from:"adrian"

Hi!

I'm glad someone else is seeing this!

I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run
amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen.

.. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i,
T60, T400.

-adrian

On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote:

Hello,

I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside
other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too).
When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes
to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, this forces me to
reboot.

This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM.
Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue.

I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might
have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key:
$ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete
this brought no change.

Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can
disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for
daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want
to reboot ;-)

Thanks in advance kind regards,
Matthias

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Re: pkgng problem

Have you done a pkg update first, just in case you needed to pull in a
pkgng update?


-adrian
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Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

... xf86sleep as a keypress id?



-adrian


On 16 August 2013 04:48, Grzegorz Blach ma...@roorback.net wrote:

 Hi,

 I also had problem with Fn key.
 I'm using Lenovo T430 and Enlightenment desktop environment.
 I resolved this issue by unbinding XF86Sleep in Enlightenment settings.

 Cheers,
 Grzegorz Blach

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Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Right, but this sounds like some bug to send upstream. Or at least patch in
our port(s) for this stuff.

What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ?

-adiran

On 16 August 2013 17:09, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote:

Hi,

a short update on this. I just found out: at least in Gnome 2 the behavior
can be prevented by using the gconf-settings tool, changing the value of
the key /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/suspend from suspend to
nothing. Seems like some ubuntu users had the same issue as I found the
workaround there.

Kind regards,
Matthias

Am 16.08.2013 08:44, schrieb Adrian Chadd:

Hi!

I'm glad someone else is seeing this!

I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run
amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen.

.. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on
T42i, T60, T400.

-adrian

On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote:

Hello,

I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop.
Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and
GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device
immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep,
this forces me to reboot.

This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM.
Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue.

I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might
have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key:
$ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete
this brought no change.

Thanks in advance kind regards,
Matthias

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Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-13 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi!

Yay another FreeBSD laptop user!

Please do this:

* join the freebsd-mobile list;
* create PRs for each of your problems with -10 above!;
* the power utilisation thing is going to be fun to track down - what kind
of CPU is in there? Is it a recent Intel? I'm playing around with their
tools at the moment; maybe we can look at the power the CPU is consuming
and then add on the power from each of the other parts in your laptop until
we figure out what's drawing said power
* the brightness thing is known; a bunch of us have this issue and the
fix is known. Trouble is, there's no (yet) clean fix that's made it into
acpi_ibm. I'm glad there's another person who cares; it means we have more
chance of getting a real fix that works for multiple people into the tree.

As for suspend/resume - I'm glad it at least works for you. Right now I
don't even get video output upon resume. But, it's a starting point. Let's
get the PRs filed, the brightness thing pushed into -HEAD, and then start
down the path of figuring out where the power consumption is coming from.



-adrian



On 13 August 2013 15:21, vermaden verma...@interia.pl wrote:

 Hi,

 I have just tried FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530 and I must say that its very
 disapointing experience ...

 The FreeBSD 9.2-RC1 and PC-BSD 9.2-BETA2 does not even boot from the USB
 drive - instant kernel panic and reboot.

 The FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT was able to boot successfully and I could install
 FreeBSD onto the drive with 'ZFS Madnss' style.

 After installation with extended battery charged to 100% I have about 3
 hours of work ... while having about 10 hours on Windows (haven't tried
 Linux yet). I disabled discrete graphics (Nvidia) in the BIOS and also
 added set hw.pci.do_power_nodriver to 3, but that also did not solved the
 'battery' problem. The powerd daemon was of course running and worked ok.

 After compiling new x11/xorg (with WITH_NEW_XORG in /etc/make.conf) along
 with x11-wm/openbox I was able to get X11 working, but I can not go back to
 console as its not implemented yet.

 The screen is 100% bright all the time because acpi_ibm module probably
 does not support this model yet (changing the dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness
 is pointless, no effects).

 Suspend and resume works very poor, after resume the resolution is 640x640
 with all colors broken, requires restarting X11 in 'blind mode' (not
 implemented console switching).

 Of course as all of the above is not possible, using the Nvidia Optimus
 technology (graphics card switching) is probably also not possible, which
 is possible with Bumblebee on Linux, any plans on merging that
 functionality into FreeBSD?

 At least WiFi and LAN worked out of the box ...

 Now ... how can I help, what information can I provide to help resolve
 these issues:
 1. disable power for discrete graphics card
 2. have working screen brightness changing and working other Fn + X
 shotrcuts
 3. I guess I will have to 'just wait' for the console switching
 implementation?

 ... or maybe I am doing it 'wrong' someone have W530 there and uses
 FreeBSD with any more degree of success then I?

 Regards,
 vermaden
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Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Adrian Chadd

Yes. It'd be nice if UFS/FFS would just downgrade things to read-only
and not panic.



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Re: RALINK RT3572 supported in 9.1-RELEASE ?

2013-05-25 Thread Adrian Chadd

I vaguely recall it made it into -HEAD. I don't think it was ever backported.



adrian

On 25 May 2013 03:11, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:

 I have a Trendnet TEW-684UB wireless dual-band USB adapter.  Googling
 around for awhile leads me to believe that this probably contains an
 Ralink RT3572 chipset.

 Further googling also leads me to believe that a version of the
 run(4) driver which should support this chipset was comitted some
 considerable time ago.

 Can anyone confirm either or both of these two impressions?  Does
 the TEW-684UB contain an Ralink RT3572?  Is support for that chipset
 present in 9.1-RELEASE?

 If the answer to both of the above is yes, then where might I find
 a HOW TO sort of doc which might help me to get this running?  I've
 already added the following lines to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted:

if_run_load=YES
runfw_load=YES

 but apparently to no avail.

 After adding the above two lines to loader.conf and rebooting, shouldn't
 the device thenceforth appear in the output of ifconfig -a ?  (Mine does
 not.)
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Re: ath0 + wpa/wpa2 + apple airport extreme = no joy.

2012-12-21 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi,

Please try -9 on your Soekris. :-)



Adrian


On 19 December 2012 15:32, Christopher Sean Hilton ch...@vindaloo.com wrote:
 I posted on a similar subject last year but in the end it turned out
 to be irrelevant. I'm trying to get the combination of:

  a Soekris Net4511,
  FreeBSD 8-STABLE from Dec 2011,
  an Atheros AR5BMB-44 wifi interface (identified as AR5212 in dmesg),
  an Apple Airport Extreme (about 2010 vintage) with WPA/WPA2 security,

 to all play nicely. To start with I plan to look at the change logs
 for the wpa_supplicant suite to see if there were changes from last
 December to now. I will probably just upgrade this box to a later
 vintage of 8-STABLE. Still, hit me with a cluebat if this problem got
 fixed between December, 2011 and now.

 Anyhow, no matter what I've done, the result is the same:

  The atheros/wlan combo associates to my wireless network;

  The dhcp client on the soekris sends a request to the dhcp
  server. The dhcp server receives the negotiation and tries to
  offer a lease but the soekris never receives a reply;

 I've confirmed this by running tcpdump on the dhcp server where I've
 seen the requests arrive with the atheros' mac address and I've seen
 the replies go back out of the dhcp server but either the atheros
 isn't listening or the Airport Extreme isn't forwarding the traffic. I
 haven't sniffed the wifi to see if the Airport Extreme just isn't
 forwarding the reply or if the atheros isn't receiving it properly.

 I can convince this combination of hardware to work if I change the
 network security on the airport extreme from WPA/WPA2 to None.

 The configuration that I feel should make the atheros work with the
 Airport Extreme works just fine with my 2010 vintage Airport
 Express. The Express and the Extreme are basically creating the same
 network. The Extreme is on 2.4GHz channel 11, the Express on 2.4GHz 1.
 The reason I have both so you are always near an access point.

 I can get the atheros to work with WPA2 on my Mifi 4082.

 As a new data point, the combination of an Intel 2200bg + WPA works
 with the Airport Extreme.

 I've posted my configs after my signature if you want to look and I
 can provide more information if you need it.

 My hope in posting this is to try and figure out what's up with the
 atheros or the Airport Extreme that it isn't working in this
 configuration. If anyone has an atheros card working with WPA/WPA2 and
 an Apple Airport Extreme I'd love any assistance you'd be willing to
 give me with the configuration.

