Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Here's another 2 calendar errors, presumably cpp, that manifest in 12.2-STABLE, that 9.2-RELEASE gets right. Man calendar: Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax (/* ... */) are ignored. --- Input ~/.calendar/calendar friday fish /* * Oct 21 AAA */

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Stefan > Am 28.10.20 um 13:02 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: > > man calendar states: > >"The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard > >the rest of the file if a #ifndef is triggered." > > That is wrong, as proved b

calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
man calendar states: "The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard the rest of the file if a #ifndef is triggered." That is wrong, as proved by test file: --- // Test data for ~/.calendar/calendar * bla0 #ifdef DEBUG1 * 28bla1 #endif #ifdef DEBUG2 * 28

/sys/modules fail when built by src.conf MODULES_WITH_WORLD="YES"

2019-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi stable@, In 12.0-STABLE .svn_revision 349133 .ctm_status src-12 318 4 /sys/modules/ efirt iflib nvdimm tpm all fail when built by src.conf MODULES_WITH_WORLD="YES" Can someon confirm please ? : cd /sys/modules ; make -i ; make -i In current I reported similar (but just 1 module (sdio), not

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thanks Will, You make some good points, but all depend on variant circustances. I prefer to be informed ASAP, to make my own decisons with max info ASAP, Not delayed. I want freebsd.org to Not Delay fix announcements into batches. If other admins want to delay being told told to do upgrades

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > > Alternative is to for announcers to do Less work: > > > > Send each announcement when ready. > > > > The problem is not the announcement, the problem is providing > > > the freebsd-update. > > > > If announcements are send when ready, and the freebsd-update

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Kurt Jaeger > Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 17:38:36 +0200 Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > > PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins." > > > > > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html > > > > >

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Alan Somers > Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 08:32:26 -0600 Alan Somers wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 8:26 AM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > Hi core@, > > cc hackers@ & stable@ > > > > PR headline : "Fre

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins." > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html > > > > Volunteers who contribute actual fixes are very much appreciated; > > But those styled as 'management' who

FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi core@, cc hackers@ & stable@ PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins." https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html Volunteers who contribute actual fixes are very much appreciated; But those styled as 'management' who delay announcements

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "N.J. Mann" > Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 18:18:16 +0100 "N.J. Mann" wrote: > Hi, > > > On Friday, May 03, 2019 03:00:05 +1000 Michelle Sullivan > wrote: > >>> I am sorry to hear about your loss of data, but where does the 11kV come > >>> from? > >>> I can

Re: Bug reports.

2019-01-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> This is Shayne I seen your links and would like to be on your mailing list > Im a user of freebsd-stable Hi, Join here https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux Unix, Munich Aachen Kent 1st referendum

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > We could add that once the document is submitted to core > any change to it between submitting and vote by core requires > core to be involved, even if it is simply an ack of a change > has been made to what was submitted. Yes ! Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey,

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Oct 23, 2018 at 11:33:35PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > I'd also suggest that rl stands in stark contrast to the cs, wb, sn, sm= > c, > > > sf, tl, tx and vr drivers, which nobody has mentioned in this thread, a= > nd > > > which I doubt are in use in any

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a number of production servers that only have bge and I don't see that > listed in either category. None of them are running FreeBSD 12 yet as it has > not been released. Also there are some with rl. Those are add-on boards so > they could be changed, but would

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> I'd also suggest that rl stands in stark contrast to the cs, wb, sn, smc, > sf, tl, tx and vr drivers, which nobody has mentioned in this thread, and > which I doubt are in use in any FreeBSD system of any age today. vr is used by my TV driver laptop:

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thanks for the reply warner, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:46 AM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > >>> Please direct replies to freebsd-arch <<< > > > > > > FCP-01010 (https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md) >

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> >>> Please direct replies to freebsd-arch <<< > > FCP-01010 (https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md) > outlines a plan to deprecate most 10/100 Ethernet drivers in FreeBSD 12 > and remove them in FreeBSD 13 to reduce the burden of maintaining and > improving the network stack.

