Re: python27 update-py-psyco

2011-03-07 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday March 6 2011 12:01:47 b. f. wrote:
 I am using portmaster all the time more or less without problems.
 I like to switch to portupgrade but I don't know if is good to mix them. I
 think I will wait to FreeBSD 9 and than install evrything from scratch.
 
 You would have encountered the problem that you mentioned regardless
 of whether you used portupgrade or portmaster, and the results would
 have been the same.  It was a flaw in the ports tree itself, not in
 the updating tool.
 
 I think that portmaster is probably a better choice for most people,
 since it implements most if not all of the features that portupgrade
 does, the maintainer is more active, and it doesn't need ruby and bdb
 to work, or require extra databases.  Mixing portupgrade and
 portmaster shouldn't cause any problems, as long as you take care to
 keep your portupgrade port and package databases up-to-date,  but it
 probably isn't necessary to use both.
 
 Whatever you decide, I urge you to take a few minutes to read the
 manpage of your updating tool.  It can save you a lot of time and
 frustration later.  Also, if you want to avoid problems, after major
 changes to the ports tree, it is safer to wait for a few days before
 updating your own ports.  Usually there are a few problems that are
 uncovered and fixed after major changes are made, and it takes a few
 days or a week for this to happen.
 
 b.

Thank you. I am reading /usr/ports/UPDATING special like now but there are 
problems. And I have a problem again with /usr/ports/devel/py-psyco
I get:
c/mergepoints.c:242: error 'JUMP_IF_FALSE' undeclared here
*** Error code 1

I trid make clean and make again but it is the same.

Thanks.

Mitja

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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras

On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote:

Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in
ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global
default?

Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without
having a configuration switch?


Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL? It's the only 
cross-platform thing available for non-Linux systems which handles 
device enumeration, hotplugs, etc.


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Re: python27 update-py-psyco

2011-03-07 Thread b. f.
On 3/7/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sunday March 6 2011 12:01:47 b. f. wrote:

 Thank you. I am reading /usr/ports/UPDATING special like now but there are
 problems. And I have a problem again with /usr/ports/devel/py-psyco
 I get:
 c/mergepoints.c:242: error 'JUMP_IF_FALSE' undeclared here
 *** Error code 1



There is not enough context here to learn much, but this is the kind
of error that could occur if this port is built with python 2.7.x.  It
may be that your ports tree is still not up-to-date, because this is
one of the few ports that doesn't work with python 2.7.x [The upstream
maintainer was working on a new version (see the port website), but
hasn't finished it yet], so Martin modified the port:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/py-psyco/Makefile.diff?r1=1.17;r2=1.18

Do you have those changes? Is py-psyco using python 2.5.x or 2.6.x
during the build?  If not, update your ports tree (and make sure that
it really _is_ up-to-date, by looking at the file afterward, because
some mirrors have been having problems lately), then (for safety)
rebuild whatever version of python (2.5.x or 2.6.x) you are using with
py-psyco, and then try again. If it still doesn't work, post your full
build log to the freebsd-python mailing list.

b.
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GRASS: 6.4.0: where is the postgresql (pg) driver?

2011-03-07 Thread O. Hartmann

Hello.
I desperately try to connect to a PostgreSQL DB server using GRASS 
(6.4.0 as from the recent ports). The documentation of GRASS, even the 
most recent one, reports using the 'driver=pg' option. Having already 
set up a database in PostgreSQL (server 9.0.4), the admin user properly 
specified is capable to connect from console (terminal) or pgadmin3 
client. But using GRASS, only 'dbf', 'sqlite' and 'ogr' as drivers are 
offered. I tried to figure out whether 'ogr' could cover postgresql 
connects, but there isn't any information about that, not even in GRASS' 
documentation (I haven't found any yet).
I suspect the 'pg'-driver isn't correctly included in GRASS so I'd like 
to ask someone already has used PostgreSQL as the DB backend for GRASS GIS.


Thanks in advance.

Oliver
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Gour
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:32:59 +0100
Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:

 Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL? It's the only 
 cross-platform thing available for non-Linux systems which handles 
 device enumeration, hotplugs, etc.


I'm not, but I see that many Linux DEs abandon it (e.g latest Xfce),
so how we're going to have all the features depending on HAL?


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Nerius Landys
Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum discussion.

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.  :-/
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Felder

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:32:59 -0600, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:


Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL?


HAL is deprecated now. All projects using HAL are in the process or have  
already migrated away from it. KDE has pluggable backends, so that's not a  
big deal, but XFCE doesn't support anything but udisks/udev/upower. The  
BSD community will have to supply their own patchset to achieve the same  
functionality. GNOME should be heading in the same direction if it hasn't  
already.


Unfortunately, we're going to be without a cross-platform solution.  
Hopefully other projects will follow KDE and allow us to easily supply our  
own backend to powerd and devd.



