Re: Error upgrading KDE with portupgrade
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 14:36, edward wrote: Hi all, I have recently upgraded from FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE using cvsup. I then upgraded installed ports using portupgrade -a (after running make fetchindex and pkgdb -F). Worked for most ports. But I have a hard time upgrading KDE from 3.3 to 3.4. Some ports in the KDE set upgraded OK, but kdebase among others didn't want to upgrade from 3.3.0_4 to 3.4.2_2. Tried : #portupgrade kdebase then #portupgrade -p kdebase The package itself donloads OK but I get the following at the end of snip error message Any clue what's going on ? Thanks for your help. Edward Hi there, It seems as if your problems are dealt with in the file /usr/ports/UPDATING. I have pasted the most relevant informational messsge here, but there is at least one other entry for KDE which postdates this one. Generally, the UPDATING file is my first port of call if there are any errors in upgrades. I hope this helps .nbco 20050320: AFFECTS: users of x11/kde3, x11/kdelibs3, x11/kdebase3, x11-themes/kdeartwork3, www/akregator, x11-themes/phase, multimedia/kdemultimedia3 AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In KDE 3.4, a number of files were moved between ports, some ports were added, one port has been removed and some applications formerly available in their own ports were incorporated into KDE. This means that you will have to take some precautions to update your KDE installation. A simple portupgrade -a will not work. Portupgrade -R kde can fail as well, depending on what parts of KDE you have currently installed. We therefore recommend sticking to the following procedure. The procedure requires you to have sysutils/portupgrade installed and you to be the superuser (or using sudo). We recommend not being logged in to a KDE session on the machine you're performing the upgrade on. If you choose to perform the update while being logged in to KDE, expect erratic behavior and crashes from applications launched until you log out and back in. 1.) Delete installed packages which conflict with the updated KDE ports. pkg_deinstall -f kdeartwork-\[0-9\]\* kdebase-\[0-9\]\* \ kdebase-konqueror-nsplugins-\[0-9\]\* kdewebdev-\[0-9\]\* \ kde-\[0-9\]\* akregator\* phase\* 2.) Now update the remaining KDE ports. portupgrade -O arts\* kde\* \*kde-i18n\* or, if you want to update KDE along with other updated ports: portupgrade -a 3.) Reinstall the KDE ports you deleted in step 1. portinstall -O kdebase kdeartwork kdewebdev Changes in detail: - www/akregator is now included into deskutils/kdepim3. - x11-themes/phase is now included in x11-themes/kdeartwork3. - www/konqueror-nsplugins has been removed and is now integrated into In mDNSResponder 98_1, mdnsd is no longer started by default due to a switch to an rc.subr startup script. To start it, you must add add mdnsd_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf or other suitable configuration file. 20050320: AFFECTS: users of x11/kde3, x11/kdelibs3, x11/kdebase3, x11-themes/kdeartwork3, www/akregator, x11-themes/phase, multimedia/kdemultimedia3 AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In KDE 3.4, a number of files were moved between ports, some ports were added, one port has been removed and some applications formerly available in their own ports were incorporated into KDE. This means that you will have to take some precautions to update your KDE installation. A simple portupgrade -a will not work. Portupgrade -R kde can fail as well, depending on what parts of KDE you have currently installed. We therefore recommend sticking to the following procedure. The procedure requires you to have sysutils/portupgrade installed and you to be the superuser (or using sudo). We recommend not being logged in to a KDE session on the machine you're performing the upgrade on. If you choose to perform the update while being logged in to KDE, expect erratic behavior and crashes from applications launched until you log out and back in. 1.) Delete installed packages which conflict with the updated KDE ports. pkg_deinstall -f kdeartwork-\[0-9\]\* kdebase-\[0-9\]\* \ kdebase-konqueror-nsplugins-\[0-9\]\* kdewebdev-\[0-9\]\* \ kde-\[0-9\]\* akregator\* phase\* 2.) Now update the remaining KDE ports. portupgrade -O arts\* kde\* \*kde-i18n\* or, if you want to update KDE along with other updated ports: portupgrade -a 3.) Reinstall the KDE ports you deleted in step 1. portinstall -O kdebase kdeartwork kdewebdev Changes in detail: - www/akregator is now included into deskutils/kdepim3. - x11-themes/phase is now included in x11-themes/kdeartwork3. - www/konqueror-nsplugins has been removed and is now integrated into x11/kdebase3. - Juk has been split
re vlc 0.8.2 compile errors on 5.4
Hi List, I am having problems compiling vlc 0.8.2 on 5.4. I can add it as a package but when portupgrade or portmanager tries to update it. I get the following compile error: smb.c: In function `Close': smb.c:304: error: structure has no member named `close' gmake[4]: *** [libaccess_smb_plugin_a-smb.o] Error 1 gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules/access' gmake[3]: *** [all-modules] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules/access' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.2' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade87320.59 make ** Fix the problem and try again. I have tried deinstalling and reinstalling. I have also tried making vlc-devel but I get the same error. Any ideas would be appreciated, as this it totally driving me nuts. Thanks .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re vlc 0.8.2 compile errors on 5.4
