Observations during upgrade 7.2 - 8.0
Hi all, I recently upgraded several machines from 7.2 to 8.0 and I made a few observations: Two machines run on an ESX vmware server, and while interfaces started counting at 0 (ie le0, le1, etc), now these interfaces start at 1 (le0 - le1, le1 - le2). Is there any reason for 8.0 doing this, since it messed up a lot of things? During the upgrade of all the packages using portupgrade, the pkgdb.db got corrupted while upgrading ruby18-bdb, and interrupted the upgrade of all packages (using portupgrade -af). I've checked this by upgrading the port itself. Is this normal, and can it be prevented, like excluding it from portugrade -fa? TIA Peter -- http://www.boosten.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: Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?
I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how skype gets linked at runtime. In bash: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Again that's on linux, so it's probably not relevant, or even if it is, the shared object file will be in a different location. Sorry I'm not of much help. Maybe someone else can do better. -Moduok- On 7/17/10, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I am trying to make webcam work with skype. webcamd-0.1.14 creates functioning device /dev/video0 that works in mplayer and pwcview. Skype complained that some VIDIOCAP flag is missing. So I applied the patch: I patched kernel with this patch: linux_v4l.diff from http://leidinger.net/FreeBSD/linuxolator/ and copied over compat/linux/linux_videodev.h from the trunk. Skype now says there is vidio0 device, but video test fails and image isn't passed to the peers. Did you succeed with video in skype? Yuri ___ 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: Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?
On 07/18/2010 07:27, Modulok wrote: I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how skype gets linked at runtime. In bash: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Again that's on linux, so it's probably not relevant, or even if it is, the shared object file will be in a different location. Sorry I'm not of much help. Maybe someone else can do better. -Moduok- Thanks for this info. I noticed that there is no linux port for libv4l from which /usr/local/lib/libv4l2.so.0 comes. I am not sure now what skype is doing without it's Linux version, why it doesn't complain. Yuri ___ 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
Digital camera for FreeBSD
If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Please CC me on responses as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. _ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1___ 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: Digital camera for FreeBSD
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Ames roberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Let me first make sure that I answer correctly: I do interpret your question about a point and shoot digital camera as a question regarding a photo camera primarily, not a movie camera. I hope that's correct. Nearly all cameras work - either by accessing the FAT file system on the card (or internal memory), or by PTP commands - both should be standard, and some cameras can even be switched from one to the other standard. I own the following (digital) cameras, all working with FreeBSD (list position indicates quality, quite): - Canon PowerShot S3 IS - Kodak EasyShare CX6330 - HP PhotoSmart M407 - Mustek MDC 3500 - Aiptec Pencam (AEG Snap 300) Basically, you can use nearly ANY camera with FreeBSD. It's just important that at least ONE of the existing access standards is supported by the camera - USB direct storage access or PTP functionality. (I'm concentrating on USB cameras here, allthough Firewire based cameras should also work, but I don't own any, so I can't be more precise about this interface.) There's also a workaround you should know about: If the camera does NOT allow you to access its files through the camera, you often can eject a SD or CF card. Many PCs today include readers for those media. And if the reader complies to USB standards, it can be used with FreeBSD. -- Polytropon 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
Spanish keyboard in X
Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2 with no luck, I've read many documents on the web, but they seem to be rather old, or assume that the user has Gnome or KDE installed, I use Awesome WM. Any hint? 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: Digital camera for FreeBSD
On Sun 2010-07-18 12:21:42 UTC-0400, Robert Ames (roberta...@hotmail.com) wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Please CC me on responses as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. Any camera that can act as a USB mass storage device should basically be plug-and-play in FreeBSD. Once such a camera is switched on it will behave essentially the same as a USB card reader, and you can you mount the flash memory card using mount_msdos. This web page shows how: http://www.freebsddiary.org/card-reader.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass-storage_device_class There are some cameras (eg. my Kodak C1013) that support Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) over USB, instead of acting as a mountable mass storage device. For PTP-only cameras you can use gPhoto (graphics/gphoto2 in Ports) to copy the images and videos to your PC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPhoto I believe F-Spot (graphics/f-spot) also supports PTP cameras. Another option (for both types of cameras) is of course to use a USB card reader, removing the flash memory card from the camera each time you want to access your images. It's somewhat cumbersome to do this each time, although it's good to have a card reader anyway in emergencies when the camera's batteries have inevitably gone flat. Good luck, Regards Andrew ___ 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: Spanish keyboard in X
