Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Powell
Manish Jain wrote: Hi, I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a connection to the internet. My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and has 2 network cards, rl0 and rl1. rl0 connects to the

Re: Breach of Contract Reported for FREEBSD.ORG

2008-10-16 Thread Michael Powell
David G Lawrence wrote: Dear Customer, It has been brought to our attention that some or all of the information associated with your domain name FREEBSD.ORG is outdated or incorrect. These types of complaints are brought to our attention in one of two ways. The most common type of

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-16 Thread Michael Powell
Da Rock wrote: [snip] I'm assuming the problem with double nat'ing is the confusion in packet traffic. So if the OP is using his ADSL modem to connect to the net, then it could be safe to assume the public IP would be to the modem itself, and not his box (barring the possible use of USB), so

Re: Breach of Contract Reported for FREEBSD.ORG

2008-10-17 Thread Michael Powell
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [snip] ICANN requires registrars to verify the domain info once a year. I just went through this with GoDaddy. I think the registrars see this as an opportunity to market services. Different registrars bungle their marketing effort in different ways. GoDaddy sent me

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
David Christensen wrote: mdh wrote: The answer is to upgrade your devel/glib20 port to the latest version, then try to install or upgrade libgiofam, then install the other software. Thank you for your response. :-) Here's my attempt to carry out your suggestions: 20081026-122203

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
David Christensen wrote: [snip] devel/glib20 and gio-fam-backend seemed to go okay. I think I got further into firefox3, but it failed: checking for cairo = 1.6.0 freetype2 fontconfig... Requested 'cairo = 1.6.0' but version of cairo is 1.4.10 This is telling you the cairo you have

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Powell
pwn wrote: [snip] on this page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html it says: Tip: By default, when you build a custom kernel, all kernel modules will be rebuilt as well. If you want to update a kernel faster or to build only custom modules, you

Re: pyhton apache

2008-10-31 Thread Michael Powell
tethys ocean wrote: Hi all I have a problem, a freebsd box that is apache22 and python25-2.5.2_3, mod_python-3.3.1_2 after upgrading phyton web site has stoped with this error Internal Server Error [snip] [Fri Oct 31 05:05:15 2008] [notice] Digest: done [Fri Oct 31 05:05:16 2008]

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-08 Thread Michael Powell
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:28:07AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: If you are totally new to Linux/Unix and have zero experience and just want an easy, out of the box something other than XP you might try the latest incarnation of Kubuntu. I know in a FreeBSD list

Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Maness wrote: [snip] For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged for 10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual moisture dry, or purchase an inline water filter. Should always put a drier on a compressor. You'll learn the hard way if you invest in

Re: virtualbox networking setup

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Cartwright wrote: I'm new to the group, and I'm new to setting up VirtualBox guest hosts. right now I have a Debian linux box, and I setup Virtual box. I installed FreeBSD on it, but I can't seem to get the networking to work. I tried to rerun sysinstall, but I'm not sure what options to

Re: High Noonn DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98, and the DVD just now. I'm not that nutty to waste a

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] Limewire is a windows only application. So how can you say it runs on solaris which is a flavor Unix? Limewire is a Java program. It will run on any platform which has a working Java run time environment installed. It is definitely not Windows only. -Jason

Re: pf or ipf rules to allow p2p Limewire through

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] The only way i can run limewire is to disable my firewall and that does not make me happy. This is simply not true. I have at one time or another run Limewire on each of the three different firewalls. Currently for a little over one year now it has been pf. The difference

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] Read carefully: uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. *** Error code 1 See further down at bottom. did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do I make the custom kernel? The

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] there was another error in that kernel at the very beginning - the SCHEDULE_4BSD was SCHEDULE_UNO or something like that.. but it was commented out...perhaps these glitches happened through some kind of accidental typos in vi [snip] SCHED_4BSD is being replaced

Re: cups issue, unsupported format

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the hplip port and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there was an HPLIP in a list in one of the pages during the setup. My printer is an old HP LaserJet 4+ which I've connected

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Powell
Redd Vinylene wrote: Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck: $ sudo -s /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.5 not found, required by sudo [snip] Don't know if this would help but you might try creating a file called libmap.conf in /etc and place in it: libutil.so.5

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Powell
Ruben de Groot wrote: [snip] This advise is only helpful if you have root allready =) I've never figured out why people seem to always want to play with the root account the way they do, such as the favorite I wanna use bash for root's shell... Since the OP seems to want to keep playing with

