Re: compat/linux program claims "no write access to ~"

2008-10-07 Thread Boris Samorodov
"Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds like a bogus error to me. I just downgraded amd64 to i386, > reinstalled a linux program and it claims it can't write to ~ now. > I'm running it, and I have no reason to think it wouldn't run as me. > ~ is 775 anyway. Also, running the linux pr

BSD mag

2008-10-07 Thread Karolina Lesińska
Dear Craig, Thanks for your interest in BSD mag and sorry for all inconviniences. I have checked your subscription status. You have subscribed on September 18th, and the issues were sent on September 22nd. You should have the mags any day now. Let me know in case you do not have them till Frid

update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

2008-10-07 Thread Edwin Groothuis
> $ freebsd-update fetch > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. I've heard this before and it is caused by resolvers (most likely your router?) which don't understand requests for SRV records. Use your ISPs nameservers i

Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

2008-10-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, 2008/10/7 Edwin Groothuis: >> $ freebsd-update fetch >> Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... >> failed. >> No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > I've heard this before and it is caused by resolvers (most likely > your router?) which don't understand requests f

Re: BSD mag

2008-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:25 +0200, Karolina Lesińska wrote: > Dear Craig, > > Thanks for your interest in BSD mag and sorry for all inconviniences. > > I have checked your subscription status. You have subscribed on September > 18th, and the issues were sent on September 22nd. > > You should

Re: kernel profiling: spinlock_exit consumes 36% CPU time.

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 07:44:00PM +0800, wrote: > Hi, folks, > > I did kernel profiling when a single thread client sends UDP packets to a > single thread server on the same machine. > > In the output kernel profile, the first few kernel functions that consumes > the most CPU time are lis

Re: Running cron jobs as nobody

2008-10-07 Thread DAve
Mel wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2008 17:11:52 DAve wrote: Good morning all, We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it seems to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody. I noticed two things, 1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the

Re: Unable install FreeBSD7 on IBM BladeCenter HS21

2008-10-07 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Vitaliy Vladimirovich wrote: Hello! I have problem in installation FreeBSD on the blade. After the beginning of copying of files there is an error: /: write failed, filesystem is full Disk In what problem? df -h Perhaps your / is too small. Try repartitioning or strip somethi

thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread John Almberg
The following permissions problem has me stumped: 1. User A uploads a file (using ftp) to the server, into a directory called 'data' owned by user B. Permissions on directory set to allow this, like this: drwxrwxr-x 2 user_b user_b 512 Oct 7 08:40 data 2. A cron job, run by user

Re: Re[2]: Unable install FreeBSD7 on IBM BladeCenter HS21

2008-10-07 Thread Valentin Bud
2008/10/7 Vitaliy Vladimirovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- Original Message --- > From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: 7 october, 15:47:48 > Subject: Re: Unable install FreeBSD7 on IBM BladeCenter HS21 > > Vitaliy Vladimirovich wrote: > > Hel

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-07 Thread kenneth hatteland
The first 2 issues have covered topics from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and actually a short one on MAC. In addition PCBSD is quite heavily featured. As far as I know this leaves only Dragonfly and DesktopBSD out for now in addition to Monowall, FreeNAS and FreeSBIE and others I do not know. Mayb

Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:54:36AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > The following permissions problem has me stumped: > > 1. User A uploads a file (using ftp) to the server, into a directory > called 'data' owned by user B. Permissions on directory set to allow > this, like this: > drwxrwxr-x

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel ICH-9 chipset, and a > 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo (E8400). The coretemp sysctls seem to always show > 50C as the baseline temperature: > > $ sysctl dev.cpu | grep temp > dev.cpu.0.temperature

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel ICH-9 chipset, and a > > 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo (E8400). The coretemp sysctls seem to always show > > 50C as the baseline

Re: kernel profiling: spinlock_exit consumes 36% CPU time.