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 19:13, Alan Gerber wrote: nbco wrote: Hi List, I am having problems compiling vlc 0.8.2 on 5.4. I can add it as a package but when portupgrade or portmanager tries to update it. I get the following compile error: [Error text snipped] snip The problem occurs within the smb access module of vlc. Navigate to /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc and do a make config to get to the options menu, then uncheck the smb module. Accept the changes and do a make install and things will work for you. I'm no expert, but I'm guessing that removing the smb functionality in this manner will prevent one from directly accessing smb shares via the vlc interface. If you fall into this situation, I'd suggest mounting the share via mount_smbfs. Thanks very much that resolved the issue for me too. .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: video surveillance with freebsd
On Friday 03 June 2005 23:56, vittorio wrote: The aim: with up to 4 small cameras connected to a pci board in a freebsd 5.4 box, scattered suitably around to guard, surveille a seaside resort flat *** remotely ***. The open-source software I'm looking for should: 1) manage the pci board the cameras; 2) start,trigger a script for, e.g., a gsm connection to transmit images to a remote server via ppp OR start an alarm *** whener a motion is detected ***. Is there any software in the ports satisfying these requirements? Ciao Vittorio Hhmmm I used to have a landlord like that... .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Whats up with KCalc?
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 14:41, Ean Kingston wrote: On July 12, 2005 08:01 am, Igor Robul wrote: Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Well, did you try any other calculating software? grpn, perl, and dc gave me 46(.0...) even after asking for a result upto 20 digits. Here is a naive guess: kcalc stores the number in such a way that it causes the abnormality as above(?). I have checked KCalc on Mandrake Linux 10.1 (different version of KDE) and it gives correct result. I just checked it on FreeBSD 5.4 and it gives the correct answer. KCalc 1.8 compiled from port. Hi, My Kcalc gives the also gives the incorrect answer ie . 45 + 1 = 46.00710542735760100185871124. It will correctly add the first two numbers together but not subsequent sums, exactly as described by the original poster. I also am using 5.4. FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #11: Tue May 10 18:36:45 BST 2005 .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: not-yet-a-newbie : DL (ftp?) iso image help question
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 22:48, datora tehnika wrote: Hi folks -- snip So, I'm trying to DL the ISO images have been having a very frustrating past three days. Very minor fluctuations in the local connection (including power blips) keep wrecking the ISO image DL via web browser. I'd like very much to use ftp (unless there is something better?), but have been unable to connect. Am using winsock ftp 95, but all attempts at connection are being refused (at main ftp.freebsd.org site various european ftp mirrors). What I see as my need: how do I connect ? Anon keeps being rejected, I have not been able to locate ftp instructions at freebsd.org website; only web browser links. The ftp links (e.g. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org etc etc) don't work in WSFTP_95. It is recommended that I use FTP software w/ resume function, but no such instructions haave I seen. Hello there, To download the iso image, maybe try using filezilla, a very easy ftp doze client. It has reasonable resume functions: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558 Or maybe get a torrent client such as Shareaza, and get the iso via P2P: http://www.shareaza.com/ In terms of documentation, the handbook is the best place to start: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/59-1/books/handbook/ All the best .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux move to FreeBSD
On Sunday 03 July 2005 00:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi snip I would like to know if possible how this came about, and what thinking was behind it. From experience, I consider symbols to be very significant, Historically, psychologically and even spiritually. Best regards Mark Hi there Mark, Individuals who come onto this list and ask questions which have repeatedly been answered, risk being called trolls. The briefest of searches would have explained the answer to your question.: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#DAEMON-NAME Please don't initiate a discussion about this as this thread demonstrates, the issue has been discussed to death: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/076061.html Many thanks .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding my CDRW device to k3b