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated graphics is not an improvement, and should therefore not be considered a worthy goal? full support of open hardware standards is an

Re: skype

2008-12-13 Thread Michael Powell
Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Daniel Leal dl...@webvolution.net wrote: Hi ! Is there a problem if I use skype as root? like sudo skype. Because, if not i will get no sound! You should never run any network-connected software as root, as it is a huge security

Re: [6.3] Missing portdowngrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Powell
Gilles wrote: Hello I need to downgrade a software from the Ports collection because it's buggy on my hardware, but the portdowngrade utility doesn't seem to exist in the 6.3 Ports: = # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade -bash: cd: /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade: No such

Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-27 Thread Michael Powell
Lowell Gilbert wrote: af300...@gmail.com writes: For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this

Re: How do I configure PHP to use curl?

2008-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: I just ran into something that has me stumped. It's probably a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out... I'm trying to add curl support to my PHP installation, but when I run 'make config' in the /usr/ports/lang/php5 directory, curl is not one of the very small

Re: cannot compile linphone due to compile error message in gio-fam-backend

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Powell
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I failed to compile linphone on my FreeBSD 6-1 (yes I know it's old but as it has been working well for the last several years I got no motivate to upgrade it unless have to). The last error message says: [from gio-fam-backend ]: cannot find -lgio-2.0 It

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Michael Powell
Masoom Shaikh wrote: [snip] wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) Stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language, with roots in the printing industry. When authors submit a manuscript for publishing it contains content, but it is up to the typesetter how it will

Re: two ethernet cards

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Powell
Stefan Miklosovic wrote: hi i have two ethernet cards on my box uname -a FreeBSD dexter 7.0-RELEASE Freebsd 7.0-RELEASE #5: Fri Jan 2 21:25:21 CET 2009 r...@dexter:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEXTER i386 ifconfig rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Powell
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Powell
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a Actually it is 242MB I have one

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Powell
Chuck Swiger wrote: [snip] While it is true that you can comment out all but i686 and get a working kernel, you will experience reduced performance. There are a number of low-level assembly routines (cf sys/i386/i386/support.s such as i586_bcopy) that are conditionalized off of I586_CPU

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Powell
Jeremy Gagliardi wrote: I'm having trouble with HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. I have 2 disks on it in a mirror configuration. Everything seems to go swimmingly through the FreeBSD installation, up until the final reboot... 1) Boot from Disc 1. 2) At the Welcome to

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Powell
ThinkDifferently wrote: Michael Powell-6 wrote: In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of the onboard controller. In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Powell
ThinkDifferently wrote: Michael Powell-6 wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] 1. SCSI-0:: RocketRAID 3120 SATA C 2. Bootable Add-in Cards So what happens when you choose 2. Bootable Add

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Powell
ThinkDifferently wrote: [snip] Gigabyte's tech support guy was a whole lot more helpful, but in the end he couldn't get it to work either. His working theory is that since the motherboard has its own RAID controller (even if it's disabled), it may be interfering with the RocketRAID's

Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server?

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Powell
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Greetings, I'm planning to build a new home file server for myself, starting with about 2TB of RAID6 space, but with room to grow in the future. Most of that will be on SATA drives, but I may throw in two SAS drives in RAID1 for the base OS, hence the SAS raid

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Powell
cguan wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a w2k8 dvd iso image on freebsd 7 using mdconfig and mount -t cd9660. the commands appeared to be working fine but when I look at the mount point I only see a readme.txt file reads: This disc contains a UDF file system and requires an operating

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
cguan wrote: yes, I did. # kldstat -v | grep udf 42 0xc44bd000 7000 udf.ko 419 udf 51 0xc4498000 2000 udf_iconv.ko 423 udf_iconv # mount -t udf /dev/md0 ../iso_mount/w2k8-amd64 mount_udf: /dev/md0: Invalid argument # Is it possible the udf version is too new

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
Andrew Falanga wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems

Re: Samba 3.2 FreeBSD

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Powell
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Proskurin Kirill Just wondering - why samba 3.2+ is not in a ports? net/samba3-devel ?? Oh. But why it is devel? Samba 3.3 is officially stable. Look in the subdirectory called files for the port. You

Re: Apache/php

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: I have php code on home page to count how many times it is accessed from the internet. Problem is pages deeper in website can jump back direct to home page and this again gets counted. Is there any way to give the php counter routine intelligent so it will bypass bumping the