Regards,


Mark
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Re: GRASS: 6.4.0: where is the postgresql (pg) driver?

2011-03-07 Thread wen heping
2011/3/7 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de:
 Hello.
 I desperately try to connect to a PostgreSQL DB server using GRASS (6.4.0 as
 from the recent ports). The documentation of GRASS, even the most recent
 one, reports using the 'driver=pg' option. Having already set up a database
 in PostgreSQL (server 9.0.4), the admin user properly specified is capable
 to connect from console (terminal) or pgadmin3 client. But using GRASS, only
 'dbf', 'sqlite' and 'ogr' as drivers are offered. I tried to figure out
 whether 'ogr' could cover postgresql connects, but there isn't any
 information about that, not even in GRASS' documentation (I haven't found
 any yet).
 I suspect the 'pg'-driver isn't correctly included in GRASS so I'd like to
 ask someone already has used PostgreSQL as the DB backend for GRASS GIS.


It is obviously pg-driver was not correctly included in grass ports,
there is even no PGSQL macro in plist :)

I shall try to fix it tomorrow.


wen



 Thanks in advance.

 Oliver
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Diskless build problem

2011-03-07 Thread Bernt Hansson

Hello list

Trying to build a server for diskless clients but it fails with this

cd /usr/src/etc/sendmail; make distribution
install -o root -g wheel -m 644  /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc 
freebsd.cf /usr/home/bernt/disk2/diskless/etc/mail

install: freebsd.cf: No such file or directory
*** Error code 71

Stop in /usr/src/etc/sendmail.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/etc.

It does not matter if freebsd.cf is in the directory 
/usr/src/etc/sendmail/ or not, install never finds the file.

I'm following the freebsd handbook.
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mysql 559 and fbsd 8.2 'mysql_install_db' error

2011-03-07 Thread Fbsd8
I have been using mysql since fbsd 7.2 and always just issued the 
mysql_install_db command on the command line to create it's control 
databases and it just worked fine.


But now with 8.2 I get the following error and have no idea why.
I installed using pkg_add mysql55-server command.


# /usr/local/bin mysql_install_db --user=mysql

FATAL ERROR: Could not find ./bin/my_print_defaults

If you compiled from source, you need to run 'make install' to
copy the software into the correct location ready for operation.

If you are using a binary release, you must either be at the top
level of the extracted archive, or pass the --basedir option
pointing to that location.



# /usr/local/bin locate my_print_defaults
/usr/local/bin/my_print_defaults

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Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Rodrigo Freitas
Dear friends,

I've been studying/researching to understand what is the best OS for my
production environment.
I didn't know FreeBSD until this need, and now I'm fascinated with the stuff
I've been reading about it.
I have 2 servers with the following SW/HW:

Server 1:
Postgres 9
HSQLDB (Java)
2 cpu 5620 / 48 GB RAM

Server 2:
Coldfusion 9 and other java applications
2 cpu 5620 / 24 GB RAM

I searched the web about performance and portability for these applications
on FreeBSD, but I could not find any clear article about my doubts, that's
why I'm asking for your help.

Question #1: Is anyone running Coldfusion on FreeBSD? It looks like Adobe
only supports Red Had and SuSe.

Question #2: Is the JVM implementation for FreeBSD reliable and fast? Most
of my software components are made in Java (including HSQDB)

Question #3: I read a lot of old posts saying that the overall performance
of Postgres under FreeBSD is better than on some Linux distributions. Is
this still valid for the current versions?

I appreciate your valuable time for reading this and for helping me.

Thanks a lot

Rodrigo
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Re: GRASS: 6.4.0: where is the postgresql (pg) driver?

2011-03-07 Thread O. Hartmann

On 03/07/11 16:26, wen heping wrote:

2011/3/7 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de:

Hello.
I desperately try to connect to a PostgreSQL DB server using GRASS (6.4.0 as
from the recent ports). The documentation of GRASS, even the most recent
one, reports using the 'driver=pg' option. Having already set up a database
in PostgreSQL (server 9.0.4), the admin user properly specified is capable
to connect from console (terminal) or pgadmin3 client. But using GRASS, only
'dbf', 'sqlite' and 'ogr' as drivers are offered. I tried to figure out
whether 'ogr' could cover postgresql connects, but there isn't any
information about that, not even in GRASS' documentation (I haven't found
any yet).
I suspect the 'pg'-driver isn't correctly included in GRASS so I'd like to
ask someone already has used PostgreSQL as the DB backend for GRASS GIS.



It is obviously pg-driver was not correctly included in grass ports,
there is even no PGSQL macro in plist :)

I shall try to fix it tomorrow.


wen




Thanks in advance.

Oliver


Thank you in advance.

