Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: > Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. > I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ > FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: > File unavai

RE: vlc not decoding certain DVDs

2008-10-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of matt donovan > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:39 PM > To: Joachim Rosenfeld > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: vlc not decoding certain DVDs > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Jo

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-28 Thread Carl
Jeremy Chadwick said: ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=134802751 Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a classic block/sector failure. I hadn't realized that a bad block would manifest itself with a message about DMA. Seems like such semantics wou

Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Canhua
Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) although I know that py-n

Re: VLAN filtering on FreeBSD 7.0 / 6.3

2008-10-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Yony Yossef wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions about VLANs on FreeBSD 6.3/7.0. > > 1. > I'm trying to understand whether HW VLAN filtering can be supported. > Looking at the code I can't find a proper ioctl that will inform the driver > about a vlan creation/destruction. > Is there a way of do

libexpat is missing

2008-10-28 Thread freebsd777
Hi there, Under FreeBsd 6.2 version, while I was trying to install Krang software this is an error message below. I set up compat5 and expat2 in /usr/ports to get libexpat. But it is still not working. Does anyone know how to get libexpat? -- Error

Re: Security | Kernel message

2008-10-28 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 17:32:36 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:26:03PM +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > > A prt of my daily security run: > > > > triton.xxx.xxx.xxx kernel log messages: > > +++ /tmp/security.VnqB8ZT6 2008-10-27 23:53:32.0 +0100 > > +em0: link state ch

Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 17:53:20 Stefan Moro wrote: > But if this is the case, how does gmirror know that it should use (in > my example above) ad10 and not ad4 as the additional disk in the > mirror. > Or does gmirror use something else than the /dev entries to address disks?? > > I'm just cur

Re: VLAN filtering on FreeBSD 7.0 / 6.3

2008-10-28 Thread Yony Yossef
> This change requires kernel changes that may not be compatible with 6.X, I > am not sure, > I am not the owner of that code. Some reason you can't use 7.1 which will > have everything > you need? > I'm bound to 6.3 and 7.0 at the moment. Does the vlan ioctls exist only from 7.1 and fourth? If s

Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If I have understood things correctly, gmirror stores all relevant information about the mirror in the last sector on the provider. exactly. it doesn't matter how the disks are connected. all data is in last sector. for non-mirrored drives it's useful to use glabel to get the same

Re: flash9 checklist (was: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD)

2008-10-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
macromedia still doesn't support FreeBSD, while it's mostly matter of recompiling. if so - simply don't use it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

2008-10-28 Thread Mel
On Thursday 23 October 2008 10:36:15 Matthew Seaman wrote: > The X dependencies come in via php5-gd and pecl-pdflib. php5-gd depends on > gd, which depends on libXpm and t1lib which both depend on X libs. > pecl-pdflib itself depends on php5-gd. Turning off those two options will > keep you X fre

Re: NFS Help

2008-10-28 Thread Victor Farah
Sorry I forgot to mention, all machines are FREEBSD6.3 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: If your server is nfsv4 (freebsd 7.x) the nfs protocol used is tcp. The older machines (freebsd 5 or 6) the nfs prococol is udp... try to use the -T switch (mount_nfs option...) on the older machines so th

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Francis Dubé
Chuck Swiger a écrit : On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: Here's an example of top's output regarding our httpd process : 54326 apache1 960 156M 13108K select 1 0:00 0.15% httpd 54952 apache1 960 156M 12684K select 1 0:00 0.10% httpd 52343 apac

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:31:13PM +, Craig Butler wrote: > > The way forwards has to be to jump onto the gnash band wagon I > think that project is moving leaps and bounds. > > Why be tied into proprietary closed sourced drivel that the people who > write it aren't prepared to support

Re: vlc not decoding certain DVDs

2008-10-28 Thread Joachim Rosenfeld
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM, matt donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is vlc (the CSS library specifically) unable to decode certain > > CDs? > > umm VLC hasn't been able to decode everything for quite a long time install > libdvdcss I'll have to go back to that box and check, but I was

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: The following excerpt from /usr/ports/UPDATING will completely answer your question :) Sigh. And I get onto other people for not reading that. :-D -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: If it is firefox3 you are talking about, create a symbolic link to the actual plugins directory: ln -s /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libgnashplugin.so /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins Well, that seems pretty obvious

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: If it is firefox3 you are talking about, create a symbolic link to the actual plugins directory: ln -s /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libgnashplugin.so /usr/local/ lib/firefox3/plugins Well, that seems pretty obvious now. It leads me

Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Chris St Denis
Stefan Moro wrote: Hi! I've got a question regarding the way that gmirror identifies what "components" (if that is the right term) are included in a mirror. I recently created a mirror over two disks, ad2 and ad4. After some bios changes (activating PATA) these devices were changed to ad6 and a

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-28 Thread clemens fischer
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:03:32 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:57:15 +0100 Jurjen Middendorp wrote: > >> If you do char *p = "something", you can't write to that string >> (it's a pointer into some stringtable: easy way to look at it >> :). You have to use char p[] = "something

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2008 13:31:13 Craig Butler wrote: The way forwards has to be to jump onto the gnash band wagon I think that project is moving leaps and bounds. Any idea how to get the Firefox plugin working? I installed it with "PLUGIN" and "GTK" sele

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:08:43PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Sent by Glyn Millington: > >My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far > >it works flawlessly for me. > > > This has two problems: > > 1. It requires a (licensed) Windows install handy. > 2. The so

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread alexus
I'm having issue with flash10 (yet somehow it was working before) and my co-workers, they are able to run it just fine I'm running CentOS 5.2, I know it's not FreeBSD, but still maybe somehow would help... kernel: npviewer.bin[26449]: segfault at rip rsp

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 13:31:13 Craig Butler wrote: > The way forwards has to be to jump onto the gnash band wagon I > think that project is moving leaps and bounds. Any idea how to get the Firefox plugin working? I installed it with "PLUGIN" and "GTK" selected, and /usr/local/lib/brow

RTLD changes for non-native system (was: Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?)

2008-10-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:18:10 +1030): On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:31:16 M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Daniel O'Connor wrote: : > On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59

gnash (Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD)

2008-10-28 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Sent by Craig Butler: gnash all the way for me.. Does it work with YouTube? -mi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: vlc not decoding certain DVDs

2008-10-28 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Why is vlc (the CSS library specifically) unable to decode certain > CDs? Certain foreign film CDs work fine, but others, mostly US-based > Hollywood films don't. I was under the impression that vlc was able to > decode

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:40:28PM -0200, User Lenzi wrote: > Em Ter, 2008-10-28 às 07:41 -0700, Dánielisz László escreveu: > > > Hello! > > > > I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without > > success. > > I remaing curios about any solution. > > > > Laci > > >

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Huff
Craig Butler writes: > The way forwards has to be to jump onto the gnash band wagon > I think that project is moving leaps and bounds. The last time I tried it (2-3 months ago) gnash was no more funnctional than Flash 9. > Why be tied into proprietary closed sourced drivel that t

Re: NFS Help

2008-10-28 Thread Victor Farah
AWESOME this worked like a charm, I added -r=1024 to it and BAM works! :) Thank you everybody! Manolis Kiagias wrote: Victor Farah wrote: Hello I have about 10 machines that are NFS clients, 5 are new and 5 are older. Anyway the new machine mount from the NFS server just fine. The older

Re: gnash (Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD)

2008-10-28 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:34 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Sent by Craig Butler: > > gnash all the way for me.. > > > Does it work with YouTube? > > -mi > Some of the video's work on youtube with the gnash-devel I think there is an issue with the videos that use the On2 VP62 codec... (a

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:08 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Sent by Glyn Millington: > > My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far > > it works flawlessly for me. > > > This has two problems: > >1. It requires a (licensed) Windows install handy. >2. The s

flash9 checklist (was: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD)

2008-10-28 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:59:23AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm having serious problems with Adobe's Flash 9 and 10 on my FreeBSD-7/amd64 > system. > > If I try to use it directly with linux-firefox, the entire browser crashes > quickly. If I try www/nspluginwrapper with a nat

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:49:34PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Sent by matt donovan: >> FreeBSD 7.1 should work with flash9 myself I had no luck so far but nox- >> does say it should work > I'm using 7.1-PRERELEASE as of Sep 23 and it does not work (yet?) Juergen, > please, confirm, that your

vlc not decoding certain DVDs

2008-10-28 Thread Joachim Rosenfeld
Why is vlc (the CSS library specifically) unable to decode certain CDs? Certain foreign film CDs work fine, but others, mostly US-based Hollywood films don't. I was under the impression that vlc was able to decode everything? I can hear audio on these DVDs, but the video is weird blocks of color.

Re: NFS Help

2008-10-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Victor Farah wrote: Hello I have about 10 machines that are NFS clients, 5 are new and 5 are older. Anyway the new machine mount from the NFS server just fine. The older machines mount; and I can ls /mnt/data/; BUT when I ls /mnt/data/sc/ on the older machines this happens: nfs server 192

Re: How can I get the screenshots only under the command-line?

