Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1?

[Dave]

On 14 Feb 2012 at 18:01, Gary Kline wrote:

> On 02/14/2012 05:40 PM, Da Rock wrote:
> > On 02/15/12 10:08, Gary Kline wrote:
> >> guys,
> >>
> >> is there still a  way of fixing something i did to my existing
> >> installation?  it does nothing but continually cycle e and try to
> >> reboot into the old release i had from feb 2011.  i thought editing
> >> out /etc/fstab would do it.  but nope, it throws me into the lowest
> >> level manual config and then hangs.  i cannot even install release
> >> 9.0 which is the only other path.  either some stable distro of
> >> debian, or getting past release8 and going to   9.
> >>
> >> first, tho, i need to get rid of this [[messed up]] 7.3.
> >>
> >> let me share a story from when i was visiting a favorite cousin who
> >> put up about half of NASA's huge antennas.  long retired, he lives
> >> out where not even god could find him.  he wanted to see proof of
> >> my beloved freebsd.  so, using a new set of discs that i bought, i
> >> started the installation.  { FWIW, --this was in july, 2000.  }  I
> >> happened to mention that freebsd had trouble configuring the
> >> printers.  or that   that could get hairy.  he stopped what he was
> >> doing and asked me to get back to his windows toys and games.  i
> >> had a floppy w ith the mystery file "MBR" that removed that single
> >> file.
> >>
> >> my hunch is that since i never mess with anything but freebsd, i
> >> left it configure itself by default and that the same thing that
> >> stalled me for ten minutes back in 2000, might be what's stopping
> >> me from installing anything over my 7.3 in 2012.
> >>
> >> any wizards how how to fix  this?
> > Are you sure you can't backup your important files and start again?
> > You might have a good deal of trouble jumping by 2 major releases at
> > the best of times.
> >
> > Also, 9.0 is significantly different in many ways to 7.x in dir
> > structure _and_ filesystems, to just mention a few. I new (clean)
> > install would be _highly_ recommended ;)
> > ___
> 
> i have a working copy on 7.3 #4 on my Server.  the server in a 2009
> dell;  the one that is busted and that i want to upgrade ---to either
> debian-6-iso or freebsd9-iso is my old 2003 dell.  two different
> computers.  the thing with the old dell is that nothing can boot off
> it.  it keep cycling, trying to boot a 7.3 #1.
> 
> i just remembered that the floppy disk   was a DOS file  with a secret
> command :A:\MBR that got rid of that boot track.
> 
> it's looking more and more hopeless.
> 
> 
> 
> wasn't/isn't there some kind of "fixit" CD?
> 
> gary

Sounds like you need to get into the Dell's BIOS, and alter the boot 
order, so as it looks first at CD and Floppy drives, before the hard 
disk.  Dell's can be funny things at times though, especially if it's 
been setup for a headless boot (server mode)...

The old tool you're thinking of for DOS/Windows was "FixMBR".

I thihk like 'Da Rock' has suggested, you best pull the affected hard 
disk, and either put it in a USB caddy, then mount it as an external 
drive on a working system, if it's not badly mullered somehow, or install 
it as an extra drive in such a similar system, and get stuff off it like 
that, is probably the best way.

Then, flatten it and do a clean install of whatever, with it fitted back 
into it's original home.

Unless someone else comes up with a better plan.

Regards.

Dave B.

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laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

[Fbsd8]

I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a 
small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook 
about this so I am asking here.


How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen?
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Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

[Da Rock]

On 02/15/12 19:25, Fbsd8 wrote:
I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a 
small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook 
about this so I am asking here.


How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen?

You are talking about a terminal screen and not X Windows?
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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[George Kontostanos]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf  wrote:
> Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500:
>> --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged
>> to have said:
>>
>> >One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs
>> >root.
>> >
>> >It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
>> >(self compiled) with a mountfrom error:
>> >
>> >    http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
>> >    mountfrom> zfs:zroot
>> >    Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
>> >    Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.
>> >
>> >We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
>> >unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)
>> >
>> >Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
>> >What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?
>>
>> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>>
>> Did you update the bootloader?  Depending on when you installed the
>> system, it's possible your upgrading the zpool means the bootloader
>> can't read it.
>>
>
> Immediately after upgrading the zroot zpool I ran
>
>    gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
>
> as instructed in /usr/src/UPDATING.  I did not pass -b.
>
>> Daniel T. Staal

Hi could you try passing the -b switch like this:

gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}


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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[George Kontostanos]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, George Kontostanos
 wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf  wrote:
>> Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500:
>>> --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged
>>> to have said:
>>>
>>> >One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs
>>> >root.
>>> >
>>> >It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
>>> >(self compiled) with a mountfrom error:
>>> >
>>> >    http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
>>> >    mountfrom> zfs:zroot
>>> >    Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
>>> >    Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.
>>> >
>>> >We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
>>> >unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)
>>> >
>>> >Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
>>> >What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?
>>>
>>> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>>>
>>> Did you update the bootloader?  Depending on when you installed the
>>> system, it's possible your upgrading the zpool means the bootloader
>>> can't read it.
>>>
>>
>> Immediately after upgrading the zroot zpool I ran
>>
>>    gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
>>
>> as instructed in /usr/src/UPDATING.  I did not pass -b.
>>
>>> Daniel T. Staal
>
> Hi could you try passing the -b switch like this:
>
> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
>


On a second look I doubt that this has anything to do with an outdated
bootcode.

Was this a new 9.0-RC2 install?
Also, how many devices are in the pool that you are trying to boot from?

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Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

[Da Rock]

On 02/15/12 20:12, Da Rock wrote:

On 02/15/12 19:25, Fbsd8 wrote:
I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a 
small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the 
handbook about this so I am asking here.


How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen?

You are talking about a terminal screen and not X Windows?

If you are talking of the terminal screen, then check man vidcontrol.
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Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

[kron]

On 2012/02/15 10:25, Fbsd8 wrote:

I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a
small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook
about this so I am asking here.

How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen?


I met it earlier a few times on various notebooks and
I think it has nothing to do with FreeBSD per se. On
some notebooks I changed it via *BIOS* settings but
usually didn't care at all - I use X sessions mostly...

HTH
Oli
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8.2-RELEASE sysinstall creates duplicate rc.conf lines

[Rick Miller]

Hi all,

We recently discovered that sysinstall appears to be adding it's own
lines to /etc/rc.conf which are duplicates of lines that we are
inserting during builds.  For example, on one of our hosts, we are
adding "defaultrouter" and "ifconfig_em0" with certain network
configurations.  When we reboot the system we find that sysinstall
also inserted a "defaultrouter" and "ifconfig_em0" populated with the
data that existed on the interface during the build.  See a sample of
the rc.conf below.  We are making use of the keeprcconf in the
install.cfg, but this does not prevent sysinstall from adding those
lines.  Is there some way to prevent this behavior?



# Sample rc.conf after sysinstall build
defaultrouter="10.0.0.1"
defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"
hostname="bsdtest"
ifconfig_em0="inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.252.0"
ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmaks 255.255.255.0"
sshd_enable="YES"

-- 
Take care
Rick Miller
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re. laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

[herbert langhans]

My IBM Thinkpad does that trick. But its some hardware-function and can
be switched via special key + FN8. Maybe download the service or
installation manual for your laptop and find some option? Maybe
also something in the setup?

