kernel panic

[Kamlesh Patel]

Hi there,

I changed the following file of FreeBSD 7.0:
sys/boot/forth/beastie.4th

variable rebootkey
variable mykey   (added line)

I built and installed kernel, then i reboot the system, it gives me the 
following error: 

---
 panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x6e104 from 
/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:959

-- Press a key on the console to reboot -- 



How do i recover the system from this error. I can't reload the loader.old

Could anyone please help me?

Kamlesh
MS CS, CSUS


  

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7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

[Frank Bonnet]

Hello

I've installed 7.1 onto our mail exchager (MX) then it suddendly stopped
to work last night with the following message

watchdog bge0 timeout


The machine is a HP pc which was doing the same service at 6.3 without
that kind of trouble

Any info welcome
Thanks a lot.
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3945ABG wireless problems

[Alain G. Fabry]

Hi,

I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card.

I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off

pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF
---
Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached

pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON
-
Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x171d 
bus uhub0
Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 
224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0

ifconfig wpi0 up

Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded 
firmware
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode  size 0x384
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040, 
result=0x4040
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1
Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off

I notice that I didn't have the license at 
/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from 
http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz

/boot/loader.conf includes the following

if_wpi_load=YES
wlan_load=YES
wlan_amrr_load=YES
firmware_load=YES
wpifw_load=YES
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1

What am I doing wrong here??

Many thanks,

Alain
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Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

[Bert-Jan]

 Bert-Jan i...@bert-jan.com writes:

 Hi Folks,

 I just updated one of my servers from 7.0-RC1 to 7.1-RELEASE.

 During the first freebsd-update install, before rebooting, I was
 surprised
 to find that it was going to change my /etc/passwd (deleting all my
 accounts, keeping only the built-in accounts) and /etc/pwd.db and
 /etc/spwd.db. I was quite suspicious so I made copies of them.

 freebsd-update should merge master.passwd, and re-generate all of those
 files from there.  What did you do with master.passwd?

I didn't do anything with it. I didn't know about it (linux experience
talking here, only been using freebsd for a year or so). Now that I'm
looking at it all the accounts are there, so it was successfully merged
indeed.


 Note that backup copies of master.passwd are kept in /var/backup.  None
 of the other files, because they're generated from there.

 After rebooting the machine came back online perfectly. I checked
 /etc/passwd but there were no changes yet. Then, as the docs says, I ran
 freebsd-update install again and it took quite a while. *Then* my
 /etc/passwd was changed, so I replaced it with the spare copy I made. Of

 That spare copy doesn't help at all; /etc/passwd is only there as a
 convenience to users, and isn't consulted by the system for anything.

I noticed, but after logging out as root unfortunately.


 course I had to test it now so I exitted from root back to my own
 account,
 and you guessed it: I can't su anymore:

 $ su -
 su: who are you?

 I started up a second session and found my own account doesn't work
 anymore either. So all I have now is an open session with my own
 account.
 I should probably also have copied the two db files back and of course I
 should have left my running root session open and started another one.
 Not
 a very bright moment..

 Does the root account itself have a password?  If you installed a
 generic password file, it may be unprotected, and you could log in (but
 not su, as that requires you first be logged in as a wheel user, of
 which you may have none left) as root without a password if you have a
 local terminal (a serial console, for example), and fix things from there.

Yes, root has a password. The account I was still logged in with is a
wheel user but trying a second session showed I couldn't login with that
account anymore either. I really made a mess of it :)


 Is there a way I can recover the server from this ?
 Of course I can put in a cd and change some passwords, but the server is
 in a datacenter and I don't really have the time to go there and fix it.
 I'm looking for a remote solution.

 I guess you don't have any out-of-band access to the machine, then.  You
 may be stuck with having to go to it physically, then.

Yes, I have been there the day before yesterday, the same day I screwed it
up. I logged in as root and didn't even get a password prompt. It was
obviously reset to the default password database. I fixed the logins by
copying the backups I made of /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db back.
Everything returned to normal. It reminded me that freebsd-update had told
me it wanted to change things in both those files, but since they're
binary it didn't show me a diff. My error thus was that I logged out as
root before restoring those. Very nasty, having to drive to the datacenter
(about 100km from my home) just to copy two files. But now I know for sure
this won't happen to me again :)

I do find it strange though, that freebsd-update replaced those files,
even though it tells you it's going to change them.
What is the proper way to handle this ? Can I run a command after the
update finishes that regenerates the account databases from the
master.passwd ? I checked the history and *I* never touched it during the
update, so it was merged like it should.


 It's probably not much help but there's one jail running on it that's
 still working fine. I can login and su on that one, but I don't know if
 I
 can use it to repair the main system.

 I sure hope that won't help.  That would defeat the point of jails,
 wouldn't it? ;-)

Yes indeed ;)

Thanks for the explanations. I still have a lot to learn of freebsd,
having been a Slackware Linux user for about 7 years, I've started my
first freebsd server about a year ago. So far I like it very much. Keeping
the whole system updated with freebsd-update and the whole ports system is
just a breeze.
Sometimes like this things get screwed up, but the same has happened to me
several times with Linux, so no hard feelings :)


 --
 Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
   http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/


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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[chris.scott]

or you should be able to use unionfs to mount the md1 device over 
/usr/ports if in not mistaken



Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (Jan 09), PstreeM China said:
  

hi all:

i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation
of Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) ..

during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i do for
the port ?



Set WRKDIRPREFIX to point to a directory in your mfs filesystem, and
all the .../work/ directories will get created there.

  


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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[Wojciech Puchar]

hi all:

 i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation of
Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) ..

 during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i do for


better use tmpfs


the port ?


rm -rf /usr/ports/
mkdir /usr/ports
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/ports
portsnap extract

now build
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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[Wojciech Puchar]

In the last episode (Jan 09), PstreeM China said:

hi all:

i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation
of Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) ..

during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i do for
the port ?


Set WRKDIRPREFIX to point to a directory in your mfs filesystem, and
all the .../work/ directories will get created there.

goot to know - thanks!
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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[chris.scott]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:

hi all:

 i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the 
installation of

Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) ..

 during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i 
do for


better use tmpfs


the port ?


rm -rf /usr/ports/
mkdir /usr/ports
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/ports
portsnap extract

now build
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quicker to do


mv /usr/ports /usr/ports.real
mkdir /usr/ports
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/ports
mount -t unionfs -o noatime /usr/ports /usr/ports.real


of cause tmpfs can actually start using disk space unlike a md device so 
if you eat up to much ram with the compiles it will slow down

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Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

[Giuseppe Pagnoni]

Yes, I did.  And although the system appears to list the specified
amount of RAM (3GB or 2GB), the X server crashes nonetheless...

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 1/9/09, Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com wrote:
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com
 Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM
 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT
 To: Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl


 Dear Pieter,

 thanks for the information.  Unfortunately, putting the line
 hw.physmem=3G in /boot/loader.conf as you suggested does not prevent
 the system from crashing when starting X (even using 2G), while

 You rebooted after that change?

 taking physically out the 2G memory bank  from the motherboard does.
 That's a pity because this being a dual boot system, I could have left
 the 4 GB of RAM in when using the other OS   Is there any other
 option that you would be aware of?

 thanks again

 giuseppe

 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote:
  How much memory do you have?  Freebsd/Nvidia doesn't work with 4Gigs
  of memory OR PAE enabled kernels.  Nvidia's forums have lots more
  information
  regarding this.
 
  I'm not sure of the internals exactly, but the amount of onboard
  memory
  plus the memory that comes with the card can't exceed 4G.  (I could be
  wrong, but I think this is accurate).  In this case, assuming you have
  a
  512M card or similar then 3 Gigs of memory should work.  I have seen
  reports of 2Gigs of memory working (i386) and am sure that works
  without
  problems. amd64 doesn't work at all, as you have already stated.
 
  If you have a requirement to use the nvidia based graphics driver,
  then
  you really don't have an alternative at this time, then to remove
  system
  memory from your main board.
 
  ~Paul

 Putting hw.physmem=3G in /boot/loader.conf might also work.

 --
 Pieter de Goeje





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 Sezione Fisiologia
 Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia
 Via Campi 287
 I-41100 Modena, Italy
 Tel: +39-059-205-5742
 Fax: +39-059-205-5363



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 Sezione Fisiologia
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 Via Campi 287
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 Tel: +39-059-205-5742
 Fax: +39-059-205-5363
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Dip. Scienze Biomediche
Sezione Fisiologia
Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Campi 287
I-41100 Modena, Italy
Tel: +39-059-205-5742
Fax: +39-059-205-5363
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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[PstreeM China]

i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX  is a good idea , and i whill test the
methon unionfs.

but i want to know , after i mount the unionfs , like this :#mount -t
unionfs  /usr/ports /usr/ports.real
the /usr/ports is  memery FS, what can i used to install software ??
go to the dir : /usr/ports/**/** to install ,
or go to dir dir : /usr/ports.real/*/* to install ??

thank all!!

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM, chris.scott k...@snaffler.net wrote:

 Wojciech Puchar wrote:

 hi all:

 i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation
 of
 Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) ..

 during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i do for


 better use tmpfs

  the port ?


 rm -rf /usr/ports/
 mkdir /usr/ports
 mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/ports
 portsnap extract

 now build
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  quicker to do


 mv /usr/ports /usr/ports.real
 mkdir /usr/ports
 mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/ports
 mount -t unionfs -o noatime /usr/ports /usr/ports.real


 of cause tmpfs can actually start using disk space unlike a md device so if
 you eat up to much ram with the compiles it will slow down

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Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

[PstreeM China]

what tha AP you connect ??
maybe , the wlan can not connect a AP, the hardware will turn off ...
check your file  /etc/wpa_supp**.conf

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote:


 Hi,

 I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card.

 I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off

 pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF
 ---
 Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
 Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached

 pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON
 -
 Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product
 0x171d bus uhub0
 Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module,
 class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0

 ifconfig wpi0 up
 
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded
 firmware
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode  size 0x384
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040,
 result=0x4040
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02
 alive 1
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02
 alive 1
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1
 Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off

 I notice that I didn't have the license at
 /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from
 http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gzhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz

 /boot/loader.conf includes the following
 
 if_wpi_load=YES
 wlan_load=YES
 wlan_amrr_load=YES
 firmware_load=YES
 wpifw_load=YES
 legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1

 What am I doing wrong here??

