Re: hard lockups with RC1

2011-11-09 Thread Ashley Williams
On 3 November 2011 07:37, Ashley Williams ashley@gmail.com wrote: I've seen a few of these, too, in RC-1.  I assumed they might be related to my having recently upgraded to the flash 11 port, but hadn't gotten around to reporting anything yet.  Like you, I have no hard data to base any

Re: hard lockups with RC1

2011-11-02 Thread Ashley Williams
I've seen a few of these, too, in RC-1.  I assumed they might be related to my having recently upgraded to the flash 11 port, but hadn't gotten around to reporting anything yet.  Like you, I have no hard data to base any conclusions on as to what's causing the lockups. I can confirm Flash

hard lockups with RC1

2011-10-31 Thread Ashley Williams
I've recently upgraded from 9.0 beta1 to RC1 and experiencing a few hard lockups, they seem to related to browsing - both chromium and firefox cause the lockups. (requiring a hard reset ) All I can think of is something related to Linux emulation and flash, but I could be wrong. Rolling back the

Re: Java6 problem

2011-09-15 Thread Ashley Williams
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: Hi, After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform' for my

Re: 'Using the Packages System' international

2011-08-16 Thread Ashley Williams
Amanda, Have a look at this FAQ for documentation translation: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/translations.html On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Amanda Lynn amanda.l...@gmx.com wrote: Hi! I am interested in your publication

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Ashley Williams
I've done some research and found lots of posts several years old that suggest that using wine on AMD64 is not possible or requires binary packages that don't exist, and even if one can install it, it doesn't run. Has this situation improved meanwhile? Does anyone have a recipe on how to

dtrace function arguments

2011-08-14 Thread Ashley Williams
I'm looking for a faster way to get more verbose information about dtrace function arguments. For example. Say, I want to know more about the funciton syscall:freebsd32:connect:return. I'd start off by doing a listing: # dtrace -lvf connect -snip--- 43723syscall freebsd32