Re: ports binary upgrade question for 9.2

2013-10-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:32:37PM +0200, Zoran Kolic wrote: > Due to trip to make, I will have to wait few days to > upgrade my nodes to 9.2 release. But, I'd like to learn > the easiest way to handle ports. You don't have to recompile all ports when switching to a new _minor_ version. Minor vers

Re: Clang as default compiler

2012-09-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:13:41PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > Rxvt-unicode seemed to crash reliably whenever I was scrolling through a > > document with less(1). If I reached the end of the document, and pressed > > Page > > Down (keysim Next), it would crash. It was quite weird. > > >

Re: Clang as default compiler

2012-09-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:02:20AM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2012-09-17 21:43, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:04:20AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > ... > >> For most of the failures, we are already aware of them, as a result of > >> our per

Re: Clang as default compiler

2012-09-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:04:20AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:49:24PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > Is there a specif PR to use for ports that fails with clang and does > > not specify to use gcc ( > devel/cdecl and deskutils/calibre so were > > the culprits so far)

Re: WITHOUT_JAIL and make delete-old{,-libs}

2011-03-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:26:19AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting David Demelier (from Mon, 21 Mar > 2011 07:04:18 +0100): > > > On 20/03/2011 17:31, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:34:51 +0100 David Demelier > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I w

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04:16AM +0200, Eivind E wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: > >> Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)? > >> It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, too. > > > > Keep in mind that normal radeon driver

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Eivind E wrote: > > One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first > > installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver > > hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock > >

Re: Inconsistent IO performance

2010-08-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:37:03PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > OK. It's pretty clear that disk IO is terrible on this system. I suspect > it's the SATA/PATA converter that is the throttle. In any case, > I still have no explanation for the variation. It's not vibration. Some > of my best times w

Re: Inconsistent IO performance

2010-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 02:36:31AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:36:12PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > > > Both figures seem quite low to me? I cannot exactly reproduce your test, > > > because I don't have an empty second disk handy, but do

Re: Inconsistent IO performance

2010-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:36:12PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > > Both figures seem quite low to me? I cannot exactly reproduce your test, > > because I don't have an empty second disk handy, but doing > > > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=100 of=/tmp/foo > > With a total write size of 10

Re: Inconsistent IO performance

2010-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:01:09AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > For some time I have seen very odd issues with IO performance on > 8-Stable. Going back to November of last year when 8.0 was released, I > see variations of up to 22% in identical operations. This is not a > degradation as the perfor

Re: 8.0 network problem

2010-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:32:22PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Back to the problem at hand: > > I wonder if it's lack of "quick" on some rules which is causing the > problem; hard to say, That would stop evaluation of further rules, sure. But it seems most of the rules concern the external i

Re: 8.0 network problem

2010-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:06:25AM -0500, David Warren wrote: > Hi again, > > Disabling pf definitely makes samba file transfers move faster (the > speed varies quite a bit, but everything's faster than the single kilobytes > per second I was seeing previously), but I'm perplexed about what's

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello list. > > I am evaluating options for my new upcoming storage system, where for > various reasons the data will be stored on 2 x 2tb SATA disk in a > mirror and has to be encrypted (a 40gb Intel SSD will be used for the > system d

Re: ntpd not removed; WITHOUT_NTP enabled in src.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 12:08:09PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > Henrik Hudson wrote: > > > Hey List, > > > > > > Among other things I have in my /etc/src.conf > > > WITHOUT_NTP=yes > > > > &

Re: ntpd not removed; WITHOUT_NTP enabled in src.conf

2010-01-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:38:49PM -0900, Henrik Hudson wrote: > Hey List, > > Among other things I have in my /etc/src.conf > WITHOUT_NTP=yes > > which from my understanding should not build ntpd, etc... > > However, after doing: > make buildworld ... > make installworld ... > ntpd still exists

Re: kernel build failed

2010-01-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:55:29PM +0200, E. O. wrote: > pls help me.. build kernel error.. > > I have to update their source code.. standart-supfile > > # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites > # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html. > *defau