On Friday 15 April 2005 00:00, Justin R. Pessa wrote: Allo! I'm having problems trying to get k3b to recognize my CDRW drive. I went to Settings COnfigure k3b Devices. When I add /dev/acd0 it says Could not find an additional device at /dev/acd0. snip I realize this is probably more a k3b problem than a FreeBSD problem, but I feel as though there is something specific to FreeBSD I have either missed or am over looking. Have you tried running k3b as root, if it sees your device as root. Then you can change the permissions for the devices or just run it as root hope this helps .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding my CDRW device to k3b
On Friday 15 April 2005 00:08, Justin R. Pessa wrote: On Apr 15 12:06AM, nbco wrote: On Friday 15 April 2005 00:00, Justin R. Pessa wrote: Allo! I'm having problems trying to get k3b to recognize my CDRW drive. I went to Settings COnfigure k3b Devices. When I add /dev/acd0 it says Could not find an additional device at /dev/acd0. snip I realize this is probably more a k3b problem than a FreeBSD problem, but I feel as though there is something specific to FreeBSD I have either missed or am over looking. Have you tried running k3b as root, if it sees your device as root. When I run an X app as root I get: Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jstn $ k3b Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified k3b: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm not sure how to give root permission to the X session on this display. Any thoughts here? Well, it seems, you should check your .xserverrc for your X -nolisten tcp r :0 settings or chown the raw devices from root to yourself. .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help if you can
On Saturday 05 March 2005 15:21, Chris wrote: snip I am wondering if FreeBSD is compatible to all of the endless softwares out there that require you to be using a certain version of Microsoft Windows? Firstly, If you wanted to say download and install Windows applications on FreeBSD, they will not run without being wrapped or run through a package such as WINE. What does this mean to you? You will not be able to install and run any Windows software without setting up such a program first. snip I'm finally fed up with it. But I'm afraid of one thing... that I won't have the capabilities with a Linux based OS that I did with Windows. Unfortunately, Microsoft is pretty much a monopoly, we all know that, and they pride themselves on forcing others out of business, but once again, there's the compatibility issue that I'm worried about. FreeBSD is not a Linux based OS. I use FreeBSD as a desktop in an environment where virtually all of my colleagues and competitors use Windows. I do not use WINE or any Windows products as part of my normal working life. I use substitutes such as: OpenOffice: Word; Konqueror: IE; Kmail: Outlook express etc etc. I have had no issues whatsoever with incompatibility between my software suite and that of Windows and other users. The real joy of open OSES is that you find substitutes that frequently work better, faster, cleaner than Windows applications. To learn FreeBSD you will be starting again, in many ways, from scratch. So I tend to think that your approach which is to kick out the bad OS and keep the good applications will lead you into more of a frustrating experience. I read the compatibility section for hardware but really didn't see any of mine listed, so I'll list what I have and hopefully, if you have time, you can give me a yes or no. I would love you forever if you could do that :D. My System: Shuttle XPC SS56-G Barebones with Intel Socket 478 Intel Celeron 2.4 Ghz (I know this is supported) 768MB PC2100 RAM nVidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB AGP video card Memorex 48-24-48 CDR/RW The following components are all onboard the Shuttle mainboard: Advance AC'97 sound card Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC USB and USB 2.0 This Hardware is all pretty standard and should work. snip I wouldn't think of boring you with the endless amounts of software that I use, cause I can figure that out on my own later. One of the huge advantages of freeBSD is the ports system which has in excess of 12,000 programs which you can download and use. The ports will replace your Windows applications. It is worth finding out what people use as, say, media players. For example, if you wanted a media player on Windows most people will use one of the following: BSplayer; Mplayer; Mediaplayer Classic or possibly Windows Media Player. On freeBSD a lot of people use Mplayer or Vlc. I hope this helps .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: if this ethernet works
On Saturday 05 March 2005 16:54, Antoine Solomon wrote: I wanted to see if anyone knew of this getting this ethernet working on fbsd here is is Broadcom BCM5721 PCI Express GbE Try the bge driver .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice startup question
On Sunday 06 February 2005 17:03, Ned Harrison wrote: snip However, the initiall set up instructions don't seam to work. When I type openoffice, I get Command not found for a response. It doesn't matter whether I enter the command as an ordinary user or as root. This is true even when I move to /usr/local/bin where there are several openoffice files. Hi there, Go to: /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4 then enter the command (as root) ./spadmin hope this helps .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: couldn't start KDE.