 Thanks for any help you can provide.

 --

 -- Chris

 
   There will be an answer, Let it be.
e: chris -at- vindaloo -dot- com

  This is the hacked /etc/rc.conf to work with the Intel card:

  ...
  wpa_supplicant_enable=YES
  ## wlans_ath0=wlan0
  wlans_iwi0=wlan0
  ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP
  ...


 Here's my abridged /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:

  ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
  ctrl_interface_group=0

  ## Airport Extreme

  network={
  ssid=FooBarBaz
  bssid=f8:1e:df:xx:xx:xx
  psk=
  proto=RSN
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  pairwise=CCMP TKIP
  group=CCMP TKIP
  priority=12
  }

  ## Airport Express

  network={
  ssid=FooBarBaz
  bssid=00:1f:f3:xx:xx:xx
  psk=
  proto=RSN
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  pairwise=CCMP TKIP
  group=CCMP TKIP
  priority=10
  }

  ## Mifi 4082

  network={
  ssid=FooBarBaz-Mobile
  psk=
  priority=0
  }

 Finally, here's the result of ifconfig on wlan0/iwi0 associated and
 working with the Airport Extreme:

  ryloth chris $ ifconfig iwi0
  iwi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 
 2290
  ether 00:15:00:xx:xx:xx
  media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
  status: associated
  ryloth chris $ ifconfig wlan0
  wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 
 1500
  ether 00:15:00:xx:xx:xx
  inet 10.59.145.87 netmask 0xfe00 broadcast 10.59.145.255
  media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
  status: associated
  ssid FooBarBaz channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid f8:1e:df:xx:xx:xx
  country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
  TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 0 bmiss 24 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme
  roaming MANUAL

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Re: Errors cross compilation of architecture MIPS

2012-11-07 Thread Adrian Chadd

That's odd. I don't build like that though, I build with my build
scripts at http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-wifi-build/

Maybe see what I do in build_freebsd ?



Adrian


On 7 November 2012 04:37, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote:
 Hi all.

 I have uname -rms
 FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64

 I use to build system for architecture MIPS the instructions on the wiki
 http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips

 I use next script build.sh http://privatepaste.com/339d25c604
 but the compilation fails http://privatepaste.com/106d4015d0

 then I add the option -DWITHOUT_GROFF \ in build.sh
 and re-run the script build.sh

 Next, I get the following error http://privatepaste.com/9887e06e42

 then I add the option -DWITHOUT_SENDMAIL \ in build.sh
 and re-run the script build.sh

 Next, I get the following error http://privatepaste.com/962b406024

 In what could be the problem here and what I'm doing wrong?

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Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Adrian Chadd

On 21 June 2012 23:22, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote:

 usbconfig -d 7.6 add_quirk UQ_MSC_NO_INQUIRY

 Then re-plug it.

 I'm sorry to say a lot of USB flash sticks out there are broken and only
 tested with the timing of MS Windows. Part of the problem is that it is
 difficult to autodetect these issues, because once you trigger the non-
 supported SCSI command, then the flash key stops working like you experience.

 I would be more than glad to open up an office to certify USB devices for use
 with FreeBSD :-)

Question - if that's the case, then why are we even doing that by default?



Adrian
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Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-27 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi,

Please email freebsd-wireless@ with wireless related questions.

Try wlandebug -i wlan0 +crypto and see if you get encryption errors.

Unfortunately there's currently no broadcom NIC maintainer, so things
are falling behind.



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Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi,

You guys now absolutely, positively have enough information for a PR.

It's still not clear whether it's a device/interrupt layer issue in
FreeBSD, or whether vmware is doing something wrong with how it
implements shared interrupts, or a bit of both..

Adrian

On 24 May 2012 13:54, dane foster d...@ilovedene.com wrote:
 Hey all,

 On 25/05/2012, at 1:47 AM, Mark Felder wrote:

 On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote:

 Hi,

 can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above
 information in it so we don't lose it?


 I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. 
 I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses 
 FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as 
 anyone else :-)

 The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any 
 truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane 
 Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with 
 his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it was 
 an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) and Dane's discovery that his 
 crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, but em0 is completely unused 
 was starting to prove there is some strong evidence here in favor of the 
 interrupts issue.

 Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful? Is 
 it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=1 ?


 The situation I've got that's stable now is:

 hw.pci.enable_msi=0
 hw.pci.enable_msix=0

 in /boot/loader.conf

 and:

 samael:~:% vmstat -i                                                  [ 
 6:31PM]
 interrupt                          total       rate
 irq1: atkbd0                           6          0
 irq18: em0 mpt0                  3061100         15
 irq19: em1                       6891706         35
 cpu0: timer                    166383735        868
 cpu1: timer                    166382123        868
 cpu3: timer                    166382123        868
 cpu2: timer                    166382121        868
 Total                          675482914       3525

 Not using em0. This works for 8 (FreeBSD samael.slush.ca 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 
 8.3-STABLE #1: Mon May  7 11:51:03 NZST 2012     
 r...@samael.slush.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DENE  amd64).

 Neither of those settings on their own seem to stop it from happening.

 The 9 box I've tried this on still hangs almost every time i run handbrake, 
 no matter whether MSI/MSIX is enabled, or I have separate IRQs for mpt0 and 
 em0/1

 I can cause the hang mostly on demand, but not quite sure what information to 
 provide from the hung system. If somebody can let me know what they need, 
 including root access, I can make that happen.

 Cheers,

 Dane




 Thanks!




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Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi,

can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above
information in it so we don't lose it?

If this is indeed the problem then I really think we should root cause
why the driver and/or interrupt handling code is getting angry with
the shared interrupt.

I'd also appreciate it if you and the other people who can reproduce
this could work with the em/mpt driver people and root cause why this
is going. I think having FreeBSD on vmware work stable out of the box
without these kinds of tweaks is the way to go - who knows what else
is lurking here..

I'm very very glad you've persisted with this and if I had them, I'd
send you a FreeBSD persistent bug reporter! t-shirt.

Thanks,


Adrian
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Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Adrian Chadd

Again, it's starting to sound like an interrupt handling issue which
may or may not be limited to the storage device.

You'll have to engage someone who knows those device drivers and
likely have them add some debugging to the driver which can be easily
flipped on (via binaries in a ramdisk - very important if you can't
run sysctl because your disk IO has locked up!) to see what the
current state of things.

It's likely that the BSD mpt(4) and other storage drivers, and/or our
interrupt handling code, is just slightly different enough to confuse
the snot out of VMWare. I'd first look at the obvious - (eg, if you've
just stopped receiving interrupts, even if new IO is scheduled). I'd
also ask VMware if they have any tools that they can run on a VM to
get the state of the internal emulated driver. For example, register
dumps of the device to see if it's in a hung state, register dumps of
the PIC/APIC to see what state they're in, etc.

Maybe pull in someone like ixsystems and see if they can help debug
this kind of stuff? If you're paying vmware for support, you could
pull them into things with ixsystems and see if the two of them can
help you sort this out?

Thanks,



Adrian
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Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi,

* have you filed a PR?
* is the crash easily reproducable?
* are you able to boot some ramdisk-only FreeBSD-8.2 images (eg create
a ramdisk image using nanobsd?) and do some stress testing inside
that?

It sounds like you've established it's a storage issue, or at least
interrupt handling for storage issue. So I'd definitely try the
ramdisk-only boot and thrash it using lighttpd/httperf or something.
If that survives fine, I'd look at trying to establish whether there's
something wrong in the disk driver(s) freebsd is using. I'm not that
cluey on ESXi, but there may be some PIC/APIC/ACPI change between 7.x
and 8.0 which has caused this to surface.

2c,


Adrian
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Re: OpenBGPd stability issue on FreebBSD 9-PRERELEASE

2011-11-27 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi,

Are all RX frames dropped at that point, or just the BGP TCP session
related IP frames?



Adrian
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Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 on X300 2 problems

2011-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi,

Please try to do this without wlan loaded at all (not just down, but
build your wifi support as a module.)
Then try without X, see whether it's related to that or not.
(And you haven't told us what your hardware is.)


