Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Nikola Pavlović n...@riseup.net wrote: [ ... ] At the moment I'm attaching smartctl -a results for both disks (ad4 was marked broken). As I'm completely useless in deciphering smartctl results (apart from being thought by experience to pretty much ignore(tm)

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

2013-06-27 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Warren Block wrote: Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here: http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory,

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

2013-06-27 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 June 2013 11:11, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Warren Block wrote: Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Charles Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: If you haven't rebuilt the mirror already, running a full disk read scan against both drives (ie, via dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/null bs=1m or similar) might be prudent. That will help identify/migrate any sectors which are

Re: Why doesn't this work?

2013-06-27 Thread markham breitbach
logger logs to syslog, so unless you have user.notice logging to /var/log/testing.log this will probably not do what you are expecting. Have a look in /var/log/messages for something like this. Jun 27 16:38:03 xxx-hostname base_http_access: /var/log/testing.log Otherwise, you may want to setup

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Swiger
). If it were me, I make sure I had fully tested complete backups before I broke the mirror and did that. If the drive reads a sector with ECC-correctable errors, it's supposed to try to re-write that sector in order to fix up the ECC data. If that write fails, it remaps. Of course, your

Re: issues compiling world

2013-06-27 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Followed those and recompiled. Precisely the same issue :-( On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:10:54 +0200 Chris Knipe articulated: Hi all, I've been battling the whole day now trying to compile 9 STABLE I've svn'ed the

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

2013-06-27 Thread Warren Block
Decided to ignore the CD and just copy the files to a simulated MS-DOS drive. Got to the point of copying distributions, process documented here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd-1.0/freebsd1.txt So far, it's giving me a new appreciation for modern installers. Julian, you are listed in the

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread ASV
Thanks for your reply Polytropon, I'm using FreeBSD since few years already and I'm kind of aware of the dynamics related to permissions, many of them are common to many Unices. I agree that the installer doesn't put anything secret but as a home dir for the root user it's highly likely that

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

2013-06-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Warren Block wrote: Decided to ignore the CD and just copy the files to a simulated MS-DOS drive. Got to the point of copying distributions, process documented here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd-1.0/freebsd1.txt I had a quick scan BTW here's another URL for the same image:

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: ASV a...@inhio.eu Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:39:20 +0200 ASV wrote: Thanks for your reply Polytropon, I'm using FreeBSD since few years already and I'm kind of aware of the dynamics related to permissions, many of them are common to many Unices. I

Re: Upgrading from 8.0 to 8.4 with freebsd-update?

2013-06-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Patrick gibblert...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to skip point releases using freebsd-update so that I can go from 8.0 to 8.4 Yes. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.4R/relnotes-detailed.html#upgrade -- Adam Vande More

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread jb
ASV asv at inhio.eu writes: Mine is just a concern about these permission defaults which look to me a bit too relaxed and cannot find yet a reason why not to restrict it. After all I believe having good default settings may make the difference in some circumstances and/or save time. I

Re: Which is the public interface to use for ipfw when lagg(4)? [SOLVED]

2013-06-26 Thread Unga
Hi Mark Thanks for the reply. It worked. It was lagg1.Unga - Original Message - From: Mark Felder f...@feld.me To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:29 PM Subject: Re: Which is the public interface to use for ipfw when lagg(4)? On Tue, Jun 25

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-26 Thread Mike Brown
I wrote: The main problem this time is that I'm not so lucky with the password files, because for 8.4, freebsd-update has fetched new, stock .db files to put in /etc. Whoa, sorry, I misspoke here. freebsd-update asked me, after the merges, to approve unspecified differences in pwd.db and

Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-26 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Tim. You wrote 26 июня 2013 г., 3:26:24: TD It seems that svn 1.8 does not like symlinks. I have this: TD /usr/src - /usr1/src-9-STABLE TD I can do this fine: TDsvn update /usr1/src-9-STABLE TD But this causes svn to dump core: TDsvn update /usr/src TD At which point I have to

Re: Hello

2013-06-26 Thread David Demelier
2013/6/26 Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000 julius juliuscmontes...@gmail.com wrote: Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have

Re: Help finding sound driver

2013-06-26 Thread Sergio Tam
2013/6/26 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:45:10 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole wrote: Azalia ADI1986A, 6 -Channel High-Definition Audio CODEC Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming S/PDIF out on back I/O port Jack-Sensing Enumeration Is there any change a

Re: Help finding sound driver

2013-06-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Sergio Tam tam.ser...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/6/26 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:45:10 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole wrote: Azalia ADI1986A, 6 -Channel High-Definition Audio CODEC Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming S/PDIF out

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Alex Liptsin al...@mellanox.com wrote: Hello. I work with FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE. I had configured VLANs on my server, but I can't find a way to configure VLAN priority. How can I do it? Thanks. ??? vlan priority as in… ?

