Re: gptboot broken when compiled with clang 6 and WITHOUT_LOADER_GELI -- clang 5 is OK

2018-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dimitry Andric writes: > On 26 Apr 2018, at 12:06, Dimitry Andric wrote: >> >> On 26 Apr 2018, at 06:17, Dewayne Geraghty >> wrote: >>> >>> Andre, You're not alone. I think there's a problem with clang6 on i386

Re: Building Kernel and World with -j

2017-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Walter Parker writes: > For decades there has always been a warning not to do parallel builds of > the kernel or the world (Linux kernel builds also suggest not to do this). > > Every once in a while, I see people post about 5 minutes. This only way I > can see this happening

Re: usb 3.0 thumb drive speed limit

2017-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ian Smith writes: > On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 12:59:49 +0300, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: > > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > > Seems you've plugged it into a USB 2 port, not USB 3 > > > > > > At least you're getting full USB 2 performance (40MB/s) > > > > > > Check if you have

Re: Not-so stable if you take a CAM error....

2016-07-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Karl Denninger writes: > Why not force-detach the volume that takes the error instead of a panic()? > > That would lead to a panic if the detached volume was the system volume > (obviously) but for a data volume it would simply result in it being > forcibly unmounted (and

Re: unbound and ntp issuse

2016-06-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> writes: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:31:17PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 09:48:25AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> > &

Re: unbound and ntp issuse

2016-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> writes: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 09:48:25AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:29:09PM +0100, krad wrote: >> > >> >>

Re: unbound and ntp issuse

2016-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Slawa Olhovchenkov writes: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:29:09PM +0100, krad wrote: > >> I doubt that will happen as you are asking to pollute every release >> installation for an edge condition when there is numerous work arounds >> that would be acceptable to most. eg two

Re: unbound and ntp issuse

2016-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> writes: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:34:18PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> writes: >> >> > Default install with local_unbound and ntpd can't be functional with >> >

Re: unbound and ntp issuse

2016-06-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Slawa Olhovchenkov writes: > Default install with local_unbound and ntpd can't be functional with > incorrect date/time in BIOS: > > Unbound requred correct time for DNSSEC check and refuseing queries > ("Jul 1 20:17:29 yellowrat unbound: [3444:0] info: failed to prime > trust

Re: intr using Swap

2016-02-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> writes: >> On 17 February 2016, at 16:50, Lowell Gilbert >> <freebsd-stable-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: >> >> Have you measured that paging (not swapping; that's a more extreme >> measure where the whole process gets rem

Re: intr using Swap

2016-02-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
hiren panchasara writes: > On 02/17/16 at 04:44P, Efra?n D?ctor wrote: >> El 17/02/2016 a las 01:15 p. m., dweimer escribi?: >> > >> > They may not show as swapped unless the entire process is actually >> > swapped, which would be unlikely to occur. Personally I

Re: when the sshd hits the fan

2015-09-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Glenn English writes: > On Sep 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Michael Loftis wrote: > >> That's the most common thing, RC scripts hanging waiting on external >> resources while you're locked out simply because sshd starts >> ridiculously late. Very common problem. >

Re: ping from web application

2015-08-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs writes: I use web applicaton (net-mgmt/phpipam) which should have the ability to check hosts' availability via ping. I can even specify path to ping executable. This functionality does not work on FreeBSD by default, and suggested workaround is to set setuid

Re: Vbox kernel module panic on boot

2015-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marko Turk mark...@markoturk.info writes: Today I upgraded to r284295 and I get a kernel panic on boot when the vbox module is loaded (panic: ncpus is 0 with non-zero map). Complete backtrace is at the end of the mail. You rebuilt the vbox module, yes?