Oliver
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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Michael J. Kearney

Most .config files use the linux subsystem. . And the jre requires the proc 
filesystem. .. you dont have to run fbsd atm

Rodrigo Freitas freitas.rodr...@gmail.com wrote:


Dear friends,

I've been studying/researching to understand what is the best OS for my
production environment.
I didn't know FreeBSD until this need, and now I'm fascinated with the stuff
I've been reading about it.
I have 2 servers with the following SW/HW:

Server 1:
Postgres 9
HSQLDB (Java)
2 cpu 5620 / 48 GB RAM

Server 2:
Coldfusion 9 and other java applications
2 cpu 5620 / 24 GB RAM

I searched the web about performance and portability for these applications
on FreeBSD, but I could not find any clear article about my doubts, that's
why I'm asking for your help.

Question #1: Is anyone running Coldfusion on FreeBSD? It looks like Adobe
only supports Red Had and SuSe.

Question #2: Is the JVM implementation for FreeBSD reliable and fast? Most
of my software components are made in Java (including HSQDB)

Question #3: I read a lot of old posts saying that the overall performance
of Postgres under FreeBSD is better than on some Linux distributions. Is
this still valid for the current versions?

I appreciate your valuable time for reading this and for helping me.

Thanks a lot

Rodrigo
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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Rodrigo Freitas
Michael
Excuse me, I didn't quite get your answer...

On Monday, March 7, 2011, Michael  J. Kearney mkear...@nvita.org wrote:

 Most .config files use the linux subsystem. . And the jre requires the proc 
 filesystem. .. you dont have to run fbsd atm

 Rodrigo Freitas freitas.rodr...@gmail.com wrote:


 Dear friends,

 I've been studying/researching to understand what is the best OS for my
 production environment.
 I didn't know FreeBSD until this need, and now I'm fascinated with the stuff
 I've been reading about it.
 I have 2 servers with the following SW/HW:

 Server 1:
 Postgres 9
 HSQLDB (Java)
 2 cpu 5620 / 48 GB RAM

 Server 2:
 Coldfusion 9 and other java applications
 2 cpu 5620 / 24 GB RAM

 I searched the web about performance and portability for these applications
 on FreeBSD, but I could not find any clear article about my doubts, that's
 why I'm asking for your help.

 Question #1: Is anyone running Coldfusion on FreeBSD? It looks like Adobe
 only supports Red Had and SuSe.

 Question #2: Is the JVM implementation for FreeBSD reliable and fast? Most
 of my software components are made in Java (including HSQDB)

 Question #3: I read a lot of old posts saying that the overall performance
 of Postgres under FreeBSD is better than on some Linux distributions. Is
 this still valid for the current versions?

 I appreciate your valuable time for reading this and for helping me.

 Thanks a lot

 Rodrigo
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
 Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum discussion.
 
 I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.  :-/

I'm sorry Dave.  I'm afraid I can't do that.

(full quote)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk

Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash now?
Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant.

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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Charlie Kester

On Mon 07 Mar 2011 at 09:00:14 PST Chad Perrin wrote:


Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash
now?  Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant.


Meh.  I never watch videos on the website anyway.  


I download them with cclive, as mp4's.

Not sure what any of this has to do with HAL, however.
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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Michael J. Kearney
The new jre or java executable.. needs the proc filesystem and or the binaries 
may not be what you want. . Ftw

Rodrigo Freitas freitas.rodr...@gmail.com wrote:


Michael
Excuse me, I didn't quite get your answer...

On Monday, March 7, 2011, Michael  J. Kearney mkear...@nvita.org wrote:

 Most .config files use the linux subsystem. . And the jre requires the proc 
 filesystem. .. you dont have to run fbsd atm

 Rodrigo Freitas freitas.rodr...@gmail.com wrote:


 Dear friends,

 I've been studying/researching to understand what is the best OS for my
 production environment.
 I didn't know FreeBSD until this need, and now I'm fascinated with the stuff
 I've been reading about it.
 I have 2 servers with the following SW/HW:

 Server 1:
 Postgres 9
 HSQLDB (Java)
 2 cpu 5620 / 48 GB RAM

 Server 2:
 Coldfusion 9 and other java applications
 2 cpu 5620 / 24 GB RAM

 I searched the web about performance and portability for these applications
 on FreeBSD, but I could not find any clear article about my doubts, that's
 why I'm asking for your help.

 Question #1: Is anyone running Coldfusion on FreeBSD? It looks like Adobe
 only supports Red Had and SuSe.

 Question #2: Is the JVM implementation for FreeBSD reliable and fast? Most
 of my software components are made in Java (including HSQDB)

 Question #3: I read a lot of old posts saying that the overall performance
 of Postgres under FreeBSD is better than on some Linux distributions. Is
 this still valid for the current versions?