Re: ZFS and disappearing glabels

2009-12-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:48:28PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > > I've set up a system as described here. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > > Using the 8.0 Release DVD and then csup'ing to RELENG_8 and > rebuilding. > > I set it up with a single drive, the only chang

Re: Using RELENG_8 to compile for older RELENG_x

2009-12-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:18:17PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > I think I'll try unpacking 4.11's release tarballs into an empty > jail, doing whatever else the install does and launching that. I'm > guessing I should be able to compile/install world/kernel/release/apps > in there. Assuming the runnin

Re: Using RELENG_8 to compile for older RELENG_x

2009-12-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:55:46AM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:28:51AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > the current ports tree isn't guaranteed to work on [4.x] either. > > s/isn't guaranteed to/is guaranteed not to/ That's what I thought,

Re: Using RELENG_8 to compile for older RELENG_x

2009-12-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:15:01AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > I'm on RELENG_8, works great. I've been bugged to compile some > things for RELENG_4 boxes. Due to administrative fiat, I have to > compile externally and ship them the results, no login. The best thing to do is to convince the guys runni

Re: RELENG_8 buildworld broken?

2009-12-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:09:12PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The problem is this: > > - User installs OS > - User creates src.conf with numerous WITHOUT_xxx entries. Examples: > > WITHOUT_ATM=true > WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=true > > - User is forced to go through above said directories and cro

Re: some options in src.conf has no effect (RELENG_8)

2009-12-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:26:13PM +0200, nickolas...@gmail.com wrote: > > And there are options that have no effect: > WITHOUT_CTM > WITHOUT_CVS > WITHOUT_FREEBSD_UPDATE > WITHOUT_IPFW > WITHOUT_PORTSNAP > WITHOUT_RCS > WITHOUT_ROUTED I'm using WITHOUT_CTM and WITHOUT_CVS. When building the new

Re: iwn(4) 5100 - Estimation for MFC of r198429?

2009-12-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:39:37PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using the iwn(4) driver contributed by Bernhard Schmidt with > my Intel 5100 AGN card on 8-STABLE since he announced the > availability. It was committed to -CURRENT as of r198429. There is > no mention of MFC in th

Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

2009-11-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:30:18AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > There are a couple of differences between 7.x and 8.0; > > * The USB stack has been rewritten. I've had to change the following in > > /etc/devfs.rules: replace "add path 'usb*' mode 0660 group usb" with "add > > path 'usb/*' mode

Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

2009-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:57:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Altho I am still some time from having my migration from the > 1998 Kayak -> 2009 Dell done and working, will it be possible > to upgrade my 32bit 7.2-R, p4 to a 64bit 8.0? It is possible, but not easy. Upgrading f

Re: Avahi compilation help needed

2009-09-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:39:27PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > Dimitry Andric wrote: > > On 2009-09-10 14:06, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to compile Avahi-0.6.25 (http://avahi.org/) on FreeBSD 7.2 > >> (i386) [in fact, on Tomahawk Desktop]. It develops compilation errors.

Re: Cpufreq/ACPI problem? (basically still is: "Re: Problem with IBM Thinkpad T30 shutting down due to high temperatures")

2009-08-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:47:18AM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > Hi, > > thank you for all your feedback. > I won't answer all replies in detail, but will summarise what I did to > give you some sort of report. > Doug made me think about the beginning of this situation. I can't tell > you for

Re: Problem with IBM Thinkpad T30 shutting down due to high temperatures

2009-08-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:53:10PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > Hello list, > > for some time now my T30 shuts down due to temperatures exceeding the > safe limit of 92 degrees celcius. > Regardless to say that a 2GHz pentium4m powers the machine, and these > chips are "well known" for high t

Re: Monitoring tools for mfi0: ?