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Re: bin/160979: 9.0 burncd error caused by change to cd0 from acd0

2011-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd

.. and if someone would like to contribute patches to burncd to update
it, I think there'd be at least one committer here who would be happy
to help you get your changes into the tree.

:-)



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Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-24 Thread Adrian Chadd

On 25 September 2011 01:30, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:

 In sysinstall you are presented with a dailog that asks you if you want to
 change the keyboard map and if answered yes them issues the kbdmap command.
 In bsdinstall you have no option to bypass the keymap step. It just issues
 the kbdmap command. I agree that some method to bypass the keymap step in
 bsdinstall needs to be added or an dialog informing the user that selecting
 the cancel button in kbdmap will result in the default map used in previous
 releases to be used.

That sounds sensible. It's all just bourne shell script, right? Would
you mind doing up a patch to do that?



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Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd

On 23 September 2011 10:09, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
 I have installed 9.0 bata2 from cd and the net. In both cases after the
 completion of the install and rebooting, the bsdinstall scripts still remain
 on the new installed system. If I interpret the code logic correctly,
 bsdinstall can ONLY be used for an original install. It's not intended by
 design to be used any other time, unlike sysinstall. I think the auto
 script should have code added to remove all traces of the bsdinstall
 environment at the conclusion of the install. This way bsdinstall fulfills
 the original design goals and guarantees no one can exec it by accident and
 kill there running system.

Have you thought about filing PRs for your installer suggestions, just
so they don't get lost?

I've just filed a bsdinstaller PR for a wifi config bug; I'm likely
going to file a few more PRs based on my interaction with the
installer.

Thanks,


Adrian
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Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-18 Thread Adrian Chadd

Hi all,

Just keep in mind that Nathan is currently on holiday. Please don't be
disenheartened if he doesn't reply or if bsdinstaller isn't 'fixed'
until then.

As always, patches == best.


Adrian
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Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-17 Thread Adrian Chadd

.. maybe name that button skip then?



Adrian
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Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Adrian Chadd

(OT, yes, but I'd like to take a stab at explaining why these things
fall to the wayside..)

On 7 July 2011 12:08, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote:

 What would be the point to even start looking at an issue? You guys
 (by you, I mean official committers on public list) don't care

When someone who has an active interest takes ownership of the problem.

 about people providing patches, might it be for trivial, obvious,
 fixes. I'm not even talking about complex patches ... When you
 eventually ends up providing a patch, you ends up being slammed a door
 at by maintainers asserting their code is perfect, until logic and
 user complaints prove them wrong.

 That said, this comment is off-topic, but I will certainly re-state
 this next month when I'll be ping'ing trivial patches.

The problem is that someone doesn't own the problem.

If I commit someone's fix to the tree without really understanding
what's going on, I take ownership of that change and any
issues/breakages/changes that it creates.

The people responsible for these areas are likely very busy with other
things. It's not that they don't want to help! It's much more likely
that they don't have the time.

Trivial patches aren't always so trivial. You can change the behaviour
of something subtle which works great for you and not for others. This
is very likely what's going on with IO/CPU scheduling. It's a tricky
area. A simple fix isn't always as simple.

So if there's a diagnosed problem, with reproducable test cases and
some patches which fix it, I suggest doing something like the
following:

* create a webpage, even if it's a wiki somewhere (even
wiki.freebsd.org if you ask someone nicely)
* dump all the information you can in there. Having stuff in emails is
great - but it's only really helpful for tracking the 'flow' of a
discussion. Having a summarised analysis of all of that on a webpage
is much more helpful.
* Add the patches there.
* Encourage people who aren't in your immediate community to try them
too - to try and find if your changes mess up other configurations
somehow.
* Be persistent trying to get your changes in. If you've done the
background research, done some wide-spread testing and show you've not
caused any obvious regressions, you're much more likely to get your
changes in.

With all of that done, you can likely find a committer who will help
you get your fixes into the tree.

Please just try not to interpret a lack of response as a lack of
interest. There's only so much time in the day and committers tend to
be a busy bunch, with day jobs that may in no way reflect their
FreeBSD interests.

Finally, if people do enough of the above and begin to take ownership
of parts of the tree, you'll find someone will likely sponsor you for
a commit bit.

HTH,


Adrian
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Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd

Has anyone re-run those IO benchmarks?

Something smells fishy there.. (with the benchmarking.)


adrian

2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de:
 On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote:

 2011/7/6 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de

 When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update
 or
 when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying
 large
 data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or
 when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE tend to freeze
 for
 several seconds or drop overall performance dramatically for seconds. On
 boxes with only console- or terminal access (no GUI) a running 'vi' gets
 stuck for seconds while one of the processes producing heavy I/O is
 running,
 or the output of a 'cat' of a large file stops for several seconds.

 Using X11, this phenomenon gets even worse and the 'freezing' tends to
 persist sometimes for more than 10 or 15 seconds.


 I've also had (and still having) this problem on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and
 8-STABLE with both UFS and ZFS. Though, i've been running FreeBSD not on
 powerful servers, but on laptops (2-core CPU's, 2 GB of RAM). But still,
 KDE4 on Linux performs much better during high disk IO.

 I read about issues with the old codebase of X11 in FreeBSD's ports used,
 which could be the cause of some performance problems, but I wouldn't expect
 those I/O-triggered blockings on boxes without any GUI.

 I saw Linux very often performing tremendously better when used as a
 workstation or desktop, but this is often gained on the costs of other
 subsystems. I followed a very hard-to-understand discussion about grouping
 threads related to ttys which seems to get higher priorized in Linux to make
 the GUI more fluent, but this is definitely on cost of other subsystems,
 which in consequence gets less priorized.
 But even without GUI, Linux seems to perform I/O much better on
 multicore-/multiprocessor boxes than FreeBSD *.X and 9.X).

 Today I looked at some benchmarks performed by Phoronix/openbenchmark.org
 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=freebsd8_ubuntu910num=9)
 and it seems that threaded I/O is an issue in FreeBSD (compared to Linux). I
 have no glue how to tune those bottlenecks away in FBSD.

 I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing
 better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching back
 to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler.

 Oliver

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Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd

Offer a bounty for getting it fixed?

thanks,



Adrian

On 7 July 2011 05:00, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
 On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

 Hi,

 On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl
 s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu  wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:

 I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing
 better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching
 back to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler.

 If you are using MPI in numerical codes, then you want
 to use SCHED_4BSD. ?I've posted numerous times about ULE
 and its very poor performance when using MPI.


 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-October/026375.html

 [sarcasm]
 It is rather funny to see that the post you point out has generated
 exactly 0 meaningful follow-up then and as you mention later in this
 thread, the issue still remains today :-)
 [/sarcasm]

 Apparently, you are privy to my private email exchanges
 with jeffr.

 I'm also not sure why you're being sarcastic here.  The
 issue was and AFAIK still is a problem for anyone using
 FreeBSD in a HPC cluster.  ULE simply performs worse than
 4BSD.

 Well, I know only very little people using FreeBSD within a HPC cluster or
 even for scientific purposes, except myself and some people around here.
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Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd

On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
 Offer a bounty for getting it fixed?


 steve == ENOMONEY  jeffr == ENOTIME

 And, 4BSD works.

I meant it as a more general observation.

If something doesn't work as needed, consider either diving in to fix
it, or offering a bounty to someone to do so.

It sounds like these scheduler issues (IO and threads) are well-known
and reasonably well-understood.
All that's lacking is the last bit of the puzzle - the actual
developer to develop it. :)


Adrian
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Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Adrian Chadd

2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:

  . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some
   point in time or would be happy to be domU ?

If Kip (and other Xen-clueful people get funding) - and there's time -
then I bet so.

  . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the
   slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting
   extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a
   entirely different approach which does not use Xen ?

These solve different problem sets. :)

People seem to think virtualisation is virtualisation. It isn't.
It depends on what kind(s) of problems you're trying to solve. Xen
solves a certain set of virtualisation problems.

  . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation
   would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ?

No idea. Is it stable? :)

Personally, I'd prefer to see the FreeBSD DomU stuff 100% bulletproof
and documented before more stuff is hacked on, but as I said before,
I'm just interested in getting the current pieces into some kind of
documented shape; I'm not hacking on Xen by any stretch of the
imagination!