Re: FreeBSD 11.2-RC1 Now Available

2018-06-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
George Mitchell wrote: > > On 06/01/18 21:31, Glen Barber wrote: > > [...] > > If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing= > > > system, use the "stable/11" branch. > > [...] > > So what's releng/11.2, chopped liver? -- George "Chopped

Re: memory leak in Init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Eugene Grosbein <eu...@grosbein.net> > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 23:48:42 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 03.03.2018 23:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >> 03.03.2018 23:11, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >

Re: memory leak in Init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 03.03.2018 23:11, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Oops! I got Subject & body wrong s/inetd/init/ ! > > > > Was:memory leak in inetd 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ? > > Should be: memory leak in init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision

memory leak in Init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Oops! I got Subject & body wrong s/inetd/init/ ! Was:memory leak in inetd 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ? Should be: memory leak in init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ? Hi sta...@freebsd.org I think I have found a memory leak with init on 10.3-STABLE (server runs in a VM);

memory leak in inetd 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi sta...@freebsd.org I think I have found a memory leak with inetd on 10.3-STABLE (server runs in a VM); server ran out of swap. top Mem: 34M Active, 791M Inact, 387M Wired, 200K Cache, 212M Buf, 759M Free Swap: 614M Total, 605M Used, 8744K Free, 98% Inuse

Re: omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable

2016-09-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > From: "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com> > > Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200 > > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > Hi stable@ people > > In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started > > cd

Re: omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable

2016-09-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com> > Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi stable@ people > In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started > cd /usr/src ; make

omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable

2016-09-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi stable@ people In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started cd /usr/src ; make buildworld, then realised per https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html I will not be able to make installkernel ; reboot preceeding make installworld

Re: Auto-mounting USB NTFS formatted devices on FreeBSD 10.2 and HEAD

2016-01-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kevin Oberman wrote: > Since the removal of NTFS support, it is unclear how to get USB drives > formatted as NTFS (or ExFAT) to automatically mount. Prior to FreeBSD 10 it > was possible to replace /sbin/mount_ntfs with a script that would generate > appropriate options and exec

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Tomoaki AOKI wrote: > According to "Real Hardware Gotchas" section in [1], FAT32 fs creation > of FreeBSD seems to have some problems. > > Try formatting by the hardware you're going to transfer files from > FreeBSD, if available. Once formatted by other OS, read/write/delete > files in FAT32

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Shutdown problem with an USB memory stick as ZFS cache device

2013-07-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Maurizio Vairani wrote: On 17/07/2013 11:50, Ronald Klop wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:27:09 +0200, Maurizio Vairani maurizio.vair...@cloverinformatica.it wrote: Hi all, on a Compaq Presario laptop I have just installed the latest stable #uname -a FreeBSD presario

Re: captive Portal Pfsense + FreeRadius + MySQL DBMS

2012-12-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Amitabh Kant wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Shiv. Nath prabh...@digital-infotech.netwrote: Dear Friends Greetings, i have a question for you, i am sure someone can help. The pfsense captive portal is up and running. Time countdown vouchers are working without issue, such

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:38:13 +0100 Message-id: op.wo5u5zxq8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local Ronald Klop wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:18:44 +0100, Mark Saad nones...@longcount.org wrote: So what is

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven wrote: Christmas comes early this year: there hasn't been an official announce- ment yet and perhaps not all mirrors have synced yet, but I've seen the ISOs on the NL mirror, so it looks like 9.1-RELEASE is out now. Yup, ftp2.de.freebsd.org also has i386 amd64, (I

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Brett Glass wrote: At 07:42 AM 12/9/2012, Dimitry Andric wrote: It has nothing to do with clang; it is not the default compiler for 9.1, and will never be for the 9.x series. Using it to compile your system (or ports) is entirely optional. I am actually eagerly awaiting a completely

Re: ZFS corruption due to lack of space?

2012-11-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Nov-02 09:30:04 -, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wr= ote: From: Peter Jeremy pe...@rulingia.com Many years ago, I wrote a simple utility that fills a raw disk with a pseudo-random sequence and then verifies it. This sort of tool Sounds useful,

Re: Removing CVS from base

2012-08-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:41:03 pm Peter Wemm wrote: * Don't expect to see any 10.0-alpha/beta/rc/release/stable to *ever* make it to an official cvs tree. It's probably time to move a freebsd-ified cvs from head to ports. I think this is a bit premature. Just

Re: t_delta too long / too short messages?