 Many thanks,

 Alain
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Re: FreeBSD USB Install

[Ricardo Jesus]

Brian McCann wrote:

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:

El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió:

I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the
thumb drive (such as it was a new disk right from the factory)
and let sysinstall put slice and partitions onto it.

The problem is that 'from the factory' sometimnes they come already Windows-like
formated; I've wiped out all with:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m

(double check that /dev/da0 is really the device you want to clean)

   matthias



Ok...so I zero'd out two different thumb drives (one 1gb stick,
another a 4gb stick...not that it matters)...and both of them failed
in the same way.  I boot the machine with nothing but the CD-Rom drive
and the USB stick.  No fancy options or anything in the install
process...just create one slice that takes up the whole drive, then
one parition (da0s1a) mounted as /...about as basic as you can get.

Any other thoughts?  I don't understand why this wouldn't work...it's
just another drive...

Thanks for all the input!
--Brian


You're installing it into a single partition? Just / with everything on it?

Maybe try the standard installation procedure with a /, swap, tmp, var 
and user. Let sysinstall do its job and use auto-defaults.


Regards.
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Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

[Alain G. Fabry]

Actually, I've just sofar tried to perform a 'ifconfig wpi0 list scan' to 
verify which AP are availableafter I have put the interface up of course. 
But it just gets stuck on this scandoesn't do anything.

info from /var/log/messages

Jan  9 13:05:31 desmo sudo:   username : TTY=ttyp2 ; PWD=/data/username ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/ifconfig wpi0 scan list
Jan  9 13:05:32 desmo kernel: HERER



On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:55:11PM +0800, PstreeM China wrote:
 what tha AP you connect ??
 maybe , the wlan can not connect a AP, the hardware will turn off ...
 check your file  /etc/wpa_supp**.conf
 
 On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote:
 
 
  Hi,
 
  I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card.
 
  I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
 
  pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF
  ---
  Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
  Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached
 
  pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON
  -
  Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product
  0x171d bus uhub0
  Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module,
  class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0
 
  ifconfig wpi0 up
  
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded
  firmware
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode  size 0x384
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040,
  result=0x4040
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02
  alive 1
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02
  alive 1
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1
  Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off
 
  I notice that I didn't have the license at
  /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from
  http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gzhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz
 
  /boot/loader.conf includes the following
  
  if_wpi_load=YES
  wlan_load=YES
  wlan_amrr_load=YES
  firmware_load=YES
  wpifw_load=YES
  legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
 
  What am I doing wrong here??
 
  Many thanks,
 
  Alain
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Can't boot machine after upgrade

[Frank Shute]

Hi all,

I just updated my server from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.4-RELEASE and I now
can't boot my machine - a rather crappy HP desktop.

The boot seems to go along nicely without any errors that I can see
but when it comes to mounting the root filesystem it bails out:

Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2

Manual root filesystem specification:

fstype:device
snip

? List valid disk boot devices

snip

mountroot

I've tried entering the root fs (it's the same as above) but it's no
go. If I list the valid boot disk devices, it gives me this:

list of GEOM managed disk devices:
 da3 da2 da1 da0

which are all the crappy flash card readers etc.

Anybody got any idea on what's going on  how to fix it?

TIA.

BTW, just reply to the list, I can't receive mail ATM so I'll have to
read replies in the archive.

Regards,

-- 

 Frank


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Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
 Anybody got any idea on what's going on  how to fix it?

The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found.
It's not listed in the available devices, and boot fails.

Could you check its presence using a FreeBSD / FreeSBIE boot CD?

I'm surprised the hard disk isn't detected at all... are you using
the GENERIC kernel?



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From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

[PstreeM China]

i don't know what happen ...

i use the 3945ABG too , i use the three config file  ...
/boot/loader.conf
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
you may lose the thried file ,give you for a example.

### the loader.conf file
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1

if_wpi_load=YES
wlan_load=YES
wlan_amrr_load=YES
firmware_load=YES
wpifw_load=YES
wlan_wep_load=YES
wlan_ccmp_load=YES
wlan_tkip_load=YES
 the rc.conf file
ifconfig_wpi0=WPA DHCP
 the wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid=APSSID
#scan_ssid=2
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=APpassword
}



On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote:


 Actually, I've just sofar tried to perform a 'ifconfig wpi0 list scan' to
 verify which AP are availableafter I have put the interface up of
 course. But it just gets stuck on this scandoesn't do anything.

 info from /var/log/messages

 Jan  9 13:05:31 desmo sudo:   username : TTY=ttyp2 ; PWD=/data/username ;
 USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/ifconfig wpi0 scan list
 Jan  9 13:05:32 desmo kernel: HERER



 On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:55:11PM +0800, PstreeM China wrote:
  what tha AP you connect ??
  maybe , the wlan can not connect a AP, the hardware will turn off ...
  check your file  /etc/wpa_supp**.conf
 
  On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net
 wrote:
 
  
   Hi,
  
   I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card.
  
   I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
  
   pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF
   ---
   Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2)
 disconnected
   Jan  9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached
  
   pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON
   -
   Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product
   0x171d bus uhub0
   Jan  9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated
 Module,
   class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0
  
   ifconfig wpi0 up
   
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any
 uploaded
   firmware
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode  size 0x384
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x,
 val=0x4040,
   result=0x4040
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version
 10e02
   alive 1
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version
 10e02
   alive 1
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1
   Jan  9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off
  
   I notice that I didn't have the license at
   /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from
  
 http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gzhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz
 
 http://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz
 
  
   /boot/loader.conf includes the following
   
   if_wpi_load=YES
   wlan_load=YES
   wlan_amrr_load=YES
   firmware_load=YES
   wpifw_load=YES
   legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
  
   What am I doing wrong here??
  
   Many thanks,
  
   Alain
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Re: Restore deleted files

[Michael Copeland]

Polytropon wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to ask a two-stage question:

1. Is it possible to recover files that have been deleted?

2. Which tools or procedures are suggested for recovery?

While sorting out some files and transfering them to another
hard disk, I accidentally deleted too much: the directory with
my videos taken by a digital camera. They were located in a
directory within a subtree, and I deleted the whole subtree
without first copying these files.

I used the Midnight Commander to do this. As I read from its
source code, it seems to use the unlink() call to delete the
subtree recursively. Pressing PF8 can really ruin your day...

Just after I noticed what I had done I unmounted the file system,
powered off the machine and put the disk on the shelf (it's still
there), no further write accesses.

I would be glad if someone could enlighten me if there is any
chance to get the files back, even with the loss of the file
names (doesn't matter), and which tools seem to serve best in
this difficult task.

And if it's impossible, please tell me. I can newfs the disk
then and free it, along with my mind.




PS.
I'm posting this question to -fs, too. Answers from this list
please keep me in CC because I'm not subscribed to -fs. Thank you!
  
See if this can help you, it recognizes and recovers files based on 
headers, data structures, etc. not names.

http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
this along with a couple of the other tools people have mentioned should 
get you back to where you need to be.

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Re: Anybody using Lenovo S10?[ Model Correction ]

[eculp]

Quoting Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com:


ec...@casasponti.net wrote:

Quoting ec...@casasponti.net:


I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife.  It comes with WindowsXP and while
configuring it for her  I found it to be a nice, new generation
laptop.  I liked it well enough to consider buying another for me and
installing FreeBSD but I would like to see what works and doesn't work.

Link because of the original subject error [Lenovo S110 rather than
the correct S10.  Sorry.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087current-category-id=D4B2E83FADD74C9F8BBA5B276072AD8C



Any comments or suggestions appreciated.

ed


According to the link, it has a broadcom wireless, which I believe will
be a problem.



Yep, I think you are right.  I remembered that broadcom was supported  
but I see I am very behind times with wireless and have been playing  
catchup with ath that now works great.


Thanks for the reality check.  I still think it is a nice machine for  
the price but . . . .


ed


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Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia  Henry Ford
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Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

[Neal Hogan]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
  On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send
 this
   question to.
  
   I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to
   configure my
   Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd
   the
   bcmwl5_sys.ko to /boot/kernel and added *bcmwl5_sys_load=YES* to my
   /boot/loader.conf. Now the machine will not boot. It crashes when it
   reaches
   the ndis0 line. I've tried booting in all the modes but they all fail
 to
   boot. I can escape to prompt, but am unsure what, if anything, I can
 do
   in
   that mode to deal with the situation.
  
   With other releases (6.4 and 7.0) the machine would panick when I
   attempted
   to ifconfig ndis0. However, I was able to boot in single user mode and
   temporarily move the rc.conf file so that I cound boot in the default
   mode.
   With 7.1, I don't appear to have that option.
  
   Is there anything I can do, short of a fresh install, to eliminate
 this
   problem? I'm not too worried about getting the wifi up (although, I
   won't
   turn down any advice). I just want the machine to boot.
  
 
  I discovered a wierd hack to resolve this.  Remove the line(s) from
  loader.conf, and create an /etc/rc.local file containing the
  following:
 
  /sbin/kldload /boot/modules/bcmwl5_sys.ko
 
  That should survive a reboot.
 
 
  --
  Glen Barber
 
  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I
  learn. - Benjamin Franklin
 
  Glen,
 
   I tried your suggestion (which I appreciate) and it did survive
 rebooting.
  However, bcmwl5_sys.ko was not loaded because there was no ndis
 interface.
  So, I change the rc.local to
 
  /sbin/kldload /boot/kernel/bcmwl5_sys.ko
 
  Upon reboot, the system panicked when it loaded the rc.local file.
 
  I don't know . . .
 

 Any additional modules should be placed in /boot/modules, not
 /boot/kernel.  What happens if you manually load the module after the
 system is running?


 --
 Glen Barber

 Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I
 learn. - Benjamin Franklin


Glen,

Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed the
*bcmwl5-stuff* to  begin again. Note that *kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko* output
that there was no such file. Below is some info as to what lead to the panic
(it's info I gave in response to another generous fellow on the list).

I have not formally sync'd the system and source. But what I did prior to
the panicking was freshly install 7.0-RELEASE from disc, did not add any
packages, before upgrading to 7.1-RELEASE, using *freebsd-update -r
7.1-RELEASE upgrade  freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE install* I then
installed downloded the ports tree via ftp and added a few packages.