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Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Adrian Chadd

2009/5/20 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:

 Could you please share 'your insight' on the
 'set of virtualization problems' that Xen solves ?

Xen lets you run multiple versions of modified OSes on the same box.
Each OS for the most part can treat its small pool of resources as its
own. It hides the underlying hardware from the virtual domain
(although its apparently quite popular to break out bits of hardware
to appear in the virtual domain.)

The Xen paravirtualisation stuff in -theory- should be more
lightweight than full hardware virtualisation and it should perform
better. In practice? That's very much workload dependant.

Xen also lets you write other OSes without needing to care about the
hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen.
He can then run it on any and all Xen boxes, unmodified, regardless of
the underlying hardware. That really hasn't been exploited to its full
potential though.



Adrian
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Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-18 Thread Adrian Chadd

I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what
is and isn't supported at this time.



Adrian

2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:
 On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:

 I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my
 experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment
 together.

 http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery

 Notable bits: pygrub works. :)

 Adrian

 Hi:

 What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen
 3.3.x ?

 My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified
 (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64
 box.

 Any pointers or observations ?


 thanks
 Saifi.
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Adrian Penisoara

Hi,

  What kind of applications are you running on the machine ? Are they
mmap'ing files on the filesystem in quesiton (which one ?) ?
  AFAIR even if you delete a big file the disk space may not be
reclaimed if a process still has the file open.

  If you reboot the machine or restart some of the applications, does
the issue disappear ?

Regards,
Adrian.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Varshavchick Alexander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time
 complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in
 question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then
 all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours later.
 What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and
 sendmail, nothing special.

 Thanks and regards

 
 Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
 Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)
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Re: linux emulation

2008-10-09 Thread Adrian Gschwend

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Desmond Chapman wrote:

 I don't know if anyone else is trying; but, I am attempting a Linux
 installation of virtualbox on FreeBSD amd64.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/853
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/874

cu

Adrian
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Locked myself out.

2008-09-01 Thread adrian

Hi all this is my first question on the list.

I had been playing with securelevels and was in level 3 then I mistakenly
executed chflags schg /etc/rc.*
It wouldn't be such a problem but it as you guessed is on a remote server
and I could pay a local guy there to drop to single-user but I thought this
might be a good attempt at self hacking. But I am kind of a noob to FreeBSD
so I have been Googleing and pouring over Absolute FreeBSD (Good book
Thank-you Michael Lucas) looking for someway to execute a script to copy
over my rc.conf before it loads. I figured it should be possible maybe
though the /etc/rc file but I have had no luck with that.
Please HELP!

Adrian Gordinier

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Re: Locked myself out.

2008-09-01 Thread adrian

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 03:45 +, adrian wrote:
Hi all this is my first question on the list.
 
 I had been playing with securelevels and was in level 3 then I mistakenly
 executed chflags schg /etc/rc.*
 It wouldn't be such a problem but it as you guessed is on a remote server
 and I could pay a local guy there to drop to single-user but I thought
this
 might be a good attempt at self hacking. But I am kind of a noob to
FreeBSD
 so I have been Googleing and pouring over Absolute FreeBSD (Good book
 Thank-you Michael Lucas) looking for someway to execute a script to copy
 over my rc.conf before it loads. I figured it should be possible maybe
 though the /etc/rc file but I have had no luck with that.
 Please HELP!
 
 


Yeah, I did find a way myself. I was able to make a .sh file in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ that copied a new rc.conf over the old one.

Adrian

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Wireless and Broadcast packets problem

2008-08-28 Thread Adrian Thearle

:1a:ee:00:d5:c0
   inet 192.168.124.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.124.255
   media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g hostap
   status: associated
   ssid Wireless channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1a:ee:00:d5:c0
   authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit
   txpower 50 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
   roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS dtimperiod 1
plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT metric 0
mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384
   inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
   inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
   inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00
tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492
   inet 111.111.111.11 -- 222.22.222.222 netmask 0x
(sanatised)
   Opened by PID 433

ifconfig_ral0=inet 192.168.124.1 ssid Wireless channel 3 mode 11g
mediaopt hostap up
hostapd_enable=YES

ipfw Firewall rules
ipfw add 007 allow all from any to any via ral0




So is there any chance there is a magic sysctl or ifconfig switch that
will make these broadcast packets go to everyone...?
or is there another problem?
or is this just all the FreeBSD supports at the moment?
or am I just dumb...


Your help is appreciated

Adrian



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mount_nfs with Kerberos on FreeBSD7

2008-04-10 Thread Adrian Gschwend


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Hi group,

I try to figure out which options I should pass to mount_nfs when I want
to use Kerberos authentication instead of the classic sys permission.

In some online man pages of V4 I find an option -K, I can't find
anything like this on my 6 or 7 series versions however.

Is there any documentation available about that somewhere? Google didn't
help me so far.

Or could anyone using Kerberos show me how to do it?

thanks

Adrian



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Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-29 Thread Adrian Chadd

On 01/03/2008, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You working round what I just said.  A nic should perform equally well
  as it does in other operating systems just because its cheaper its not
  an excuse for buggy performance.  There is also other good network
  cards apart from intel pro 1000.  I am talking about stability not
  performance, I expect a intel pro 1000 to outperform a realtek however
  I expect both to be stable in terms of connectivity.  I expect a
  realtek in freebsd to perform as well as a realtek in windows and
  linux. :)

Patches please!


Adrian


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Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-27 Thread Adrian Chadd

(Sorry for top posting.)

Its not actually -that- bad an idea to compare different applications.
It sets the bar for how far the entire system {hardware, OS,
application, network} can be pushed.

If nsd beats bind9 by say 5 or 10% over all, then its nothing to write
home about. If nsd beats bind9 by 50% and shows similar
kernel/interrupt space time use then thats something to stare at. Even
if its just because nsd 'does less' and gives more CPU time to
system/interrupt processing you've identified that the system -can- be
pushed harder, and perhaps working with the bind9 guys a little more
can identify what they're doing wrong.

Thats how I noticed the performance differences between various
platforms running Squid a few years ago - for example, gettimeofday()
being called way, way too frequently - and I compare Squid's
kernel/interrupt time; syscall footprint; hwpmc/oprofile traces; etc
against other proxy-capable applications (varnish, lighttpd, apache)
to see exactly what they're doing differently.

2c,



adrian


On 28/02/2008, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
  
   -Original Message-
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway
   Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:18 PM
   To: Oliver Herold; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7
  
  
   Oliver Herold wrote:
  
   Hi,
  
   I saw this bind benchmarks just some minutes ago,
  
   http://new.isc.org/proj/dnsperf/OStest.html
  
   is this true for FreeBSD 7 (current state: RELENG_7/7.0R) too? Or is
   this something verified only for the state of development back in August
   2007?
  
   I have been trying to replicate this.  ISC have kindly given me access
   to their test data but I am seeing Linux performing much slower than
   FreeBSD with the same ISC workload.
  
  
  
   Kris,
  
 Every couple years we go through this with ISC.  They come out with
   a new version of BIND then claim that nothing other than Linux can
   run it well.  I've seen this nonsense before and it's tiresome.
  
   Incidentally, the query tool they used, queryperf, has been changed
   to dnsperf.  Someone needs to look at that port - /usr/ports/dns/dnsperf -
   as it has a build depend of bind9 - well bind 9.3.4 is part of 6.3-RELEASE
   and I was rather irked when I ran the dnsperf port maker and the
   maker stupidly began the process of downloading and building the
   same version of BIND that I was already running on my server.
  
  
   * I am trying to understand what is different about the ISC
   configuration but have not yet found the cause.
  
  
   It's called Anti-FreeBSD bias.  You won't find anything.
  
  
   e.g. NSD
   (ports/dns/nsd) is a much faster and more scalable DNS server than BIND
   (because it is better optimized for the smaller set of features it
   supports).
  
  
  
   When you make remarks like that it's no wonder ISC is in the business
   of slamming FreeBSD.  People used to make the same claims about djbdns
   but I noticed over the last few years they don't seem to be doing
   that anymore.
  