2008-10-07 Thread Julian Elischer
邱剑 wrote: > Hi, folks, [...] spinlocks disable interrupts so the profiling interrupt is held off from the moment that the spinlock is entered to the moment it is exited, and all of that time is attributed to spinlock_exit(). so that this tells you that 3% of your time is spent under spinlocks whi

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:14 AM, kenneth hatteland < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first 2 issues have covered topics from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and > actually a short one on MAC. In addition PCBSD is quite heavily featured. > > As far as I know this leaves only Dragonfly and DesktopBSD out fo

Re: Touch screen ET&T on Clevo tn120r

2008-10-07 Thread Sdävtaker
Thanks, here is the usb data: usbdevs -dv Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x), rev 1.00 uhub0 port 1 powered port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb1: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x),

Re: kernel profiling: spinlock_exit consumes 36% CPU time.

2008-10-07 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 07:44:00 am 邱剑 wrote: > Hi, folks, > > I did kernel profiling when a single thread client sends UDP packets to a > single thread server on the same machine. > > In the output kernel profile, the first few kernel functions that consumes > the most CPU time are listed b

Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello mr. John, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:54 PM, John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following permissions problem has me stumped: > > 1. User A uploads a file (using ftp) to the server, into a directory called > 'data' owned by user B. Permissions on directory set to allow this, like >

Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Hooks
>> 4. however, after upload, the file has the ownership A:B (i.e, owned by A, group B) with permissions -rw-r--r--. So B does not have permission to delete the file. -rw-r--r-- 1 user_a user_b 154879 Oct 7 08:40 data_file.csv Hi John. Correct me if I am wrong but permission to delete a fil

Re: TRUE realtime priority

2008-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
quantum to 2 from 10 and for now - no voice chopping under high load. but i will test it more. What version of FreeBSD are you using for this? Yes, it matters. 7.0 please give me few days to make more precise reports from my users and me being on place today (not just testing this t

detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate?

2008-10-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've a monitor (Mobi M15MPC) with no docs. I've searched the net but cannot find any info on sync and refresh rate for it. I've done Xorg -configure, but testing with X -config xorg.conf.new shows screen shifted to the side and very nasty blinking, from which I deduced that perhaps I need to speci

Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

2008-10-07 Thread James Seward
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Marc Coyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely > fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it > always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong? Things start

kernel profiling: spinlock_exit consumes 36% CPU time.

2008-10-07 Thread 邱剑
Hi, folks, I did kernel profiling when a single thread client sends UDP packets to a single thread server on the same machine. In the output kernel profile, the first few kernel functions that consumes the most CPU time are listed below: granularity: each sample hit covers 16 byte(s) for 0.01

dd piperd

2008-10-07 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Sziasztok, Ilyet látok top-ban: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11475 gandalf 1 -8 0 4600K 864K piperd 5 21:41 8.06% cat 11472 gandalf 1 -8 0 4604K 876K piperd 3 21:30 8.06% dd Tehát összesen 16% procit zabál valami, amiről nem tudom hogy mi! ps ezt mondja: 100

Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread John Almberg
On Oct 7, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Jeremy Hooks wrote: 4. however, after upload, the file has the ownership A:B (i.e, owned by A, group B) with permissions -rw-r--r--. So B does not have permission to delete the file. -rw-r--r-- 1 user_a user_b 154879 Oct 7 08:40 data_file.csv Hi John. Co

Re[2]: Unable install FreeBSD7 on IBM BladeCenter HS21

2008-10-07 Thread Vitaliy Vladimirovich
--- Original Message --- From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: 7 october, 15:47:48 Subject: Re: Unable install FreeBSD7 on IBM BladeCenter HS21 Vitaliy Vladimirovich wrote: > Hello! > I have problem in installation FreeBSD on the

Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:23:53AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > > On Oct 7, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Jeremy Hooks wrote: > 4. however, after upload, the file has the ownership A:B (i.e, owned by >> A, group B) with permissions -rw-r--r--. So B does not have permission >> to >> delete the file

Consistency of MySQL dumps...

