Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-07-05 Thread Samuel J. Greear
A DragonFly BSD Paypal account has been established at pay...@dragonflybsd.org, Matthew Dillon will maintain primary ownership of the account. Some pre-existing funds that were earmarked for DragonFly are being moved into this account, which will be used to fund future hardware acquisitions by the

Re: Failure to allocate contiguous memory

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Kyuupi wrote: > I have jerky window dragging where repainting is very slow. > > I believe it is because DRI is not working with my graphics card, in turn > because of a failure to allocate contiguous memory. > > Relevant snippets of dmesg below. Is there somethin

Re: upgrade i386 --> x86_64?

2012-03-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> > On a related note, I found a GSoC project to implement a i386 ABI for > x86_64 kernel. I wonder what is the status of this? > > Peeter > No students have attempted it. Sam

Re: upgrade i386 --> x86_64?

2012-03-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM, peeter (must) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Nikolai Lifanov > wrote: > > On 3/19/2012 6:54 AM, peeter (must) wrote: > >> > >> Hi all > >> > >> I wonder if there's a way to (cross) compile an x86_64 system on a > >> i386 one, ie upgrade 2.10_i386 to 3.

Re: cross-Compiling DFBSD on an Ubuntu machine.

2012-03-11 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alex Hornung wrote: > On 11/03/12 18:14, karim.allah.ah...@gmail.com wrote: > > I've an Ubuntu machine ( oneiric ), Is it possible to cross-compile > DFBSD ? > > In a nutshell: no, it isn't possible. > > Cheers, > Alex > To clarify: the build infrastructure would

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > How hard would it be to port DragonFly to the ARM and run it on a Raspberry > Pi? > > Pierre > -- > ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji > I have never ported an operating system kernel, so this is merely educated speculation based on the amo

Re: 3.0 release this weekend

2012-02-16 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> > > I don't know if it [KDE] installed completely in 2.10, come to think of it. > > The KDE versions in pkgsrc are grossly out of date. Users should actually have better luck compiling newer KDE version by hand from the KDE repo's directly, because of work Alex H. did getting DragonFly patches in

Re: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12 on RELEASE_3_0

2012-01-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Siju George wrote: > /usr/src/sys/platform/pc32/i386/genassym.c:1: error: > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12 > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /

ISDN

2012-01-22 Thread Samuel J. Greear
All, Do you, as one of DragonFly's users or developers, currently use our ISDN support or have _specific_ plans to use our ISDN support in the not-handwavy-distant future? Thanks, Sam

Re: Request for suggestion for setting up a server with 4 HDDs

2011-12-27 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Mirror, slightly dated it seems: http://dragonflyweb.evilprojects.net/ Sam On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Zenny wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, but again the dragonflybsd site is down (GMT > 08:53:45 Decemeber 27, 2011) to access the link Justin pointed to: > leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchiv

Re: What is the minimal memory requirement for HAMMER?

2011-12-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Zenny wrote: > Hi: > > I am trying to experiment with HAMMER with a spare PIII/500Mhz old > machine with 256MB of RAM. I installed the RELEASE-2.10 version of > DFBSD. But when I try to execute "hammer cleanup", it spits out an > error that reads: > > "hammer: S

Re: dragonfly bsd and vkernels

2011-12-08 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Joe Gain wrote: > Hi everyone, > > this is a really general question, but I'm just starting my bachelor thesis, > which is going to have something to do with virtualization (probably network > virtualization) and I was just wondering how dragonfly bsd's kernel > vir

Re: Is anyone still using gcc 4.1 on master?

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On 11/07/2011 10:50 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote: >> >> Our C++ dependencies would not be that difficult to overcome and I >> do not see why the system compiler should necessarily have to >> support

Re: Is anyone still using gcc 4.1 on master?

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, John Marino wrote: > On 11/7/2011 8:03 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote: >>> >>> pcc is not a candidate. >> >> Sorry, I disagree, although I understand if you aren't going to be the >> one to port it. >> >> Sam &

Re: Is anyone still using gcc 4.1 on master?

