+---[ Edmund L. Wong ]--
|
| I am able to get myself to a single-user prompt as
| root, but not much else. Does anyone have any
| suggestions as to how I can salvage this? Or will I
| have to reinstall anew?
Boot from a live/fixit CD/floppy, and mount your drives and rebu
+---[ Andrew Kenneth Milton ]--
| +---[ Soeren Schmidt ]--
| |
| | The story continues with Preview 2 - from the README:
| |
| | Now the functionality is almost equal to that of stock ATA, I'm getting
| | close to being ready to expose this o
+---[ Soeren Schmidt ]--
|
| The story continues with Preview 2 - from the README:
|
| Now the functionality is almost equal to that of stock ATA, I'm getting
| close to being ready to expose this on the -current users, so please
| give this a go to shake out the last nast
+---[ Pawel Jakub Dawidek ]--
| Hello there.
|
| I've wrote screen saver for FreeBSD 5.x with rotating "bsd" logo.
|
| http://garage.freebsd.pl/bsd_saver.tbz
|
| Any chance to add it to tree?
It'd be nice if it automatically reverted to low-res mode if it can't obt
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
|
| I think we need somebody to reconsider how we configure our filesystems
| in the future, in order to avoid a confusion of config files whose
| interrelationship users will have no chance of figuring out.
|
| We have CCD, GBDE, MD and in the f
+---[ Martin Minkus ]--
| During boot, i get the following:
|
[snip]
| I really want to start upgrading to 5.0 (There are no other issues, and
| some people i know have been running 5.0-CURRENT ever since work on 5.0
| began).
I found that if I tried to specify any media
+---[ Paolo Pisati ]--
|
| I've just installed a fresh 5.0-RELEASE, and i found
| a rather odd surprise:
|
| the NOTES files (both!!!) vanished
| Instead of NOTES i found the old LINT in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/,
| and nothing in /usr/src/sys/conf/.
|
| Any idea?
User
+---[ James Satterfield ]--
| The lcms port fails it's build time tests on current with a P4. I believe
| this builds on non-P4 systems running current.
Builds fine on my athlon under current.
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+---[ Gary Jennejohn ]--
| Andrew Kenneth Milton writes:
| > +---[ Daniel Flickinger ]--
| > | Every program in ooo-1.0.1 I have tried seems to be working
| > | correctly, but syslog is logging copious quantities of:
| > |
|
+---[ Daniel Flickinger ]--
| Every program in ooo-1.0.1 I have tried seems to be working
| correctly, but syslog is logging copious quantities of:
|
| cmd soffice.bin pid 817 tried to use non-present sched_get_priority_min
| cmd soffice.bin pid 817 tried to use
+---[ Marcin Dalecki ]--
|
| (I'm still fetching the whole Linux emulation environment just
| to get openoffice up and running again... g...)
make -DNATIVE_BOOTSTRAP install
for /usr/ports/java/jdk13
should avoid needing the Linux Emu just to get Java running...
I hav
+---[ Garance A Drosihn ]--
| At 10:58 PM + 11/12/02, Mark Murray wrote:
| > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:15:09AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
| >>
| >> > I would rather have some explicit list of filenames where we have
| >> > good reason to delete them, and then ada
+---[ Steve Kargl ]--
|
| I agree with Dan. Let's do it now. My understanding is
| that 5.0 will be an "early adopter" release and production
| systems should run 4.7{8,9,..} until 5.1 is released.
|
| To accomplish the change, I think we need to do:
| 1. Install a comp
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
|
| I've started to type in my mental sticky notes, have at it:
|
| http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/TODO/
Unfortunate choice of acronym there d8)
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The Interne
The perl location for OSVERSION >= 500036 is 'hardcoded' to be
${LOCALBASE}/bin/perl in bsd.port.mk. Effectively /usr/local/bin/perl
Shouldn't it use the perl wrapper in /usr/bin/perl ?