2008-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:16 AM, zhenghua wang wrote: I wanna get some screenshots of my command-line-only system(8- current),how can I perform this? Thanks a lot,looking forward to your mail. See "man vidcontrol", as in: The following command will capture the contents of the first v

Re: NFS Help

2008-10-28 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
If your server is nfsv4 (freebsd 7.x) the nfs protocol used is tcp. The older machines (freebsd 5 or 6) the nfs prococol is udp... try to use the -T switch (mount_nfs option...) on the older machines so they will use tcp... hope this will help Sergio _

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: Here's an example of top's output regarding our httpd process : 54326 apache1 960 156M 13108K select 1 0:00 0.15% httpd 54952 apache1 960 156M 12684K select 1 0:00 0.10% httpd 52343 apache1 40

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Dánielisz László <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without > success. > I remaing curios about any solution. Szia! To be honest I gave up with Flash for either the FreeBSD or Linux version of Firefox. Couldn't get it to

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Sent by matt donovan: FreeBSD 7.1 should work with flash9 myself I had no luck so far but nox- does say it should work I'm using 7.1-PRERELEASE as of Sep 23 and it does not work (yet?) Juergen, please, confirm, that your fixes were committed after Sep 23 -- I'll be happy to rebuild/reboot in th

NFS Help

2008-10-28 Thread Victor Farah
Hello I have about 10 machines that are NFS clients, 5 are new and 5 are older. Anyway the new machine mount from the NFS server just fine. The older machines mount; and I can ls /mnt/data/; BUT when I ls /mnt/data/sc/ on the older machines this happens: nfs server 192.168.10.162:/data: not r

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Sent by Glyn Millington: My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far it works flawlessly for me. This has two problems: 1. It requires a (licensed) Windows install handy. 2. The solution is only suitable for i386 -- not for amd64, which is what I'm using.

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Dánielisz László < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without > success. > I remaing curios about any solution. > > Laci > > > > > > From: Mikhail Teterin <[EMA

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread User Lenzi
Em Ter, 2008-10-28 às 07:41 -0700, Dánielisz László escreveu: > Hello! > > I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without > success. > I remaing curios about any solution. > > Laci > Me too, I am using a "market" aproach, that is: I intend to persuade a notebook

How can I get the screenshots only under the command-line?

2008-10-28 Thread zhenghua wang
I wanna get some screenshots of my command-line-only system(8-current),how can I perform this? Thanks a lot,looking forward to your mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: VLAN filtering on FreeBSD 7.0 / 6.3

2008-10-28 Thread Jack Vogel
This change requires kernel changes that may not be compatible with 6.X, I am not sure, I am not the owner of that code. Some reason you can't use 7.1 which will have everything you need? TSO is a hardware feature, I have never tested this, but my suspicion is that if its enabled on the hardware

A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Stefan Moro
Hi! I've got a question regarding the way that gmirror identifies what "components" (if that is the right term) are included in a mirror. I recently created a mirror over two disks, ad2 and ad4. After some bios changes (activating PATA) these devices were changed to ad6 and ad10 respectively. The

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Dánielisz László
Hello! I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without success. I remaing curios about any solution. Laci From: Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:59:23 PM

camcontrol(8) - Unexpected busfree in Message-out phase

2008-10-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I cannot get my scsi scanner detected. I'm using FBSD 8.0-current on i386. I'm trying to connect a scsi scanner. I've the following card: ahc0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xff8ff000-0xff8f irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci1 ahc0: [ITHREAD] aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs The sc

Re: almost OT os x

2008-10-28 Thread Mikel King
On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:06 PM, kalin m wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:19:56PM -0400, kalin m wrote: this is a bit OT but since bsd and os x have enough in common in the core some people here might have dealt with an os x server before.. ok. here is the prob

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Francis Dubé
Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Francis Dubé wrote: Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting

Re: Security | Kernel message

2008-10-28 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Jeremy, Uit een eerder bericht (28-10-2008 17:32): No, because the messages are in the kernel log. The kernel itself does not print timestamps, because that's silly. Yes that is .true. Try doing this: Great, will do that! No 'watchdog timeout' events yet :-) thanks for sharing, Jos Ch

Re: Security | Kernel message

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:26:03PM +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > A prt of my daily security run: > > triton.xxx.xxx.xxx kernel log messages: > +++ /tmp/security.VnqB8ZT62008-10-27 23:53:32.0 +0100 > +em0: link state changed to DOWN > +em0: link state changed to UP > +em0: link state cha

Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso"

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:01:28PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:16:04PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: > > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>> Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necess

Security | Kernel message

2008-10-28 Thread Jos Chrispijn
A prt of my daily security run: triton.xxx.xxx.xxx kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.VnqB8ZT6 2008-10-27 23:53:32.0 +0100 +em0: link state changed to DOWN +em0: link state changed to UP +em0: link state changed to DOWN +em0: link state changed to UP +em0: link state changed to D

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Francis Dubé wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> >>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: >>> > You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your > syste

Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso"

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:16:04PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>> Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste > >>> 3 CDs > >>>from installation if I have a high-speed

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Francis Dubé
Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high load; generally the amount of system memory is the governing fact

VLAN filtering on FreeBSD 7.0 / 6.3

2008-10-28 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi, I have two questions about VLANs on FreeBSD 6.3/7.0. 1. I'm trying to understand whether HW VLAN filtering can be supported. Looking at the code I can't find a proper ioctl that will inform the driver about a vlan creation/destruction. Is there a way of doing it? 2. Second issue - is there w

Re: Zero-Fill format before installation

2008-10-28 Thread Bullet 446
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 then do the dd again. Thanks Jeremy, that worked fine. > I STRONGLY recommend you add "bs=64k" to that dd statement, or else it's > going to take a million years. :-) That's a good tip,

flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I'm having serious problems with Adobe's Flash 9 and 10 on my FreeBSD-7/amd64 system. If I try to use it directly with linux-firefox, the entire browser crashes quickly. If I try www/nspluginwrapper with a native browser, the wrapper-launched npviewer.bin seg-faults instead. Either way,

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:58 +0100 Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every > > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does freebsd use

Re: Zero-Fill format before installation

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:21:00AM +, Bullet 446 wrote: > I have a remote machine with KVM access that I'd like to format and > reinstall FreeBSD 7.0. I've succeded in formatting /dev/ad6 but not the main > drive, /dev/ad4. > Is it possbile to zero-fill format during the installation instead of

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:04:49PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> error=40 LBA=134802751 >> >> Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a >> classic block/sector failure. This does not appear to be the infamous >> famous "DMA timeout" problem, especially if this is th

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-28 Thread clemens fischer
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:57:15 +0100 Jurjen Middendorp wrote: > If you do char *p = "something", you can't write to that string (it's > a pointer into some stringtable: easy way to look at it :). You have > to use char p[] = "something", then it's an array with enough storage > to write to :) maybe

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does freebsd use the > CMOS clock? An idea would to use NTP to get the exact time from your local ato

odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Richard Smith
Hi! I found that the freebsd system clock just stops when i shutdown or reboot the computer. what is odd is that the clock in my BIOS shows the right time, so it couldn't be that CMOS battery is dead. How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every time i boot into freebsd? an

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
error=40 LBA=134802751 Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a classic block/sector failure. This does not appear to be the infamous famous "DMA timeout" problem, especially if this is the only error you're getting. he can temporarity boot with hw.ata.ata_dma=0

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so good. Began Ralf's procedure for inserting ad4s1 into mirror/gm0. The synchronization began and reached 6% when this little horror appeared: ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=134802751 GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=5). ad6s1[READ(offset=69018976256, length=131072)] GEOM_MI

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-28 Thread Jurjen Middendorp
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:22:19PM +0100, clemens fischer wrote: >> Jeremy Chadwick: > >> I think the bottom line here is that until someone steps up and >> actually volunteers to fix the code, it will remain broken. (I don't >> normally tote this attitude, but in this case it's applicable: this i

Zero-Fill format before installation

2008-10-28 Thread Bullet 446
I have a remote machine with KVM access that I'd like to format and reinstall FreeBSD 7.0. I've succeded in formatting /dev/ad6 but not the main drive, /dev/ad4. Is it possbile to zero-fill format during the installation instead of simply deleting and recreating partitions? I've tried booting into

Seg Fault Action!

2008-10-28 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I have often wondered what to do if I compile a port and immediatly after trying to run it I get a seg fault. In the past I have just tried to find an alternative port that did the same job, but it has always felt as though I wasnt trying hard enough. Yesterday after upgrading all my po

Re: DHCP server

2008-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:38:22 -0400, bofh42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure you are using the correct command to start the DHCP > client? > > I'm not familiar with Archlinux, but on Debian linux the command > you > need is dhclient. That's