Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE (25 Dec) and IBM IC35L040AVER07-0
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:11:07AM +0100, Blaz Zupan wrote: You do not use tags, do you? The default is off I believe and I have not explicitely turned them on, so yes, I'm not using them. Those errors were 100% reproducible. Now I've commented out 'hw.ata.tags=1' from /boot/loader.conf and all errors have disappeared. I still wonder if it software or hardware incompatibility. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: Size of / partition?
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Julio Merino wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:32:36PM -, David Reid wrote: Just cvsup'd to stable and I've almost run out of room on /! How big should I create it when I reinstall as I now don't have enough to do another build. I allocate 70Mb for / on a 20gb disk and never ran out of space. You may have old /modules and/or kernels laying around, as well as files in /root. Also check your /tmp (which I mount on its own partition, or with mfs!). On a new machine with a big drive I would recommend people used at least 100MB. In particular I have found that some programs when they crash and create a core file it may end up filling up /. On my newer machines at work with lots of space I made / 1GB, /var 1GB and the rest to /usr. These are machines where I have much more free space than they will probably ever need anyway so space wasn't much of an issue. On a machine which is tighter with space I would suggest still to try and get 100MB root. Another possible approach may be to leave /var on / and give / 150MB. Space ALWAYS comes down to what are you going to do with the machine. On most instances / is rarelly used. /var can sometimes be a problem if you have a runaway log which you forgot to add to newsyslog and this is why many people like to have /var separate from /. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Broken Pipe
Can someone confirm something isn't broken in pipe? Each time I attempt to read/write thru a pipe of any siginifcant size, it breaks. Files built dec 18th from -Pre. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: Downgrading source
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:35:48AM +, Dominic Marks wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:24 am, Gunnar Flygt wrote: I have a machine that run 4.2-RELEASE. This one is also the webserver where I keep access to the latest documentation (i.e. FreeBSD) I've been lazy and always run make update from the /usr/src directory, when updating the /usr/doc sources. The tag for cvsup is RELENG_4, so the sources are stable. To upgrade the machine I want to `make buildworld` with 4.3 first and then to 4.4. Okay. Any particular reason? Just don't want to break something by taking a too big step. Is it safe to just change the tag for cvsup to the 4.3-RELEASE branch or should i delete the sources first? CVSup will deal with it for you. -- Dominic -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \,_ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
686B Testing
I see it's gone quiet on the 686B front, this due to a lack of testers and if so, what do I need to do to provide usefull info? Joshua Coombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: Downgrading source
On Saturday 29 December 2001 6:50 pm, Gunnar Flygt wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:35:48AM +, Dominic Marks wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:24 am, Gunnar Flygt wrote: I have a machine that run 4.2-RELEASE. This one is also the webserver where I keep access to the latest documentation (i.e. FreeBSD) I've been lazy and always run make update from the /usr/src directory, when updating the /usr/doc sources. The tag for cvsup is RELENG_4, so the sources are stable. To upgrade the machine I want to `make buildworld` with 4.3 first and then to 4.4. Okay. Any particular reason? Just don't want to break something by taking a too big step. I wouldn't say thats a big jump, but you do whatever your comfortable with. snip/ -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
4.5-PRERELEASE -- Pobs in compiling custom kernel
Hello, i'm new to freebsd and did cvsup for first time a couple of days ago... build world went all ok and i'm now with the generic kernel. I tried to compile a custom kernel but the compilation stops. Errors i get is of type 'syntax error line...', 'undefined variable...' etc. It seems to occur in linux...c and linux...h files and i suspect it's caused by the option LINUX_COMPAT. Anyway, since i'm new to all this: 1. Is this the right list for this kind of stuff? or should i post in freebsd-questions instead? 2. Is it ok to send attachment on lists? i have captured the stdout and stderr of make (for the custom kernel) in different files. Can i send them to the list togrther with the kernel config file? Thanx a lot. Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE (25 Dec) and IBM IC35L040AVER07-0
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:11:07AM +0100, Blaz Zupan wrote: You do not use tags, do you? The default is off I believe and I have not explicitely turned them on, so yes, I'm not using them. Those errors were 100% reproducible. Now I've commented out 'hw.ata.tags=1' from /boot/loader.conf and all errors have disappeared. I still wonder if it software or hardware incompatibility. So do I. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/29045 Nobody responded to my last post on this pr, and I have no idea where to go from here without direction. This level of technical debugging is quite beyond me at this time. But the problem still exists, it happened again earlier this week (even with the drives throttled to ata33). What kind of HDD are you using? Personally, I suspect HW problems, and I seem to recall a few months ago, someone else with IBM HDDs complaining about the same thing. Have there been any patches to the ata code that could affect this? If so, I'll update this machine and see if it continues to be a problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: Size of / partition?