Re: Help with high LA

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Powell
sc...@centroin.com.br wrote: Hi All, I need help for some strange problem with one of my servers, that can cost my job. It's a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5/amd64 running on a Dell PowerEdge III as a Virtual machine of VMware ESXi. There are only two VM in this box, and one of them (basicly a

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-14 Thread Michael Powell
Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along

Re: kernel compile problems

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Powell
daemon wrote: Hi, I try to build a 7.1 kernel but when i does # make depend make clean depend make shows : make : don't know how to make ../../../dev/agp/agp.c. Stop anyone know anything? Thanks! [snip] Have you tried cd to /usr/src and make buildkernel KERNCONF=yourkernel and

Re: RELENG_7 != STABLE?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Schmehl wrote: [snip] *default host=cvsup12.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default tag=RELENG_7 *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress Try a different server further up in the hierarchy. I recently had a similar situation with

Re: Odd DNS requests

2009-02-28 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: Hi, recently we've had a Mac notebook of some sort on our LAN, that likes to make these DNS queries from time to time, to no avail, as noticed on a filtering bridge between the LAN and the router+DNS at 192.168.0.1: 16:13:05.020397 192.168.0.59.53207 192.168.0.1.53:

Re: A problem about pkg_deinstall

2009-02-28 Thread Michael Powell
lacalling wrote: I have some problems about pkg_deinstall. pkg_deinstall -R deletes packages depended recursively. but it seems to crashes some other packages. for example,i installed pkg A,it depends on pkg b,c,d. pkg_deinstall -R will deletes A,b,c,d. but if b is depended by

Re: libpthread not found

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Powell
m.borsat...@alice.it wrote: [snip] thanks ... but ... how? now I don't get the first message; but the second tells me that a library is missing, but it is present. anyway I' prepared a very simple /etc/libmap.conf like this: # /etc/libmap.conf # # candidate mapping #

Re: libpthread not found

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Powell
m.borsat...@alice.it wrote: thanks ... but ... how? now I don't get the first message; but the second tells me that a library is missing, but it is present. anyway I' prepared a very simple /etc/libmap.conf like this: # /etc/libmap.conf # # candidate mapping # libc.so.6

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Powell
Paige Thompson wrote: Also I wanted to note how I got to this problem: [root@ /usr/src]# make buildkernel config=GENERIC 2 error.log [snip] cd /usr/obj and rm -rf usr before trying again. Then cd /usr/src and do: make buildkernel KERNCONF=nameofsomeconffile another example: make

Re: php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Michael Powell
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com: Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13

Re: roundcube security bug

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: hello, I strongly advise anyone who has the mail/roundcube port or software installed to be careful as it has a security bug (and I do not know where to report it). It allows people to remotely place a trojan on /tmp and use it. They do it like this: 213.96.25.30

Re: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:25:06AM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I just purchased an older rack mounted supermicro server. It is running CentOS, but I want to install Freebsd on it. The server has (2) Xeon processors. Which download should I use ? i386 ???

RE: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
Darryl Hoar wrote: [snip] After looking at the referenced wiki and my system, I believe I have a supermicro SuperServer 6012L-6. It has (2) Xeon 512K L2 Prestonia processors. They are Installed in a P4DLR+ motherboard which has 603 pin sockets. From this, I believe I should install

Re: freebsd 7.1, building kernel

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
gahn wrote: Hi, all: I am trying to build customized kernel with device carp and followed kernel building procedure of the handbook. unfortunately it is failed: lab1# make buildkernel KERNCONF=lab1 ERROR: Missing kernel configuration file(s) (lab1). *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP

2009-03-10 Thread Michael Powell
manish jain wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: [snip] And I stick to RELENG, not STABLE, because I want to patch security bugs, but I most probably does not need all the new bells and whistles of STABLE: this is a production server, I prefer to modify the machine as least as possible, unless it is expressely needed

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, why not simply use /amd64? You mean he changes the CPU? All CPUs generally shipped from Dell anymore are 64bit capable. Do you have the original specs (take the service tag, go to dell support - warranty - original system config) and paste that. It gives

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: [snip] Please forgive if I seem a trifle dense, but how did you go about installing? If done using the ports system, as part of the process linux_compat and various linux-* ports should have installed as dependencies. Perhaps the install succeeded but left out

Re: Perl5 with threads?

