kernel panic 6.2-RELEASE SMP dual quad core
hi all, uname -a FreeBSD HOSTNAME 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 running on dual quad core intel xeons with 4gb ram. my server has been rebooting quite a bit and stopped responding today. i found this on the console: Fatal trap: 12 page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 5; apic id = 05 fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0880472 stack pointer = 0x28:0xe6ea9c8c code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 12 (idle: cpu5) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 5 uptime 24m41s cannot dump. no dump device specified i've configured the dump device and will follow the kernel debugging details in the handbook if it happens again but i thought i'd write in now in case the cause of the problem jumped out at anyone. i've run mprime for 24 hours, and memtest for 3 passes, and a script i wrote which just exhausts ram and CPU, then backs off and does it again which have been running for 24 hours. i've also just started running this: http://www.holm.cc/stress/ i noticed that the same fatal trap 12 appeared during stress tests as listed here: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/cons224.html any help, guidance or information would be much appreciated. cheers iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic 6.2-RELEASE SMP dual quad core
uname -a FreeBSD HOSTNAME 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 running on dual quad core intel xeons with 4gb ram. my server has been rebooting quite a bit and stopped responding today. i found this on the console: Fatal trap: 12 page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 5; apic id = 05 fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0880472 stack pointer = 0x28:0xe6ea9c8c code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 12 (idle: cpu5) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 5 uptime 24m41s cannot dump. no dump device specified i've configured the dump device and will follow the kernel debugging details in the handbook if it happens again but i thought i'd write in now in case the cause of the problem jumped out at anyone. i've run mprime for 24 hours, and memtest for 3 passes, and a script i wrote which just exhausts ram and CPU, then backs off and does it again which have been running for 24 hours. i've also just started running this: http://www.holm.cc/stress/ i noticed that the same fatal trap 12 appeared during stress tests as listed here: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/cons224.html any help, guidance or information would be much appreciated. What you have so far is close to meaningless. The fault virtual address = 0x0 means little more than somewhere in the kernel there was a null pointer dereference. The fact that it was the idle process is suspicious though, it suggests that hardware failure is a high probability. Please follow up with the backtrace if you want to pursue this further. I thought that dodgy ram was the culprit. I've run memtest86 on three passes with no errrors reported although I've also read numerous reports on the net of memtest86 not being very effective. can you suggest a good method of stress testing ram? this is a new machine and still under warranty so if it's a ram issue I can easily just get it replaced. Cheers, Iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic 6.2-RELEASE SMP dual quad core
hi ivan, uname -a FreeBSD HOSTNAME 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 running on dual quad core intel xeons with 4gb ram. Are you using PAE? (probably not if this is the generic SMP configuration). no, i checked and i'm not using PAE. current process = 12 (idle: cpu5) This is important. The idle process does literary nothing and is highly unlikely to contain a bug. Does this mean that the problem only appears when the system is idle? hmm maybe i should leave the system idle and see if it crashes again :) i've been running an application which just loads up RAM with lots of processes keeping at least 32 processes running at all times. each script is killed when it uses too much space. the machine hasn't crashed again for like 2 days. i'm going away so i might leave it idle for that time and see if it crashes again. i've got a dump device setup this time which will give me more information to send into the list. By the way, you are likely not to get any performance benefits (and some performance regressions are likely) with this number of CPUs on FreeBSD 6.2, except if you intend to do CPU-intensive tasks (like scientific caluclations). If you can, try the latest release candidate of 7.0. i'm just running a web application on it. it's a total pain though. i should have just bought a late model second hand p4 or something rather than a state of the art machine. i'm too out of touch with modern hardware to have known what i was getting myself into. live and learn i guess. cheers iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
panic after starting jail
