Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread Andreas Junius
Hi all, I'm trying to install freebsd on a notebook for quite some time. It is an Acer Aspire 9302AWMSi with a AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU. I tried freebsd 8.2, pcbsd 8.2 and pcbsd 9.0 . Unfortunately the installation routine gets trapped in some kind of endless loop. Version 8.2 starts up and

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 11/27/11, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com writes: What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-28 Thread b. f.
Now I think I'll try to rebuild the kernel with options ATA_CAM and drop device atapicam. This question needs to be better resolved in time for FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. I cross-post this message to freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org so the developers will see it. FreeBSD users want to be able to burn

Re: unsubscribe

2011-11-28 Thread Jerry
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Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will actually write my network equipments' logs to files. After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of which I posted to this mailing list and wasn't able to fix even with more experienced

diagnosing packetloss: x-files edition

2011-11-28 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Guys, The packet loss I asked about earlier is getting weirder and weirder. I managed to track this down to being between two specific hosts exclusively. When I run mtr from saffron to cumin I get packet loss reported on all intermediate routers. When I run mtr from cumin to saffron I get

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Re: unsubscribe

2011-11-28 Thread Gary Gatten
Yup, thx everyone - I think I'm removed now just took a little longer than I thought. - Original Message - From: Jerry [mailto:je...@seibercom.net] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 06:53 AM To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unsubscribe On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:19:55

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Robert
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:07:57 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: Some difference today. Not sure at what point this happened but one of my CF cards now reads: [robert@dell64] ~ fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 ***

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com writes: The handbook does contain some oblique and scattered references to the new code, or at least to constructs that are common to both the old and the new code, but the addition of a brief discussion of the differences between the new and old ATA code in the

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: Thanks for hanging in there with me. I am about ready to give up, but here is where everything stands now. Before giving up, a few more suggestions. First, check the BIOS settings. It's possible the computer has a BIOS that protects the boot block from

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will actually write my network equipments' logs to files. After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of which I posted

Re: OpenBGPd stability issue on FreebBSD 9-PRERELEASE

2011-11-28 Thread Darren Baginski
All RX, not a single packet arrives. 28.11.2011, 04:59, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: Hi, Are all RX frames dropped at that point, or just the BGP TCP session related IP frames? Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
[...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again something failed with that in order to write

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Robert
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:02:55 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: Thanks for hanging in there with me. I am about ready to give up, but here is where everything stands now. Before giving up, a few more suggestions. First, check the BIOS

Re: problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Fritz Wuehler on Monday, 28 November 2011: I don't know but I do know a real VT100 won't run at 115,200 unless you drop it out of an airplane. Are you using a physical terminal or an emulator? If an emulator you often have to match up the emulator speed and parity settings etc. to the

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/28/11 7:09 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: I did discover that an external card reader I was using on the Windows XP computer is defective. It had a bent pin and another recessed pin. I hope that is not what damaged these cards. Ouch. That sounds like a logical cause. Although the card itself has

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Seg, 2011-11-28 às 18:53 +1030, Andreas Junius escreveu: Hi all, I'm trying to install freebsd on a notebook for quite some time. It is an Acer Aspire 9302AWMSi with a AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU. I tried freebsd 8.2, pcbsd 8.2 and pcbsd 9.0 . Unfortunately the installation routine gets

Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 11/27/2011 22:07, Murray Taylor wrote: I have have the same issue on a 8.0-RELEASE box and found with fstat the tgam_server was holding 12511 open files ... A what purpose does this serve (google seems to indicate that it is to speed up file access) File alteration monitoring B

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread doug
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Seg, 2011-11-28 ?s 18:53 +1030, Andreas Junius escreveu: Hi all, I'm trying to install freebsd on a notebook for quite some time. It is an Acer Aspire 9302AWMSi with a AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU. I tried freebsd 8.2, pcbsd 8.2 and pcbsd

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:10:10 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com articulated: I would be very surprised if you can not install FreeBSD 8.2. Xorg is unfortunately another matter. If you can easily reinstall windows (I assume you want to dual boot) you can try to install only FreeBSD and see if that

ape-project

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Macdonald
I've got a client wanting to use this. http://www.ape-project.org/ its not in ports, and won't build even after some gentle caressing. for reference, the easily solved issues were: bash path dep on zip, but beyond this it's still failing. Has anyone else got this working on BSD

Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 11/28/2011 19:07, Murray Taylor wrote: My /etc/gamin/gaminrc contains this fsset ufs none fsset msdosfs none (zfs and nfs too, if appropriate) and I still have 16564 files associated with gam_server in fstat out of 17424 open files reported by sysctl kern.openfiles It appears that

Re: multimedia/vlc: no graphical interface on FreeBSD 9 and 10

2011-11-28 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
2011/11/27, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Since a while, vlc on my FreeBSD 10 and FreeBSD 9 boxes do not show a graphical interface anymore. Compiling multimedia/vlc works, either with the legacy gcc or clang. But either way I compile vlc, the result is always the same: no GUI.

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Fbsd8
Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again something failed with that

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/29/2011 04:18 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with