Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-17 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:12 AM 3/17/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:00:44AM -0500, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > This is all beginning to smell a lot like a FTP install. > >Exactly. Only thing is, an FTP install requires a usable internet >connection on intended box, which is not always availab

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-17 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:46 AM 3/17/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > However, if you consider the size of the file and the possibility of > > corruption, then it should be archived with gzip and forget the > compression >

Re: panic during make depend

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:01 PM 3/15/00 -0500, Donn Miller wrote: >Sounds like one of those nasty gcc optimization bugs. I generally >build my kernel and world with -mpentium -O3 -pipe, and I haven't seen >any bugs at all. I build everything with these flags without >problems. The only problems I've see, as mentio

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:42 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What??? 'pentiumpro' code isn't going to be very optimized for a Pentium > > (if it even runs at all). > >According to the gcc(1) man page, -mpentiumpro is synonymous to >-mcpu=pentiumpro, which

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:09 PM 3/15/00 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: >That's true. Most of the files in the ISO images are already >compressed, so trying to gzip it saves only a few percent. > >Also take into account that many people are downloading and >recoding the images on Windows boxes, which don't have gzip >by

panic during make depend

2000-03-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
Well now... Successfully did a buildworld with -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro, installworld was good, remade /dev and built a generic kernel. Config'd my local kernel and within the first few lines of 'make depend' it bombed: > gdb -k kernel.debug vmcore.0 GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Softwa

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:53 AM 3/15/00 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Kai Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000315 05:47] wrote: > > Matt Heckaman wrote: > > > It's been my experience that gzipping an ISO (or other compression tools) > > > do not make enough different to justify the time it takes to both > compress > >

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:48 PM 3/15/00 -0500, Donn Miller wrote: >I've noticed various compile-time optimization bugs as well. For >example, I tried building Qt with -mpentium -O3 -pipe, and somewhere >during the build, I get "Internal compiler error." Falling back to >the stock optimization levels of -O2 fixed t

Re: make release failing in /usr/ports/www/w3m/work/w3m

2000-03-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:30 PM 3/12/00 -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >At 06:04 PM 3/12/00 -0500, Brian Dean wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I am building a release and am getting a failure during the doc phase >>due to a port problem, (/usr/ports/www/w3m to be exact). This port is >>built dur

Re: make release failing in /usr/ports/www/w3m/work/w3m

2000-03-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 06:04 PM 3/12/00 -0500, Brian Dean wrote: >Hi, > >I am building a release and am getting a failure during the doc phase >due to a port problem, (/usr/ports/www/w3m to be exact). This port is >built during make release, and it builds a program called 'mktable', >which core dumps, causing the wh

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:43 AM 3/11/00 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:45:33PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > > > Hopefully that "yet" will be "never" so one can boot sans keyboard and > > later hook one up if need be. > >For me it

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:19 PM 3/10/00 -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: >Me as well...For at least a decade. I used to do it manually all the >time, but had occasional glitches with funny scan codes and indicator >statuses. With a mid-range priced switch, though, I have had no problems >whatsoever. The only glitches I

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:54 PM 3/10/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >Since you can't safely hot-plug the PC keyboard, that wouldn't be very >smart. The only way to auto-detect the use of a serial console is to >look for a keyboard; if one isn't plugged in, there's no local console, >end of story. Can't safely? Why th

Re: USA_RESIDENT and sysinstall

2000-03-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:23 PM 3/10/00 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I installed a -current snap from internat.freebsd.org that was built > > with crypto source from internat. I answered yes when sysinstall asked > > me if I want the crypto stuff, but then found that it marked me as an > > USA_RESIDENT=YES in

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:06 PM 3/10/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >Note also that the probe-for-keyboard feature is only used on the >installation media; it's not the default for system behaviour (yet). Hopefully that "yet" will be "never" so one can boot sans keyboard and later hook one up if need be. Jeff Mounti

Re: no openssh after build

2000-03-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:35 PM 3/8/00 +, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > > What I did not check is removing RSAref after a buildworld and checking for > > breakage, but that smacks of shooting one's self in the foot. > >That should just r

Re: 4.0-20000308-CURRENT crypto

2000-03-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:26 AM 3/8/00 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> For just ftp (wizard) or on current (usw2) as well? > >These snapshots are only going up on ftp, sorry for the confusion. >The stuff on current is just the daily snapshot stuff and not entirely >equivalent to the URLs I specifically gave out.