2012-08-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
t_delta 15.fe49d775fc69de00 too short t_delta 16.03698e84842065e0 too long Hi Rainer, I saw these on one of my old systems, I think it was a 7.4-rel laptop, /* Dell Latitude XPi P133ST * http://berkli.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/dell_latitude_xpi_p133st * CPU:

Re: Heavy fs corruption with 9.0-RELEASE

2012-03-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Xin Li wrote: On 03/05/12 14:12, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, I've been running a couple of system with 9.0-RELEASE since it is out. All the system were installed through the standard installation procedure. After unclean reboot, either crash or power-failure, I get a huge amount of

Re: Heavy fs corruption with 9.0-RELEASE

2012-03-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thierry Thomas wrote: Le mar 6 mar 12 à 10:41:16 +0100, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com écrivait : A German magazine (CT) reported on placebo cache chips some years back, chips with pins but no silicon inside. This one is original, at least: http://www.facebook.com

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Zoran Kolic wrote: Zoran's comments that http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ is 'obsolete' are a bit misplaced regarding older kit that some of us use by choice or necessity (eg my 2.5 Thinkpad T23s :) Sorry for the word chosen in this case. I use one even older lapper, HP nx9020, with

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I agree that a wiki would be ideal, but it would require active management. That's the real issue. It's also the reason wiki.FreeBSD.org would not be practical. I might be able to admin such a wiki, but I have no place to put it. But I'm retired, so I should have time. R. Kevin Oberman,

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Vladimir Zorin wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 13, 2011 7:31 AM, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: There is this list for laptops: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Been there. Seen that. Obsolete. My very idea would be to have

Re: NFS - DNS fail stops boot in mountlate

2011-01-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I've seen a regression in 8 at work where NFS mounts seem to fail on DNS on every boot (we have a small number of mounts, 10) whereas 7 worked fine on every boot. I haven't tracked it down yet, but 8 is certainly more fragile than 7 for mounting NFS on boot. /etc/defaults/rc.conf has

Re: NFS - DNS fail stops boot in mountlate

2011-01-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:03:35 -0500 Message-id: 201101071103.35500@freebsd.org John Baldwin wrote: On Friday, January 07, 2011 10:29:22 am Julian H. Stacey wrote: I've seen a regression in 8 at work where NFS

Re: www/chromium ignores proxy settings [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-11-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Reference: From: Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkin...@dsto.defence.gov.au Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:04:42 +0800 Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:19:32PM +, Tom Evans wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Alexander Logvinov a...@logvinov.com

Re: www/chromium ignores proxy settings [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-11-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
From: Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:51:13AM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:19:32PM +, Tom Evans wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Alexander

Re: Policy for removing working code

2010-09-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Vadim Goncharov wrote: Hi Scot Hetzel! On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 04:18:52 -0500; Scot Hetzel wrote about 'Re: Policy for removing working code': We can't e-mail announce@ every time something is going to be removed. šThat would be way too much spam for that list. That may depend on how

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
P.S. why is security@ in cc: ? Original announcement: Message-id: 4c7e71dc.1040...@freebsd.org From: FreeBSD Security Officer cperc...@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:31:40 -0700 (17:31 CEST) To: FreeBSD Stable freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd security

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. DSL is faster than ISDN, but Losing ISDN would be unfortunate: - Not all can get DSL speed, if they live far from phone exchange. - ISDN

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project ? - FreeBSD foundation paying a FreeBSD consultant (I know one who has the expertise already, has the

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2010 18:53:46 Julian H. Stacey wrote: FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: vol...@vwsoft.com Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:10:32 +0200 Message-id: 4c7ec148.9040...@vwsoft.com vol...@vwsoft.com wrote: [trimmed cc list] Julian, On 09/01/10 18:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0

sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso

2010-07-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi stable@, with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso sysinstall failed to correctly repartition a previously partitioned disc. fdisk however correctly wrote the new slices to the disk, but sysinstall did not pick up the new slices, so we had to enter fixit overwrite beginning of disk with

Re: sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso

2010-07-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Dimitry Andric dimi...@andric.com Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200 Message-id: 4c3caa05.6080...@andric.com Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2010-07-13 19:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote: with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso sysinstall failed

Re: sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso

2010-07-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2010-07-13 23:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Were those partitions 'dangerously dedicated' Yes probably, I can't be certain though, as recent FreeBSD fudges /aliases ad0s1a to ad0a if s1 is active fdisk slice. IIRC, in FreeBSD before 8 you got both ad0s1a

Re: *BSD meetup, London May 27th

2010-05-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
? If not, how about a wiki page? For FreeBSD, Question/propose that on user-gro...@freebsd.org :-) That list could probably best advise what list to ask for Net Open (if any). adrian On 19 May 2010 00:11, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From:         Michal mic

