Expensive timeout(9) function: 0x9ffc000000b59d80(0) 0.060724954 s

2013-10-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I see on the console: lock order reversal: 1st 0xe00012c58a28 ufs (ufs) @ /usr/src/sys/fs/nullfs/null_vnops.c:620 2nd 0x9ffc00c32360 allproc (allproc) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c:2780 KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self(0x9ffc000c9ec0) at db_trace_self+0x40 db_trace_self_wrap

Re: gpart weirdness: diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ00007250010X GPT (17G)

2013-10-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>From: Mark Felder >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: gpart weirdness: diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ7250010X GPT (17G) >Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:56:17 -0500 > >On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 4:33, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> # gpart show >> =>

gpart weirdness: diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ00007250010X GPT (17G)

2013-10-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
# gpart show => 34 35566411 da1 GPT (17G) 34 35566411 - free - (17G) => 34 35566411 diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ7250010X GPT (17G) 34 35566411- free - (17G) => 34 35566411 da2 GPT (17G) 34 35566411

Re: where to start with PGP/GPG?

2013-08-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>From cpgh...@cordula.ws Thu Aug 15 20:20:49 2013 > >On 08/15/13 14:16, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> I never needed to use pgp till now. >> So I'm not sure where to start. >> Is security/gnupg the way to go? >> Any other advice? > >security/gnupg + secu

Re: where to start with PGP/GPG?

2013-08-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>From mexas Thu Aug 15 13:16:09 2013 >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: where to start with PGP/GPG? >Reply-To: me...@bris.ac.uk > >I never needed to use pgp till now. >So I'm not sure where to start. >Is security/gnupg the way to go? >Any other advice? Answering my own question, this gu

Re: where to start with PGP/GPG?

2013-08-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>From tr...@fagskolen.gjovik.no Thu Aug 15 13:28:22 2013 > >On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:16+0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> I never needed to use pgp till now. >> So I'm not sure where to start. >> Is security/gnupg the way to go? >> Any other advice? >

where to start with PGP/GPG?

2013-08-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I never needed to use pgp till now. So I'm not sure where to start. Is security/gnupg the way to go? Any other advice? Thanks Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:29:25 +0200 >From: herbert langhans >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: learn >The handbook is a monster, even technically interested people get lost >there. You know that, corebug. I completely disagree. The handbook is of excellent quality for a voluntee

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>From: "Teymur.Rahimzade" >To: >Subject: learn >Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:35:57 +0500 >Hi. >Please help me to learn freebsd unix. >Many thanks. RTFM: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

SOLVED [WAS: Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted

2013-07-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:57:34 +0200 >From: Polytropon >To: Elimar Riesebieter >Subject: Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented > characters are corrupted >On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:38:53 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> * Anton Shterenlikht

LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted

2013-07-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I tried, in tcsh: % setenv |grep FR XTERM_LOCALE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 but the accented French characters are corrupted, e.g. in /usr/ports/french/aster/pkg-descr. I built xterm with % make -C /usr/ports/x11/xterm showconfig ===> The following configuration options are avai

tor browser?

2013-07-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Anybody is using the "Tor Browser"? I started using security/tor. In addition to this, the tor folk insist on using the tor browser: https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning which is a part of the tor bundle: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser-details.html.en#build Now,

highest nice(1) -n increment value?

2013-07-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
It is not clear from the nice(1) man page, i.e. for /usr/bin/nice, not a shell built-in nice, what is the highest increment value nice will accept. It seems it is limited to 20. I tried $ /usr/bin/nice -n 100 portmaster -a But all processes spawned by the portmaster have the nice value of only 2

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:26:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman Subject: Re: X client without X server xterm may not require it [xorg-server], but one of xterm's dependencies may. This is simply not true. xterm does not require xorg-server. I know because f

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From olivier2...@gmail.com Wed Jul 3 13:09:25 2013 Anton, On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT) > From: Olivier Nicole > To: freebsd-questions@fr

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X client without X server Hi, Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an X server? On all my sys

Re: What compiler is used to build a port

2013-07-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th Mon Jul 1 12:12:08 2013 > I have a strange situation: 2 machines, 9.1 p4, on the first machine, > graphicslibfpx build with the stock compiler: > > $ make > ===> Fetching all distfiles requi

Re: What compiler is used to build a port

2013-07-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 15:36:46 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What compiler is used to build a port Hi, I have a strange situation: 2 machines, 9.1 p4, on the first machine, graphicslibfpx build

installing a kernel under a custom location, not /boot/kernel?

