Re: how to boot or access problem file system
Gardner Bell gbel...@rogers.com wrote: The stench from Denmark is getting to me... ;-) Insulting much with your remark about Denmark? Methinks it be an oblique reference to a line from Shakespeare's play about the Dane with no insult intended, then or now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Not recognizing raid controller Adaptec AIC7901
Thanks for your reply, I've searched through Adaptec site for drivers but are offered only Linux (Red Hat , Suse, Novell Netware), Windows, SCO Unix, SCO UnixWare and Sun Solaris. Also is available Linux driver source code. I don't know if they offer FreeBSD driver, maybe I should ask them. So, if I find the drivers what is the procedure to compile them and load them to the kernel? Rgds. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: You may want to try using the Adaptec drivers from Adaptec, and not the native freebsd drivers. Edit /boot/loader.conf, and that may be it. I've found great success with them. -jgh On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:39:56PM +0200, enid vx thus spake: Hi all, I'm having some problems installing FreeBSD 6.3 on my machine equipped with : Single channel Adaptec? AIC-7901 controller for Ultra320 SCSI Host RAID 0, 1, 10 support I have 4 disks which are configured in 2 Raid1, the problem is when I try to install FreeBSd from the installer cd, it shows only the separated disks. I've added also ahd_load=YES into /boot/loader.conf on the installation cd, also on the boot prompt load ahd load ahd.ko and then boot but again with no success . It were recognized only the 4 disks as separated. How can I make it recognize the raid ? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to boot or access problem file system
Gardner Bell wrote: Gardner Bell --- On Fri, 7/31/09, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: From: PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file system To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:44 PM PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Basically, the news is not good. The directories files are not what I had to begin with. ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied. Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across something like that. What do 'mount' and 'ls -ld /dev' return? Maybe /dev is mounted with incorrect permissions. You are logged in as root, I presume? Now, how could I be logged in? from livefs? On bootup, I see ar0 boot error or something like that... ls /dev ... shows ad0, ad10, ad12, ad4 and ar0 ad0 only has ad0s1 (I assume this to be ntfs ad10 also has s1, s1a, s1b, c, d, e, e, suffixes ad4 has s1, s1a, s1b, no c, but d, e, f suffixes The stench from Denmark is getting to me... ;-) Insulting much with your remark about Denmark? Read Shakespeare ! (Or look up the phrase Something is rotten in Denmark on Google. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to boot or access problem file system
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gardner Bell gbel...@rogers.com wrote: The stench from Denmark is getting to me... ;-) Insulting much with your remark about Denmark? Methinks it be an oblique reference to a line from Shakespeare's play about the Dane with no insult intended, then or now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Methinks I've found a literary genius amid this swamp of digital mechanics. ;-) -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gmirror / crash dumps
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: 4) I have the following in my 7-stable kernel The long and the short of it is I don't get any dumps. I read somewhere that you can't dump onto a gmirror device. That is incorrect, but I don't know the cause of your problem. I run nothing but gmirror and dumps happen here. I was also told that you won't get a valid dump if your dumpdev is on a GEOM_MIRROR device On 7.x, you have a 'legal' way to run gmirror -v prefer before savecore is run. In -current, the corresponding rc file (alas, I forgot its name) is removed. I tried adding gmirror -v prefer /dev/mirror0 to savecore rc.d file, but to no such luck. The problem here is the order of startup for the drives inside the mirror; the first drive in the array that started during the boot when the panic occurred has to be the preferred device during savecore - and when this condition is met, you will get a valid dump. i.e. let's assume that the system boots like GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada0 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada0 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada1 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada1 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/mirror0 launched. This makes us think that ada0 is the first drive to launch. Therefore, it's the drive where the dump will be saved during a panic. So we add gmirror configure -v prefer /dev/mirror/mirror0 /dev/ada0 (correct my syntax if I'm wrong here; tried it a month ago) to /etc/rc.d/savecore right before the savecore call. We do stuff, configure, build kernels, rebuild 'em, etc, reboot, and the system comes up GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada1 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada1 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada0 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ada0 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/mirror0 launched. without us noticing. And that's it; if it panics now, savecore won't save the crash dump because ada0 doesn't have it. -- Kamigishi Rei KREI-RIPE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.2 RELEASE ? Buggy as hell
I may add: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:50:07 +0100, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: I have used FreeBSD on the desktop for about 6 years (but not yet running 7.2). It has mostly been a pleasure. I'd like to say that I'm using FreeBSD on the desktop exclusively since version 4.0 and I've always been quite happy with it. No problems at all - since the big crash. When I was forced to use FreeBSD 7, I was a bit disappointed, I can honestly say this. But that has NEVER been a problem with the FreeBSD OS, but always with additional packages, so I won't blame the FreeBSD developers who deliver a faster system with every release - just to see that the installed packages (like X, browsers, OpenOffice etc.) just run slower and slower with each new version, and that's sad. I didn't like it when X was changed to individual packages, as it now takes considerably longer to install. And the output from pkg_info takes correspondingly longer to search through. It also installs two scripting languages (Perl and Python). I haven't had a problem configuring X for years. Especially because I'm running a quite old system, I am not interested in (or depending on) the new magical autodetection and autoconfiguration stuff - because it simply doesn't work for my hardware. I can't even set my screen size to 1400x1050 as I could in old XFree86, so I have to use xrandr. I always liked FreeBSD and its additional software for NOT having to mess around with in such a way. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned. :-) If something has changed which then causes problems to end users, then that is not good. And it's no good telling people use PCBSD or something else. PC-BSD has its own set of problems. Different ones, I agree, but they do exist. Especially the bad german internationalisation of KDE comes into mind. And you have to use quite up-to-date hardware. That's not what we want. We want to use FreeBSD on the desktop. Exactly. Don't try and put people off using FreeBSD. It would be much better to help them resolves the problems they are having. I agree with this, and it's the purpose of this helpful and polite mailing list. But it requires that users who seek help do this in a certain way. Things like OS bashing do not help. But I can understand the wish to express feelings of disappointment. I just question if this mailing list is the place to do so. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Difficulty in installing ncurses.