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2 with no luck, I've read many documents on the web, but they seem to be rather old, or assume that the user has Gnome or KDE installed, I use Awesome WM. Any hint? What's wrong about the old-fashioned way of using xorg.conf as a central means of X configuration? :-) Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Option AutoRepeat250 30 EndSection Of course, you have to set the correct codes for spanish layout (setting XkbLayout), it should be es. -- Polytropon 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: Spanish keyboard in X
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 --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Spanish keyboard in X To: Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 2:36 PM On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2 with no luck, I've read many documents on the web, but they seem to be rather old, or assume that the user has Gnome or KDE installed, I use Awesome WM. Any hint? What's wrong about the old-fashioned way of using xorg.conf as a central means of X configuration? :-) Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Option AutoRepeat 250 30 EndSection Of course, you have to set the correct codes for spanish layout (setting XkbLayout), it should be es. -- Polytropon 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
utf8 characters in terminal
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 spanish accented files and subdirectories in UTF8. Now, when I access this machine using ssh, some of those files include ?? and \303 or similar characters instead of the correct accents. What can I do to show the files in the correct way?. 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
Emacs splash screen went to textmode only
Hi, I've recently updated Emacs to the latest version (23.2_2,2 from 23.1.1) along with all dependencies. Since then, the startup screen when running in an X window shows b/w text only like in the days of yore. Not that the startup screen graphics are that important, but things that don't work as expected tend to make me nervous. According to startup.el, the following variables affect what is shown at startup. Evaluating them in the scratch buffer looks like this: inhibit-startup-screen nil initial-buffer-choice nil That is, the startup screen *should* be displayed, or am I missing something here? The interesting thing is that nothing else about the startup screen appears broken. If I evaluate (fancy-startup-screen) in the scratch buffer, i.e. the function which actually displays the startup screen, Emacs faithfully does so, including the graphics and all bells and whistles. Has anything fundamentally changed between these versions? Does Emacs think it runs in a terminal? Any clues would be greatly appreciated. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 ___ 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: Samba gives invalid PT_PHDR after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE
On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, July 7, 2010 2:20 am, mcoyles wrote: Today I tried using portupgrade -R -f samba34 to rebuild samba and all of its dependencies, but I'm still getting the same error. I'm a little surprised that a minor version upgrade broke this so thoroughly. I went back over the release notes to see if I missed any obvious caveats about upgrading, but if I did, I'm not seeing it. David - have a look here... http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-April/016405.html OK, I see. It looks like rtld is part of world, not a port, so then the question becomes, why didn't freebsd-update update it for me? Is there a way I can force a binary upgrade, or do I need to download the source and rebuild things that way? I ended up downloading the 7.3 livefs ISO, booting off of it, and replacing /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 with the one from the CD. That fixed the problem. I suspect the reason freebsd-update didn't upgrade it properly is it appears it's impossible to replace this file on a running system, even in single-user mode. Maybe there should be something in the release notes about a 7.2 - 7.3 upgrade being impossible to do properly except by booting from CD? ___ 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: Digital camera for FreeBSD
2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Amesroberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Let me first make sure that I answer correctly: I do interpret your question about a point and shoot digital camera as a question regarding a photo camera primarily, not a movie camera. I hope that's correct. Nearly all cameras work - either by accessing the FAT file system on the card (or internal memory), or by PTP commands - both should be standard, and some cameras can even be switched from one to the other standard. I own the following (digital) cameras, all working with FreeBSD (list position indicates quality, quite): - Canon PowerShot S3 IS - Kodak EasyShare CX6330 - HP PhotoSmart M407 - Mustek MDC 3500 - Aiptec Pencam (AEG Snap 300) Basically, you can use nearly ANY camera with FreeBSD. It's just important that at least ONE of the existing access standards is supported by the camera - USB direct storage access or PTP functionality. (I'm concentrating on USB cameras here, allthough Firewire based cameras should also work, but I don't own any, so I can't be more precise about this interface.) There's also a workaround you should know about: If the camera does NOT allow you to access its files through the camera, you often can eject a SD or CF card. Many PCs today include readers for those media. And if the reader complies to USB standards, it can be used with FreeBSD. My Casio Exilim EX-S12 works perfectly, and identifies itself as a USB Mass Storage device, i.e. it gets a daX device node in /dev. I used to have an Olympus SP-500UZ, which also worked perfectly as a USB Mass Storage device. Neither of those are current models, but I doubt that either Casio or Olympus have stopped supporting USB Mass Storage (IIRC the Casio can be set to either USB Mass Storage or PTP). ___ 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
Radio Shark 2
Does anyone have an experience getting the Radio Shark 2 set up? I'm hoping to
use it for radio streaming in my apartment.