 I appreciate your valuable time for reading this and for helping me.

 Thanks a lot

 Rodrigo
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:17:23AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
 On Mon 07 Mar 2011 at 09:00:14 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
 
 Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash
 now?  Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
 
 Meh.  I never watch videos on the website anyway.  
 
 I download them with cclive, as mp4's.
 
 Not sure what any of this has to do with HAL, however.

The YouTube link was to a clip of HAL telling Dave he couldn't do that.

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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Nerius Landys
 Question #2: Is the JVM implementation for FreeBSD reliable and fast? Most
 of my software components are made in Java (including HSQDB)

Since I have experience with Java on FreeBSD, I will try to answer
this question.

Java works very well for me under FreeBSD; I have not had a single
problem with Java on FreeBSD.
To install java, you can either install a pre-compiled JDK (called
diablo-jdk) or compile all the JDK sources from scratch using the
ports system.  If you compile yourself from ports, you can choose
either JDK 1.5 or JDK 1.6 (there may even be newer and older JDK
versions that work fine).  I'm running JDK 1.5 compiled from source on
both my servers, and have had no problems in my Java applications.
The dependencies list for 1.6 is a bit more involved, but the
compile/install process is so automated that you won't be bothered
with the amount of work it takes to install a JDK.

So, in a nutshell, Java is very well supported under FreeBSD and you
should consider this to be a non-issue.
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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Rodrigo Freitas
Thanks a lot!!

Has anyone successfully installed Coldfusion 9?

On Monday, March 7, 2011, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
 Question #2: Is the JVM implementation for FreeBSD reliable and fast? Most
 of my software components are made in Java (including HSQDB)

 Since I have experience with Java on FreeBSD, I will try to answer
 this question.

 Java works very well for me under FreeBSD; I have not had a single
 problem with Java on FreeBSD.
 To install java, you can either install a pre-compiled JDK (called
 diablo-jdk) or compile all the JDK sources from scratch using the
 ports system.  If you compile yourself from ports, you can choose
 either JDK 1.5 or JDK 1.6 (there may even be newer and older JDK
 versions that work fine).  I'm running JDK 1.5 compiled from source on
 both my servers, and have had no problems in my Java applications.
 The dependencies list for 1.6 is a bit more involved, but the
 compile/install process is so automated that you won't be bothered
 with the amount of work it takes to install a JDK.

 So, in a nutshell, Java is very well supported under FreeBSD and you
 should consider this to be a non-issue.

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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread n j
 Java works very well for me under FreeBSD; I have not had a single
 problem with Java on FreeBSD.
 To install java, you can either install a pre-compiled JDK (called
 diablo-jdk) or compile all the JDK sources from scratch using the
 ports system.  If you compile yourself from ports, you can choose
 either JDK 1.5 or JDK 1.6 (there may even be newer and older JDK
 versions that work fine).  I'm running JDK 1.5 compiled from source on
 both my servers, and have had no problems in my Java applications.
 The dependencies list for 1.6 is a bit more involved, but the
 compile/install process is so automated that you won't be bothered
 with the amount of work it takes to install a JDK.

 So, in a nutshell, Java is very well supported under FreeBSD and you
 should consider this to be a non-issue.

IMHO, building Java on FreeBSD is a pain.

Don't get me wrong, people working on FreeBSD Java project are doing a
*great* job, but it was so much easier to just download the packages
from FreeBSD Foundation thanks to the deal with Sun. I don't know
what's the status of that deal right now, but there are no packages
for 8-RELEASE and the packages themselves weren't updated in a long
while, so I guess the deal's off.

I'm running Java on FreeBSD right now, but I must say I'd probably
stick to Linux nowadays if I had any say, at least until there comes a
day when I'll be able to pkg_add -r openjdk7.

-- 
Nino
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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Felder

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:19:33 -0600, n j nin...@gmail.com wrote:


IMHO, building Java on FreeBSD is a pain.


AFAIK, Sun/Oracle doesn't provide precompiled OpenJDK for anyone, really.  
Even OSX now has to build their own. If it's precompiled it's probably not  
OpenJDK.



Regards,


Mark
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
I think now we know the real reason HAL was deprecated -- too many
crusty old jokes.
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recient problem with bind en 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180:

2011-03-07 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
Out of the clear, I can no longer start named from /etc/rc.d/named
start.  The only error message that I get is in log/messages

Mar  7 17:13:59 unixmania named[99841]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u
bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind
Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: could not configure root hints
from 'named.root': file not found
Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: loading configuration: file not found
Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u
bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: could not configure root hints
from 'named.root': file not found
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: loading configuration: file not found
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: exiting (due to fatal error

named.root is in /var/named/etc/namedb and contains the same as my
bind 9.6 on current.  adding an ls to named.root

ls -l /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root /etc/namedb/named.root