Re: protecting some processes from out-of-swap killer

2015-04-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca writes: On Tue, April 28, 2015 05:51, Ronald Klop wrote: The OS trying to kill a process is probably not what you want. So when you protect(1) postgres the OS will kill another process, which I hope is not running without reason. My advice would be to - or

Re: Package build out to FTP distribution process

2013-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com writes: Is this all wiki'd somewhere? There's plenty of information on the FreeBSD wiki, but you need to read the portbuild article from the documentation set first. But bear in mind that a lot of work continues to go into this area, so documentation tends to larg

Re: /usr/src over NFS: buildworld fail

2013-04-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Romanenko melan...@gmail.com writes: /usr/src imported via NFS make buildworld is always fails in the same place with error: make: result too large. Localy its works fine Does anybody know how to fix it? I've been doing that for years, with no problems. If you NFS-mount the src

Re: problem building world on 9.1 stable after changing 100% to svn

2013-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Edwin L. Culp W. edwinlc...@gmail.com writes: I am currently tying to use the new tools that replace cvsup and then recompile. Ports are working as expected but buildworld has been giving me a headache . I'm manually trying # svn up /usr/src Updating '.': At revision 248935. #

Re: problem building world on 9.1 stable after changing 100% to svn

2013-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Edwin L. Culp W. edwinlc...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-stable-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: It's possible you're building with the wrong set of headers, but every case I can think of would have given you an error earlier than this. Do you get

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Greg Miller greglmil...@gmail.com writes: On 2/21/13, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On 21.02.13 04:23, Greg Miller wrote: I can't speak for the OP, but I tried it because clang, gcc46, and gcc47 wouldn't produce a working executable at all for a long time (and continue to fail) on

Re: Installworld and /usr/include/*.h modification times

2012-06-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com writes: Why are /usr/include files installed with install -C during make installworld when almost everything else is installed without the -C flag? This makes it harder to track which files were actually installed during the last make installworld. One can

Re: Heads up: you'll need to do a fresh config KERNEL etc

2011-05-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca writes: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:05:41PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: Just a heads up that after a commit going into stable/8 in a few minutes, you'll need to do a fresh kernel build, starting at config GENERIC, including rebuilding the NFS related

Re: can't update libzip-0.9.3 to libzip-0.10

2011-05-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
suri su...@snafu.de writes: Hey List, i have problems with install/ update the port archivers/libzip. When i delete libzip-0.9.3 and then type make in the port directoty comes this: === Building for libzip-0.10 make all-recursive Making all in lib make all-am /bin/sh

Re: Some /etc files seem out of date in RELENG_8 compared to RELENG_8_1

2010-12-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Geoff Roberts ge...@apro.com.au writes: I was just doing and update to 8-PRERELEASE from 8.1 by using the RELENG_8 tag in cvsup. When I used mergemaster to update /etc, there were a number of files being merged into /etc that are older revisions than those I had in 8.1. You can check this

Re: Uh, fxp driver broken in current -STABLE build?!

2010-12-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com writes: Patched committed(r216111). To -CURRENT. MFC over the weekend, it sounds like? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Old system keeps coming back

2010-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net writes: - Original Message - From: Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net Subject: Old system keeps coming back At this moment I hiring a FreeBSD server running FreeBSD 7.2. After running cvsup, updating sources and ports, compiling the complete system,

Re: ISDN4BSD removal

2010-10-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com writes: On Friday 08 October 2010 12:22:40 pm Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2010-10-08 18:12, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Another thing about VoIP calls: have they solved the emergency call needs a location problem? Here (again: in Norway) they are still

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3

2010-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
GNUbie gnu...@gmail.com writes: I realized that choosing fixit, it doesn't know that the LiveFS cd is inside an external USB DVD drive which I cannot mount the filesystem on my HDD. I can't parse that sentence well enough to figure out what you mean. Taking a wild guess: I think what you

Re: Strange problem: if_xe only works in GENERIC kernel

2010-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joerg Wunsch j...@uriah.heep.sax.de writes: I'm running into a strange problem with 8-current (or 8.0-RELEASE) on an elderly Thinkpad 600E. As long as I'm using the GENERIC kernel, an Intel Etherexpress PC card works as expected: interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt

Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

2010-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com writes: On Saturday 09 January 2010 06:11:45 pm Frank wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote: USB. I'm betting USB and I'm thinking that maybe the driver you used to use hasn't been converted to the new USB system in 8-Stable. If

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Edwin Groothuis ed...@mavetju.org writes: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:44:41AM -0500, Andresen, Jason R. wrote: The point is, if your machine is on the internet, then bots are going to try password attacks on any open port they can find. It's just the sad fact of life on the current internet.