Re: *BSD meetup, London May 27th

2010-05-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:50:01 +0100 Message-id: 4bf262c9.2040...@ionic.co.uk Michal wrote: On 16/05/2010 20:27, Owain Ainsworth wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:38:34PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at

Re: FreeBSD Release 8.0 floppy images

2010-05-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Mark Linimon wrote: You can still build them. They just won't be built by default. Trying that now on 8.0-RELEASE amd64 Thanks. Ken Smith wrote: building them now fails due to another of the handful of reasons we wanted to abandon floppies ... the 'livefs' one can't and it recently

Re: FreeBSD Release 8.0 floppy images

2010-05-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
As for floppies building, it was turned off intentionally starting from 8.0. See http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=188437 I looked earlier at URL above earlier, but just kensmith(CC added) Log Message: Turn off the building of boot floppies for

Re: 7.3: instant panic upon connecting a umass

2010-04-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:26:46 -0400 Message-id: 4bbc0986.3080...@aldan.algebra.com Mikhail T. wrote: Jeremy Chadwick ÎÁÐÉÓÁ×(ÌÁ): Regarding your problem: it likely has nothing to do with SMP, so don't worry

Re: 7.3: instant panic upon connecting a umass

2010-04-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/04/2010 14:20 Julian H. Stacey said the following: I wonder if it's eg a corrupt FS not being fsck'd first ? Have you given a look to the backtrace that Mikhail had posted? Not looked. It was a URL, not text in mail. I think that it answers your question. If I

Re: Broken multimedia/dvdauthor repaired at last

2009-11-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Harald Weis ha...@free.fr Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:43:14 +0100 Message-id: 20091129154314.ga2...@pollux.local.net Harald Weis wrote: I just found a way to ''repair'' dvdauthor which is broken since several months. It suffices to comment two lines -

Re: FreeBSD jails in the Asia region

2009-11-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Tomas G t...@gransee.dk Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:27:15 +0100 Message-id: 9be2333e6a7a4956a1fd5cc287233...@tomaslaptop Tomas G wrote: Hello, I am trying to find a hosting provider that sells FreeBSD jails in the Asia region. I would prefer both

Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT..

2009-09-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Rom Albuquerque a_rom...@hotmail.com Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:38:16 + Message-id: snt114-w81d034e5efd1695113d57ed...@phx.gbl Rom Albuquerque wrote: Hi folks. Need help in doing the following, but first want to check and see if it is

Re: Testing the list

2008-04-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Szemer=E9dy_G=E1bor?= wrote: Testing the list only!Sorry ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not do that. There is

Re: Testing the list

2008-04-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Szemer=E9dy_G=E1bor?= wrote: Julian H. Stacey wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Szemer=E9dy_G=E1bor?= wrote: Testing the list only!Sorry ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: RELEASE discs ISO images (for future)

2008-03-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org This sybject has nothing to do with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posting to 2 FreeBSD lists is deprecated. hackers@ is for releases. Attempting to shrink to one list, this posted with: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc:

Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:20:50PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: I'd like to attack these driver problems. What I need is to spend a couple of days with an affected system that can reliably reproduce the problem, instrumenting and testing the driver. I have a number of

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-03-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the FreeBSD Project thanks for your interest in FreeBSD. We hope you enjoy the new release. I've just spent the whole morning installing it on my office desktop. It was an awful experience: installing packages from the

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 update and process freeze

2008-02-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Dirk Meyer wrote: Gil Bidon schrieb:, Since i've updated my machine to FreeBSD 6.3 some process randomly start using 100% CPU or are locked to STOP state (in top). Is there a known solution / patch ? Except the rollback :) I see this for mail/antivirus-milter too. But I have not

Re: dmesg : no output on 1 of 2 7-stable boxes

2008-02-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Oliver Fromme wrote: Hello Julian, I'm sorry this is a late reply, but I noticed your post on the freebsd-stable list just now. One of 2 laptops running 7-stable shows nothing with dmesg, (other is OK). Did you try dmesg -a? Thanks Oliver, Yes, but after posting I think, (Been a while

Re: finstall alpha3

2008-02-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ivan Voras wrote: As some of you may already know, I'm working on a graphical installer for FreeBSD 7, which was started as a Google SoC 2007 project but still continues. 10+ years back when Jordan did first pre= X, 24x80 graphical installer, soon afer he'd finished a blind chap posted ~So