Cheers
herb langhans

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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[George Kontostanos]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf  wrote:
> George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:56:33 +0200:
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, George Kontostanos
>>  wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf  wrote:
>> >> Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500:
>> >>> --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged
>> >>> to have said:
>> >>>
>> >>> >One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs
>> >>> >root.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
>> >>> >(self compiled) with a mountfrom error:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >    http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
>> >>> >    mountfrom> zfs:zroot
>> >>> >    Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
>> >>> >    Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
>> >>> >unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)
>> >>> >
>> >>> >Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
>> >>> >What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?
>> >>>
>> >>> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Did you update the bootloader?  Depending on when you installed the
>> >>> system, it's possible your upgrading the zpool means the bootloader
>> >>> can't read it.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Immediately after upgrading the zroot zpool I ran
>> >>
>> >>    gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
>> >>
>> >> as instructed in /usr/src/UPDATING.  I did not pass -b.
>> >>
>> >>> Daniel T. Staal
>> >
>> > Hi could you try passing the -b switch like this:
>> >
>> > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
>> >
>>
>>
>> On a second look I doubt that this has anything to do with an outdated
>> bootcode.
>>
>
> *nod* trying 'gpart bootcode -b' is on the list still, though.  It
> shouldn't hurt.
>
>> Was this a new 9.0-RC2 install?
>
> No, it was an upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE.
>
>> Also, how many devices are in the pool that you are trying to boot from?
>>
>
> Six: mfid[0-5]p3.
>
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Try loading geom_part_gpt.ko to see if it helps.

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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Daniel Shahaf]

George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:56:33 +0200:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, George Kontostanos
>  wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf  wrote:
> >> Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500:
> >>> --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged
> >>> to have said:
> >>>
> >>> >One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs
> >>> >root.
> >>> >
> >>> >It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
> >>> >(self compiled) with a mountfrom error:
> >>> >
> >>> >    http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
> >>> >    mountfrom> zfs:zroot
> >>> >    Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
> >>> >    Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.
> >>> >
> >>> >We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
> >>> >unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)
> >>> >
> >>> >Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
> >>> >What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?
> >>>
> >>> --As for the rest, it is mine.
> >>>
> >>> Did you update the bootloader?  Depending on when you installed the
> >>> system, it's possible your upgrading the zpool means the bootloader
> >>> can't read it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Immediately after upgrading the zroot zpool I ran
> >>
> >>    gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
> >>
> >> as instructed in /usr/src/UPDATING.  I did not pass -b.
> >>
> >>> Daniel T. Staal
> >
> > Hi could you try passing the -b switch like this:
> >
> > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
> >
> 
> 
> On a second look I doubt that this has anything to do with an outdated
> bootcode.
> 

*nod* trying 'gpart bootcode -b' is on the list still, though.  It
shouldn't hurt.

> Was this a new 9.0-RC2 install?

No, it was an upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE.

> Also, how many devices are in the pool that you are trying to boot from?
> 

Six: mfid[0-5]p3.

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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Joshua Isom]

On 2/14/2012 6:31 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs root.

It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
(self compiled) with a mountfrom error:

 http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
 mountfrom>  zfs:zroot
 Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
 Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.

We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)

Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?

Thanks.



Try booting a fixit CD/USB and mounting the zfs pool.  It looks like 
your pool is set up like mine.  If it mounts, the way zfs mounts 
everything, you'll overlay your fixit file system with your zroot. 
It'll make it annoying to fix, especially dealing with zpool.cache.  If 
it mounts, make a copy of the cache file.


I switched from a zpool with two disks to a zmirror, with a third disk 
to help hold data.  It wasn't fun, but it can be done.  One problem I 
had was getting zpool.cache to work properly on reboot.  I had to do the 
overlay mount, and I think I killed the power to prevent zfs from 
removing the file.  I'd suspect a zpool.cache problem.  ZFS doesn't 
think your zroot was mounted so doesn't try to mount it even though the 
bootloader finds the kernel.

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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Daniel Shahaf]

George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 17:35:35 +0200:
> Try loading geom_part_gpt.ko to see if it helps.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've tried:

unload
load /boot/testkernel/kernel
load /boot/testkernel/geom_part_gpt.ko
load /boot/testkernel/zfs.ko
load /boot/testkernel/accf_data.ko
load /boot/testkernel/accf_http.ko
load /boot/testkernel/ipmi.ko

The symptoms are unchanged, except that this time a backtrace was given:

#2 0x808c1bda at vfs_mountroot+0x1d7a
#3 ...at start_init+0x4c

Still looking into the other suggestions.
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9.0-RELEASE: Strange freezing and kernel panics on laptop

[Ramiro Caso]

Hi,

I'm in need of advice. I've recently installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on my 
laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1318) with a good deal of success. However, I've 
been experiencing a few hiccups, to say the least. The kernel is the 
GENERIC for the amd64 architecture that comes with the installation 
images (no funny compilation issues on my part):


$ uname -a
FreeBSD apeiron 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 
07:46:30 UTC 2012

r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Since I've installed it, the system has been freezing for apparently no 
reason and, once in a while, rebooting upon a kernel panic. The kernel 
panics come in two varieties:


Fatal Trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

I have the dump files. [Concerning the Fatal Trap 12: I ran memtest86+ 
and everything turned out alright on the memory side.]


As for the recurrent freezing, it seems to me (but this is a hunch) that 
it might be related to wireless card issues (since, for what I can 
recall, it happens some time after I start having connection issues). 
Also, every time I do a "netif restart", the system just freezes after 
displaying two lines:


bwn0: need multicast update callback
TODO: need swap

[In order not to raise side issues, I have a fully working LP PHY 
Broadcom 4312 (except for these issues), and I have hw.bwn.usedma=0 in 
loader.conf---but the freezing thing happens whether it is set to 1 or 
0.] A quick inspection to log files reveals some pattern in 
/var/log/messages:


===

Feb 10 19:01:59 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying 
completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP]

Feb 10 19:22:02 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni
Feb 10 19:27:07 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is 
/boot/kernel/kernel

[...]
Feb 10 19:27:07 apeiron savecore: reboot after panic: general 
protection fault

Feb 10 19:27:07 apeiron savecore: writing core to vmcore.0


Feb 11 21:39:40 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying 
completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP]

Feb 11 21:39:47 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout
Feb 11 21:44:38 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni
Feb 11 21:44:38 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni
Feb 11 21:47:33 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is 
/boot/kernel/kernel



Feb 12 17:23:47 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying 
completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP]

Feb 12 18:20:32 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout
Feb 12 18:22:23 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni
Feb 12 18:31:49 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is 
/boot/kernel/kernel



Feb 13 17:16:43 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout
Feb 13 17:21:39 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni
Feb 13 17:22:40 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is 
/boot/kernel/kernel

[...]
Feb 13 17:22:40 apeiron savecore: reboot after panic: page fault
Feb 13 17:22:40 apeiron savecore: writing core to vmcore.1


Feb 14 11:40:49 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying 
completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP]

Feb 14 12:02:23 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout
Feb 14 12:03:52 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni
Feb 14 12:12:27 apeiron kernel: , 2265.
Feb 14 12:13:10 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is 
/boot/kernel/kernel


===

As for the panics, they immediately follow two of the messages above, as 
you can appreciate in the quote.


