Re: FreeBSD Security Survey
On 5/22/06, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you administrate system(s) running FreeBSD (in the broad sense of are responsible for keeping system(s) secure and up to date), please visit http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html and complete the survey below before May 31st, 2006. One of those Missing Option messages: Whether valid or not, the reason that I would avoid a binary update system is that I customise CPUTYPE, and believe, rightly or wrongly, that this would make binary updating impossible. Of course, the main reason I would not use binary updating you/they have made source updating so easy! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...
On 9/29/05, Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Knowles wrote: However, it would be nice if mergemaster could be made to automatically accept changes that occur only in the comments of the files it is trying to merge. What would be nice is if people actually read the man page for mergemaster, which has had this example in it for a long time now. I just read the mergemaster man page (6.0B2 box), and it contains no usch example, or reference. None of the options seem to have this effect either. Maybe you are thinking of an Open- of NetBSD mergemaster? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0 and -O2 option
Kernel and world seem to be ok with -O2, for ports it is not advised. Hi, I may have missed a thread or something (just let me know :) ) - why is -O2 not advised for ports on 6.0? cheers, Beto Simply because not every port works with -O2 optimisations. It caused bad code in some circumstances. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/midi and /dev/sequencer
On 8/24/05, Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22. Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in the kernel at the moment. I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work with arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with sequencer or midi... any ideas? Thanks, Ben There is slow work being done by one developer to reestablish midi. A set of patches was posted here for 5.4, and they aparently worked. I couldn't get them to compile on CURRENT, though. I was not able to locate a site on it, and the patch was posted to this list on Apr 26 by conrads(a)cox.net . He may be able to find you a later patch set from Mat. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd: Device busy error.
On 7/14/05, Yann Golanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to burn to my CD drive and I keep getting the same error, namely only wrote -1 of 37632 bytes: Device busy. I've been able to write to that dive from FreeBSD in the past but now, nada. # burncd -f /dev/acd0 audio test.wav fixate next writeable LBA 4720 writing from file test.wav size 84006 KB written this track 735 KB (0%) total 735 KB only wrote -1 of 37632 bytes: Device busy fixating CD, please wait.. [...hangs...] This is well reported. Burncd has become rather dated, and is not keeping up with newer drives. DVD recorders poorly supported. Enable atapicam, and switch to cdrecord. It will work flawlessly. I use it myself with a Pioneer DVD, possibly the same model. I had the same problems with burncd. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Having just read this thread, I'd like to say that all messages are making valid points, and all participants agree with each other. However, the argumentative discussion is creating a lot of noise. Meanwhile, there are people doing meaningful work on this. A good standby would be to patch your 5.4 with ATAMKIII. As a CURRENT user, i'd like to state that this code is very stable, although I havn't done benchmarks, valid or otherwise. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATA Timeouts
I temporarily moved the disk to a recent 5.4 desktop machine equipped with the same chipset and the timeouts stopped, so it appears that the problem is not with the disk. So the problem exists on 5.S and not on 5.4-RELEASE? or is it vice versa? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Weird jdk14 build
On 01 May 2005 09:20:55 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayton Garnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, This weekend i've been reinstalling fbsd on my desktop and while installing /usr/ports/java//jdk14 (yes i downloaded all the files from sun and the patch-kit) While it was compiling I had a syntax error something like expected ( somewhere or other, but i noticed this little message before that error: == Warning: This JDK may be unstable. You are advised to use the native FreeBSD JDK, in ports/java/jdk14. snip No; you need to use Java to build Java. Therefore, the procedure is to use the precompiled Linux jdk to build the native one. Once the native one is built, you can remove the Linux one. To further clarify: That message is being produced while installing a linux JDK, which is needed to bootstrap the new native build. Yes, it's really annoying. To save this annoyance, make a package of it when you are done, merely for your own use, however. the linux JDK can (and should) be 'pkg_deinstall'ed when you are done. pkg_deinstall linux-sun-jdk1.4\* ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Preposterous errno values from kernel
On 4/23/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:34:39AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Thu, 2005-Apr-21 22:04:01 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: I'm getting this on a RELENG_5_4 sparc64 system (e4500): # rm -rf * /bin/rm: Unknown error: 7283. Just to rule things out: try echo * Just to make sure the shell is returning something sane. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package managment
On Apr 12, 2005 6:28 PM, Jan Sebosik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I`ve got one simple question: if i`ve built packages on my freebsd 5.3-RELEASE system, do I need to rebuilt them again for 5.4-RELEASE (after downloading compiling from sources) ? Best regards, Jan Sebosik ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With care, in many situations, you should be able to get away with it. Problems occur with ports that contain kernel modules (ltmdm, nvidia-driver). There have also been major changes within ports (new gtk versions, and a gnome upgrade) which will make partial rebuilding hazardous. Most of us would recommend a general rebuild, for safety's sake. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to remote update 4.10 - 5.3?
Remember, a remote install is possible (although I've never done it) by connecting a null modem cable between two machines' serial ports and using that for a console - Some people keep remote systems daisy-chained in this manner to cope with boot failures. On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:38:23 -0500, Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Palle Girgensohn wrote: I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way... That's not so bad. A reinstall means you can newfs your partitions as UFS2 filesystems, which wouldn't be the case if you upgraded 4.10 in-place. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. --- Frank Vincent Zappa ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with the CD driver
Is that the full train of error messages? I have a similar problem that begins with a DONEDRQ warning. I'll be posting my own PR on it tonight if none of the bsdforums crowd can come up with anything. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2 - 5.3 without single mode?
In general, yes, there will be. Quite an extensive one. Usually thoroughly bikeshedded on the lists beforehand. As a rule, always do installkernel before installworld. The new kernel will always run the old world (within reason), although often not vice versa. Then, in case of a failure, it should always come back up. On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:59:10 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith snippage So if there is a new common system call introduced, will it arrive with a nice entry in UPDATING plus a HEADS UP? Stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
