g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed by a reboot. Bad memory? 6-STABLE from April.. foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259244032, length=131072)]error = 28 foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259375104, length=131072)]error =

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed by a reboot. Bad memory? 6-STABLE from April.. foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259244032, length=131072)]error = 28 foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259375104, length=131072)]error =

PAM issues in -CURRENT

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the following messages in the console: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no

vfs.read_max

2007-09-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what that variable exactly mean? how many UFS blocks will be read-ahead at most? or MAXPHYS blocks, or UFS extents? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

CVSup

2007-09-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Can I use src-all and ports-all in the same supfile? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CVSup tag version.

2007-09-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all. I have three servers running FreeBSD 6.1 I want to update them tonight, and am wondering which tag to use. I want them to upgrade to the latested released version of 6.2 (not cutting edge). tag = RELENG_6_2 or RELENG_6 ??? -Grant ___

Re: CVSup

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 12:31:33 Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Can I use src-all and ports-all in the same supfile? Nope. But you can update them at the same time if you don't mind the IO and network traffic: csup /path/to/ports-supfile csup /path/to/src-supfile -- Mel

Re: OpenBSD administrator needed ASAP

2007-09-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Eric Crist wrote: On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:14 PMAug 31, 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: L Goodwin wrote: I was contacted today by someone in the Seattle area (East side) who is looking for someone to manage an OpenBSD server. I remember there being at least one person on this list who is based in

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed by a reboot. Bad memory? 6-STABLE from April.. foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259244032, length=131072)]error = 28 foo-bar kernel:

Re: CVSup

2007-09-01 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks Mel, for the ports-supfile, for the tag, should I use '.' or RELENG_6_2 Reqading the documentation I am little confused. -Grant - Original Message - From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 7:03 AM Subject: Re: CVSup On

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the following messages in

Re: CVSup

2007-09-01 Thread OutBackDingo
Umm not sure why you think you cant becuase i do it now just have src-all ports-all On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 13:03 +0200, Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 12:31:33 Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Can I use src-all and ports-all in the same supfile? Nope. But you can update them

Re: CVSup tag version.

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 12:52:03 Grant Peel wrote: I have three servers running FreeBSD 6.1 I want to update them tonight, and am wondering which tag to use. I want them to upgrade to the latested released version of 6.2 (not cutting edge). tag = RELENG_6_2 That's 6.2-RELEASE +

Re: CVSup

2007-09-01 Thread OutBackDingo
Umm not sure why you think you cant becuase i do it now just have src-all ports-all On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 13:03 +0200, Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 12:31:33 Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Can I use src-all and ports-all in the same supfile? Nope. But you can update them

Re: CVSup

2007-09-01 Thread Peter Boosten
Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 12:31:33 Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Can I use src-all and ports-all in the same supfile? Nope. But you can update them at the same time if you don't mind the IO and network traffic: csup /path/to/ports-supfile csup /path/to/src-supfile

Last CVSup question.

2007-09-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hopefullly! I have been told in the past that I can skip the mergemaster steps. Considering I am just going from 6.1 to 6.2 is this still true? I have always found the mergemaster process confusing. -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

run CVSup ahead of time?

2007-09-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am about 200 miles from the servers. Can I run cvsup now (12 hours ahead of time) safely on production servers, then do the rest when I get there? Noone else uses the ports system but me, or installs anything...i.e. I am the only one who can log into the shell. -Grant

skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, i am not sure what I did wrong, but this morning when i try skype: skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid this is probably not a skype problem, but what should I do?? thanks!! TFC

Re: Last CVSup question.

2007-09-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:25:51AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hopefullly! I have been told in the past that I can skip the mergemaster steps. Can skip? Sometimes. Ought to skip? No. Considering I am just going from 6.1 to 6.2 is this still true? I have always found the mergemaster

Re: Last CVSup question.

2007-09-01 Thread Peter Boosten
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:25:51AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: I have always found the mergemaster process confusing. Mergemaster is very useful tool for updating those files. Updating: yes, but I never managed to merge two files successfully and always end up making the

Re: skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:29:01 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid this is probably not a skype problem, but what should I do?? thanks!! Do you have an nvidia driver installed without linux-compat?

Re: skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
yah, i have nvidia-driver installed, and i have linux_enable=YES in rc.conf. TFC On 9/1/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:29:01 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid

Re: skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Bahman M.
i am not sure what I did wrong, but this morning when i try skype: skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid this is probably not a skype problem, but what should I do?? thanks!! I'm not a Skype user but thought this might be of

Re: skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:53:36 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: On 9/1/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:29:01 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid this is probably

Re: run CVSup ahead of time?