2013-06-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I think there is an option for this. But I cannot find it under 9.5. Building and Installing a Custom Kernel http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html I need to keep several kernels installed, not just the current and the previous. How to achive this? Thaknks Anton _

incomplete PLIST for devel/liblangtag [WAS Re: libchk issue]

2013-06-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On my system (9.1-RELEASE-p3 on amd64), libchk reports: Unresolvable link(s) found in: /usr/local/lib/liblangtag-gobject.so.2 liblangtag.so.1 'pkg which' informs me that: /usr/local/lib/liblangtag-gobject.so.2 was not found in the database

Re: X breaks sound

2013-05-14 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 21:20 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Briefly, the sound works fine until X starts. > As soon as X starts, sound doesn't work until a reboot. Assumed pulseaudio should be installed, this likely is the culprit, if so

X breaks sound

2013-05-14 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Briefly, the sound works fine until X starts. As soon as X starts, sound doesn't work until a reboot. This is HP Compaq 6715s laptop. I'm running current r250633. I have this sound device: hdac0@pci0:0:20:2: class=0x040300 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43831002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = '

bwn0: RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x2)

2013-05-14 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I have this wireless chip: siba_bwn0@pci0:48:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1371103c chip=0x431214e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4311 802.11a/b/g' class = network I use bwn(4) for it: siba_bwn0: mem 0xc810-0xc8103fff irq 18 at device

Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?

2013-04-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? Thanks. P.S.

Re: perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done

2013-04-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From: Mike Brown Subject: perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:08:17 -0600 (MDT) Hi all, I'm running 8.3-RELEASE and thought I'd update Perl from 5.12 to 5.16.

Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:49:19 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:49:45 + Matthew Seaman articulated: > Given you're seeing that CONNECTED message th

Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:36:19 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:32:34 GMT Anton Shterenlikht articulated: > Please help debug sendmail / smtp.gm

Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Please help debug sendmail / smtp.gmail config. My University just switched to gmail (dickheads) and I'm trying to figure out how to set it up. It used to work ok with the University smtp auth server. Now I get in /var/log/maillog: sm-mta[72300]: r2TI0vQc072134: to=, ctladdr= (1001/1001), del

Re: stupid portmaster question

2013-03-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
How do I tell portmaster -ad to ignore certain ports because they are broken such as editors/libreoffice is currently marked as (I am sure this will change soon) -x avoid building or updating ports that match this pattern. Can be specified more than once.

USB host controllers on a server that does not use USB devices?

2013-03-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
This is on an ia64 server. Do I need these devices in kernel: device ehci# EHCI host controller device ohci# OHCI PCI->USB interface device uhci# UHCI PCI->USB interface if I don't ever attach any usb devices to it? Thanks Anton _

Re: how to forbid a process to use swap?

2013-03-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com Sun Mar 10 00:25:27 2013 On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I run a program that uses large arrays. > I don't want it to use swap, because it's > too slow. I want the p

how to forbid a process to use swap?

2013-03-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I run a program that uses large arrays. I don't want it to use swap, because it's too slow. I want the program to fail when there's not enough RAM, rather than using swap. How to do this? Is it something to do with these kernel variables: kern.dfldsiz: 34359738368 kern.dflssiz: 8388608 kern.maxd

Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From free...@edvax.de Fri Mar 8 07:50:06 2013 On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 21:55:57 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > And Matthias already helped me sort it out. Could you write to the list how you solved the problem? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2

Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:48:45 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:40:47AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm

process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? I my case I get a complete freeze, can't even login from the console, and requiring a cold reboot. I guess this is not suppose

fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm running sendmail, and using fetchmail to fetch my mail from the university IMAP server. I sometimes see fetchmail complain: fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 ... Domain of sender address ad...@system.mail does not exist And this is doubled in /var/log/maillog: sm-mta[14642]: r270BO3L014642:

Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

2013-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From m...@my.gd Wed Feb 20 14:39:34 2013 On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From feenb...@nber.org Wed Feb 20 13:39:28 2013 > > > From: Fleuriot Damien > > To: m

Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

2013-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I have a laptop with FreeBSD -current, > > with ip address assigned via DHCP. > >

Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

2013-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From m...@my.gd Wed Feb 20 10:28:54 2013 Ok I think you've got a DNS resolution problem here, so when you try to establish the connection, SSHD tries to resolve your client's hostname. It fails and times out, however your ssh login gracetime is already o

Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

2013-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From m...@my.gd Wed Feb 20 10:11:12 2013 Run this on your server: tcpdump -ni wlan0 ip and port 22 Then try to ssh to the box, see if SYN packets arrive, see if your box sends SYN/ACK back. 172.21.220.12 is the ssh server 137.222.187.241 is the

Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

2013-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From: Fleuriot Damien To: me...@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:31:22 +0100 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote

cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

2013-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I have a laptop with FreeBSD -current, with ip address assigned via DHCP. The laptop has neither a static ip address, nor a domain. I can ping the laptop fine, but cannot ssh into it. The sshd is running, /etc/ssh/ssd_config seems fine, /etc/hosts.allow is fine. However, /etc/hosts is just the def

daily otput: rejected mail hosts?

2013-02-14 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I see in the daily output: Checking for rejected mail hosts: 172 553 check_mail system.mail exist 129 553 check_mail tsvpt014.vpt.co.uk exist 43 553 check_mail unix.dedicated.com.tr exist 43 553 check_mail ubs.net exist 43 553 check_mail localhost.localdomain exist 43 553 check_mail jour

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From smi...@nimnet.asn.au Mon Feb 11 16:59:49 2013 On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:28:30 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From smi...@nimnet.asn.au Mon Feb 11 13:49:38 2013 > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:41:31 GMT, Anton Shterenli

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From smi...@nimnet.asn.au Mon Feb 11 13:49:38 2013 On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:41:31 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From: paranormal > Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M? > To: freebsd-questions@fr

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From: paranormal Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:23:40 +0200 I have t61p with mentioned card. x11/nvidia-driver works well for me (at least quake, doom, compiz work).

Re: building custom kernel on -current: unknown option "COMPAT_LINUX"

2013-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From free...@edvax.de Sun Feb 10 00:42:11 2013 On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:31:44 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From free...@edvax.de Sun Feb 10 00:29:36 2013 > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:18:06 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >

Re: building custom kernel on -current: unknown option "COMPAT_LINUX"

2013-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From free...@edvax.de Sun Feb 10 00:29:36 2013 On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:18:06 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > This is on amd64 r246552 > > I added > > options COMPAT_43 > options COMPAT_LINUX > o

building custom kernel on -current: unknown option "COMPAT_LINUX"

2013-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
This is on amd64 r246552 I added options COMPAT_43 options COMPAT_LINUX options COMPAT_LINUX32 to the kernel config, following sys/amd64/conf/NOTES On buildkernel I get: unknown option "COMPAT_LINUX" What am I missing? Thanks Anton ___ freebsd-que

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From jnagyjr1...@gmail.com Fri Feb 8 14:47:22 2013 On 02/08/13 07:38, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From ch...@monochrome.org Fri Feb 8 13:27:48 2013 > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Fri Feb 8 13:27:49 2013 > From: Anton Shterenlikht > Subject: Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument > > From kostik...@gmail.com Fri Feb 8 12:25:21 2013 > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:01

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From ch...@monochrome.org Fri Feb 8 13:27:48 2013 On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [ snip ] > So what is the advice for transferring data > via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition > I could use? I'

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From kostik...@gmail.com Fri Feb 8 12:25:21 2013 On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:01:41PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I need to transfer some files from sparc64 -current > box onto amd64 9.1-RELEASE laptop. > The amd64 laptop has no network conne

mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I need to transfer some files from sparc64 -current box onto amd64 9.1-RELEASE laptop. The amd64 laptop has no network connection yet, so I'm trying to achive this with a USB flash drive. The problem is that I always end up with # mount /dev/da0p1 /mnt/ mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument # If

which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm considering buying this Thinkpad T61p laptop: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321063105251 It lists this graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M I'm not sure what driver, if any, will support it. There seems to be the official Nvidia FreeBSD driver provided for it: http://www.nvidia.com/object/free

powerd(8), cpufreq(4) only available on amd64/i386?