-rw-r--r--  1 bind  wheel  3074 Jun 28  2010 /etc/namedb/named.root
-rw-r--r--  1 bind  wheel  3074 Jun 28  2010 /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root

I can't  find any major differences with this and 9.6 that works fine.

when I try to start it notes that it isn't running and isn't abel to start.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I am running

7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180: Wed Jan 26 04:33:51 CST 2011

Thanks,

ed
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Re: recient problem with bind en 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180:

2011-03-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:34:40PM -0600, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote:
 Out of the clear, I can no longer start named from /etc/rc.d/named
 start.  The only error message that I get is in log/messages
 
 Mar  7 17:13:59 unixmania named[99841]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u
 bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind
 Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: could not configure root hints
 from 'named.root': file not found
 Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: loading configuration: file not found
 Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: exiting (due to fatal error)
 Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u
 bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind
 Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: could not configure root hints
 from 'named.root': file not found
 Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: loading configuration: file not found
 Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: exiting (due to fatal error
 
 named.root is in /var/named/etc/namedb and contains the same as my
 bind 9.6 on current.  adding an ls to named.root
 
 ls -l /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root /etc/namedb/named.root
 
 -rw-r--r--  1 bind  wheel  3074 Jun 28  2010 /etc/namedb/named.root
 -rw-r--r--  1 bind  wheel  3074 Jun 28  2010 /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root
 
 I can't  find any major differences with this and 9.6 that works fine.
 
 when I try to start it notes that it isn't running and isn't abel to start.
 
 Thanks for any suggestions.
 
 I am running
 
 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180: Wed Jan 26 04:33:51 CST 2011
 
 Thanks,
 
 ed



Unfortunately, I don't have any answers to this problem.  I only
know that the same thing happened to me when I tried to upgrade
from the older, no-longer-supported bind9-3

[My solution was to reinstall the older bind9 ]

I am running 7.3, altho that shouldn't make any difference... .




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Re: python27 update-py-psyco

2011-03-07 Thread ajtiM
On Monday March 7 2011 08:37:46 b. f. wrote:
 On 3/7/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Sunday March 6 2011 12:01:47 b. f. wrote:
  
  Thank you. I am reading /usr/ports/UPDATING special like now but there
  are problems. And I have a problem again with /usr/ports/devel/py-psyco
  I get:
  c/mergepoints.c:242: error 'JUMP_IF_FALSE' undeclared here
  *** Error code 1
 
 There is not enough context here to learn much, but this is the kind
 of error that could occur if this port is built with python 2.7.x.  It
 may be that your ports tree is still not up-to-date, because this is
 one of the few ports that doesn't work with python 2.7.x [The upstream
 maintainer was working on a new version (see the port website), but
 hasn't finished it yet], so Martin modified the port:
 
 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/py-psyco/Makefile.diff?r1
 =1.17;r2=1.18
 
 Do you have those changes? Is py-psyco using python 2.5.x or 2.6.x
 during the build?  If not, update your ports tree (and make sure that
 it really _is_ up-to-date, by looking at the file afterward, because
 some mirrors have been having problems lately), then (for safety)
 rebuild whatever version of python (2.5.x or 2.6.x) you are using with
 py-psyco, and then try again. If it still doesn't work, post your full
 build log to the freebsd-python mailing list.
 
 b.
Thank you very much for reply but I see that is not possible to build it (I 
red about psyco on mailing list).
For now everything works but I have more ports to rebuild but psyco is the big 
problem.

Thanks again...


Mitja

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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread b. f.
...
 I'm running Java on FreeBSD right now, but I must say I'd probably
 stick to Linux nowadays if I had any say, at least until there comes a
 day when I'll be able to pkg_add -r openjdk7.
...

Why not now? (Or anytime this past year or more?):

http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/java/openjdk-7.0.122.tbz
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.122_1.tbz

http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/java/openjdk-7.0.122.tbz
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.122_1.tbz

etc.

b.
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hidden symbol `__dso_handle' in /usr/lib/crtbegin.o is referenced by DSO

2011-03-07 Thread Австин Ким
Hi again, all,

I've lately upgraded from FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 to 8.2-RELEASE via freebsd-update and 
am now getting the following error when trying to build www/webkit-gtk2 in 
Ports (this was pulled in by the GIMP meta-port; the tail output of make(1) is 
appended):

hidden symbol `__dso_handle' in /usr/lib/crtbegin.o is referenced by DSO

What does this mean, and how might one go about fixing it?  (The more generally 
applicable the answer, the better, as I've encountered this error on several 
occasions while trying to rebuild other Ports after upgrading FreeBSD.)

