Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:06 -0700 > Chuck Swiger wrote: > >> There's not quite enough information here to identify your >> motherboard, but you should make sure there aren't any BIOS upgrades >> available for it, as those might help resolve t

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:06 -0700 Chuck Swiger wrote: > There's not quite enough information here to identify your > motherboard, but you should make sure there aren't any BIOS upgrades > available for it, as those might help resolve this level of issue. > > Check your BIOS config for the disks

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Rich wrote: > I tried this but pressing F2 doesn't do anything. Sorry - I meant Alt-F2 to switch VTYs. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-19 Thread Aiza
This is a news announcement to inform people who have interest in jails, that a new jail utility is available. http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjail/ Has a file suitable for the pkg_add command or the port make files can be downloaded and a "make install" run. Qjail [ q = quick ] is a 4th ge

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Rich
Ok I booted on that disc and it hangs at the same place. not sure what to do next. What is the "fixit" menu? From: Ryan Coleman To: Rich Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 6:23:45 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while).

Re: sockets stuck in use

2010-07-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Jim wrote: > I was working on an application I've been developing, and I closed the > last instance a bit over 12 hours ago, but some of the sockets are > still stuck in use: > [s...@elrond ~/dev/pipe/scripts]$ netstat | grep -e 'tcp' | grep 9612 > tcp4 0

Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > 4) Another instance of Emacs on my desktop, this time running in a > terminal. The startup screen is yet another one. In this one, I clearly recognize emacs being run inside an ascii terminal. Ascii terminal do not have graphic possibility (nor mousse) so it is only normal that there is no

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Randi Harper wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rich wrote: >> I'm trying to boot on the 9.0 Current or 8.0 Release CD to  install and it >> just >> hangs on; >> >> "Probing devices,  please wait (this can take a while)... " >> >> I've waited almost an hou

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Rich
I couldn't find a live CD fro 8.0 Release. All I could find was at this site; http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php It's 4.6, is that useful? Anyway, it booted up to the login prompt without hanging. What does that tell us? Is there anything I can check with this disk or is there somewher

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Rich
Motherbd is Foxconn Digitalife A79A-S. BIOS settings don't make any difference. From: Chuck Swiger To: Rich Cc: FreeBSD - Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:17:06 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Hi-- On J

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Rich
Drive is perfectly fine. Windows runs perfect on first partition. BTW both drives are doing it, I doubt both drives would go bad at the same time. Windows and Linux workfine. Only FreeBSD has trouble. From: Garrett Cooper To: Randi Harper Cc: Rich ; freebs

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Rich
I tried this but pressing F2 doesn't do anything. From: Bruce Cran To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Rich Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:16:27 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " On Tue, 20

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:16:27 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE. > > It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the > > CD into SUM), so you end up wit

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rich wrote: > I'm trying to boot on the 9.0 Current or 8.0 Release CD to  install and it > just > hangs on; > > "Probing devices,  please wait (this can take a while)... " > > I've waited almost an hour. how long is it supposed to take? It would be nice > if > th

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Rich wrote: > Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and > now > it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no > hard > drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do about it? They are >

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE. > It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the > CD into SUM), so you end up with a regular shell. First, check all > the kernel's output for thing

WLAN stops working when idle

2010-07-19 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
I have noted that my wlan stops responding when the O.S. does not use the network for a while (10 minutes aprox), and I have to do "ifconfig wlan0 down && ifconfig wlan0 up && dhclient wlan0" to reconnect. The network card is the internal Wi-Fi from my Dell Inspiron 1525, and uses ndis to wrap

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:38:20 -0700 (PDT), Rich wrote: > Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and > now > it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no > hard > drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do about it? They

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Rich
Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and now it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no hard drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do about it? They are just regular Seagate SATA drives. I have windows 7 installed

Re: sockets stuck in use

2010-07-19 Thread Jim
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Anonymous wrote: > Jim writes: > >> I was working on an application I've been developing, and I closed the >> last instance a bit over 12 hours ago, but some of the sockets are >> still stuck in use: >> [s...@elrond ~/dev/pipe/scripts]$ netstat | grep -e 'tcp' |