Maybe the following can help (or not!!). In /var/log/messages, the 
following two lines keep showing:


  acpi0: reservation of 0, 9f000 (3) failed
  acpi0: reservation of 10, 7f56d800 (3) failed

Needless to say, this won't discourage me from using FreeBSD on my 
laptop, but it isn't very pleasant to have these kind of problems while 
working. Right now, the "workaround" I implemented is to use a Linksys 
wireless adapter I had sleeping in its box. However, being able to use 
the Broadcom card would be nice. Any help would be appreciated, if 
nothing else, to understand what's happening.


Thanks!
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Re: From analysis of a simple ifstated.conf to more compex example

[Damien Fleuriot]

Sorry about the late reply, didn't see yours.

What about enabling CARP preemption to ensure that when a carp interface
goes down, the whole set does ?


On 2/7/12 9:13 PM, peter knezel wrote:
> Hello Damien,
> 
> I did read your example but cannot get idea from it.
> For three interfaces you have much more possibilities.
> 
> Imagine you start the server from uuu state which is equal to
> net = '( "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp0 > /dev/null" every 3 && "ifconfig -a -u
> |grep carp1 > /dev/null" every 3 && "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp2 > /dev/null"
> every 3)'
> 
> Now you put down one carp interface - so system is in state :
> *state one:*
> (duu) || (udu) || (uud)  run script1.sh
> go to twoff
> 
> now imagine, you put down any other carp interface:
> *state twoff: *
> (dud) || (ddu) || (udd)
> run script2.sh
> go to two
> 
> *state two: *
> put all interfaces up
> run script3.sh
> go to state one
> 
> it means, this is one of the possibilities system can behave (this
> situation does not describe all possible states - I have taken this
> special example.)
> 
> Now if you want to put up after putting down one carp interface, you
> fail since it is in state twoff.
> Only of you put down second carp interface it goes to state two and if
> you put both up, it will go to state one.
> 
> This is where my ifstated.conf fails to work.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Peter Knezel
> 
> 
> On 7 February 2012 17:02, Damien Fleuriot mailto:m...@my.gd>>
> wrote:
> 
> On 2/7/12 3:36 PM, peter knezel wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I would like to ask somebody to explain me how the ifstated works
> according to
> > the following configuration file.
> > I have three virtual carp interfaces carp0,carp1 and carp2.
> >
> > I try to understand the following setting:
> > The server is in state one (all carp interfaces are up) and if there
> > is carp down of any:
> > one (carp0 or carp1 or carp2),
> > two ([carp0 and carp1] or [carp0 and carp2] or [carp1 and carp2]),
> > three interfaces (carp 0 and carp1 and carp2), server
> > runs the script testdown.sh and put the server into state two.
> > If all carp interfaces are up, the server runs the testup.sh and set
> > the state to one.
> >
> 
> That is my understanding.
> 
> 
> > Is it the way the system works?
> > Or am I wrong?
> >
> > ===
> > init-state one
> >
> > net = '( "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp0 > /dev/null" every 3 &&
> "ifconfig -a -u
> > |grep carp1 > /dev/null" every 3 && "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp2 >
> /dev/null"
> > every 3)'
> >
> > state one {
> >if ( ! $net ) {
> >run "/usr/local/testdown.sh"
> >set-state two
> >}
> > }
> >
> > state two {
> >if ( $net ) {
> >run "/usr/local/testup.sh"
> >set-state one
> >}
> > }
> > ===
> >
> > Is there any possibility to define and set ifstated.conf that
> reacts when:
> >
> >  any one of the carp interfaces is down - followed by another any
> > other carp interface down
> >
> >
> > I tried to define states:
> >
> > duu ="!carp0.link.up && carp1.link.up && carp2.link.up"
> > udu ="carp0.link.up && !carp1.link.up && carp2.link.up"
> > uud ="carp0.link.up && carp1.link.up && !carp2.link.up"
> > ddu ="!carp0.link.up && !carp1.link.up"
> > dud ="!carp0.link.up && !carp2.link.up"
> > udd ="!carp1.link.up && !carp2.link.up"
> >
> > and used them but somehow I cannot incorporate all state changes and
> > include it in ifstated.conf.
> >
> 
> 
> Works fine here, did you not have any luck with the file I posted
> earlier ?
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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Daniel Shahaf]

Okay.  I tried booting from the 9.0-RELEASE cd into a shell and
replacing /boot/zfs/zpool.cache on with the one generated by the CD's
kernel.  (I did that by running 'zpool import -R -o cachefile=/tmp/...'
and then copying zpool.cache over that of the live system, in a manner
similar to <http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE>.) 
That didn't seem to have any effect: the 9.0-RC2 kernel can still boot,
and the 9.0-RELEASE kernel still fails to boot, with the same error.

FTR, here are the old/new zpool.cache files:
% ls -al /boot/zfs/zp*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2308 Feb 15 16:43 /boot/zfs/zpool.cache
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2052 Feb 15 16:41 
/boot/zfs/zpool.cache.20120215rc2

Re George's suggestion -- I noticed a "Can't re-use a leaf
(geom_gpart_gpt)!" error, in case it's relevant.

I have also tried running:
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5; do
  gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 mfid$i
done
from the RC2 environment.  RC2 still boots; the 9.0-RELEASE /boot/testkernel
still doesn't.

Thanks for the suggestsions.

Joshua Isom wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:08:52 -0600:
> On 2/14/2012 6:31 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs root.
> >
> >It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
> >(self compiled) with a mountfrom error:
> >
> > http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
> > mountfrom>  zfs:zroot
> > Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
> > Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.
> >
> >We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
> >unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)
> >
> >Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
> >What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> 
> Try booting a fixit CD/USB and mounting the zfs pool.  It looks like
> your pool is set up like mine.  If it mounts, the way zfs mounts
> everything, you'll overlay your fixit file system with your zroot.
> It'll make it annoying to fix, especially dealing with zpool.cache.
> If it mounts, make a copy of the cache file.
> 
> I switched from a zpool with two disks to a zmirror, with a third
> disk to help hold data.  It wasn't fun, but it can be done.  One
> problem I had was getting zpool.cache to work properly on reboot.  I
> had to do the overlay mount, and I think I killed the power to
> prevent zfs from removing the file.  I'd suspect a zpool.cache
> problem.  ZFS doesn't think your zroot was mounted so doesn't try to
> mount it even though the bootloader finds the kernel.
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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Daniel Shahaf]

So far we've tried:

- 'gpart bootcode -b'
- load geom_part_gpt.ko
- using zpool.cache from the 9.0-RELEASE CD

And none of that seems to have had any effect.

Additional info: from the CD environment, 'zpool import' reports an old
'tank' pool on devices mfid[2-5].  (The 'zroot' pool uses mfid[0-5]p3.)

Any further ideas, please?

Thanks for all the suggestions so far.


Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:31:10 +0200:
> One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs root.
> 
> It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
> (self compiled) with a mountfrom error:
> 
> http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
> mountfrom> zfs:zroot
> Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
> Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.
> 
> We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
> unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)
> 
> Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
> What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [[[
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD loki.apache.org 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #0: Sat Nov 12 18:35:25 UTC 
> 2011 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> % cat /boot/loader.conf 
> # zfs
> zfs_load="YES"
> vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot"
> 
> # 
> ipmi_load="YES"
> 
> # Console for DRAC5
> boot_multicons="YES"
> boot_serial="YES"
> comconsole_speed="57600"
> console="comconsole,vidconsole"
> hint.sio.0.flags=0
> hint.sio.1.flags=0x10
> 
> accf_http_load="YES"
> accf_data_load="YES"
> % 
> 
> ]]]
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File manager for Xfce

[Per olof Ljungmark]

A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
really my way of doing it.

One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
under Xfce?

In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?

I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
a lot of KDE3 as well.

Suggestions welcome, thanks!
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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[George Kontostanos]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel Shahaf  wrote:
> So far we've tried:
>
> - 'gpart bootcode -b'
> - load geom_part_gpt.ko
> - using zpool.cache from the 9.0-RELEASE CD
>
> And none of that seems to have had any effect.
>
> Additional info: from the CD environment, 'zpool import' reports an old
> 'tank' pool on devices mfid[2-5].  (The 'zroot' pool uses mfid[0-5]p3.)
>
> Any further ideas, please?
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions so far.

You are running ZFS version 4 while the default is 5 on 9.0-RELEASE

---> Assuming your pool is called zroot
--->This is the way to update your zpool.cache: <---

Boot with 9.0-RELEASE and proceed with:

#zpool import -o altroot=/mnt -o cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache zroot

#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt zroot
#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/usr zroot/usr
#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/var zroot/var
#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/tmp zroot/tmp

## Ignore any warnings##

Now export the pool:

#zpool export -f zroot

Import the pool back and update the zpool.cache:

#zpool import -o cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache zroot
#cp /var/tmp/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache

Make sure that bootfs is set correctly:

#zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot

Now, unmount any ZFS datasets

#zfs umount -af

And fix mountpoints:

#zfs set mountpoint=legacy zroot
#zfs set mountpoint=/tmp zroot/tmp
#zfs set mountpoint=/usr zroot/usr
#zfs set mountpoint=/var zroot/var

That should be enough to update your zpool.cache

If this still doesn't work then you can upgrade your ZFS version to 5.

Make sure you have backups first!!!

Before unmounting your datasets issue a:

zfs upgrade -a

-- 
George Kontostanos
Aicom telecoms ltd
http://www.aisecure.net
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Re: From analysis of a simple ifstated.conf to more compex example

[peter knezel]

Well,

I am not fully familiar with CARP, but if the different carp interfaces are
used for different purpose (ftp, tftp, scp), is it a good idea to put down
all of them, if they are able to serve their purpose?

BTW, what is  CARP preemption and how is it possible to enable it?

Kind regards,

Peter

On 15 February 2012 18:25, Damien Fleuriot  wrote:

> Sorry about the late reply, didn't see yours.
>
> What about enabling CARP preemption to ensure that when a carp interface
> goes down, the whole set does ?
>
>
> On 2/7/12 9:13 PM, peter knezel wrote:
> > Hello Damien,
> >
> > I did read your example but cannot get idea from it.
> > For three interfaces you have much more possibilities.
> >
> > Imagine you start the server from uuu state which is equal to
> > net = '( "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp0 > /dev/null" every 3 && "ifconfig
> -a -u
> > |grep carp1 > /dev/null" every 3 && "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp2 >
> /dev/null"
> > every 3)'
> >
> > Now you put down one carp interface - so system is in state :
> > *state one:*
> > (duu) || (udu) || (uud)  > run script1.sh
> > go to twoff
> >
> > now imagine, you put down any other carp interface:
> > *state twoff: *
> > (dud) || (ddu) || (udd)
> > run script2.sh
> > go to two
> >
> > *state two: *
> > put all interfaces up
> > run script3.sh
> > go to state one
> >
> > it means, this is one of the possibilities system can behave (this
> > situation does not describe all possible states - I have taken this
> > special example.)
> >
> > Now if you want to put up after putting down one carp interface, you
> > fail since it is in state twoff.
> > Only of you put down second carp interface it goes to state two and if
> > you put both up, it will go to state one.
> >
> > This is where my ifstated.conf fails to work.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Peter Knezel
> >
> >
> > On 7 February 2012 17:02, Damien Fleuriot mailto:m...@my.gd>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 2/7/12 3:36 PM, peter knezel wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I would like to ask somebody to explain me how the ifstated works
> > according to
> > > the following configuration file.
> > > I have three virtual carp interfaces carp0,carp1 and carp2.
> > >
> > > I try to understand the following setting:
> > > The server is in state one (all carp interfaces are up) and if
> there
> > > is carp down of any:
> > > one (carp0 or carp1 or carp2),
> > > two ([carp0 and carp1] or [carp0 and carp2] or [carp1 and carp2]),
> > > three interfaces (carp 0 and carp1 and carp2), server
> > > runs the script testdown.sh and put the server into state two.
> > > If all carp interfaces are up, the server runs the testup.sh and
> set
> > > the state to one.
> > >
> >
> > That is my understanding.
> >
> >
> > > Is it the way the system works?
> > > Or am I wrong?
> > >
> > > ===
> > > init-state one
> > >
> > > net = '( "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp0 > /dev/null" every 3 &&
> > "ifconfig -a -u
> > > |grep carp1 > /dev/null" every 3 && "ifconfig -a -u |grep carp2 >
> > /dev/null"
> > > every 3)'
> > >
> > > state one {
> > >if ( ! $net ) {
> > >run "/usr/local/testdown.sh"
> > >set-state two
> > >}
> > > }
> > >
> > > state two {
> > >if ( $net ) {
> > >run "/usr/local/testup.sh"
> > >set-state one
> > >}
> > > }
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Is there any possibility to define and set ifstated.conf that
> > reacts when:
> > >
> > >  any one of the carp interfaces is down - followed by another any
> > > other carp interface down
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried to define states:
> > >
> > > duu ="!carp0.link.up && carp1.link.up && carp2.link.up"
> > > udu ="carp0.link.up && !carp1.link.up && carp2.link.up"
> > > uud ="carp0.link.up && carp1.link.up && !carp2.link.up"
> > > ddu ="!carp0.link.up && !carp1.link.up"
> > > dud ="!carp0.link.up && !carp2.link.up"
> > > udd ="!carp1.link.up && !carp2.link.up"
> > >
> > > and used them but somehow I cannot incorporate all state changes
> and
> > > include it in ifstated.conf.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Works fine here, did you not have any luck with the file I posted
> > earlier ?
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Fwd: [Daniel Shahaf: Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade]

[Daniel Shahaf]

Forwarding to fs@ per a colleague's suggestion.

tldr: amd64 host running 9.0-RC2 with zfs root won't boot 9.0-RELEASE's
self-compiled GENERIC kernel, hanging at mountfrom>.  Details below.

The previous thread is here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/285708

Thanks.