The bcmwl5_sys.ko was generated using *ndisgen /mnt/flash/bcmwl5.inf
/mnt/flash/bcmwl5.sys*  When it came time to make the .ko file, it reported
a syntax error on the last line of the .inf file. I removed that line and
the .ko file was generated.

As far as using the correct driver is concerned . . . my Broadcom card is a
BCM94309, version 4.10.40, in Windows XP Home. I got the driver, with those
specs, from the HP website. The only difference was that my hardware specs
under XP dates the card version as 11/2/2005 and the driver, on the HP site,
is dated 2/17/2006.

Panic info . . . there was not much time to get all of the info before it
reboot and, at this point, I've uninstalled the driver stuff to avoid panic.
I do remember it saying something about a *fatal trap 12*

I hope this was info. you were looking for. Again, thanks for your
consideration.

-Neal



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Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote:
 Glen,

 Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed the
 *bcmwl5-stuff* to  begin again. Note that *kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko* output
 that there was no such file. Below is some info as to what lead to the panic
 (it's info I gave in response to another generous fellow on the list).


Just use `kldload bcmwl5_sys` without the `.ko' at the end.

 I have not formally sync'd the system and source. But what I did prior to
 the panicking was freshly install 7.0-RELEASE from disc, did not add any
 packages, before upgrading to 7.1-RELEASE, using *freebsd-update -r
 7.1-RELEASE upgrade  freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE install* I then
 installed downloded the ports tree via ftp and added a few packages.


This could be causing a problem if the kernel and userland (ndis
included) are out of sync.

 The bcmwl5_sys.ko was generated using *ndisgen /mnt/flash/bcmwl5.inf
 /mnt/flash/bcmwl5.sys*  When it came time to make the .ko file, it reported
 a syntax error on the last line of the .inf file. I removed that line and
 the .ko file was generated.

 As far as using the correct driver is concerned . . . my Broadcom card is a
 BCM94309, version 4.10.40, in Windows XP Home. I got the driver, with those
 specs, from the HP website. The only difference was that my hardware specs
 under XP dates the card version as 11/2/2005 and the driver, on the HP site,
 is dated 2/17/2006.


Try using an older/newer .inf and .sys file.

 Panic info . . . there was not much time to get all of the info before it
 reboot and, at this point, I've uninstalled the driver stuff to avoid panic.
 I do remember it saying something about a *fatal trap 12*


Fatal trap 12 is kind of a generic error message.  What appears before
that actual trap is the important part.

 I hope this was info. you were looking for. Again, thanks for your
 consideration.


-- 
Glen Barber
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Grant Peel]

Hi all,

For those that have been following this thread:

I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR
-Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk,
-The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR,
   -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install),
   -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive,

-As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system,
-FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but,

-I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation.

Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager again?

THanks all,

-Grant
- Original Message - 
From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca

To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager



Grant Peel wrote:

So then,

IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should
we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then,
use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?


Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at.

Steve
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Re: programs...

[David Kelly]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   
   Guys,
 
   I've going to give away what I think could be at least a
   multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already.
   And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist.

Its called iTunes.

   First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio
   programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be
   to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of
   airing, and/or date of podcast?  Not to exceed several hours
   worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording.

iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete
old podcasts.

   I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give
   you some idea.  And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot
   capture some programs.  Like FRONTLINE on PBS.
 
   But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or
   whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the
   proper codecs.
 
   This GUI app  would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp
   FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC],
   and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09.  

iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/

   When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the
   program would send mail or otherwise inform the user.

Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send
notification.

There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the
same thing.

   How doable is this...?  and, yes, i know that many of these
   audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts.  I have several
   on my Google page.  

Get A Mac!

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Michael Copeland]

why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless 
you specifically need fbsd boot manager


Grant Peel wrote:

Hi all,

For those that have been following this thread:

I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR
-Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk,
-The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR,
   -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install),
   -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive,

-As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system,
-FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but,

-I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation.

Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager 
again?


THanks all,

-Grant
- Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca
To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager



Grant Peel wrote:

So then,

IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, 
should

we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then,
use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?


Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at.

Steve
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Grant Peel]

Hi Mike,

I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here?

What I am asking, is, somehting like:

Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the 
sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with:


F1 Windows
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1

-Grant



- Original Message - 
From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com

To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager


why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless 
you specifically need fbsd boot manager


Grant Peel wrote:

Hi all,

For those that have been following this thread:

I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR
-Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk,
-The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR,
   -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install),
   -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive,

-As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system,
-FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but,

-I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation.

Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager 
again?


THanks all,

-Grant
- Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca
To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager



Grant Peel wrote:

So then,

IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, 
should

we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then,
use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?


Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at.

Steve
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Michael Copeland]

also, doing it the way i suggested will still give you the option to 
re-select windows, and then from there right back to freebsd is you 
accidentally hit the wrong button. creates a nice loop.

eg: machine boots, windows shows you Windows XP or FreeBSD
you select FreeBSD, you get the menu you want from there
F1 FreeBSD
F2 Microsoft Windows
F5 DiskX
Selecting windows will take you back to the windows loader, and then you 
could select windows or freebsd.


Grant Peel wrote:

Hi Mike,

I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here?

What I am asking, is, somehting like:

Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the 
sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with:


F1 Windows
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1

-Grant



- Original Message - From: Michael Copeland 
michael.copel...@gmail.com

To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager


why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. 
unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager


Grant Peel wrote:

Hi all,

For those that have been following this thread:

I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR
-Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk,
-The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR,
   -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install),
   -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original 
C-Drive,


-As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system,
-FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but,

-I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation.

Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot 
manager again?


THanks all,

-Grant
- Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca
To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager



Grant Peel wrote:

So then,

IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, 
should
we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, 
then,

use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?


Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at.

Steve
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Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
 I tried booting a FreeBSD CD  going into sysinstall  then fdisk but
 it said it couldn't find any disks.

Ah! This means something like the disk *really* can't be accessed.
You can easily conclude from

% dmesg | grep ^ad

if any disk is present, or use

% atacontrol list

to see what's on the HDD controller.



 freesbie.org is unfortunately down :(

The diagnostic means of a bootable FreeBSD installation CD should
be sufficient at first - to eleminate or confirm the idea that the
disk is not present.

Now, check settings in CMOS setup, check wires, eventually check
hard disk in another system, and / or put another disk into the
system you want to boot (cross-checking) - the latter one not
to install anything, but to see if the disk is recognized correctly.



 I'm not using GENERIC but IIRC I've only stripped out NIC's etc.

Then I think the only thing missing could be the ad driver or
something it depends on, but that's nearly impossible to miss. :-)



 I booted with booting verbose and it's showing this before it jumps to
 the mountroot prompt:
 
 ata1: SATA connect time=0ms
 ata1: SIGNATURE: eb140101
 ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x4ATAPI_MASTER
 ata1: reinit done ..
 ata2: reiniting channel ..
 ata2: SATA connect time=0ms
 ata2: SIGNATURE: 0101
 ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x1ATA_MASTER
 ata2: reinit done ..
 ata2: reiniting channel ..
 
 *repeats*

I see you're using a SATA disk. I don't have such ones, so I'm not
sure if they maybe require something in the kernel?



 ATA PseudoRAID loaded

PseudoRAID, only one disk? Hmmm... eventually check BIOS again.



Finally, I think the problem occurs this way: The ad0 disk can't
be recognized, so the access to ad0s1a won't work. You should
try to get access to ad0. Maybe some cross-checking will help,
just in case you're having a damaged hard disk...



-- 
Polytropon
From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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Re: FreeBSD USB Install

[Brian McCann]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:30 AM, chris.scott k...@snaffler.net wrote:
 if your still stuck i can give you a dd of my usb image that definitely
 works
 if it still doesnt work for you you will know its a hardware issue and not
 your building skills 8)

 Brian McCann wrote:

 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chris Scott chris.sc...@uk.tiscali.com
 wrote:


 Hi,



 Ditch sysinstall and follow this



 http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-
 stick-episode-2



 glabel (the -L one newfs) is your friend, as it will help you avoid the
 situation when you get boot failures when you try to boot off ur usb
 disk on a machine that has scsi drives (da0 wont be the usb drive)




 Firing that up now...I'll post the results.  I tried this some time
 ago and it wouldn't work...but that could have been me doing something
 wrong or the PC didn't support booting from USB.

 Thanks, I'll let ya know!
 --Brian





Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting.  I made a
stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine,
booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got
very corrupted in one of various things I was doing to it (I think it
was when I accidentially unplugged it before running a sync and
umount).  I figured it'd just be easier to start over and build it
again from scratch.  So...I try to newfs it (newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick
/dev/da1s1a, and newfs fails with cg 0: bad magic number .  Now I'm
really getting pissed.  So...I run a dd (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1
bs=1m), and do the whole thing over...here's the console output:

umm# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m
dd: /dev/da1: short write on character device
dd: /dev/da1: end of device
3830+0 records in
3829+1 records out
4016045568 bytes transferred in 4324.380202 secs (928699 bytes/sec)
umm# fdisk -BI /dev/da1
*** Working on device /dev/da1 ***
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
fdisk: Geom not found: da1
umm# bsdlabel -B -w da1s1
umm# newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick /dev/da1s1a
/dev/da1s1a: 3827.9MB (7839640 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 21 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624,
3010976, 3387328, 3763680, 4140032, 4516384, 4892736,
 5269088, 5645440, 6021792, 6398144, 6774496, 7150848, 7527200
cg 0: bad magic number

So now I'm getting seriously ticked off.  Anyone have any ideas what
the heck could be causing this?  This thumb drive was working fine
with FreeBSD!  I'm trying a dd on a thumb drive w/o specifying a block
size / BS...we'll see what that does...but I'm still open to
suggestions since I'm just about out of ideas.

Thanks!
--Brian



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Problem compiling gnome2

[rg]

Hello,

I am trying to compile gnome2, but libggz fails to compile because of  
missing library: gcrypt1.5. It does on to complile security/ 
libgcrypt, but evidently the current version 1.4.3 doesn't help much.  
How can I fight with this beast?