michael green wrote: 7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD. I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which expects a terminfo database. Perhaps terminfo(5) can help? -- Glen Barber - 215.839.8649 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser
Midori seems to have problems displaying Gmail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7.2 fresh install
Hi I have installed FBSD 7.2 and when i try to set up xorg using xorgconfig or xorg -configure it doesnt work any more, any changes on the command? thanks Regards, GrimJow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Filezilla doesn't work after libjpeg upgrade
A couple of weeks ago I upgraded libjpeg to 10, and had to upgrade a bunch of programs that required this library. Today I needed to use FileZilla client and received this error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libjpeg.so.9 not found, required by libwx_gtk2_aui-2.8.so.0 I tried to recompile FileZilla to avoid the error and it is still showing. How can I avoid this?. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.2 fresh install
GrimJow Espada wrote: Hi I have installed FBSD 7.2 and when i try to set up xorg using xorgconfig or xorg -configure it doesnt work any more, any changes on the command? thanks Try Xorg -configure instead. May want to read too: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser
(Firefox) is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform. - http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/iceweasel The Original Poster ruled out dillo because it did not have enough features. I fear any featureful, lightweight web-browser is destined to be bloated like Firefox, or as some people suggest, Opera. The introduction of the Document Object Model (and CSS) with HTML 4.0 means fast Lynx-style single-pass rendering is out. JavaScript means that websites can use an arbitrary amount of CPU time (sometimes deliberately), unless throttled. Regards, James Phillips --- On Fri, 7/31/09, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:02 +0200 From: Wolfgang Riegler w.rieg...@cbtl.de Subject: Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 200907311230.02216.w.rieg...@cbtl.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Give Midori a try. Of course it's a young project and maybe there are not all of the features of Firefox or Opera, but Midori is lightweight and really fast. It's based on WebKit, so there should be no problem with standard conform websites. Wolfgang __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Manual Installations on Flash Media
I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall. 1. When creating an /etc/fstab file, does the order in which entries appear have any significance? I've noticed that when using sysinstall approach, the entries appear in the following order: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1bnone swapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a/ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e/tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f/usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d/var ufs rw 2 2 Would a device alphabetical order (as used by bsdlabel) work? 2. I don't expect the system to swap, so can I dispense with a swap entry and have everything function normally (no error messages, etc.)? 3. Will adding `noatime' to / or any other filesystem have any consequences? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Filezilla doesn't work after libjpeg upgrade
In the last episode (Aug 01), Leonardo M. Ramé said: A couple of weeks ago I upgraded libjpeg to 10, and had to upgrade a bunch of programs that required this library. Today I needed to use FileZilla client and received this error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libjpeg.so.9 not found, required by libwx_gtk2_aui-2.8.so.0 I tried to recompile FileZilla to avoid the error and it is still showing. Sounds like you missed upgrading whatever port installed libwx_gtk2_aui-2.8.so.0, since it still depends on libjpeg.so.9. Run locate libwx_gtk2_aui-2.8.so.0, then pkg_info -W (whatever locate finds), then portupgrade -f (whatever pkg_info finds). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-08-01
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. RECENT ARTICLES: 2-Dec : Obscuring smtp auth headers If you consider your smtp-auth location to be private, this is what you want. http://freebsddiary.org/smtp-headers-rewrite-auth.php?2 29-Nov : OpenVPN - creating a routed VPN If you have multiple VPN clients, this is a practical solution. http://freebsddiary.org/openvpn-routed.php?2 27-Nov : Creating your own Certificate Authority How to create a CA and generate your own SSL certificates http://freebsddiary.org/openvpn-easy-rsa.php?2 27-Nov : OpenVPN - getting it running Using OpenVPN to create a secure pathway between home and office http://freebsddiary.org/openvpn.php?2 5-Oct : Removing dead mailing lists from Mailman Mailing lists can outlive their usefulness http://freebsddiary.org/mailman-removing-dead-lists.php?2 30-Aug : gmirror - recovering from a failed HDD an HDD failed. gmirror to the rescue. http://freebsddiary.org/gmirror-failure.php?2 6-Jul : ezjail - A jail administration framework This makes jails easier http://freebsddiary.org/ezjail.php?2 24-Jun : Adding gmirror to an existing installation Adding RAID-1 to an existing FreeBSD 7 installation http://freebsddiary.org/gmirror.php?2 20-Mar : ThinkPad x61s Unpacking the box, installing PC-BSD http://freebsddiary.org/thinkpad-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