I've found shark2.c on the net and gcc is failing to compile it; I'm a PHP
developer with a lot of admin time on FreeBSD (8-RELEASE, AMD64 build
presently) but can't get my head around that piece.
r...@server /usr/local/include]# gcc -g -o shark2 -lhid shark2.c
In file included from shark2.c:21:
/usr/include/hid.h:6:23: error: hidparser.h: No such file or directory
In file included from shark2.c:21:
/usr/include/hid.h:69: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'HIDData'
shark2.c: In function 'main':
shark2.c:98: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function
'exit'
shark2.c:102: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function
'exit'
[[Basically it's not finding hidparser.h - I get that - but it isn't checking
paths to look for it or I just can't seem to set any new search paths -R]]
::: contents of shark2.c :::
/* This souce code written my Michael Rolig (email:
michael_ro...@alumni.macalester.edu)
* This can be considered to be in the public domain
*/
/* Modified for Radio Shark2 2007-05-11
* This souce code written my Hisaaki Shibata (email: shib...@luky.org)
* This can be considered to be in the public domain
*/
#define DEBUG false /* Set true for copious debugging output */
#define SHARK_VENDID 0x077d /* Griffin's Vendor ID */
#define SHARK_DEVID 0x627a /* The radioSHARK's Device ID */
#define READ_EP 0x5 /* libhid read command? */
#define WRITE_EP 0x5/* libhid write command? */
#define SEND_PACKET_LENGTH 7/* size of an instruction packet: shark2=7 */
#include /usr/include/stdio.h
#include /usr/include/string.h
#include /usr/include/unistd.h
#include /usr/include/hid.h
void usage(int argc, const char** argv) {
printf(%s command arg\n\tchange state of radioSHARK\n\n, argv[0]);
printf(commands:\n
-fm freqeuncy: set FM frequency, e.g. '-fm 91.5'\n
-am frequency: set AM frequency, e.g. '-am 730'\n
-blue intensity : turn on blue LED (0-127) '-blue 127'\n
-red 0/1 : turn on/off red LED '-red 1'\n);
}
int main(int argc, const char** argv) {
/* Declare variables used later */
hid_return ret;
HIDInterface* hid;
HIDInterfaceMatcher matcher = { SHARK_VENDID, SHARK_DEVID, NULL, NULL, 0
};
/* Build the instruction packet to send to the shark */
unsigned char PACKET[SEND_PACKET_LENGTH] = { 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00 };
unsigned short encodedFreq;
float freq;
unsigned int intensity;
if (argc == 3) {
if (strcmp(argv[1], -fm) == 0) {
/* Tune to an FM frequency */
PACKET[0] = 0x81;
encodedFreq = 0;
freq = atof(argv[2]);
encodedFreq = ((freq * 10 * 2) - 3 );
PACKET[1] = (encodedFreq 8) 0xFF;
PACKET[2] = encodedFreq 0xFF;
PACKET[3] = 0x33;
PACKET[4] = 0x04;
PACKET[5] = 0x00;
PACKET[6] = 0x28;
if (DEBUG) {
printf(band = fm\n);
printf(freq = %.1f\n, freq);
printf(encoded freq = 0x%x\n, (unsigned
int)encodedFreq);
}
} else if (strcmp(argv[1], -am) == 0) {
/* Tune to an AM frequency */
PACKET[0] = 0x81;
encodedFreq = 0;
freq = (float)atoi(argv[2]);
encodedFreq = ((unsigned short)freq * 4 ) + 16300;
PACKET[1] = (encodedFreq 8) 0xFF;
PACKET[2] = encodedFreq 0xFF;
PACKET[3] = 0xF3;
PACKET[4] = 0x36;
PACKET[5] = 0x00;
PACKET[6] = 0x24;
if (DEBUG) {
printf(band = am\n);
printf(freq = %d\n, (unsigned int)freq);
printf(encoded freq = 0x%x\n, (unsigned
int)encodedFreq);
}
} else if (strcmp(argv[1], -blue) == 0) {
/* Adjust the blue LED */
intensity = atoi(argv[2]);
PACKET[0] = 0x83;
PACKET[1] = (char)intensity;
} else if (strcmp(argv[1], -bblue) == 0) {
/* Adjust the blue LED's pulsing rate */
intensity = atoi(argv[2]);
PACKET[0] = 0xA1;
PACKET[1] = (char)intensity;
} else if
Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?