hi there, uname -a FreeBSD socata.scoastnet.com.au 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 i'm running three jails on the above server. this morning one of them appears to have begun doing something diabolical to the filesystem. when i try to start it, i get something like: start = 0 len = 2 panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted cpuid = 0 Automatic reboot in 15 seconds i then have to boot into single user mode and run fsck, then take jail_enable out of rc.conf in order to boot up. the other two jails are fine. i've taken a look at /var/log/messages on the host machine as well as on the affected jail and i can't see anything out of the ordinary. does anyone have any clues as to how i could find out what went wrong? sincerely, iain dooley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jls output incorrect
i'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. i have recently set up some jails and everything seems to be running fine. however when i use: /etc/rc.d/jail stop and then type: jls i still see jails as running, with JID's assigned. I can no longer log into these jails, so it appears they have been halted, but when i start again, the new jail processes get new JID's, and when i stop, they remain. this is obviously not a huge problem, but it means that i can not reliably use jls to see which jails are running. i have seen this discussed earlier: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-April/118133.html later in that discussion chad mentions mounted file systems as calling problems. i'm not mounting any file systems in my jails, should i just wait til i upgrade to 7.0 or is there some way i can fix this? cheers iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openssl and apache
hi there, uname -a: FreeBSD cirrus.dfi.net.au 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 9 12:08:32 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NEWKERNEL i3861~ i recently got ssl running with apache. i'm not quite sure how it happened, but at some point after this i could not longer ssh into the box. i went into the data centre and found that when i tried to ssh out of the machine, the error: OpenSSL Version Mismatch appeared on the screen. It was quite important to get this working, and some googling turned up the possibility that this was because there were two versions of openssl installed on the machine. i did: cd /usr/ports/security/openssl make deinstall and i could then ssh in and out of the box. however, now when i request a page using https from this machine the error: [Tue Aug 01 13:55:22 2006] [error] [client 125.62.65.184] Invalid method in request \x80g\x01\x03 shows up in my apache logs. if i try: openssl s_client -connect my.host:443 i get: 85161:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:/usr/src/secure/lib/libssl/../../../crypto/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:478: i can telnet into the host on port 443 successfully. obviously i need to upgrade openssl somehow, but i'm afraid if i try and do it using the ports then i'll break ssh login on the machine again. does anyone have any clues? cheers iain dooley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status: no carrier with WEB enabled
hello, i am running FreeBSD 4.10 using an Orinoco wifi pccard NIC, using a minitar wireless bridge in AP mode. I am able to login to the AP using a web browser to configure it from another machine on my network (wired). When WEP is disabled on the AP, my card can associate fine and I am able to do a DHCP request to my ADSL modem (which has a DHCP server in it... i'm going to switch to using another machine as a gateway and the ADSL modem as a bridge as soon as i get my hands on another PCI NIC, then I will be using static IP addressing for my internal network). I enabled WEP on the AP, and disabled broadcast SSID. I haven't implemented MAC filtering yet. Eventually i will switch to IPSec, but one step at a time :-) with WEP enabled, my roommate is able to access the network via the AP from his OSX box using a D-Link USB wireless NIC, so WEP encryption appears to be functioning properly from the AP's side of things. I followed instructions for wicontrol to turn on WEP, set the ssid and the key as appropriate, set the card to AP mode and set the appropriate channel. after doing this, ifconfig showed 'status: no carrier'. Everything else in ifconfig matched the settings on my AP. i then tried: dhclient wi0 to attempt to do a DHCP request, but this had no effect. I then tried: ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid NETWORK_NAME wepmode on wepkey X (-- 13 digit, 128 bit encryption) where 192.168.1.x is the subnet defined by the ADSL modem, NETWORK_NAME is the same ssid as is set on the AP web configurator, and X is a 13 digit, 128 bit wep encryption key. both the AP and the wi0 interface are using key index 1. ifconfig still shows 'status: no carrier'. my first question is, can anyone see why this might not be working? let me know if i need to supply further information. my second question is, how can i pass the arguments such as 'wepmode on' and 'ssid' to dhclient, in particular what lines should i include in rc.conf so that a DHCP request uses the appropriate key etc. on bootup? thanks very much. iain dooley _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using serial port as non-root user
