New system - go for 9.1+upgrade - or go for 9.2-RC4?

2013-09-25 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Since I'm about to set up a new system from scratch I'm thinking whether I should install 9.1 and upgrade it to 9-STABLE or to install 9.2-RC4 right away. To be specific: o) Will upgrading kernel/system using svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/ /usr/src bring a 9.2-RC4 installed

Re: New system - go for 9.1+upgrade - or go for 9.2-RC4?

2013-09-25 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:16:01AM +0200, Terje Elde wrote: Two options: ... Thanks - helps alot. -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

System hangs for several minutes (disk IO related)

2013-07-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm seeing rather strange behavior on an HP DL585 G5 wrt. disk IO: When there's any disk io the machine completely freezes, i.e. no console input possible, no screen output - complete hang. After some minutes the box comes back to normal again - but sure enough with the next disk io it

Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)

2013-07-26 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Upon trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a HP Proliant DL585G5 installation freezes when it comes to the point Archive Extraction while extracting ports. To be specific, the system freezes while extracting ports.txz at 23% with Overal Progress being 29%. First I thought about the installation

Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)

2013-07-26 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote: You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook

Re: Panic/reboot while trying to install 9.1 on a HP Proliant DL580G5

2013-06-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:41:01AM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: Just guessing from what I see - The panic is No usable event timer found! . Hi Shane, Thanks much for the hints you sent me. Since I'm pretty swamped with work it took me a couple of days before I could go on with my tests.

Panic/reboot while trying to install 9.1 on a HP Proliant DL580G5

2013-06-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Several days ago I got a HP Proliant DL580 G5 that I wanted to install FreeBSD 9.1 (64bit) on - till now without any success :-(. Symptoms: Upon booting off the installation DVD the system freezes (when running the installation non-verbose) or installation stops with a panic followed by an

bge driver for BCM5719 not working (9.1-RC3)

2012-11-26 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having a hard time getting FreeBSD 9.1 RC3 running on a HP Proliant 385p G8. Installation runs so far, however I can't get any network interfaces up and running. The output of dmesg ... link states coalesced messages and correspondigly in /var/log/messages I have numerous messages like

yelp could not be built because of libxul dependency (10.0 vs. 2)

2012-10-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to get my system up2date using portupgrade as usual. However during the upgrade process I ran into a problem during upgrade of yelp: === yelp-2.30.2_4 depends on package: libxul2 - not found === Found libxul-10.0.10, but you need to upgrade to libxul2. UPDATING has an entry

isc-dhcpd - logging client transactions

2012-06-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've set up isc-dhcpd (/usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp42-server). The daemon runs, hands out IP-addresses however logging doesn't seem to work. Here's what I've got in the respective config-files: /etc/rc.conf: # dhcpd dhcpd_enable=YES dhcpd_conf=/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf dhcpd_ifaces=em0

FreeBSD9 fails to install on HP Proliant (crash)

2012-05-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD9 (64bit) on a HP Proliant server (ProLiant DL385 G1). Installation is done via remote-management (iLO) basically by mounting the Installation-ISO. However a couple of seconds after booting the box crashes. Here's what I tried already: o) Re-download the

Chromium - fails to compile

2012-05-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, On one of my systems (FreeBSD 9.0 AMD64; kernel/system current as of today; all ports up to date) chromium (ports/www/chromium) fails to compile. Here's what I get: third_party/skia/src/opts/SkBitmapProcState_opts_SSSE3.cpp: In function 'void

make buildkernel - error: 'IOSIZE_MAX' undeclared

2012-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Today I tried to build a new system/kernel for one of my boxes running FreeBSD9. make buildworld went ok, however during make buildkernel I got this: -- Cut here -- /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_uio.c: In function 'uiomove_faultflag':

IPv6 default-route - gone

2012-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing a new machine under FreeBSD9 I discovered that the IPv6-configuration I had in place with FreeBSD8 does no longer work. Here's what I've got in /etc/rc.conf: ipv6_enable=YES ipv6_ifconfig_em0=2001:76c:2218:2009::11/64 ipv6_defaultrouter=2001:76c:2218:2009::1 The interface

Install freezes (FreeBSD9) on ProLiant BL465c G1

2012-01-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD9 (64bit) onto a HP ProLiant BL465c G1 (Blade-System): The boot process (booting from CD) runs up to the point where it says usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus3: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus3:

Re: portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

2011-08-05 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:45:02PM -0400, b. f. wrote: o) What can I do to get ports recognize the correct location of the xz-libraries? As I wrote above, some more information would help. I'm guessing that you have a port that (unfortunately) uses libtool to perform linking, and has an

Re: portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

2011-08-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi Matthew, Unfortunately this doesn't work as expected: # pkg_info -Rx xz Information for xz-5.0.3: # so it seems like nothing depens on xz. Next, I did a fresh cvsup for the ports-tree followed by a pkgdb -L; then again pkg_info -Rx xz - again nothing seems to depend on xz. So I tried

portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

2011-08-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, On my 8.2-System (amd64, kernel system updated two days ago) I run into a nasty problem updating my ports: Ports that depend on liblzma fail to build with the following error: /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la: No such file or directory AFAIK, the xz-libraries are not part of the base system;

Admin-tools for BIND DNS?

2011-04-21 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm looking for graphical tools easing configuration of a bind DNS-server. Ideally this tool should be capable of editing IPv6-related records like too. Is there anything available out there for FreeBSD (I already checked the ports collection, but couldn't find anything). Thanks much

sysutils/eiciel - can't portupgrade but dependencies to gnome2-power-tools

2010-09-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Upon upgrading my ports I ran into a problem: When portupgrade comes to upgrading sysutils/eiciel it stops with the following message: === eiciel-0.9.8 is marked as broken: does not compile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/eiciel. # However eiciel is needed by

/usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c - MSI allocation failed!

2010-08-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, In one of my machines I've got a HP GE-Card (HP NC370T Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter) that FreeBSD identifies as bce. /var/log/messages shows the following errors: Jul 27 12:29:29 sniff-rz2 kernel: bce0: HP NC370T Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (A2) mem 0xf600-0xf7ff

libneon.so: undefined reference to `SSL_SESSION_cmp'

2010-06-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During upgrading my ports I run into very nasty problems compiling e.g. sound-juicer or libmisicbrainz3, or more generally, ports that depend on neon28: Compilatino of e.g sound-juicer stops with the following error: -- Cut here --

Gnome startup awfully slow (7.3, gnome2.30)

2010-06-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, On my system (FreeBSD 7.3 AMD64, system kernel current as per today) it takes awully long to start up gnome (2.30) - awfully long meaning 2-3 minutes (this is on a Intel quadcore-CPU with 4GB RAM!) In my /etc/rc.conf I've got gnome_enable=YES I've already ruled out the usual suspect being

gstreamer-plugins / dependency on webcamd (FreeBSD 7.3)

2010-06-07 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, A portupgrade done today stopped with an error during the upgrade of gstreamer-plugins-v4l2-0.10.23,3 with the following error: -- Cut here -- === Installing for gstreamer-plugins-v4l2-0.10.23,3 === gstreamer-plugins-v4l2-0.10.23,3

nmap - error during compile

2010-06-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Upon compiling nmap (5.21_1) from scratch I got the following error: -- Cut here -- # make === Building for nmap-5.21_1 Makefile:341: makefile.dep: No such file or directory c++ -MM -I/usr/include/lua -I/usr/local/include/lua51

Re: nmap - error during compile

2010-06-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:27:38AM -0400, Jerry wrote: Any idea what's going on here and why I can't compile nmap? I have had several ports fail because I had openssl installed via the ports system. These were on FreeBSD-8/amd64 systems. I filed two PRs and they were fixed. I might suggest

cairo fails to compile

2010-05-20 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After doing a regular cvsup for my ports, followed by make fetchindex and pkgdb -F, the latter fails with the following errors: -- Cut here -- ... --- Checking the package registry database Stale dependency:

HP NC522SFP 10GE-Adapter under FreeBSD?

2010-05-05 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Does anybody know whether the HP NC522 SFP 10GE-Adapter (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/networking/nc522sfp/index.html) is supported under FreeBSD. HP only lists various Windoze and Linux as supported but I'd like to get this baby going under FreeBSD 8.0. Any experience with

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-05-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:47:40AM +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote: The fix is to use options - rescan devices in the installer. After that, when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:27:11AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Try a re-scan of the devices from the options menu. If that doesn't help, try connecting to an ISO image in iLO instead of an optical device. Hi Doug, This is exactly what I did in the first playe, i.e. mounting an ISO-Image as

nmap - error during compile

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During a regular upgrade of my installed ports I ran into a problem wrt nmap: -- Cut here -- === Building for nmap-5.21_1 Makefile:341: makefile.dep: No such file or directory c++ -MM -I/usr/include/lua -I/usr/local/include/lua51

