upgrade to 6.0-RC1 problem

2005-10-28 Thread Alex Qin
Hi, I recently upgrade the FreeBSD from 5.4-Stable to 6.0 RC1. The FreeBSD run on the VMWare GSX 3.2 with LSI Logic SCSI Adapter. the root was mounting from ufs:da0s1a When I upgrade to 6.0. the FreeBSD can't mount from ufs:da0s1a It work fine on 5.4-Stable. the problem seems cause by the GEOM

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Michael A. Koerber
I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often fills up) /var/tmp...my system becomes sluggish, dies, reboots. The solution I have used is to 1) create a /usr/tmp, 2) remove /var/tmp , 3) make a symbolic link between /usr/tmp and /var/tmp. Perhaps ImageMagick could be patched to use a /usr/

HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Diego
I'm happy to hear that many bugs were fixed. :) But speedtouch usb modem still doesn't work with betas and last rc1. I submitted this some month ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=usb/83504 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Carl Makin wrote: I've been playing with some GIS software and 32Mb TIFF images. Running ImageMagick's "convert" utility under my normal user login to convert the image to gif or jpeg blows away the system every time. No panic seen on the console and no core dump found,

Booting 6.0 RC1 with synced sources from today hangs

2005-10-28 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi all, I tried FreeBSD 6.0 RC1 whic hworked fine besides that when booting after the message acd2: DVDR at ata3-master DUMA33 it took a minute or so to show the next message. No I synced the sources and build a new kernel in order to e.g. try out cdrecord which requires atapicam. But now I c

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:59, Michael A. Koerber wrote: > I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often fills up) /var/tmp...my > system becomes sluggish, dies, reboots. Your system shouldn't reboot - it is probably panicing for some reason and it would be good to know why. Can you enable crash

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Felipe openglx
On 10/27/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough > that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE. Everyone > that we have talked to has applauded the stability and functionality of > the system, s

6.0-RC1: ifconfig reporting bad info when using ndis0 & WPA

2005-10-28 Thread Janet Sullivan
Sorry for cross posting - with 6.0 so near, I wasn't sure which list to send this too. I'm not subscribed to -current, so please cc me if the conversation is moved there. I just cvsup'd RELENG_6_0 and upgraded by 6.0-RC1 install this morning, eager to see if WPA with ndis0 would now work. Th

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Rob
Michael A. Koerber wrote: > I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often > fills up) /var/tmp...my system becomes sluggish, > dies, reboots. > > The solution I have used is to 1) create a /usr/tmp, > 2) remove /var/tmp , 3) make a symbolic link > between /usr/tmp and /var/tmp. > > Perhaps I

Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments)

2005-10-28 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Bryan Fullerton wrote: Yes, this is most annoying. I haven't gotten around to submitting a ports PR complaining about /etc/rc.d/amavisd -- it's so obvious I figured it must have been intentional, but I can't figure out how it makes sense organizationally for a port

Re: 6.0-RC1: ifconfig reporting bad info when using ndis0 & WPA

2005-10-28 Thread Bill Paul
> Sorry for cross posting - with 6.0 so near, I wasn't sure which list to > send this too. I'm not subscribed to -current, so please cc me if the > conversation is moved there. > > I just cvsup'd RELENG_6_0 and upgraded by 6.0-RC1 install this morning, > eager to see if WPA with ndis0 would no

Re: 6.0-RC1: ifconfig reporting bad info when using ndis0 & WPA

2005-10-28 Thread Janet Sullivan
Bill Paul wrote: The problem is that the connection is actually on channel 11, not channel 1, and its using WPA. Is this a known issue? for now I thought people would be more interested in actually having WPA and WPA2 actually work, and wouldn't mind so much that ifconfig didn't always repo

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Michael A. Koerber
Rob wrote: > Michael A. Koerber wrote: > >>I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often >>fills up) /var/tmp...my system becomes sluggish, >>dies, reboots. >> >>The solution I have used is to 1) create a /usr/tmp, >>2) remove /var/tmp , 3) make a symbolic link >>between /usr/tmp and /var/tm

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Scott Long
Felipe openglx wrote: On 10/27/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE. Everyone that we have talked to has applauded the stability and functionality o

Re: 5.x/6.x network stability

2005-10-28 Thread John Pettitt
Carl Makin wrote: > John Pettitt wrote: > >> Carl Makin wrote: >> >> >> >>> Morning All, >>> >>> the interface would just go dead. Nothing in ifconfig or syslog or >>> dmesg would indicate a problem, but nothing would go in or out. The >>> only way to fix it was reboot. >>> >> >> What sort

