Re: /usr/bin/ld: warning: creating a DT_TEXTREL in a shared object after freebsd-update

2013-08-03 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Alex On 31.07.2013 10:45, Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello I've updated (with freebsd-update) an old 7.3 to 9.1-RELEASE and now I cannot build at least one port. === Compilation failed unexpectedly. Googling did not yield anything useful. What should I check and fix? Did you install

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-10 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Chris On 09.07.2013 20:24, Chris H wrote: Greetings Fabian, and thank you for your reply. You're welcome. My perl5 tree currently looks like: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12/man/ man3/ whatis /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/ man3/ whatis What a mess! If only whatis is left below 5.12.4, then

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Chris On 09.07.2013 11:18, Chris H wrote: How do I best sort this all out. I _really_ miss the perl_after_upgrade script, that used to accompany this process. I also had some challenges with this perl upgrade, but I used portupgrade. In the end I created a custom script based on the

Re: Where's the docs for FreeBSD maintenance with Subversion?

2013-07-04 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Chris On 04.07.2013 10:00, Chris H wrote: working on a fairly wobbly system. I'm on RELENG_8 (8.4), and would like to sync my src ports via the (now defacto) subversion method. My previous experience is with the client For /usr/src/ I did the following steps: Adjust the variables in

Re: Where's the docs for FreeBSD maintenance with Subversion?

2013-07-04 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Tom On 04.07.2013 17:52, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Fabian Wenk fab...@wenks.ch wrote: If there is an easier solution to upgrade an existing svn checkout from e.g. 8.4 to 8.5, please tell me. cd /usr/src ; svn switch http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.5 Thank

Re: [Solved] [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...

2013-04-29 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Igor On 29.04.2013 04:06, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: Once I narrowed down the problem (acpi uart), I stumbled across http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-15740.html Preventing the ACPI driver from seizing control of UART seems to work and cuau0 is now functional. I have a similar

Re: [Solved] [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...

2013-04-29 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Adrian On 29.04.2013 19:51, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hm, can you double check the port configuration? is it somehow getting the number of stop bits wrong or something? What about flow control? I did not change anything, I even did not set anything special back with FreeBSD 7.4 during the

Re: [Solved] [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...

2013-04-29 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Jeremy On 29.04.2013 20:25, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Nothing on PC architecture is simple any more. Nothing. I my case it was an upgrade from FreeBSD 7.4 to FreeBSD 9.1 without any change on the hardware. The only difference is the serial driver which changed from sio to uart. So I

Re: Ghosted logins in w/who

2013-04-09 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Daniel On 09.04.2013 12:07, Daniel Braniss wrote: something changed beteen 8 and 9 with respect of handling of utmp, I tried to research this but got bogged down with other things. According to /usr/src/UPDATING: 20100113: The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with

Re: FreeBSD Releases *.ISO Information

2013-04-08 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Mehmet Erol On 08.04.2013 12:02, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: there is a read me file to describe *.iso files and how to use them . When there is no any information about them , what can they do ? For example in the announcement for the release, e.g. here [1] for FreeBSD 9.1

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-13 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello João On 13.10.08 13:43, JoaoBR wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2008 06:57:11 Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:51:18 +0200 Fabian Wenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have a system with FreeBSD/amd64 6.3-RELEASE with 4 GB RAM and an Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter (ahc

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-13 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Jeremy On 13.10.08 16:24, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Two items which are missed (sort of implied though): motherboard BIOS version, and SCSI card BIOS version. Ok, for my system this would be: BIOS Information Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Version: V1.06

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-11 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Jeremy On 11.10.08 18:52, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Could the problem be specific to certain firmware revisions on the cards? Some other idea, which versions of FreeBSD/amd64 are affected? Only 8-CURRENT, or also 6.x- and/or 7.x-RELEASE? As far as I have seen from the reports, it does