Re: GELI Swap password on boot

2012-11-08 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks Fabian, > Maybe the device contains old geli meta data with the > boot flag set, or garbage that looks like geli meta data. > > Try to "geli clear" the device and if it fails "geli init" + "geli clear". > > I tried this as well, but still got no joy. I re-did the installation and it works

Re: GELI Swap password on boot

2012-11-07 Thread Mike Barnard
On 8 November 2012 03:30, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Mike Barnard > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE and I am experiencing some strange > > behaviour with GELI. > > > > Every time I boot up

Re: FreeBSD Stable Image

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Barnard
On 29 March 2012 19:22, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 29/03/2012 17:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 29/03/2012 17:10, Mike Barnard wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Any one know where I can get a FreeBSD-9.0-STABLE ISO/IMG image? > >> > >> ftp.freeb

FreeBSD Stable Image

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, Any one know where I can get a FreeBSD-9.0-STABLE ISO/IMG image? ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/ That path does not seem to have it. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. -

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Barnard
at 04:59:55PM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: > > > > > > anyone on this... Synpatics Touchpad on FreeBSD 64-bit? > > > > > > > Mike, since you haven't received a reply from this list, your best bet > > is probably to post to the freebsd-mobile list. > &

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-30 Thread Mike Barnard
anyone on this... Synpatics Touchpad on FreeBSD 64-bit? On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Mike Barnard wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dell as mentioned in the subject. I have been trying to get the > touchpad horizontal scroll and vertical scroll to work with no avail

Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-27 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I have a dell as mentioned in the subject. I have been trying to get the touchpad horizontal scroll and vertical scroll to work with no avail. I have hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" entered in loader.conf but all my sysctl.conf variables that pertain to the touchpad dump error on boot. It appear

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > Hi Mike, > > What did you have in your /usr/local directory prior to the upgrade? > Had you installed any ports? What is the output of the following command: > > pkg_info > > it was only perl installed. That I can always rectified quickly...

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Mike Barnard writes: > > > sorry... RTFM -eU flags sorted me out... but I only get the directories > an > > no files created now may be rebuilding world will work

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Mike Barnard wrote: > > mtree -p /usr/local < /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist >>> >>> >> This is the command I have been looking for >> > > hmmm... this give me no joy... mtree complains about the paths all missing, >

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
> mtree -p /usr/local < /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist >> >> > This is the command I have been looking for > hmmm... this give me no joy... mtree complains about the paths all missing, but does not create them. I can create files and directories in /usr/local manually. ## Creating a file in /usr/l

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > Mike Barnard writes: > > > 100% sure... I have tried to rebuild world but I still end up with an > empty > > /usr/local.. Prior to upgrading from 8.0-RELEASE, t

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi Greg, Please see your request below > Hi Mike, > > It's possible that your disk device names changed during the upgrade and > /etc/fstab can no longer mount the previous device on /usr/local. Do > you see any error messages during the boot process? > > no, I do not see any error during the bo

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote. There's a bug report on > it! > > On 6 Jul 2010 10:38, "Mike Barnard" wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have never encountered anything like this before and I am little puzzled. > After upgrading my FreeBSD 8.

/usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi All, I have never encountered anything like this before and I am little puzzled. After upgrading my FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE, I ended up with FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE and an empty /usr/local directory. It wiped out my /usr/local directory! I did nothing out of the usual on this upgrade. Any one experi

Re: UFS Journaling

2010-05-15 Thread Mike Barnard
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:33 PM, b. f. wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm trying out gjournal before I implement if on one server. I require > more > >than 8 partitions, but since I cannot do this, have 9 partitions on one > > You can do this with gpart and a GPT scheme. > > h... I'll dig into this and

UFS Journaling

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I'm trying out gjournal before I implement if on one server. I require more than 8 partitions, but since I cannot do this, have 9 partitions on one slice, I have created two slices on the disk, da0s1 (100GB) and da0s2 (40GB). On the first slice, I have my usual partitions. On the second slice,

Re: failure to login after upgrade to 7.3 STABLE

2010-04-21 Thread Mike Barnard
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Mike Barnard wrote: > > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > sorry for the noise... I had accidentally removed device pty from the kernel conf file -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a millio

failure to login after upgrade to 7.3 STABLE

2010-04-20 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I seem to have a strange problem. I cannot log into my system after upgrading from 7.2 PRE-RELEASE to 7.3 STABLE. I get the following: [m...@trinity](676) ssh m...@192.168.68.1 WARNING: RSA key found for host 192.168.68.1 in /home/mike/.ssh/known_hosts:11 RSA key fingerprint a3:04:ef:73:8d:0a

Google Earth on FreeBSD 7.0

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I have installed Google Earth via ports but cannot get it to run. If i run it from console, i get this: > googleearth ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > I have searched for the library it

Growing a ZFS file system

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I have a zfs pool of about 700GB, on it, i have a file system, home, mounted on /home and its 200GB. The file system has reached 100% capacity and im in need of growing it... Unfortunately i cannot find any documentation on how to grow a zfs file system. Any one done this? PS: I want to grow

Re: FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Barnard
t; > > Regards, > Neo [GC] > > Mike Barnard schrieb: > > Hi, >> >> I'm trying to get myself around 64 bit custom kernel configuration for >> FreeBSD on Intel Xeon L5430. >> >> Does any one know what cpu option one should use for this? From my &g

FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I'm trying to get myself around 64 bit custom kernel configuration for FreeBSD on Intel Xeon L5430. Does any one know what cpu option one should use for this? From my reading, it seems HAMMER is purely for amd64 architectures. What is the Intel architecture option. Regards, Mike -- Mike

Re: Gnome-mount install failure

2008-04-25 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi matthias I've had the same problem around 5th of April when I installed a 7.0-R > in the laptop of my wife, after doing 'portsnap fetch & update'; it > turned out that glib20 was installed as glib-2.14.2; I went to > /usr/ports/devel/glib20 removed the pkg and installed it as fresh as > 2.16.

