Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

Hi Andreas, do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is a rolling procedure? I ask this because I could not find a parameter etc. in the man page which may influent this, e.g. to lim

Re: Texlive

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:44:54PM +0100, Belgacem Jellali wrote: > Salut > J'aime beaucoup FreeBSD, mais je ne peux pas l'utiliser au quotidien car > j'ai besoin de TexLive2012 et les ports FreeBSD ne le fournissent pas. > Y-a-t'il un moyen pour installer TexLive2012? si oui, je ne supprimerai > j

Re: Mounting SD card.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:25:28 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 16/11/2012 02:25, Warren Block wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: > > > >> Is there a recommended way to automate the "GEOM re-tasting" so > >> SD cards can be accessed without further interaction (by simply > >> using the

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I think that I have only two final questions: 1) I can't remember now if the ``guided'' partitioning approach that is offered to folks who are installing FreeBSD 9.x itself offers a "GPT" option or not. Does it? (If not, and if MBR is really no

Re: Mounting SD card.

On 16/11/2012 02:25, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: Is there a recommended way to automate the "GEOM re-tasting" so SD cards can be accessed without further interaction (by simply using the correct mount command)? Not AFAIK. Could depend on hardware also; some car

How close is 9.1 to release?

Have begun getting warnings from freebsd-update that 9.0 is close to its EOL, but the successor release (9.1) is not even out yet... which means that there's no way to gauge its stability or quality by watching for reported problems. How's 9.1-RELEASE coming? Any showstoppers? --Brett Glass __

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

On 15 November 2012, at 17:04, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Andreas" == Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> writes: > > Andreas> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 > Andreas> Matthias Petermann wrote: > >>> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to >>> upgrade >

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

NEVERMIND! It took me awhile, but I think I've finally got the hang of this gpart/GPT stuff... well... mostly anyway (but see below). I understand now that /boot/mbr is a "regular" sort of MBR, with regular sort of MBR bootstrap code, whereas /boot/pbmr is the ``protected'' MBR record that says

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

> "Andreas" == Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> writes: Andreas> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Andreas> Matthias Petermann wrote: >> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to >> upgrade >> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Andreas>

eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

Okay. I have my doubts that anyone will be able to answer this question but I'm going to try anyway. I have an ExoPC Slate tablet with FreeBSD 9.0 freshly installed on it, and it has the following touch screen device: ugen0.2: at usbus0 ums0: on usbus0 tablet# usbconfig -u 0 -a 2 dump_device_

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

(This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew what I was doing, but...) OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew from the manpage examples, and then followed those up with two commands from your tutorial. /sbin/gpart create -s GPT ada0#

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Matthias Petermann wrote: > Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade > from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Yes, it is. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Finger

Re: Texlive

15.11.2012, 23:45, "Belgacem Jellali" : > Salut > J'aime beaucoup FreeBSD, mais je ne peux pas l'utiliser au quotidien car > j'ai besoin de TexLive2012 et les ports FreeBSD ne le fournissent pas. > Y-a-t'il un moyen pour installer TexLive2012? si oui, je ne supprimerai > jamais  FreeBSD pour inst

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

On 15 November 2012, at 14:46, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:35:52 -0800 > Michael Sierchio wrote: > >> http://www.freebsd.org/security/ >> >> Scroll down about halfway. 9.0 is a regular release, EOL is January 31, >> 2013. >> >> Alternate releases are extended

Re: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Plant wrote: I looked over the GPT sample and have a question. In the fstab entries, something that uses msdosfs, (thumb drive maybe). Can you enter it directly in the fstab after the basic partitions and other /dev have been entered in the initial setup? Short answe

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

Warren, In the EXAMPLES section of the gpart(8) man page, they do this: /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ad0 In your document however, you first create an explicit (special) partition named "gpboot" and then you do this instead: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Trying to rebuild ports, I'm consistently getting the following: ahcich1 Timeout on slot 13 port 0 ^ slot varies g_vfs_done() ada0p6 [WRITE(offset=38838571008 length=4096)]error=6 That seems familiar, maybe others have rep

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message , Warren Block wrote: >> It wouldn't hurt to add the above info to your tutorial page. > >The problem with that sort of detail is that too much of it obscures the >point, which in this case is just trying to show the right way to set up >disks without overwhelming the reader. Som

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

Hi, On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:35:52 -0800 Michael Sierchio wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/security/ > > Scroll down about halfway. 9.0 is a regular release, EOL is January 31, 2013. > > Alternate releases are extended releases, so 9.1 will have a 2 year > support span. Thanks for the clearific

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message , Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In your tutorial document, you say: "Create a boot partition to hold the loader, size of 512K." How big is that thing (gpart boot loader), actually? Half a

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello, > > from a freshly installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I did a freebsd-update to > bring > it to the latest patch level. > > After: > > # freebsd-update fetch > > I got this message: > > WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is a

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Matthias Petermann wrote: > > > Where can I find more information on the planned lifecycles of the current > and upcoming releases? Are there any? > http://www.freebsd.org/security/ Scroll down about halfway. 9.0 is a regular release, EOL is January 31, 2013. A

WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

Hello, from a freshly installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I did a freebsd-update to bring it to the latest patch level. After: # freebsd-update fetch I got this message: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgr

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message , Warren Block wrote: >On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> Well, given that newfs has been ``fixed'' so that its defaults will >> Do The Right Thing with the latest generation of (4KB block) disks, >> I for one would like to register my vote for fdisk and bsdlabel to >

Re: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?

Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know... taking it out on the road for a first time test run... that I can just do the first five (

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message , Warren Block wrote: >On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> In your tutorial document, you say: >> >> "Create a boot partition to hold the loader, size of 512K." >> >> How big is that thing (gpart boot loader), actually? Half a megabyte >> seems rather a bit large-

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message <50a4f2c8.5040...@qeng-ho.org>, Arthur Chance wrote: >On 11/15/12 12:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >>> -b is the beginning block of a partition. 34 is a magic value, the size >>> of a standard GPT partition table. >> >> It probably wouldn't have hurt anything to mention that in the

ale0: could not disable Tx/Rx MAC(0x00000004)!

Hello, I got the following problem today: <<6>6>nneewwnnffss sseerrvveerr 119922..116688..00..225544:://hhoommee//mmaaggee:: nnoto t rreespsopnonddiinngg newnfs server 192.168.0.254:/home/mage: not responding ale0: could not disable Tx/Rx MAC(0x0004)! ale0: link state changed to DOWN a

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:30:43 -0600 Adam Vande More wrote: > Sounds like you have bad hardware. Drive, cable, controller etc. > Probably wouldn't hurt to do a fsck either. *After* identifying and fixing the hardware problem, otherwise you may make things worse. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith _

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: > Error 6 is ENXIO, device not configured; not sure exactly what that means. > > This machine has: > 16G mem >0.5G swap >2G /tmp >4G /var > Is any of that likely to be related to the problem? > > Given an addr in the failure e

9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

Trying to rebuild ports, I'm consistently getting the following: ahcich1 Timeout on slot 13 port 0 ^ slot varies g_vfs_done() ada0p6 [WRITE(offset=38838571008 length=4096)]error=6 /usr got error 6 while accessing filesyustem cpuid=0 panic: softdep_deallocate_d

Re: Mounting SD card.

El día Thursday, November 15, 2012 a las 05:57:45PM +0100, Fernando Apesteguía escribió: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Warren Block wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Mike Clarke wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 14 November 2012 19:43:30 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > >> > >>> If I boot the system a

Re: Mounting SD card.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Mike Clarke wrote: > >> On Wednesday 14 November 2012 19:43:30 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: >> >>> If I boot the system and plug the SD card in, the green led >>> doesn't even switch on and there is only a /dev/da0 that I ca

Re: 9.1 permissions in the / directory

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:12:59PM -0500, Joseph Mays wrote: > Have a recently set up 9.1 RC1 system. Someone (not me, just sayin') > did a chmod 600 in the / directory. Needless to say this caused > numerous problems. I tried to change them back as best I could by > comparing them to an older dire

Re: One disk shown as two in gsmartcontrol

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm configuring smartd on a newly installed system, 9.1-RC3 The message below is in my /var/log/messages Nov 15 14:39:49 blj01 kernel: ada0: ATA-7 SATA 1.x dev ice Nov 15 14:39:49 blj01 kernel: ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA, UDMA5, PIO 8192

Re: Mounting SD card.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: Is there a recommended way to automate the "GEOM re-tasting" so SD cards can be accessed without further interaction (by simply using the correct mount command)? Not AFAIK. Could depend on hardware also; some card readers might not need it. ___

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message , Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: ... Given these facts, I am more than a little surpised to learn (or rather just to realize) that the good old traditional fdisk and bsdlabel tools do not have wa

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In your tutorial document, you say: "Create a boot partition to hold the loader, size of 512K." How big is that thing (gpart boot loader), actually? Half a megabyte seems rather a bit large-ish, certainly relative to ye olde MBR loader, which