Re: 4.0-20000308-CURRENT crypto

2000-03-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 07:39 AM 3/8/00 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I tried an FTP SNAP install this morning, and all the crypto libs from >> current were unavailable. I switched over to the debug console, but there >> was no additional info. The files seem to be on the ftp site just fine. >> Is this a known

Re: no openssh after build

2000-03-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
CC's trimmed... At 07:42 AM 3/8/00 -0500, Jim Bloom wrote: >In either case, the answer is that you do not need to install the rsaref >port before any builds. It is only a runtime dependency now. > >Jim Bloom >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Walter Brameld wrote: >> >> > Do you still need to install the rs

Re: ETA on RC3?

2000-03-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:24 PM 3/3/00 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >I'm just wondering -- when is RC3 expected? ? A lot has happened >since the 2/14 snap.. Try the 2/28 snap, unless another has been made within the day. Doubtful. At lot is still happening, so the 3/10 release will be changed. Jeff Mountin -

Re: tunefs -p doesn't work for read-write mounts

2000-03-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:14 AM 3/3/00 -0800, Devin Butterfield wrote: >Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Shouldn't I be able to show the current tuneables for a given filesystem? >> >> # tunefs -p /usr >> tunefs: cannot work on read-write mounted file system >> >> This is on a recent CURRENT. > >AFAIK,

Re: ssh_host_key?

2000-02-28 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:30 PM 2/28/00 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Chris Timmons wrote: > >> >> I tried starting sshd via the rc.conf infrastructure after another >> buildworld/installworld this morning and still see the: >> >> sshd[166]: fatal: rsa_private_decrypt() failed >> >> error.

post install problems, ssh, vinum, install

2000-02-28 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
Have a few issues... (pardon the laundry list :) Background: Fresh install of RC2 (4.0-2214-CURRENT). Fresh meaning remove slices, create, yada... After install, tweak some minor things while building an SMP kernel, install pdksh and less from ports, and install CVSup. Update source, check

Re: BUILDWORLD Problems

2000-02-25 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:07 AM 2/26/00 +1300, Dan Langille wrote: >On 25 Feb 00, at 22:03, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> One of our two servers will not perform "buildworld"! Well, kernel stuff >> should be on the newest track, I cvsup-dated them both today. >> >> After a short while making dependencies it stops with the

Re: Marathon

2000-02-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 04:33 PM 2/24/00 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > >> So when is this event scheduled to end, so we can go for a test drive? >> >> 57^H^H61 commits to -current and counting... > >The last message to show up in the ser

Marathon

2000-02-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:58 AM 2/25/00 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: >Gimme a break, I'm getting there! :-) So when is this event scheduled to end, so we can go for a test drive? 57^H^H61 commits to -current and counting... Jeff Mountin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve

Re: Problem with IBM Netfinity 5000 Server

2000-02-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:51 PM 2/24/00 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:27:31PM +0800, User URANIA wrote: >> I also set these flags at my /etc/make.conf >> CFLAGS= -mpentiumpro -O6 -pipe -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations >> COPTFLAGS= -mpentiumpro -O6 -pipe -funroll-loops > >-O6 (an

Re: yes, current is broke...

2000-02-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:59 PM 2/24/00 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000224 13:45] wrote: >> I'm guessing this is related to jkh's mention of OpenSSH coming into >> the tree, but I'm posting it anyway. Just in case it helps. my cvsup is >> less then 4 hours old. >> >> ===>

Re: minor nit with 4.0-RC2

2000-02-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:15 PM 2/21/00 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> > Yes, a clean install. >> > No, the sysinstall version of /etc/group did not have the tag. >> >> Ok, that's bad. I'm cc'ing Jordan so he can look into it. Thanks for th >e >> report. These are the little things that really need to be te

Re: minor nit with 4.0-RC2

2000-02-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:37 PM 2/21/00 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Hrrmm... so you did a clean install from floppies, etc. and the installed >version of /etc/group didn't have a $FreeBSD tag? I'm a little confused by >your account. Yes, a clean install. No, the sysinstall version of /etc/group did not have t

minor nit with 4.0-RC2

2000-02-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
Nothing major Finished a build, installed, and mergemaster points out that the $FreeBSD line is missing from the /etc/group binary install. Only a touch irritating. 'Twas the case with RC1 as well, but when I merged the temp and original version it lumped the ID with a comment and the wheel