Thank you.
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Re: Problem compiling gnome2

[Michael Copeland]

rg wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to compile gnome2, but libggz fails to compile because of 
missing library: gcrypt1.5. It does on to complile security/libgcrypt, 
but evidently the current version 1.4.3 doesn't help much. How can I 
fight with this beast?


Thank you.

i would assume upgrade to 1.5

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Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

[Frank Shute]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:

 On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
  Anybody got any idea on what's going on  how to fix it?
 
 The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found.
 It's not listed in the available devices, and boot fails.
 
 Could you check its presence using a FreeBSD / FreeSBIE boot CD?

I tried booting a FreeBSD CD  going into sysinstall  then fdisk but
it said it couldn't find any disks.

freesbie.org is unfortunately down :(

 
 I'm surprised the hard disk isn't detected at all... are you using
 the GENERIC kernel?

I'm not using GENERIC but IIRC I've only stripped out NIC's etc.

I booted with booting verbose and it's showing this before it jumps to
the mountroot prompt:

ata1: SATA connect time=0ms
ata1: SIGNATURE: eb140101
ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x4ATAPI_MASTER
ata1: reinit done ..
ata2: reiniting channel ..
ata2: SATA connect time=0ms
ata2: SIGNATURE: 0101
ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x1ATA_MASTER
ata2: reinit done ..
ata2: reiniting channel ..

*repeats*

ATA PseudoRAID loaded
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2

mountroot

 
 -- 
 Polytropon

Hope that helps some more.


Regards,

-- 

 Frank


 Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html

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Re: Sun sucks

[RW]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:25 -0500
Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:

 RW wrote:

  Just create a new account for some made-up name, don't specify any
  company, download your file, and then (if you really care) go
  through the hoops afterwards.
 
 Improper subject, wrong attitude.
 
 If one wishes to use a license from another product that is outside of
 the BSD license scope, then follow it properly.
 
 FreeBSD (  personnel) does a magnificent job of keeping
 outside-licensed code and objects separate from itself, and I'd rather
 jump through burning hoops of flame to 'add on' to the system to mend
 it to my needs, as opposed to  having the system, and possibly its
 users, face legal ramifications later...

 
That would be an excellent point if I claimed to speak for the FreeBSD
project - I don't, so it isn't. OSS projects aren't liable for the
actions and opinions of their end-users.


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Re: FreeBSD USB Install

[Brian McCann]

 Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting.  I made a
 stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine,
 booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got
 very corrupted in one of various things I was doing to it (I think it
 was when I accidentially unplugged it before running a sync and
 umount).  I figured it'd just be easier to start over and build it
 again from scratch.  So...I try to newfs it (newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick
 /dev/da1s1a, and newfs fails with cg 0: bad magic number .  Now I'm
 really getting pissed.  So...I run a dd (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1
 bs=1m), and do the whole thing over...here's the console output:

 umm# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m
 dd: /dev/da1: short write on character device
 dd: /dev/da1: end of device
 3830+0 records in
 3829+1 records out
 4016045568 bytes transferred in 4324.380202 secs (928699 bytes/sec)
 umm# fdisk -BI /dev/da1
 *** Working on device /dev/da1 ***
 fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
 fdisk: Geom not found: da1
 umm# bsdlabel -B -w da1s1
 umm# newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick /dev/da1s1a
 /dev/da1s1a: 3827.9MB (7839640 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 21 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes.
with soft updates
 super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
  160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624,
 3010976, 3387328, 3763680, 4140032, 4516384, 4892736,
  5269088, 5645440, 6021792, 6398144, 6774496, 7150848, 7527200
 cg 0: bad magic number

 So now I'm getting seriously ticked off.  Anyone have any ideas what
 the heck could be causing this?  This thumb drive was working fine
 with FreeBSD!  I'm trying a dd on a thumb drive w/o specifying a block
 size / BS...we'll see what that does...but I'm still open to
 suggestions since I'm just about out of ideas.

 Thanks!
 --Brian



To the list of things tried...add formatting the USB stick with the
HDD Low Level Format Tool
(http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/).
 Still no joy...

--Brian

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Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

[Lowell Gilbert]

Bert-Jan i...@bert-jan.com writes:

 I do find it strange though, that freebsd-update replaced those files,
 even though it tells you it's going to change them.

I don't use freebsd-update, so I'm just trying to figure it out from
reading the program.  [freebsd-update is mostly just a shell script]

 What is the proper way to handle this ? Can I run a command after the
 update finishes that regenerates the account databases from the
 master.passwd ? I checked the history and *I* never touched it during the
 update, so it was merged like it should.

I'm not sure what the proper way is; there's certainly code in there to
update the databases automatically, so you *shouldn't* have to do
anything.  To do the same thing manually, you can use pwd_mkdb(8).  When
you edit the password database with vipw(8), this is handled for you.

I'd recommend trying to reproduce the problem on a spare machine, so we
can understand it better.

-- 
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Michael Copeland]

well, there are many easy ways. one is to install an IFS version of 
UFS, if you're using ufs. that way windows can read the ufs slices and 
you can grab your file that way.


Grant Peel wrote:

Mike,

In order to do that, I need to be able to get the the /boot/boot1 
file that is located in the root of the FreeBSD installation. As of 
right now, I cant get to it, because I can't boot to FreeBSD (chicken 
and egg).


Any ideas?

-Grant

In the instructions link you sent:

9.10. How can I use the Windows NT® loader to boot FreeBSD?
The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your native root 
FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/Windows NT partition. 
Assuming you name that file something like c:\bootsect.bsd (inspired 
by c:\bootsect.dos), you can then edit the c:\boot.ini file to come up 
with something like this:


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Windows NT
C:\BOOTSECT.BSD=FreeBSD
C:\=DOS
If FreeBSD is installed on the same disk as the Windows NT boot 
partition simply copy /boot/boot1 to C:\BOOTSECT.BSD. However, if 
FreeBSD is installed on a different disk /boot/boot1 will not work, 
/boot/boot0 is needed.








- Original Message - From: Michael Copeland 
michael.copel...@gmail.com

To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager



Hello Grant,

What I am suggesting is adding a freebsd entry to your windows boot 
loader. it is quite easy.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER
rather than having to deal with using sysinstall, usually its just as 
simple to add these entries to the windows loader.




Grant Peel wrote:

Hi Mike,

I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here?

What I am asking, is, somehting like:

Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using 
the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind 
up with:


F1 Windows
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1

-Grant



- Original Message - From: Michael Copeland 
michael.copel...@gmail.com

To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager


why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. 
unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager


Grant Peel wrote:

Hi all,

For those that have been following this thread:

I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR
-Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk,
-The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR,
   -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager 
install),
   -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original 
C-Drive,


-As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system,
-FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but,

-I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation.

Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot 
manager again?


THanks all,

-Grant
- Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand 
st...@ibctech.ca

To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; 
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager



Grant Peel wrote:

So then,

IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into 
windows, should
we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, 
then,

use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?


Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at.

Steve
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Re: Problem compiling gnome2

[Yuri Pankov]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:14:03PM +0200, rg wrote:
 Hello,

 I am trying to compile gnome2, but libggz fails to compile because of  
 missing library: gcrypt1.5. It does on to complile security/libgcrypt, 
 but evidently the current version 1.4.3 doesn't help much. How can I 
 fight with this beast?

 Thank you.

Follow steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING 20090107 entry before installing
anything else.


HTH,
Yuri
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Re: ports tree build ignores /etc/make.conf

[Lowell Gilbert]

Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes:

   I have:

 # uname -srm
 FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha
 #

   In /etc/make.conf I have

 .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/gcc*}
 NOT_FOR_ARCHS=
 .endif

   However, I get:

 # cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc43
 # make
 ===  gcc-4.3.3_20090101 does not run on alpha ia64, while you are running 
 alpha.
 *** Error code 1

 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43.
 # 

   So it seems make ignores NOT_FOR_ARCHS= setting.
 When I add this to the gcc43/Makefile directly, build
 goes ahead.

   What's the problem?

The port's makefile is overriding the setting you put in make.conf.
That variable is intended for use in ports, not by end-users (otherwise,
the port makefile would use a different assignment operator to avoid
overwriting existing settings).

If you really think you can fix the build for that architecture, you
should be modifying the original makefile. 

-- 
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Jerry McAllister]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:23:01PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 
  on my Windows XP SP3 box.
 
  In that machine, there is one SATA drive.
 
  On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try 
  putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it.
 
  During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install 
  went flawlessly.
 
  The problem is, when I boot up I get:
 
  F1 ??
  F2 FreeBSD
  F5 Disk1
 
  F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots 
  perfectly.
  F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller.
 
  F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I simply get 
  the cursor on a new line, and nothing happens.
 
  Like this:
 
  F1 ??
  F2 FreeBSD
  F5 Disk1
  _
 
  Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again?
 
  It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk before 
  I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything to the 
  booting system.
 
  All suggestions welcome,
 
  -Grant
 
 www.bootdisk.com
 
 Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and
 write it out to a floppy disk.
 
 Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type 'fdisk
 /mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should boot
 again.
 
 Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD
 installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome
 that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager.

You should be able to do the same thing with a FreeBSD fixit.
Sounds like something got corrupted with the MBR or a boot record
somewhere.   But, the FreeBSD MBR should boot XP just fine.  The
machine I am typing on is dual boot with FreeBSD and XP (plus a Dell
maintenance slice).All boot with no problem using the FreeBSD MBR.
So, using fdisk to reinstall the MBR might help.

jerry


 
 Kurt
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Jerry McAllister]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:37:28PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:

 So then,
 
 IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we 
 not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use 
 Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?

Maybe, but better to boot up the fixit and use fdisk to restore it.

jerry


 
 -Grant
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca
 To: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com
 Cc: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:33 PM
 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
 
 
 Kurt Buff wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote:
 
 On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try 
 putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it.
 
 During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install 
 went flawlessly.
 
 Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again?
 
 It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk 
 before I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything 
 to the booting system.
 
 www.bootdisk.com
 
 Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and
 write it out to a floppy disk.
 
 Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type 'fdisk
 /mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should boot
 again.
 
 Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD
 installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome
 that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager.
 
 Technically (theoretically) speaking, using a Win32 boot disk to fdisk
 /mbr, he should be able to re-initialize the FBSD boot loader by going
 through the steps he did initially.
 