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Rich wrote: > "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " > > I've waited almost an hour. how long is it supposed to take? It would > be nice if there were a status bar or spinning wheel or something to > let you know if it's doing anythin

Re: Samba gives "invalid PT_PHDR" after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, July 19, 2010 12:47 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 19), David Brodbeck said: >> That doesn't work, unfortunately. Once you rename ld-elf.so.1 to >> ld-elf.so.1.old, trying to run any further commands -- even mv and cp -- >> fails with an error. (I didn't write down which

system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-19 Thread Rich
I'm trying to boot on the 9.0 Current or 8.0 Release CD to install and it just hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " I've waited almost an hour. how long is it supposed to take? It would be nice if there were a status bar or spinning wheel or something to let y

Re: ipfw nat and jails on loopback - is it possible?

2010-07-19 Thread Michael
On 19/07/2010 10:05, Aiza wrote: you have to put your hosts /etc/resolve.conf in each jail before you can get network connection. I did. It contains: nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220 I believe that it's not a problem with jail configuration because NAT works fine on the

Re: Samba gives "invalid PT_PHDR" after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 19), David Brodbeck said: > On Mon, July 19, 2010 1:37 am, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:42 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: > >>> On Wed, July 7, 2010 2:20 am, mcoyles wrote: > David - have a l

Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-19 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Ashish SHUKLA writes: > Can you upload the screenshot of what you're getting ? > Hi, I've uploaded a screenshot right here: http://www.abload.de/img/emacs-splashaws1.png The image shows four incarnations of Emacs. These are, clockwise starting from upper left: 1) Emacs started remotely on m

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:09:00 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sunday, July 18, 2010 a las 11:32:05AM -0700, Leonardo M. Ramé > escribió: > > > Yes,I have modified xorg.conf the same way as you mentioned. > > > > Anyway, now the problem is solved by adding "setxkbmap es &" to my .xsession >

Re: Why googleearth keeps crashing when photo window is closed?

2010-07-19 Thread Yuri
On 07/19/2010 11:32, Juergen Lock wrote: Hi! I didn't answer at first since my ports weren't up to date and I couldn't reproduce the issue, now after updating to latest ports and RELENG_8_1 (amd64) googleearth still seems to work just fine for me, only gl doesn't work since a) our linux versio

Re: Samba gives "invalid PT_PHDR" after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, July 19, 2010 1:37 am, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:42 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: >>> On Wed, July 7, 2010 2:20 am, mcoyles wrote: David - have a look here... http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-c

Re: Why googleearth keeps crashing when photo window is closed?

2010-07-19 Thread Juergen Lock
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 03:44:54AM -0700, Yuri wrote: > > For some reason googleearth crashes when the popup with photo is closed. > Crashes are intermittent, depending on system updates and port updates. > After some crashes disappear and after other updates crashes come back > again. > Hi!

Re: KDE won't start

2010-07-19 Thread Caleb Stein
Hmmm, I may just reinstall. I updated KDE, GNOME, XFCE, jpeg, and png to the latest versions, and the desktops just won't start. I think I will just reinstall. On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:21:50 -0700, Glen Barber wrote: On 7/19/10 2:15 PM, Caleb Stein wrote: Whenever I try to start KDE4,

Re: KDE won't start

2010-07-19 Thread Glen Barber
On 7/19/10 2:21 PM, Glen Barber wrote: If you reinstalled a newer version of jpeg and png, you will need to rebuild all ports that linked against them. Take a look at ports/UPDATING for portupgrade syntax. Sorry, should have included the entry number - 20100328. Regards, -- Glen Barber _

Re: KDE won't start

2010-07-19 Thread Glen Barber
On 7/19/10 2:15 PM, Caleb Stein wrote: Whenever I try to start KDE4, I get this output: # /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d/kdm4 start Startink kdm4. Updating KDM configuration Information: reading pre-existing kdmrc /usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (config version 2.4) # info: [drm] Setting GART

Re: Has anybody got a *working* example of getpwnam_r() ??