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Powell
s0rk wrote: Hello FreeBSD-Team, i got a question about the Perl version in 7.1 release. I needed Perl 5.8.10 but this wasn't available, okay i only need the perl threds but this isn't on in default. I set it in my ports dir in my MAKEFILE on, but wasn't accepted. How can i use

Re: Bizarre behaviour of Linux binary under 7.1

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Powell
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded from 6.3 (i386) to 7.1p3 (amd64) with a view to experimenting with zfs. Mostly, everything went smoothly, but I am getting some very odd behaviour from a linux utility. The program is very simple, it has two executables, A and B. A is

Re: What Is Needed For SimpleXML Support in PHP?

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Powell
Bill Moran wrote: Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: I have php5-5.2.9 installed on my FBSD 6.3 system. I am attempting to use a php script that fails with: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() Googling suggests that this function is part of the PHP software

Re: Q: FreeBSD 7.1 stable boot failure

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Powell
John H. Nyhuis wrote: Greetings, I just re-installed an old file server from stable 6.1 to 7.1 stable, and I'm having a problem with my 3ware 7000-2 card. After sysinstall completes, and I try to boot from the SCSI HDD (not connected to the 3ware) for the first time, the system hangs

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. Sorry - I am not quite certain what you mean by this. FreeBSD is an operating system, just as Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc are different operating systems. If

Re: keep-state and divert

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Powell
Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have read some recommendations on combining a stateful firewall with divert, e.g. http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD-Security/2003-06/0078.html and http://nuclight.livejournal.com/124348.html (the latter is in Russian). Do I understand

Re: keep-state and divert

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Powell
Victor Sudakov wrote: [snip] I have looked at your ruleset. First you have: [dd] $fwcmd add divert natd ip from any to me in via ppp0 $fwcmd add divert natd ip from 10.10.0.0/8 to any out via ppp0 $fwcmd add check-state [dd] and only later you have your keep-state rules:

Re: how to recover after power outage

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: On Apr 5, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:59 AM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Blast... my beautiful FreeBSD servers were rudely switched off when my data had a power outage a couple hours ago. They restored power about 30

Re: how to recover after power outage

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: [snip] Okay, so the machine is back online and I can log in again. The hardware is only 18 months old or so... good quality stuff, so hopefully nothing is physically damaged. We'll see... Unfortunately, mysql isn't working at the moment... will make a backup of data

Re: low-level format before install?

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: Thanks for all the tips. At least I have something to start with. The guys in the data center reinstalled FreeBSD (the filesystem was totally corrupted again), and then ran what they called SMART test, which might be smartctl, and said the hard drives look good. I am

Re: Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia driver, and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI

Re: make in the port tree: where can I find documentation?

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Powell
sebovick wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make). I found this, interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some interogations

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ray r...@stilltech.net wrote: I Just had the power supply die on this machine. Could a failing power supply cause this type of issues? Absolutely. Seconded. Power supply issues have caused me this kind of grief

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Ltcddata wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring

Re: Struggling to remove package.

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I seem to be struggling with removing a perl bsdpan package. I tried: # pkg_delete bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110 But I get pkg_delete: package 'bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110' doesn't have a prefix I even went to ~/.cpan/build/IO-stringy-2.110-SFns8F/ and ran # make

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: I need to upgrade a live, production server from 6.3 to 7.1. I can't afford to have any troubles with this server. I have Absolute FreeBSD and a few other BSD books, and the upgrade process looks fairly straightforward. That's the theory... Real world question: how

Re: NSS library

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
Christopher Chambers wrote: Hi, I was attempting to configure some software. Configure told me that: missing required NSS library 'nss3' A search of my hard drive and the net came up dry. Who writes the library and were can I download it? - Regards, Chris Chambers Take a look at:

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Judd wrote: [snip] Long story short, BTX is what brings the PC BIOS/CMOS code execution from 16-bit real mode, to 32-bit protected mode. I've had repeated problems with name-brand PCs that result in a BTX halted. Whiteboxes/custom builds tend to work the best (and IMHO, last the

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Agus wrote: [snip] What is the output of ldconfig -r ? Sorry for the delay.. was too busyy... No output... just this ldconfig -r /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: search directories: Sounds like the hints file is missing or damaged. These live here: /var/run/ld.so.hints for a.out and

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

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Powell
Ewald Jenisch wrote: 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

Re: location of discussion of lives

2009-12-25 Thread Michael Powell
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about livefs. I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search terms to find a general discussion

