OS. I know it is supported

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-21 Thread cronfy
After panic data *is* getting corrupted anyway - MySQL tables that were open are broken, soft-updates are unsync'ed etc etc. If it's an option for you, you may want to look into disabling soft updates as well so that you don't have to just hope that everything gets synced before the end of

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread alex
Ruben de Groot wrote: So? It's just an OS. Some will switch to linux and try to make that better. Thats evolution. I hate linux to be honest, I have always highly praised FreeBSD to my friends and colleagues in the industry. But sadly enough, linux is performing significantly better in a

[SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2009-12-21 18:02, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the

Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?

2009-12-21 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 21 December 2009 12:48, Eric Le Goff wrote: My understanding from a previous post in this list (Around december 18th) was that VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run was specifically tied to the Linux kernel This also what I experimented. i read it again, but what i get from the older post is

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Yuri
Eric Le Goff wrote: but then it hangs forever on my laptop Did anyone successfully used wifimgr ? If yes, what could I check to make it work ? It hangs for me too. I contacted the maintainer and he says he is aware of the problem and next version will fix it. But as I understand it's

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/12/21 Yuri y...@rawbw.com: Eric Le Goff wrote: but then it hangs forever on my laptop Did anyone successfully used wifimgr ? If yes, what could I check to make it work ? It hangs for me too. I contacted the maintainer and he says he is aware of the problem and next version will fix

Problem with GPA

2009-12-21 Thread Carmel
When starting GPA from xfce4, I find numerous keys that I never placed there. I am sure, because this is a fresh installation. Furthermore, it is impossible for me to remove them. The following three links show screen captures of what I am experiencing. http://imagebin.ca/view/tFZKiY.html

Re: [NOT SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-) Thank you! You where right, but it's the wrong order They must be loaded in the reverse order. Sorry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:46:48 -0500, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: Umm . . . yes? But more seriously, FreeBSD is still very much a server operating system, [...] Really? I'm using it exclusively on the desktop since version 4.0, but okay... well... I'm completely insane. :-) I found

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Yuri
ill...@gmail.com wrote: Umm . . . yes? But more seriously, FreeBSD is still very much a server operating system, expecting it to be exactly like Torvalds 2.6 OS or BiGa 0.7alpha right now is a bit much. Really? I was using FreeBSD as a desktop system for at least 10 years and it works

FreeBSD beastie plush toy?

2009-12-21 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
Where can I purchase a FreeBSD beastie plush toy? Google reveals some very old links that no longer work. thanks, Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-21 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are

Re: SUIDDIR on ZFS?

2009-12-21 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Emil Smolenski am...@raisa.eu.org wrote:  In fact, you're right. I used only the g+s file mode and it worked for both UFS and ZFS. Sorry for the confusion. Any clues would be appreciated.  Maybe ZVOL will be sufficient? It just works: # zfs create -V 1g

debugging slow network

2009-12-21 Thread Mark Terribile
From: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk Subject: debugging slow network 20091220132250.ga94...@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk I seem to have a very slow network connection at work. All local switches are supposed to be gigabit, and my network card is gigabit as well. But download speed

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/21/2009 10:22 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I loaded ESXi and a FreeBSD 8.0 guest last night and this morning it is still keeping time OK without any changes to loader.conf. I'm trying to test this out now without openntpd, but with kern.hz=100 still set. You will definitely want

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:17, Eric Le Goff eleg...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I had a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I am quite new in FreeBsd but in my case it does not work , ie : I start a xfce4 session for a (non-root) user open the wifimgr from  the

FreeBSD-8.0 ZFS issue: How to set kva_pages=512 when using the kernel from the Install dvd

2009-12-21 Thread
Hi all, I’m trying to an install a ZFS-only system using this recipe: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/UFSBoot When I copy the FreeBSD-base to the new zfs file system, everything stops. I get a kernel panic with this message: panic: kmem_malloc()16384): kmem_map to small, and the whole box

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error. Perhaps, but I've had situations in which fdisk would not alter a PC partition (slice) table. Particularly a table on a disk which the operating itself is running off of. I attempted to delete some unused slices (not the one

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
Just to clarify, when I say 'unused slices', I mean those of other operating systems I was no longer interested in having around, not as in 'marked as free space'. Thanks! -Modulok- On 12/21/09, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error.

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread b. f.
On 12/21/09, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: This is a fresh install and all ports are up to date. I don't have the time to debug and fiddle with all the applications that are crashing, so i'll just do a clean reinstall of the OS, and hope that it won't happen again (won't be installing