2010-07-19 Thread Brad Mettee
Robert Bonomi wrote: And if this doesn't help, there's always Google CodeSearch http://www.google.com/codesearch , for examples of how to call it. ALL I find at www.google.com/codesearch, when I ask for 'getpwnam_r' is source- code for the getpwnam_r function. Needless to say, that's =n

KDE won't start

2010-07-19 Thread Caleb Stein
Whenever I try to start KDE4, I get this output: # /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d/kdm4 start Startink kdm4. Updating KDM configuration Information: reading pre-existing kdmrc /usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (config version 2.4) # info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map info

Re: Has anybody got a *working* example of getpwnam_r() ??

2010-07-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:13:25 -0400 > From: Brad Mettee > Subject: Re: Has anybody got a *working* example of getpwnam_r() ?? > > Robert Bonomi wrote: > > I've _got_ to be doing something wrong, sine I'm getting heap corruption > > calling it. But for the life of me, I can't figure out -what

Re: samba pam_smbpass & passwd seg fault

2010-07-19 Thread Michael McGrew
Thank you for the response, I have the latest port version of samba, samba34-3.4.8. The core does not give much info here is a snippet of the end of the trace. Here is a link to the end of the truss trace of the process. http://mmcgrew.net/out #636 0x792f6e69622f7273 in ?? () #637 0x006477737361

Re: ipnat.conf - map and rdr won't work!

2010-07-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 19/07/10 16.46, alexus wrote: Use tcpdump, you should see if your rdr/map rules work as expected. Also, pfctl -ss and similar. i don't know how to use tcpdump, can you provide exact syntax so i can run it? The man-page is excelent. tried that, unfortunately not really sure what am i doing

Re: nautilus crashing on "right click > properties"

2010-07-19 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On 7/19/10 9:49 AM, Jerry wrote: > FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE / amd64 > Platform Version 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5) > > I installed nautilus via the /usr/ports/sysutils/eiciel port. I can > start nautilus successfully, however, whenever I right click on a file > or directory and choose "properties", nautilus c

Re: 8.1-rc2 journal overflow error

2010-07-19 Thread FRLinux
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > There could be several reasons for this specific panic but as a general > solution you will have to increase your journal size. For start, try > doubling it. Thanks for this, i will look into it. I found the reason of the crash although I do no

Is Mobile Intel HM57 Express chipset compatible with FreeBSD?

2010-07-19 Thread Unga
Hi all I'm planing to buy a Dell Vostro laptop which comes with a Mobile Intel HM57 Express chipset. Could I know from the list, is FreeBSD either 7.2 or 7.3 compatible with the above chipset? Above laptop comes with Nvidia Geforce 310M graphics chipset and I plan to install KDE 4.4 too, could

Re: 8.1-rc2 journal overflow error

2010-07-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/19/10 15:16, FRLinux wrote: > Hello, I am using a hefty server with a single SSD drive as the main > drive (Corsair CMFSSD-64D1). It worked nicely until today where I got > a journal overflow error, i took a screenshot here: > http://picasaweb.google.fr/frlinux/Computers#5495597160219915298

Re: ipnat.conf - map and rdr won't work!

2010-07-19 Thread alexus
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: > On 16/07/10 02.56, alexus wrote: > > su-3.2# cat /etc/ipnat.rules > map fxp0 lama ->    0/32 > rdr fxp0 64.52.58.58 port ssh ->    lama port ssh tcp >>> >>> What's that first rule supposed to do? >> >> provides a NAT within jail >

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 02:28:31PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:50:13AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:44:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I've seen this problem before, but on > > > a complex configuration: Xorg running o

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:28:31 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > How can I not load the GLX extension? The X logs > indicate that this module is loaded by default. > man xorg.conf in particular MODULE SECTION -> Disable "modulename" -- Gary Jennejohn ___

