Re: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 12/16/2016 11:39, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 06:08:34PM +0100, Fernando Herrero Carrón wrote: Hi everyone, A few months ago I got myself a new box and I have been happily running FreeBSD on it ever since. I noticed that

Re: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 12/16/2016 11:08, Fernando Herrero Carrón wrote: Hi everyone, A few months ago I got myself a new box and I have been happily running FreeBSD on it ever since. I noticed that the boot was not as fast as I had expected and I've realized that, while

Re: Clandestine USB SD card slot

On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, George Mitchell wrote: So not only is it (apparently) recognized, but the sdhci_pci driver attached to it! But inserting or removing a card shows no activity. What's my next step? -- George Is a device created for the empty reader?

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

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016, Matt Smith wrote: On Sep 04 16:35, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: "Julian H. Stacey" 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

Re: vt(4) issues on 11.0-BETA3 (Actually 11-STABLE)

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Kevin Oberman wrote: 3. After one port erred on the build, I scrolled back to select the list of ports still to be built (a portmaster(8) feature) and try to paste it into the same window or a different one. I get a totally different region. Since the list spanned several

Re: Release notes and handbook changes for identifying wireless adapters

On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Shawn Webb wrote: The discussion on this is too late for code changes to 11.0-RELEASE, but this should be documented loud and clear. The difficulty here is that now we have to document different methods for different versions, which makes it harder for new users *and*

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2016 (fwd)

fixed. In all, a discomfiture of abundance. View the rubrics below, and marvel at their profusion and magnitude! Marvel! --Warren Block __ Please submit status reports for the second quarter of 2016 by July 7

Re: A gpart(8) mystery on 10.3-RELEASE

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Steven Hartland wrote: On 05/04/2016 20:48, Warren Block wrote: Actually, the more I think about it, using bootcode -p to write the entire EFI partition seems dangerous. Unless it is surprisingly smart, it will wipe out any existing stuff on that EFI partition, which

Re: A gpart(8) mystery on 10.3-RELEASE

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Boris Samorodov wrote: 05.04.16 12:30, Trond Endrestøl пишет: What am I doing wrong? Can't gpart(8) write both the pmbr and the efi image as a single command? Is it an off-by-one error in gpart(8)? gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1 ada0 gpart:

Re: Swap Questions

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel:

Re: gptboot: unable to read backup GPT header - virtualbox guest with SAS controller

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Paul Koch wrote: We get the following error after installing 10.1-p12 in a VirtualBox guest when setup with an emulated LSI / SAS controller and a 50G fixed sized virtual disk: gptboot: error 1 lba 104857599 gptboot: unable to read backup GPT header Can't seem to find

Re: Kernel fails to boot after update

On Mon, 25 May 2015, Brandon Wandersee wrote: On 05/25, Trevor Roydhouse wrote: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-options.html Cheers, TREV. Thanks for the link, Trevor. I enabled DDB in the kernel (options DDB) in order to prevent the

Re: 9.2-PRE: switch off that stupid Nakatomi Socrates

On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Ben Morrow wrote: Quoth David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com: I personally think (but you may totally disagree with) that an operating system *is* an operating system. And I really hate easter eggs or anything else not serious being integrated into the system. I think

Re: Update to 9.2-PRERELEASE, what is this?

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, J David wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, David Demelier wrote: http://files.malikania.fr/DSC_0223.jpg What's that? Is this a joke? Yes, sort of. This is fantastic. Kudos and thanks for the laugh

Re: Update to 9.2-PRERELEASE, what is this?