2013-01-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I recently installed 9.1-release on a sparc64 box. One of the options in bsdinstall was to use the cpu power control. I chose to use it. So I've got # grep power /etc/rc.conf powerd_enable="YES" # which doesn't seem to work: root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start powerd Is the following dmesg

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012 > On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, >> whether I need this device in the kernel or not. >> The pciconf -lv output i

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012 On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, > whether I need this device in the kernel or not. > The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do

do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do I need to show dmesg? Please advise Thanks Anton hostb0@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79101002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'A

Re: csup to svn

2012-11-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From fb...@a1poweruser.com Wed Nov 21 17:57:51 2012 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:10:28 -0500 > From: Fbsd8 > > I use packages for all my ports. > But some times I have to

Re: csup to svn

2012-11-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:10:28 -0500 From: Fbsd8 I use packages for all my ports. But some times I have to use ports make files because I need to change the default configuration. I use a custom csup script to just download the desired single por

Re: BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From lenzi.ser...@gmail.com Tue Nov 13 16:17:49 2012 That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well.. the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with FreeBSD10. HP notebooks are "c

BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can't find my original thread, so starting a new one. So I bought a spare laptop disk, installed freedos on it, made a usb memstick with HP BIOS updating executable, and booted from it, only to stop at: "The BIOS on your notebook PC can not be updated. Refer to HP Customer Advisory C01457784"

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-11-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:28:22 +0100 Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain From: Idwer Vollering To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, flash...@flashrom.org Another approach is to use an external SPI programmer: http://flashrom.org/Su

Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From at...@sohara.org Tue Oct 30 11:54:11 2012 > I thought from reading printcap(5) > that pl sets page length is lines, > so if I make it long enough, I should > see no page breaks. Still, I get > empty space at the bottom of the > physical

how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I need to print some text on a continuous paper with no page breaks. How to do this? I've epson lq-550 matrix printer attached via a parallel cable, and lp|local line printer:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :pl=10

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jakub Lach To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain More civilised notebook manufactures usually provide also self booting (CD) image to update BIOS

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From br...@cran.org.uk Thu Oct 25 09:22:33 2012 On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm probably missing something here. > ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing > about checking for "non-signed" code.

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From cpgh...@cordula.ws Thu Oct 25 03:40:28 2012 Heh... ;-) (U)EFI is nothing new for us old farts: we've had OpenBoot[1] on Sun hardware for ages, and even though it didn't limit us w.r.t. the OS you wanted to boot (that's why you can install FreeBSD/sparc

laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've HP compaq 6715s laptop. It's all right with 10-current. I've got wireless and at one point I even managed to get flash working. My problem is with BIOS. Apparently it's wrong and John Baldwin provided me with a pci.c patch to get it to boot. There is an updated BIOS version, but so far I fai

Re: Info 2 Release

2012-10-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From: andrew clarke PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list. What's the problem? If there are non-english posts and non-english helpful replies, who suffers? You and me can just ignore those, like we ignore OT, right? Anton ___ f

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From m...@ozzmosis.com Thu Oct 4 07:56:05 2012 On Wed 2012-10-03 11:26:38 UTC+0200, Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com Wed Oct 3 09:53:17 2012 Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. > xpdf can view the file, but not the annot

suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations. Please suggest a pdf viewer from ports that might help. Thanks Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

where is all terminal output sent if the controlling terminal is closed?

2012-08-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I occasionally build ports with extra logs enabled. When I then launch such programs from, say xterm on the background (&), I get lots of output on the controlling terminal. If I then close the terminal, where does all the output goes? I presume it's still being sent to the PID of the parent xterm.

Re: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x

2012-08-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 29 16:52:53 2012 > Is it possible to reduce priority > of port building processes with > something like "nice +19 make" (tcsh syntax)? Sure, I do it all the time. ok, thanks. I'll try it next time. Anton __

reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x

2012-08-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Is it possible to reduce priority of port building processes with something like "nice +19 make" (tcsh syntax)? Here's a typical scenario for a large build (actually building gcc-4.7 and firefox in parallel): last pid: 54736; load averages: 5.27, 5.38, 5.11up 9+15:37:

mail, mpack and aliases

2012-08-24 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm trying to use converters/mpack to send attachments. It doesn't seem to know anything about mail(1) aliases. I tried to save mpack output to a file with -o option, and then read this file into a mail message, e.g. with ~r. However, this doesn't seem to work. The attachment is not recognised as s

subvertion treat PostScript files as binary?

2012-08-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Why does subversion treats PostScript files as binary? I changed the bounding box in a text editor, but can't use svn diff: TZAV> svn diff rep-room-mises-mesh.ps Index: rep-room-mises-mesh.ps === Cannot display: file marked as a binar

mail(1) ~R and REPLYTO

2012-08-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
mail(1) man page says: ~R string Use string as the Reply-To field. However, this doesn't seem to work for me. Hitting ~R doesn't have any effect at all. The man page also has: REPLYTO If set, will be used to initialize the Reply-To field for outgo- ing mess

Mail Reference Manual?