Gnome-mount install failure

2008-04-25 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, i have been trying to get gnome-mount installed for a few hours now, and i end up with this one error: checking for GNOME_MOUNT... configure: error: Package requirements (gconf-2.0 gnome-keyring-1 >= 0.4 dbus-glib-1 >= 0.31 hal-storage >= 0.5.8.1gtk+-2.0 >= 2.8.0) were not met: Requested 'ha

Re: OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Barnard
> > > > > > > javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! > > Do you have one? > yes i do. And i wonder why it showed up there in the first place. > > > I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US" > > There is no such locale "en_US", but e.g. en_US.UTF-8; can you check it? >

Re: OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-26 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I mistakenly forgot to add the errors i get. I can open any OO program, but as soon as i open a document, i get this javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US" libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x64 (proc

Re: pkg_cutleaves - a bit too efficient

2008-03-26 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi Portupgrade doesn't bring anything back though. what options are you passing to portupgrade? If you run portupgrade with certain flags, it will recursively go through all the dependencies for that package and install them if it finds them missing or if they are outdated. portupgrade -ri o

Re: OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-25 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, Apologies for not responding sooner, i have been away since last week. Eduardo, i installed if from ports Which gcc version do you use? I recall that someone described similar > symptoms on FreeBSD/amd64 with OpenOffice.org compiled using gcc-4.1. > It was a bug in gcc-4.1; recompiling with

OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-20 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I am running FreeBSD 7.0 Pre-Release on an HP 6720s Laptop. I am experiencing a strange problem with OpenOffice. Every time i open a document/spreadsheet or try to save a document/spreadsheet, OpenOffice hangs. When i open a spreadsheet, i get a warning message about macros, when i click on

Re: 915resolution on HP Compaq

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Barnard
sure i compiled my kernel with "device agp". thanks for the assistance. On 1/31/08, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Barnard wrote: > > Hi, I have an HP Compaq 6720s laptop. I am trying to get X to display > > at 1280x800 screen reolution. > > &g

915resolution on HP Compaq

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I have an HP Compaq 6720s laptop. I am trying to get X to display at 1280x800 screen reolution. I first set it up using xorgconfig, but i failed to start X. I got an error saying intel: No matching device section for instance (BUS ID PCI:0:2:1) found GARTInt Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No s

Re: NFS Mount error

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Barnard
My guess is a typo in /etc/fstab the line(s) should read something like ip.add.re.ss:/mount/point /mountednfs rw 0 0 thats itrealised a little late. thanks Vince. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances h

NFS Mount error

2007-03-14 Thread Mike Barnard
hi, hope you are all good. i have a FreeBSD NFS server serving two NFS mounts for mail and web servers. the server works fine and i can mount from it perfectly well. problem comes in when i boot the mail/web nfs client, it stops booting and gives the error 10.10.10.9:/mnt/mail not dismounted pro

Re: Bandwidth limit server

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Barnard
pf + altq is your friend...(a whole lot of reading for you though) On 3/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any one have idea about bandwidth limitation on FreeBSD to act as distribution switch for an ISP's subscriber? Thanks & Best Regards, Rithy RAY, CIO ___

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-26 Thread Mike Barnard
I am using the default FreeBSD IMAP server in FreeBSD. It works great with thunderbird, but Outlook is not able to log in even though I have Secure Authentication checked. Any ideas? one - what POP/IMAP server are you using? two - some setups will require you to use the FULL email address as

Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?

2007-02-13 Thread Mike Barnard
Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel Core 2 Due processor. nice choice What do i need to do to make sure i'm getting the use of both cores? I read t

Re: sshd never restarts

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, # grep ssh /etc/rc.conf sshd_enable="YES" do you have the path also in rc.conf. sshd_program="/usr/local/sbin/sshd" i believe the defaults load this sshd_program="/usr/sbin/sshd" even better, why not use openssh_portable, openssh has many security holes that you may want to avoid

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on Dell Optiplex 210L

2007-01-24 Thread Mike Barnard
hi, Is everything ok with USB keyboard? Have you the same when plugged it to other boxes? i have tried three other keyboards on it, all the keyboards are working fine... Does PS/2 keyboard works well? Dell boxes are not shipping with PS/2 ports, well, not for the optiplex 210L anyway

Re: autostart apache

2007-01-24 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, , > >I would like Apache2 to start automatically when FreeBSD is done booting. >I thought that would happen because I placed this inside /etc/rc.conf > >apache_enable="YES" > you cannot start any of the apache2x family like that in FreeBSD, that is for apache13, for apache2x you need to s

FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on Dell Optiplex 210L

2007-01-24 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, i am having a rather peculiar problem with Dell Optiplex 210L. I have been trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-Release on this hardware with no success...i have also tried 6.1 release, as well as 6.0 release but still get the same error, at the same point. i attempted with a boot only CD for 6.1-Re

PAE not recognizing all RAM

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, all. I have a fairly beefy server (Dell PowerEdge 8450, 8-processor 700 Mhz Xeon, 32GB RAM) I'm testing with FreeBSD. I got a 6.0-RELEASE kernel compiled with both SMP and PAE (the only catch was that the hptmv driver breaks the compile with SMP, but that's OK as I don't need it), but fo