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, David Demelier wrote: Hi, After updating to r25, I have a strange boot loader, see: http://files.malikania.fr/DSC_0223.jpg What's that? Is this a joke? Yes, sort of. After you're tired of it, override it in /boot/loader.conf: loader_logo=orb A PR should

Re: FBSD 9.2 RC crashes running as virtualbox host

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote: I built my new kernel and installed it, then rebooted before rebuilding virtualbox-ose-kmod. Then I rebooted once again (which I think I forgot to do the first time). Then I started my VM and it was fine. There are three kernel modules and I find it

Re: FBSD 9.2 RC crashes running as virtualbox host

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Thomas Zenker wrote: On 08/16/13 15:41, Mikhail Tsatsenko wrote: 2013/8/16 Thomas Zenker t...@zenker.tk: Hi, after updating my freebsd amd64 box from 9.1 (r250841) to 9.2-RC (r254276) virtualbox crashes the machine. Seconds after starting VBOX After starting VBOX gui or

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot with a graid error

On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, F. Senault wrote: Hi everybody. I've just upgraded a box from FreeBSD 9 to 9.1 via freebsd-update. At the first reboot, the machine stopped with messages about GRAID : GEOM_RAID: Promise: Subdisk kjihgfedcba`_^]\[ZYXWVUTSRQPONM:0-ada0 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE

Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 01/08/2013, at 9:04, dte...@freebsd.org wrote: Have you tried mboot? No I have not. Do you know anyone that has got it to work? Supposedly someone got it to work because there is an entry in the syslinux wiki

Re: Trouble building release with docs

On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 05:19:23PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 21/07/2013, at 16:19, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 04:44:56PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am trying to do a full (customised) release of 9.1

Re: Trouble building release with docs

On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am trying to do a full (customised) release of 9.1 but I am having trouble building the docs. If I use NODOC it builds fine, but without that I get.. [andenes 7:04] /usr/src/release #/usr/bin/time make release BUILDNAME=$BUILDNAME make -C

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, John Reynolds wrote: The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to install 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices after I hit 'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. Somewhere, there is a FAQ or note that you should not

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

On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, N.J. Mann wrote: In message b8cefc405bcd2f7248f4c260a9148296.authentica...@ultimatedns.net, Chris H (bsd-li...@1command.com) wrote: Greetings, I've _finally_ managed to get a break in my work schedule that coincides with a period where pointyhat isn't barfing on my

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Garrett Wollman wrote: Having just gone through this in two different environments, I can very very strongly recommend doing the following. It's not the easy button of the TV commercials, but it will make things much much easier in the future. This is an interesting

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Garrett Wollman wrote: In article alpine.bsf.2.00.1306270602300.99...@wonkity.com, wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Garrett Wollman wrote: Having just gone through this in two different environments, I can very very strongly recommend doing the following.

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: When rebuilding everything, I have always resorted to this: rsync -avH /usr/local/ /usr/local.old/ pkg_delete -a -f rm -fr /usr/local/* rm -fr /var/db/ports/* rm -fr /usr/ports/distfiles/* cd /usr/ports/whatever make install clean {lather rinse

re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote: But it installed (pulled in) far more than those dependencies actually required. It may bring in build dependencies, but should be no different than manually installing ports. I believe, due to the fact that it doesn't appear to honor the original build

re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote: Okay, look up the last time you installed or upgraded a port: % ls -ltr /var/db/pkg The last one is the most recently modified. Update your ports tree, follow all the steps that apply to your system since that date.

Re: system sporadically hangs on shutdown after switching to WITH_NEW_XORG

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 09:07 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 06:01:49PM +0200, Michiel Boland wrote: On 06/16/2013 17:55, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] Are you running moused(8)? Actually, I can see quite clearly that you are in

Re: Serial terminal issues

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Dimitry Andric wrote: On Jun 4, 2013, at 23:32, Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to get my serial terminal to work with my new system. ... cat /boot.config -D -S19200 cat /boot/loader.conf boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES comconsole_speed=19200

Re: Corrupt GPT header on disk from twa array - fixable?

On Sun, 2 Jun 2013, Alban Hertroys wrote: On Jun 2, 2013, at 16:12, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the gpart(8) output it seems that only 20GBs of the disk is recognized by the disk driver but the GPT table still shows the full capacity 910GB. I'd say that the GPT table

Re: Corrupt GPT header on disk from twa array - fixable?