Since this is something that potentially almost everyone would need at least once this should be made very easy for the end user. Yuri ___ 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: Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?
In the last episode (Jul 18), Yuri said: Since this is something that potentially almost everyone would need at least once this should be made very easy for the end user. When I did it, I believe I just made copies of /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib to ../lib32 (so 32-bit ports would still work), installed the 64-bit kernel and world, rebooted, then upgraded all the ports over a week or so. I was running zfs so I made a snapshot of the 32-bit system as it was just before the install. A 64-bit buildworld and GENERIC kernel both default to enabling 32-bit support and compat libraries, and I believe a 64-bit kernel will boot and run a 32-bit world, so compatibility is good. Just be aware that binary file formats for programs installed via ports may differ, so things like rrdtool datafiles and mysql databases will need to be dumped to text form and reloaded. That's where the 32-bit snapshot came in handy (so I had access to the 32-bit binaries after my port upgrades finished and could dump using old binaries then reload using the new ones as I discovered problems). -- 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
Re: Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?
Hi Since this is something that potentially almost everyone would need at least once this should be made very easy for the end user. I am not sure what you mean. I have penty of machines that are 32 bits and simply cannot run 64 bits. If I ever replace one 32 bits machines with a 64 bits new machine, I will simply re-install everything from scratch, it's safer (can run the 2 machines in parallel until the new on eis ready) and simplier, and gives me opportunity for a good cleanup (I will not reinstall all the bits and pieces that I only installed for testing purpose and never used after that). Best regards, Olivier ___ 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
samba pam_smbpass passwd seg fault
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 synced to the smbpass db, but it seg faults. Below are my relevant config files. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? /usr/local/etc/smb.conf security = user passdb backend = smbpasswd cat /etc/pam.d/passwd # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/pam.d/passwd,v 1.3.36.1 2010/02/10 00:26:20 kensmith Exp $ # # PAM configuration for the passwd service # # passwd(1) does not use the auth, account or session services. # password #password requisite pam_passwdqc.so enforce=users passwordrequiredpam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass nullok passwordoptional/usr/local/lib/pam_smbpass.so try_first_pass smbconf=/usr/local/etc/smb.conf [r...@localhost ~]# passwd Changing local password for root New Password: Retype New Password: Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) ___ 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
Has anybody got a *working* example of getpwnam_r() ??
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- is wrong. What I've got makes a whole lot of no sense -- I get corruption of the _same_ malloc()'d data structure (at *exactly* the same offset into the structure!!) on both 7.2 i386 and 8.0 amd64 releases (on different hardware). Unfortunately thee is a _lot_ of code, including significant use of of malloc()/free() that attempmting to whittle things down to a minimal test case would be very awkward. right now, I've got the corruption at a 'known' place, but no cluse as to -how- it's happening -- available evidence seems to exclude everything passed _into_ getwpnam_r(). the offending call is : getpwnam_r(cp3, pw_data, buffer2, sizeof(buffer2), pwd); data declaration at the beginning of the function: char buffer[1024]; char buffer2[1024]; char mailbox[1024]; *cp,*cp2,*cp3,*cp4 = buffer; struct passwd pw_data,pw_data2,*pwd=pw_data2; int i; The whole program is around 2500 lines of code and headers, with, as mentioined, _lots_ of malloc()/free() activity, I can put ut it up on my web-server, if somebody really wants to dig. I've tried changing the size of buffer2 to 8kb, in case I was over-running the 1k buffer. ((unfortunately the mmanpage does _not_ specify a minimum size for the buffer) I've tried declaring buffer2 _and_ the 'struct passwd' items as 'static', so that _if_ the corruption was coming from one of those addresses, the corruption *should* move. *NONE* of those changes made _any_ differnce in where the corruption was occuring, or _what_ was being written there. I'm *really* baffled. HELP!!! *whimper* _what_ stuff shows up _does_ differ between the 7.2 and 8.0 systems, 8.0 reliably produces 116 bytes corrupted: [gdb command: x/112 private_data_pointer-remotehostname 0x40a0e070: 103 'g' 114 'r' 111 'o' 117 'u' 112 'p' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e078: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e080: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e088: 104 'h' 111 'o' 115 's' 116 't' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e090: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e098: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0a0: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0a8: 112 'p' 97 'a' 115 's' 115 's' 119 'w' 100 'd' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0b0: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0b8: 