Finally, after upgrading from 8.2-RC3 to -RELEASE I now get a lot of error 
messages of the form

grep: write error: Broken pipe

while building ports, where `grep' is variously `sed,' `sort,' or a number of 
other variations.  What's the cause of this, and where should I start looking 
to fix it?  This started happening after upgrading from 8.2-RC3 to -RELEASE 
(this also happened to me a while back after upgrading from 8.2-RC1 to -RC2; 
both times I upgraded according to the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook).

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks, and sorry for yet another clueless newbie question.

All the best,
Austin

 TAIL OUTPUT OF make install IN /usr/ports/www/webkit-gtk2

/bin/sh /usr/ports/www/webkit-gtk2/work/gnome-libtool --silent --tag=CXX   
--mode=link c++  -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -O2  -L/usr/local/lib -o 
libWebCoreJS.la DerivedSources/JSCSSCharsetRule.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSFontFaceRule.lo DerivedSources/JSCSSImportRule.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSMediaRule.lo DerivedSources/JSCSSPageRule.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSPrimitiveValue.lo DerivedSources/JSCSSRule.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSRuleList.lo DerivedSources/JSCSSStyleDeclaration.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSStyleRule.lo DerivedSources/JSCSSStyleSheet.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSValue.lo DerivedSources/JSCSSValueList.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSVariablesDeclaration.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCSSVariablesRule.lo DerivedSources/JSCounter.lo 
DerivedSources/JSMedia.lo DerivedSources/JSMediaList.lo 
DerivedSources/JSRGBColor.lo DerivedSources/JSRect.lo 
DerivedSources/JSStyleSheet.lo DerivedSources/JSStyleSheetList.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebKitCSSKeyframeRule.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebKitCSSKeyframesRule.lo DerivedSources/JSWe
 bKitCSSMatrix.lo DerivedSources/JSWebKitCSSTransformValue.lo 
DerivedSources/JSAttr.lo DerivedSources/JSBeforeLoadEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCDATASection.lo DerivedSources/JSCharacterData.lo 
DerivedSources/JSClientRect.lo DerivedSources/JSClientRectList.lo 
DerivedSources/JSClipboard.lo DerivedSources/JSComment.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCompositionEvent.lo DerivedSources/JSDOMCoreException.lo 
DerivedSources/JSDOMImplementation.lo DerivedSources/JSDocument.lo 
DerivedSources/JSDocumentFragment.lo DerivedSources/JSDocumentType.lo 
DerivedSources/JSElement.lo DerivedSources/JSEntity.lo 
DerivedSources/JSEntityReference.lo DerivedSources/JSErrorEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSEvent.lo DerivedSources/JSEventException.lo 
DerivedSources/JSKeyboardEvent.lo DerivedSources/JSMessageChannel.lo 
DerivedSources/JSMessageEvent.lo DerivedSources/JSMessagePort.lo 
DerivedSources/JSMouseEvent.lo DerivedSources/JSMutationEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSNamedNodeMap.lo DerivedSources/JSNode.lo 
DerivedSources/JSNodeFilt
 er.lo DerivedSources/JSNodeIterator.lo DerivedSources/JSNodeList.lo 
DerivedSources/JSNotation.lo DerivedSources/JSOverflowEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSPageTransitionEvent.lo DerivedSources/JSPopStateEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSProcessingInstruction.lo DerivedSources/JSProgressEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSRange.lo DerivedSources/JSRangeException.lo 
DerivedSources/JSText.lo DerivedSources/JSTextEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSTreeWalker.lo DerivedSources/JSUIEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebKitAnimationEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebKitTransitionEvent.lo DerivedSources/JSWheelEvent.lo 
DerivedSources/JSBlob.lo DerivedSources/JSWebGLArray.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebGLArrayBuffer.lo DerivedSources/JSWebGLByteArray.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebGLFloatArray.lo DerivedSources/JSCanvasGradient.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebGLIntArray.lo DerivedSources/JSCanvasPattern.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCanvasRenderingContext.lo 
DerivedSources/JSCanvasRenderingContext2D.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebGLRenderingContext.lo DerivedSources/JSWebGL
 ShortArray.lo DerivedSources/JSWebGLUnsignedByteArray.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebGLUnsignedIntArray.lo 
DerivedSources/JSWebGLUnsignedShortArray.lo DerivedSources/JSDataGridColumn.lo 
DerivedSources/JSDataGridColumnList.lo DerivedSources/JSDOMFormData.lo 
DerivedSources/JSFile.lo DerivedSources/JSFileList.lo 
DerivedSources/JSHTMLAllCollection.lo DerivedSources/JSHTMLAnchorElement.lo 
DerivedSources/JSHTMLAppletElement.lo DerivedSources/JSHTMLAreaElement.lo 
DerivedSources/JSHTMLAudioElement.lo DerivedSources/JSHTMLBRElement.lo 
DerivedSources/JSHTMLBaseElement.lo DerivedSources/JSHTMLBaseFontElement.lo 
DerivedSources/JSHTMLBlockquoteElement.lo DerivedSources/JSHTMLBodyElement.lo 

Re: hidden symbol `__dso_handle' in /usr/lib/crtbegin.o is referenced by DSO

2011-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Австин Ким wrote:
 I've lately upgraded from FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 to 8.2-RELEASE via freebsd-update 
 and am now getting the following error when trying to build www/webkit-gtk2 
 in Ports (this was pulled in by the GIMP meta-port; the tail output of 
 make(1) is appended):
 
 hidden symbol `__dso_handle' in /usr/lib/crtbegin.o is referenced by DSO
 
 What does this mean, and how might one go about fixing it?