hello, i'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD piper.iaindooley.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #1: Mon May 30 19:43:26 GMT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIPER i386 ls -la /dev | grep cuaa0 gives: crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 28, 128 May 30 21:49 cuaa0 i want to access cuaa0 using cutecom as a non-root user. so i tried: pw groupmod dialer -m iain now a groupshow gives me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pw groupshow dialer dialer:*:68:iain but i still can't successfully open this file when i run cutecom as user 'iain'. if i run as user 'root' it works fine. what am i missing?? cheers iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using serial port as non-root user
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Iain Dooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, i'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD piper.iaindooley.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #1: Mon May 30 19:43:26 GMT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIPER i386 ls -la /dev | grep cuaa0 gives: crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 28, 128 May 30 21:49 cuaa0 i want to access cuaa0 using cutecom as a non-root user. so i tried: pw groupmod dialer -m iain now a groupshow gives me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pw groupshow dialer dialer:*:68:iain but i still can't successfully open this file when i run cutecom as user 'iain'. if i run as user 'root' it works fine. what am i missing?? Did user 'iain' log out and back in again after the group file was changed? nope!! that must be it. thanks very much. iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrading - many problems
hi all, i recently attempted to portupgrade the kde super package and had loads of problems. i first upgraded from FreeBSD 4.10 to FreeBSD 4.11, and then cvsup'd 'ports-all'. i then did portupgrade -R kde, but ran into several issues. a common error was: see /usr/ports/UPDATING entry dated 20050320: thanks!! someone from the gnome port maintainers list actually pointed me here earlier today. i wasn't even aware that the UPDATING document existed!!! thanks again iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portupgrading - many problems
hi all, i recently attempted to portupgrade the kde super package and had loads of problems. i first upgraded from FreeBSD 4.10 to FreeBSD 4.11, and then cvsup'd 'ports-all'. i then did portupgrade -R kde, but ran into several issues. a common error was: Program X has conflicts with the following installed packages: package y package z they install files in the same place. please uninstall them and try again the first couple of times i make deinstalled them, but then i got an error saying that kdelibs-3.4.0_1 had conflicts with kdebase-3.2.3 and kdeartwork-3.2.3, which seems odd because they are all part of kde. i ended up make deinstalling from /usr/ports/kde3/ and then make reinstalling. once that was done successfully, i wanted to portupgrade firefox and thunderbird. they both had dependency failures. i subsequently pkg_add'd them, and it gave me warnings that certain package versions (such as pango) were required, but different versions were installed. these were the same errors that had caused the portupgrades to fail. for most of them, though, the packages that were installed were _later_ versions than the ones required, and the programs operate fine. why can't i portupgrade? i tried portupgrading gaim too, and that failed. i ended up pkg_add'ing gaim and it gave me similar warnings about different package versions being installed, but in most cases the installed packages were more up to date. can anyone shed some light on this situation? cheers iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Loading Samba Shares at Startup
Hexren wrote: hi there, not really sure if this is appropriate for this list, or if i should be sending it to the samba lists. i'll try here first. i have a samba server which serves a few windows machines, and i also use it via sharity-light from my freebsd machine running 4.10 RELEASE. i have a script that loads my shares, and i put it in my rc.d folder (i've taken out the user and password info): #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/http /usr/home/iain/development/http/ -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/http_inertia /usr/home/iain/development/http_inertia/ -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/music /usr/home/iain/music -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/dools /usr/home/iain/dools_network -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * it runs fine when i start up freebsd, but when i login, i don't have access to the shares. so i put the call to the script inside my .tcshrc file, but this means that, even if i login remotely, and every time i start a new konsole session or scp something, this script runs. does anyone have any clues as to why it wouldn't have access to the shares after running this script from inside rc.d? i really only want it to run when the machine starts up, not every time i login. cheers iain - I dont really know that programm, but guesing I would say the script runs at some time where some condition it needs is not fullfilled like maybe before networking is up. Maybe