Re: Chromium Crashes

2012-06-10 Thread Subhro Sankha Kar
Hello, On 10-Jun-2012, at 11:40 AM, The Todds wrote: > Yes this is the latest build (5th June) of Chromium. I suppose I could > revert to the 18.0.1025.168 version using portdowngrade until this > fault is fixed. > > Glenn It looks like the port is lagging back from mainstream. You could also

Re: Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

2012-06-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:46:49 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:25 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > >> On 09/06/12 at 04:41P, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. >>> >>> I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice (from 3.4.4 >>> to 3.5.2.5). During the build

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/06/09 19:30:53 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette" => To Arthur Chance : RFG> Thank you Arthur, and yes, trying to back up a partition that's currently RFG> mounted r/w using dd will almost certainly not produce the desired results. You can make snapshot to back up rw-mounted volume with d

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 10 June 2012 03:30:53 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I don't care to take own my system to make backups... and don't believe > that I should have to do so, and thus, this is one of the reasons why I > would prefer to use something like cpio. > > Also, I don't like backups taking longer tha

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jun 9 21:33:57 2012 > To: Arthur Chance > Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:30:53 -0700 > From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? > > > In message <4fd38b9a.4010...@qeng-ho.

how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
Hi, how to allow by MAC in ipfw currently i set the rule like below 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any 2 deny all from any to any i want to only allow the mac address to go through the freebsd firewall, but I found it is not working on my freebsd but i

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , you wrote: >On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> >> Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and >> this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution >> or to dump/restore, because as I understand it, with either of thes

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:27:25 +0200 Damien Fleuriot articulated: >On 9 Jun 2012, at 18:48, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:42:37PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >>> >>> On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random >>> wrote: >>> Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: (I got the Wrong Impression, I think, because I have read assertions like "...dump backs up at the filesystem block level...". What does that mean exactly? Use of the term "block level" in this context makes me think of something operating along

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
come on , someone help please, On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > currently i set the rule like below > > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any > 2 deny all from any to any > > i want to only allo

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Bill Yuan > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:09:01 +0800 > Message-id: > Bill Yuan wrote: > come on , someone help please, > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > > > currently i set th

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Bill Yuan wrote: > > come on , someone help please, > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > > > > > currently i set the rule like below > > > > > > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC an

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Nomen Nescio
This is really missing the point. The issue is not open source vs. proprietary although many people seem to try to steer everything into that meaningless conflict. The point is the WinTel Mafia's many years of collusion and screwing over the customer. Try to buy a commodity PC in any major store a

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Edward M
On 06/10/2012 08:09 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote: This is really missing the point. The issue is not open source vs. proprietary although many people seem to try to steer everything into that meaningless conflict. The point is the WinTel Mafia's many years of collusion and screwing over the customer.

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On 10/06/2012 16:09, Nomen Nescio wrote: The point is the WinTel Mafia's many years of collusion and screwing over the customer. Try to buy a commodity PC in any major store and it will come with Windows, and you have to pay for it. Does Intel control AMD too? Last I checked there are plenty of

ports: make config-recursive doesn't really

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have installed from ports. I don't want to have to keep checking on it and filling out the appropriate check boxes for options. I naively assumed: for port in $ports do cd /usr/port/$port make config-recursive c

fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when running X? At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the kernel has to grab it before it gets passed on to X. _

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > Does Intel control AMD too? Last I checked there are plenty of AMD machines > in major stores and they come with Windows too. So... attempting to bring reason into the argument? That won't do, I'm afraid. ;-) __

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/10/12 10:47, Gary Aitken wrote: > What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when > running X? > At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now > it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the kernel > has to grab it befo

USB 3.0 delay in 'detecting' attached drive

2012-06-10 Thread Waitman Gobble
Hi, I have a new machine with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I plug a USB 3.0 drive / cable into the USB 3.0 port it takes about 70 seconds for the drive to show up, on the USB 2.0 port it's instantly. I haven't used USB 3.0 with FreeBSD so I'm not sure if this is expected or maybe I ne

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when running X? At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the kernel has to grab it before it

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/10/12 10:47, Gary Aitken wrote: What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when running X? At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/10/12 10:47, Gary Aitken wrote: What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when running X? At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 18, Message: 1 On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:43:39 +0800 Bill Yuan wrote: > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > currently i set the rule like below > > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any > 2 deny all from any to

Re: ports: make config-recursive doesn't really

2012-06-10 Thread Subhro Sankha Kar
You can have a look at port-mgmt/portmaster. Thanks Subhro -- Subhro Sankha Kar System Administrator Working and Playing with FreeBSD since 2002 On 10-Jun-2012, at 10:07 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: > I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have > installed from ports. I d

nanobsd on usb-stick

2012-06-10 Thread Reinhard Haller
Hi, I'm struggling with nanobsd (9.0). Tried with cd-rom (error 19). The USB-Config (UsbDevice Generic 8000) with NANO_DRIVE=da0 contains no real image and dd if=...disk.full of=/dev/da0 bs=64k woks but is not mountable after writing. Is there any current and complete documentation how to use an

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Too much hot air & preaching to the choir is counter productive & would die away after internal argument. Better be active Externaly. Defend our future by alerting governments there is an upcoming issue. (eg EU has mega fined MS before for monopoly abuse, EU etc could warn off MS if we alert gover

[solved] Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
ah... Thanks both Warren and Lars >>> What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when >>> running X? >>> At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and >>> now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the >>> kernel has to grab

Firefox Script Problems

2012-06-10 Thread sean
Hello All, I just upgraded Firefox to the latest available in ports. Since this upgrade Firefox is near unresponsive. Messages keep popping up about unresponsive script errors on the page being viewed. Would anyone have any ideas on how to best approach this problem to find the fix?