RE: openssl in -current

2000-02-20 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:17 PM 2/19/00 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >This doesn't help. The RSA source not being there isn't the problem, the >problem is that there are two different binary versions depending on how >you build it (with rsaref or not). Source code builds aren't a problem, >they already work fine, it's

Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2

2000-02-19 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:36 AM 2/18/00 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >I will also say here and now that even I use the Standard installation >since I don't like having to remember all the canonical steps in setting >up a "stock" system and if anybody should remember them, it should be >me - I've probably installed

Re: devices under 4.0

2000-02-19 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:50 PM 2/18/00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: >I recently upgraded from 3.2 to 4.0. I use an ide hard disk, and would >like to know how to change over the devices. I created the new devices >by copying over /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV to a new /dev directory and running >it, but it didn't create an

installworld problem(s)

2000-02-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
CVSup -current as of Wed Feb 16 04:11:01 CST... Figured I'd try a build/install from source before wiping it all for the latest RC: ===> gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc install-info --quiet --defsection="Programming & development tools." --defentry="* As: (as). The GNU assembler." as.info /usr

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:15 PM 2/10/00 -0800, John Polstra wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Jeffrey J. Mountin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> In the context of CVSup server connections it would not be. Have to >> chuckle when I hear someone doing CVSup for ports-all

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:55 PM 2/10/00 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: >:Sounds good, but again how will the CVSup file for ports and CVSup itself >:deal with this. Either a "refuse" file would need to be created and then >:populated or there would need to be other changes. Not sure Mr Wraith or >:the CVS maintainers

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:45 AM 2/10/00 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >:> contain. >: >:Here's what we can do. We keep all the "major" subdirectories in >:place, such as audio, devel, etc. BUT, instead of branching out into >:separate subdirectories, we can just put everything into the >:Makefile. For example, h

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:58 PM 2/9/00 +0100, Kai Voigt wrote: >Hello, > >I'm just doing a cvsup update of my system and -as many times before- I >realize that /usr/ports/ takes a lot of time and also disk space to sync. > ># du -sk /usr/ports >71118 /usr/ports Is that just source or with some distfiles and /work

Re: System crash on "vinum start"

1999-09-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:57 AM 10/1/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >You're not typical. But you *can* grow concatenated plexes. You just >can't expand UFS to use the space. That's not a Vinum issue, but >somebody's working on it. Yes, I realized that and donned a pointy hat. Root (/) and OS specific files are of i

Re: System crash on "vinum start"

1999-09-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:19 AM 10/1/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >This is -CURRENT. Expect work in progress. From the commit log: > >> replaceobject: Add preliminary code. This is not yet complete. >> >> Add keyword 'hotspare'. Yessir. Read -current, track commits, eat my veggies, get a bit of sun every other we

Re: System crash on "vinum start"

1999-09-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:44 AM 10/1/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I was thinking of some `production' code (written by a sister company) >that I used to provide customer support for. It would regularly core >dump (but was automatically restarted). After a few years they did >manage to fix the core dump, but that

Re: System crash on "vinum start"

1999-09-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:59 PM 9/28/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Good software shouldn't panic. >I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(. It can be difficult to consider what a user can do and tends to bloat the code a bit. Frustrates my i

Re: System crash on "vinum start"

1999-09-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:14 PM 9/28/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> And the preferred method is... >> a) /dev/da0 >> b) /dev/da0s1 >> c) /dev/da0s1e >> (-current and -stable I hope :) > >(b) or (c). (a) isn't a slice. Note that it won't take slice c, >either. Thanks for the clarification. Was recalling a past dic

Re: System crash on "vinum start"

1999-09-27 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:41 AM 9/28/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >It has changed (again). And the preferred method is... a) /dev/da0 b) /dev/da0s1 c) /dev/da0s1e (-current and -stable I hope :) >> Not to surprising that it paniced with what appeared to be a >> "dedicated" disk (ie da0e). > >It's surprising. Good s

Re: System crash on "vinum start"

1999-09-27 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:05 PM 9/27/99 -0400, Brad Chisholm wrote: >Well, I believe I discovered the source of my problem. It turns out that >I did not have the correct devices configured in /dev for the component >drives. I had da[0-3]e, but not da[0-3]s1e. The documentation seemed to >indicate that the da?s1?