you should have the read up of the rc.d starting proccess that I need ;) Or you just leave it in you .tcshrc file and work with a lock file. Meaning when you run that script you do something like if ![ -x ~/.smblock ]; then touch ~/.smblock (insert rest of your script) okay, thanks for that idea. just for the purpose of closing the issue online, i ended up with a file called 'load_shares.sh': if ! [ -f /full/path/to/home/.smblock ]; then touch /full/path/to/home/.smblock shlight.sh #this is my script that uses sharity light to mount samba shares fi and put a call to load_shares.sh in .tcshrc (i like to avoid actually scripting for any shell other than sh). i then created a script called 'turnoff.sh': if [ -f /full/path/to/home/.smblock ]; then rm -rf /full/path/to/home/.smblock fi sudo shutdown -h now so long as i use turnoff.sh to shutdown my machine every time, my samba shares will be loaded the first time i login, but not reloaded unless i have actually shutdown the machine. thanks for your help iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Loading Samba Shares at Startup
hi there, not really sure if this is appropriate for this list, or if i should be sending it to the samba lists. i'll try here first. i have a samba server which serves a few windows machines, and i also use it via sharity-light from my freebsd machine running 4.10 RELEASE. i have a script that loads my shares, and i put it in my rc.d folder (i've taken out the user and password info): #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/http /usr/home/iain/development/http/ -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/http_inertia /usr/home/iain/development/http_inertia/ -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/music /usr/home/iain/music -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * /usr/local/sbin/shlight //cessna/dools /usr/home/iain/dools_network -U * -u * -g wheel -f 775 -d 775 -P * it runs fine when i start up freebsd, but when i login, i don't have access to the shares. so i put the call to the script inside my .tcshrc file, but this means that, even if i login remotely, and every time i start a new konsole session or scp something, this script runs. does anyone have any clues as to why it wouldn't have access to the shares after running this script from inside rc.d? i really only want it to run when the machine starts up, not every time i login. cheers iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD
hi lowell, The recommended path is to do a binary upgrade. 5.4 will be out in a few weeks, and release candidate builds are available now. to what extent does building the sources on my machine affect the resulting binaries? to be more specific: i read the freebsd handbook section on maintaining multiple systems from one 'build machine'. if i were to allocate one of the machines on my network to build sources into binaries, say my HP PII, would those binaries be appropriate to install on my thinkpad? my understanding is that i could take a subset of those binaries and install them on my laptop, and then build the kernel from the thinkpad and this would work (assuming i got all the binaries right). is that correct? cheers iain _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD
hi there, i'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Thinkpad 586, with a 1GB HDD and something like 48 MB of ram, with a pentium 133 processor. there is no CD drive, so i installed from floppies via FTP and selected 'minimal' installation, and didn't install any of the ports or src. i now want to upgrade to 5.3 (for various reasons) and i want to have a source tree that i can use to maintain my system via cvsup. in my stable-supfile, i commented out src-all, and then selected only the packages that i thought i would need. i commented out src-contrib, but this produced an error that make did not know how to build bool-array.cc. src-contrib is very large, and there are loads and loads of programs in there that i don't need for this machine (i am really only ever going to use the laptop to ssh into another computer on my network at home and from uni over the wireless network... it's just a portable terminal). i'm pretty confident that i could select what i need, (ie. i think i could go into contrib and select only the programs that i want to install) but i don't really know how to do it. do i need to edit the Makefiles? how can i cvsup only those programs in contrib that i need? my aim here is to have a compact source tree that i can use cvsup to keep current, but only takes up a couple of hundred meg. i'm not sure where to start. the handbook is usually a good place to start but i don't know the best section to look in. any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers iain _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Managing compact source tree
hi, i'm just upgrading my thinkpad to 5.3 RELEASE. when i use anything other than 'src-all' to update my sources via CVSUP, i get errors in the buildworld process. i can comment out games, kerberos and crypto packages and then pass -DNOGAMES, -DNO_KERBEROS AND -DNOCRYPTO to make buildworld, but the HDD on my laptop is very small and i want to have a distro that only takes up a couple of hundred MB. to do this, i want to remove a lot of the applications out of contrib (i essentially just use this laptop as a mobile terminal to ssh into my home computer from my home and university wireless networks). how can i set up my source tree so that when i cvsup i only get the source i am interested in? also, is it the Makefiles that i have to edit in order to stop make buildworld from trying to build non-existent source? thanks iain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enabling PCCARD When Installing From Floppies - FreeBSD 5.3
I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE via FTP using boot floppies from: ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE/floppies/ on an IBM thinkpad using an Orinoco Gold wireless LAN card (which uses the wi driver) in the PCMCIA slot of the thinkpad. the boot process is happening normally, however the power light of the card is not coming on and the wi interface is not showing up in the network interface list of sysinstall. i have tested the card in a windows laptop and it appears to be functioning correctly. in the 'options' menu of sysinstall, the Skip PCCARD option is set to 'No' and when i attempt to rescan devices, and do pnpscan, the card does not show up. i did lsdev from the command line but could not see the PCCARD slot (i'm not sure if it should show up there anyway). i tried the installation process with the 4.10-RELEASE floppies, and the PCCARD slot was detected and sysinstall went through an initialisation process. this does not occur with the 5.3-RELEASE floppies and i can't see the pccard device in the boot messages. is there a way that i can view the boot messages from sysinstall so that i can be sure? i would assume that since the PCCARD slot is detected by the 4.10 floppies and not the 5.3 floppies that the PCCARD slot itself is functioning correctly (a message also appears with the 4.10 floppies that says a card is inserted in pccard slot 0). the card itself does not show up as an interface using the 4.10 floppies. i hope i've provided enough information for someone to shed some light on this situation. if not, please let me know what more i can do to help you to help me!! cheers iain _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
burncd: ioctl(CDIOCSTART): Device busy
hi there, i'm running freebsd 4.10 with a kodak CR-R drive. i can mount CD-ROM's in the drive with no problems, but when i insert a blank CD-R (cdr not cdrw... i checked!!) into the drive and attempt burncd i get the error burncd: ioctl(CDIOCSTART): Device busy i tried fstat -n | grep acd but no programs appear to be using the drive. the light on the CD drive keeps blinking orange too, indicating that it is trying to read the drive or something similar, but i have not issued any 'mount /cdrom' command. i found a similar problem in the lists archive posted by a guy named willian denton last year, but couldn't find any resolution to the problem. i emailed him to find out if he ever solved his problem but have not yet received a reply. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004262.html any ideas? cheers iain _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd: ioctl(CDIOCSTART): Device busy
More of a question, really. Why are you using 'fstat -n'? The -n option would appear to print only device numbers, not device names - therefore grepping for 'acd' will be fruitless, correct?. okay, so fstat | grep cd doesn't reveal anything either. cheers iain ORIGINAL MESSAGE hi there, i'm running freebsd 4.10 with a kodak CR-R drive. i can mount CD-ROM's in the drive with no problems, but when i insert a blank CD-R (cdr not cdrw... i checked!!) into the drive and attempt burncd i get the error burncd: ioctl(CDIOCSTART): Device busy i tried fstat -n | grep acd but no programs appear to be using the drive. the light on the CD drive keeps blinking orange too, indicating that it is trying to read the drive or something similar, but i have not issued any 'mount /cdrom' command. i found a similar problem in the lists archive posted by a guy named willian denton last year, but couldn't find any resolution to the problem. i emailed him to find out if he ever solved his problem but have not yet received a reply. [actually, i have now received a reply... he said he never solved the problem, he just bought a new drive. my drive works fine in other machines, and i can mount CD-ROM's with it, so i don't think it is broken] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004262.html _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBM x-series 335 keyboard problem
Hi, I am trying to install v5.2.1 onto an IBM x-series 335 server. It has a single cable with which to attach the monitor/keyboard/mouse that enables daisy chaining of servers. When I install I get to a point where I have to enter information and the keyboard doesn't work. I've tried several times with no luck. Do you have any known problems with these systems? Regards Iain Sutcliffe http://mail02.emailcontrolcenter.us/RocketSeed/mail/433a343a3539373937313a343532353a2d323a31303035 http://mail02.emailcontrolcenter.us/RocketSeed/mail/433a343a3539373937313a343532353a2d323a31303436 POWERED BY ROCKETSEED - bring branding to your every-day email Go to www.rocketseed.us for more info DISCLAIMER: This message contains confidential information for the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender unless otherwise stated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBM x-series 335 keyboard problem