Re: Error upgrading 7.0 to 7.2 (buildword in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libopcodes setp)

2009-12-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jordi Espasa Clofent jespa...@minibofh.org writes: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbinutils/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils/debug.c: In function 'debug_write_name': /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbinutils/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils/debug.c:2407: internal compiler error:

Re: freebsd-questions mailing list

2009-12-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jamie Griffin j...@koderize.com writes: Has anyone else noticed a problem with this list, I haven't received a message from the freebsd-questions list for over 24 hours :0/ I asked the postmaster, and got a reply that the reply isn't really well understood yet. I don't know mailman that well,

Re: Error upgrading 7.0 to 7.2 (buildword in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libopcodes setp)

2009-12-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jordi Espasa Clofent jespa...@minibofh.org writes: Lowell Gilbert escribió: Does it always happen in the same place (if not, it's a hardware problem)? Hi Lowel, Yes, always at same point. Good. Based on the information you gave, I was expecting a hardware problem. Does it happen

Re: Upgrade FreeBSD 7.1 to 7.2

2009-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mikael Bak mik...@t-online.hu writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mikael Bak mik...@t-online.hu writes: I would like to do a binary upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2. I've seen the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html Miroslav, Robert, Lowell, Thank you all

Re: Upgrade FreeBSD 7.1 to 7.2

2009-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mikael Bak mik...@t-online.hu writes: I would like to do a binary upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2. I've seen the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html I've heard that it's safest to start the machine in single user mode when doing upgrades, but I see no notice about

Re: Shell execution ( [was] Re: Value of $? lost in the beginning of a function.)

2009-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com writes: Possibly off-topic... 2009/7/19 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: 2009/7/19 Romain Tartière rom...@blogreen.org: Hi Glen, On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 04:32:28PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: % sh foo.sh % zsh foo.sh % bash foo.sh What happens

Re: Shell execution ( [was] Re: Value of $? lost in the beginning of a function.)

2009-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Lowell On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Lowell Gilbertfreebsd-stable-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com writes: Possibly off-topic... 2009/7/19 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: 2009/7/19 Romain Tartière

Re: make installworld and securelevel

2009-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk writes: On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:41:13 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-stable-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk writes: On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:45:50 +0200 FLEURIOT Damien m...@my.gd wrote: Hello list, I apologize

Re: make installworld and securelevel

2009-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk writes: On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:45:50 +0200 FLEURIOT Damien m...@my.gd wrote: Hello list, I apologize if this issue has been raised already but I couldn't find it anywhere. Find below a snip from my installworld:

Re: Error in 7.0p5 upgrade

2008-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neither of those methods seem to be the officially supported source update method, which includes (in order, but with some other steps left out) make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel REBOOT into single-user make

Re: Error in 7.0p5 upgrade

2008-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm upgrading a FreeBSD amd64 box from 6.2p9 to 7.0p5. After update the sources amd make world with success, I get this error: [...] newfs.lo(.text+0x659): In function `main': : undefined reference to `__mb_sb_limit'

Re: After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Reinhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A little update. I can boot into freebsd using the life cd and can mount the disk when I'm in fixit. But from there on I have no idea what to do to fix this problem. Try reinstalling the bootloader. You can do that by going into the sysinstall disk

Re: sidetrack

2008-10-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Ian, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Peter Wemm wrote: [..] My tolerance for hacking at(1) code was exceeded when I added hacks for 'at sunrise' and 'at sunset' support to a local version. It wasn't pretty, especially when handling things

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each branch is supported by the Security Officer for a limited time only, and is designated as one of `Early adopter', `Normal', or Final'. The designation is used as a guideline for determining the lifetime of the branch as follows. I'm not clear on how

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have no 4.x or 5.x systems nor do we have any interest in maintaining those. So perhaps a good idea, but not something I can help with. I *did* offer to work on maintenance for 6.2, but was told it would be rejected by the developers. Would I extend

Re: Buildworld Fails RELENG_7

2008-05-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
tree, and even then it isn't really necessary. - Lowell -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7?