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I understand. Just curious: Why can the machine boot off

Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-22 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process

fetchmail - problems with ssl since upgrade to 6.3.16

2010-04-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Recently during portupgrades fetchmail also got upgraded to 6.3.16. Since then I'm experiencing problems when trying to fetch mails from a pop server via ssl. Here's the error message I'm getting: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: anonymized fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: anomymized fetchmail:

Re: samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed

2010-01-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:22:08AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Do you need mapi? You can build gnome without it. Otherwise, you'll need to install 3.x to a non-standard prefix, or use 4.0. Hi, Thanks much for the hints. In the meantime I was (almost) settled with going for 4.0alpha, but

samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed

2009-12-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, For quite some time now I'm trying to get samba 3.x installed on my FreeBSD 7.2 System. The symptoms in short: o) 3.0 - doesn't compile o) 3.2, 3.3 - can't be installed because of installation dependencies to samba4-devel-4.0.0.a8_2, talloc-1.3.1 and tdb-1.1.5. System: FreeBSD test.at

Samba3 - error during compile

2009-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Upon compiling samba3 (/usr/ports/net/samba3) from source I ran into the following error: -- Cut here -- . . . Compiling passdb/machine_sid.c Compiling locking/locking.c locking/locking.c: In function 'unparse_share_modes':

icewm - error during portupgrade / compiling

2009-08-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During a portupgrade done today the upgrade of icewm (/usr/ports/x11-wm/icewm) stopped with the following symptoms: . . . gnome2.cc:25:19: error: gnome.h: No such file or directory gnome2.cc:27:40: error: libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-init.h: No such file or directory gnome2.cc: In member function

NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD - NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a FreeBSD 7.2 box (HP C-class Blade - AMD dual core Opteron (x64), 4GB RAM, Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706) that should be connected to a NetApp 3170 filer via NFS. Out of the box, with nothing tuned (no special parameters for mount_nfs, no kernel tuning), performance is very

NFS-client - RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure (7.2)

2009-07-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to get a FreeBSD 7.2-machine (amd64) to talk to a NetApp filer using NFS. Basic network connetivity, i.e. ping, ssh etc. between the two is there, but I can't mount the respective directory from the Netapp. Here's what I get when I try to mount: # mount_nfs -i -T

jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the complete gnome2 environment plus e.g. firefox, gimp, openoffice. What's really bad however is

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: Ooops! My apologies - it seems that an earlier version of UPDATING did indeed say to pkg_delete. Ewald, I'm sorry for sounding so patronising - I feel like a total fool now. Hi Dan, Now I understand - in my UPDATING that comes

HP Proliant DL580 G5 - installation freezes (7.2)

2009-07-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having troubles installing 7.2 (AMD64) on a HP Proliant DL580 G5: The system boots from the Install-DVD then, while probing the hardware, it suddenly freezes. The last thing I see on the console is VGA: . Has anybody else had this problem? Any cure against this? Thanks much in

Re: Chelsio T320 10GE-Adapter - things to consider for FreeBSD 7.2?

2009-07-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:08:14PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: I think you'll find most of your answers here: man cxgb I have no idea on the stability of the driver though. Hi, Thanks for the hint. I know the cxgb-driver is already included in FreeBSD - I was just curious about

Re: HP Proliant DL580 G5 - installation freezes (7.2)

2009-07-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:17:51PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I'm having troubles installing 7.2 (AMD64) on a HP Proliant DL580 G5: The system boots from the Install-DVD then, while probing the hardware, it suddenly freezes. The last thing I see on the console is VGA

Chelsio T320 10GE-Adapter - things to consider for FreeBSD 7.2?

2009-07-15 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'd like to install a Chelsio T320 10GE Adapter in one of our systems running 7.2 (AMD64). As far as I've read FreeBSD comes with the drivers for this beast (cxgb(4))already. Can the corresponding interface be configured with ifconfig just like any other interface? Anything special to

Re: Migration to 7.1 ?