   If nsd is so much better than yank bind out of the base FreeBSD and
   replace it with nsd.  Of course that will make more work for me
   when I regen our nameservers here since nsd will be the first thing
   on the rm list.
  


 Please save your rhetoric for some other forum.  The ISC folks have been
  working with us to understand what's going on.  I'm not aware of any
  anit-FreeBSD slams going on; mostly uninformed comments.

  We believe FreeBSD does very well in any comparisons of the sort being
  discussed and there's still lots of room for improvement.

  As to nsd vs bind, understand they are very different applications w/
  totally different goals.  Comparing performance is not entirely fair and
  certainly is difficult.  Kris investigated the performance of nsd mostly
  to understand how bind might scale if certain architectural changes were
  made to eliminate known bottlenecks in the application.


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can you help script about rename directory

2007-11-01 Thread adrian kok

Hi all 

how can I have script to rename the following
directory pattern from

 

from 

dir-192.168.30.0   
dir-192.168.30.144 
dir-192.168.30.184


To:


dir-10.0.30.0   
dir-10.0.30.144 
dir-10.0.30.184

thank you

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I hope you'll find this helpful

2007-01-31 Thread Adrian

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Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Radu Adrian Zdrinca


I bought a PCI card with a ralink chipset for about $20 from newegg.
It was recognized automatically during freebsd 6.1 install.
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Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Radu Adrian Zdrinca


Foxconn WLL-3350. So far it's been working very well although I
haven't had time to fully test it. It comes with an external antenna,
unlike the picture on newegg.



hi, can u tell me the brand name of the card is?? thanks!!

TFC

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Re: geli load key before rootfs is mounted

2006-12-23 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton


Chris wrote:
I think you maybe running into a bug in 6.1 where the keyboard wont 
respond during the boot process. Of course you don't notice because 
keystrokes have no visual feedback at password input.


Try adding this line to /boot/device.hint on your boot media:

hint.kbdmux.0.disabled=1

I'm booting an encrypted root file system fine with GELI.



Thank's for the tip. After reinitializing the geli device with -b flag, 
it works.  Before, I used an rc script to geli attach, my mistake. Of 
course, rc scripts are read after boot. It seems loader.conf contents 
(which are exactly as before) are somehow ignored if the -b flag for 
that device is missing. I didn't dig for the details.


Without the hint for kbdmux, it freezes. Or at least appears so, because 
it has no reaction to anything pressed.


After adding the hint, it will attach the geli device correctly, 
however, the kernel fault traps right after that. I'm wondering if this 
is still a kbdmux issue, perhaps removing it from the kernel is better.



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Re: Tyan S3950 and amd64 FreeBSD fails on bootup

2006-12-21 Thread Adrian Gschwend

Adrian Gschwend wrote:

 I'm a bit lost now, especially because I cannot even disable anything in
 the kernel like this. So any hints would be appreciated.

Ok got further with FreeBSD 6.2 RC1, it works and the system is up :-)

cu

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Tyan S3950 and amd64 FreeBSD fails on bootup

2006-12-20 Thread Adrian Gschwend

Dear group,

I got a problem with a new AMD Opteron box, when I bot FreeBSD 6.1
(amd64) I get this:

fBSD/i386 bootstrap  revision 1.1
kernel text=  data= sym=
at-xy not found
[regdump]
BTX halted

I've put a (very bad) screenshot online here:
http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/~gea2/freebsdamd.jpg

It's a Tyan S3950 Mainboard which is on the list of devices that work at
least for some people:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104661

Specs of the machine:
*  CPU: AMD Dual Core A64 X2 4200+ / 2x2200MHz / 2x512KB Cache
* Motherboard: TYAN 3950 AM2 with VGA / 2x Gbit Intel LAN (4 DIMM)

I use a 3ware SATA RAID controller, the onboard one does not have to
work and is on PATA compatibility mode already for the CDROM.

I've booted this CD image: 6.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso

I couldn't find anything useful with google or in the release
notes/errata. Interestingly I can't find *anything* useful for the
at-xy not found error message (which is really happening like this).

The vendor ships a SUSE Linux with this box which works fine, also
Fedora 6 amd64 boots just fine on it.

I'm a bit lost now, especially because I cannot even disable anything in
the kernel like this. So any hints would be appreciated.

cu

Adrian

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geli load key before rootfs is mounted

2006-12-17 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton


Hi,

	I've been playing around with geli and I was wondering if anyone 
managed to actually use the feature which loads the keyfile before the 
root filesystem is mounted.


Specifically, to use something similar in /boot/loader.conf:

geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_load=YES
geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_type=da1s3a:geli_keyfile0
geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name=/boot/keys/da1s3a.key

	If it worked, please let me know. I couldn't do it on a 6.1-REL0. 
(keeps saying password is wrong, probably because it doesn't see the 
keyfile). Of course, the .key file is on unencrypted media.


I appreciate your time and suggestions.

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Re: DVB card suggestion

2006-11-06 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton


Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:


To the best of my knowledge no DVB cards are supported under FreeBSD.
I'm toying with the idea of porting the driver for the DVICO DVB-T
card, but don't hold your breath.


Not even those based on bktr or other chipset drivers?




Can I guess you're talking about DVB-S?



Yes, sorry, DVB-S indeed.

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DVB card suggestion

2006-11-05 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton


Hi List,

	I'd like to get rid of my SkyStar2 DVB card (zero support on FBSD) and 
buy something which is well supported by FreeBSD 6.x.


	Please let me know if you have knowledge of testedworking DVB cards on 
FreeBSD, the only important thing is audio/video; IP over MPEG is not 
needed.


If the device offers USB mobility, that's a plus.

Thank's in advance for your time. (Maybe some bktr chipsets?)

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linux_base-fc4_9 install problem

2006-09-18 Thread Adrian Vraciu

=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=== Extracting for linux_base-fc-4_9
=== linux_base-fc-4_9 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/rpm2cpio - found
error reading header from package
/usr/bin/cpio: premature end of archive
*** Error code 1

how can i fix that?
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Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread adrian esquivel


Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it
was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a
40-conductor
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help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread adrian esquivel


Sorry for the last message...
Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it
was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a
40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an UDMA
(80 conductor)?? Oh, and when I change it, do I need to configure something,
maybe on the BIOS or something... just asking
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Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread adrian esquivel



If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a  long-time bug in the installer.
I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem.
However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your
disk in the fdisk utility during install.

I'm confused. At what point are you pressing Alt-F2? There isn't any point
during the installation, that I can think of, that requires you hitting
Alt-F2. Though, in reference the short error message above, I would first
recommend verifying the checksum of your ISO and then reburning it - start
with the simple things :).

-David
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I'm sorry, I think I didn't explain it very well...
When I choose the media type, a message is shown warning that '...this is
the last chance... we can take no responsabillity. I hit 'ok' and then a
message appears saying 'writing partitions...' and a few seconds later
appears one message saying  'Unable to make new root filesystem on
/dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36' (sometimes the 'Command returned
status 1'). I hit 'ok' and then appears: 'Couldn't make filesystems
properly. Aborting'. And finally the last message I receive is 'Instalation
completed with some errors. You may wish to scroll through...' At this point
is where I press Alt+F2 and the errors (the WRITE_DMA errors) are shown. Is
not necessary to press Alt+F2 but I read it somewhere. I hope you know now
where do these errors are shown, if not please respond me again and I'll try
to explain it better.
By the way, I don't think is the checksum because I was trying to install
FreeBSD 5.4 at first and the same error occured, but I will check the
checksum, is just that... excuse my ignorance, but what is the checksum of
my ISO image and how do I verify it Sorry I know that is a stupid
question...
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help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread adrian esquivel


I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a
CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard
udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors).  Make sure your connectors
are the better 80 conductor ones.