Re: strange find process

2009-12-25 Thread Michael Powell
Anh Ky Huynh wrote: Hi all, At 2:00 am today, I turned my laptop on and suddenly found a strange process: $ ps xauw | grep find ... find -sx ./bin -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) ( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -exec ls -liTd {} + What is the purpose

Re: geometry does not match label

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
Robin Becker wrote: I'm just setting up a software raid mirror using geom; everything seems to be working fine and the mirror is slowly synchronizing. Because of cabling constraints this is a mirror rather than a duplex (I haven't used mirror before) so the gm0 components are ad0/ad1 rather

Re: geometry does not match label

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] You should know that the ad0/ad1 will result in a fairly drastic performance hit. This is a master/slave arrangement on the same channel. You really really should get another cable and do the ad0/ad2 arrangement. And, of course, as soon as I hit the Send

Re: Possible mysql.sock problem | ERROR 2002 (HY000)

2010-01-07 Thread Michael Powell
jaymax wrote: Thanks !!! Got it resolved after adding mysql_socket=/usr/tmp/mysql.sock to the rc.conf file Removing the /etc/my.cnf file as the aetting were redundant with those used in the compilation deinstalling and reinstalling both the server and the client [snip] The new default

Re: port-MESS with apache22

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: Thought I'd better get more specific: I rebooted, apache is running. I deleted the apache2 directories -- but lo and behold, it is the php5 port that is stubborn and absolutely insists on creating these directories. What in Hades is going on? [snip] Don't know if this pertains to

Re: Setting root password on mysql 5.4

2010-01-09 Thread Michael Powell
jaymax wrote: Does anyone know how to set root password on a new mysql installation from the post? This is the very first thing performed on a brand new fresh install. The canonical procedure (and I haven't had to do it in a while so it is possible it may have changed) looks something like

RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-09 Thread Michael Powell
Don O'Neil wrote: Ok... well, your idea is a good one, but it seems that the port is broken. I did a port update, which brought in the latest php build info from December, but when I run 'make' (without even editing the Makefile to add my own other modules I need) I get this: If installing

Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-11 Thread Michael Powell
Greetings everyone: This is probably a pretty dumb question, but it's never really come up for me before. I am at a crossroads with regard to some hardware upgrades, and for a couple of them I have been putting off making the change to 64 bit. These are server boxen with no concerns for

Re: Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Greetings everyone: [snip] Thanks in advance for the wielding of any clue sticks. :-) This sort of process /is/ possible, but it is a lot more involved than you're anticipating. Unless you're the sort of person that likes doing terribly

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to watch

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to watch

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Michael Powell
The-IRC FreeBSD wrote: Hi, I am sorry if I am asking a question that might have been brought up before I have attempted to research my issue but it has many angles it might be listed under so please bare with me. We have had ongoing problems with UFS Errors on our root partition (and

Re: Missing all ttyv* device nodes after upgrade 7.0 - 7.2

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Powell
Morgan Wesström wrote: Morgan Wesström wrote: Morgan Wesström wrote: I obviously did something wrong somewhere but I can't figure out what. All console device nodes /dev/ttyv0 - /dev/ttyvf are missing after I upgraded a machine from 7.0 to 7.2. The serial console node /dev/ttyd0 is there

Re: Missing all ttyv* device nodes after upgrade 7.0 - 7.2

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Powell
Morgan Wesström wrote: These dmesg lines are from another 7.2 machine and I am missing them from the output of this newly upgraded machine: sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on

Re: SunFire X2100 fails

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Powell
Julian Fagir wrote: Hello, I recently got a SunFire X2100 to play with (first version, not M2). Linux (Debian) and 7.2-RELEASE works without problems, just installs straight-away and runs fine (currently 31 days uptime). But 8.0-RELEASE does not work, neither when being upgraded nor when

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-23 Thread Michael Powell
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! help me please See my reply to message: SunFire x2100 fails -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Weird build errors only on 3rd core of quad core CPU

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter de Goeje wrote: I am suspecting a broken CPU, but am not sure. These commands: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/hal cpuset -c -l 2 make Will always result in errors, for example this one: gmake: *** No rule to make target `...@maintainer_mode_true@', needed by `config.h.in'. Stop. ***

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Powell
John wrote: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed, and I can't start the

Re: GCC broken?

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Powell
Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello listreaders! I'm trying to build qt4-webkit 4.6.1 But it fails or i fail to build it. Is it GCC? The machine is not overheating an has a low load, it's my desktop. I just did this upgrade a few days to maybe a week ago with no problems. Stop in

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