2009-08-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:04:35PM +0200, Václav Haisman wrote: > Hi, > I have a server with the "mfi0: " controller. Are there any > monitoring tool for this? I tried camcontrol but it doesn't even list the > device. Maybe sysutils/megacli does what you want? Roland -- R.F.Smith

8.0-BETA2 test OK on Dell Latitude C610

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
This week I updated my laptop (Dell Latitude C610) to 8.0-BETA2 from 7.2-RELEASE from source. Apart from the fact that building world stopped in usbconfig (see PR bin/137180, I patched usbconfig's Makefile to link to the newly built libusb), the update went smoothly. So far I have not found furthe

Re: FreeBSD child process die for root

2009-07-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:17:07PM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > Roland Smith writes: > > >> > >> I have tested with bash, sh and csh. It seems the child process forked > >> simply die irrespective of the shell. > > > > Ok, so it's pr

Re: FreeBSD child process die for root

2009-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:23:52PM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > Roland Smith writes: > > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:04:09AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I'm Sagara Wijetunga from Tomahawk Computers from Singapore, makers of

Re: Vulnerability question

2009-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:05:28PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: > > > How do you do that precisely ? > > > ``WITH_REALPLAYER=no'' in /etc/make.conf ? > > > > cd /us/ports/multimedia/mplayer > > make config > > Scroll down to the "REALPLAYER Enable real player plugin" line > > to un-check the line >

Re: FreeBSD child process die for root

2009-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:04:09AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > Hi > > I'm Sagara Wijetunga from Tomahawk Computers from Singapore, makers of the > Tomahawk Desktop, a FreeBSD based desktop operating system > (http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/) which is free for personal use. > > Ever sin

Re: Vulnerability question

2009-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 06:35:04PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > Are you running a linux binary of mplayer? Because a native mplayer > > > > binary does not require linux-pango! It just uses the native pango. > > > > > > In fact, it's lxdvdrip which requires linux-pango [via linux-gtk2]. > > >

Re: Vulnerability question

2009-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 05:08:32PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:40:52PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:56:54PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: > > > Building lxdvdrip stops because linux-pango has known > > > vulnerabiliti

Re: Vulnerability question

2009-06-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:56:54PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: > Building lxdvdrip stops because linux-pango has known > vulnerabilities. You can ignore vulnerabilities by setting the environment variable DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES. See ports(7). > Is there a risk if mplayer (which requires linux-pang

Re: RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE?

2009-05-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:46:22AM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > I always use -iU too. > > I've lost motd, passwd, group and master.passwd > > During mergemaster -p I was asked to merge changes to some of these, and > > still they were replaced with the newer versions.

Re: Can i add a new HDD to an encrypted array?

2009-05-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:02:46PM +1000, ghostcorps wrote: > Thanks Roland, > > You have confirmed my worst fears. Well, there is one thing that _might_ work. It might also destroy your data, hence the first step: - Make a backup and verify it. - Remove the array from fstab, so it isn't mou

Re: Can i add a new HDD to an encrypted array?

2009-05-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:12:42PM +1000, ghostcorps wrote: > Hi Guys, > > This seems liek a really basic question, I expect a simple 'no', but I > havn't found anything definative yet. > > I currently have a hardware RAID5 array, using the Intel Matrix RAID > capability onboard, encrypted with

Re: cd ripping to flac

2009-03-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:12:28AM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > Howdy! > I'd like to rip my cd-s to flac files using some > command line app, like cdda2wav or cdparanoia. > Using pipe to flac utility would be nice and the > way I'd take. What program acts in that matter? It won't work if you want t

Re: devd question

2009-03-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:48:53PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > This system is missing from the devd.conf manual page, nor is DEVFS > > mentioned in /usr/share/examples/etc/devd.conf. Is it documented > > somewhere else? > > No, it is not documented anywhere. > Feel free to send me the docum

Re: devd question

2009-03-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:23:46PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 28/02/2009 16:34 Kostik Belousov said the following: > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 02:13:10PM +0100, Michael Sperber wrote: > >> I'm trying to make devd run an stty command whenever a USB serial device > >> is attached. Unfortunately

Re: g_vfs_done()...errors

2009-01-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:00:03AM +0100, barbara wrote: > > Hello, > while reading/writing dvd on 6-STABLE (can't remember on 7-STABLE right now), > I'm getting the message buffer filled by errors. > This is my dvd-rw > $ sysctl dev.acd.0.%desc > dev.acd.0.%desc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109/1.58 > at