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Thanks John but how do I do that??
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help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-25 Thread adrian esquivel


Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an
error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I
get when I hit Alt+F2

DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED
LBA=63
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED
LBA=67
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory
/dev/ad0s1a: 512.0MB (1048576 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
  using 4 cylinder grops of 128.02MB, 893 blks, 16448 inodes.
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=191
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=191
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED
LBA=191
newfs:: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 160: Input/output error
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=223
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=223
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED
LBA=223
I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly reported
by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while the
BIOS reports one of
1024/240/63. I think this has nothing to do since I'm planning to have
FreeBSD as the only OS of the machine, but you never know...
These errors are shown just after I leave the partition editor, when they
give the warning of making Back ups. Then the 'Writing partitions; message
is shown and then the last one that says: Unable to make new root
filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36
Please help me! I've been asking everywhere and nobody answers me... Is
there no solution for my problem
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Re: textproc: Typesetting holy content

 had already given the people of Abraham the Book and
 Wisdom, and conferred upon them a great kingdom.
 
 -- 
 
 7
 When the next NNN.NNN appears, treat it like the rest.
 
 Thank you! Really! For bearing with me so far!
 
 Indeed, this is what I wish to achieve.
 
 I realize now though, after writing all this down, that it might be too
 much for some.
 I hope that is not the case with he who has been endowed with the
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 All the best,
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Well, sounds to me like the perfect reason to learn how to write a shell
script.

You already have your algorithm/method clearly defined, now you just
need something to automate it. A shell script would clearly be the thing
to do that with.

If you need any help with shells and shell scripting, a wealth of
information is just a google away ;).

Just my $0.02

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Kirk Strauser wrote:
 On Friday 26 May 2006 11:35, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
 
 I am trying to transcribe The Noble Qur'an, by some said to be the
 most elegant book ever written, into LaTeX format. That way I can format it
 the way I wish, and study it at my own premises.
 
 I prefer Godel, Escher  Bach, but that's just me.  Anyway, didn't 
 html2latex (/usr/ports/print/html2latex/pkg-descr) work?

- From my understanding, html2latex wouldn't have cut the parts out that
he doesn't need, but would just convert the complete files. As such, it
would not accomplish his request.

Then again, I may well be wrong about html2latex's ability ...

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Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

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 I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can
 recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then
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   I am working for the company, that is using FreeBSD on the server
 mashins.  At the moment we have two problems: First, one of the
 mashins give no kernael error on the boot. Second, we have lost our
 root password to the second one. Is there a way to fix any of this two
 problems without reinstaling the system.

   Please, answer asap. Any help (free or paid) will be highly
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Unless single user mode is set to insecure, in which case that wouldn't
recover the password.

You could always use a different bootCD and chroot into the FreeBSD
system, then change the password.

Or bootCD and remove the root password hash from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

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 Andy Greenwood wrote:
 
 I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can
 recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then
 running passwd.
 
 
 Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server
 its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted
 password and crackit some way, i have my normal account (which is in
 wheel group), i even know that the root's pass begings with
 MAG_something, but i really cant remember the complete root's pass,
 rebooting in single user mode is my best bet?
 
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It is easiest if the system's single user mode hasn't been locked down

If single user mode HAS been locked down (ie. needs the root password),
then you will need a boot disc so you can chroot to your FreeBSD system
from another, or so you can directly edit the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow
 file.

The password hash *MIGHT* also be in one of those two files, depending
on your configuration.

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Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

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Adrian Pavone wrote:
 Miguel wrote:
 Andy Greenwood wrote:

 I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can
 recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then
 running passwd.

 Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server
 its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted
 password and crackit some way, i have my normal account (which is in
 wheel group), i even know that the root's pass begings with
 MAG_something, but i really cant remember the complete root's pass,
 rebooting in single user mode is my best bet?

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 It is easiest if the system's single user mode hasn't been locked down
 
 If single user mode HAS been locked down (ie. needs the root password),
 then you will need a boot disc so you can chroot to your FreeBSD system
 from another, or so you can directly edit the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow
  file.
 
 The password hash *MIGHT* also be in one of those two files, depending
 on your configuration.
 
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Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

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Miguel wrote:
 Atom Powers wrote:
 
 On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server
 its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted
 password and crackit some way, i have my normal account (which is in
 wheel group), i even know that the root's pass begings with
 MAG_something, but i really cant remember the complete root's pass,
 rebooting in single user mode is my best bet?


 If you are in wheel, then you should be able to sudo su to switch to
 the root account and then passwd root to reset the password.

 :-(
 No luck, this is the error
 
 sudo su
 
 We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
 Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
 
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
 
 Password:
 mmiranda is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
 sudo su
 mmiranda is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
 passwd root
 passwd: permission denied

 
 I entered my account's password...
 
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The previous person mistakenly thought that if you were in the wheel
group, you were also set up for wheel. Unforunately, root would have had
to set up the sudo configuration file so that mmiranda (your login)
could use the sudo command to run su. This was not set up, so that is
not an option in this case.

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Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

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Atom Powers wrote:
 On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Atom Powers wrote:

  On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server
  its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the
 encrypted
  password and crackit some way, i have my normal account (which is in
  wheel group), i even know that the root's pass begings with
  MAG_something, but i really cant remember the complete root's pass,
  rebooting in single user mode is my best bet?
 
 
  If you are in wheel, then you should be able to sudo su to switch to
  the root account and then passwd root to reset the password.
 
 :-(
 No luck, this is the error

   sudo su

 We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
 Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

 #1) Respect the privacy of others.
 #2) Think before you type.
 #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

 Password:
 mmiranda is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
   sudo su
 mmiranda is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
   passwd root
 passwd: permission denied
  

 I entered my account's password...

 Anything more?

 
 Yes. Check your man pages; the format of the sudoers file is very specific.
 Usually you can get away with a line like this:
 -- 
 %wheelALL=(ALL)ALL
 -- 
 
 

Altough can't only root modify (write changes to) the sudoers file? As
he is trying to get access to root (without a root password), this is
not possible from what I can see.

Regards,
Adrian

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Re: Spam problem!


Derek Ragona wrote:
There are many ways to combat spam.  One of the easiest is to use 
mailscanner in the ports.


You can configure mailscanner to compare senders against known lists 
of SPAMers, in addition to it's own rules.


-Derek


At 09:53 AM 5/25/2006, Olga Zenkova wrote:

I use sendmail 8.13.3 and gather full log of its work.
I see such strings in it:

 RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 250 2.1.5 user1domain.com... Recipient ok
 RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 250 2.1.5 user2domain.com... Recipient ok
 DATA
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

where user1, user2 - users names
domain.com - domain name

After that user1 and user2 get spam letters to their
mailboxes with field To: user3 in it. There are no
user1 or user2 in this field. Is it possible to cut
off these letters? Especially it is difficult to
explain for user1 and user2 why they got letters
addressed not for them.

Thanks!
Olga Zenkova



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MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.


Ohh, this reminds me of my ISP tech support days. Having to explain to 
illiterates what a BCC is ...


Yeah, I think even sendmail has a mail filter available if you want to 
configure it. There are many anti-spam methods available at the server. 
I recommend finding one with greylisting built in

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Re: Auto Replay


mamaj m wrote:

Dear all,
I have freebsd 5.3
how to counfigare an email to auto replay

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I'm guessing you mean reply :)

What mail programs are we talking about here?
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Re: Intel Mac experiences

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James,

By an Intel Mac, do you mean an i386? Or still a PPC?

If you are referring to an i386, then the i386 install CD should work,
and any problems you are having should involve more detail so that we
can have a rough idea what is going on (something more then gets just
past the boot menu and then stops. For example, does it freeze with
only the boot menu showing, do any other messages appear at the bottom
of the screen after the boot menu, does the screen go blank, etc.)

Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :)

James Earl wrote:
 I'm not joking.  This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it?
 
 On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is
 just a commercialized version of FreeBSD?

 Ted

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 Hi,
 
 I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting
 FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any
 experiences or development plans?  My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD gets
 just past the boot menu and then stops.  OpenBSD boots further but not
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Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

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What about using 2 floppies? The first, your FreeDOS disk, to boot from,
then, once booted, change to the disk you have put the BIOS executable on?

Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
 I have a problem with my laptop, and before Dell will consider taking it
 back, I have to go through their checklist and make sure I've tried
 everything on that list first. This includes upgrading the BIOS.
 