On Sun, 2 Jun 2013, Alban Hertroys wrote: On Jun 2, 2013, at 16:46, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: I've never worked with gnop before; is this a safe approach?: # kldload geom_nop # gnop create -v -o 41943006 -S 512 ada4 # mount /dev/ada4.nop /mnt I get the impression that gnop might

Re: Corrupt GPT header on disk from twa array - fixable?

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2013, Warren Block wrote: [snip] gmirror is good. GPT is also good. The combination is a problem. gmirror metadata overwrites the backup GPT, so those disks will show corrupt also. For now, the recommended workaround is to just use

Re: Corrupt GPT header on disk from twa array - fixable?

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Alban Hertroys wrote: Really, the easiest way would be to temporarily install the old RAID controller and copy the data off the array. Well, that would mean I'd have to assemble the old server again, as the controller is not compatible with the hardware in the new one.

Re: Command line not responding

On Fri, 17 May 2013, Michael Gass wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:55:13AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:56:53PM -0500, Michael Gass wrote: Running 9.0-Stable on an i386. Whenever I type a command at the prompt I get the output /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9:

Re: Release ISO images have broken RockRidge data

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Eugene Grosbein wrote: 09.04.2013 21:58, Mark Saad ?: While not the same you can always do this mdconfig -a -t vnode -f yourfreebsd-version.iso mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom Then use pax, cpio , cp, rsync etc to copy the data off the image . This way breaks

Re: Release ISO images have broken RockRidge data

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Warren Block wrote: sync will support hard links with -H But how shall rsync know that the files in the ISO image stem from hardlink siblings on the hard disk where the image was produced ? Well, no it won't recreate them by inferral

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I

Re: svn - but smaller?

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, John Mehr wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:20:37 +0100  Michael Ross g...@ross.cx wrote: What'd you think about a syntax extension along the lines of svnup --bsd-base svnup --bsd-ports svnup --bsd-all with automagic host selection, default to uname's

Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 25/01/2013 12:26 Marin Atanasov Nikolov said the following: Yes, it's a brand new one. Then no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve But if a new (as in replacement) power supply does not change the symptoms, it's likely not the problem.

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS best practices in FreeBSD

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: #1. Map the physical drive slots to how they show up in FBSD so if a disk is removed and the machine is rebooted all the disks after that removed one do not have an 'off by one error'. i.e. if you have ada0-ada14 and remove ada8 then reboot -

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS best practices in FreeBSD

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:58:15PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: #1. Map the physical drive slots to how they show up in FBSD so if a disk is removed and the machine is rebooted all the disks after

Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Ronald Klop wrote: Memory chips gone bad? Power (or other) cables gone loose? Memory failures will cause intermittent and mysterious things. Easy to test, too, just run memtest86 on it for a while. Do that before rebuilding. If memory is failing, corrupted data could

Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:48:05AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: I tend to agree, a machine that starts rebooting spontaneously when nothing significant changed and it used to be stable is usually a sign of a failing power supply or memory. Agreed.

Re: csup to svn for 8-stable

On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Brian W. wrote: When I tried the first time, it only grabbed a few folders, a second try got me a conflict message. I then just whacked /usr/src and did the svn co again, successfully. An important difference is that if you modify a file in /usr/src, an svn update will

Re: 9.1-RC3: xorg-input-mouse, xfce4-panel

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, CeDeROM wrote: Hello :-) I have found some issues with 9.1-RC3 packages/configuration using binary packages: 1. xorg-input-mouse is old driver (?) that has the issue mentioned on the list (current?) - the mouse is not always detected at first xorg run. Please make sure

Re: How to update ports tree indexes when using svn

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 10/12/2012 14:39, S.N.Grigoriev wrote: after the security announcement (http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html) I use svn to update my local ports tree. I've found out that the port index is not updated. What is the preferred/recommended

