Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-26 Thread clemens fischer
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:53:00 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:05:32 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-24 Thread clemens fischer
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:10:23 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been committed to current yet. Sorry, currently I get build

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-24 Thread clemens fischer
Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been committed to current yet. I have FreeSBIE reliably up and running with USB2. Can you tell me what to do to the kernel

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-24 Thread clemens fischer
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:05:32 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been committed to current yet. I have FreeSBIE reliably up

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-23 Thread clemens fischer
Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been committed to current yet. Sorry, currently I get build errors, possibly unrelated: === zyd (depend) @ -

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-22 Thread clemens fischer
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:47:54 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: [ re. a bootable CURRENT backup system on a USB stick] I am very sorry for this inaccurate information. As it turns out, only the GENERIC kernel is bootable, my custom configuration doesn't. On the bright side, this indicates some

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-21 Thread clemens fischer
clemens fischer wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:29:15 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot

[solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-20 Thread clemens fischer
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:29:15 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot. The problem had nothing to do

usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-19 Thread clemens fischer
Hi, My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot. The kernel has the following USB modules: # USB core support device usb2_core

locate: how to prune .svn directories?

2008-11-16 Thread clemens fischer
Hi, I am trying to remove all the .svn directories and their contents from /var/db/locate.database. The uncommented entries in /etc/locate.rc look like this: # /etc/locate.rc - command script for updatedb(8) # SEARCHPATHS=/ # PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-28 Thread clemens fischer
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:57:15 +0100 Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you do char *p = something, you can't write to that string (it's a pointer into some stringtable: easy way to look at it :). You have to use char p[] = something, then it's an array with enough storage to write to :) maybe try

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-28 Thread clemens fischer
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:03:32 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:57:15 +0100 Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you do char *p = something, you can't write to that string (it's a pointer into some stringtable: easy way to look at it :). You have to use char p[] = something

reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-27 Thread clemens fischer
Some of the programs in games/freebsd-games, notably hack and larn, have the following problem: Given the declarations: char *scrollname[] = { char *potionname[] = { \0enchant armor, \0sleep, \0enchant weapon,\0healing, ...... \0

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-27 Thread clemens fischer
Jeremy Chadwick: I think the bottom line here is that until someone steps up and actually volunteers to fix the code, it will remain broken. (I don't normally tote this attitude, but in this case it's applicable: this is a volunteer project! :-) ) That's why I want to try my skills on it.

dmesg: mute pcm0 (sound stuff) output?

2008-09-14 Thread clemens fischer
hi, running -CURRENT from a few days ago. my problem: I never get verbose boot messages complete from start to end, because the output of that super-duper pcm0 driver overflows the buffer: from 1491 lines in dmesg(8), 979 are like: 'dmesg -a': (this is where dmesg output starts(!), with the

Re: RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE: make installworld /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../ficl/libficl.a. Stop

2008-03-01 Thread clemens fischer
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:56:48 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: [/etc/src.conf] http://people.apache.org/~pgollucci/src.conf $ rm -rf /usr/obj $ mkdir /usr/obj $ make buildworld -j12 $ make buildkernel KERNCONF=THOR $ make installworld ... === sys/boot/i386/loader (install) make: don't

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-03-01 Thread clemens fischer
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:20:40 +0530 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: I personally do not run gdm or kdm. So I would not know how to get this working but I *think* you already picked the right file. The one you quoted in your last mail. I think the key lies there. You have to modify it and restart