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Grant, Saturday, September 1, 2007, 1:28:05 PM, you wrote: Hi all, I am about 200 miles from the servers. Can I run cvsup now (12 hours ahead of time) safely on production servers, then do the rest when I get there? of course. Noone else uses the ports system but me, or installs

Re: skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thanks Mel, so I do have LINUX option in nv-driver: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver grep LINUX /var/db/ports/nvidia-driver/options WITH_LINUX=true my libGL.so output is: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -p|grep libGL.so libGL.so.1 (libc6) =

XEN on CURRENT

2007-09-01 Thread OutBackDingo
Any info on the status of XEN on CURRENt... ? Working, semi working or just plain broken still ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the following

Re: skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:17:07 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: thanks for the trouble TFC On 9/1/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:53:36 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: On 9/1/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:29:01 Tsu-Fan Cheng

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:05:51 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT (supplement)

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the following

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT (supplement)

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:36:13 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but

Re: run CVSup ahead of time?

2007-09-01 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 1, 2007 7:28:05 AM -0400 Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am about 200 miles from the servers. Can I run cvsup now (12 hours ahead of time) safely on production servers, then do the rest when I get there? Noone else uses the ports system but me, or installs

Re: wpa_supplicant question

2007-09-01 Thread Xihong Yin
Thanks, I thought it was the problem of the argument. But I still can not connect to my Access Point using wap_supplicant while I can connect by 'ifconfig'. It always connects to a different network which is in the previous DHCP leases. But this network is not what I specified in my

Re: wpa_supplicant question

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 16:47:49 Xihong Yin wrote: Thanks, I thought it was the problem of the argument. But I still can not connect to my Access Point using wap_supplicant while I can connect by 'ifconfig'. It always connects to a different network which is in the previous DHCP leases.

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed by a reboot. Bad memory? 6-STABLE from April.. foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259244032, length=131072)]error = 28 foo-bar kernel:

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed by a reboot. Bad memory? 6-STABLE from April.. foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259244032, length=131072)]error = 28

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT (supplement)

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:36:13 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine,

Re: Information about freeBSD

2007-09-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gerdes, Mike wrote: Hi all, during a research project shall the company Philotech evaluate different operating system and middleware solutions. The FreeBSD OS is of high interest for this evaluation. To be able to evaluate freeBSd we need more information. I would like to know if it is

Re: wpa_supplicant question

2007-09-01 Thread Xihong Yin
It is working now. I have to use wep_key0 and wep_tx_keyidx=0. Many thanks! Xihong On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 16:47:49 Xihong Yin wrote: Thanks, I thought it was the problem of the argument. But I still can not connect to my Access Point using

Re: skype trouble

2007-09-01 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hey, it works! thansk!!! TFC On 9/1/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:17:07 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: thanks for the trouble TFC On 9/1/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:53:36 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: On 9/1/07, Mel

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed by a reboot. Bad memory? 6-STABLE from April.. foo-bar kernel: g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=259244032,

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed by a reboot. Bad memory? 6-STABLE from April.. foo-bar kernel:

how to change isc-dhcp3-server replies? (was: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client)

2007-09-01 Thread Joe
Hello, after running tcpdump for a while I discoverd what is going on with my dhcpd server and why some clients are not able to get an IP address from it, in particular windows clients. It turns out it is not just win2k but any windows. It seems that the dhcpd server is replying to the subnet

Re: Problem mounting I-Stick2 USB flash drive

2007-09-01 Thread L Goodwin
--- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Aug 31), L Goodwin said: Under FreeBDS 6.2, the following command works for a 256MBMemorex Mini TravelDrive, but not for a 256MB Intelligent Stick (I-Stick): mount_msdosfs /dev/da3s1 /mnt It fails with mount_msdosfs:

Backup the basics of the system.