2008-03-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, adding an entry in /etc/rc.conf that provides 254 IP's now reveals: lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3inet 127.0.0.1 netmask

Re: package xkeyboard-config not available

2007-09-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[This is a ports question, not a -stable question, so I adjusted the headers accordingly to reach the appropriate folks.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install Xorg from packages but it does not work because the xkeyboard-config package isn't available for download. I tried about 5

Re: upgrade from python 2.4 to 2.5

2007-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
vuthecuong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did anyone already upgrade from python 2.4 to 2.5? Yes. It is in the ports tree and has been for quite a while. It is not fully backward-compatible, though, so it is not yet the default version. How can I upgrade to python 2.5 using portupgrade?

Re: autofs

2007-06-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dmitriy Kirhlarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm find in source tree : /usr/src/lib/libautofs /usr/src/sbin/mount_autofs /usr/src/share/examples/autofs /usr/src/share/man/man5/autofs.5 Sorry, for stupid question. Could somebody explain me, how I can build it and why it doesn't build by

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i did the command pkgdb -Ff and it broke my X (xfce4) the desktop had been able to come up, but the cursor was the X that it has while it is booting.. i was able to start a terminal, but not a mozilla browser. i had been able to use the terminal, but

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some of the ports that depend on pango being unable to use the new version. Make sure you look

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -r option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some

Re: 5 stable 6 stable stops with error

2007-04-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:21:17 -0700 Jon wrote: Intel P III 933, 1/2 gig ram, plain old P3 box Ok, installed 5.5 release. setup X gnome cvsuped the 5 stable branch Ran make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot ran mergemaster

Re: Browser plugin problems still exist in 6.2

2006-12-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dmitry Pryanishnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Bruce M Simpson wrote: It still seems to be necessary to patch rtld in order to get the Flash plugin to work (www/linux-flashplugin7) due to the '_dlsym' symbol not being found. I was able to use a smaller patch to

Re: FreeBSD and make -j# buildworld usability

2006-10-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Buki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I searched the archives and web a little but found many different opinions on stability/usability of using make -j# with buildworld (and buildkernel). So I am asking if it is a good idea to use make -j on production boxes. In addition to all of the other

Re: Unable to generate random numbers?

2006-09-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Krassimir Slavchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to generate random bytes using rand() or random() functions I found that these functions return constant values!? Show your code (preferably a minimal, compilable, example); chances are that you are not initializing the state properly

Re: MySQL, ntpd, and kern.timecounter

2006-06-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 machine set up as a web and MySQL database server. Since the application is a bit database-intensive, I followed several of the MySQL tuning recommendations from this page: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/MySQL One of those was to

Re: Error while 'make buildworld' in terminal.o

2006-06-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Марков Дмитрий Владимирович [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A was synchronise my source to RELENG_5_3 by cvsup. That branch is no longer active. The release engineers are not necessarily paying attention to it. cc -O2 -pipe -DINFODIR=\/usr/share/info:/usr/local/info:/usr/X11R6/info:.\

Re: How can I know which files a proccess is accessing?

2006-06-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eduardo Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My wish is that fstat had an option to show file name instead of inodes :) For those who pointed me using find(1) looking for inum from the output of fstat(1), thank you; it is a very heavy loading option (disk usage increases around 30% while doing

Re: [OT] resolv.conf and dhclient

2006-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus spake Lowell Gilbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/06/06 10:32]: : I've often wondered why dhclient.conf doesn't have an 'ignore' directive. : There's a 'require' in there; it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to : 'ignore' something. : : Why

Re: How can I know which files a proccess is accessing?

2006-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eduardo Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gstat tells me that slice ad0s1h (my /var) is 100% frequently, and in fact with fstat I can see a number of httpd proccesses running accesing that. But fstat only shows me inodes and the mount point. I need to know which files the proccesses are

Re: [OT] resolv.conf and dhclient

2006-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've often wondered why dhclient.conf doesn't have an 'ignore' directive. There's a 'require' in there; it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to 'ignore' something. Why not just write a simple script for one of the hooks that dhclient-script(8)

Re: Hard crashes with floppy access

2006-05-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This afternoon I experienced two hard crashes while accessing my floppy drive. Mounting seemed to work OK, then I tried to copy a file (~24K) to the disk and then nothing, having to go for the Reset button. The first time this

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, it's possible (and risky), however you will not get, for example, an advantages of UFS2 and so forth, because you can't upgrade from UFS to UFS2 without rebuilding FS. How can one convert their UFS to UFS2