 AFAIR, Symantec GoBack, along with many other 'in-disk' restoration
 programs, overwrite the boot sector with its own code.
 
 If the OP can boot back into Windows with the fdisk /mbr, he has likely
 done both:
 
 - broke his GoBack program's ability to recover, and;
 - made it possible to restore the FBSD boot manager
 
 If Windows boots after following Kurt's recommendation of restoring the
 Windows MBR, back up your Windows system, then try FreeBSD again.
 
 You sound courageous, give 'er!
 
 
 Steve
 
 
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:40:58AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 For those that have been following this thread:
 
 I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR
 -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk,
 -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR,
-It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install),
-So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive,
 
 -As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system,
 -FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but,
 
 -I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation.
 
 Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager again?

Boot fixit from CD.   
  
  Do:
fdisk -B  
  or maybe you need:
fdisk -iB

Then try to reboot.

These should only affect sector 0  which is where the MBR goes.

What is screwing you up is that Norton GoBack.   I haven't used it, 
but it probably works like previous recovery utilities for Norton.
It rewrites the MBR to only boot its own stuff instead of a standard
system boot and clobbers anything else there.It is supposed to
stash the original MBR somewhere and later put it back.  But it 
doesn't always work.   If it is initiated twice in a row, for example,
it saves the MBR and writes its own.   Then the next time it saves
the MBR (which is its own) which clobbers the original that it stashed
away and then writes its own MBR in the stash, thus making both copies
be its own MBR and the original is trashed.   

This is just one example of the way it can screw up that I have 
encountered (- and fixed using the FreeBSD fixit, even though it 
was an all Windows machine with no FreeBSD on it).   There are
probably more scenarios that end up with a similarly trashed MBR
from GoBack.

So, just try getting FreeBSD fixit to fix it.

jerry
 
 THanks all,
 
 -Grant
 - Original Message - 
 From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca
 To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
 Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM
 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
 
 
 Grant Peel wrote:
 So then,
 
 IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should
 we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then,
 use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?
 
 Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at.
 
 Steve
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:53:51AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:

 Hi Mike,
 
 I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here?
 
 What I am asking, is, somehting like:
 
 Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the 
 sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with:
 
 F1 Windows
 F2 FreeBSD
 F5 Disk1

Yup.   But, as I said in a previous post, use fixit and fdisk.
The F1 choice will probably say either  DOS  or  ??  instead
of Windows.DOS if it is a FAT or FAT32 file system, ?? if
it is an NTSF file system.

jerry


 
 -Grant
 
 
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com
 To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM
 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
 
 
 why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless 
 you specifically need fbsd boot manager
 
 Grant Peel wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 For those that have been following this thread:
 
 I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR
 -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk,
 -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR,
-It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install),
-So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive,
 
 -As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system,
 -FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but,
 
 -I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation.
 
 Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager 
 again?
 
 THanks all,
 
 -Grant
 - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca
 To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
 Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM
 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
 
 
 Grant Peel wrote:
 So then,
 
 IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, 
 should
 we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then,
 use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager?
 
 Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at.
 
 Steve
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Jerry McAllister]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:

 Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ?

Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any
other OSen nor being able to boot them   So, use the FreeBSD fdisk
which will plant the FreeBSD MBR.

jerry


 
 -Grant
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com
 To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM
 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
 
 
 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 
 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box.
 
 In that machine, there is one SATA drive.
 
 On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try 
 putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it.
 
 During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install 
 went flawlessly.
 
 The problem is, when I boot up I get:
 
 F1 ??
 F2 FreeBSD
 F5 Disk1
 
 F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots 
 perfectly.
 F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller.
 
 F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I simply 
 get the cursor on a new line, and nothing happens.
 
 Like this:
 
 F1 ??
 F2 FreeBSD
 F5 Disk1
 _
 
 Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again?
 
 It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk 
 before I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything 
 to the booting system.
 
 All suggestions welcome,
 
 -Grant
 
 www.bootdisk.com
 
 Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and
 write it out to a floppy disk.
 
 Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type 'fdisk
 /mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should boot
 again.
 
 Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD
 installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome
 that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager.
 
 Kurt
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Derek Funk]

From the point the message below, I would set up freebsd to give me a 
graphical gui so I can use gparted to unflag the bsd partition as boot 
and flag the windows as boot.  Before restarting, I would copy 
/boot/boot1 to somewhere accessible by windows named something like 
freebsd.boot.

Then I'd set up the NT boot loader:
   right click on my computer... properties... advance tab... startup 
and recovery settings... click edit and add line

c:\freebsd.boot=FreeBSD --- filename of what /boot/boot1 was copied to.

This should have gotten to dual booting windows and freebsd, but using 
the nt boot loader.


 Original Message 
Subject:FreeBSD Boot Manager
Date:   Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:17:15 -0500
From:   Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org



Hi all,

I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on 
my Windows XP SP3 box.

In that machine, there is one SATA drive.

On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. 


During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install went 
flawlessly.

The problem is, when I boot up I get:

F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1

F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots perfectly.
F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller.

F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I simply get the 
cursor on a new line, and nothing happens.

Like this:

F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1
_

Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again?

It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk before I 
installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything to the booting 
system.

All suggestions welcome,

-Grant
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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[chris.scott]

cd /usr/ports as normal

have a look at  man mount_unionfs

your basically stacking fs on top of each other
writes goto the tmpfs as its at the top of the stack

its not persistent over boots mind

PstreeM China wrote:
i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX  is a good idea , and i whill test the 
methon unionfs.


but i want to know , after i mount the unionfs , like this :#mount -t 
unionfs  /usr/ports /usr/ports.real

the /usr/ports is  memery FS, what can i used to install software ??
go to the dir : /usr/ports/**/** to install ,
or go to dir dir : /usr/ports.real/*/* to install ??

thank all!!

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM, chris.scott k...@snaffler.net 
mailto:k...@snaffler.net wrote:


Wojciech Puchar wrote:

hi all:

i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the
installation of
Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) ..

during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but
what can i do for


better use tmpfs

the port ?


rm -rf /usr/ports/
mkdir /usr/ports
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/ports
portsnap extract

now build
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quicker to do


mv /usr/ports /usr/ports.real

mkdir /usr/ports
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/ports
mount -t unionfs -o noatime /usr/ports /usr/ports.real


of cause tmpfs can actually start using disk space unlike a md
device so if you eat up to much ram with the compiles it will slow
down

 



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re: Help with dmesg (problem solved)

[Rem P Roberti]

OK...follow me through on this one.  The line 48 that was referred to in 
the error message as being in sendmail.cf was actually line 48 in the 
/etc/mail/freebsd.mc file, and subsequently in the hostname.mc file 
that is created with the make command.  That line is: 
OSTYPE(freebsd6), and it points to .m4 files in the 
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ostype directory.  Well, I had changed (don't 
even ask me why) OSTYPE(freebsd6) to OSTYPE(freebsd7.1) in the before 
mentioned files and, of course, there is no .m4 file that references 
freebsd7.1.  This messed up everything.  Once I put everything back the 
way it is supposed to be, and carefully followed the clamav installation 
instructions...guess what.  All is well.  There is a lesson here, and 
hopefully I have learned it.


Rem
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Re: FreeBSD USB Install

[Sergio de Almeida Lenzi]

Hello

I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors
of the pen drive it gets mad about it
and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE...

the first time, it complains,
the second time it works fine

I assume you have grub installed   (pkg_add -r grub)

I use the folowing procedure:
1) put the pen drive on the computer  it finds at da0
2) dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=20  
2) fdisk  -BI /dev/da0
3) disklabel -w -B /dev/da0s1
4) fdisk -BI /dev/da0  
5) disklabel -w -B  /dev/da0s1
6) newfs -L FreeBSDstick /dev/da0s1a
7) mount -o async /dev/da0s1a /mnt
8) mkdir /mnt/boot/grub
9) cd /usr/local/share/grub/*/
10 cp * /mnt/boot/grub
11) cat %  /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
title FreeBSD on USB
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /boot/loader
%
12) umount /mnt
13) grub --batch %
device (hd7) /dev/da0
root (hd7,0,a)
setup (hd7)
%
=
now just populate the /mnt with bsd and your system 
should come up...

=


Hope this will help...


Here i use 4gb pen-drivers running FreeBSD 7 with zfs...
it works fine and very fast...

Sergio.
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Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

[Colin Percival]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

Bert-Jan i...@bert-jan.com writes:

What is the proper way to handle this ? Can I run a command after the
update finishes that regenerates the account databases from the
master.passwd ? I checked the history and *I* never touched it during the
update, so it was merged like it should.


I'm not sure what the proper way is; there's certainly code in there to
update the databases automatically, so you *shouldn't* have to do
anything.  To do the same thing manually, you can use pwd_mkdb(8).  When
you edit the password database with vipw(8), this is handled for you.


If freebsd-update installs a new master.passwd file, it will regenerate the
databases from it.  All I can guess in this case is that freebsd-update couldn't
manage to merge updates into master.passwd automatically, and when it opened up
the file in an editor for you to fix, you didn't merge things properly.

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best way to debug intermittent system freezes?

[Steve Franks]

I've got me a laptop with a very clean, updated 7.1 (stable) install.
Started at 7.0.  Only problem is about every 2-4 hours it locks up
solid - no disk, no keyboard, console frozen (not running X yet,
although it's installed and does boot from startx).

How do I even go about poking into this?  It's my very last M$ win32
system, and in my opinion, win32 needs to go away, so I have a
considerable psychological investment in seeing this thru.

Obviously, no lockups or any other weird behavior when running win32.

I thought it might be thermal, but the system has never overheated
before, and I did crank up powerd without effect.

Best,
Steve
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Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

[Neal Hogan]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote:
  Glen,
 
  Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed
 the
  *bcmwl5-stuff* to  begin again. Note that *kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko* output
  that there was no such file. Below is some info as to what lead to the
 panic
  (it's info I gave in response to another generous fellow on the list).
 

 Just use `kldload bcmwl5_sys` without the `.ko' at the end.

  I have not formally sync'd the system and source. But what I did prior to
  the panicking was freshly install 7.0-RELEASE from disc, did not add any
  packages, before upgrading to 7.1-RELEASE, using *freebsd-update -r
  7.1-RELEASE upgrade  freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE install* I then
  installed downloded the ports tree via ftp and added a few packages.
 