A quick search finds a quote attributed to Martin Loewis:

 My guess is that it is the infamous .hidden conflict, where the
 binutils snapshot implements .hidden by putting a STB_LOCAL symbol in
 the dynamic symbol table (namely __dso_handle). The dynamic linker
 fails to find this symbol in the shared library, because it does not
 consider STB_LOCAL symbols.
 
 The work-around is to not define HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN in auto-host.h, and
 recompile the compiler. I'm not sure what the solution is. Perhaps
 somebody should sit down and implement .hidden in the same way as
 local symbols in the symbol versioning feature. Perhaps that someone
 should be me, but I haven't started, yet.

Some people have reported this to be fixed by making sure that anything which 
is being compiled as a shared object uses the -shared compiler flag.  (And 
-fPIC and such, also.)

  (The more generally applicable the answer, the better, as I've encountered 
 this error on several occasions while trying to rebuild other Ports after 
 upgrading FreeBSD.)
 
 Finally, after upgrading from 8.2-RC3 to -RELEASE I now get a lot of error 
 messages of the form
 
 grep: write error: Broken pipe
 
 while building ports, where `grep' is variously `sed,' `sort,' or a number of 
 other variations.  What's the cause of this, and where should I start looking 
 to fix it?

It's likely not a problem.  If you've got a pipeline and a later part of it 
completes, then earlier parts of the pipeline will get a SIGPIPE if they keep 
writing output.

See /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/grep/ChangeLog

1999-02-06 Alain Magloire

* tests/*.awk : Linux users are seeing Broken Pipe on make check.
The problem is that grep does not drain its stdin, thus the previous
process in the pipeline receives a SIGPIPE.  Other shells are silent
about this.  There is actually no failure, since the broken pipe is
expected.  You can work around it by changing the pipeline, so that
the input is drained, like this:
status=`echo 'check' | { ${GREP} -E -e pattern /dev/null 21;
echo $?; cat /dev/null; }`; if test $status -ne $errnu then ... fi
Excerpt email from Andreas Schwab.

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Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-03-07 Thread Guillermo Cotone
2011/2/14 krad kra...@gmail.com

 On 11 February 2011 13:25, Guillermo Fernando Cotone
 guillermo.cot...@gmail.com wrote:
  On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote:
  And this construction work?
 
ipv4_addrs_ed0=192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28
 
  It would work only if all the IPs were on the same subnet. If you want
  to use different subnets you need to implement vlans on that interface
  first.
 
  Regards,
  Guillermo
 
 

 there is no reason why a single vlan cant have multiple ip subnets, so
 unless freebsd has a specific limitation (which i dont think it does)
 I cant see this as being true


Well, I must admit that(as Nathan stated earlier in this chain) it's
possible to do it. I just don't see it as a good practice. Isolation,
broadcasts, neighbors and routing protocol issues are common problems.

FreeBSD may not have any limitation regarding the number of subnets, but
most network vendors do have.
What's the purpose of having different subnets on the same ethernet segment?
I would only consider this solution if the layer-2 device doesn't support
vlans.
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Lars Eighner

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote:


On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote:

Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in
ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global
default?

Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without
having a configuration switch?


Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL?


It breaks my mouse and keyboard.  I assume it would break other stuff if I
had esoteric devices.

It was born broken, and although there have been about a half-dozen
announced fixes, it always reverts to being broken in pretty much the
same way.

When I eliminate HAL and everything that depends on it, everything works.

It is just this simple:

with HAL = nothing works
without HAL = everything works


It's the only cross-platform thing available for non-Linux systems which
handles device enumeration, hotplugs, etc.



I'm not running a cross-platform.  I'm running FreeBSD.  There were native
FreeBSD solutions to hotplugging the devices I use before HAL.


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dhclient not working with wpa

2011-03-07 Thread Michael

Hi.

Problem is that my wireless card doesn't see any replies from DHCP 
server when I use wpa_cupplicant (it works fine without encryption), 
even tho it is associated with that access point.
So it looks like the encryption bit is working but then dhclient fails. 
If I turn the encryption off then dhclient works.