- Forwarded message from Daniel Shahaf  -

> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:48:11 +0200
> From: Daniel Shahaf 
> To: questi...@freebsd.org
> Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" ,
>   infrastructure-priv...@apache.org
> Subject: Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade
> Message-ID: <20120215174811.GA14636@daniel3.local>
> 
> So far we've tried:
> 
> - 'gpart bootcode -b'
> - load geom_part_gpt.ko
> - using zpool.cache from the 9.0-RELEASE CD
> 
> And none of that seems to have had any effect.
> 
> Additional info: from the CD environment, 'zpool import' reports an old
> 'tank' pool on devices mfid[2-5].  (The 'zroot' pool uses mfid[0-5]p3.)
> 
> Any further ideas, please?
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions so far.
> 
> 
> Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:31:10 +0200:
> > One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs root.
> > 
> > It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel
> > (self compiled) with a mountfrom error:
> > 
> > http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png
> > mountfrom> zfs:zroot
> > Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
> > Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2.
> > 
> > We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are
> > unchanged.  (The zroot fs is at version 4.)
> > 
> > Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't?
> > What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > [[[
> > % uname -a
> > FreeBSD loki.apache.org 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #0: Sat Nov 12 18:35:25 UTC 
> > 2011 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> > % cat /boot/loader.conf 
> > # zfs
> > zfs_load="YES"
> > vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot"
> > 
> > # 
> > ipmi_load="YES"
> > 
> > # Console for DRAC5
> > boot_multicons="YES"
> > boot_serial="YES"
> > comconsole_speed="57600"
> > console="comconsole,vidconsole"
> > hint.sio.0.flags=0
> > hint.sio.1.flags=0x10
> > 
> > accf_http_load="YES"
> > accf_data_load="YES"
> > % 
> > 
> > ]]]
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Re: File manager for Xfce

[Waitman Gobble]

On Feb 15, 2012 9:58 AM, "Per olof Ljungmark"  wrote:
>
> A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
> really my way of doing it.
>
> One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
> manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
> under Xfce?
>
> In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
> looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?
>
> I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
> a lot of KDE3 as well.
>
> Suggestions welcome, thanks!
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hi,

I like xfce4, compact and fast on my netbook. I haven't had issues on
FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT. Thunar is good, have not tried using smb:// etc but I
will see what happens and let you know. The WebKit based browser in the
project is pretty good too. If you are running FreeBSD on a desktop you
might want more apps and features that come with KDE or Gnome.

Check out the xfce.org site to see what you get ;-)

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Re: File manager for Xfce

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 02/15/12 19:54, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> 
> On Feb 15, 2012 9:58 AM, "Per olof Ljungmark"  > wrote:
>>
>> A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
>> really my way of doing it.
>>
>> One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
>> manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
>> under Xfce?
>>
>> In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
>> looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?
>>
>> I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
>> a lot of KDE3 as well.
>>
>> Suggestions welcome, thanks!
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> hi,
> 
> I like xfce4, compact and fast on my netbook. I haven't had issues on
> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT. Thunar is good, have not tried using smb:// etc
> but I will see what happens and let you know. The WebKit based browser
> in the project is pretty good too. If you are running FreeBSD on a
> desktop you might want more apps and features that come with KDE or Gnome.
> 
> Check out the xfce.org  site to see what you get ;-)
> 
> Waitman Gobble
> San Jose California USA
> 

Hmmm, looking at the Xfce website it looks as perhaps problem solved:

"Thunar now has optional support for GVFS which will allow you to browse
remote shares using Thunar: FTP, Windows Shares, WebDav and SSH servers..."

If this works all is fine.
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Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Joshua Isom]

On 2/15/2012 12:03 PM, George Kontostanos wrote:

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel Shahaf  wrote:

So far we've tried:

- 'gpart bootcode -b'
- load geom_part_gpt.ko
- using zpool.cache from the 9.0-RELEASE CD

And none of that seems to have had any effect.

Additional info: from the CD environment, 'zpool import' reports an old
'tank' pool on devices mfid[2-5].  (The 'zroot' pool uses mfid[0-5]p3.)

Any further ideas, please?

Thanks for all the suggestions so far.


You are running ZFS version 4 while the default is 5 on 9.0-RELEASE

--->  Assuming your pool is called zroot
--->This is the way to update your zpool.cache:<---

Boot with 9.0-RELEASE and proceed with:

#zpool import -o altroot=/mnt -o cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache zroot

#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt zroot
#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/usr zroot/usr
#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/var zroot/var
#zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/tmp zroot/tmp

## Ignore any warnings##

Now export the pool:

#zpool export -f zroot

Import the pool back and update the zpool.cache:

#zpool import -o cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache zroot
#cp /var/tmp/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache

Make sure that bootfs is set correctly:

#zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot

Now, unmount any ZFS datasets

#zfs umount -af

And fix mountpoints:

#zfs set mountpoint=legacy zroot
#zfs set mountpoint=/tmp zroot/tmp
#zfs set mountpoint=/usr zroot/usr
#zfs set mountpoint=/var zroot/var

That should be enough to update your zpool.cache

If this still doesn't work then you can upgrade your ZFS version to 5.

Make sure you have backups first!!!

Before unmounting your datasets issue a:

zfs upgrade -a



I remember doing something similar.  It took me a few hours to figure 
everything out and repeated reboots to attempt to get it working.  I 
believe what worked for me wasn't mounting it in /mnt, but actually 
mounting on / and making sure the cache file was in the zfs pool.  I 
think I had to make a copy because zfs wanted to export the pool before 
shutdown which defeated the point.  It was almost a year ago that I 
dealt with it.  I'm 90% sure it's a cache file issue, and it's just 
getting it working properly.


Note: I've never had a problem when upgrading from /usr/src, it was only 
when I was moving datasets to different drives, adding hard drives, and 
redoing my hard drive arrangement.

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Re: File manager for Xfce

[Mike Jeays]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:58:30 +0100
Bernt Hansson  wrote:

> On 2012-02-15 18:57, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> > A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
> > really my way of doing it.
> >
> > One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
> > manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
> > under Xfce?
> >
> > In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
> > looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?
> >
> > I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
> > a lot of KDE3 as well.
> >
> > Suggestions welcome, thanks!
> 
> 
> cd /usr/ports/x11-fm/xfe && make rmconfig && make install clean
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I use and really like XFE, but I can't get it to open smb and ftp sites. Have I 
missed something?
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Re: File manager for Xfce

[Fritz Wuehler]

> A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
> really my way of doing it.

I prefer Fluxbox and have since I found it. Xfce is rather heavy these days,
not surprised you're considering it as a replacement to KDE. But Xfce breaks
rather badly at times, I no longer trust it.

> One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
> manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
> under Xfce?

Hmmm not sure about that since I haven't used KDE in ages but have a look at
ROX-Filer it is just super. I always install it on all my Linux and BSD
desktop machines.

> In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
> looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?

tsk tsk oh well if you need that sort of thing I'm not sure ROX will work
for you. for file management it's super, beyond that the filer doesn't
go. Not sure if some of the other ROX bits would work as I haven't used them.

> I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
> a lot of KDE3 as well.

Yes that's the problem with package management. The installation bloat can
be significant if you want something and only that thing whilst the port dev
decided the entire world was a prereq

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Technical Support Question

[Chip Oakley]

Hello,

I am upgrading to BSD from windows.

I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot
remember.

I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure
to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail.

Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite
windows for my BSD installation?

Regards
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Re: File manager for Xfce

[Rares Aioanei]

On 02/15/2012 07:57 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:

A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
really my way of doing it.

One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
under Xfce?

In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?

I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
a lot of KDE3 as well.