2009-04-07 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Does the LAGG driver works well with broadcomm giga ethernet chips ? ( I plan to use LACP to a Cisco switch ) Try asking at freebsd-net@ Hi, I've been running with the lagg-driver for quite some time now on several blade-systems using broadcom chips in a failover configuration - no

Re: Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:15:50PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Fair point, I had a bit more of a think, I'd now guess that it looks like a 32/64 bit problem, its a 32bit binary on a 64 bit system and its /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 complaining not /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1 whch is odd. do you

Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, This question is not purely about FreeBSD itself, but about getting Symantec Netbackup (formerly Veritas) running under FreeBSD. First of all FreeBSD is supported directly; there's a native commandline client for FreeBSD that supports 7.0. I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 (fresh kernel/system as per

Re: Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:08:50AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: This would lead me to think you need the port misc/compat5x installed. I havent any experience of netbackup though. I agree with this statement, since it's clearly listed as it was compiled FOR FreeBSD 5.3 The compatXy

Stop during upgrade of textproc/linux-expat

2009-04-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, While upgrading my ports I ran into a problem during the upgrade of textproc/linux-expat. After the usual cvsup, make fetchindex, pkgdb -F I started portupgrade -arR which resulted in a Stop because of a syntax error - for details see below. Has anybode else had this problem? What can I do

Re: Stop during upgrade of textproc/linux-expat

2009-04-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:04:38PM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote: linux_expat depends on running linuxulator (USE_LDCONFIG=YES in Makefile) so kldload linux :) Hi Dmitry, Thanks much for the hint! I tried kldload linux then restarting the build process and it went through :-) Something

xorg-fbserver / xorg-server fails upgrade

2009-02-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, While upgrading a machine during upgrade of /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver/work/xorg-server-1.5.3 the build process fails with the errors given below. Any ideas what can be wrong here and how to overcome this problem? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: FreeBSD 7.1,

Re: CUPS, initial PATH environment

2009-02-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using the command line interface... I

Re: CUPS - no german Umlaut characters

2009-02-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:01:03PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Try some sort of filter like print/enscript: # enscript your_file should get your Umlaut's. Thanks much for the hint! I installed a2ps-a4 - workes nicely - and prints Umlauts :-) Kind regards, -ewald

CUPS - no german Umlaut characters

2009-02-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After successfully setting up CUPS I found out a problem wrt printing german Umlaut characters: Whenever I try to print a file with umlaut characters the file is only printed up to not not including the first umlaut characters. This happens for example when I take a text file with umlaut

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-02-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: Me too. I started a thread a few days ago titled Restarting new Xorg freezes system. My symptoms are the same as yours. I'm not running hald at all. I'm not using full-blown gnome, just windowmaker. I'm using the radeon driver on

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-02-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:31:28PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've got hald running as per /etc/rc.conf with hald_enable=YES as well as moused (moused_enable=YES in rc.conf). what??? where's hald_enable=YES documented? There's nothing about this in X, dbus, or hald manual pages.

X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-01-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Today I upgraded my system (ports) so I got x.org 7.4 installed. Given the various entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING about the recent updates for xorg I wonder what the correct settings/combinations are for my installation: I've got hald running as per /etc/rc.conf with hald_enable=YES as well

portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During an upgrade of my ports involving x11 portupgrade dies (FreeBSD 7.1, AMD64) Here's what I did: After cvsup, make fetchindex, I did a pkgdb -F and then portupgrade -rf libxcb as per UPDATING of 20090123. Next I did a pkgdb -F again, which complained about obsoleted packages while at

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on sees one. I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC kernel has SMP

Re: portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:37:24PM +0300, o...@adlogic.ru wrote: Ewald, also look at /usr/ports/UPDATING , 20090123 Hi Oleg, Thanks for the hint. Do you mean portupgrade -rf libxcb? I did that before running portupgrade -arR so I assume the problem I'm having is caused by something

sysutils/gnome-power-manager fails to compile

2009-01-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During upgrading gnome, done exactly as described in /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20090110), during the phase of portupgrade -aOW the build process stops in sysutils/gnome-power-manager: . . . gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing a new system with 7.1 from scratch, upgrading kernel/system as well as ports to the current version I configured X-win (X -configure) and finally fired up gnome. First of all, Gnome takes a LOT of time to get up - it takes almost 5 minutes (!) till I get the icons for

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:59:33PM -0500, Jason Lenthe wrote: By all means, give CUPS a try though. Thanks to you all for your hints/suggestions - I'll try to get up CUPS with a possible fallback to print/apsfilter. -ewald ___

Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:56:13AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: The obvious question is: Have you got hald running? Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: gnome_enable=YES Hi, Didn't know that I need 'gnome_enable=YES' in my /etc/rc.conf. At least the handbook doesn't mention it, so

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:37:53PM +0100, icemaca wrote: this i386 version has cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Basically you can comment all but I686_CPU since the others are for earlier x86 architectures. -ewald

Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, For a system set up from scratch (7.1) I'm about to set up printing. Printer: Minolta C351 (basically a networked PS-Printer also capable of color) My requirements: Print from mutt (mail), print text files, print PS-files with the ability to print duplex and 2-up both in color and b/w.