I've tried with isc dhclient both 31 and 41 versions. I've tried with 
manually setting IP/netmask and route. Nothing helps, my FreeBSD box 
just can't talk with the router over the wireless with encryption.


I know that the router is OK because other clients can get IP address 
without any problems. I know that wireless card is OK because it works 
with that access point from other operating systems, it also works with 
other access points.


I guess it may be related to PR number 145269. But it's marked as 
serious+open for a year now so maybe somebody got a working workaround?

Any suggestions please?

Michael
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 7 March 2011 19:44, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote:
 On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote:

 On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote:

 Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off
 in
 ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global
 default?

 Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without
 having a configuration switch?

 Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL?

 It breaks my mouse and keyboard.  I assume it would break other stuff if I
 had esoteric devices.

 with HAL = nothing works
 without HAL = everything works

Interesting, I had 0 problems with HAL ever since it was made.

 It's the only cross-platform thing available for non-Linux systems which
 handles device enumeration, hotplugs, etc.


 I'm not running a cross-platform.  I'm running FreeBSD.  There were native
 FreeBSD solutions to hotplugging the devices I use before HAL.

Good luck with running your FreeBSD with FreeBSD-only applications :)
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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.03.2011 04:36, Ivan Voras wrote:
 On 7 March 2011 19:44, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote:
 On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote:

 On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote:

 Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off
 in
 ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global
 default?

 Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without
 having a configuration switch?

 Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL?

 It breaks my mouse and keyboard.  I assume it would break other stuff if I
 had esoteric devices.
 
 with HAL = nothing works
 without HAL = everything works
 
 Interesting, I had 0 problems with HAL ever since it was made.

But he does raise a valid problem (if more than zero users, etc). We
(I include fellow FreeBSD users, but also OSX and Linux users) do lack a
decent cross-platform device manager stack, with uniform device name
enumeration. DevFS (and its peers in Linux) does give us a start, but
not enough to build a system on. However, I suspect that getting this to
be truly cross-platform would take a known name in BSD-land,
OpenIndiana/Illumos and Cupertino agreeing with RMS that making this
worth would be a nice summer-of-code project. Perhaps AutoDevFS
mounted on /autodev (names being picked from empty air with only
coffee-fumes). Such a framework would allow drivers to attach using
pipes, and thus allow (for instance) usb-upses to have python (or lua,
or insert-name-of-interpreted-language-here) drivers, etc. our world
(unix-like world) hasn't had a truly common such stack since Bell Labs...

 It's the only cross-platform thing available for non-Linux systems which
 handles device enumeration, hotplugs, etc.


 I'm not running a cross-platform.  I'm running FreeBSD.  There were native
 FreeBSD solutions to hotplugging the devices I use before HAL.
 
 Good luck with running your FreeBSD with FreeBSD-only applications :)

I'm less of an OS cleric. I run windows, freebsd, openindiana, irix (my
old indy still works), and insertdeityknowswhat. Not because I like
being confused, but because I chose tools for the task at hand, not
tasks from what my (least) favourite os can('t) do. I still want
something that works, and if it brings a decent standard into the loop,
it will make me sleep a little better. Getting something to REPLACE HAL
with, something that actually works, would provide me with more rest.

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Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
 But he does raise a valid problem (if more than zero users, etc). We
 (I include fellow FreeBSD users, but also OSX and Linux users) do lack a
 decent cross-platform device manager stack, with uniform device name
 enumeration. DevFS (and its peers in Linux) does give us a start, but
 not enough to build a system on. However, I suspect that getting this to
 be truly cross-platform would take a known name in BSD-land,
 OpenIndiana/Illumos and Cupertino agreeing with RMS that making this
 worth would be a nice summer-of-code project.

Oddly enough, Sun, IBM, and Apple agreed on something known as OpenFirmware, 
and expansion cards were expected to provide basic OS-independant drivers 
written in Forth on a ROM (PROM/EPROM/EEPROM).  It worked pretty well, but 
consumers complained loudly about spending an extra $20 on a ~$200 AHA-1540 
card to get the OF version

Much of that is still available under a BSD license (something called OpenBoot, 
IIRC), but most of the industry is staggering towards EFI instead.

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Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread n j
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Why not now? (Or anytime this past year or more?):

Hmm, good point :-).

I was misled by the ports page (e.g.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=openjdkstype=all) which
used to have a different entry if a port had a package, i.e.:

openjdk-7.0.122_1
Java Development Kit 7
Long description : Sources : Changes : Download

vs.

openoffice.org-2.1.0
Integrated wordprocessor/dbase/spreadsheet/drawing/chart/browser
Long description | Package | Sources | Main Web Site

In any way, I stand corrected. I should probably start testdriving
OpenJDK to see if it can successfully replace diablo-jdk.

Regards,
-- 
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