2012-07-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
mail(1) man page mentions the Mail Reference Manual. The only one I can find is here: docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/07.mail/paper.pdf Is this the one? The URL isn't that definitive. It seems to be in troff. Anybody got the sources of this document? Anyway, the description of the "save" command in thi

Re: mail(1) save command does not work as in the man page

2012-07-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Thu Jul 26 02:58:29 2012 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:37:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, me...@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: mail(1) save command does not work as in the man page >

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>> is it possible to speed up port make ?? >> i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, >> compiling xorg takes about 2 hours 2 hours only?? Try lang/gcc46 or 47 or science/paraview This will keep your electronic helper busy for a day. ___

mail(1) save command does not work as in the man page

2012-07-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
According to the man mail(1): save(s) Takes a message list and a filename and appends each message in turn to the end of the file. The filename in quotes, followed by the line count and character count is echoed on the user's terminal. However, it

fetchmail ssl error

2012-07-23 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
rmat is expected and usually is available, DER is another one; you can convert between both using the openssl(1) utility's x509 sub-mode). *end quote* So, I'm not sure if I need to convert my certificate to PEM format or not? Please advise Many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6,

zfs tuning on ia64

2012-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
27392 vm.kmem_size_scale: 4 vm.kmem_size_max: 0 vm.kmem_size_min: 0 vm.kmem_size: 1578090496 # Do the vm.kmem tunables look reasonable? Thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)11

how to preserve local modifications to /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

2012-07-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
applies to inimf&mp TZAV> but this doesn't help. Please advise -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _

ati, radeon, dri (drm) confusion

2012-07-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
directory) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon" (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM [dri] Disabling DRI. I guess this is not good, right? Please advise [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-June/0121

Re: where is LOCALBASE actually defined?

2012-07-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 03:06:14PM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 15 July 2012 14:47, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > $ cat Makefile > > all: > > echo $(LOCALBASE) > > $ > > $ make > > echo > > easier way to test is "make -V LOCALBASE"

where is LOCALBASE actually defined?

2012-07-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
$ cat Makefile all: echo $(LOCALBASE) $ $ make echo $ What do I need to do to use LOCALBASE in my makefiles? Thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc46 -o aa.So -c aa.f *skip ~1400 other files* gfortran46 -fpic -DPIC -O -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc46 -o zwrsk.So -c zwrsk.f building shared library libslatec.so.1 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Wal

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:12:32PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jul 12 17:34:12 2012 > > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:31:31 +0100 > > From: Anton Shterenlikht > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: prof

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:31:31PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > While updating my port (math/slatec) to use > the new OPTIONS framework, I did some > experiments with the profiling library. > > I don't know much about this, so what surprised me > is that the profi

profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
expr 16436 + 1449 17885 # Using diff I can confirm that the only difference between the 2 libs is the .mcount symbol for each object file in the profiling library. So how can the profiling library be smaller? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University

X broken - top quarter of the screen not updated by *some* programs - EXA/XAA issue?

2012-06-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
extension COMPOSITE (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/local/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 (II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 211 (WW) Mouse0: No Device specified, looking for one... (II)

Re: can't kill -9 Xorg

2012-06-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 02:13:17PM +0200, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > On 06/12/12 10:24, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:13:06AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >>On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:07:06AM +0530, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: > >>>Hello

Re: can't kill -9 Xorg

2012-06-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:13:06AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:07:06AM +0530, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: > > Hello > > > > What happens if you run without a xorg.conf? Xorg has become pretty good at > > guessing correct settings thes

Re: can't kill -9 Xorg

2012-06-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Kar > System Administrator > Working and Playing with FreeBSD since 2002 > > On 11-Jun-2012, at 5:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > My X is unusable since the recent png update. > > > > This is r236740M on HP Compaq 6715s amd64 laptop. > > > >

can't kill -9 Xorg

2012-06-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
pipes is 1 (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion Solid Lines Scanline Image Writes Setting up tile a

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2012-06-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 01:30:37PM +0300, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >On ia64 r231193 I get: > > > ># netstat -r > >netstat: kvm_read: Bad address > > > >What's the problem? > > > >Thanks > > > > For

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