I thought I'd check here first before harassing the -ports people.
--
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+---[ Juli Mallett ]--
|
| Wasn't really aware of that existing, but my understanding from another message
| in this thread is it just works with the output from ps(1)? That seems a bit
| icky to me.
Piping commands through other commands seems icky?
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+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
|
| Yes, if you just drop it in, nothing should change much after all.
|
| You can then create ufs2 filesystems with "newfs -O 2" and start to
| beat up the new code for good.
Is it helpful to test this via md type mounts, or only on physical m
+---[ Maxim Sobolev ]--
| Finally I have decided to give post gcc-3.1 perless world a
| try, but found that world doesn't build. :(( The system in
| question is 5-CURRENT makeworlded about a month ago.
|
| Any ideas?
I had to do a make includes, and then world built fine
===> usr.bin/netstat
install -C -s -o root -g kmem -m 2555 netstat /usr/bin
install: /usr/bin/INS@4uTe: Bad address
consistently at that point.
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The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | |
ACN: 082
+---[ George V. Neville-Neil ]--
| > In addition to process it might be attitude.
| >
|
| So, how do we get our attitudes adjusted before hitting a wall,
| as many companies I've worked for did?
Alcohol and a cam-corder d8)
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+---[ Kenneth D. Merry ]--
|
| The answer is...the USB code.
I have also solved my problem, and my answer is SMB code..
When booting an SMP kernel with SMB enabled, trying to access /dev/smb0
returns device not configured (works fine in UP mode).
Removing the SMB (and re
+---[ Glenn Gombert ]--
| There is a problem in -Current now between SCSI card(s) and the ATA
| drivers, On my Dell 410 Workstation at work I commetned out the ATA driver
| stuff (it was not used on that machine) and it booted fine, I think that
| might just cure the SMP pr
+---[ Kenneth D. Merry ]--
|
| I've got a SMP machine with a Supermicro P3TDE6 motherboard. (Serverworks
| HE-SL chipset, dual 1.26GHz Pentium III's.)
|
| It boots just fine with a GENERIC -current kernel (sources cvsupped
| yesterday at ~1500 MST), but hangs (at the "Wa
+---[ John Baldwin ]--
| Those of you who waste large amounts of time on IRC, esp. on The Channel Which
| Shall Rename Nameless will appreciate this:
[snip]
So the truth finally comes out.
Now we discover the real reason -current was delayed for 12 months d8)
--
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+---[ Terry Lambert ]--
| Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
| > There is unfortunately a section of the GPL community who confuses this
| > with the right to simply relicense BSDL code whenever you want, because it
| > doesn't explicitly deny it. The FSF &
+---[ Joerg Wunsch ]--
| Martin Blapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > Suse's Copyright:
| >
| > /* Copyright (c) 1999 Thorsten Kukuk
| >Author: Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| That would at least be a copyright violation.
Not necessarily, some derived works
+---[ Matthew Thyer ]--
| I have seen this for about a month or two on more than one machine.
Try building without PAM support.
When wdm breaks for me, rebuilding with no PAM generally fixes it.
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+---[ Terry Lambert ]--
| Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
| > | I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, and
| > | they were oh so happy to consider another license for the year I tried
| > | to push for it for use in a FreeBSD based IBM
+---[ Terry Lambert ]--
|
| > Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has
| > RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be
| > a consideration?
|
| I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, a
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milt
| on writes:
| >+---[ Terry Lambert ]--
| >|
| >| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite
| >| distributions, where the linking is delayed
+---[ Terry Lambert ]--
|
| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite
| distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to
| work around the letter of the GPL. Given his religious convictions,
| I can't see him *not*. Factor that
+---[ David W. Chapman Jr. ]--
| > > :> > IBM DTLA drives are known to rotate fast enough near the spindle
| > > :> > that the sustained write speed exceeds the ability of the controller
| > > :> > electronics to keep up, and results in crap being written to disk.