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 03:55:33PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:28:31 +0100 > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > How can I not load the GLX extension? The X logs > > indicate that this module is loaded by default. > > > > man xorg.conf > > in particular MODULE SECTION ->

Re: sockets stuck in use

2010-07-19 Thread Anonymous
Jim writes: > I was working on an application I've been developing, and I closed the > last instance a bit over 12 hours ago, but some of the sockets are > still stuck in use: > [s...@elrond ~/dev/pipe/scripts]$ netstat | grep -e 'tcp' | grep 9612 > tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.80.42464 192.

nautilus crashing on "right click > properties"

2010-07-19 Thread Jerry
FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE / amd64 Platform Version 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5) I installed nautilus via the /usr/ports/sysutils/eiciel port. I can start nautilus successfully, however, whenever I right click on a file or directory and choose "properties", nautilus crashes. I tried to build it with debug suppor

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:50:13AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:44:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I've seen this problem before, but on > > a complex configuration: Xorg running on > > FreeBSD spar64 and connecting via "-query" > > to clients running on F

8.1-rc2 journal overflow error

2010-07-19 Thread FRLinux
Hello, I am using a hefty server with a single SSD drive as the main drive (Corsair CMFSSD-64D1). It worked nicely until today where I got a journal overflow error, i took a screenshot here: http://picasaweb.google.fr/frlinux/Computers#5495597160219915298 I am using a RAID array on a 3ware card (t

8.1-rc2 journal overflow error

2010-07-19 Thread FRLinux
Hello, I am using a hefty server with a single SSD drive as the main drive (Corsair CMFSSD-64D1). It worked nicely until today where I got a journal overflow error, i took a screenshot here: http://picasaweb.google.fr/frlinux/Computers#5495597160219915298 I am using a RAID array on a 3ware card (t

Re: ipfw nat and jails on loopback - is it possible?

2010-07-19 Thread Aiza
Michael wrote: Hello. Does anybody has a working configuration with ipfw nated jails on loopback interface? It simply doesn't work on my system. I can not get any connections to outside world from within a jail. FreeBSD 8.0-p3 amd64 laptop connected to internet via wlan0 (ath0) with 192.168

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:44:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've seen this problem before, but on > a complex configuration: Xorg running on > FreeBSD spar64 and connecting via "-query" > to clients running on FreeBSD ia64. > > Now I get this core dump on a simple amd64 > installation, s

Re: Samba gives "invalid PT_PHDR" after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-19 Thread Timur I. Bakeyev
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:42 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Wed, July 7, 2010 2:20 am, mcoyles wrote: >>> David - have a look here... >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-April/016405.html >> >> OK, I see.  It looks like

Re: samba pam_smbpass & passwd seg fault

2010-07-19 Thread Timur I. Bakeyev
Hi! On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Michael McGrew wrote: > I'm trying to sync the local unix account passwords to the samba > smbpass db using pam. When i run passwd, after it's done it seg faults > and produces a core dump. The odd thing is that it works, the users > local unix password gets s

Re: utf8 characters in terminal

2010-07-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, July 18, 2010 a las 11:45:40AM -0700, Leonardo M. Ramé escribió: > Hi, I installed Freebsd 8.1-RC2 in my home server to be used mainly as a file > server, it used to have Ubuntu 9.10-Server installed on it, then I backed up > (.tar.gz) the /home directory, that contains many spani

sockets stuck in use

2010-07-19 Thread Jim
I was working on an application I've been developing, and I closed the last instance a bit over 12 hours ago, but some of the sockets are still stuck in use: [s...@elrond ~/dev/pipe/scripts]$ netstat | grep -e 'tcp' | grep 9612 tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.80.42464 192.168.1.2.9612 SYN_S

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, July 18, 2010 a las 11:32:05AM -0700, Leonardo M. Ramé escribió: > Yes,I have modified xorg.conf the same way as you mentioned. > > Anyway, now the problem is solved by adding "setxkbmap es &" to my .xsession > > Thanks. > > Leonardo M. Ramé > http://leonardorame.blogspot.com A