Re: Where do I purchace an unlock code to build a custom kernel?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Chris H wrote: Hi Chris, Friday, November 23, 2012, 11:50:16 PM, you wrote: Thank you! Yes, I _did_ know k7 was actually i(x)86, but figured config(8) would throw me a bone if it were wrong. Anyway, I'll take your advice. There are some architecture specific settings

Re: 9.1 and intel graphics

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Thomas Mueller wrote: Normally I start X by startx which may be followed by an initialization file, so I don't get the default spartan default twm all the time. In Linux and FreeBSD, I generally use X as nonroot. So I don't really know how to start a program such as xterm

Re: 9.1 and intel graphics

On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Thomas Mueller wrote: How do you shutdown from a window in X if you're nonroot? Users that are a member of the operator group can run shutdown -p or -r. Can you have both root and nonroot windows simultaneously in X? Sure.

Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:11:30 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: If I select the entire disk for FreeBSD, I think it's a reasonable assumption that the MBR should replaced, too.

Re: Question About Tracking the Stable Branch

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I've always updated my -RELEASE systems using the traditional method so it seems it's no different other than perhaps updating more frequently and deciding whether or not both kernel code and userland code needs to be rebuilt together. It

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 11:26, Erich Dollansky wrote: I would run plain UFS for / /var and /tmp and see what will happen then. I know what you will answer. But it will help to isolate the problem. Did you mean not use the label at all? If so I just tried this.

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 14:56, Warren Block wrote: Stefan called it. The newfs is done on /dev/gpt/gptroot, no problem there. But when glabel writes to /dev/ada0p2--which is /dev/gpt/gptroot, same thing, it overwrites the last block. And then the filesystem

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Warren Block wrote: No obvious problems jumped out at me. Here are my notes: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html The gpart version is halfway down. I really need to switch that around. Changed now so that the gpart(8) version is first

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: No obvious problems jumped out at me. Here are my notes: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html The gpart version is halfway down. I really need to switch that around. Pretty good page, but I would really suggest that you also do

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 19:42, Warren Block wrote: No obvious problems jumped out at me. Here are my notes: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html The gpart version is halfway down. I really need to switch that around. Oh! You're the owner

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: No obvious problems jumped out at me. Here are my notes: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html The gpart version

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Daniel P. Wright wrote: I am having issues with my keyboard running FreeBSD 9-RELEASE. It is recognised fine by the system and works within the console (outside of X), but within a couple of minutes of X launching it stops working in X. I can still use ctrl-alt-F1 (or

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: I ran FreeBSD since 8 on this machine but I have had to start finding a new setting for xorg.conf to make X working again after a recent upgrade. Enable moused in rc.conf and the following from xorg.conf helped me this time: # # 24.07.12 ed: we

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:03:05 -0600 (MDT) Hi, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: Enable moused in rc.conf and the following from xorg.conf helped me this time: Option AllowEmptyInput

Re: The MFC process...

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 17 July 2012 05:50, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Tue, July 17, 2012 02:10, Eitan Adler wrote: Of interest to me: if it could be limited to just the commits I made and optionally show me the log message and diff it would be very helpful.

Re: The MFC process...

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 17 July 2012 09:28, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 17 July 2012 05:50, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Tue, July 17, 2012 02:10, Eitan Adler wrote: Of interest to me: if it could

Re: The MFC process...

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 17 July 2012 09:53, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: I don't expect it to happen. But right now, there's only the initial mail that the MFC is due, and no reminder afterwards. We have the open PR mails once-weekly; MFCs are at least

Re: The MFC process...