Re: finstall alpha3

2008-02-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Henri Hennebert wrote: Julian Stacey wrote: Henri Hennebert wrote 2 emails with same common text To: Julian H. Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:20:38 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The first private shouting got answered. Then came To: freebsd

dmesg : no output on 1 of 2 7-stable boxes

2008-01-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
One of 2 laptops running 7-stable shows nothing with dmesg, (other is OK). Needs fresh eyes please, as I've already checked all this: - Text is in /var/log/messages, readable to normal users. - df shows enough disc - I patched out all of loader.conf, except essential hw.ata.ata_dma=0

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA type errors with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: wondering if this is a known issue. Note that smartctl does not report errors logged and gives a PASSED to the drive. I am running at UDMA100 ATA. Also, if it matters, I am using ZFS. Can you please provide output of the following: * smartctl -a /dev/ad0 From

Re: New KTR trace for mouse freezing/stuttering in 7.0-RC1

2008-01-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Joe Peterson wrote: In an attempt to track down this mouse freezing/stuttering (i.e. jerky mouse movement) behavior in FreeBSD 7.0-RC1, I have come up with a reliable way to cause it to happen, and I have created a longer trace showing the results. Note that I am using the ULE scheduler.

Re: Cannot mount a nfs share after doing a snapshot

2008-01-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Julian H. Stacey wrote: I too saw mountd / exports just fail on 2 systems upgraded in last days from 7RC4 to newest 7 Stable (CTM src-7 80, received here Jan 6 15:15 CEST=GMT+01:00). I am not using .snap snapshot. My other AMD NFS on other FreeBSD-4 6 hosts remains OK. AMD NFS as client

Re: 6.3-PRERELEASE desktop system periodically freezes momentarily

2008-01-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
By running glxgears the problem is easily witnessed, also by maintaining To save others hunting sources which have migrated between FreeBSD releasess: FreeBSD/releases/4.11-RELEASE/ports x11/XFree86-4-clients/pkg-plist:bin/glxgears x11/xorg-clients/pkg-plist:bin/glxgears

Re: Cannot mount a nfs share after doing a snapshot

2008-01-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I too saw mountd / exports just fail on 2 systems upgraded in last days from 7RC4 to newest 7 Stable (CTM src-7 80, received here Jan 6 15:15 CEST=GMT+01:00). I am not using .snap snapshot. My other AMD NFS on other FreeBSD-4 6 hosts remains OK. AMD NFS as client server was working till

7-Stable/sys/modules/xfs fails to make from world

2008-01-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Submitter-Id: current-users Originator:Julian H. Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: http://berklix.com Confidential: no Synopsis: 7-Stable/sys/modules/xfs fails to make from world Severity: serious Priority: medium Category: kern Class: change-request

Re: 7.0BETA4 ../cc_tools/insn-attrtab.c compiles forever

2007-12-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Sorry for delay (travelling), Answers to 1 private mail 2 list posted replies further below, first my original posting for reference: Anyone else noticed on 7.0BETA4 ( hence Ive cc'd re@) This runs forever: === cc_int (all) Warning: Object directory not changed from original

Re: 7.0BETA4 /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int Thrashes

2007-12-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Has 7.0-BETA4 perhaps wrongly got a -pipe in the .mk macros ? Please someone with generic 7.0BETA4 check with eg: A single line /etc/make.conf CFLAGS += -Dzonk=bla ~/tmp/Makefile tst: @echo XX ${CFLAGS} YY make tst

Re: 7.0BETA4 cannot install. acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left)

2007-12-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Robert Gray wrote: I've tried to install both 7.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso and 7.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso on a Dell Optiplex 745, Model# DCTR with acd0: CDROM TSSTcorp CD-ROM TS-L162C/DE05 at ata3-master UDMA33 The booting doesn't get past the acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying error.

Re: installation problems of FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on Dell D610 (multiboot con solaris, linux, winxp)

2007-11-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Julian H. Stacey wrote: Julian H. Stacey wrote: Stefano stable@ I saw similar installing 7.0-BETA3 on my Digital HiHote Ultra .. I'll look for right syntax. eg maybe hw.ata.ata_dma=0 etc starting in my http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf Safe mode (Hit

Re: installation problems of FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on Dell D610 (multiboot con solaris, linux, winxp)

2007-11-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Julian H. Stacey wrote: Stefano stable@ I saw similar installing 7.0-BETA3 on my Digital HiHote Ultra .. I'll look for right syntax. eg maybe hw.ata.ata_dma=0 etc starting in my http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf Safe mode (Hit Key 3 after it asks for boot

Re: installation problems of FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on Dell D610 (multiboot con solaris, linux, winxp)