 This could be causing a problem if the kernel and userland (ndis
 included) are out of sync.

  The bcmwl5_sys.ko was generated using *ndisgen /mnt/flash/bcmwl5.inf
  /mnt/flash/bcmwl5.sys*  When it came time to make the .ko file, it
 reported
  a syntax error on the last line of the .inf file. I removed that line and
  the .ko file was generated.
 
  As far as using the correct driver is concerned . . . my Broadcom card is
 a
  BCM94309, version 4.10.40, in Windows XP Home. I got the driver, with
 those
  specs, from the HP website. The only difference was that my hardware
 specs
  under XP dates the card version as 11/2/2005 and the driver, on the HP
 site,
  is dated 2/17/2006.
 

 Try using an older/newer .inf and .sys file.


I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the
meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really a
matter of trying different ones? I updated the driver this morning to a new
version. Is that not the driver that I'll use for the ndiswrapper? Should an
older version, perhaps the one that was originally installed?

I apologize if these questions are rather simple and naiive.


  Panic info . . . there was not much time to get all of the info before it
  reboot and, at this point, I've uninstalled the driver stuff to avoid
 panic.
  I do remember it saying something about a *fatal trap 12*
 

 Fatal trap 12 is kind of a generic error message.  What appears before
 that actual trap is the important part.

  I hope this was info. you were looking for. Again, thanks for your
  consideration.
 

 --
 Glen Barber




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Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

[Frank Shute]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:57PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:

 On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
  I tried booting a FreeBSD CD  going into sysinstall  then fdisk but
  it said it couldn't find any disks.
 
 Ah! This means something like the disk *really* can't be accessed.
 You can easily conclude from
 
   % dmesg | grep ^ad
 
 if any disk is present, or use
 
   % atacontrol list
 
 to see what's on the HDD controller.
 
 
 
  freesbie.org is unfortunately down :(
 
 The diagnostic means of a bootable FreeBSD installation CD should
 be sufficient at first - to eleminate or confirm the idea that the
 disk is not present.
 
 Now, check settings in CMOS setup, check wires, eventually check
 hard disk in another system, and / or put another disk into the
 system you want to boot (cross-checking) - the latter one not
 to install anything, but to see if the disk is recognized correctly.
 
 
 
  I'm not using GENERIC but IIRC I've only stripped out NIC's etc.
 
 Then I think the only thing missing could be the ad driver or
 something it depends on, but that's nearly impossible to miss. :-)
 
 
 
  I booted with booting verbose and it's showing this before it jumps to
  the mountroot prompt:
  
  ata1: SATA connect time=0ms
  ata1: SIGNATURE: eb140101
  ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x4ATAPI_MASTER
  ata1: reinit done ..
  ata2: reiniting channel ..
  ata2: SATA connect time=0ms
  ata2: SIGNATURE: 0101
  ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x1ATA_MASTER
  ata2: reinit done ..
  ata2: reiniting channel ..
  
  *repeats*
 
 I see you're using a SATA disk. I don't have such ones, so I'm not
 sure if they maybe require something in the kernel?
 
 
 
  ATA PseudoRAID loaded
 
 PseudoRAID, only one disk? Hmmm... eventually check BIOS again.
 
 
 
 Finally, I think the problem occurs this way: The ad0 disk can't
 be recognized, so the access to ad0s1a won't work. You should
 try to get access to ad0. Maybe some cross-checking will help,
 just in case you're having a damaged hard disk...
 

Hi Polytropon,

Many thanks for all your help. You gave me enough to go on to
eventually get it to boot.

I changed something in the BIOS: Use legacy IDE or something like
that and on boot-up the disk controller fired up and my CD  2 HDs
were detected. (Un)fortunately, my boot partition had gone from ad0s2a
to ad4s2a, in fact all FreeBSD partitions had migrated to ad4(?) and
on the Windows disk from ad2 to ad8. I mounted the root partition and
vi'd /etc/fstab. It then rebooted ok.

I hadn't rebooted the machine for 200days but I must have changed
something, somewhere.

Regards,

-- 

 Frank


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weird samba error

[Aggelidis Nikos]

hi to all the list,

i have a question concerning samba and freebsd:

whenever i use the option username map = /usr/local/etc/samba/smbusers
in my smb.conf
, and i try to connect to samba server like this

#smbclient //apollo/username
Password:
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

i get this error even though i type the password correctly...

here is the smb.conf i use:

$cat /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
[global]
 netbios name = apollo
 workgroup = PHOME
 server string = Freebsd File Server
 dns proxy = No

 security = user
 encrypt passwords = yes
 passdb backend = smbpasswd
 smb passwd file = /usr/local/etc/samba/smbpasswd

 #*this options creates all the problems*
 #username map = /usr/local/etc/samba/smbusers

 debug timestamp = no
 log level = 1
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 max log size = 50

 hosts allow = 192.168.1., 192.168.2., 127.

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No

#cat /usr/local/etc/samba/smbusers

# Unix_name = SMB_Name1 SMB_Name2 ...
# map_to = map_from
root = administrator
nobody = guest smbguest pcguest
username = username anotherusername

any idea why this happens?or how i should investigate it more?

thanks in advance
-nicolas
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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[Lowell Gilbert]

PstreeM China pstr...@gmail.com writes:

 i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX  is a good idea , and i whill test the
 methon unionfs.

Definitely benchmark against just using a native local filesystem,
though.  Taking away all of that memory that FreeBSD would otherwise use
for *caching* file data could well end up making your builds *slower*
with the MFS than they would have been without it.

-- 
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http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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FreeBSD ral(4)

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

Hello list,

I found this recent post (added to the bottom of the Email) in a
OpenBSD mailing list, and I am experiencing the same problems
connecting our Iphone 3G phones to our FreeBSD based AP

Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks

fromTodd T. Fries t...@fries.net
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to  Damon McMahon damon.mcma...@gmail.com
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dateFri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM
subject Re: Strange WLAN issue with ral(4) in hostap mode
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There are power savings for 802.11 that OpenBSD does not support; this is
entirely independent from saving battery via cpu clocking and it is also
entirely independent from saving battery via adjusting the transmit power
of the radio.  The power savings for 802.11 actually put the radio to sleep
for a given interval and wake it up sending a message to the AP which is
supposed to hold packets for a given client until the client responds,
which OpenBSD does not do, therefore packetloss ensues.

I know this very well, my BlackBerry Pearl 8120 gets 90-95% packet loss
with an OpenBSD based AP.

Damien is aware of what needs doing, but I am to understand it is not a
short or easy road to get there.

Thanks,
--
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Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes:

 Hello. I come across device.hints manual which says I can set irq for
 each device there. I am using 6.1.

Kind of old now.  I don't know specifically of any reason that would
matter, but for several reasons I wouldn't be at all surprised.

 The settings I made in devices.hints never worked. e.g.

 hint.uhci.0.at=pci
 hint.uhci.0.irq=12

 I can set whatever value for irq and it always rebooted as irq 11.

 However 'disabled=1' works.

 That's strange, I didn't find manual where it say it work in some
 condition or for some device only.

Consult individual device drivers' manual pages for available keywords
and their possible values.

 Is there a way to assign uhci to use an irq differently? seems it is the
 cause of an interrupt storm problem I am having.

I'm not really sure if uhci is set up to do that.  You definitely want
uhci on its own interrupt if you can, not because it necessarily
generates a lot of them, but because it can spend a lot of time handling
each one...

Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC?

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Re: Sun sucks

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

RW wrote:
 On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:25 -0500
 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:

   
 RW wrote:
 

   
 Just create a new account for some made-up name, don't specify any
 company, download your file, and then (if you really care) go
 through the hoops afterwards.
   
 Improper subject, wrong attitude.

 If one wishes to use a license from another product that is outside of
 the BSD license scope, then follow it properly.

 FreeBSD (  personnel) does a magnificent job of keeping
 outside-licensed code and objects separate from itself, and I'd rather
 jump through burning hoops of flame to 'add on' to the system to mend
 it to my needs, as opposed to  having the system, and possibly its
 users, face legal ramifications later...
 

  
 That would be an excellent point if I claimed to speak for the FreeBSD
 project - I don't, so it isn't. OSS projects aren't liable for the
 actions and opinions of their end-users.

   

Perhaps we go to far though because I know of no other OS vendor that
requires you to sign a seperate license for Java... they just notify
you in their legal file that your responible to execute the license
before you install... that way there is none of this current crazyness.
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Re: Restore deleted files

[Rockingham500]

1. Yes, you can recover your deleted files.

2. The best file recovery program is File Restore Professional. It
will also recover files that have lost their file header details and
hence have no file names. Most other products can't do this. You can
also preview your deleted files before you make your purchase. There
is also a testimonial on the companies web site about Microsoft
employees in Germany using it. Further information, trial downloads,
etc., are available here: www.pcrecovery.com

On Jan 8, 11:28 pm, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
 Hi,

 I'd like to ask a two-stage question:

 1. Is it possible to recover files that have been deleted?

 2. Which tools or procedures are suggested for recovery?

 While sorting out some files and transfering them to another
 hard disk, I accidentally deleted too much: the directory with
 my videos taken by a digital camera. They were located in a
 directory within a subtree, and I deleted the whole subtree
 without first copying these files.

 I used the Midnight Commander to do this. As I read from its
 source code, it seems to use the unlink() call to delete the
 subtree recursively. Pressing PF8 can really ruin your day...

 Just after I noticed what I had done I unmounted the file system,
 powered off the machine and put the disk on the shelf (it's still
 there), no further write accesses.

 I would be glad if someone could enlighten me if there is any
 chance to get the files back, even with the loss of the file
 names (doesn't matter), and which tools seem to serve best in
 this difficult task.

 And if it's impossible, please tell me. I can newfs the disk
 then and free it, along with my mind.

 PS.
 I'm posting this question to -fs, too. Answers from this list
 please keep me in CC because I'm not subscribed to -fs. Thank you!

 --
 PolytroponFrom Magdeburg, Germany

 Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

[Glen Barber]

 I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the
 meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really a
 matter of trying different ones?

It was for me.  It took me 3 tries before I found one that 'worked'.

 I updated the driver this morning to a new
 version. Is that not the driver that I'll use for the ndiswrapper? Should an
 older version, perhaps the one that was originally installed?