One disk shown as two in gsmartcontrol

I'm configuring smartd on a newly installed system, 9.1-RC3 The message below is in my /var/log/messages Nov 15 14:39:49 blj01 kernel: ada0: ATA-7 SATA 1.x dev ice Nov 15 14:39:49 blj01 kernel: ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA, UDMA5, PIO 8192 bytes) Nov 15 14:39:49 blj01 kernel: ada0: 2

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Chris Whitehouse wrote: In message, In general, you create a "partition scheme" first. This can be MBR, GPT, or others. (But use GPT.) Unless you want to dual boot with WinXP in which case use MBR still? Yes. The same for Vista or Windows 7, mostly. AFAIK, Window

Re: Mounting SD card.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be to "wake" it up with the following incantation: dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 That's what works here. See the thread starting with

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:06:56AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build? Maybe wordgrinder? http://wordgrinder.sourceforge.net/ Never tried it on FreeBSD (mostly because I refuse to install Lua) but it never takes long to build if i

Re: Shut-down when access to NFS share is gone

Thank you :-) I'll study it closer. /Leslie 2012-11-15 15:15, Adam Vande More skrev: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I managed to shut down a machine with an NFS share before the connected client was shut down. Now this client won't shut down. It stands at : All b

Re: Shut-down when access to NFS share is gone

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I managed to shut down a machine with an NFS share before the connected > client was shut down. > > Now this client won't shut down. It stands at : All buffers synced. > > I suspect it's waiting for the NFS server in order to disconnect. >

Re: high performance server design approach

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:23:38AM -0200, Friedrich Locke wrote: > 0) To have a single process "accepting" incoming connection on port 80 and > send the new socket fd to one of the http server in a round-roubin manner, DJB's publicfile does something rather similar. http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.ht

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On 11/15/12 12:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message , Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know... taking it out on the road f

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message, In general, you create a "partition scheme" first. This can be MBR, GPT, or others. (But use GPT.) Unless you want to dual boot with WinXP in which case use MBR still? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Shut-down when access to NFS share is gone

I managed to shut down a machine with an NFS share before the connected client was shut down. Now this client won't shut down. It stands at : All buffers synced. I suspect it's waiting for the NFS server in order to disconnect. Is there any time-out I must wait for? Will it help to bring the

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message , Warren Block wrote: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I >> assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know... >> taking it out on the road for a first time test run... that I can

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message , Warren Block wrote: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >... >> Given these facts, I am more than a little surpised to learn (or rather >> just to realize) that the good old traditional fdisk and bsdlabel tools >> do not have ways to explicitly specify minimum alignmen

Re: Mounting SD card.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:43:42 +, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Thursday 15 November 2012 02:06:02 Warren Block wrote: > > > true > /dev/da0 > > > > is a little shorter and safer.  The search keywords for this are "GEOM > > retaste" or "retasting". > > Thanks Warren. I wasn't aware of that option, it

Re: Mounting SD card.

On Thursday 15 November 2012 02:06:02 Warren Block wrote: > true > /dev/da0 > > is a little shorter and safer.  The search keywords for this are "GEOM > retaste" or "retasting". Thanks Warren. I wasn't aware of that option, it's certainly much neater and less prone to typing errors. -- Mike Cl

Re: Mounting SD card.

> >I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be > >to "wake" it up with the following incantation: > >dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 > >That's what works here. See the thread starting with > >

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

Polytropon skrev 2012-11-15 10:12: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:06:56 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older hardware is very long. Why not use the binary install method (pkg_add -r)

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:06:56 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > Hello > > I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. > > My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older > hardware is very long. Why not use the binary install method (pkg_add -r)? The default options shou

"Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

Hello I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older hardware is very long. Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build? If I can get an alternative to Calc also it's a plus but not a big prob

Re: 'device' representation in the filesystem questions

On 11/14/12 23:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: it appears that FreeBSD, at least 8.0 and later: a) no longer uses 'raw' devices for anything b) no longer uses 'block' devices for anything c) randomly assigns device 'major' numbers d) doesn't use device 'minor' numbers for anything.

Re: perl, rrdtool issue

> Actually I did portupgrade -rf, and still have the issue with that > bsdpan-RRDp-0.99.0. > And because of that my munin isn't working, I'm getting email like: > > "Can't locate Munin/Common/Defaults.pm in @INC (@INC contains: It seems that you need to reinstall Munin, not RRDtool. And from the