Re: [HEADS UP] drm merged to -STABLE

2009-01-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:49:01AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 10:01 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > > I just merged drm (Direct Rendering) from HEAD. > > > > - Support for latest Intel chips > > - Support and fixes for many AMD/ATI chips r500 and below > >

Re: Pending MFC of drm updates

2009-01-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:36:20PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > I have a patch available for testing at > http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-update-7-010609.patch.bz2 Excellent! Thanks for your hard work on this, Robert! After updating my source to 7.1-RELEASE, I applied this patch and buil

Re: Samsung SCX-4200 printer

2009-01-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:23:54AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:26:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:36:35PM CET, Torfinn Ingolfsen > > > said: >

Re: Samsung SCX-4200 printer

2009-01-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:36:35PM CET, Torfinn Ingolfsen > said: > > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:14:22 +0100 > > Harald Weis wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to install the SCX-4200 printer on a FreeBSD box ? > > > The printer is deliver

Re: GELI partition mount on boot fails after 7.0 -> 7.1-PRERELEASE upgrade

2008-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:54:45PM +0300, Kyryll A Mirnenko aka Mirya wrote: > I was using a GELI partition for /usr/home on 7.0, so it attaches and mounts > on boot. The problem is it stopped working after the system was upgraded to > RELENG_7/7.1-PRERELEASE. My GELI encrypted home partition w

Re: Temperature monitoring on old desktop - Dell OptiPlex SX270?

2008-08-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:52:51PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:19:12 -0700 > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:50:53AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > The first questions to ask are: 1) does this machine even have a H/W > >

Re: Failure building apache22 and mysql51

2008-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:20:13PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 2008/7/14 Sorin Pânca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm sorry for my late response, I was on vacation. > > I think this was the case (although I thought we have only amd64 machines). > > Is there a way to recover from this situation by ssh ac

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:41:28PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Jul 11, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > >> After about 2 weeks of watching it carefully I've learned almost > >> nothing. It's not a disk failure (AFAIK) it's not cpu overheat (now > >

Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?

2008-07-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:59:33AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > About 10 days ago one of my personal machines started hanging at > random. This is the first bit of instability I've ever experienced on > this machine (2+ years running) > > FreeBSD triceratops.netconsonance.com 6.2-RELEASE-p11 Free

Re: cpufreq broken on core2duo (was: powerd is doing nothing?)

2008-06-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:33:24AM +1000, Andrew Snow wrote: > Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > When you say that it doesnt work, does it give an error or? In my case > > it doesnt give any errors just says it set it but I see that nothing is > > set. > > Here's one box: > > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2

7-STABLE and Intel G33

2008-06-04 Thread Roland Smith
My PC has built-in intel G33 graphics, which I'm trying to get to work in something better then vesa. Following the instructions in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039638.html I have compiled and installed the driver and kernel modules from the git trees for drm and

Re: g_vfs_done error third part--PLEASE HELP!

2008-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 02:14:14PM +0200, Willy Offermans wrote: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ar0s1a 20308398 230438 18453290 1%/ > devfs 11 0 100%/dev > /dev/ar0s1d 21321454 3814482 1580125619%/us

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-05-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:19:27PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:38:51PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > > I have added options USB DEBUG to my kernconf file ("D

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-05-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:38:51PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > I have added options USB DEBUG to my kernconf file ("DYSTANT"). Here > is the backtrace: > > Steve > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DYSTANT]$ sudo kgdb kernel.debug > /var/crash/vmcore.6 > [GDB will not be able to debug us

Re: Crash with recent kernel on wireless

2008-04-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:25:14PM +0400, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > Hi > > Recently I've upgraded 7-STABLE: Mar 11 -> Apr 24 > > Everything was fine until I've tried to configure wireless (ath driver, > WPA) > It crashes every time after interface becomes UP, > (I've seen associated in ifc

Re: g_vfs_done error third part--PLEASE HELP!