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Felipe openglx
On 10/28/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'll need to work with the X11 developers. X is only something that > FreeBSD includes as a 3rd party package, it's not something that we > work on as part of the OS. That's odd, because X11 always worked on that machine, on any linux distro

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Felipe openglx wrote: On 10/28/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You'll need to work with the X11 developers. X is only something that FreeBSD includes as a 3rd party package, it's not something that we work on as part of the OS. That's odd, because X11 always worked on that

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Friday 28 October 2005 12:06 pm, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > Felipe openglx wrote: > >On 10/28/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>You'll need to work with the X11 developers. X is only something > >> that FreeBSD includes as a 3rd party package, it's not something > >> that we work on as

RE: bandwidth issues/slow box

2005-10-28 Thread Matt Smith
Hello all, I have a box that has 4.11 on it and is running IRCD and apache. The box is a 133mhz Pentium with 128MB of RAM. My problem is the box is sucking bandwidth like crazy even though there are very few connections and I have no idea why. I have another box with similar specs and it doe

Re: bandwidth issues/slow box

2005-10-28 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Friday 28 October 2005 13:19, Matt Smith wrote: > Hello all, > I have a box that has 4.11 on it and is running IRCD and apache. > The box is a 133mhz Pentium with 128MB of RAM. My problem is the box > is sucking bandwidth like crazy even though there are very few > connections and I have n

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-28 Thread James Long
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:05, James Long wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:05:23 +0930 > > > From: "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: RFC: proposed patch for > > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c > > > > > > > The command I use most is wicontrol -L > > > > > > Tr

Error in make buildworld 5.4 stable

2005-10-28 Thread Tom Shafron
Hi, I just cvsuped the entire source for 5.4 stable earlier today. I'm running AMD64. When I make buildworld I get: cc -m32 -march=athlon-xp -msse2 -mfancy-math-387 -DCOMPAT_32BIT -I/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/include -L/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -B/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -O2 -

Re: Error in make buildworld 5.4 stable

2005-10-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:36:31PM -0700, Tom Shafron wrote: > Hi, > > I just cvsuped the entire source for 5.4 stable > earlier today. I'm running AMD64. When I make > buildworld I get: > > cc -m32 -march=athlon-xp -msse2 -mfancy-math-387 > -DCOMPAT_32BIT -I/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/include

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:59, James Long wrote: > > > # ifconfig ath0 list scan > > > ifconfig: list: bad value > > > # > > > > Er weird.. > > Is this in 6.0 or 5.x? > > FreeBSD t21.museum.rain.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Oct 24 > 12:49:5 5 PDT 2005 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i

releng_5_4 install problems and a question about a possible work around

2005-10-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
Well just working on installing Freebsd 5.4 on a Toshiba Tecra M3. The problem I have run into is that it hangs during the loading the kernel up. It hangs right after seeing uhci. FreeBSD 6.0 can get past it, but decided to whack the MBR in the proccess even when told not to mess with it. I was wo

sendfile + non local filesystem + lighttpd = EOPNOTSUPP

2005-10-28 Thread Niki Denev
Hello, I seem to have a problem serving files with lighttpd from non local (smbfs) filesystem. Lighttpd tries to use sendfile(2) but, it returns with -1 and errno "Operation not supported", but i can't find this error in the documented errors on the manpage. Forcing lighttpd to not use sendfile fi

Re: sendfile + non local filesystem + lighttpd = EOPNOTSUPP

2005-10-28 Thread David G. Lawrence
> Hello, > > I seem to have a problem serving files with > lighttpd from non local (smbfs) filesystem. > Lighttpd tries to use sendfile(2) but, it returns > with -1 and errno "Operation not supported", > but i can't find this error in the documented errors > on the manpage. > Forcing lighttpd to n

Re: sendfile + non local filesystem + lighttpd = EOPNOTSUPP

2005-10-28 Thread Niki Denev
David G. Lawrence wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I seem to have a problem serving files with >>lighttpd from non local (smbfs) filesystem. >>Lighttpd tries to use sendfile(2) but, it returns >>with -1 and errno "Operation not supported", >>but i can't find this error in the documented errors >>on the manpage

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Jiawei Ye
On 10/29/05, Jung-uk Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Was that working X11 X.Org or XFree86? Older releases contains > > XFree86 and 6.0 contains X.Org. You can find both as a FreeBSD port > > under x11-servers category. Give XFree86 a try, maybe it is better > > for You. > > Or xorg-server-snap,