2008-10-07 Thread Marc Coyles
Here's one that's puzzling me... If I use /usr/local/bin/mysqldump to make a backup of a database, the file it produces fails to restore with "Check syntax near..." error. If I then head into cPanel, to their "Backup" menu, and take a backup of the database from there, the file it produces also

Re: TRUE realtime priority

2008-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, basically you are the only one who can answer that. And that's not a paradox or an attempt at humor. You should investigate. Maybe interrupts aren't processed fast enough (hardware sharing an interrupt?), or memory or kernel resources are low. well last night i tested it with SCHED_4BSD in

Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:20:32AM +0100, Marc Coyles wrote: > I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely > fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it > always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong? mysqldump is in /usr/lo

Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:55:24 +1100 Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ freebsd-update fetch > > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from > > update.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > I've heard this before and it is caused by resolvers (most likely > y

Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

2008-10-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-10-06 10:39:42 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am not sure why but whenever I do: > > $ freebsd-update fetch > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > but if type: > $ portsnap fet

RE: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-07 Thread joeb
Yea I would say your burn of the .iso file to your cd did not work. Mount the cd and see if it contains a directory tree of Freebsd install files or mp3 files. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 7:

Re: sleep is not working to avoid starvation among threads of same priority

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:34:41PM +0530, Rajeshwar Patil wrote: > I have two threads of same priority lets say thread A and thread B, > thread A is starving since thread B has got a for loop of size 100k. > So, to avoid starvation I am processing 1000 iterations of for > loop(that of thread B) in

Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread John Almberg
Well, thanks to Valintin, I did figure out how to change the umask for pure-ftpd. So now uploaded files have the permissions I wanted, even if they are not needed. Be careful with what you've done. If you changed the umask on the ftpd as a whole, then suddenly unrelated users are going to

Re: TRUE realtime priority

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Well, basically you are the only one who can answer that. And that's not >> a paradox or an attempt at humor. You should investigate. Maybe >> interrupts aren't processed fast enough (hardware sharing an >> interrupt?), or memory o

Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

2008-10-07 Thread Marc Coyles
I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong? Script as follows: #!/bin/sh USER= PASS= mysqldump --opt -h localhost -u $USER -p$PASS h

sleep is not working to avoid starvation among threads of same priority

2008-10-07 Thread Rajeshwar Patil
Hi, I have two threads of same priority lets say thread A and thread B, thread A is starving since thread B has got a for loop of size 100k. So, to avoid starvation I am processing 1000 iterations of for loop(that of thread B) in one batch and giving sleep of 1ms, but still thread A is starving

Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

2008-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:20 +0100, Marc Coyles wrote: > I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely > fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it > always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong? > > Script as follows: > > #!

Re: TRUE realtime priority

2008-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for example when lots of spam comes to server and lots of resource hungry spamassassin processes are spawned our calls starts to be crappy. And that's why I always have isolated my telephony servers from normal-ISP tasks: They provide real-time tasks and should be running in memory only. i know

sleep is not working to avoid starvation among threads of same priority

2008-10-07 Thread Rajeshwar Patil
Hi, I have two threads of same priority lets say thread A and thread B, thread A is starving since thread B has got a for loop of size 100k. So, to avoid starvation I am processing 1000 iterations of for loop(that of thread B) in one batch and giving sleep of 1ms, but still thread A is starving

Unable install FreeBSD7 on IBM BladeCenter HS21

2008-10-07 Thread Vitaliy Vladimirovich
Hello!  I have problem in installation FreeBSD on the blade. After the beginning of copying of files there is an error:   /: write failed, filesystem is full Disk In what problem? TIA. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Consistency of MySQL dumps...

2008-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Marc Coyles wrote: | Here's one that's puzzling me... | | If I use /usr/local/bin/mysqldump to make a backup of a database, the | file it produces fails to restore with "Check syntax near..." error. | | If I then head into cPanel, to their "B

any idea why kde4 konqueor fails?