2008-04-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Willy Offermans wrote: > Dear FreeBSD friends, > > It is already the third time that I report this error. Can someone help > me in solving this issue? Probably the reason that you hear so little is that you provide so little information. Most of us are no

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:13:17PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >Eh I think I saw something like this myself. > >Do you by a chance have that new device sg in your kernel? > >I assume you do (GENERIC) - try to drop it. > >I am not su

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:10:23AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > freebsd-stable: as you can see, Roland has been teaching me about > crashdumps since my umass brought down one system, and is rather > unusable on another. Here's the kgdb output: > > Best, > Steve > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/obj/

Re: Digitally Signed Binaries w/ Kernel support, etc.

2008-04-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:58:40AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> Signing binaries could be naturally tied in with securelevel, where some > >> securelevel (1?) would mean kernel no longer accepts new keys. > > > > If you set the system immutable flag on the binaries, you cannot modify > > them at

Re: Digitally Signed Binaries w/ Kernel support, etc.

2008-04-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:46:39PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:09:59PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > >> Does FreeBSD have support for digitally signed binary checking, similar to > >> what Linux has with bsign and Di

Re: Digitally Signed Binaries w/ Kernel support, etc.

2008-04-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:09:59PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Does FreeBSD have support for digitally signed binary checking, similar to > what Linux has with bsign and DigSig, where system binaries are signed and > this signature is verified before being run in the kernel? If an attacker c

Re: sticky sound on 7 stable

2008-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:44:36PM +0100, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi stable@ > I have sticky sound flow on 2 different slowish laptops running 7 > Stable, Sound plays for a few secs, then breaks for a fraction & > resumes, repeatedly. I guess fault is not sound config, hence I'm > not posting multi

Re: FreeBSD tar errors on valid empty tar.gz

2008-01-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:55:52PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: > A totally empty file is not valid try the following test:- >> touch empty >> tar cvzf test.tar.gz --files-from empty >> tar tvzf test.tar.gz tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file >> type or format >> tar --version >>

Re: devfs.rules include rule question in 6.2 release

2008-01-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:23:52PM +1100, Geoff Roberts wrote: > Hi, > > It seems you can't recursively use the "include" rule specification > with devfs in Freebsd 6.2. I couldn't see a note about this in the > devfs man page so I'm not sure whether this is expected behaviour or > not. The manpa

Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk

2007-12-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:49:47PM -0700, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > > The specs of the system are: > > > Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard > > > AMD Athlon64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz > > > Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579) > > > 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150

Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID

2007-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:24:56PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Honza Holakovsky wrote: > >> Well, didn't know that, "/bin/kill -9 wdfs_PID" works, great >> >> Thanks a lot, after your advice I read an article about csh built-in >> commands, never heard of i

Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID

2007-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:05:21PM +0100, Honza Holakovsky wrote: > Thanks for reply, > > I tried to kill the process via all possibilities described in man kill :) > But I didn't know there are some processes which can't be killed, so I tried > again running wdfs, but after "ps -xacu | grep wdfs"

Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID

2007-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:30:01PM +0100, Honza Holakovsky wrote: > Hi, > > I'm expecting quite curious problem (currently spotted with usage of > audacious (1.3.2 [20070405-4320]) and fusefs-wdfs (1.3.2)) > After I finish working with either of these two programs (i.e. closing > audacious windown

Re: re(4) lockups on a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (7.0-BETA3 amd64)

2007-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:10:43AM +0100, Martin Matuska wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (MS-7368) mainboard with 7.0-BETA3 in > amd64 mode at a german dedicated server provider. > The mainboard has a onboard re(4) ethernet controller. I experience a > very strange behaiviour:

Re: Is it O.K. to use the 7.0 ports tree on 6.3 ?

2007-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:25:32PM +, Pete French wrote: > > You've already received the right advice about not renaming the INDEX, > > but I think it's also worth mentioning that untar'ing a static picture > > of the ports tree is of little practical value unless you never plan > > to update t

Re: Progress with usability of AMD64

2007-11-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:59:03PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:24:41PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Vivek Khera wrote: > > VK> My list of software is purely server stuff; I > > VK> don't use any FreeBSD desktops. > > > > It seems to be the k

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:36:27AM -0500, Bruce Burden wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: > > > > I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one > > to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test > > releases

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:04:43AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Jason Slack wrote: >> I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not >> one >> to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test >> releases of 7 available now to the final release whe

Re: portupgrade error with 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:31:49PM +0100, Marc UBM Bocklet wrote: > > and then tried using portupgrade, which promptly fails with: > > > > Fatal error 'Cannot allocate red zone for initial thread' at line 382 > > in file /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c (errno = 12) > > Illegal instruction:

Re: Mounting smbfs as user?