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> pcc is not a candidate. Sorry, I disagree, although I understand if you aren't going to be the one to port it. Sam

Re: onboard sound

2011-10-31 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Alex Hornung wrote: > Devices are automatically created by devfs. MAKEDEV is obsolete. > > If you don't know which sound driver is the one you need, there is a > pseudo-driver that depends on all others (sound.ko, iirc). If you load > that, and you still don't get

FreeNAS Port? (Was: Re: Does something like nanobsd.sh exist or in the making for DF?)

2011-10-28 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > Pretty much on spot .. yesterday I was on #dragonflybsd asking it > there was any interest on working on a DragonFlyBSD version of FreeNAS > ... The first thing someone would want to do is fully implement and get working well a couple of ra

Re: kqueue does not set EV_EOF flag

2011-09-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2011/9/6 Andrey N. Oktyabrski : > Good day. > > I have some problems between nginx and backends. Nginx can not see when the > backend closed connection. The nginx developers said there is a kqueue > problem. They wrote test program (attached), which works well under the > FreeBSD and NetBSD, but do

Re: Linux ldconfig segfaults

2011-08-08 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I just tried to run a Linux program on DragonFly. I got the following: > > -bash-4.1$ /usr/pkg/emul/linux/bin/bash > ELF interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found > Abort trap: 6 > > I then checked the man page and found that I need to run ldco

Re: HEADS UP: GENERIC and X86_64_GENERIC now have 'options SMP'

2011-05-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > Have there been any measurements as to performance penalties with > 'options SMP' on uniprocessor systems? > > -- vs > Not AFAIK, but quantifying the damage should be a definite prerequisite before eliminating the SMP option altogether

HAMMER/Samba shadow copy module

2011-03-13 Thread Samuel J. Greear
I started on this, but probably won't have time to go any further with it for at least several weeks -- if anyone wanted to pick it up and run with it, it should be pretty self-explanatory. https://github.com/thesjg/samba3_hammer_shadow_copy Best, Sam

DragonFly BSD / Google Code-In 2010 final report

2011-01-25 Thread Samuel J. Greear
During the Recent Google Code-In there were a total of 2167 tasks successfully completed by the 13-18 year old students. DragonFly's portion of these amounted to 72 successfully completed tasks, or around 3.3% of the total. Slightly lower than a perfect proportion considering there were 20 projects

Re: Avalon maintainance update

2011-01-11 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Tue, January 11, 2011 6:01 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: >>     Avalon will be down all of this week for maintainance.  It is getting >>     a new storage subsystem.  We expect to be able to get it back into a >>     rack mid-next-week or

Re: Comments on pkgsrc and DragonFly

2011-01-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> both are excluding DragonFly, since uname -s return "DragonFly" and > OSARCH is usually set to the same value. I can solve this by redefining > OSARCH variable and UNAME_s shell variable as "DragonFlyBSD", which > makes less work to do. But it doesn't seem very clean to me, so I'm not > using it.

Re: Pango fails for Linux binaries

2011-01-01 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I tried both bst (a program to develop software for the Parallax Propeller > microcontroller) and openoffice and got the same error: > > -bash-3.2$ /tmp/bst > > (bst:36461): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules > were foun

Google Code-In update

2010-12-22 Thread Samuel J. Greear
An update on our Google Code-In progress, the documentation tasks that are not code-related are still decidedly unpopular. The most popular tasks seem to be those that involve some coding, several fairly complicated projects have been done by students so far. The available tasks: doc: Improve the

Re: Updating corecode's nvidia driver

2010-12-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:09 PM, wrote: >> Well, the poll stuff is easy  We don't have poll support in the >> kernel anymore, you need to rewrite those as kq filters. See any other >> driver for details. >> > > I figured as much. > > Can you please point me to a specific place in the source

Re: kdebase-workspace4 error gmake[1]: *** [libs/ksysguard/processcore/CMakeFiles/ksysguardprocesslist_helper.dir/all] Error 2

2010-12-13 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Hasso Tepper wrote: > On 13.12.10 13:18, Siju George wrote: > > I get this error during bmake update > > > > EP' was not declared in this scope > > /usr/pkgobj/bootstrap/work/pkgsrc/x11/kdebase-workspace4/work/kdebase- > > workspace-4.4.5/libs/ksysguard/processcor