X11 - radeon or radeonhd? (ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT)

2009-01-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a PC (Dell) that came with a Radeon HD 2400 XT (RV610 chipset). Afaik there isn't 3D support yet with this card, so my primary goal is to get it working as far as 2D and speed is concerned (I don't want to go for vesa if at all possible) Which driver should I use for this card -

7.1 RC1 - problems with Intel Pro/1000 NIC (em0)?

2008-12-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing FreeBSD 7.1 RC1 from the DVD-image I found that the PC in question has no LAN connectivity upon reboot. The PC has an Intel GE builtin NIC showing up as Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6 in dmesg. For the problem: Though IP-Adress, default-GW etc. are correctly set

7.1 - with x.org 7.4?

2008-12-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Does anybody out there know if FreeBSD 7.1 will come out with X.org 7.4 (or still 7.3)? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... Any other ideas? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run that portupgrade under script...) Couldn't find an option to pkg_info, pkgdb

Re: no toe capability on...

2008-08-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:13:29AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: Looks like it. They're debug messages that shouldn't still be in there. They were removed in version 1.2 but then reappeared in 1.4.2.1: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_offload.c

no toe capability on...

2008-07-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Today I updated kernel system on one of my machines (FreeBSD 7.0). After the update which ran absolutely smooth I'm seeing spurious messages both on the console and in /var/log/messages like the following: no toe capability on 0xc2e66400 Grep-ing through the sources I found the above

make-localhost not there (DNS/named setup on 7.0)

2008-04-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing FreeBSD 7.0 (AMD64-version) on a new machine wanted to set up a caching DNS. As per the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html) I wanted to run make-localhost in order to set up the configuration files. But the script

Re: make-localhost not there (DNS/named setup on 7.0)

2008-04-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
The handbook is slightly out of date and the 'make-localhost' script is now history. Instead, the system comes with pre-installed /etc/namedb/master/localhost-forward.db and .../localhost-reverse.db zone files and the appropriate configuration shown in the example named.conf file.

16GB AMD Opteron-machine - AMD64 or PAE?

2008-03-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, For one of my machines (HP C-class Blade, 2 * AMD Opteron, 16GB RAM) should I go for the i386 or the amd64 Version of FreeBSD 7.0? As far as I've seen kernel and system isn't a problem with the amd64 version, but how about ports? To be specific here's what I'd like to install on this

16GB RAM - Swap?

2008-03-13 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a Blade-system with 16GB RAM, but only one 140GB harddisk. My question is about swap-space: Traditional knowledge recommends swap = 2*RAM. This would mean 32GB swap (!). Should I really go for 32GB swap space? Or will e.g. 16GB (= RAM-size) be enough? Please note, that I don't do

Anycast DNS - anybody?

2008-01-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Has anybody out there configured anycast DNS (where multiple instances of a DNS-server run under the same IP-address in different parts of the network) under FreeBSD? I'm looking for some hints to get started, but googling around didn't provide much info on that topic... Thanks much in

make buildworld (6-STABLE) - stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdbserver

2007-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After cvsup-ing one of my 6-STABLE machines, cleaning up /usr/obj I started the usual build process with make buildworld. However after some minutes it died with the following messages: === gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb (cleandir) rm -f i386fbsd-tdep-fixed.c nm.h tm.h xm.h kgdb main.o kthr.o trgt.o

List of sites using FreeBSD?

2007-11-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Does anybody out there know where I can find a list of sites running FreeBSD? I expected it on www.freebsd.org, but couldn't find it (maybe overlooked?) Thanks in advance for any pointer. -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Undefined symbol __sbmaskrune - box doesn't even boot

2007-11-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After downgrading my kernel (i.e. cvsup-ing the 6-STABLE sources as per end of August), re-building kernel and system as per the handbook I end up with a problem that neither the new nor the old kernel boots. After doing a make installkernel... and rebooting the box to single-user mode I

Rebuilding kernel/system to a state back-in-time?