David Reid wrote: Just cvsup'd to stable and I've almost run out of room on /! How big should I create it when I reinstall as I now don't have enough to do another build. bash-2.04$ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 4958344564 105398%/ /dev/ad0s2f 2646093 1830324 60408275%/usr /dev/ad0s2e 19815 82121001845%/var procfs 440 100%/proc david To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message Here's my 0.02 euro (IDE) disk space is very cheap. dump, repartition and restore is a right royal PITA. FreeBSD systems are long lived. So pick a number and double it. I've been using 256Mb for some time. A minimal install will just fit in 128Mb, at least last time I checked. This gives you an alternative to the live file system CD if your disk gets trashed, and you want to attempt a repair. I usually do my vinum systems this way. -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE -- Pobs in compiling custom kernel
Bernie wrote: 1. Is this the right list for this kind of stuff? or should i post in freebsd-questions instead? Not unless you've determined that it only occurs with -STABLE. Otherwise, you should post to freebsd-questions. 2. Is it ok to send attachment on lists? i have captured the stdout and stderr of make (for the custom kernel) in different files. Can i send them to the list togrther with the kernel config file? That's not good practice. Post snippits of the output that you think are important, and if someone asks you for the entire capture, send it to that person only. Sending large messages to the list will generally not be received well. Thanx a lot. Thanks for being curteous enough to check before posting :) -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: weekly run output contains invalid compressed data--crc error
On Saturday 29 December 2001 3:57 pm, Dan Langille wrote: Any ideas as to why I'm getting these invalid compressed data--crc error messages during the weekly run? --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent:Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:15:48 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: undef.example.org weekly run output Cleaning up kernel database files: Rebuilding locate database: Rebuilding whatis database: gzcat: /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error gzcat: /usr/share/man/man1/lint.1.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated gzcat: /usr/share/man/man2/getpgrp.2.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error gzcat: /usr/share/man/man3/strchr.3.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error --- End of forwarded message --- Hey Dan, Have you tried rebuilding that systems man pages? # cd /usr/src/share/man/ make clean all install That may fix it, or did you perhaps set any of these variables in your /etc/make.conf: NOSHARE NOMANCOMPRESS -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: Art work
Hello, Chad R. Larson! On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:15:30PM -0700, you wrote: I got my 4.4-RELEASE CD-ROMs via UPS today. I'm thinking about making a clone of them to take to work. My CD duplicating software can generate labels for the CDs, and inserts for jewel cases. Rather than scan them, are they available somewhere for download? You can find out when 2.2.8 came out and cvsup with RELENG_2_2 with 1 day before, and you will get 2.2.7-STABLE. -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
birda port (was Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20)
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 08:44, Benno Rice wrote: NetBSD has a userland IrDA stack in their pkgsrc (read ports) collection. Attached find a very preliminary attempt at a FreeBSD port for it; I haven't yet completed a hotsync with my Visor, but it at least started to sync properly and the failure was more likely due to the IR ports not being aligned properly (major jury-rig...). The tarball expects to be unpacked in /usr/ports. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineeringKF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls] birda.port.tgz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: Yahoo! and FreeBSD Article
Hello, Muhannad Asfour! On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:21:38PM -0500, you wrote: I seem to have found something even better. A PDF version of this article mirrored at sunsite.dk. If anyone else was looking for this article here is the URL: http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/freebsd/doc/newsletter/issue1.pdf A friend of mine is working for Yahoo! Inc., I'll ask him if he has an article there. If so, I'll post the link to it here. Yahoo! rocks! P.S. Happy new year to all. P.P.S. Save god all freebsd commiters and developers. P.P.P.S. Kris (Kennaway) I didn't expected that you are skin-head :) Just saw your photos on bbq :) Cc:-ing to -chat -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