Google Code-In

2010-12-08 Thread Samuel J. Greear
We have just reached 30 tasks completed for Google Code-In, but we are now down to a single task in-progress. There are 34 more tasks in the pool, but adoption of these remaining tasks is going at a much slower rate than before. The possible reasons are numerous, but it would be great to add more u

Re: Updating corecode's nvidia driver

2010-11-11 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:45 PM, wrote: > Currently gives a compile error upon running "make" > > In file included from nvidia_ctl.c:14: > nv-freebsd.h:267: error: field 'rsel' has incomplete type > nv-freebsd.h: In function 'pmap_mapdev_attr': > nv-freebsd.h:351: error: too few arguments to func

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Chris Turner wrote: > Samuel J. Greear wrote: >> >> That said, I think it would be fine to commit one or more optional >> stopgap measures/scripts to the RC system, for mobile users and etc., >> as long as it is well documented that t

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Chris Turner wrote: > elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: >> >> Suggestions? > > quick-fix / hack wise - > > probably setup some job to run way more often > that checks the status & makes a determination - > or move the job to something like anacron, etc > > althou

Re: Misleading directory names

2010-09-28 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2010/9/28 Przemysław Pawełczyk : > Hi, > > Listing from http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/ > > Name         Last modified      Size  Description > Parent Directory                  - > README       18-May-2010 02:45  1.3K > amd64/       24-Aug-2010 23:56    - > i386/        27-Sep-2010 20:59

Re: Weird entry in ISO

2010-09-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2010/9/24 Przemysław Pawełczyk : > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:43:26 +0100 > Alex Hornung wrote: > >> On 24/09/10 13:37, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: >> > I know, and I would expect such answer. No offense please, but for >> > how long yet such attitude will prevail in Unix community? It >> > lingers fr

Re: Looking for some programming tasks to do

2010-09-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:55 AM, wrote: > I've been learning C++ for about a year now(own about 5 books on it), and > I also started doing a couple of projects in the language at work, but I > feel I need to use/understand plain C a bit more. Is there any projects on > DragonFly that are easy eno

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Samuel J. Greear wrote:  > What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or  > participate in its development by following this list? Technical  > features, methodologies, something about the community? Thanks all for your responses, this has been very enlightening to

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2010/9/20 Przemysław Pawełczyk : > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:33:28 -0600 > "Samuel J. Greear" wrote: > >> This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the >> list just as much as the regular posters. >> >> What has drawn you to us

Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the list just as much as the regular posters. What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or participate in its development by following this list? Technical features, methodologies, something about the communi

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-09-01 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 03:01:41AM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: > :> This 10-second-wait should be fixed with commit 847ff8c. > : > :Apparently the recent commit (within a week or so) re-introduced this > :10-secon

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-08-02 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> This 10-second-wait should be fixed with commit 847ff8c. > > While debugging I noticed screen calls close(2) on all descriptors > except stdin/err/out every time it forks. Making it use DragonFly's > closefrom(2) would be a great optimization that would reduce new > window creation times, if anyo

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-08-01 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:32 PM, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:04:00PM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: >> I've pushed some fixes into master, >> >> Commit 0f2e13efc9137bb21562ef4093049fd044651429 should fix the screen issue. > > I updated t

Bluetooth

2010-07-30 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Is anyone using bluetooth on dragonfly in any capacity? What are you doing with it? Sam

Re: Abnormal termination of greeter

2010-07-29 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I did a full upgrade today, then tried to log in and got "Abnormal termination > of greeter". I rebooted and got the same error. kdm is still running. I > logged in at the console and ran startx; it said "kde4: not found" and threw > me out of

Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:44 PM, wrote: >> What evidence do you have of newcomers being "more than often" turned >> away by having to use "archaic tools"? > > I visit a couple of Linux forums, and while the word "DragonFly" surely > seems to have picked up some usage in the recent months, I also

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:32 PM, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:04:00PM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: >> I've pushed some fixes into master, >> >> Commit 0f2e13efc9137bb21562ef4093049fd044651429 should fix the screen issue. > > I updated t