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-06-10 19:02, Gary Aitken skrev: On 06/10/12 10:47, Gary Aitken wrote: What's the trick to allowfn to still be used to switch vtys when running X? At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey articulated: >Too much hot air & preaching to the choir is counter productive >& would die away after internal argument. Better be active Externaly. >Defend our future by alerting governments there is an upcoming issue. >(eg EU has mega fined MS

xfce 4.10 update problems

2012-06-10 Thread jb
Hi, after portmaster update: - there are missing icons in main menu and that of Terminal - startx fails when moused enabled (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy. (EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "PS/2 Mouse" (EE) config/hal: N

Re: USB 3.0 delay in 'detecting' attached drive

2012-06-10 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Waitman Gobble wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a new machine with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I > plug > > a USB 3.0 drive / cable into the USB 3.0 port it takes about 70 seconds > for > > the drive to show up, on the USB 2.0

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Warren Block wrote: >On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> 1) In your example under the heading "Copying Filesystems", the second >> shell command line shown is: >> >> dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt && restore -ruf -) >> >> Is that correct? Shouldn'

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Warren? Just a couple more quick questions. You recommend: >> dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt && restore -ruf -) I'm real curious about you suggestions for the -C and -b values. I have what amounts to a personal workstation. Yea, OK, it is running mail, web, and FTP servers

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message , Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: 1) In your example under the heading "Copying Filesystems", the second shell command line shown is: dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt && restore

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: What I don't understand (and what I wish someone would enlighten me about) is just this: It would seem that in order to implement these dump levels, dump must be keeping a record somewhere, for each file in the filesystem, of the level at whic

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Robert Bonomi
"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > Warren Block wrote: > >On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > >> ... I mean if I do the pipeline from dump > >> to restore as you have shown in your examples in your "Copying Filesystems" > >> section, then what must I do in order prevent dump from du

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jerry wrote > It is posts like this that basically turn my stomach Never argue with a drunk. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, m

Re: USB 3.0 delay in 'detecting' attached drive

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a new machine with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I > > plug > > > a USB 3.0 drive / cable into the USB 3.0 port it takes about 70 seconds > > for >

Re: xfce 4.10 update problems

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, jb wrote: Hi, after portmaster update: - there are missing icons in main menu and that of Terminal - startx fails when moused enabled (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy. (EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit returned NULL f

Chromium 19 core dumps on launch...

2012-06-10 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Friday I installed Chromium again because it would be nice to have a browser to test in other than Firefox and Opera. It was installed using portinstall -R chromium, which *appeared* to function properly. However, trying to run chrome results in: pid 50993 (chrome), uid 1001: exited on signal 11

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Robert Huff
Ronald F. Guilmette writes: > Warren? Just a couple more quick questions. You recommend: > > >> dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt && restore -ruf -) > > I'm real curious about you suggestions for the -C and -b values. > > I have what amounts to a personal workstation.

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette writes: Warren? Just a couple more quick questions. You recommend: >> dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt && restore -ruf -) I'm real curious about you suggestions for the -C and -b values. I have what amounts to

Re: USB 3.0 delay in 'detecting' attached drive

2012-06-10 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Waitman Gobble wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Julian H. Stacey > wrote: > > > > > Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a new machine with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I > > > plug > > > > a U

Re: xfce 4.10 update problems

2012-06-10 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, jb wrote: > > Hi, >> after portmaster update: >> - there are missing icons in main menu and that of Terminal >> - startx fails when moused enabled >> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 >>Device bus

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:17:10 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: > But you almost certainly want it loaded automatically (as in the fvwm2 > example above), but how to do this in your particular window manager you > will have to discover from the documentation of your window manger. It's easy loading

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
Hi Lan, Thanks for your reply, I am reading some old emails which you sent in 2008 while other place asked a same question as mine, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 18, Message: 1 > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:43:39 +0800 Bill Yuan wro

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
forget to po the link here http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177636.html On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bill Yuan wrote: > Hi Lan, > > Thanks for your reply, I am reading some old emails which you sent in 2008 > while other place asked a same question as mine, >

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Brian W.
I would ask what problem do you want to solve here; is it preventing a userjust from getting out unless they are using their assigned address, or something else? On Jun 10, 2012 8:16 PM, "Bill Yuan" wrote: > Hi Lan, > > Thanks for your reply, I am reading some old emails which you sent in 2008 >

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
Hi Brian, Thanks for your care, Execute me for my English is not that good , I am from Singapore :) I want to create a white list MAC address, Only the machine which it's MAC in the white list will be allowed, all others will be blocked. Thanks On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Brian W. wro

Re: Firefox Script Problems

2012-06-10 Thread Subhro Sankha Kar
Hello Sean, Can you run FF from a terminal and report back what you see? Thanks -- Subhro Sankha Kar System Administrator Working and Playing with FreeBSD since 2002 On 11-Jun-2012, at 1:44 AM, sean wrote: > Hello All, > >I just upgraded Firefox to the latest available in ports. > Since th

Version Selection

2012-06-10 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a number of servers that I am about to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.0. The processors all have the ability to run i386 or amd64. The machines all have 2 GB memory which is more than adequate for their intended use. Some of these are replacing very old equipment that is being retired and did no

possbility of a port for older versions of libintl?

2012-06-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, I recently discovered that the vmware-tools package is compiled against libintl.so.8 -- yes, this is probably something that should be fixed at the vmware level, but VMware's love for FreeBSD isn't there. As a workaround, it might be useful to have a port which compiles an older v