Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i did the command pkgdb -Ff and it broke my X (xfce4) the desktop had been able to come up, but the cursor was the X that it has while it is booting.. i was able to start a terminal, but not a mozilla browser. i had been able to use the terminal, but

Re: NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server

2007-05-17 Thread Sachin Sharma
Hi, FreeBSD 6.2 Kernel don't support Broadcom NIC BCM 5708S model. One need to patch kernel Source to make it live. Below i written steps i took. 1, Download patch http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/bce-serdes-20070111.tar.gz 2, cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf 3, cp GENRIC MYKERNEL 4,

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:13 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkgdb -Ff had had a pango problem, so i did a portupgrade -f pango. now i can't even get a terminal in my xfce4 I think you missed some of the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I'm also a bit confused on

fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Chris
I have mentioned this before about releasing a new major version of FreeBSD at such short intervals. Now I am wondering what path the FreeBSD community is taking in regards to server and desktop use. Stuff I would love to see in FreeBSD 7.x (CURRENT) before 7.0 release which looks like it isnt

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i did the command pkgdb -Ff and it broke my X (xfce4) the desktop had been able to come up, but the cursor was

Re: NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server

2007-05-17 Thread Cristiano Deana
2007/5/16, Sachin Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server. I need FreeBSD in these server . Please help me. it works with 6.2-STABLE. download a 6.2 snapshot and install it. works fine here -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:30:50PM +0100, Chris wrote: The recent ports freeze has also concerned me, this is the longest ports freeze I have witnessed since I started using FreeBSD years ago and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers running FreeBSD have to remain on

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:30 +0100, Chris wrote: Stuff I would love to see in FreeBSD 7.x (CURRENT) before 7.0 release which looks like it isnt going to happen [snip] More hardware support - FreeBSD still has poor hardware support when compared to other OS's, in particular vendors such as

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some of the ports that depend on pango being unable to use the new version. Make sure you look

Re: NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server

2007-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:08:39PM +0530, Sachin Sharma wrote: Hi, FreeBSD 6.2 Kernel don't support Broadcom NIC BCM 5708S model. One need to patch kernel Source to make it live. Below i written steps i took. 1, Download patch

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:50 +0100 From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have mentioned this before about releasing a new major version of FreeBSD at such short intervals. Now I am wondering what path the FreeBSD community is taking in regards to server and desktop

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:51:07PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:30 +0100, Chris wrote: A more user friendly installer so datacentres stop been put off FreeBSD. Although work on a new installer is ongoing, nobody ever seems to be clear what the problems are with the

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Craig Boston
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:24:15AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: The recent ports freeze has also concerned me, this is the longest ports freeze I have witnessed since I started using FreeBSD years ago and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers running FreeBSD have to

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some of the ports that depend on pango being

make mplayer failed

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
here is my error message onfigure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 = 2.12.0atk = 1.9.0 pa ngo = 1.12.0cairo = 1.2.0) were not met: No package 'atk' found Requested 'cairo = 1.2.0' but version of cairo is 1.0.2 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you

last email

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
what i sent may or may not make sense. i run pine for email client and am having some buffer lag right now. my keystrokes are not being immeditaelyt echoed and i didn't really mean to send it. if it DOES make sense, feeel free to comment. sorry about that. also typos are a symptom of the

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 17 May 2007, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:37:15 pm KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:37:15 pm KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may

mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Greetings everyone... I am observing what appears to be a similar problem as well... I have a dedicated server with *very* light traffic. It looks like every day or so my server load slowly climbs from 0.20 to 14.00 and then stays there indefinitely locking down the system [until I do an

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some of

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:35:10PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: Now this is totally bogus. The freeze before the 6.0 release was VERY long and several have been longer than this one has been so far. I think the complaint may be more a result of this being a deeper freeze than normal. That's

mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Greetings everyone... I am observing what appears to be a similar problem as well... [referring to the posts from earlier this month with the same subject]... I have a dedicated server with *very* light traffic. It looks like every day or so my server load slowly climbs from 0.20 to 14.00 and

RE: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Yes... this is possible Currently, I am on MySQL 4.1.20 ... but I believe that MySQL is backwards compatible... so I can definitely try this. Do you know if this bug is squashed with MySQL 5.0.37 ? Thanks, Albert -Original Message- From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/17/07, Albert Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Can you go for MySQL 5.0.37? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: As someone who has had to show many people how to use the FreeBSD installer, I can confirm what Chris is referring to. Here's some of the generic end-user complaints I've heard (and some of which I have); [...] As someone who only very rarely plays with the installer,

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Saad
Hello In general This is what I use for my libmap.conf , it works fine for me any you may want to give it a try. [mysqld] libpthread.so libthr.so libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 Note nothing in MySQL 4.1 compiled on FreeBSD 6.2 should use libc_r.so . The other thing in your libmap that

udp fragmentation with pf/ipf

2007-05-17 Thread Hugo Koji Kobayashi
Hello, While making some tests with fragmented udp DNS responses (with EDNS0), we discovered a possible problem with ipf and pf in FreeBSD 6.2 and 7.0 (200705 snapshot). Our test is a DNS query to an DNSSEC enabled server which replies with a ~4KB udp response. We do this with the following dig

Re: udp fragmentation with pf/ipf

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Andrews
This should be rejected as keep frags is meaningless here. pass out log quick on bge0 proto udp from xxx.xxx.xxx.113/32 to any port = 53 keep state keep frags You need pass in quick from any to any with frag keep frag -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St.,

Re: udp fragmentation with pf/ipf

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Andrews
This should be rejected as keep frags is meaningless here. pass out log quick on bge0 proto udp from xxx.xxx.xxx.113/32 to any port = 53 keep state keep frags You need pass in quick from any to any with frag keep frag The reason is that ip fragments

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Schuh
Hello Albert, Hello @list, first, i be a native german speaker, so please excuse my ugly english. Greetings everyone... I am observing what appears to be a similar problem as well... I have a dedicated server with *very* light traffic. It looks like every day or so my server load slowly

RE: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Mark: Thanks for the tips about the placement of the log into [mysqld] -- maybe it will start to show some error messages if I put it up into the mysqld section. :-) I will also take a look at table_cache and query_cache and read_rnd_buffer_size. [I've got some reading / figuring out to do!]

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris wrote: and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers running FreeBSD have to remain on vulnerable versions of ports as a result of this? This looks like another call to have RELENG_x branches on ports, with which I agree.

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread LI Xin
Ivan Voras wrote: Chris wrote: and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers running FreeBSD have to remain on vulnerable versions of ports as a result of this? This looks like another call to have RELENG_x branches on ports, with which I agree. Hmm... Branching is

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Albert Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: key_buffer = 32M key_buffer has the most influence over the performance of MyISAM database. You should increase it as much as possible. On a dedicated 2GB server, 1GB is good. But it only helps, if you actually have indexes. There is no point