| >
| >
+---[ Jim Bryant ]--
| Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote
|
| > +---[ Peter Jeremy ]--
| > | Having installed a new kernel and userland from sources about a day
| > | old, my vidcontrol command now causes a panic:
| >
| > [snip]
| >
|
+---[ Peter Jeremy ]--
| Having installed a new kernel and userland from sources about a day
| old, my vidcontrol command now causes a panic:
[snip]
| The command I used was "vidcontrol 132x60" after confirming that
| this was listed in "vidcontrol -i mode". I have previ
+---[ Andrew Kenneth Milton ]--
| Is there a script for updating sources from pre-kse to post-kse status?
|
| Both the vmware ports, and drm ports all need some work done to bring them up
| to scratch with the KSE changes.
|
| So is there a tool, or does it all have to
Is there a script for updating sources from pre-kse to post-kse status?
Both the vmware ports, and drm ports all need some work done to bring them up
to scratch with the KSE changes.
So is there a tool, or does it all have to be done manually?
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+---[ Sameh Ghane ]--
| Hi,
|
| Did anyone find a way to compile the x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server port ?
|
| According to the Makefile it is not possible to build it since FreeBSD 500013.
| Will a package built under < 500013 work under > 500013 ?
It's busted since the K
+---[ Crist J. Clark ]--
|
| As an analogy, take the example of BSD-licensed code where someone
| else owns the copyright (like anything in FreeBSD). Provided I follow
| the limited restrictions of the BSD-license, I can pile additional
| licensing terms on top of that. I
I guess we can summarize now? :-)
1) If you are the author of software, it's a bad idea to simply release code
into the Public Domain, mainly because you can't protect your self from
litigation by placing disclaimers in your code.
2) Public Domain means you relinquish your copyright contro
+---[ Giorgos Keramidas ]--
|
| Yep. True. The only problem is that if Charles Mott makes changes at
| a later date to his codebase, changes cannot be merged to the FreeBSD
| version without permission from him, even if the patches apply cleanly
| and break nothing that F
+---[ Nate Williams ]--
| > | > If you ever claimed to hold the copyright to software that has been
| > | > released into the public domain, you would be commiting fraud.
| > |
| > | Not if I'm the author of the software.
| > |
| > | I can release my software under as man
+---[ Nate Williams ]--
| > If you ever claimed to hold the copyright to software that has been
| > released into the public domain, you would be commiting fraud.
|
| Not if I'm the author of the software.
|
| I can release my software under as many licenses as I'd like,
+---[ Brian Somers ]--
| > Check with Charles to see if he really wants to abandon copyright claims
| > to his code, or whether he was really implying some really liberal open source
| > license.
|
| With the BSD Copyright (only) he keeps the intellectual copyright on
|
+---[ Brian Somers ]--
| This is my fault. Charles gave me permission to change these files
| to a BSD license a while ago. It looks like I got it wrong :-/
|
| I'll fix it now.
Well since copyright was abandoned (being placed into the public domain is
abandonment of c
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| writes:
| >+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
| >| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| >| writes:
| >|
| >| >The p
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| writes:
|
| >The problem turns up most violently within the XFree86 DRI Module, since
| >it now uses make_dev, and not mknod as it used to.
| >
| >The DRI Module first
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]--
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| writes:
| >+---[ Greg Lehey ]--
| >|
| >
| >[snip]
| >
| >| whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had
+---[ Greg Lehey ]--
|
[snip]
| whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had
| a 16 character limit on device names, and it didn't understand
| subdirectories: it treated the / as a part of the device name.