Hi, I am trying to install v5.2.1 onto an IBM x-series 335 server. It has a single cable with which to attach the monitor/keyboard/mouse that enables daisy chaining of servers. When I install I get to a point where I have to enter information and the keyboard doesn't work. I've tried several times with no luck. Do you have any known problems with these systems? Regards Iain Sutcliffe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Updating source code manually
thanks all for your suggestions. i'll refrain from running the portupgrade on KDE whilst KDE is running. as for the patch procedures you guys suggested, i'm actually looking for a way to do it without using the ports system at all. the problem is that kdebase takes so long to build, and as we have already discussed i can't run it whilst running KDE, and it's a rare occassion that i can afford to be without my PC for that long, and there is no individual port for Kate. the patch i've received is about 10 lines of code and the problem that it solves is _extremely_ minor, so if there is no way to rebuild Kate without rebuilding all of KDEBase, then i probably won't bother :-) but that was some great info for future reference if ever i want to apply a patch locally to verify it before sending it to the port maintainer. thanks very much everyone. cheers iain From: Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Iain Dooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Updating source code manually Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:20:17 -0400 Hello: 1) i received a small patch for Kate (K Advanced Text Editor) from one of the developers, how can i compile this new code into the binary? Once you've confirmed the patch works, _please_ get the developer's permission and submit it to the port maintainer(s). You may not be the only one suffering. 2) this question may be answered by any information provided in answer to my first question, but how can i upgrade specific components of KDE (such as Kate) without upgrading the entire KDE installation (which takes a couple of days) For something as complex as KDE, a proper upgrade will almost always drag along new versions of infrastructure. 3) Is it safe to do a portupgrade of KDE whilst KDE is still running? It will probably not be lethal, but it is not safe computing practice. During execution, many programs and shared libraries leave most of the read-only portion of code on disk and reload it when needed. Let's say KDE uses libfoo.1.5.so, which is actually v1.5.7. You upgrade something, which upgrades libfoo.1.5.so to v1.5.8. The kernel (unaware of the change) reloads part of the file and restarts execution at a particular address. Will that address valid code? Maybe. But if it isn't the shared library will crash, likely taking KDE with it. Even if it _is_ valid code, it may not be compatible with the old version. Best case, the program crashes. Worst case, ongoing and invisible data corruption with no hint of cause. The reality is people (including me) do it. If you choose to do so, know the risks. Robert Huff _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating source code manually
You shouldn't portupgrade KDE when KDE is running, but you should be able to run `make' to build everything while KDE is running, shut down KDE and `portupgrade -w' afterwards (which will use the binaries built by `make' and install them, taking seriously less time than the original `make') and restart KDE. At least that's how it would with an ordinary port. that's great! i never even thought of doing that... that way i can just apply the patch as was described in earlier emails and then make install from the kdebase ports dir and then use portupgrade -w kdebase to add the changes. thanks everyone for the great advice! iain _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Updating source code manually
I am running FreeBSD-STABLE (4.10) and have been using ports/pkg_add/portupgrade/cvsup to stay current with most programs. however there are two things that i'm having trouble with, and i'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction: 1) i received a small patch for Kate (K Advanced Text Editor) from one of the developers, how can i compile this new code into the binary? 2) this question may be answered by any information provided in answer to my first question, but how can i upgrade specific components of KDE (such as Kate) without upgrading the entire KDE installation (which takes a couple of days) and lastly, a quality of life question: 3) Is it safe to do a portupgrade of KDE whilst KDE is still running? thanks very much, Iain Dooley _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange problems with BIND 9.2.1
Hi,
thanks for the reply,
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:21, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:01:40PM +1100, Iain wrote:
The main problem is that NOTIFY messages aren't being sent from the
master to the slaves. However I am also having trouble modifying the
logging.