On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:04, BSD Mail wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:48:13 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:28 pm, BSD Mail wrote: snip Did you see the error message about /tmp/.ICE-unix. Check the ownership. Kent Sorry I forgot to mention that this is the second thing I tried actually. I noticed the permissions for 3 other directory and the .ICE-unix under /'tmp as root:wheel I ran chown -R user:user on them it got rid of most the errors but still, I was getting an error about that .ICE-unix directory. the third thing I did is I rm -rf everything under /tmp and started kde again. Less errors and still showing the .ICE-unix error and my previous attachment was the least error I was able to get. snip Hi, In relaton to the .ICE_unix directory, UPDATING deals with it in part (see below). I like having clear_tmp_enable=YES so to avoid this problem, I created the directory /etc/rc.local with the following line: mkdir -p -m 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix This means that I can still clear out my tmp directories automatically on reboot and maintain the ICE-unix permissions. I hope this helps .nbco 20041229: AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3, x11-servers/xorg-server AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If KDE does not start anymore after upgrading Xorg to version 6.8.1 (X restarts when the KDE splash screen has reached the third icon), please check whether the directory /tmp/.ICE-unix exists, is owned by root and has permissions 1777 (read/write/access for everybody + sticky bit). To make sure everything is in working order, do (as root): mkdir -p /tmp/.ICE-unix chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix chown root:wheel /tmp/.ICE-unix Also, make sure you do NOT have clear_tmp_enable=YES set in /etc/rc.conf, as it will remove the directory on every reboot and applications will re-create it with the wrong ownership. Users of daily_clean_tmps_enable in /etc/periodic.conf should make sure daily_clean_tmps_ignore contains /tmp/.ICE-unix. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer cannot find libraries
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 00:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 14:15, Rob Lahaye wrote: Rob Lahaye wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded all my software from recent ports. Now realplayer (10.0.2_1) doesn't run anymore, because it cannot find its libraries: snip Meanwhile I've solved the problem with a: # portupgrade -frRv linux-realplayer-10.0.2_1 more snippage I have tried the above suggestions, but I am still getting the following error: /usr/local/bin/realplay [1] 12982 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Hi there, It seems like this problem is currently being resolved, check out this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2005-January/000733.html It seems that you should rebuild linux X11 libs hope this helps .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer cannot find libraries, after upgrade from ports
On Sunday 16 January 2005 14:15, Rob Lahaye wrote: Rob Lahaye wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded all my software from recent ports. Now realplayer (10.0.2_1) doesn't run anymore, because it cannot find its libraries: $ ldd /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin | grep not found libX11.so.6 = not found libXrandr.so.2 = not found libXi.so.6 = not found libXext.so.6 = not found libXft.so.2 = not found libXrender.so.1 = not found libX11.so.6 = not found libXft.so.2 = not found libXrender.so.1 = not found libX11.so.6 = not found $ ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 Meanwhile I've solved the problem with a: # portupgrade -frRv linux-realplayer-10.0.2_1 Hi, It appears as though after the recent ports/emulators/linux_base version bump ( see ports/UPDATING), that the Linux X11 libraries are not appearing in /usr/compat/linux/etc/ld.so.cache. realplayer was not the only affected port - acroread was also affected; both are linux binaries which run under emulation. Another fix is to do the following: 1) Add the following line to /usr/compat/linux/etc/ld.so.conf: /usr/X11R6/lib 2) Re-run /usr/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig. This will cause the runtime ELF linker cache for the Linuxolator to be regenerated with the location of the Linux X11 libraries added to the search path, and thus the libraries should then appear in the cache. You should then be able to run acroread, realplayer etc. without further problems, even after a reboot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE
On Friday 07 January 2005 17:56, albi wrote: Duane Winner wrote: We generally do a portupgrade -a to upgrade ports unless /usr/ports/UPDATING affects us. How can I get around the openoffice discrepency since a portupgrade -a will always try build it again and end up failing? a dirty solution is to press ctrl-c when OOo tries to build, i know from experience that portupgrade simply continues with the rest without any complaints :) Alterntively, set openoffice to be held in pkgtools.conf in /usr/local/etc. I have added the following line: HOLD_PKGS = ['openoffice-*'] This entry will prevent portupgrade attempting to upgrade the port. If you are using portmanager see this thread to see how to avoid portmanager attempting to upgrade a held port: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-January/070055.html Hope this helps .nbco Portupgrade honours this setting. but i assume in the Makefile (in the OOo-portsdir) one can put an IGNORE somewhere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports
On Friday 31 December 2004 23:32, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 09:49 am, nbco wrote: Any ideas as to how to make portmanager ignore held ports? If you were to move /var/db/pkg/openoffice-1.1.4.20041101_1 (assuming that is the version you have installed) directory to someplace safe, like in your home directory then portmanager nor any part of the ports system would know openoffice-1.1.4.20041101_1 is installed. This will only work for a port that is not a dependency for another port so only if no other ports depend on openoffice-1.1.4.20041101_1 will this work. When you want to upgrade it then move the directory back to /var/db/pkg. You can also create a ports/local/editors/openoffice-1.1which is a bit more involved and way more elegant, I will be happy to explain only if you are truly interested. Many thanks, the first option worked perfectly, inelegant though it may be. .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports
Hi list, I am trying out portmanager-0.2.2, on a 5.3-RELEASE box. I have openoffice-1.1.3.20040810 installed. I don't want to upgrade openoffice at this time, as I don't have the space for a full compile and will wait for a new package. I have set openoffice to be held in pkgtools.conf in /usr/local/etc. Portupgrade honours this setting. Portmanager doesn't, therefore every time I attempt to run portmanager it tries to compile openoffice-1.1.4.20041101_1 I have looked at portmanager and cannot find a way to prevent it updating certain ports, and it doesn't honour the hold_pkgs in pkgtools.conf. Any ideas as to how to make portmanager ignore held ports? This problem makes portmanager unusable for me, as it updates openoffice first, so it never actually gets to the smaller out of date ports. Many thanks in advance .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re bittorrent
Hey list, I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl connection. Which I think is pretty good. There don't seem to be that many people uploading it from me at the moment. I'm impressed, .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re bittorrent
On Monday 08 November 2004 00:28, Quinn Ellis wrote: nbco wrote: Hey list, I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl connection. Which I think is pretty good. There don't seem to be that many people uploading it from me at the moment. I'm impressed, .nbco Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP? Quinn. Hi there, Well, I suppose one of the main reasons is to keep pressure off the ftp servers: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/060205.html Also it's being released as a torrent on an experimental basis: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-November/042511.html The community were interested in it coming out this way too: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/063501.html .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPL vs BSD Licence
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/27/04 12:59:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you buy a product what would you want ? A pretty box or pretty software ? Finishing the product is just marketing and trying to make a very pretty box to put the software in. When something is open source and you want to sell it you are forced to make it the best peace of code out there. Its what i call healthy competition. For me open source translates into If you think you can do better be my guest Finishing a product and making it closed source is just plain wrong. Its like stealing from the church basket. Every body shares something and you want to take it and keep it for your self. snip Are people who have written custom GUI front ends for Linux stealing? They're not stealing, they are getting paid for the value that they've added. Are people that sell bottled water stealing? No one is forcing you to pay for water. But its been cleaned and nicely packaged and it fits in your cupholder, so you buy it. I have to say I generally really approve of TM4525's attitude, but on this one, you can't fool all of the people all of the time... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3523303.stm coca cola no longer sells water in England, even though it be real purdy, the punters, don't buy it. .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port problem in AMD 64
On Friday 15 October 2004 16:32, ann kok wrote: 1/ I succeed to install cvsup-without-gui by port but failed to run it! /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found Hi there, You don't say what version of freeBSD you are running. This sounds like a library problem see: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/040013.html .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3
Hi list, I have the following problems after updating from 5.1.2.1 to 5.3-BETA7 I have extemely poor and intermittent network connectivity with my ethernet card (em0). My wireless atheros card (ath0) works perfectly. I have kde installed. With em0: I can ping; I can't telnet; sometimes I can send and receive mail (I mean very intermittently I can send a test message in about 12-24 hours). In terms of net access, I can access the web but extremely slowly with frequent timeouts, freebsd utilities are subject to the same issues, such as portupgrade; links; and cvsup, so I don't tend to think this is a kde problem. I have no DHCP entries in my rc.conf. Interestingly with both em0 and eth0, when executing dhclient I receive the following error message: dhclient: send_packet: Network is unreachable. However, with ath0 this is clearly a lie, as the network works perfectly. I have tested the ethernet card (em0) in my dual boot windows install, it works fine, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. My other box on the network is also fine. Any ideas would be most gratefully received, I'm totally clueless on this. many thanks .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3 Date: Friday 15 October 2004 21:28 From: nbco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 15 October 2004 21:09, pete wright wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:14:35 +0100, nbco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Any ideas would be most gratefully received, I'm totally clueless on this. you may want to post a dmesg to the list. i have had problems with em on my X31 with 5.x releases in the past. seemed like an IRQ issue, altho i never investigated it. Thanks Pete, Interesting that you should have em issues on 5.x, mine was fine, it only borked on 5.3. On Friday 15 October 2004 21:34, Kris Kennaway wrote: This is a known problem - you should subscribe to the -current list to watch for patches you can test. Thanks Kris, I do subscribe to current, and if your referring to this thread: network slowness/freez-up since update 10/11 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/040227.html I thought that only referred a problem with if_de cards and Giant-free operation. I wouldn't think it would have applied to em0 Dmesg follows Thanks .nbco Here's my dmesg. Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #0: Sun Oct 10 05:01:50 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BMS_EMPIRIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz (1594.83-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x695 Stepping = 5 Features=0xa7e9f9bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM OV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE real memory = 1073086464 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1040523264 (992 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: IBM TP-1R on motherboard acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU (3 Cx states) on acpi0 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge mem 0xd000-0xdfff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 drm0: ATI Radeon LW Mobility 7500 M7 port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xc010-0xc010,0xe000-0xe7ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xd000 256MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0 uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A port 0x1800-0x181f irq 11 atdevice 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B port 0x1820-0x183f irq 11 atdevice 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C port 0x1840-0x185f irq 11 atdevice 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xc000-0xc3ff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci_pci_attach: companion usb0 ehci_pci_attach: companion usb1 ehci_pci_attach: companion usb2 usb3: EHCI version 1.0 usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3: EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb3: USB revision 2.0 uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 cbb0: PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0xb000-0xbfff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 cbb1: PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0xb100-0xb1000fff irq 11 at device 0.1 on pci2 cardbus1: CardBus bus on cbb1 pccard1: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb1 em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.25 port 0x8000-0x803f mem 0xc020-0xc020,0xc022-0xc023 irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2 em0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:60:7e:57:16 em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xc021-0xc021 irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:05:4e:44:be:20 ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps
Re: Fwd: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3
On Friday 15 October 2004 23:23, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:51:19PM +0100, nbco wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 21:34, Kris Kennaway wrote: This is a known problem - you should subscribe to the -current list to watch for patches you can test. Thanks Kris, I do subscribe to current, and if your referring to this thread: network slowness/freez-up since update 10/11 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/040 227.html I thought that only referred a problem with if_de cards and Giant-free operation. I wouldn't think it would have applied to em0 No, other emails and PRs report problems with em0 identical to those you're describing. Ok I'm going to file a bug report then, thanks again. .nbco Kris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3
Hey list, There has been a patch submitted for this problem, which resolved my connectivity problems - see: kern/72748: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/040502.html Thanks to everyone for all their help. .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Downloading FreeBSD
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD distributions? The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere? The gain for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load I'm asking because I don't know: a) What a bittorrent tracker is. b) What it takes to install and set up one. c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup? Your reply to c) seems to be to save bandwidth. The next logical question is how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from? snip I've seen BitTorrent being mentioned quite a few times in the past. I'm asking what it is, why one would use it, how it would be set up in order to learn more about BitTorrent. Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the picture therefore reducing congestion. It's in ports. I use: /usr/ports/net/py-bittornado home page: http://bittornado.com/ When you seed a torrent, you make your file, whether it is an iso, text etc available to the bittorrent community. Most bittorrent clients will do this for you. If you do not seed a torrent. it will not be available to the bittorrent comunity even though the isos are on your machine. Other p2p networks don't require this tagging and so any files that you wish to share are available to the p2p users. The reduction in pressure on the servers would hold true for any of the p2p networks I have the 5.2.1. isos on my box, and accessible to the peer networks, but as yet have never noticed anyone downloading them. Once I move to 5.3 I could seed it and we can see whether it is picked up. I don't think there is any real reason to seed 5.2.1. .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question
On Thursday 16 September 2004 15:44, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:38:19AM -0500, Doug Paquette wrote: I was wondering if you have the Handbook in a PDF format that I can download to make it easier to print the hand book out? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The handbook is being updated for 5.3 at this time, so it would probably be better to wait until the release is cut to print out a copy as it's a pretty big book .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