 
 The problem is that Dell provides the BIOS upgrade in two forms:
 
 (a) A DOS executable
 (b) A Windows self-contained utility to make a boot floppy
 
 Since I have neither Windows nor a floppy disk, I'll have to be
 creative. I thought that maybe I could install some boot code on a USB
 flash drive, newfs_msdos, and copy FreeDOS along with the executable (a)
 mentioned above.
 
 Problem is: How do I install the boot code on the drive? FreeDOS
 provides a floppy-image, so I thought I could just dd that to my USB
 drive, and boot off of that. But I need to put the BIOS upgrade utility
 on the disk as well, and it is 784 kiB. Could I grow the image?
 
 Any pointer appreciated
 
 
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No, I don't. I have never had a need, or even a use, for one.

However, my comment on being more descriptive still stands regardless of
whether I did or didn't have an Intel Mac. And it would allow whoever
does actually help you to have something to work with.

At first glance, sounds like a hardware driver issue, but by knowing
nothing about you or your computer then that you have an intel mac that
is hanging after boot, then no real help can be offered.

James Earl wrote:
 Do you have an Intel Mac?
 
 On 5/25/06, Adrian Pavone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 James,
 
 By an Intel Mac, do you mean an i386? Or still a PPC?
 
 If you are referring to an i386, then the i386 install CD should work,
 and any problems you are having should involve more detail so that we
 can have a rough idea what is going on (something more then gets just
 past the boot menu and then stops. For example, does it freeze with
 only the boot menu showing, do any other messages appear at the bottom
 of the screen after the boot menu, does the screen go blank, etc.)
 
 Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :)
 
 James Earl wrote:
 I'm not joking.  This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it?
 
 On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is
 just a commercialized version of FreeBSD?
 
 Ted
 
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 Hi,
 
 I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with
 getting
 FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any
 experiences or development plans?  My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD
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 just past the boot menu and then stops.  OpenBSD boots further but
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Ahh, There we go, a happy ending.

James Earl wrote:
 Thanks for your suggestions.  I found some more intel mac posts in
 freebsd-current.
 
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 James,
 
 By an Intel Mac, do you mean an i386? Or still a PPC?
 
 If you are referring to an i386, then the i386 install CD should work,
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 can have a rough idea what is going on (something more then gets just
 past the boot menu and then stops. For example, does it freeze with
 only the boot menu showing, do any other messages appear at the bottom
 of the screen after the boot menu, does the screen go blank, etc.)
 
 Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :)
 
 James Earl wrote:
 I'm not joking.  This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it?
 
 On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is
 just a commercialized version of FreeBSD?
 
 Ted
 
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 getting
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Re: The logo discussion

2006-05-17 Thread Adrian Pavone


Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

 


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Subject: The logo discussion

   



 


- I used to answer many questions on this mailing list.  Recently
people have been hijacking it for purposes of penis size
comparison. 
   



So Greg, just how big is yours? ;-)

Ted

 

I think Greg is a contender of the it's not the size that counts it's 
how you use it belief ;)

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Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.


Spadge wrote:


fbsd wrote:


fbsd wrote:





*  so working with in that same procedure the  maintainer
passes the packages to the audit people and they pass it on.
No problem with this at all.



Thus removing any kind of streamlining to speed up releases of new 
versions?




 the port make method will still be there for all ports with
limited usage history, it will just not have a package for it
because
it has limited usage.



And this is the crux of the matter. Would phpmyadmin have a 
php5/mysql4 version? Or do the majority of users use php4 still? And 
are there more test boxes than there are production servers?


Is it fair to say the most commonly used ports are not the most 
commonly used packages? I would imagine that something like KDE would 
be a hugely popular package, on account of the sheer size of the 
beast, but that it wouldn't be the most popular port due to the number 
of people who don't run a GUI on their system.


There is also the fact that you could fairly easily abuse this system 
if you wanted your software to be included in the 'most commonly used' 
list, by just hammering the server.




 There is no privacy issues. Passing cookies is normal and
done as matter of fact by most commercial websites and any website
that
uses php session control makes cookies by default.
This is a no-issue issue.



Every browser on the planet has the option to disable cookies (in the 
same way that email clients have the option of indenting quoted text - 
it's a standard required feature). This is because it is a privacy 
issue. Different people have different views on what privacy is or 
isn't, and that's nine tenths of the entire point: we don't get to 
decide what their privacy levels are, they do.


I can totally understand why you think this system would be better for 
you. I just hope you can understand why it wouldn't be better for 
everyone, nor even for the majority of people.


Now, Marc G. Fournier's dynamic personalised ports tree suggestion ... 
that's a *real* idea.



Agreed in full.

Cookies and similar are, in my opinion, invasive, and this is why I have 
my browser set to ask me each time, and get rid of anf I accept when I 
close the browser. But other people love the benefits of cookies. Choice 
is the only real power.


And, Marc G. Fournier definitely had something with his description of 
how the port system should work, when I read his post I was thinking 
that is exactly how I would have designed it as well (admittedly, when 
it was designed, it wasn't the size it is now).


Regards,
Adrian
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Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.


Steven Hartland wrote:


Chris wrote:


On 15/05/06, fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small
on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports
tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and
its only distfiles that tend to be large, but you only download
distfiles for ports you install so this is a very good system.  If at
least one person uses a port it is justified and I very much like that
most tiny apps I search for in the ports tree do indeed exist.  How
would you define commonly used ports? we would end up with a
favouritism system in place and many arguments about which ports would
be included in the commonly used group, you also forget that many
ports that may look meaningless from where you sit are necessary as
dependants to other ports.



There would be not arguments as stats dont lie. Please read the entire
thread there are some good ideas in there which would speed up day to day
use of ports for everyone. Where you get the idea that ports is quick to
maintain is beyond me it takes a good 30mins to sync up if your a few
months out of date now a days. 30mins is not much if you have 1 machine
but add it all up for a large number of machines and its a significant
amount of time which we all could better spend doing other things instead
of waiting for a cvsup to complete.


This is why there are options in place that would allow you to download
the cvsup to one of you computers, likely a server of some sort, and
your other computers all retrieve the CVSup from this local server,
significantly speeding up the retrieval time and decreasing the load on
the primary servers, a win for everyone. If you have computers of
varying architectures or in seperated geographical locations this would
not work as worded, but from your wording it sounded like you had a
local LAN of computers.

Ohh, and for your informations, statistics do lie, that is the point of
statistical analysis, which I spent 1 1/2 years of my life studying
before changing into my current Software Engineering/Computer Security
degree.

And, the arguements would arise from the common ports/packages
directory, a suggestion of fbsd's I believe, whereby common ports that
would not be built often primarily due to their size, and so wouldn't
show up in statistics (such as Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, and a number of
others), would be placed into a common directory of the ports/packages
tree, and would be exempt from these statistics. The arguements would
arise over what should be placed into this common directory.

And what about the case of a port that would be built many times over
its lifetime, mainly due to program version changes? The first one that
springs to mind would be Firefox. Firefox has had a number of version
changes in the same space of time that Exim, a very commonly used mail
server application, has been updated, and assuming an even distribution
of mail servers and desktop users with firefox, firefox would appear to
be 10-20 times more active over it's lifetime.

It is also common for people with a desktop computer to format their HDD
every 3 months or so, and every time this occured, the desktop PC ports
(Xorg, Firefox, KDE/XFCE/GNOME, OpenOffice.org, etc.) would get a
rebuild/redownload, again throwing the stastics out of whack.

Just my $0.02.

Regards,
Adrian

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Re: asda


Ben Haysom wrote:


read the attached



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I see no attached, and more importantly, there are only certain 
documents which you can attach.


As it is something you want us to read, it is much more appropriate to 
paste it into an email document

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Re: strange on 'man' command...


Tang Ho Yim wrote:


Hi everyone,
  
 I am running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p7. When I type man xxx command..it will show the manual twiceis it strange ?

 I remember that it will show only once before
  
 So anyone can help ? Thanks !



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Could you be a little more specific about it will show the manual 
twice'? Does it show the manual once and once you close that it shows it 
again? Or does it split it horizontally/vertically on your screen? Or 
does it run, one after the other, so that you have the See also and 
similar right before a new manual page at the bottom? Or something else 
that I have not described?