2007-11-05 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Because of severe problems wrt. a third party app (TSM Backup - see my previous post) I'm looking for a way to compile a kernel/system to a state as it was several weeks ago. To be specific I'd like to build my system/kernel using the source-files of FreeBSD 6.2 as they were back on

TSM stops working after kernel upgrade

2007-11-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a TSM-client (Tivoli Storage Manger - Backup-System) running under FreeBSD 6.2 without any problems over the past months. However after a recent kernel upgrade (about Mid September) the TSM client stopped working. Whatever I try to backup I get the following messages: tsm inc

lagg(4) - configuration for /etc/rc.conf?

2007-08-08 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Thanks to the hints posted here about failover redundancy I've successfully set up lagg(4) in order to have a machine with redundant failover connection to two switches. The only thing that's missing is the correct configuration in /etc/rc.conf. Here's what I've got so far in my rc.conf:

Re: lagg(4) - configuration for /etc/rc.conf?

2007-08-08 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:17:12AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: if_lagg_load=YES This belongs in /boot/loader.conf, not /etc/rc.conf. ifconfig_bge0=UP ifconfig_bge1=UP ifconfig_lagg0=create This should be: cloned_interfaces=lagg0 Hi, Implemented the changes you mentioned - and

Re: LAN failover redundandcy?

2007-08-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:56:53AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: 6.2 was released back in January. The lagg driver went into the 6.x branch in May. You'll need to update to 6-stable or wait for 6.3 to be released. If you're tracking RELENG_6_2, you are just getting critical security patches.

LAN failover redundandcy?

2007-08-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm looking for a way to configure failover redundancy for one of my servers. To be specific: The server in question has one IP-address but two LAN interfaces each of them connecting to a different switch. Traffic normally runs only through one of the two interfaces; the other is for

Re: LAN failover redundandcy?

2007-08-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:22:05PM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote: man lagg 'link aggregation and link failover interface' It is in 6-STABLE. I don't know since when. Hi Ronald, Thanks much for the hint. However it seems that lagg(4) isn't there. At least not on my up2date 6.2 System: # man

gstreamer-plugins-bad failed to build

2007-06-29 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Upon compiling gstreamer-plugins-bad I ran into the following error: -- Cut here -- # make .. cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I../../gst-libs -I../../gst-libs -D_REENTRANT

New (blade) server - stick with FreeBSD 6.x or wait for FreeBSD 7?

2007-06-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm about to set up a new server that should run basically network-monitoring (MRTG, Cacti etc.). Hardware will be HP C-class blade based on AMD Opterons. Should I stick with FreeBS 6.x or wait for FreeBSD 7 (see http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html - June 2007 Start FreeBSD 7.0 Release

libGLU fails to install

2007-05-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
During upgrading one of my systems, involving upgrading xorg I ran into a problem. I started the upgrade as per /usr/ports/UPDATING with these commands (after cvsuping, pkgdb -F, make fetchindex of course): export XORG_UPGRADE=yes portupgrade -Rf libXft portupgrade -a -x 'gstreamer*' During

scp/sftp without interactive shell?

2007-05-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm looking for a way to securely transfer files between machines using either scp or sftp without giving the user a login shell on the target machine. Put in another way: The user should be able to transfer files but must not have an interactive login shell on the target box. Giving the

Re: buildworld - Stop in /usr/src/lib/ncurses/ncurses (6.2)

2007-04-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:10:55PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: Are you by any chance using a custom 'stable-supfile' rather than using one of the preconfigured ones? /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile Hi, No, I'm running

Re: buildworld - Stop in /usr/src/lib/ncurses/ncurses (6.2)

2007-04-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:41:58PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: I've got a problem doing a make builworld on a new machine: When I start make buildworld in /usr/src I end up with the errors below. ... Hi, Figured out the problem myself in the meantime: The machine in question, being rather

buildworld - Stop in /usr/src/lib/ncurses/ncurses (6.2)

2007-04-13 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a problem doing a make builworld on a new machine: When I start make buildworld in /usr/src I end up with the errors below. Sure enough I've set up a corresponding supfile for stable, sources are cvsup-ed (cvsup -g -L 2 ./stable-supfile in root's home-dir) to /usr/src correctly.

Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: ... The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely

Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: ... The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely

Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-15 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from

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