2007-11-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Stefano Spinucci wrote: I encountered some problems installing FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on my Dell D610 laptop, on the original 60 gb hd; the hd is formatted as follows: - primary 1, 15 gb, ntfs for Windows XP - primary 2, 15 gb, solaris for Open Solaris - primary 3, 10 gb, fat32 for FreeBSD -

Re: installation problems of FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on Dell D610 (multiboot con solaris, linux, winxp)

2007-11-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Stefano stable@ I saw similar installing 7.0-BETA3 on my Digital HiHote Ultra ... I'll look for right syntax. eg maybe hw.ata.ata_dma=0 etc starting in my http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf Safe mode (Hit Key 3 after it asks for boot floppy 2nd time (Im using

Re: Schedule for 6.3R is a 404

2007-11-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Mike Jakubik wrote Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:26:22 -0500 (Wed 00:26 CET): Just an FYI, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/schedule.html returns a 404. This is linked from http://www.freebsd.org/releases/. Still so at Fri Nov 23 14:52:46 CET 2007 Ive cc'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Julian Stacey.

Re: Software for distribution of configuration files and changes

2007-11-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Karl M. Joch wrote: Hello, i have searched alot for a software to: - distribut configuration files from one master to different systems - maintain configuration files on one machine for all systemes and then send it out - push the files, not download them like cvsup - maintaining

Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

2007-10-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Wayne Chapeskie wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:21 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: The 7.0-BETA1 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use I've been doing some install testing of the 7.0-BETA1 i386 ISO's, and

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Norberto Meijome wrote: Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to call one more time today. If I get no better assistance, I will seek out a different company. If you all have any recommendations let me know. http://bsn.com : Small v. flexible BSD ISP server hosting

Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!?

2007-07-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Thomas Hurst wrote: * Julian H. Stacey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Either: - You made a typo with ar0s2 meant ad0s2, - Or you really mean ar - man 4 ar reports a comms card ! ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices

Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!?

2007-07-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thomas Hurst wrote: * Julian H. Stacey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Either: - You made a typo with ar0s2 meant ad0s2, - Or you really mean ar - man 4 ar reports a comms card ! ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices as ar%d: -% man 4 ataraid |grep /dev /dev/ar* ATA RAID

Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!?

2007-07-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hello, accidentally I did 'bsdlabel -w ar0s2' as unprivileged user but it was successfull. Likely you have a permissions problems. Report result of cd /dev ; ls -l . ar0s2 ad0s2 /sbin/bsdlabel On my 6.2-RELEASE for example I have an unwriteable combo

Re: Unable to use my USB MP4 player: FreeBSD hangs

2007-06-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Dominique Goncalves wrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect my USB MP4 player to transfer some video and music files, but when I plug the player FreeBSD hangs at this point: You don't say, if, so I'll reccomend: Do turn on power before connectting to FreeBSD Do not rely on player

Re: When inode change time changes?

2007-06-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Also, i use inode time because i only need files which really have been changed. For example, i you restore a file from a month ago it will have a date which is a month ago. Then that backup is destroyed but this file would not be backed up

Re: chkrootkit finds 94 process hidden for readdir

2006-12-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ivan Voras wrote: Matthew Herzog wrote: I ran chkrootkit yesterday and saw this: Checking `lkm'... You have94 process hidden for readdir command chkproc: Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Does LKM stand for Linux Kernel Module? If so, no wonder the check has gone lala :) No.

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Charles Sprickman made many good point IMO, but one aluded to in Chris's follow up concerns me: there is also uneeded cost involved in piurchasing hardware capable of running 6.x Performance on old boxes stability interest me, eg the 486s in scanners ( http://berklix.com/scanjet/

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:43:41PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. It successfully loads kernel and acpi.ko and shows menu formerly known as 'Beastie' (now draws 'FreeBSD' instead of Chuck). The menu

Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Oliver, Now I'm running out of ideas Well done on that big list of things already tried :-) Using a normal UDP mount I had eratic come go problems with amd until I added to rc.conf nfs_server_flags=-u -t -n 10 Turns out I had too few. 10 fixed it. man nfsd: A server should

Re: fetchmail - sendmail problem

2006-10-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Slightly OT, but any reason you don't run fetchmail as a daemon (just currious)? Reason was smaller building blocks to rearrange/ debug during construction/ breakage. Now merely a case of it works others things to do. `When I get round to it (TM ie ages ;-) I'll go D-DNS SMTP whole way omit

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