Installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.0, xorg, configured xorg for my screen,
installed xdm.
After reboot I see a graphical login window. When entering username and
password, it seems to accept it, but immediatly present the graphical login
window again. (In console mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1) I can login at the
2010/3/4 Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote:
On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay
malcolm@internode.on.net wrote:
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote:
On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris
elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote:
I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot
I got to this section:
Create bootdir directory where the boot file system will be mounted:
# mkdir /tank/bootdir
# ln -s bootdir/boot /tank/boot
I am confused about the symlink line - what is 'bootdir' ?
Hello
I noticed the following on the FreeBSD website:
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html#p-autoreport Has
there been any progress/work done on the automated kernel crash
reporting system? The current ways of enabling and gathering the
information required by developers for
Hi,
I have a weather station (Lacross WS2350). (can be connect by USB / RS232).
I want to get data from a FreeBSD server 70 meter from the weather
station (with http://www.wviewweather.com/ software).
I already have a RJ45 cable between the two objects.
I wish i could get a RS232 to RJ45
On 2/03/2010 2:40 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Mar 01), Omer Faruk Sen said:
(da0:isp1:0:0:6): Vendor Specific ASC
(da0:isp1:0:0:6): Unretryable error
(da0:isp1:0:0:6): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 0
(da0:isp1:0:0:6): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(da0:isp1:0:0:6): SCSI
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ross Cameron
ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za wrote:
Hi there all
Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports
802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans?
I don't believe FreeBSD
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
I have a weather station (Lacross WS2350). (can be connect by USB /
RS232). I want to get data from a FreeBSD server 70 meter from the
weather station (with http://www.wviewweather.com/ software). I already
have a RJ45 cable between the two objects.
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:09, dan.naumov@ wrote:
Hello
I noticed the following on the FreeBSD website:
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html#p-autoreport Has
there been any progress/work done on the automated kernel crash
reporting system? The current ways of enabling and gathering the
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:06:50 -0500
jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:09, dan.naumov@ wrote:
Hello
I noticed the following on the FreeBSD website:
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html#p-autoreport Has
there been any progress/work done on the automated
Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing.
In its loader.conf file i see these statements
geom_uzip_load=YES
mfs_load=YES
mfs_type=mfs_root
mfs_name-/mfsroot
tmpfs_laod=YES
vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/mdo
Where do I find documentation on the meaning of these statements?
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:23 pm, krad wrote:
2010/3/4 Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote:
On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay
malcolm@internode.on.net wrote:
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote:
On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:48:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing.
In its loader.conf file i see these statements
geom_uzip_load=YES
mfs_load=YES
mfs_type=mfs_root
mfs_name-/mfsroot
tmpfs_laod=YES
vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/mdo
Where do I find
Hi Dan,
Automatic reporting would end up being a mess given that panics can be caused
by hardware problems. Having an autoreport check if memtest was run before it
reports, or having it only run with -CURRENTmight be useful.
Sean
From: jhell
On 04/03/2010 11:53, Matthew Law wrote:
I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot
I got to this section:
Create bootdir directory where the boot file system will be mounted:
# mkdir /tank/bootdir
# ln -s bootdir/boot /tank/boot
I am confused about
Hi,
Is it possible to create a virtual COM port on FreeBSD.
And to link it to a network card, or what whould be better to an ip
adress on my network ?
Thanks,
Olivier
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dJ What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD
dJ Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know
dJ what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say,
dJ English Documentation.
It's undocumented (and breaks non-interactive installs) so I ended up
going
On Thu, March 4, 2010 3:44 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Matthew == Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.uk writes:
Matthew I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root:
Matthew http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot
If you're running RELEASE-8 or later, I've gotten this to work just fine:
Is there a recommended procedure I can read somewhere on how to upgrade an
entire production system from Perl 5.8 to 5.10 (or whatever is current)
cleanly?
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PGP Key:
Matthew == Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.uk writes:
Matthew I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root:
Matthew http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot
If you're running RELEASE-8 or later, I've gotten this to work just fine:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
Currently live
I'm sharing my /usr/ports directory via NFS among several machines. One problem
that I have is with port options set in /var/db/ports. Is there a ports
environment variable that I could set in /etc/make.conf which would force these
to be somewhere in /usr/ports/vindaloo-port-options so that
Olivier GARNIER wrote:
I have a weather station (Lacross WS2350). (can be connect by USB / RS232).
I want to get data from a FreeBSD server 70 meter from the weather
station (with http://www.wviewweather.com/ software).
I already have a RJ45 cable between the two objects.
You can simply
On 04/03/2010 16:07:33, Christopher Hilton wrote:
I'm sharing my /usr/ports directory via NFS among several machines.
One problem that I have is with port options set in /var/db/ports.
Is there a ports environment variable that I could set in
/etc/make.conf which would force these to be
On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Christopher Hilton wrote:
I'm sharing my /usr/ports directory via NFS among several machines. One
problem that I have is with port options set in /var/db/ports. Is there a
ports environment variable that I could set in /etc/make.conf which would
force these to
Hi,
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Is there a recommended procedure I can read somewhere on how to upgrade an
entire production system from Perl 5.8 to 5.10 (or whatever is current)
cleanly?
Have a look at the 20100205 entry of ports/UPDATING.
Regards,
--
Glen Barber
On 2010-03-04 17:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Is there a recommended procedure I can read somewhere on how to upgrade an
entire production system from Perl 5.8 to 5.10 (or whatever is current)
cleanly?
/usr/ports/UPDATING ;-)
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Tim Daneliuk writes:
Is there a recommended procedure I can read somewhere on how to
upgrade an entire production system from Perl 5.8 to 5.10 (or
whatever is current) cleanly?