115 's' 104 'h' 101 'e' 108 'l' 108 'l' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0c0: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0c8: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0d0: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0d8: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 7.2 produces 64 bytes corrupted: [gdb command: x/112 private_data_pointer-remotehostname 0x2820b098: 100 'd' 110 'n' 115 's' 0 '\0' 110 'n' 105 'i' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0a0: 110 'n' 105 'i' 115 's' 0 '\0' 114 'r' 112 'p' 99 'c' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0a8: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0b0: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0b8: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0c0: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 3 '\003'0 '\0' 8 '\b' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0c8: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0d0: 2 '\002'0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' This stuff looks like it -might- be fromm a nsswitch.conf parse. I dunno. anybody got _any_ ideas? ___ 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: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only
Hi Markus, Markus Hoenicka writes: Hi, I've recently updated Emacs to the latest version (23.2_2,2 from 23.1.1) along with all dependencies. Since then, the startup screen when running in an X window shows b/w text only like in the days of yore. Not that the startup screen graphics are that important, but things that don't work as expected tend to make me nervous. Can you upload the screenshot of what you're getting ? According to startup.el, the following variables affect what is shown at startup. Evaluating them in the scratch buffer looks like this: inhibit-startup-screen nil initial-buffer-choice nil That is, the startup screen *should* be displayed, or am I missing something here? The interesting thing is that nothing else about the startup screen appears broken. If I evaluate (fancy-startup-screen) in the scratch buffer, i.e. the function which actually displays the startup screen, Emacs faithfully does so, including the graphics and all bells and whistles. Has anything fundamentally changed between these versions? Does Emacs think it runs in a terminal? Any clues would be greatly appreciated. Can you try starting Emacs in X11 with following command: #v+ % emacs -q --no-site-file #v- Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ “We've so many people in India, that we're able to route each network packet manually.” (nobotz) ___ 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: Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?
On 07/18/2010 19:43, Dan Nelson wrote: When I did it, I believe I just made copies of /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib to ../lib32 (so 32-bit ports would still work), installed the 64-bit kernel and world, rebooted, then upgraded all the ports over a week or so. I was running zfs so I made a snapshot of the 32-bit system as it was just before the install. A 64-bit buildworld and GENERIC kernel both default to enabling 32-bit support and compat libraries, and I believe a 64-bit kernel will boot and run a 32-bit world, so compatibility is good. Just be aware that binary file formats for programs installed via ports may differ, so things like rrdtool datafiles and mysql databases will need to be dumped to text form and reloaded. That's where the 32-bit snapshot came in handy (so I had access to the 32-bit binaries after my port upgrades finished and could dump using old binaries then reload using the new ones as I discovered problems). Thanks, this sounds very encouraging and I will try it. Another question is: are there any parts that won't work in amd64, besides file format issue that you just mentioned. Like NVidia driver? MPlayer plugins (taken from Windows binaries)? Linux flush in browsers, it's originally only 32-bit in Linux and works through the series of hacks in nspluginwrapper? Yuri ___ 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: best open source site for Bourne .sh development project?
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 07/05/2010 06:37 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: I developing a jailed environment application in Bourne script. Looking for recommends for a open source web site to join and add my code to so others may participate. The site needs to be able to host the code to be used as the download location for a freebsd port, and not be terminated when the project becomes dormant. SourceForge.net? Thanks SourceForge.net is free and full features. The free mailing list was so simple to set up. This is the best site. ___ 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: Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?
On 07/18/2010 07:27, Modulok wrote: I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how skype gets linked at runtime. In bash: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Again that's on linux, so it's probably not relevant, or even if it is, the shared object file will be in a different location. Sorry I'm not of much help. Maybe someone else can do better. -Moduok- I noticed that there is even no linux port of libv4l on FreeBSD. Maybe this is the issue with skype? Yuri ___ 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
startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.