Re: resolver doesn't see resolv.conf changes

2006-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ulrich Spoerlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: The solution is to run a local caching nameserver instance. You should do this anyway, for performance reasons. Add 'named_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf, and modify your /etc/dhclient.conf as follows: Good idea,

Re: resolver doesn't see resolv.conf changes

2006-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulrich Spoerlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: The solution is to run a local caching nameserver instance. You should do this anyway, for performance reasons. Add 'named_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf, and modify your

Re: CD Burner and ATAPICAM Problem

2006-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While trying to get CD burning working under FreeBSD 6.0 (and 6.1-PreRelease), I keep getting the following error in my dmesg and cd1 is never created. The drive is a Philips CDRW4012P. It shows up as /dev/acd1 and reports correctly in dmesg. However, once

Re: Trouble with mounting USB stick as user

2006-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Got a small problem thats just driving me nuts. I have an MP3 player that appears as a memory stick - from dmesg: umass0: iRiver Limited. iRiver Internet Audio Player IFP-700, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: iriver

Re: FreeBSD 6 non-GENERIC kernel build fails

2006-01-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeffrey Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to build kernel with the following conf file, output follows, HELP! You have ural(4) in your kernel, but no wlan(4). The ural(4) manual says that wlan(4) is required. In general, the way to figure these things out is to start from the GENERIC

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2005-12-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Dec 2005 09:30:56 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marian Hettwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hej there, Kobi Shmueli wrote: Try checking /etc/resolv.conf on oboe first, adding a static entry

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2005-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marian Hettwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hej there, Kobi Shmueli wrote: Try checking /etc/resolv.conf on oboe first, adding a static entry to /etc/hosts of the remote ip/host should speed dns checks as well. You can also run ssh in verbose mode (ssh -v oboe) or/and run sshd in debug

Re: Can't boot RELEASE-6.0 on ASUS P4S800D-X

2005-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Einstein Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm using the RELEASE-5.4 without any problem, but the RELEASE-6.0 CD boot stops just before the ad4: message. This is the output of dmesg on 5.4: begin Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980,

Re: device em0 not showing up at boot

2005-11-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an older PC (Compaq AP200) that I'm running FreeBSD-6.0 on. I have an Intel Gigabit interface installed in one of the PCI slots, along with another dual 10/100 Intel in another. The em0 device does not show up at boot time, and therefore

Re: snd_ich and syntax error

2005-11-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use it on 6.0-Stable but the AC97 is still not working but I got no error compiling it into the kernel João Hi, i'm attaching my config file. And the error i'm having is: config: MARCO1:283: syntax error However if i try to load

Re: Update from 5.4 to 6.0 [SOLVED]

2005-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Claus Guttesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do not attempt a make buildworld using sudo. It does not work. Using su - it works fine. That's all I (su)do :-) The only time I'm root is when I add my self, then install cvsup, portupgrade and then sudo. From there all I do is 'sudo -s'. The

Re: gnome-upgrade.sh

2005-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Works good, just one thing, portmanager has no dependencies, like to keep it that way. It's not necessary to consider that an issue: this functionality is really only useful to someone who has had portupgrade installed anyway.

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I made the somewhat unexpected discovery that in FreeeBSD 5-STABLE, if I use the tmp* variables in /etc/rc.conf to have an MFS /tmp created, it is apparentyly not swap-backed -- as I expected from the part of the mdmfs man page that reads: By

Re: cron notifications

2005-10-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erald Troja wrote: I'm having issues getting cronjob notifications. probably a misconfig. i'm fairly new to freebsd, comming from a linux platform. snip snip snip cron Just Works. `crontab -l` lists your crontab file (basically just

Re: CVSup timeout

2005-08-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bryan Buecking [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Demers wrote: I have run into this myself in my own home network, what I have found that fixed it is I just adjusted the MTU on all my stations with problems to the size of the pppoe packet size. From the error try changing it to in your

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards and hard lockup in 5.4-STABLE

2005-08-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and I see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIVE but this info seems to only apply to 4.x. Not really, but the values are making *huge* jumps back and forth, so it's not just a matter of missing some interrupts