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
Well, I've finally gotten Konq to exec, but something causes it to hang instantly whenever I click on an external link. The wristwatch icon shows up with the hang. Any idea what I'm missing? tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
Here's what I get con my knosole: p8 1:20 [5112] konqueror konqueror: WARNING: Can't open /usr/home/kline/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype not found kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype not found p8 9

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:13:33 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's what I get con my knosole: > > > p8 1:20 [5112] konqueror > konqueror: WARNING: Can't > open /usr/home/kline/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml kio > (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:28:32AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > > > I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel ICH-9 chipset, and a > > > 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Frank Shute wrote: $ sysctl dev.cpu | grep freq dev.cpu.0.freq: 250 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2333/22464 2041/19656 2000/22464 1750/19656 1500/16848 1250/14040 1000/11232 750/8424 500/5616 250/2808 For some reason, versions of FreeBSD after 7.0-RELEASE think I have

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:33:15PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:28:32AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > > > > > I have a Gigabyte

Re: kgdb debugging

2008-10-07 Thread alan yang
Could people shed some light how to get remote debugging going, must be something that i overlooked, really appreciate. Two FreeBSD7 systems, target and development, connected with null modem cable on each's COM1. step 1) - rebuild kernel with following options: options

Re: kgdb debugging

2008-10-07 Thread Julian Elischer
alan yang wrote: Could people shed some light how to get remote debugging going, must be something that i overlooked, really appreciate. Two FreeBSD7 systems, target and development, connected with null modem cable on each's COM1. step 1) - rebuild kernel with following options:

Re: kgdb debugging

2008-10-07 Thread Navdeep Parhar
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM, alan yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could people shed some light how to get remote debugging going, must > be something that i overlooked, really appreciate. > Do you have the right flags for sio or uart in /boot/device.hints? I have this (for a recent HEAD)::

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:01:15PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:13:33 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here's what I get con my knosole: > > > > > > p8 1:20 [5112] konqueror > > konqueror: WARNING: Can't > > open /usr/home/kline/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/book

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread Matt
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:01:15PM +0100, RW wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:13:33 -0700 >> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> > Here's what I get con my knosole: >> > >> > >> > p8 1:20 [5112] konqueror >> > konq

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:01:15PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:13:33 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here's what I get con my knosole: > > > > > > p8 1:20 [5112] konqueror > > konqueror: WARNING: Can't > > open /usr/home/kline/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/book

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: It would help if we could see some of his sysctl date, specifically these: debug.cpufreq.* dev.cpufreq.[0-9].* dev.cpu.[0-9].freq dev.cpu.[0-9].freq_levels $ sysctl debug.cpufreq debug.cpufreq.verbose: 0 debug.cpufreq.lowest: 0 $ sysctl dev

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:43:05PM -0500, Matt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:01:15PM +0100, RW wrote: > >> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:13:33 -0700 > >> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > Here's what I ge

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:17:37 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is getting stranger and stranger. I did a pkg_delete -f > kde, but/ > p8 13:08 [5146] which konqueror > /usr/local/bin/konqueror That's normal, the kde3 port is j

Re: detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate?

2008-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've a monitor (Mobi M15MPC) with no docs. > I've searched the net but cannot find any info on sync and refresh rate for > it. > I've done Xorg -configure, but testing with X -config xorg.conf.new > shows screen shifted to the side and very nasty b

Can't get soundcard to work

2008-10-07 Thread Aniruddha
I've read the "Setting Up the Sound Card" part in the FreeBSD handbook unfortunately I can't get my Intel HDA card to work. Any ideas would be appreciated! Here's some relevant output: sndstat: > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) > Installed devices: > pcm0: at memory 0xff9ec00

Sound troubles with high res modes in console

2008-10-07 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, everybody! The system is ASUS "A3500L", old laptop on Intel Montara platform, running 7.1-PRERELEASE I have one trouble while listening music with console players. Sound became crippled when I have output to STDOUT or whenever I use text-scrolling in editors or switching between consol

Strange memory/cpu behavior

2008-10-07 Thread Yuri
I have STABLE-71 machine with 2GB memory and single 2GHz AMD3200 CPU. There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB to 1300MB, not reading or writing any files. There are many dormant processes almost not running at all. Swap size remains constant (185MB). Total physical

how to break portsnap

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Franks
I've googled high & low but I cannot find much other that "this cannot happen" replies. I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386. The amd64 hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march. The i386 I just installed, and it portsnap's fine, so it's not a firewall or related issue. I've chec

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-07 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:39:20AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I work remotely with a company that is across the international date > line from me and I can do the math in my head but want to know if it is > possible to add a clock to my xfce panel that shows the time their (and > keep the