Regards,
Adrian
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Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.




And what about the case of a port that would be built many times over
its lifetime, mainly due to program version changes? The first one
that springs to mind would be Firefox. Firefox has had a number of
version changes in the same space of time that Exim, a very commonly
used mail server application, has been updated, and assuming an even
distribution of mail servers and desktop users with firefox, firefox
would appear to be 10-20 times more active over it's lifetime.



And your point being?


It is also common for people with a desktop computer to format their
HDD every 3 months or so, and every time this occured, the desktop PC
ports (Xorg, Firefox, KDE/XFCE/GNOME, OpenOffice.org, etc.) would get
a rebuild/redownload, again throwing the stastics out of whack.



No its still being used isnt it which is what we are interested in.



I'm sorry, but when I read the continual posts on this topic, all stated 
that the count would occur while installing, not in usage. If the 
suggestion was that the FreeBSD system would report what packages where 
being used on a regular basis (the only way to properly record what 
ports/packages were being used), then that is an entirely seperate 
discussion, and one that I have not addressed to this point. However, If 
that was your suggestion, then I am extremely glad that is not how the 
ports system currently operates, for the same reason I am glad that 
spyware is not installed on my computer.


If you do not have a regular reporting to home base mechanism in place, 
then how would you be able to monitor what is still being used .. which 
is what we are interested in?

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Re: New FreeBSD logo


Henry Lenzi wrote:


It was, I am sorry to say.  The core developer that pushed for all
this said he was tired of when presenting FreeBSD to have to field
a bunch of questions by people hung up over the devil image, it
distracted from the presentation of the operating system's features.

Ted



You're kidding, right? Say you're kidding.
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If only he was.

I say don't be ashamed of Beastie, and if anyone asks, tell them Hey, 
it's our logo. Deal with that how you want to. If anyone still keeps 
asking, tell them they are ignorant and kick them out. Should shut up 
the rest.


Altough I have been known for being rather blunt with my techniques ... 
Blunt but effective though ;)

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Re: mpd4 does not want to work at all


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 08:49:57AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
 


On 5/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   


I have istalled mpd4 Version 4.0b4 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE.
I have mpd.conf, mpd.link, mpd.secret.
When I run a mpd4, the next is printed:

Multi-link PPP for FreeBSD, by Archie L. Cobbs.
Based on iij-ppp, by Toshiharu OHNO.
mpd: pid 1773, version 4.0b4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] 13:49 14-May-2006)
[ukrtelecom] ppp node is mpd1773-ukrtelecom
tcpmss node is mpd1773-mss
[ukrtelecom] using interface ng0
 


Write in shorter lines, mutt can help.

mpd4 is not suitable for production use yet. mpd3 works
fine, read the manual carefully and/or google for correct
configurations
   



Thank you for advice.
I have searched the google and found that this is not the problem in my
configurations, but a bug in mpd.
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-October/016617.html)
Will be it corrected?

Elisej Babenko
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As the issue was that it was not yet suitable for production, I would 
say that issues are currently being corrected. If the bug that you are 
stating has been brought to the attention of the publisher (which it 
likely has if it is a known bug), then they will fix it before release. 
Otherwise, they will fix it after release when someone complains ;)

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Re: FreeBSD logo


Albert Shih wrote:


Hi all

No no it's not a new troll for the new/old freebsd's logo ;-)

No my question : Where can I find the FreeBSD logo (new or old) to put on
my xdm screen.

Regards.


--
Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
Heure local/Local time:
Mon May 15 22:44:30 CEST 2006
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If you want Beastie, you can find him at either http://www.freebsd.org/ 
or you can always do a search for beastie in http://images.google.com


In relation to the sex toy, I am not sure of any that don't have a 
background colour/image attached...

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Re: I keep having wrong checksum in 6.1 iso download (what should I do??)


Nick Withers wrote:


On Fri, 12 May 2006 21:51:02 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 


Hi,

It was my second time to download a 6.1 iso from one
of the regional ftp sites.. Lucky we have a slightly
fast connection (155Mbps)...
   



Slightly fast? What do you call fast? :-)

 


By the way, is it really dangerous to ignore these checksums
that doesn't match with the published one? What's the reason
behind this bad checksum mismatch??.
   



It generally indicates that the file was corrupted during
transmission. It could, however, happen because the site you're
downloading from is serving a corrupt version.

A checksum mismatch basically indicates that the file is not as
it should be. You may still be able to use it without any
adverse impact, but then again, you may not. It's also possible
that someone has intentionally corrupted the file for sinister
purposes.

I'd strongly recommend not using it. It's probably worth trying
to download the file again, from another mirror.

 


Thanks
   



 

From what I read about the checksums for 6.1, the checksum was 
generated with a checksum actually being present in the ISO (which was 
then overwritten by the newly developed checksum). As such, the checksum 
will never match, as a checksum can never match if it is included in the 
file that is being checksummed (well, in theory, it is possible for it 
to match, but the algorithm to calculate it and processing power 
required is astronomically complex).


It is possible I am thinking of a different FreeBSD ISO, but I am sure 
it was one of the 6's, and there are only 2 of those.


Regards,
Adrian
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Re: Putting FreeBSD to sleep?


Graham Bentley wrote:

Can anyone post some good pointers for setting
up ACPI or APM so that I get automatic susepend
afer x mins of inactivity and woken up on LAN
request ?

(in particular shut down disc / slow or shut
down psu fan - its the noise I am concerned
about)

I have looked at posts on rc.suspend/resume
for various power saving issues on laptops
but cant find and good resources on how to
do the above. Surely this must have been
done before by someone with a remote server
in a secret location :)

Thanks in advance for any advice :)

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Wake on LAN is a feature that you will have to enable in your BIOS, if
it is available. It could not be affected by ACPI/APM (or any other
Operating System feature) once the computer is no longer powered up. In
regards to what you need to suspend after x mins, I am unsure.

Regards,
Adrian

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Re: Console image viewer


Steve P. wrote:


Anyone know of a decent jpg viewer for the console?

I don't want to install X.

Thanks.

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zgv or aview would probably do the job, altough I have never used 
either. Top two links at 
http://www.google.com.au/search?client=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_shl=enq=FreeBSD+jpg+viewer+consolemeta=btnG=Google+Search


Of the two, from the description, zgv sounds like a better one (aview is 
ascii). I'm sure there are more on the list at 
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Graphics/Viewers/ but those are the 
two that caught my attention.


Regards,
Adrian
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Re: Putting FreeBSD to sleep?


Adrian Pavone wrote:


Graham Bentley wrote:

Can anyone post some good pointers for setting
up ACPI or APM so that I get automatic susepend
afer x mins of inactivity and woken up on LAN
request ?

(in particular shut down disc / slow or shut
down psu fan - its the noise I am concerned
about)

I have looked at posts on rc.suspend/resume
for various power saving issues on laptops
but cant find and good resources on how to
do the above. Surely this must have been
done before by someone with a remote server
in a secret location :)

Thanks in advance for any advice :)

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Wake on LAN is a feature that you will have to enable in your BIOS, if
it is available. It could not be affected by ACPI/APM (or any other
Operating System feature) once the computer is no longer powered up. In
regards to what you need to suspend after x mins, I am unsure.

Regards,
Adrian

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From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/errata.html

(2005/11/5) Distribution of 6.0-RELEASE contains CHECKSUM.MD5 and 
CHECKSUM.SHA256 files for protecting the integrity of data. However, 
these files in 6.0-RELEASE erroneously include checksums for the 
checksum files themselves. Although the checksums look like wrong, they 
can be safely ignored because a checksum for the checksum file never 
corresponds to one in the file. This problem will be fixed in the next 
releases.


Well, looks like it was 6.0 that I was referring to, however, if you 
have had the same issue with 6.1 from 2 different locations (unless your 
connection and TCP/IP protocol is dodgy), I would think that maybe they 
did not resolve this issue.


Regards,
Adrian
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Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH


Maan Jee wrote:


Hi

I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a
remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do
that?

To Install a Web Server, which distribution I should install, User or 
other?


thanks

vj
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The user admin is a member of the group wheel is he?
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Re: New FreeBSD logo