[releng_9 tinderbox] failure on powerpc64/powerpc

2012-05-30 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-05-31 02:37:46 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-05-31 02:37:46 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Sep 28 13:48:49 UTC 2011 mdtan...@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64 TB --- 2012-05-31 02

[releng_9 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2012-05-30 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-05-31 02:09:21 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-05-31 02:09:21 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Sep 28 13:48:49 UTC 2011 mdtan...@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64 TB --- 2012-05-31 02

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Brian
On 5/30/2012 1:26 PM, Oliver Pinter wrote: On 5/30/12, David Chisnall wrote: Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy m

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 07:20:31PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > If you had to list > the three things you most like about FreeBSD, which would you > pick? Are they the same as when you first started using it? 1) Using it doesn't require changing me (well, at least change is gradual and continuo

Re: bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

2012-05-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:07:55PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2 > patchlevel 10 and 28. I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing that > over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA. I'm bisecting to > find out what is going

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard >> anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. >> >> I have a system that I am trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 9

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Brian
On 5/30/2012 11:20 AM, David Chisnall wrote: Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which advertises exciti

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 30 May 2012, David Chisnall wrote: Hi Everyone, I came to FreeBSD nearly 20 years ago because it had text-mode (aka command line, console, etc.) apps and I wanted to avoid GUIs for applications that are not essentially graphic in nature. The ability to switch for applications essenti

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Jakub Lach
- Actually somewhat caring about performance too... (not like OpenBSD). - True unix pedigree, in mostly still retained philosophically. P.S. I'm not bashing OpenBSD, in fact, it's one of my favorite systems, just FreeBSD in it's default form/ src update route is closer to how I would like this s

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Jakub Lach
- You can (change how to) compile /tailor almost everything, yet whole OS doesn't feel fragmented. - Provided you have massive ;) WITHOUT_* stack in make.conf you can have pretty frugal system. (hal, dbus etc.) - Native Opera support, yes it really mattered to me, and still matters. Web browse

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:54 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard > anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. > > I have a system that I am trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. I have > built it and installed the kernel, but it fails to

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Steven Hartland
1. The community - Unlike Linux which is very fragmented by all the different flavours and hence individual communities, FreeBSD has one community who are always happy to help with hints tips and advice. This simply cant be beaten! 2. Stability - There's always issue with any OS but in our many

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard > anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. > > I have a system that I am trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. I have > built it and installed the kernel, but it fails to b

Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. I have a system that I am trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. I have built it and installed the kernel, but it fails to boot. The boot freezes after probing for my hard drives during the

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Wed, 30 May 2012 19:20:31 +0100 David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm > sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish > number of users. > > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy materia

[releng_9 tinderbox] failure on powerpc64/powerpc

2012-05-30 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-05-30 17:17:56 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-05-30 17:17:56 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Sep 28 13:48:49 UTC 2011 mdtan...@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64 TB --- 2012-05-30 17

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 May 2012 19:20, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to > this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. > > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which > adverti

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Oliver Pinter
On 5/30/12, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it > to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. > > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which > advertises exciting

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:59:01 -0500, Chris Nehren wrote: 4. Everything "feels right" and "makes sense" on a very deep level for me, in a way that never happened with the other Unix and Unix "alike" OSs I've used. Bingo. For me: 1) Integration. The OS is integrated very well all around. How

[releng_9 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2012-05-30 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-05-30 16:49:39 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-05-30 16:49:39 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Sep 28 13:48:49 UTC 2011 mdtan...@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64 TB --- 2012-05-30 16

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/31/2012 1:20, David Chisnall wrote: I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before I do I'd like to get a better feel for why the rest of you are using FreeBSD. If you had to list the three things you

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Josh Beard
On 05/30/2012 12:20 PM, David Chisnall wrote: Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which advertises excit

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Johan Hendriks
David Chisnall schreef: Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which advertises exciting new features like

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Vitaly Magerya
David Chisnall wrote: > If you had > to list the three things you most like about FreeBSD, which would you pick? 1. Large number of ports, including obscure programs other package system don't have. 2. Relatively straightforward system configuration (i.e. rc.conf), as opposed to options scattered

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Nehren
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 19:20:31 +0100 , David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, ... and not wrapped at <80 characters. > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material > (which advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before > I do I'd like

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it > to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. > > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which

Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread David Chisnall
Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before

i386 binaries on amd64: ldconfig problems

2012-05-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, I've recently migrated my workstation from i386 to amd64 (finally, because I neeed to go beyond 4 GB RAM). The transition went smoothly so far, except for one thing: I need to use several old i386 binaries, which all work well except for one: olvwm. $ uname -rsm FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE-20120528

Re: Different features on different CPU cores?!

2012-05-30 Thread Zhihao Yuan
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2012/5/30 Zhihao Yuan : >> OK... I see what happened: >> >> ~> cc a.c >> ~> gcc46 a.c >> In file included from a.c:1:0: >> /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd8.3/4.6.3/include/pmmintrin.h:32:3: >> error: #error "SSE3 instruction

Re: Different features on different CPU cores?!

2012-05-30 Thread Olivier Smedts
2012/5/30 Zhihao Yuan : > OK... I see what happened: > > ~> cc a.c > ~> gcc46 a.c > In file included from a.c:1:0: > /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd8.3/4.6.3/include/pmmintrin.h:32:3: > error: #error "SSE3 instruction set not enabled" > ~> clang a.c > In file included from a.c:1: >

Re: Different features on different CPU cores?!

2012-05-30 Thread Zhihao Yuan
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Michael Butler wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/30/12 10:15, Zhihao Yuan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Today I want to compile the latest www/chromium, and I found that I >> encountered some SSSE3 problems, with either gcc46/clang, and I f

Re: Different features on different CPU cores?!

2012-05-30 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/12 10:15, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > Today I want to compile the latest www/chromium, and I found that I > encountered some SSSE3 problems, with either gcc46/clang, and I found > that this new version requires (S)SSE3 support. > > My CPU is

Different features on different CPU cores?!

2012-05-30 Thread Zhihao Yuan
Hi, Today I want to compile the latest www/chromium, and I found that I encountered some SSSE3 problems, with either gcc46/clang, and I found that this new version requires (S)SSE3 support. My CPU is a Intel i5 M 520, which suppose to support these. But when I'm checking the CPU features, I see:

[releng_9 tinderbox] failure on powerpc64/powerpc

2012-05-30 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-05-30 08:07:23 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-05-30 08:07:23 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Sep 28 13:48:49 UTC 2011 mdtan...@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64 TB --- 2012-05-30 08

[releng_9 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2012-05-30 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-05-30 07:30:22 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-05-30 07:30:22 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Sep 28 13:48:49 UTC 2011 mdtan...@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64 TB --- 2012-05-30 07