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-26 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013, at 2:07, Mike Brown wrote: Next step, I think, is reboot, before another 'freebsd-update install' run. I'm worried something is still amiss, though, so I'm holding off for now. :( When in doubt: fetch source, build, install, and use mergemaster. Then reboot. Better

Re: Hello

2013-06-26 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, David Demelier wrote: 2013/6/26 Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000 julius juliuscmontes...@gmail.com wrote: Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have use it but no luck in

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alex Liptsin wrote this message on Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:54 +: I work with FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE. I had configured VLANs on my server, but I can't find a way to configure VLAN priority. How can I do it? Looks like you can't w/ the default VLAN code: BUGS No 802.1Q features except

Re: Hello

2013-06-26 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:56 PM, julius juliuscmontes...@gmail.com wrote: Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. PCBSD 9 I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have try to follow youtube BSD users that

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread Ermal Luçi
This is a patch originially written from rwatson@ iirc. https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools/blob/master/patches/RELENG_10_0/pf_802.1p.diff Remove the pf(4) craft and it should work for you. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:27 PM, John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com wrote: Alex Liptsin wrote

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Ayan George
ASV: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1) I imagine / needs those

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 06/26/13 15:47, Ayan George wrote: ASV: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ASV a...@inhio.eu writes: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1) By default,

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-26 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jun 26, 2013 5:28 PM, Simon si...@optinet.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel like I'm the only one who uses this which would be very

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-26 Thread Simon
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:11:03 -0700, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Jun 26, 2013 5:28 PM, Simon si...@optinet.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-26 Thread Shane Ambler
On 27/06/2013 09:57, Simon wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel like I'm the only one who uses this which would be very odd given everything uses

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:34:41 +0200, ASV wrote: There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1) This is the default permission for user directories, as root is considered a user in this

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Nikola Pavlović n...@riseup.net wrote: Hi, Last night during a massive (~1 year worth :| ) portsnap fetch the server went unresponsive and ssh eventually disconnected. I decided to leave it during the night, and, sure enough, the situation was the same in

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-26 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-06-27 02:27, Simon wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel like I'm the only one who uses this which would be very odd given everything uses

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-26 Thread Robert Huff
Polytropon writes: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding that file gets read before the system logging

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-26 Thread Simon
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:25:19 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: On 27/06/2013 09:57, Simon wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel like I'm the only one who

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:40:07 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my

Re: freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% I think this is a result of having -v in my GZIP environment variable. I always forget about my GZIP and BZIP2 variables. I should've known. So, never mind about that.

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When upgrading the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any merges that couldn't be

Re: When to submit regression in a PR

2013-06-25 Thread Aymeric Mansoux
Hi, Shane Ambler said : My question therefore is: while I will mention these problems upstream, should I also make the PR? Contact the port maintainer directly? I understand it is not FreeBSD specific (same issue on Debian Sid) however it really make the current port unusable for those

Re: Which is the public interface to use for ipfw when lagg(4)?

2013-06-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 7:13, Unga wrote: What is the interface should I use for the pif? Is it lagg1? The interface you should use is the interface the IPs are on. It doesn't matter what kind of interface it is. In this case it looks like lagg1.

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 3:14, Mike Brown wrote: Well, thanks for reading this far. I'm scared to death to reboot now, since my server is in another city, but we'll see how it goes. I always avoid freebsd-update when moving between releases simply because of this atrocity. If it requires

Re: Failed to allocate receive buffer problem

2013-06-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:06:26 am Alex Liptsin wrote: Hi. I have a problem that when running a ping (or any other traffic) over IPoIB port, Traffic fails after some time. At destination server DMESG I see that errors: Jun 11 14:42:11 h-qa-033 kernel: ib1: failed to allocate receive

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

2013-06-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 11:23, Stephen Burke wrote: Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I could SSH to? You want something like a Portmaster or Lantronix device that will provide serial consoles over SSH

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

2013-06-25 Thread pete wright
On Jun 25, 2013 9:25 AM, Stephen Burke sbu...@verizon.com wrote: Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I could SSH to? Sounds like you are looking for something like SOL (serial over LAN) which can be setup with IPMI. Google should help you find more info on

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Eugene
soon (especially as 8.2 is already not compatible with some ports). Best wishes Eugene -Original Message- From: Mike Brown Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:14 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update? I'm using freebsd

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 15:29, Eugene wrote: Hi all, I do not quite understand. Is the freebsd-update upgrade process completely broken? Or is it some special mode? Or was it broken recently? Because some time ago I have upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 quite nicely, with editor-based merging

Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/24/2013 04:58 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 06/24/2013 03:20 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/06/2013 20:28, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE source branch. When I try to do an update to it, I see this now: svn: E155005: Working

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-set up.html

2013-06-25 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 11:23, Stephen Burke wrote: Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I could SSH to? You want something like a Portmaster or Lantronix device that will provide serial consoles over SSH

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 15:29, Eugene wrote: I do not quite understand. Is the freebsd-update upgrade process completely broken? IMHO it is partially broken; I'm not doing anything special. How broken it is depends on what's getting changed. Most of what the system is designed to do, it

Re: Hello

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000 julius juliuscmontes...@gmail.com wrote: Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have try to follow youtube BSD users that gave

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-set up.html

2013-06-25 Thread Jungle Boogie
Raspberry pi running headless with practically no services and usb to serial connection is what I'm likely to use. -- sip:jungleboo...@sip2sip.info inum: +883510009902611 On Jun 25, 2013 6:23 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Mark Felder wrote: On

Re: Help finding sound driver

2013-06-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:45:10 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole wrote: Azalia ADI1986A, 6 -Channel High-Definition Audio CODEC Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming S/PDIF out on back I/O port Jack-Sensing Enumeration Is there any change a driver exists for that audio chipset, for

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount

Re: Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?

2013-06-24 Thread Joseph Mingrone
-Edwin Hale thucidy...@yahoo.com writes: Therefore, my question is ultimately:- Is there any 1764-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with wireless connectivity to an external hotspot? There are many. I've had good luck with Lenovos. I'm writing this from a friend's T530 and I

Re: Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?

2013-06-24 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Joseph Mingrone j...@ftfl.ca wrote: -Edwin Hale thucidy...@yahoo.com writes: Therefore, my question is ultimately:- Is there any 1764-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with wireless connectivity to an external hotspot? You may wish to consider

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Chance
On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding that file gets read before the

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike.
On 6/24/2013 at 4:05 PM Arthur Chance wrote: |On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote: | | During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed | that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently | modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. | It is my

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-06-24 15:23, Robert Huff wrote: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding that file gets read before the

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Robert Huff
Bernt Hansson writes: Try start freebsd with verbose logging then check dmesg. Doesn't that only apply to stuff generated by the hardware enumeration/drivar attach phase? Robert Huff ___

Re: auth.notice on syslog server

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:35 AM, SWENNEN Rudi rudi.swen...@onprvp.fgov.be wrote: Hello FreeBSD-list, I have the following two freebsd systems/servers: a server and a client. The syslog of the client is send to the server. I was wondering why the auth.notice entry on my server is generating a

Re: Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
I have tracked down the issue. Not sure whether this is a PR issue or not... On 2013-06-06, at 11:18 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:24:52 -0300, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: Strangely, it seems that I cannot boot single user, either using boot -s from the boot loader, or

Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/06/2013 20:28, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE source branch. When I try to do an update to it, I see this now: svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at /usr/scr svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding that file gets read

Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/24/2013 03:20 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/06/2013 20:28, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE source branch. When I try to do an update to it, I see this now: svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at /usr/scr svn co

Re: Problem in installing textproc/asciidoc

2013-06-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
clean and re-checkout the port, then try again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. You need to install the GPT boot code, e. g. # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l gpboot -b 40 -s 512K

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. You need to install the GPT boot

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-06-23 Thread CeDeROM
Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual control, or BIOS settings (like automatic

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:57:06 +0200, CeDeROM wrote: Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. Same here for a Dell, an IBM and a Lenovo laptop: The brightness

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work. The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab. Have the

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. You need to install the GPT boot code, e. g. # gpart

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work.

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:35:20 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab. Have the entries there been changed? That was the problem. The system used GPT before and I can't

Re: When to submit regression in a PR

2013-06-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013, at 2:42, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: My question therefore is: while I will mention these problems upstream, should I also make the PR? Contact the port maintainer directly? I understand it is not FreeBSD specific (same issue on Debian Sid) however it really make the

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-06-22 Thread Miguel Clara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/13 00:17, Miguel Clara wrote: I have an Acer (S3-391) laptop, its a recent model with an SSD and HHD for a very nice price. I'm running FreeBSD 10-current, because of the wireless driver. I notice I can't use the brightness hotkeys

Re: Problem in installing textproc/asciidoc

2013-06-21 Thread Polytropon
install and work normally? Check if you have anything suspicious set in /etc/make.conf or in your environment that might override the logic of the Makefile. Check the Makefile as well (I've checked 8.6.6's on my 8.2 home system). Just to be sure, make clean and re-checkout the port, then try again

Re: setting VGA output from laptop

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:24:26 +0200 Subject: setting VGA output from laptop From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Hi, Is there any way to configure VGA width output from one laptop ? Authoritative answer: Maybe It's not clear =exactly= what you're asking. The standard FreeBSD

Re: setting VGA output from laptop

2013-06-21 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 01:40:14PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Hi Robert, Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:24:26 +0200 Subject: setting VGA output from laptop From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Hi, Is there any way to configure VGA width output from one laptop ?

Re: mouse configuration question

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:21:45 +0200 Subject: Re: mouse configuration question From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 02:09:13PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Hi Robert, I have a ps/2 mouse attached to a HP mini-tower running FreeBSD 8.3, with a stripped

Re: How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-21 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:02:42 -0700 Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed Calligra Suite from package, but I'm struggling to figure out how to launch any of its programs??? These are my entries in the handwritten Fluxbox Menu: /usr/local/kde4/bin/kexi

Re: When to submit regression in a PR

2013-06-21 Thread Shane Ambler
On 21/06/2013 17:12, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: My question therefore is: while I will mention these problems upstream, should I also make the PR? Contact the port maintainer directly? I understand it is not FreeBSD specific (same issue on Debian Sid) however it really make the current port

Re: Telnet SRA login related issue

2013-06-20 Thread takCoder
Excuse me i just founded similar thread on the list which says: SRA is a login sequence that encrypts the password (something that regular telnet doesn't do). It's only is activated if the other end advertises itself as a telnet server.

Re: showing CAPSLOCK state on display

2013-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:01 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm running 10-CURRENT on my small netbook EeePC 900; the device has only a set of four lights (powered on, battery loading, disk i/o, WLAN) and no indicator more, especially not for CAPSLOCK. So you don't know the state of it and have

Re: showing CAPSLOCK state on display

2013-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 20), Polytropon said: On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:01 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm running 10-CURRENT on my small netbook EeePC 900; the device has only a set of four lights (powered on, battery loading, disk i/o, WLAN) and no indicator more, especially not for

Re: How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:02:42 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: I've installed Calligra Suite from package, but I'm struggling to figure out how to launch any of its programs??? Check what's been installed, especially with a new entry in /usr/local/bin, maybe with $ grep bin

Re: How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 June 2013 14:33, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:02:42 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: I've installed Calligra Suite from package, but I'm struggling to figure out how to launch any of its programs??? Check what's been installed, especially with a new entry in

Re: XDM cannot start desktop after Xorg upgrade

2013-06-19 Thread Leslie Jensen
2013-06-09 07:46, Leslie Jensen skrev: 2013-06-08 17:28, Polytropon skrev: On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:20:56 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've been using XDM as login manager for years. Since the latest Xorg upgrade, XDM cannot start XFCE4 as it used to. Strange that this happens after an

Re: Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
Hi Everyone, On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:24:52 -0300, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: Strangely, it seems that I cannot boot single user, either using boot -s from the boot loader, or using the boot menu. When I get to the point where the root filesystem is mounted, it hangs right after printing

Re: apply /etc/ttys changes on system

2013-06-19 Thread Dan Nelson
in the ttys(5) file without a reboot by sending the signal SIGHUP to init with the command ``kill -HUP 1''. On receipt of this signal, init re-reads the ttys(5) file. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions

RE: apply /etc/ttys changes on system

2013-06-19 Thread Teske, Devin
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] on behalf of Dan Nelson [dnel...@allantgroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:54 AM To: takCoder Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apply /etc/ttys

Re: apply /etc/ttys changes on system

2013-06-19 Thread takCoder
''. On receipt of this signal, init re-reads the ttys(5) file. You are right, it is in the man page. I just wanted to preserve my machine from facing possible side-effects this command may cause, which i may not be aware of, if possible.. If one tty's tc has been changed and i run *kill

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Warren Block
There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on FreeBSD and get to the files with rsync or scp or some FUSE module on the

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 19. 19:41 napon Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com írta: There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
As you need max syntax checking from OCR, throw it at as many different basic interpreters/ compilers as you can, inspect where each bleats, some error messages may be more less usefull for different errors. A friend of mine wrote a basic decades back, its in /usr/ports/lang/pbasic/ PS

Re: Avoid sharing interrupts in FreeBSD under ESXi

2013-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
C. L. Martinez wrote: HI all, I have installed a FreeBSD 8.4 vm under an ESXi 5.1 U1 server. All works ok, except for interrupt usage between mpt and nic interfaces: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is for beginners questions for newbies, as this question is deeper, I suggest try asking on

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wootton
On 06/17/13 20:40, Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Chris, I prepared a new patch that incorporates my fixes, yours and Michael's. I found the coredump - multiple missing right parens on line 1170. Then I ran into another problem on line 430 and made an educated guess with the fix. The new patch is

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Maness
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Paul Wootton paul-free...@fletchermoorland.co.uk wrote: On 06/17/13 20:40, Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Chris, I prepared a new patch that incorporates my fixes, yours and Michael's. I found the coredump - multiple missing right parens on line 1170. Then I ran

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