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 17 July 2012 10:10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: I have a special place in my email for MFC reminder emails which I use as a todo list. Getting weekly reminders would just be annoying. Why would it be a problem with with MFCs if it isn't

Re: video issue - Intel Atom based motherboard D2500HN

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Marek Salwerowicz wrote: W dniu 2012-07-14 22:00, Warren Block pisze: Did you try the changes mentioned here? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-July/035366.html Not yet - but are they only available in 10-Current or also in 9-Stable ? I'd like

Re: video issue - Intel Atom based motherboard D2500HN

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Marek Salwerowicz wrote: I recently bought a Intel D2500HN motherboard with Intel GMA 3600 video card. I want to install FreeBSD 9-Release on it via PXE, but after booting the system, it seems that video card driver doesn't work properly. Have a look at this picture:

Re: new desktop box

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Zoran Kolic wrote: I run an 8120, it is a bulldozer however. I overclock it by adjusting the multiplier in the bios. Stock freq is 3.1GHZ and I run it at 4.2 GHz with an increase in Vcore of only 0.125V cooling with air. Solid as a rock. How about heating? - buildworld

Re: new desktop box

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Zoran Kolic wrote: Thanks all for reply! The real question is which video card do you want to use? Since I'm not gamer nor do 3d, some silent card will suffice. There are nvidia gp520 and radeon 6450, both with no fan. Do not get a Radeon newer than the 4000-series,

Re: new desktop box

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Lucas Holt wrote: AMD and Intel both have good CPU offerings. Both have a turbo feature to improve single core workloads. The real question is which video card do you want to use? Both have integrated solutions now or you could pick a discrete card. I personally go amd

Re: Kernel modules are broken after updating to the latest FreeBSD 9-STABLE

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Olav Gjerde wrote: Yesterday I updated to the latest version of FreeBSD 9-STABLE. I always follow the procedure in the manual - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html And I use the GENERIC config with no modifications. The system boots

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Ronald Klop wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:01:21 +0200, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:41:58 +0200, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: Since updating my

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Oliver Fromme wrote: Warren Block wrote: [...] attach 50 { [...] Even with those changes, devd is not triggering on my scanner attach: match subsystem DEVICE; match type ATTACH; match cdev ugen[0-9]+.[0-9]+; match vendor

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Oliver Fromme wrote: When the event is seen: Executing 'devnum=`echo ugen0.6 | sed -e 's/^ugen//'` echo devnum: /tmp/example echo cdev: ugen0.6 /tmp/example' $devnum never gets a value, the contents of /tmp/example are: devnum: cdev: ugen0.6 Trying $()

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote:   On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote:   You can try to prepend a backslash, i.e. echo \$devnum.  This   isn't documented, but then again,

Re: Backups with 9-STABLE -- Options?

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Karl Denninger wrote: 1. Is it REALLY safer to have the root filesystem run WITHOUT softupdates? (As was previous default practice) The FAQ has an entry which has been there for a while. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 06/06/2012 22:23, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 02:14:46PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/2012 11:59, Dave Hayes wrote: I'm describing more of a use case here, not attempting to specify an implementation. If a user invokes

Re: ports devel/tkcvs

On Thu, 24 May 2012, Sean Bruno wrote: Probably doing something wrong, but when I install tkcvs to get tkdiff on my box, the only thing it does is fire up and display a wish window. Did I do it wrong? :-) No idea, but devel/diffuse might be alternative.

Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. Fonz van Werven f...@skysmurf.nl wrote: After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse on my netbook stopped working. When I do # /etc/rc.d/moused onestart the pointer appears and can be moved

Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

This is the config file I use. Hot-connect works for USB mice and keyboards. Comments included for completeness. From rc.conf: dbus_enable=YES moused_enable=YES Without running moused from rc.conf, only one of the mice would work at a time. HAL is not installed, so the AutoAddDevices

Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock, There might

Re: ATI Radeon 4250 in Dual Head Config?

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Sean Bruno wrote: Does anyone have an ATI 4250 in a dual head config? I'd be interested in looking over your xorg.conf. Sean p.s. Mine at the moment, that doesn't work very well: http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/4250_xorg_conf.txt Here's what I use with a 4650,

Re: 9-stable: what happened to geom_labels?