2007-09-01 Thread Joshua Isom
I'm about to downgrade from -CURRENT to 6-STABLE, and since I can't seem do it in place without screwing around with a lot of stuff, I might need to reinstall completely. But which configuration files are the ones I need to backup the most? I know rc.conf and loader.conf, but what else would

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-09-01 Thread Tobias Ernst
Nikos Vassiliadis schrieb: I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows machine that is connected to the same switch as my two FreeBSD machines and does not even talk to them explicitly influence the autonegotation of the FreeBSD NIC? I didn't say that a Windows

Re: wpa_supplicant question

2007-09-01 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 01 September 2007 15:07:46 Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 16:47:49 Xihong Yin wrote: Thanks, I thought it was the problem of the argument. But I still can not connect to my Access Point using wap_supplicant while I can connect by 'ifconfig'. It always connects to a

Re: wpa_supplicant question

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:28:51 Pollywog wrote: Would one use a WEP key in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ? Mine looks like this and I have a laptop with built-in Ralink rt2500 ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel network={ ssid=myssid

questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
I figured I'd try cyrus, I remember hearing that one is a good mail server. But I'm new to the mail server thing, and I'm not even sure where to look for some of this stuff if anyone can help. Also, I plan on just doing POP3, and only allowing secure connections - if anyone can reccomend a good,

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Friday 31 August 2007 20:55:13 Tobias Ernst wrote: Hi, I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a driver/hardware issue. As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard bge2, bge3: BCM5704, PCIX card bge4,

Re: how to change isc-dhcp3-server replies? (was: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client)

2007-09-01 Thread Peter Boosten
Joe wrote: Hello, after running tcpdump for a while I discoverd what is going on with my dhcpd server and why some clients are not able to get an IP address from it, in particular windows clients. It turns out it is not just win2k but any windows. It seems that the dhcpd server is

Re: how to change isc-dhcp3-server replies? (was: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client)

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Saturday 01 September 2007 23:30:27 Peter Boosten wrote: Joe wrote: Hello, after running tcpdump for a while I discoverd what is going on with my dhcpd server and why some clients are not able to get an IP address from it, in particular windows clients. It turns out it is not just

Re: Problem mounting I-Stick2 USB flash drive

2007-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 01), L Goodwin said: --- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Aug 31), L Goodwin said: Under FreeBDS 6.2, the following command works for a 256MBMemorex Mini TravelDrive, but not for a 256MB Intelligent Stick (I-Stick): mount_msdosfs

x11 drivers - conflicts

2007-09-01 Thread Robert Davison
I was this evening doing a portupgrade on some of my outdated packages one of which was x11-drivers I did a portupgrade -arR and got the blue config screen for the x11-drivers. I stupidly chose and intel driver which when i run the portupgrade ends with the following error you cant

Backup the basics of the system.

2007-09-01 Thread Robert Huff
Joshua Isom writes: I'm about to downgrade from -CURRENT to 6-STABLE, and since I can't seem do it in place without screwing around with a lot of stuff, I might need to reinstall completely. But which configuration files are the ones I need to backup the most? My gut reaction

Re: how to change isc-dhcp3-server replies? (was: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client)

2007-09-01 Thread Joe
I'd say thanks for the help, but telling someone that 'it works for me' is not helpful. I upgraded to 6.2p7 from 6.2p6 and this problem started happening, but only with dhcpd. In fact I can run the old dhcpd fine, but the new binary deos not run fine. The old binary does a dhcp reply from

Re: Problem mounting I-Stick2 USB flash drive

2007-09-01 Thread L Goodwin
--- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), L Goodwin said: --- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Aug 31), L Goodwin said: Under FreeBDS 6.2, the following command works for a 256MBMemorex Mini TravelDrive, but not for a 256MB

Re: how to change isc-dhcp3-server replies? (was:

2007-09-01 Thread Joe
isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0-1649509927-1188695601=:80192 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recent update to RELENG_6 creates lots of calcru warnings

2007-09-01 Thread James Long
I'm running FreeBSD RELENG_6 on a Compaq DL380 G2 dual PIII-1.4GHz with an SMP kernel. dmesg below. Prior to about August 12, the system had been quite stable. Since that time, I am finding lots of calcru warnings, which often cause system services to fail when they see unorthodox time shifts.

root on gmirror and disk failure...

2007-09-01 Thread Modulok
BACKGROUND I'm experimenting with gmirror on the root partition on a test system running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I have two physical disks on the same IDE header (master and slave). This was setup following the tutorial in the handbook. The system boots and mounts root from /dev/mirror/gm0s1a as

problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to create an rc.d script to start akpop3d (it doesn't seem to come with one). According to the documentation on run_rc_command in /etc/rc.subr, I thought this should work. However I get no response when I run '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/akpop3d start', and ps -A doesn't show an akpop3d

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-08-12 - 2007-09-01

2007-09-01 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed

a quick jails question

2007-09-01 Thread Jonathan Horne
will a NFS server run in a jail? im guessing no, that it falls into the funny services category (like snmp) that wont run right in a jail. thanks, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing