Re: Dtrace ustack status

2010-07-20 Thread Bruce Cran
ject.html -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-20 Thread Bruce Cran
e slices/partitions. I don't know why it would be getting stuck there, though. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
it should see which device nodes actually exist - or, better, use geom to enumerate the devices. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
nternally. It's a message from userspace, not the kernel. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to subscribe to PR updates that are not assigned to a maillist?

2010-08-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:06:50 +0400 Anonymous wrote: > Is querying CGI interface the only option? For example, in bugzilla I > can add myself to CC list. You can also grab the database using the gnats collection and csup, then query the PR using query-pr. -- Bruc

Re: copyright for man pages

2010-08-06 Thread Bruce Cran
. Many of them contain the old BSD license - for example http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/share/man/man8/rc.8?revision=199463&view=markup -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Bruce Cran
id at least. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-16 Thread Bruce Cran
D. If you can, try switching from AHCI to IDE or vice versa. Otherwise you might have to remove the drive and reconfigure it on another system with a less buggy BIOS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:30:07 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: > Specific configurations of partitions (or rather, byte patterns) are > known to cause some BIOSes to hang during POST - on mine it was > Windows and FreeBSD. If you can, try switching from AHCI to IDE or > vice versa. Otherwi

Re: Hibernation

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
emory to disk before powering off. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:17:14 +0530 Mubeesh ali wrote: > thanks bruce. Here the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen. here if > i cannot get to bios set up. You'll need to either follow instructions for resetting the CMOS battery on the laptop (probably involving partial disassembly), or remove

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:44:48 -0700 Rem P Roberti wrote: > Duly noted. I shall definitely read the man page, but would also > appreciate a > heads up on the dangers involved in writing to NTFS. A Google search for 'NTFS writing dangerous' turns up quite a few lin

Re: IO fluctuation

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: Parklogic making a mess

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Cran
ing it. Not quite the response I had hoped for! -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to restore a text file from UFS??

2010-08-22 Thread Bruce Cran
an shutdown isn't the same way ext4 was truncating files when using editors which overwrite files in-place (as opposed to writing to a temporary file then renaming) is it? Does calling fsync on FreeBSD not ensure that even with SoftUpdates the data is on the disk before the edi

Re: HPC under FreeBSD

2010-08-22 Thread Bruce Cran
to him to learn more. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Cran
t versions though, it may have improved. I presume people mean VMWare Workstation when talking about VMWare, and not other products like ESXi? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Bruce Cran
38a9aec305712;hb=HEAD says simply that ufs2 has read-write support. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Laptop stuck at bios splash again :-( .(chunk 'ad1s4 ; ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue)

2010-08-26 Thread Bruce Cran
eebsd in combination with ubuntu ? It seems the INSYDE bios is rather poor: other people have had problems when trying to use TrueCrypt or PGP in Windows: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7hardware/thread/cc99bd9c-c65c-4ad1-a892-653be6102195 -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: Need Res Utility

2010-08-26 Thread Bruce Cran
quot; instead of "show" which doesn't exist, at least on FreeBSD: > show uname show: Command not found. > which uname /usr/bin/uname > whereis uname uname: /usr/bin/uname /usr/share/man/man1/uname.1.gz -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-

Re: fan control

2010-08-27 Thread Bruce Cran
got a new PC last year with a Gigabyte motherboard and support for variable (PWM) fan speed was only fixed afer a couple of months, and they've kept putting out more versions since then. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: FreeBSD

2010-09-06 Thread Bruce Cran
below panic() in the call stack to see what caused the crash. Already you can see that the problem was: %s: nhindex %u could not be allocated -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: FreeBSD

2010-09-06 Thread Bruce Cran
panic() is called in kernel code when something wrong is detected so the system can stop whatever it's doing. doadump() just dumps the contents of memory to disk. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Cran
k drives > detect this inside the controller and use embedded ECC info to give > the 'right' data back, while alerting that the problem exists. > 4) "Hardware failures" of any of a variety of sorts -- flakey power > supply, bad RAM memory, failing controller cipes, etc

Re: Windows AD and ntpd sync problem

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:45:22 +0300 Omer Faruk SEN wrote: > restrict default nomodify notrap noquery > restrict 127.0.0.1 > server 10.0.0.85 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:18:07 -0600 Modulok wrote: > I have an old box I want to turn into a file server backup machine. > Unfortunately, the mainboard has only PATA headers. I do have three > PCI slots though, so I was looking at a PCI SATA controller card that > will get along with FreeBSD witho

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:23:36 +0200 claudiu vasadi wrote: > what s-ata1 controller would you recommend in this case ? I don't know, I've just heard that the Sil adapters have a bad reputation, including for data corruption. Things may have improved in the 5 years since though. -

Re: Support for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
ryone really hates proprietry operating systems :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Bruce Cran
@example.com Most mail servers will block sendmail's connections from a dynamic IP: the advantage to ssmtp is that it forwards mail to the ISP's server. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

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