Suggestions welcome, thanks!
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If you were used to the KDE way, why not try dolphin?

--
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How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem
to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and
once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.

I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it.  I
can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from.  Whether
it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool
somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it!  :-)

Any clues, anyone?  I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one.

Thanks!

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conr...@cox.net
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DRI for Radeon HD5450 on FreeBSD 9.0

[Michael Grünewald]

Dear list,

I own a radeon HD5450 and I would like to know how well it is supported 
by freeBSD 9, in partocular DRI and 3D accelaeration.


I have a fresh 9.0/amd64 on my machine and Xorg fails to initialise the 
DRI.  It says (from Xorg-0.log):


(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/local/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
(II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 270

As the last line of the snippet displays it, I use radeon(4x) as driver.

I used the page

  http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/troubleshooting.html

to try to diagnose the problem and it seems that none of the driver agp 
radeondrm and drm is able to initaialize correctly.


Can you enable DRI for HD5450 on FreeBSD 9.0 ?
Do you have some useful documentation to show me?

In any of these cases, I would say ``thanks!''
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Michael
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Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Steve Bertrand]

On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem
to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and
once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.

I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it.  I
can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from.  Whether
it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool
somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it!  :-)

Any clues, anyone?  I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one.


Is there anything in /etc/rc.conf relating to this server?

Steve
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Re: File manager for Xfce

[Da Rock]

On 02/16/12 08:41, Rares Aioanei wrote:

On 02/15/2012 07:57 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:

A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
really my way of doing it.

One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
under Xfce?

In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?

I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
a lot of KDE3 as well.

Suggestions welcome, thanks!

If you were used to the KDE way, why not try dolphin?
Dolphin is a bit bloated but could *possibly* be workable. It hasn't 
always worked for me.


Anything using GVFS is a real problem and won't do the other special 
tasks you want it to do. The GIO transition is killing all the fun. Not 
sure when or whether it will return, but it is a real buzz kill on the net.


Alternatively, you could use fuse with a bit of scripting and any 
lightweight filemanager. Maybe automounter or amd?

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Re: Technical Support Question

[Da Rock]

On 02/16/12 06:14, Chip Oakley wrote:

Hello,

I am upgrading to BSD from windows.

I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot
remember.

I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure
to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail.

Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite
windows for my BSD installation?

Welcome to FreeBSD!

FreeBSD and Windows are completely incompatible, I'm afraid. Can you 
boot from usb? You can download a memstick img from the same place you 
got your cd iso. More cost effective too - no old releases floating 
around for years; you just reuse the same old memstick! ;)


If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest 
usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need 
about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well.

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Re: Technical Support Question

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote:

If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb 
sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. 
And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well.


The 9.0-RELEASE memstick is less than 654M, and I believe all are made 
to fit in 1G.  The DVD image is larger, 2.2G.

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Please manually remove me from this mailing list

[Troy]

I have tried to get off this mailing list.  I have received the 
confirmation saying it was successful and mail still comes.  I have two 
aliases - and I removed both just to be sure.  One is 
sindr...@twisted.net an the other t...@twisted.net -- someone will have 
to manually remove me


Thanks

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Re: Technical Support Question

[Da Rock]

On 02/16/12 10:07, Warren Block wrote:

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote:

If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest 
usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need 
about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well.


The 9.0-RELEASE memstick is less than 654M, and I believe all are made 
to fit in 1G.  The DVD image is larger, 2.2G.

Didn't fit on 1G when I tried, but maybe that was just RC3.
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Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:21 -0500
Steve Bertrand  wrote:

> On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
> > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them
> > seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU
> > hog, and once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.
> >
> > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable
> > it.  I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started
> > from.  Whether it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some
> > add-on tool somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain
> > don't want it!  :-)
> >
> > Any clues, anyone?  I'm really worn out from trying to solve this
> > one.
> 
> Is there anything in /etc/rc.conf relating to this server?
> 
> Steve

Well, naturally, that was the first place I checked, along with
probing /usr/local/etc, but no, I don't see any signs of anything
anywhere that could be causing this thing to run.  Nothing helpful
in the package's plist, either.  Undoubtedly, one of its REQUIRED_BYs
is responsible, but none of them are making it easy to track down.
It's really quite maddening.

This thing is a persistent little bugger, I tell ya.  I've tried
manually killing it repeatedly, using various signals, and it just
keeps resurrecting itself immediately, sometimes in even higher
numbers, like some evil being in a horror movie.  Kill one, and two
or more spring up in its place.  It's *evil*, I tell ya!  :-)

Well, where there's a will, there's a way.  I'll get to the bottom of
this eventually.  I would just uninstall it, but then it will most
likely be automatically reinstalled, too, when I upgrade something that
depends on it.  As Caiaphas sang in his menacing basso voice in "Jesus
Christ Superstar", "We need a more permanent solution to our problem".
:-)

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Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:


Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem
to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and
once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.

I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it.  I
can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from.  Whether
it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool
somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it!  :-)

Any clues, anyone?  I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one.


It's some hidden gnome thing.  No real idea how to disable it, maybe 
gconf.  It's responsible for monitoring file changes, so does have some 
usefulness.


Might be better to figure out why it's tying up the CPU.
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Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Steve Bertrand]

On 2012.02.15 19:19, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:21 -0500
Steve Bertrand  wrote:


On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them
seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU
hog, and once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.

I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable
it.  I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started
from.  Whether it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some
add-on tool somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain
don't want it!  :-)

Any clues, anyone?  I'm really worn out from trying to solve this
one.


Is there anything in /etc/rc.conf relating to this server?



Well, naturally, that was the first place I checked, along with
probing /usr/local/etc, but no, I don't see any signs of anything
anywhere that could be causing this thing to run.  Nothing helpful
in the package's plist, either.  Undoubtedly, one of its REQUIRED_BYs
is responsible, but none of them are making it easy to track down.
It's really quite maddening.

This thing is a persistent little bugger, I tell ya.  I've tried
manually killing it repeatedly, using various signals, and it just
keeps resurrecting itself immediately, sometimes in even higher
numbers, like some evil being in a horror movie.  Kill one, and two
or more spring up in its place.  It's *evil*, I tell ya!  :-)

Well, where there's a will, there's a way.  I'll get to the bottom of
this eventually.  I would just uninstall it, but then it will most
likely be automatically reinstalled, too, when I upgrade something that
depends on it.  As Caiaphas sang in his menacing basso voice in "Jesus
Christ Superstar", "We need a more permanent solution to our problem".
:-)



lol :) I figured you've checked there, but one never knows. I've never 
heard such of a rogue problem on FBSD before. Do you see anything odd if 
you run lsof? Won't say what started it, but it may give hints.


Also, perhaps you could display to the list what you are starting 
willingly to see if someone can identify a potential problem.


Steve

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Re: Technical Support Question

[Robert Bonomi]

Chip Oakley  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am upgrading to BSD from windows.
>
> I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot
> remember.
>
> I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure
> to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail.

There are at least two possibilities to explain 'to no avail' -- which utterly
fails to describe what actually happened.
  1) the CD you made -- by unspecified means -- is not actually bootable, and
 the BIOS proceeds to the 'next' available boot device (the hard-disk) and
 boots Windows -- which wants the password you hve forgotten.
  2) there is a *BIOS* password that you must supply before being able to boot
 _anything_

> Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite
> windows for my BSD installation?