If I remember correctly, the version I use is 3 versions back from the
latest update.

 I apologize if these questions are rather simple and naiive.


Not at all.  Broadcom is difficult sometimes.  This is one of those times.

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570.328.0318
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Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent

[GESBBB]

 From: Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com

 On Thursday 08 January 2009 12:08:55 pm Michel Talon wrote:
  Hello,
 
  would it not be interesting to have the DragonFlyBSD mail agent in
  FreeBSD? It is a very simple mail agent, like ssmtp, but with some more
  features: it can either deliver mail locally for local users or send all
  other mail to a smarthost, and reads the aliases file. Hence it fulfills
  the needs of the person who wants a small mail agent for receiving
  periodic root mail, and wants to send the occasional without too much
  fuss. It is much simpler than sendmail, postfix or exim.
 
  For simplicity i have a tarball here:
  http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/dma.tgz
  it compiles out of the box, and it is easy to figure out how to use it.
 
 I second that .. Sendmail has turned into an unnecesary behemont for a local 
 MTA .. dma is a lot smaller, simpler, easier to maintain, a lot less bug 
 prone, way easier to configure and all in all, just what I need if my MTA 
 only job will be delivering local mail ... Sendmail feels like having a 
 HUMMER only to take my kids to school and then get back to my home .. which 
 is only two blocks away ... :s
 
 It would be really nice if I could choose whether I want Sendmail, Postfix or 
 dma upon installation time (sysinstall) ...

You can all ready choose if your want Postfix or SendMail when installing. 
IMHO, Postfix is a far superior MTA anyway.

-- 
Gerard
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Re: weird samba error

[Aggelidis Nikos]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Aggelidis Nikos
aggelidis.n...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi to all the list,

i forgot to mention that i use almost the same smb.conf and smbusers
in a debian lenny and everything works, that's why i prefered to post
this message in questi...@...

best regards,
nikos
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Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

[Chad Perrin]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:37:37AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
 
 You're kind of stuck then aren't you -- at least in respect TLS/SSL and
 x509 certificates?  If you don't trust any of the bodies who have the
 capability to authenticate the owners of a particular cryptographic
 key/certificate on your behalf, then you're going to have to do that
 authentication yourself.  Which is cool if you happen to know the movers
 and shakers in the FreeBSD world personally and you can sit down with them
 and compare key fingerprints.  Or even if you can get an introduction to
 them through a mutual acquaintance.

Not exactly.  See my comments up the thread a bit about alternative
site/cert agreement verification.

All the certifying authority *really* does for you is offer out-of-band
verification that the cert that has been delivered to you does indeed
belong with the IP address that delivered it.  It obviously doesn't
actually do that worth a damn, though, as the evidence of Verisign's
(among others) continued use of MD5 shows.

Multiply corroborated independent sources prove a far more trustworthy
verifier in the aggregate, in my opinion, than commercial entities
operating on an authentication model that amounts to an appeal to
authority fallacy.

If you think Verisign certification proves anything about the character
of the person who bought the cert in the first place, you might want to
rethink that -- even if you assume an incompetent Verisign employee
hasn't accidentally sabotaged the authentication process this time.

Authentication of an entity and the decision whether to trust that entity
are two separate things, and should be treated as such.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Anonymous C Professor: To work on a program with the compiler in
debug mode and then to sell it compiling it without the debug option is
like learning to swim with floaters and then taking them off to swim
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Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

On Friday 09 January 2009 5:56:42 pm GESBBB wrote:
  From: Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com
 
  On Thursday 08 January 2009 12:08:55 pm Michel Talon wrote:
   Hello,
  
   would it not be interesting to have the DragonFlyBSD mail agent in
   FreeBSD? It is a very simple mail agent, like ssmtp, but with some more
   features: it can either deliver mail locally for local users or send
   all other mail to a smarthost, and reads the aliases file. Hence it
   fulfills the needs of the person who wants a small mail agent for
   receiving periodic root mail, and wants to send the occasional without
   too much fuss. It is much simpler than sendmail, postfix or exim.
  
   For simplicity i have a tarball here:
   http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/dma.tgz
   it compiles out of the box, and it is easy to figure out how to use it.
 
  I second that .. Sendmail has turned into an unnecesary behemont for a
  local MTA .. dma is a lot smaller, simpler, easier to maintain, a lot
  less bug prone, way easier to configure and all in all, just what I need
  if my MTA only job will be delivering local mail ... Sendmail feels like
  having a HUMMER only to take my kids to school and then get back to my
  home .. which is only two blocks away ... :s
 
  It would be really nice if I could choose whether I want Sendmail,
  Postfix or dma upon installation time (sysinstall) ...

 You can all ready choose if your want Postfix or SendMail when installing.
 IMHO, Postfix is a far superior MTA anyway.

Sure thing .. that's what I do .. but, personally, I've found dma to be even 
better than postfix for this matter (local only/cron sent emails).

I've got both books (the bat, and the dove) .. and believe me .. I find it 
_really_hard_ to find a scenario in which Sendmail has to be the default 
MTA on a fresh install unless we are talking about imposed polocies (like in 
corporate polocies maybe or due to the Postfix license) or pre-existent 
configurations.

-- 
Blessings
Gonzalo Nemmi
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Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

[Chad Perrin]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:08:56PM -0800, Walt Pawley wrote:
 At 12:31 PM -0700 1/6/09, Chad Perrin wrote:
 
 On the other hand, I don't trust Verisign, either.
 
 What's to trust? If you pay them, you in.

Exactly.  That's why I -- as the guy sitting in front of the *browser* --
don't trust Verisign to do my authentication and authorization thinking
for me.  There's at minimum a potential for conflict of interest there,
in addition to the likelihood (now realized, in the form of leveraging
MD5 to crack Verisign cert authenticity) of bureaucratic incompetence
producing disaster entirely by accident.

-- 
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Quoth James Madison: If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it
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Mounting /c

[Rem P Roberti]

Question 1)

I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c:

alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c'

It works fine.  I thought that I could automate the process further by
mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab:

# DeviceMountpoint  FStype  Options Dump
Pass#
/dev/ad1s1  /c  ntfs
rw 1   0


That doesn't work.  What is wrong there?

Question 2)

I know that it is possible to copy files from /c to my freebsd drive, but
is it possible to do that in reverse?

TIA...

Rem

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Re: Mounting /c

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:

 Question 1)
 
 I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c:
 
 alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c'
 
 It works fine.  I thought that I could automate the process further by
 mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab:
 
 # DeviceMountpoint  FStype  Options Dump
 Pass#
 /dev/ad1s1  /c  ntfs
 rw 1   0
 
 That doesn't work.  What is wrong there?

I think I must be missing something here.   This all seems like the hard
way to do things, or else you are trying to do something I don't understand.

It seems to me like just:
  mkdir /c:  (skip the : if you don't really want it)
  mount_ntfs /dev/as1s1 /c:

Should work.
And then, put this in your /etc/fstab:

# Device Mountpoint  FStype  OptionsDumpPass#
/dev/ad1s1/c: ntfs ro0   0

to get it to mount when the system comes up.

I do this with an  msdosfs  filesystem type with no problem and once
had a machine with ntfs and did it there.  (but that is gone so I 
can't go and check it now)

 
 Question 2)
 
 I know that it is possible to copy files from /c to my freebsd drive, but
 is it possible to do that in reverse?

In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file
system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32.
According to the man page, some limited writing can be done, but the 
list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately straightforward.
Seeman mount_ntfs   for more information on this.

If you really want to try writing to the ntfs file system from FreeBSD,
then you would have to change the mount option to 'rw' from 'ro'. 

jerry   
   
 
 TIA...
 
 Rem
 
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Re: Mounting /c

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
 Question 1)
 
 I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c:
 
  alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c'
 
 It works fine.  I thought that I could automate the process further by
 mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab:
 
 # DeviceMountpoint  FStype  Options Dump
 Pass#
 /dev/ad1s1  /c  ntfs
 rw 1   0

When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only.
Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help.

 Question 2)
 
 I know that it is possible to copy files from /c to my freebsd drive, but
 is it possible to do that in reverse?

You should use the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port if you want to mount ntfs
read/write. See /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/README.FreeBSD

Roland
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Re: Mounting /c

[Rem P Roberti]

Roland Smith wrote:

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
  

Question 1)

I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c:

 alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c'

It works fine.  I thought that I could automate the process further by
mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab:

# DeviceMountpoint  FStype  Options Dump
Pass#

/dev/ad1s1  /c  ntfsrw 
1   0



When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only.
Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help.

  

I changed the fstab options to 'ro' and /c still won't mount at startup.
This is not a big deal since I can get /c mounted via the alias; I'm just
trying to understand why it doesn't work.  I recall that on an old system
of mine I had fstab set up as you indicate and it worked fine.

Rem
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Re: Mounting /c

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:20PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
 Roland Smith wrote:

  When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only.
  Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help.

 I changed the fstab options to 'ro' and /c still won't mount at startup.
 This is not a big deal since I can get /c mounted via the alias; I'm just
 trying to understand why it doesn't work.  I recall that on an old system
 of mine I had fstab set up as you indicate and it worked fine.

Check /var/log/messages or dmesg output to see if they contain any clues
as to why the mount command fails.

Roland
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Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Michael Copeland]

Jerry McAllister wrote:

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:

  

Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ?



Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any
other OSen nor being able to boot them   So, use the FreeBSD fdisk
which will plant the FreeBSD MBR.

jerry

  
has this issue been resolved? what route did you choose to accomplish 
your task?
  

-Grant

- Original Message - 
From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com

To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager




On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote:
  

Hi all,

I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 
6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box.


In that machine, there is one SATA drive.

On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try 
putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it.


During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install 
went flawlessly.


The problem is, when I boot up I get:

F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1

F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots 
perfectly.

F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller.

F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I simply 
get the cursor on a new line, and nothing happens.


Like this:

F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1
_

Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again?

It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk 
before I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything 
to the booting system.


All suggestions welcome,

-Grant


www.bootdisk.com

Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and
write it out to a floppy disk.

Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type 'fdisk
/mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should boot
again.

Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD
installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome
that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager.

Kurt
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/usr/ports/databases/dbf segmentation fault

[Tom Mende]

Hi;

Hoping for some help on this application that converts dbf files into  
csv format.