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Well, break it down a little bit. If an ATA drive properly implements the cache flush command, then none of the ongoing discussion is Are you sure this is the case? Are there sequence points in softupdates where it issues

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Despite that, I have never EVER had a problem with data consistency on my file systems. (The only problem I have had is when I added an ATA controller card one time and forgot to disable its RAID BIOS, which promptly spammed over my geom_mirror

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The combination barriers+journal really seems to be very resilient to filesystem corruption. When it's implemented without errors, and the hardware doesn't do things like change bits randomly, I can't think of a way this scheme can be corrupted at

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Dama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: softupdates is perfectly safe with SCSI. its well known that ide and sata w/wo ncq fails to provide suitable semantics for softupdates however, journaling fairs no better, and request barriers do nothing to solve the problem. I had assumed that the

Re: SSHD and FTPD, can't connect

2005-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did that, to no avail. It was fine then it started doing this. Any other suggestions? Plenty, but guessing is an inefficient way to solve this. Turn on debugging for both the sshd on that system and the slogin invocations on the other machines, and let

Re: SSHD and FTPD, can't connect

2005-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:36 PM To: Matt Smith; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSHD and FTPD, can't connect Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did that, to no avail

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

2005-05-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, sshd actually accepts connections prior to checking hosts.allow? Yes, the connection is accepted first, because there is no information available about it before it is accepted. But if

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

2005-05-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume he's not using inetd(8) for ssh (which is not a good ide ain general, and it's not the default anyway). Note that sshd(8) supports hosts_access(3) directly without the help of inetd(8). I thought someone had specified inetd, but looking again,

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

2005-05-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume he's not using inetd(8) for ssh (which is not a good ide ain general, and it's not the default anyway). Note that sshd(8) supports hosts_access(3) directly without the help of inetd(8). I

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True, but in general, having gotten used to LINT, usually, I would just check notes for syntax--for instance, I might see something about PREEMPTION and just do (while in i386/conf) grep PREEMPT NOTES. Don't forget sys/conf/NOTES, either. [which

Re: mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 causes reboot

2005-05-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael A. Koerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 5.3-RELEASE and issuing the subject command, after a few seconds pause, causes a reboot. There are no /var/log/messages. In one case I saw a stray irq 9 message flash across the console. Has anyone come across this problem? The IRQ 9

Re: Weird jdk14 build

2005-05-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jayton Garnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, This weekend i've been reinstalling fbsd on my desktop and while installing /usr/ports/java//jdk14 (yes i downloaded all the files from sun and the patch-kit) While it was compiling I had a syntax error something like expected ( somewhere or

Re: Cvsup Branch Tag

2005-04-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David W.Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just successfully installed 5.4 RC3 on my HP Netserver LD Pro. I was wondering if anyone knew what 5.4's branch tag is for cvsup for this distribution. According to Release Engineering, the 5.4 normal distribution tab has not been created yet, e.g.

Re: buildworld fails on: === bin/domainname

2005-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 21), bsdnooby said: When I run 'make buildworld' I get a series of errors like this: rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS === bin/domainname Makefile, line 3: Need an operator ... Makefile, line 33 Need

Re: Data modified on freelist?

2005-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rich Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running 4-STABLE / 4.11-PRERELEASE (CVS tag=RELENG_4), dated 2004- 12-10, on an AMD Athlon system at home. Last night, I got the following message from the kernel: Data modified on freelist: word 14 of object 0xc2aff700 size 256 previous

Re: 5.3-RELEASE crashes during make buildworld (and other problems)

2005-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rick Updegrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This machine runs 4.11-STABLE just fine. I can make buildworld all day. Before that it ran Win2k for many months with no problems. For these reasons, I do not suspect hardware at this point. When I install 5.3-RELEASE it runs fine until...

Re: acpi boot error messages after last update (Dec 22nd)

2004-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Federico Galvez-Durand Besnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, just compiled new kernel with lattest acpi. I am getting boot error messages. I set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 in device.hints. With acpi disabled I get this: ( partial dmesg ) ... vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem

Re: hushlogin attribute

2004-12-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rostislav Krasny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, there are few words about one should run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' after each change. But this is not what I propose to add to the manual page and /etc/login.conf is not a manual page by itself. At first I wasn't pay attention to these lines at

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