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Peter Maloney wrote: On 03/06/2012 05:08 PM, Warren Block wrote: A new install of 9-release, updated to 9-stable today with the GENERIC kernel. gpart show -l shows GPT labels, yet there isn't even a /dev/gpt directory. Has something changed with labels? ... # Setting

9-stable: what happened to geom_labels?

A new install of 9-release, updated to 9-stable today with the GENERIC kernel. gpart show -l shows GPT labels, yet there isn't even a /dev/gpt directory. Has something changed with labels? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sendmail and smarthost

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Warren Block wrote: In 8.3-PRERELEASE, sendmail is now happily ignoring a smarthost unless DONT_PROBE_INTERFACES is set. That used to be unnecessary. That machine rarely sends email, but a bug followup sent on Feb 25 went through. Maybe not significant since

Re: sendmail and smarthost

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Warren Block wrote: Adding an IPv6 entry for the hostname to /etc/hosts prevents the problem without requiring DONT_PROBE_INTERFACES. (Thanks to George Shapiro!) Make that Greg, not George. He now gets to call me Wally

Re: sendmail and smarthost

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Warren Block wrote: In 8.3-PRERELEASE, sendmail is now happily ignoring a smarthost unless DONT_PROBE_INTERFACES is set. That used to be unnecessary. That machine rarely sends email, but a bug followup sent on Feb 25 went

sendmail and smarthost

In 8.3-PRERELEASE, sendmail is now happily ignoring a smarthost unless DONT_PROBE_INTERFACES is set. That used to be unnecessary. That machine rarely sends email, but a bug followup sent on Feb 25 went through. Maybe not significant since it was outside the local domain.

Re: 8.3-BETA1 installation problem

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.3-BETA1 to a system with ssd disk recognized as ad6. At fixit mode i can dd device but at installer (sysinstall) when I configured disk and using w installer is unable to format devices stating that Unable to find

ssh-add echos passphrase

Is anyone else seeing ssh-add echo the passphrase on a recent 8-stable? FreeBSD lightning 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Feb 21 15:37:08 MST 2012 root@lightning:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIGHTNING i386 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: ssh-add echos passphrase

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 02/21/2012 16:16, Warren Block wrote: Is anyone else seeing ssh-add echo the passphrase on a recent 8-stable? No. Are you sure that you're running the agent before you ssh-add? 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Feb 21 # pkill ssh

Re: ssh-add echos passphrase

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Warren Block wrote: Is anyone else seeing ssh-add echo the passphrase on a recent 8-stable? FreeBSD lightning 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Feb 21 15:37:08 MST 2012 root@lightning:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIGHTNING i386 After backdating a few days

Re: New BSD Installer

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk wrote: I wasn't aware you could do that.  I was only aware that it was the other way around.  That (my) misconception seems to also be relayed by others such as Miroslav who said:

Re: New BSD Installer

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:08:28AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Please don't mix two things together. gpart can replace fdisk and bsdlabel, but GPT vs. MBR is a different thing. GPT doesn't play nice with GEOM classes which store their metadata on

Re: New BSD Installer

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 06:34:53PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: (...Linux mdadm) So for version 0.90 of their metadata format, you lose drive capacity by about 64-128KBytes, given that the space is needed for metadata. For version 1.0, I'm not sure

Re: New BSD Installer

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:40:35PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 06:34:53PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: (...Linux mdadm) So for version 0.90 of their metadata format, you lose drive

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:08:55 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:34:19 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Possibly relevant: http

Re: ld: kernel.debug: Not enough room for program headers

8-stable i386 is building again. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:34:19 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Possibly relevant: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140462cat= (Using DHCP from /etc/rc.conf leaves a lock on devd.pid. SYNCDHCP does not.) And the thread

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: More data: root@kg-v2# service devd status devd is not running. root@kg-v2# service devd start Starting devd. devd: devd already running, pid: 808 /etc/rc.d/devd: WARNING: failed to start devd root@kg-v2# rm /var/run/devd.pid root@kg-v2# service devd

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