The subdir part bit me about a week ag
+---[ Gordon Tetlow ]--
| On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
|
| > Sure enough, that fixed the kernel panic, but here's the next odd piece,
| > my hard drive wasn't showing up! I have a rather standard Adaptec AHA-2940
| > dmesg reports that ahc0 is there. The lines
+---[ Andrew Kenneth Milton ]--
| +---[ Manfred Antar ]--
| | The port netpbm builds and installs fine on current.
| | When trying to build the docs in /usr/docs the program peps calls
|/usr/local/bin/pnmtopng
| | This is from the netpbm port
+---[ Manfred Antar ]--
| The port netpbm builds and installs fine on current.
| When trying to build the docs in /usr/docs the program peps calls
|/usr/local/bin/pnmtopng
| This is from the netpbm port.
|
| (/usr/local/bin)505}./pnmtopng
| /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr
+---[ David W. Chapman Jr. ]--
| Anyone know if -current supports Direct Rendering Infrastructure?
XFree4 supports it, it's not really a FreeBSD issue, other than
actually building the drm kernel module.
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+---[ Sheldon Hearn ]--
|
| Seriously, now's not the time to run CURRENT "for fun".
Well if now isn't when is? It's been pretty boring up until now :-)
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The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F
+---[ Alexander Leidinger ]--
| On 31 Jan, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
|
| > Glide Libraries:
| >
| > Glide3x_devel-2.2-2.i386.rpm
| > to install;
| > rpm2cpio Glide3x_devel-2.2-2.i386.rpm | cpio -i -d
| > cp -r usr/include/glide3 /usr/include
|
|
+---[ Jason Evans ]--
|
| > What are the 'new' corresponding structures and calls for simple_lock ?
|
| Mutexes should be used in places where simplelocks were used. With few
| exceptions, sleep mutexes should be used (even though simplelocks were spin
| locks). See mute
I've made a roadmap to getting hardware accel 3d support using a Voodoo3
under XFree-4. I've attached it in case anyone is interested.
However, recently simple_lock and friends seem to have disappeared, and the
kernel modules make some use of them (although there is still reference
to it in machi
Is there a nice way to stop vga_pci from attaching to my video card, or
to allow another driver to attach to it after vga_pci has done its thing?
At the moment I'm removing all traces of vga_pci from the Makefile in
my kernel 'compile' directory (which works)...
It is preventing the drm module f
+---[ Mark Murray ]--
| > | That is a _great_ source of entropy.
| >
| > So are disk and network accesses, I don't see harvesting code being
| > sprinkled inside them. Probably because more people would scream if their
| > network or disk performance died.
|
| Those are
+---[ Mark Murray ]--
| > Ok so I've been told this is related to the random module.
|
| Related, sure, but the real problem is elsewhere.
|
| > Having had a look through the code I now understand what the problem is.
| >
| > I think that for those people using /dev/sysmo
+---[ Andrew Kenneth Milton ]--
| I've now tried 5 different Sound Cards in an effort to find one that doesn't
| spew
|
| pcm0: hwptr went backwards 2060 -> 1872
Ok so I've been told this is related to the random module.
Having had a look thro
I've now tried 5 different Sound Cards in an effort to find one that doesn't
spew
pcm0: hwptr went backwards 2060 -> 1872
all the time. (Seems to happen more when I move my mouse (PS/2)).
I've tried:
SB 16 + SCSI-2
Opti 931 (MED 3931 Ver2.0)
CMI8330
ES1869 (Playing sound locks the machine)
+[ Sheldon Hearn ]-
|
| As a side issue, can anyone explain these peculiar results from df(1)'s
| huamn-readable (-h) output:
|
| Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
| mfs:26 87M11K80M 0%
+[ Brian Somers ]-
| > Running 4.0 -current as of today.on a DEC Alphaststion 233 when I dial out
| > I connect for about 30 seconds then it dies...here is a copy of the ppp.log
| [.]
|
| Well, you're receiving data from the peer, but the pe
+[ Andrew Sherrod ]-
| Guess ELM 2.4 isn't Y2K compliant. Not a huge problem, but annoying.
|
| FreeBSD:
|
| Received: from cscfx.sytex.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [205.147.190.131])
| by sytex2.sytex.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA03024 for
| <[EMAI
I had make buildworld cark it on me in libperl a few times this morning
(several cvsups just to be sure d8)
I booted from the last 4.0 SNAPSHOT CD I got (7/5/99), and cvsupped
it up. Built a kernel and rebooted, before trying to do the world thing.