You normally have to put some effort into preventing named sending
notifications. Usually if you let named default (ie. don't use any
sort of 'notify' keywords in named.conf) then named will send
notifications of any zone update to all of the servers given in NS
records for the zone.
There are no notify keywords in named.conf. Maybe it is sending the updates but they
aren't being applied.
It is hard for me to tell as the logging isnt working.
// reduce log verbosity on issues outside our control
logging {
channel default_channel {
syslog local5;
severity info;
};
category lame-servers { null; };
category default { default_channel; };
};
About the only minor nit I can see in that is a slight lack of quote
marks, compared to what the documentation says:
I tried adding the quotes, it makes no difference. There are no syntax errors reported
on startup either.
There's nothing much wrong in what you've posted, and named should be
working in the way you intend. What does named log on startup? Any
chance of posting the whole named.conf file?
On startup I see the following messages:
Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: command channel listening on ::1#953
Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: dns_master_load: named.syd.va.com.au:14:
syd.va.com.au: CNAME and othe
r data
Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: zone syd.va.com.au/IN: loading master file
named.syd.va.com.au: CNAME
and other data
Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: slave/named.culture2.org:6: no TTL specified;
using SOA MINTTL instead
Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: slave/named.dessertstorm.org:6: no TTL specified;
using SOA MINTTL ins
tead
The named.conf is as follows with ips replaced with xx:
options {
directory /etc/namedb;
listen-on { xx.xx.xx.xx; };
};
// reduce log verbosity on issues outside our control
logging {
channel default_channel {
syslog local5;
severity info;
};
category lame-servers { null; };
category default { default_channel; };
};
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file named.127.0.0;
};
zone . {
type hint;
file named.root;
};
zone xx.xx.xx.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file named.xx.xx.xx;
};
zone xx.org.au {
type master;
file named.xx.org.au;
};
Cheers,
Matthew
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missing atapicam.h ??
Hi, I am trying to get ATAPI SCSI emulation working on 4.6.2 so that I can use cdrecord. I applied the following patches: atapicam-20021031.diff cam_xpt.c.diff atapicam-STABLE-config-20021031.diff but now when I run make depend there is a header file missing: eagle# make depend rm -f .newdep make -V CFILES -V SYSTEM_CFILES -V GEN_CFILES | xargs mkdep -a -f .newdep -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include -I../../contrib/ipfilter -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ../../dev/ata/ata-all.c:37: atapicam.h: No such file or directory ../../dev/ata/atapi-all.c:35: atapicam.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/EAGLE. What have I missed here. any help appreciated. cheers, Iain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
upgrade to 4.7 over net?
Hi, I was just wondering if it is possible to upgrade from 4.6.2 - 4.7 via the net. Is this possible on a running system? I have read the stuff about upgrading in the release notes but it is a bit vague. It says you should try /stand/sysinstall but from the version you are upgrading to. So does this mean that you copy sysinstall onto the system you will be upgrading from the CD or from the internet? Any pointers would be appreciated. Iain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