I'm not sure if the problem is with the source dbf file ... my usage /  
syntax ... and/or something else...


BACKGROUND...

uname -rs
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE

dbf --version
dBase Reader and Converter V. 0.8.3.1, (c) 2002 - 2004 by Bjoern Berg

...intalled as a port from /usr/ports/databases/dbf ...make install  
clean


...chmod 777 cardfile.dbf # to avoid permissions problems

ls -l cardfile*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 tom  tom   549139 Jan  9 18:32 cardfile.dbf

dbf --view-info ~/cardfile.dbf
-- File statistics
dBase version.:  Visual FoxPro (without memo)
Date of last update...:  1908-12-15
Number of records.:  625 (0271d)
Length of header..:  2888 (0b48d)
Record length.:  874 (036ad)
Columns in file...:  89
Rows in file..:  625

+---+---+---+--- 
+---+

| field name| type  | field adress  | length| field dec.|
+---+---+---+--- 
+---+

|  CF_NAME  |   C   |1  |  45   |   0   |
|   CF_REGNAME  |   C   |   2e  |  45   |   0   |
|CF_ID  |   C   |   5b  |   8   |   0   |
|  CF_CODE  |   C   |   63  |   8   |   0   |
|CF_EDI_ID  |   C   |   6b  |  13   |   0   |
| CABN  |   C   |   78  |  14   |   0   |
|   CPARENT_ID  |   C   |   86  |   8   |   0   |
|LINACTIVE  |   L   |   8e  |   1   |   0   |
|LCUSTOMER  |   L   |   8f  |   1   |   0   |
|LSUPPLIER  |   L   |   90  |   1   |   0   |
|LCREDITOR  |   L   |   91  |   1   |   0   |
|LEMPLOYEE  |   L   |   92  |   1   |   0   |
|LPROSPECT  |   L   |   93  |   1   |   0   |
|   LSALESPERS  |   L   |   94  |   1   |   0   |
|   CINVOICEST  |   C   |   95  |  35   |   0   |
|   CINVOICES2  |   C   |   b8  |  35   |   0   |
|   CINVOICECI  |   C   |   db  |  20   |   0   |
|   CINVOICES3  |   C   |   ef  |   3   |   0   |
|   CINVOICEPO  |   C   |   f2  |   6   |   0   |
|   CINVOICECO  |   C   |   f8  |  25   |   0   |
|   CINVOICEPH  |   C   |  111  |  20   |   0   |
|   CINVOICEFA  |   C   |  125  |  20   |   0   |
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Help me select hardware and software options for very large server

[Terry Kennedy]

  [I decided to ask this question here as it overlaps -hardware, -current,
and a couple other lists. I'd be glad to redirect the conversation to a
list that's a better fit, if anyone would care to suggest one.]

  I'm in the process of planning the hardware and software for the second
generation of my RAIDzilla file servers (see http://www.tmk.com/raidzilla
for the current generation, in production for 4+ years).

  I expect that what I'm planning is probably off the scale in terms of
processing and storage capacity, and I'd like to find out and address any
issues before spending lots of money. Here's what I'm thinking of:

o Chassis - CI Design SR316 (same model as current chassis, except i2c link
  between RAID controller and front panel
o Motherboard - Intel S5000PSLSATAR
o CPU - 2x Intel Xeon E5450 BX80574E5450P
p Remote management - Intel Remote Management Module 2 - AXXRM2
o Memory - 16GB - 8x Kingston KVR667D2D4F5/2GI
o RAID controller - 3Ware 9650SE-16ML w/ BBU-MODULE-04
o Drives - 16x 2TB drives [not mentioning manufacturer yet]
o Cables - 4x multi-lane SATA cables
o DVD-ROM drive
o Auxiliary slot fan next to BBU card
o Adaptec AHA-39160 (for Quantum Superloader 3 tape drive)

  So much for the hardware. On the software front:

o FreeBSD 8.x?
o amd64 architecture
o MBR+UFS2 for operating system partitions (hard partition in controller)
o GPT+ZFS for data partitions
o Multiple 8TB data partitions (separate 8TB controller partitions or one
  big partition divided with GPT?)

  I looked at Large data storage in FreeBSD, but that seems to be a stale
page from 2005 or so: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html

  I'm pretty sure I need ZFS, since even with the 2TB partitions I have now,
taking snapshots for dump or doing a fsck take approximately forever 8-)
I'll be using the harware RAID 6 on the 3Ware controller, so I'd only be
using ZFS to get filesystems larger than 2TB.

  I've been following the ZFS discussions on -current and -stable, and I
think that while it isn't quite ready yet, it probably will be ready in
a few months, being available around the same time I get this hardware
asssembled. I recall reading that there will be an import of newer ZFS 
code in the near future.

  Similarly, the ports collection seems to be moving along nicely with
amd64 support.

  I think this system may have the most storage ever configured on a
FreeBSD system, and it is probably up near the top in terms of CPU and
memory. Once I have it assembled I'd be glad to let any FreeBSD devel-
opers test and stress it if that would help improve FreeBSD on that
type of configuration.

In the meantime, any suggestions regarding the hardware or software con-
figuration would be welcomed.

Terry Kennedy http://www.tmk.com
te...@tmk.com New York, NY USA
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native lpd X LPRng

[luizbcampos]

   Following LPRng documentation, I removed native lpd (/usr/sbin/lpd)
and I come into a great mistake...

   # lpd
   another printer spooler is active possibly 731

Is there any way to fix the problem, i.e, get /usr/sbin/lpd
without reinstalling the OS?
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Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote:


I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS
server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if
I'm setting myself up for problems by doing so.


Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shell on FreeBSD
7.0-RELEASE-i386?


What I do is add the following lines to /root/.login :

if ($?prompt) then
   if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then
  # echo Switching to bash
  setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash
  exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login
   endif
endif

I've been doing this for at least 10 years.  I haven't had any
problems with it, but Your Mileage Might Vary.

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Senior Systems Programmer   or  g...@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor  dro...@rpi.edu
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Re: how to use the MFS ?

[RW]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:30:30 -0500
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:

 PstreeM China pstr...@gmail.com writes:
 
  i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX  is a good idea , and i whill test
  the methon unionfs.
 
 Definitely benchmark against just using a native local filesystem,
 though.  Taking away all of that memory that FreeBSD would otherwise
 use for *caching* file data could well end up making your builds
 *slower* with the MFS than they would have been without it.

I've a vague recollection that I tried something like this, a few years
ago, and found that the difference was too small to measure. 

I think that however you do it, you basically end-up with something that
looks like: 

   CPU/L1/L2 - memory - disk 

and whether the memory-disk part is a cached-file or swap-backed
memory is really just a matter of book-keeping - the VM system moves the
physical memory around as it likes. The book-keeping differences may be
significant, but they are not different in the electronic verses
electro-mechanical sense, and such intuitions may not relevant.

Poul-Henning Kamp, has an interesting article in this area for the
varnish project:

I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only
rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation
to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still
1975.

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/ArchitectNotes


[Not that there's anything wrong with 1975.]
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Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes:
   

 That's strange, I didn't find manual where it say it work in some
 condition or for some device only.
 

 Consult individual device drivers' manual pages for available keywords
 and their possible values.

   
Thanks. I shouldn't have overlooked this.
 Is there a way to assign uhci to use an irq differently? seems it is the
 cause of an interrupt storm problem I am having.
 

 I'm not really sure if uhci is set up to do that.  You definitely want
 uhci on its own interrupt if you can, not because it necessarily
 generates a lot of them, but because it can spend a lot of time handling
 each one...

 Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC?
   
You mean ACPI? When the PC boots, I got a menu looks alike this one:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install/boot-loader-menu.png
except my 2nd choice was with ACPI enabled instead of ACPI disabled. I
chose 2, result was the same (irq at 11)

I also tried to move other devices occupying irq 11 away (cbb0 and ed1)
by setting so in device.hints and both didn't work.

[zhangwe...@quasimodo ~]$ vmstat -i
interrupt  total   rate
irq0: clk  92204980
irq1: atkbd0 188  2
irq6: fdc011  0
irq8: rtc  11802125
irq11: cbb0 ed1+  38  0
irq14: ata0 1699 18
Total 105942   1127
[zhangwe...@quasimodo ~]$ dmesg | grep 'irq 11'
uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port 0x9000-0x901f irq 11 at 
device 6.2 on pci0
ed1: IBM Corp. Ethernet at port 0x100-0x11f iomem 0x8800-0x88003fff irq 
11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0


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Re: Mounting /c

[RW]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:


 In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file
 system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to
 FAT32. 

Not a good idea.

 According to the man page, some limited writing can be done,
 but the list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately
 straightforward.

You should be able to write to ntfs if you use the fuse version
sysutils/fusefs-ntfs - it just works in my experience. 

The last time I checked it required some (well-documented) adjustment
to make it mount from fstab as FreeBSD uses a hard-coded list of mount_*
commands rather than simply converting mount -t foo to mount_foo. I'm
not sure if this is fixed in 7.1 - but it's about time it was.
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Builder for many architectures and releases

[Andrew Hotlab]

Hi to all.

A lot of new FreeBSD systems have appeared in my server farm since I started 
studying to where I could migrate from some MSFT-*sigh*-death technologies, 
almost two years ago. Today the time and the bandwidth required to update all 
FreeBSD servers (I use the source-based method) have grown so much that it make 
me feel guilty to waste the FreeBSD Project's donated resources! :[

Thus, I looked for any documentation about setup a FreeBSD builder machine 
which will track sources and build binaries for all the hardware platform and 
OS releases I need to support in my network. I have found some interesting 
articles (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html 
- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html), 
but nothing which actually addresses my needs. So I started to script an 
as-simple-as-possible solution using net/cvsup-mirror from the Ports, csup(1) 
to check out the sources and net/unfs3 to export src and obj directories 
for all architectures and release tags.

Before spending even more time on this self-made tool, I am asking if anyone 
knows some docs or scripts which are just working, because I am not a script 
master and I do not want to reinvent the wheel to do this job! :)

TIA

Andrew

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laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming

[michael]

several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom 
inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i have 
repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the 
available windows programs?
what i'm asking is if freebsd actually supports sending of data over the 
i2c bus from userland.

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