I put NOPROFILE = true into /etc/make.conf and
+[ Brian Somers ]-
|
|
| Fixed now - my apologies.
Not a problem, that's why it's -current.
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ACN: 082 081
I cvsupped 24 hours ago, and I just re-cvsupped and there were no
changes to any ppp sources...
The dial string is not being parsed correctly
set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK
\\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
The \\d and the \\T are not being parsed. I
+[ Warner Losh ]-
|
| There is one problem with this. The amount of uptime isn't the same
| as the amount of time since the machine booted. How can this happen?
| When a laptop suspends, it doesn't update the update while it is
| asleep, nor does i
+[ Doug Rabson ]-
| On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
|
| > +[ Arthur H. Johnson II ]-
| > | I fixed the sound card problem I was having. I just commented out the pnp
| > | d
Something that was working yesterday no longer works since I've made
world.
Out of memory (Needed 8192 bytes)
python in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
Out of memory (Needed 8192 bytes)
python in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
I've rebuilt python an
+[ Arthur H. Johnson II ]-
| I fixed the sound card problem I was having. I just commented out the pnp
| driver. I know I will run into problems later if I ever get pnp devices,
| but its a temporary fix.
Pcm doesn't work for me anymore with or wi
../../i386/isa/if_ed.c:84: i386/isa/pnp.h: No such file or directory
cvsupped twice four hours apart.
World builds and installs ok.
find /sys -name pnp.h
returns only the pnp in my build directory.
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The Internet (Aust)
+[ Doug Rabson ]-
| On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
| >
| > The reason I'm interested in this (now tiresome) thread is that I'd much
| > rather have to read
| >
| > /*
| > * Bail out if the time left to next transaction is less th
+[ Julian Elischer ]-
|
| On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
| > style(9) is supposed to document KNF. It is not supposed to document
| > best coding practices, julian's preferences or bde's preferences.
|
| KNF is not a static thing that cann
+[ Julian Elischer ]-
| yeah but not a SINGLE person has said to not commit the patch to style(9)
| so I'm going to do it later tonight..
| (It doesn't make extra braces MANDATORY but it does ALLOW them.)
|
| julian
| (if this doesn't bring some NEYs
+[ Nate Williams ]-
| > | :I think that style(9) should be modified to include
| > | :"Parenthesis may be used to improve the readbility of complex
| > | :expressions even if not strictly required."
| > | :instead of the stupid phrase presently there.
+[ Matthew Dillon ]-
|
| :I think that style(9) should be modified to include
| :"Parenthesis may be used to improve the readbility of complex
| :expressions even if not strictly required."
| :instead of the stupid phrase presently there.
| :also:
|
+[ John Birrell ]-
| John Polstra wrote:
| > Bah! You might be able to hit Bruce over there in oz. But to hit me,
| > you'd need an ICBM. Give me purity or give me death! Bwahahahahah!
|
| Nah, I even tried poisoning Sydney's water with something
+[ br...@worldcontrol.com ]-
| pcm no longer works correctly the Yamaha YMF715 based sound system
| of my laptop.
|
| mpg123 given the song 'I am pretty, oh so pretty' will produce
|
| I I I I I am am am am am prre prre prre ty ty ty ty , , , , oh o
+[ Christopher Knight ]-
| At 12:49 AM 1/17/99 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
| >
| >Ok, first the conclusion...
| >
| >I am not able to boot anymore from a 3.0-current system while I can boot
| >quite nicely from the 3.0-RELEASE generic kernel.
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