"Probably".

_IF_ the CD is 'bootable'.
_IF_ the CD does not have read errors in the boot code.
_IF_ the CD _drive_ is working properly, and is properly aligned.
_IF_ the machine will boot from CD.
_IF_ the machine BIOS is set to try to boot from the CD before other devices.

You claim to have made a CD on nother machine.  Will _that_ machine boot from
the CD you made?  If not, you made the CD incorrectly.

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/lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear folks,

I updated ports and one failed, gimp-app.  I checked /usr/src/UPDATING
and I followed advice there to run
# portmaster -w devel/pcre

and I did this, and now machine won't get X.  How can I bypass this
mistake?  I am now hesitant to update the other machines :(, I will
get into problems starting X because of some update of a certain lib.
Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?

Regards,

Antonio
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Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Nikola Pavlović]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:57:38PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
> desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem
> to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and
> once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.
> 

PolicyKit is like that too. :)

> I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it.  I
> can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from.  Whether
> it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool
> somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it!  :-)

It's not just desktop environments, a huge amount of 'normal' ports depend on
it.  I'm running a bare bones window manager and can't get rid of it.
At first I thought polkit and gam_server were some kind of leftovers
from a couple of months long experiment with KDE4, but after I made sure
every last bit of KDE was gone from the system (it was like trying
to kill those packs of core hounds in Molten Core[1]; older WoW players
will appreciate the analogy) and tired to remove them, this is what I
got (and still get; some of the more amusing dependants marked):

# pkg_delete gamin\*
pkg_delete: package 'gamin-0.1.10_4' is required by these other packages
and may not be deinstalled:
ORBit2-2.14.19
atk-2.0.1
dbus-glib-0.94
desktop-file-utils-0.18
eggdbus-0.6_1
gdk-pixbuf-2.23.5_1
gio-fam-backend-2.28.8
libIDL-0.8.14_1
libcroco-0.6.2_1
libgee-0.6.2.1
libimobiledevice-1.0.6_2
liblqr-1-0.4.1_2
policykit-0.9_6
py27-dbus-0.84.0
shared-mime-info-0.90 <---
enchant-1.6.0
gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.0.1
glib-networking-2.28.7_3
libsoup-2.34.3
loudmouth-1.4.3_6
mcabber-0.10.1_2  <---
cairo-1.10.2_3,1
gobject-introspection-0.10.8
pango-1.28.4
graphviz-2.28.0
vala-0.12.1
gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.6
gtk-2.24.6
dconf-0.5.1_3
polkit-0.99
gconf2-2.32.0_2
libgsf-1.14.21
gtk-engines2-2.20.2
librsvg2-2.34.1
ImageMagick-6.7.4.4_1 <---
goffice-0.8.17
wv-1.2.9
abiword-2.8.4_1
consolekit-0.4.3
libnotify-0.7.3_1
firefox-10.0,1
gstreamer-0.10.35
gstreamer-plugins-0.10.35_1,3
py27-cairo-1.8.10
py27-gobject-2.28.6
libgpod-0.8.0
libglade2-2.6.4_4
gtkpod-1.0.0
hal-0.5.14_18
hal-info-20091130
lxappearance-0.5.1
xorg-server-1.7.7_3,1
nvidia-driver-285.05.09
nvidia-settings-285.05.09
py27-gstreamer-0.10.22
py27-gtk-2.24.0
py27-notify-0.1.1_8
trayer-srg-1.1.4
vim-7.3.121
wine-1.4.r2,1
xf86-input-keyboard-1.5.0
xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0
xf86-video-nv-2.1.18
xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0_1
xorg-drivers-7.5.1
xorg-7.5.1
xplanet-1.2.2_1
xscreensaver-5.15
zenity-2.32.1_1
musicpd-0.16.7

Sure, some of these are not direct dependencies, but this is the end
result.  At that point I just sighed, gazed away from the computer and
decided to leave it be. :)  (Yes some of the stuff in that list can be
weeded out with pkg_cutleaves but they end coming back as build
dependencies of other stuff that I do need).

> 
> Any clues, anyone?  I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one.
> 

At this point I guess any GTK+ application (and I bet a lot of KDE ones
too) that even remotely has anything to do with Gnome is going to result
in pulling in gam_server (gamin).  Maybe it's even a plain GTK+ thing... It
seems like a lost battle.

But the CPU hogging sounds strange.  On my machine it just sits there
seemingly doing nothing with probably constant 0 % CPU load and a few
processes.



[1] http://www.wowpedia.org/Core_Hound_Pack


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Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

[Ryan Frederick]

You can recompile all ports that depend on pcre so that they'll use the
new shared library.

You can do so with:
# portmaster -r pcre-8.30

Ryan

On 02/15/2012 08:42 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear folks,
> 
> I updated ports and one failed, gimp-app.  I checked /usr/src/UPDATING
> and I followed advice there to run
> # portmaster -w devel/pcre
> 
> and I did this, and now machine won't get X.  How can I bypass this
> mistake?  I am now hesitant to update the other machines :(, I will
> get into problems starting X because of some update of a certain lib.
> Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio
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Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:01:18AM -, Dave wrote:

[[ useless junk ]]

> > it.  it keep cycling, trying to boot a 7.3 #1.
> > 
> > i just remembered that the floppy disk   was a DOS file  with a secret
> > command :A:\MBR that got rid of that boot track.
> > 
> > it's looking more and more hopeless.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > wasn't/isn't there some kind of "fixit" CD?
> > 
> > gary
> 
> Sounds like you need to get into the Dell's BIOS, and alter the boot 
> order, so as it looks first at CD and Floppy drives, before the hard 
> disk.  Dell's can be funny things at times though, especially if it's 
> been setup for a headless boot (server mode)...


this us  a case when what i tried was worse than dumb and
dumber; it was beyond idiocy.

to try and keep my dell from booting infinitely, i when into
/etc/fstab and commented out all the file system entries.
STILL, FBSD starts to boot.  it blows up only when it tried
to mount the first slice.  my original theory   was that
without  any of the Devices in /etc/fstab mounted, the boot
would simply ==quit==; this would when i would have a chance
to mount one of my iso CD files.


> 
> The old tool you're thinking of for DOS/Windows was "FixMBR".
> 

was this on an old dos floppy?  pretty sure i had the old
5.25[?]-inch floppy; it was a micro$oft disc and the file
that got rid of my incomplete  freebsd was never advertised.
but it did the  trick and my cousin got backto
reinstalling whatever he had.

fast forward 11.5 years and i'm here with an old dell that
is sitting here, cabled up with no plac e to go.


> I thihk like 'Da Rock' has suggested, you best pull the affected hard 
> disk, and either put it in a USB caddy, then mount it as an external 
> drive on a working system, if it's not badly mullered somehow, or install 
> it as an extra drive in such a similar system, and get stuff off it like 
> that, is probably the best way.


yes, i think you nailed it.  the facts are that the guy who
helped me last sunday was somebody i did not know before.
so now i'll have to email and see if he'll have the time and
energy to come back in the next few weeks and drop in an
empty disc.  used/refurb; it's a dontcare.  
> 
> Then, flatten it and do a clean install of whatever, with it fitted back 
> into it's original home.
> 
> Unless someone else comes up with a better plan.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Dave B.

well, you've confirmed my own thinking.  i think this drive
is the only one in the 2003 computer.  that was the last
year that dell built things rights, IMHO.  The opticals
are  packaged neatly;  a couple of plugs and a heavy strap.
Seriously  well engineered from a hardware design 
standpoint.  that's the  only reason i didn't have the box
hauled away last april.