Strange Core Dump Error Message on a FreeBSD6.3 System

2008-10-07 Thread Martin McCormick
I am running some C code I wrote on a couple of FreeBSD6.3 systems, one of which has never exhibited this message and the other has now done it twice in about 6 months. The error is as follows: mem.c:877: INSIST(ctx->stats[i].gets == 0U) failed. Abort trap (core dumped) Something

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:33:02PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:17:37 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > This is getting stranger and stranger. I did a pkg_delete -f > > kde, but/ > > p8 13:08 [5146] which konqueror > >

Re: how to break portsnap

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:56:37 -0700 "Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've googled high & low but I cannot find much other that "this cannot > happen" replies. I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386. The amd64 > hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march. The i386 I > just i

gimp: all output plugins crash

2008-10-07 Thread Yuri
Every time I am trying to save some image all input plugins crash with the message like this: /usr/local/libexec/gimp/2.2/plug-ins/jpeg: fatal error: Segmentation fault: 11 I use gimp-2.4.7,2. I reported the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (listed as maintainer) but got no response. How can I

Re: Can't get soundcard to work

2008-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've read the "Setting Up the Sound Card" part in the FreeBSD handbook > unfortunately I can't get my Intel HDA card to work. Any ideas would be > appreciated! Here's some relevant output: > > sndstat: >> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)

Re: how to break portsnap

2008-10-07 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've googled high & low but I cannot find much other that "this cannot > happen" replies. I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386. The amd64 > hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march. The i386 I > just instal

Re: Help With [seemingly] Simple Problem

2008-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Xenophan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alright, this is one of those moments when a normal person is forced to > become terminal typing freak (sorry guys =)) against their will... > > I have a FreeBSD7 server box in my garage that serves the computers on my > network with files. It has been a gods

Re: gimp: all output plugins crash

2008-10-07 Thread Albert Shih
Le 07/10/2008 à 14:35:11-0700, Yuri a écrit > Every time I am trying to save some image all input plugins crash with > the message like this: > /usr/local/libexec/gimp/2.2/plug-ins/jpeg: fatal error: Segmentation > fault: 11 > > I use gimp-2.4.7,2. > > I reported the problem to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: how to break portsnap

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Franks
Aagh! I thought the snapshot was the thing being downloaded! Here I was double-checking my key and the like. I sort of would've expected the process to include overwriting everything local with the new stuff. My mistake, obviously. Sometimes one does need the obvious pointed out to them, th

how to connect kde4 to my mail server...??

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
I didn't set up my LAN and the guy who did, didn't explain enough to help me get too far with things-kde3 in /usr/local/bin to everything-kde4 in /usr/local/kde4/bin/* I just got kde4 kmail set up, but it does not see mail on my mail server:: aristotle.thou

Mathematica fonts (fbsd 7.0, mma 6.03)

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Winkel
Hi, has anyone tried this combination? It seems to have problems dealing with fonts created under mac and windows mathematica. Thanks, Rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: Strange memory/cpu behavior

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 01:54:13PM -0700, Yuri wrote: > I have STABLE-71 machine with 2GB memory and single 2GHz AMD3200 CPU. > > There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB to > 1300MB, not reading or writing any files. > There are many dormant processes almost not runn

Re: Strange Core Dump Error Message on a FreeBSD6.3 System

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:15:24PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am running some C code I wrote on a couple of > FreeBSD6.3 systems, one of which has never exhibited this > message and the other has now done it twice in about 6 months. > The error is as follows: > > mem.c:877: INSIST(ct

adding a slice to gmirror instead of a whole disk, will it work?

2008-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
Hi Guys Will adding a slice to a gmirror instead of a whole disk work? The slice is big enough to accommodate the old disk. Thanks Craig B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Walt Pawley
>On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >... >I remounted the heatsink (side note: curse you, Intel - was that meant >to be funny?), and didn't apply a single bit of paste other than what >came on it. FWIW: one needs to be careful with the application of heat sink "paste" if one doesn

Re: Strange memory/cpu behavior

2008-10-07 Thread Yuri
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Regarding the "memory bloat", what field in top(1) are you basing this on? For the total CPU usage I used CPU: 100.0% user Active... all others were zeros. For the process CPU I looked at WCPU. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: something wrong with freebsd-current maillist?