/usr/ports/UPDATING ?
Robert Huff
Olivier GARNIER writes:
I have a weather station (Lacross WS2350). (can be connect by USB /
RS232).
I want to get data from a FreeBSD server 70 meter from the weather station
(with http://www.wviewweather.com/ software).
I already have a RJ45 cable between the two objects.
I wish i
Hi,
Not sure if this is what you want to do or not, but if you want to
connect a device to a serial port on FreeBSD and then access that
serial device over the network from a remote machine, try
/usr/ports/comms/ser2net
---Mike
At 10:08 AM 3/4/2010, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
Chuck Swiger writes:
Data centers use that for serial connections to stuff like Cisco routers
and other terminal applications all the time. However, if the device is
truly RS-232 rather than 422/423, it's nominally out of spec past 50
meters
and possibly won't go past 9600 baud.
I
They make line drivers to sit inline and boost the signals to extend the range,
similar to T1 repeaters I suppose. I had to use some 10'ish years ago. They
weren't too expensive then, can't imagine the would be now.
But back to OP ?, I'm sure someone has a program that takes an RS-232 stream
Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net writes:
Hello,
Not sure if this is what you want to do or not, but if you want to
connect a device to a serial port on FreeBSD and then access that serial
device over the network from a remote machine, try
/usr/ports/comms/ser2net
Nope, seems to be the
On 3/4/2010 10:13 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote:
On 2010-03-04 17:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Is there a recommended procedure I can read somewhere on how to
upgrade an
entire production system from Perl 5.8 to 5.10 (or whatever is current)
cleanly?
/usr/ports/UPDATING ;-)
Thanks to all for
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On 04/03/2010 17:05:08, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 3/4/2010 10:13 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote:
On 2010-03-04 17:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Is there a recommended procedure I can read somewhere on how to
upgrade an
entire production system from Perl 5.8 to
I have hit one of these impenetrable walls in which nothing
seems to work but I know it should. I have tried several
versions of /boot.config to no avail. The idea is exactly the
same principle as described in depenguinator which is software
that lets one use grub in Linux to install FreeBSD on a
On 3/4/2010 11:13 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8\.*
Thanks for that. I'm not sure to whom I'd complain and/or if it would
make any difference ;)
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Tim
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:50:56AM -0800, sean connolly thus spake:
Hi Dan,
Automatic reporting would end up being a mess given that panics can be caused
by hardware problems. Having an autoreport check if memtest was run before it
reports, or having it only run with -CURRENTmight be useful.
I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of
issues with qt4 stuff.
--On Wednesday, March 03, 2010 20:50:32 -0500 Glen Barber
glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Chris Hill wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote:
Hello Guys and Gals,
Can you
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Mar 4 10:41:36 2010
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:41:00 -0600
From: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu
Subject: Re: RS232 / TCP converter and BSD.
Chuck Swiger writes:
Data centers use that for serial
On 4 March 2010 14:15, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote:
I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of
issues with qt4 stuff.
This doesn't exactly inspire confidence when it comes time for me to
do my next round of updates.
I remember running into an
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of
issues with qt4 stuff.
VirtualBox builds fine here, but on a recent 8-stable it locks the
system when starting a FreeBSD VM. Maybe on all VMs, but fscks are no
fun so I haven't
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:30:05 +0100, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote:
Installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.0, xorg, configured xorg for my screen,
installed xdm.
After reboot I see a graphical login window. When entering username and
password, it seems to accept it, but immediatly present the graphical
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:30:05 +0100, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote:
Installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.0, xorg, configured xorg for my screen,
installed xdm.
After reboot I see a graphical login window. When entering username and
password, it seems to accept it,
On 03/04/10 17:43, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote:
snip
As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the
tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case
anymore.
twm is still enabled by default as part of the x11/xorg-apps port.
I can confirm
greetings, all ---
i confess that this one has me flummoxed.
the short question: does tar(1) spit_up when extracting onto an msdos_fs
hard_drive ?
[ i tried the mailing_list archives tar AND msdos, for -questions, -chat,
-bugs, -newbies, -performance ]
[ other research as indicated ]
i
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:48:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing.
In its loader.conf file i see these statements
geom_uzip_load=YES
mfs_load=YES
mfs_type=mfs_root
mfs_name-/mfsroot
tmpfs_laod=YES
vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/mdo
Where do I find
--On Thursday, March 04, 2010 17:12:26 -0500 Kevin Wilcox
kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 March 2010 14:15, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote:
I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of
issues with qt4 stuff.
This doesn't exactly inspire
Martin McCormick wrote:
I have hit one of these impenetrable walls in which nothing
seems to work but I know it should. I have tried several
versions of /boot.config to no avail. The idea is exactly the
same principle as described in depenguinator which is software
that lets one use grub in
Hi all,
I have been using FBSD since 5.4 until now 8.0.
Mostly, I use it as a server and coding C (as my hobby).
All the time I stay in console without fancy of any GUI.
For GUI applications, I mostly use Windows.
Now I want to use only FBSD for web browsing and don't want to use Windows.
I
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:14:15 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com
wrote:
I installed FBSD 7.1 with KDE 3.5 from CD.
Then I csup(ed) and buildworld to FBSD 7.2 and then finally FBSD 8.0
while remaining KDE unchanged.
Do you have compat7x installed? If you already updated
to OS 8.0,
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:14:15PM +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
[...]
I use opera-10.10 for web browsing.
It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer.
I tried installing from ports.
- opera-linuxplugins-10.10.
- linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0
- f4l-0.2.1.4 (I guess it
See subject
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On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:13:36 Matthew Seaman wrote:
You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING
instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set
DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this:
# portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes
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