.

thanks,

gary
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Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

[Antonio Olivares]

>> You can recompile all ports that depend on pcre so that they'll use the
>> new shared library.
>>
>> You can do so with:
>> # portmaster -r pcre-8.30
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> On 02/15/2012 08:42 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>> Dear folks,
>>>
>>> I updated ports and one failed, gimp-app.  I checked /usr/src/UPDATING
>>> and I followed advice there to run
>>> # portmaster -w devel/pcre
>>>
>>> and I did this, and now machine won't get X.  How can I bypass this
>>> mistake?  I am now hesitant to update the other machines :(, I will
>>> get into problems starting X because of some update of a certain lib.
>>> Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Antonio
>>> ___
>
 I am doing this and see how it goes.  I used ldd to check for
libprce.so and I got :

ldd /usr/local/lib/libprce.so:
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800647000)
ldd /usr/local/lib/libprce.so.1:
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800647000)

There are two of them :(  Should there be only one?

Thanks for your advice.

Regards,

Antonio
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Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

[Robert Bonomi]

Antonio Olivares  wrote;

>  I am doing this and see how it goes.  I used ldd to check for
> libprce.so and I got :
>
> ldd /usr/local/lib/libprce.so:
> libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800647000)
> ldd /usr/local/lib/libprce.so.1:
> libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800647000)
>
> There are two of them :(  Should there be only one?

This is _normal_.  The .so (with no further sufix), is generally just a link
to the 'latest' .so *with* a numeric suffix.


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Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

[Antonio Olivares]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Robert Bonomi  wrote:
> Antonio Olivares  wrote;
>
>>  I am doing this and see how it goes.  I used ldd to check for
>> libprce.so and I got :
>>
>> ldd /usr/local/lib/libprce.so:
>>         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800647000)
>> ldd /usr/local/lib/libprce.so.1:
>>         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800647000)
>>
>> There are two of them :(  Should there be only one?
>
> This is _normal_.  The .so (with no further sufix), is generally just a link
> to the 'latest' .so *with* a numeric suffix.
>
>

I am in a not good state now.  I broke two machines by updating to
latest and get the same error on both machines.
I get the /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" is needed
by * and nothing works, I run

# portmaster -r pcre-8.30

and it bombs out with the following:

signals-marshal.c:186: warning: ISO C forbids conversion of object
pointer to function pointer type
  CC libavahi_gobject_la-ga-client-enumtypes.lo
  CC libavahi_gobject_la-ga-entry-group-enumtypes.lo
  CC libavahi_gobject_la-ga-enums-enumtypes.lo
  CCLD   libavahi-gobject.la
  GISCAN Avahi-0.6.gir
g-ir-scanner: warning: Option --strip-prefix has been deprecated;
see --identifier-prefix and --symbol-prefix.
/usr/include/machine/endian.h:123: syntax error, unexpected '{' in '
return (__extension__ ({ register __uint64_t __X = (_x); __asm ("bswap
%0" : "+r" (__X)); __X; }));' at '{'
/usr/include/machine/endian.h:123: syntax error, unexpected ';' in '
return (__extension__ ({ register __uint64_t __X = (_x); __asm ("bswap
%0" : "+r" (__X)); __X; }));' at ';'
/usr/include/machine/endian.h:130: syntax error, unexpected '{' in '
return (__extension__ ({ register __uint32_t __X = (_x); __asm ("bswap
%0" : "+r" (__X)); __X; }));' at '{'
/usr/include/machine/endian.h:130: syntax error, unexpected ';' in '
return (__extension__ ({ register __uint32_t __X = (_x); __asm ("bswap
%0" : "+r" (__X)); __X; }));' at ';'
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required
by "libavahi-glib.so.1"
Command 
'['/usr/ports/net/avahi-app/work/avahi-0.6.29/avahi-gobject/tmp-introspectGYNEXM/Avahi-0.6',
'--introspect-dump=/usr/ports/net/avahi-app/work/avahi-0.6.29/avahi-gobject/tmp-introspectGYNEXM/types.txt,/usr/ports/net/avahi-app/work/avahi-0.6.29/avahi-gobject/tmp-introspectGYNEXM/dump.xml']'
returned non-zero exit status 1
gmake[3]: *** [Avahi-0.6.gir] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/net/avahi-app/work/avahi-0.6.29/avahi-gobject'
gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/net/avahi-app/work/avahi-0.6.29/avahi-gobject'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/net/avahi-app/work/avahi-0.6.29'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/avahi-app.

===>>> make failed for net/avahi-app
===>>> Aborting update

===>>> Update for avahi-app-0.6.29_1 failed
===>>> Aborting update

===>>> Update for gvfs-1.6.6_2 failed
===>>> Aborting update

===>>> Update for Thunar-1.3.0 failed
===>>> Aborting update

Terminated
===>>> There are messages from installed ports to display,
   but first take a moment to review the error messages
   above.  Then press Enter when ready to proceed.

===>>> pkg-message for gamin-0.1.10_4
===

Gamin will only provide realtime notification of changes for at most n files,
where n is the minimum value between (kern.maxfiles * 0.7) and
(kern.maxfilesperproc - 200). Beyond that limit, files will be polled.

If you often open several large folders with Nautilus, you might want to
increase the kern.maxfiles tunable (you do not need to set
kern.maxfilesperproc, since it is computed at boot time from kern.maxfiles).

For a typical desktop, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf, then
reboot the system:

kern.maxfiles="25000"

The behavior of gamin can be controlled via the various gaminrc files.
See http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html on how to create
these files.  In particular, if you find gam_server is taking up too much
CPU time polling for changes, something like the following may help
in one of the gaminrc files:

# reduce polling frequency to once per 10 seconds
# for UFS file systems in order to lower CPU load
fsset ufs poll 10

===

===>>> pkg-message for liblqr-1-0.4.1_2
==
NOTE: In order to compile examples for liblqr, you will
also need pngwriter port (/usr/ports/graphics/pngwriter).
Examples are located in /usr/local/share/examples/liblqr-1
==

===>>> Done displaying pkg-message files

===>>> The following actions were performed:
Re-installation of pcre-8.30
Re-installation of glib-2.28.8_4
Re-installation of gamin-0.1.10_4

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.4.rc3 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

[David Naylor]

Hi,

Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.4.rc3 have been uploaded to mediafire [2].

There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world
(help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users).

The patch [3] for nVidia users is now included in the package and is run on
installation (if the relevant files are accessible).  Please read the
installation messages for further information.

Regards,

David

[1]
 MD5 (freebsd8/wine-fbsd64-1.4.rc3,1.tbz) = 0a63374ea1f14c205a49d189acba8015
 MD5 (freebsd9/wine-fbsd64-1.4.rc3,1.txz) = 02362559af1efe9088c7aa3adc6c4da4
[2] http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64
[3] The patch is located at /usr/local/share/wine/patch-nvidia.sh
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