2008-10-07 Thread Soeren Todt
Hi, I unsubscribed - and am back again. Another try to unsubscribe does not work. Cant log in on the Webtool, do not get an answer via mail. Whats going on? Regards sworn - Original Message - From: "Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[

question about "sound-juicer"

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, There's a very useful audio app called "sound-juicer"; I have it installed but whenever I try to use it, a popup warns: "Could not read the CD\n Sound juicer could not access the CD-ROM Device '1,1,0' Reason: No such file or directory" I've got two CD/DVD optical drives; both are correct

Re: Strange memory/cpu behavior

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:43:09PM -0700, Yuri wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Regarding the "memory bloat", what field in top(1) are you basing this >> on? >> > > For the total CPU usage I used > CPU: 100.0% user Active... all others were zeros. > For the process CPU I looked at WCPU. I'm a

Re: Strange memory/cpu behavior

2008-10-07 Thread Yuri
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'm a little confused. I was mainly referring to your statement: "There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB to 1300MB, not reading or writing any files." What field in top(1) were you looking at to determine this kind of growth? Sorry, I

Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

2008-10-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely > > fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it > > always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong? > > Things started from cron inherit a different PATH. Either add the > approp

Re: VNC server embedded into Xorg server

2008-10-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Sorry for jumping in the middle of the thread. > There was a port called net/vnc that contained a vnc.so file. That file > could be loaded into the Xorg server and then I was able to monitor the > X desktop with VNC. > > Now I'm using gnome, and gnome2-fifth-toe installs tightvnc. It > confl

Re: Strange memory/cpu behavior

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:10:07PM -0700, Yuri wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> I'm a little confused. I was mainly referring to your statement: >> >> "There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB >> to 1300MB, not reading or writing any files." >> >> What field in top(1

sysinstall

2008-10-07 Thread fire jotawski
hi sirs, apologize me for disturbing the list but i really have problem with adding packages using sysinstall. i start my day with sysinstall configPackages and ending with loop at media selection site. i can not go out from that menu. i do not know what wrong i had done. my box is 7.0-RELEAS

Re: Can't get soundcard to work

2008-10-07 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:39 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've read the "Setting Up the Sound Card" part in the FreeBSD handbook > > unfortunately I can't get my Intel HDA card to work. Any ideas would be > > appreciated! Here's some relevant output: .

bash script on FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Kalpin Erlangga Silaen
Dear all, I am going to extract field username and UID from /etc/passwd and passed into some scripts. Let say I got line admin 100 admin2 200 admin3 300 admin4 400 and then I want to echoing into screen: admin has uid 100 admin2 has uid 200 admin3 has uid 300 admin4 has uid 400 How do I make t

mysql binlogs and their expiry times

2008-10-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, I hope someone can help. Due to they way my HD has been sliced I had to move mysql database to /usr/local/mysql. All works fine. Last week I added this entry #expire bin logs expire_logs_days = 7 to /usr/local/mysql/my.cnf I restarted the MySQL server and now I have been waiting for t

RE: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 236, Issue 8: 9. Re: detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate? (Lowell Gilbert)

2008-10-07 Thread Desmond Chapman
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 236, Issue 8 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 00:14:41 + > > Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World

KDE 4 Cannot run as regular user

2008-10-07 Thread Tom Stuart
Hello, I just installed KDE4 via ports and am getting errors upon attempting to start as a "regular" user. When I run startkde as root it works fine but I don't want to use root on this machine. Error Generated when started as a regular user $ startx /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so

Re: mysql binlogs and their expiry times

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:48:47AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hi there, > > I hope someone can help. Due to they way my HD has been sliced I had > to move mysql database to /usr/local/mysql. All works fine. Last week > I added this entry > > #expire bin logs > expire_logs_days = 7 > > to /

Re: analyzing freebsd core dumps

2008-10-07 Thread Mister Olli
hi... thanks for the feedback on this topic. the first step to clean the machine and check all connectors has been done yesterday. I hope that this will fix the problem, and that it's not some kind of hardware failure. to run tests with memtest is quite a problem, since the machine has high avail