Hello fellas, my system: FreeBSD [xxx] 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 [email]r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 my problem: - # startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.69910 X.Org X Server 1.6.1 Release Date: 2009-4-14 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD mainserver.serveftp.org 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Build Date: 21 October 2009 04:11:47AM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sun Jul 18 15:50:08 2010 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf kcheckrunning: not found kbuildsycoca4 running... startkde: Starting up... /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libthr.so.3: Undefined symbol __pselect startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation. - at the moment the box has xfce4 on it and I decided to install kde4 (pkg_add -r kde4). all went flawlessly. I added exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde to ~/.xinitrc but when I do startx I get the message above. The box is a remote one. After the error, startx does not exit and if I use x11vnc I see a black screen with a box that says Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation and a Okay button. If I click it, x11vnc exits but startx does not. However, if I run /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde and x11vnc with -auth option, I can see the kde4 login screen and after it accepts my credentials I see Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation. If I click okay, x11vnc exits. I was unable to replicate this behaviour - it happened only once (kde does not run without a X server so I'm presuming I had some X process hanging somewhere) I've been google-ing for quite some time now and I am unable to find anything relevant. The machine is ~800 km away so direct interaction is impossible. Any ideas are welcomed. PS: nothing relevant in messages.log, all.log and Xorg.log. The video card is a nvidia FX5500. PS2: on a vmware machine, (fresh install of F-BSD 8.0 - kernel+base) I had no problems. PS3: I have reinstalled all kde4 packages (pkg_add) and rebuild libthr from source but with no effect :( ___ 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: 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- is wrong. What I've got makes a whole lot of no sense -- I get corruption of the _same_ malloc()'d data structure (at *exactly* the same offset into the structure!!) on both 7.2 i386 and 8.0 amd64 releases (on different hardware). Unfortunately thee is a _lot_ of code, including significant use of of malloc()/free() that attempmting to whittle things down to a minimal test case would be very awkward. right now, I've got the corruption at a 'known' place, but no cluse as to -how- it's happening -- available evidence seems to exclude everything passed _into_ getwpnam_r(). the offending call is : getpwnam_r(cp3, pw_data, buffer2, sizeof(buffer2), pwd); data declaration at the beginning of the function: char buffer[1024]; char buffer2[1024]; char mailbox[1024]; *cp,*cp2,*cp3,*cp4 = buffer; struct passwd pw_data,pw_data2,*pwd=pw_data2; int i; The whole program is around 2500 lines of code and headers, with, as mentioined, _lots_ of malloc()/free() activity, I can put ut it up on my web-server, if somebody really wants to dig. I've tried changing the size of buffer2 to 8kb, in case I was over-running the 1k buffer. ((unfortunately the mmanpage does _not_ specify a minimum size for the buffer) I've tried declaring buffer2 _and_ the 'struct passwd' items as 'static', so that _if_ the corruption was coming from one of those addresses, the corruption *should* move. *NONE* of those changes made _any_ differnce in where the corruption was occuring, or _what_ was being written there. I'm *really* baffled. HELP!!! *whimper* _what_ stuff shows up _does_ differ between the 7.2 and 8.0 systems, 8.0 reliably produces 116 bytes corrupted: [gdb command: x/112 private_data_pointer-remotehostname 0x40a0e070: 103 'g' 114 'r' 111 'o' 117 'u' 112 'p' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e078: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e080: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e088: 104 'h' 111 'o' 115 's' 116 't' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e090: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e098: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0a0: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0a8: 112 'p' 97 'a' 115 's' 115 's' 119 'w' 100 'd' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0b0: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0b8: 115 's' 104 'h' 101 'e' 108 'l' 108 'l' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0c0: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0c8: 99 'c' 111 'o' 109 'm' 112 'p' 97 'a' 116 't' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0d0: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x40a0e0d8: 102 'f' 105 'i' 108 'l' 101 'e' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 7.2 produces 64 bytes corrupted: [gdb command: x/112 private_data_pointer-remotehostname 0x2820b098: 100 'd' 110 'n' 115 's' 0 '\0' 110 'n' 105 'i' 115 's' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0a0: 110 'n' 105 'i' 115 's' 0 '\0' 114 'r' 112 'p' 99 'c' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0a8: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0b0: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0b8: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0c0: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 3 '\003'0 '\0' 8 '\b' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0c8: 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0x2820b0d0: 2 '\002'0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' 0 '\0' This stuff looks like it -might- be fromm a nsswitch.conf parse. I dunno. anybody got _any_ ideas? This might help. Just above the crashing call, open a file, and dump the contents of the vars you're sending to the function with fprintf, then close the file. I suspect cp3 doesn't point to valid data and is causing the function call to fail (it looks like it's pointing to the same thing as buffer, which doesn't look like how the function should be called). Having the contents of the individual vars will help you narrow down exactly what's occuring. Data you want to see is the pointers themselves, and maybe the first 8 or so characters of data that it's pointing to. And if this doesn't help, there's always Google CodeSearch http://www.google.com/codesearch , for examples of how to call it. ___ 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