2007-10-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:04:15PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 18/10/2007, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The user in question probably needs read/write access to the /dev/smbX > > device in question. > > There is no such device: > > # ls /d

Re: Mounting smbfs as user?

2007-10-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:08:09PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to implement smbfs mounting by regular non-root users and I > can't make any progress. vfs.usermount is set to 1. > > When I try mounting a remote file system, this is what I get: > > > mount_smbfs -I server //[EMAI

Re: buildworld failures on STABLE

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:01:16AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > On a remote machine currently with RELENG-6 from 20th. June, with STABLE > sources from this morning I get build failures in contrib/ similar to: > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/lcm.c:801: internal > c

Re: gbde and geli on 6.2

2007-09-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:35:28PM +0100, Chris wrote: > > > However I seen this in geli within an hour of using it. > > > > > > GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=1). > > > ad6s1c.eli[WRITE(offset=0, length=131072)] > > > > I've been running a GELI encrypted /home partition on 6.2-STABLE

Re: gbde and geli on 6.2

2007-09-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:09:22PM +0100, Chris wrote: > Hi I am concerned about the availabilities of these encryptions in > freebsd releases that are marked stable. > > It seems gbde has a problem when the the data written goes over the > lba boundary around lba48. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:19:03AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > On Wed, 27.06.2007 at 08:12:06 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI > > error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:24:15PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, > > the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclosure. Most likely this is

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:53:31AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:05:08 +0100 > Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site, > > burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. > > good point. these may already

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:03:21AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-( > > This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk to a > native SC

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:19:05PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:12:06 +0200 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI > > error. I'll try 'cam

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:32:21PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:09:48 +0200 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > > > It's probabry your disk is dying base

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output. > > I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre, > too. I never had problems with dump/restore. > > My disk also failed recently with very similer mess

dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
Some background; I'm using a 160GB USB harddisk to write dumps to. This disk is encrypted with GEOM_ELI; umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 23847

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 06:21:40PM -0400, Indigo 23 wrote: > Does anyone think that its worth the hassle? If you do manage to get > it up and running, will you see any noticeable advantages or is it > better to just stick with i386? The only caveat that I can see is a > recompilation of all the

Re: Problem with external usb harddisk

2007-05-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:34:05PM +0200, Cédric Devillers wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with an external usb harddisk in FreeBSD 5.4. > It seems to be recognize but when I try to fdisk it, I have the following > message : fdisk: can't open device /dev/da0 > fdisk: cannot open disk

Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:40:31AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > > dirsplit (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirsplit/) will do the trick > > nicely. > > > > Roland > > Roland > > Thanks for the reply. Mea culpa, I failed to mention that the > individual file cannot be spread over different media

Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:46:35AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST) > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > By the way, I am _not_ using k3b or any other krap. ;-) > > > > Best regards > >Oliver > > > What is Krap to one can be Komfo

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:18:12PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 17:51:34 Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:29:54PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > > > I also haven't read anything and got terrible caught by this 7.2 xorg > > > t

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:29:54PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > I also haven't read anything and got terrible caught by this 7.2 xorg thing Says it all, really. :-) > and kind of lame that portupgrade xorg does not install the modules, And how is portupgrade to know which specific drivers you need?

Re: (no subject)

2007-05-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:03:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to get work a WMP54G Linksys Wireless card. > I should work with .ko normal driver (ra.ko or ral.ko don'r remember) but it > doesn't. The problem might be that wireless card manufacturers sometimes switch the chipset o

Re: Another newbie question, about makefile options

2007-03-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:28:45PM +0100, Daniel Mouritsen wrote: > So my question is, should i pass the makefile options only when running > "make" to compile the program (that would make sence wouldnt it?) or should > i use them everytime i run make as in both when doing "make" and "make > instal

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