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-26 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Samuel J. Greear wrote: > I know where this bug is and am working on a fix. dhclient I am fairly > certain is the same issue only in the pipe code instead of the FIFO > code (where the screen problem is). I will follow up here when I have > a pa

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
:16:56AM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: >> This only seems to happen on recent master with screen installed from >> a package. I was unable to reproduce with screen compiled from pkgsrc. > > Sorry, I realized I've been using the development version of GNU > screen for vir

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:26 AM, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: >> Anyway, I'm giving your latest commit a try to see if it's related. > > Unfortunately, 21ae0f4c doesn't seem to fix my problem. > This only seems to happen on recent master with screen installed from a package. I was unable to reproduce

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Sascha Wildner wrote: > On 7/20/2010 3:18, Matthew Dillon wrote: >> >>     Sam's select/poll infrastructure removal project is now in HEAD.  This >>     project reimplements the kernel's select() and poll() system calls >> using >>     per-thread kqueues and remove

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:30 AM, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 06:18:52PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: >>     Sam's select/poll infrastructure removal project is now in HEAD.  This >>     project reimplements the kernel's select() and poll() system calls using >>     per-threa

Re: HEADS UP: dm, lvm, cryptsetup and initrd on master

2010-07-11 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Alex wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> as you know I've been working on getting dm and lvm into DragonFly. I've >> just committed my work so far which includes the following: >>  - dm kernel part (including linear, st

Re: dragonfly installation into virtualbox

2010-06-12 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Sat, June 12, 2010 3:36 am, dark0s Optik wrote: >> I tried to launch dragonfly x86 2.6.3 installation into virtualbox >> 3.2, but it crash. >> The output is: >> >> Debugger("panic"): >> stopped at     0xc0537b3c      movb          $0,

Re: DragonFly 64-bit stability

2010-06-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Thu, June 10, 2010 4:32 pm, Francois Tigeot wrote: > >> Installing applications from pkgsrc went well. >> >> Unfortunately, running Postgres is a different matter: >> # /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/pgsql start >> Starting pgsql. >> seg-fault acc

Re: HEADS UP: BIND Removal. Short instructions for migration to pkgsrc-BIND

2010-05-06 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Jan Lentfer wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 06:04:19 -0500 (CDT), "Jeremy C. Reed" > wrote: > >> Were the kqueue issues in DragonFly itself looked at/fixed? > > Afaik it is a bug in BIND and Samuel send a report to ISC. > > Jan > I received a follow-up from ma...@isc,

Re: HEADS UP: BIND Removal. Short instructions for migration to pkgsrc-BIND

2010-04-22 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Jan Lentfer wrote: > >> After playing around with this back and forth for a while I think I found >> the problem. Well, not actually the problem but a bypass to the BIND >> crashes. When building any version of BIND from

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> The source(s) for the client and build tools for freebsd-update are available. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/ > > Sam > Sascha was kind enough to point out that Matthias has already po

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Jan Lentfer wrote: > Justin C. Sherrill schrieb: >> >> You could probably try this with two separate virtual machines - 1 2.4 and >> 1 2.6.  Hint hint. > > Don't even need 2 VMs, 2 repositories one with 2.4 and one with 2.6 would be > sufficient because they will e

Re: amd64 - invitation to test

2009-08-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Jordan Gordeev wrote: >> >> Now, that GSoC is over, I have some spare time to say thanks. >> I'd like to thank all the people who have tested the amd64 port, namely >> Matthew Dillon and Antonio Huete Jimenez. Thanks for all the bu

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-06 Thread Samuel J. Greear
"Samuel J. Greear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Hi, : :Posted this to kernel@ by accident, please reply here instead :) : :I just wanted to know if t

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-06 Thread Samuel J. Greear
"Samuel J. Greear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Hi, : :Posted this to kernel@ by accident, please reply here instead :) : :I just wanted to know if t

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-05 Thread Samuel J. Greear
"Matthew Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Hi, : :Posted this to kernel@ by accident, please reply here instead :) : :I just wanted to know if there's any interest for the devs to add :something like p7zip to the base install; even if it's a simple fork :that