nanoBSD Missing libgcc.a
I have nanoBSD uname -a FreeBSD embeddedx86.tddhome 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1: Tue May 22 11:04:12 PDT 2012 root@P9X79.tddhome:/usr/obj/nanobsd.TS5700 /i386.i386/usr/src/sys/TS5700 i386 gcc 4.2.1 is installed, but, missing libgcc.a. libcompiler_rt.a is present. gcc -I../../include -c lcd_dio.c gcc -I../../include -o lcd_dio lcd_dio.o /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc *** Error code 1 If I link libgcc.a to libcompiler_rt.a the build works. How do I get either 1. gcc to use libcompiler_rt.a -or- 2. the nanoBSD build to create or link to libgcc.a Tom Dean ___ 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: nanoBSD Missing libgcc.a
On 05/23/12 23:09, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Sorry to reply to my own post. I had some old obj files in the directory. cleaning out the directories removed the problem. Tom Dean ___ 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: nanoBSD Missing libgcc.a
On 05/23/12 23:09, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have nanoBSD Please ignore my post about cleaning directories. The problem still exists. I need to compile on the nanoBSD system - it is the only 32-bit system, now. How do I get either 1. gcc to use libcompiler_rt.a -or- 2. the nanoBSD build to create or link to libgcc.a For an immediate fix, I can mount the partition rw and create a link ln -s libcompile_rt.a libgcc.a Tom Dean ___ 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
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virtual scrum board
Hi, I was looking in our ports collection for some kind of virtual scrum board with the following requirements: - allows a team over the network to see the current page of all 'sticker' for the tasks, and make changes (if in web browser even better) - allows to put tasks (a few words) as 'stickers' on the board - have columns (each one for each team member) - have areas like: waiting, checked-out, done Any ideas? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5 ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
On 23. May 2012, at 08:22 , Venkat Duvvuru wrote: Folks, Can somebody please explain me why tcp checsum calculation is mandated in the freebsd network stack (tcp_input---in6_cksum) albeit the card supports it? Probably Steve is the right person who can answer this. Just for public reference; we talked offline. The code simply was never done and let's see how much of it I can get into the tree the next 48 hours. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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
How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. How do I do that? I suppose the whole ports tree has to go back since x.org drags in a bunch of stuff without doing anything itself. I'm on 8.3 amd64. PS: the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU switch does not exist anymore because nouveau doesn't exist anymore. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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: Connect to Clear hub modem
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf: network_interfaces=lo0 re0 That is normally not needed. ifconfig=DCHP ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.15.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 These are variable assignments, and the second line overwrites the value assigned by the first. The first alone is preferable because DHCP will do other setup, like the route and resolve.conf. Actually, it seems DCHP won't do it alone. But doing without DCHP does work. Since I gather DCHP the other stuff can introduce contradictions, I'm doing without DCHP until I understand this better. If I can get x.org to work with tty switching again, I'll further investigate the combinations. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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: Connect to Clear hub modem
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf: network_interfaces=lo0 re0 That is normally not needed. ifconfig=DCHP ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.15.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 These are variable assignments, and the second line overwrites the value assigned by the first. The first alone is preferable because DHCP will do other setup, like the route and resolve.conf. Actually, it seems DCHP won't do it alone. But doing without DCHP does work. Since I gather DCHP the other stuff can introduce contradictions, I'm doing without DCHP until I understand this better. Looking at the code above again, there's an error. The first line is not going to do anything (I think, rc.conf has surprised me before). It should have the interface name. So either of these two lines should work: ifconfig_re0=DHCP or ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.15.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 If both were in rc.conf, the second would overwrite the earlier one. I generally use SYNCDHCP to be sure a lease is obtained before the rc scripts go on. ___ 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: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which to believe. My new machine has two disk drives. Windows 7 is on ad0 and I want to put FreeBSD 8.3 on ad1, leaving W7 as is. So, I don't even have to shrink a primary slice to do this. Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't you make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose which drive to boot from? That surely seems the hard way.Why interrupt the boot and go in to the BIOS every time when that is all provided for in the boot structure? It depends on the system, but many have a boot menu that is less intrusive than a multi-boot loader. F11 or F12 usually. Otherwise, EasyBCD works. ___ 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: Connect to Clear hub modem
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: Looking at the code above again, there's an error. The first line is not going to do anything (I think, rc.conf has surprised me before). It should have the interface name. So either of these two lines should work: ifconfig_re0=DHCP or ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.15.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 I am only following up here because someday someone may find this thread in the archives. We are talking about the Clear hub modem (which is for wireless but can be connect by ethernet cable). ifconfig_re0=DHCP doesn't work. Possibly because the hub so far as I can get it to reveal itself is running DHCP itself. This does work: network_interfaces=lo0 re0 ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.15.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultrouter=192.168.15.1 If they were both having DHCP, could some kind of race condition result, where they are dynamically reassigning each other? I don't know. I'm guessing at any rate, if you can firmly deliver the local machine to the tender mercies of the Clear hub, it will take over everything. Okay, so I can't explain it, but works convinces me. Perhaps as I move to the wireless side some light will be shed. I gather the ethernet cable connection is supposed to be the bullet-proof fallback for this device. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as anyone else :-) The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it was an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) and Dane's discovery that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, but em0 is completely unused was starting to prove there is some strong evidence here in favor of the interrupts issue. Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful? Is it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=1 ? Thanks! ___ 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
multiple versions of pcre needed with pkgs and ports
I had an old version of ports and installed xorg and gnome2-lite using pkg_add. Then tried to build (make) openoffice-3. The make croaked with some missing java licensing files which were old. So... I updated the ports tree via portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap update Following that, an attempt to make openoffice-3 croaks because xorg and gnome2-lite installed pcre-8.20 and the oo make requires pcre-8.30_2. Deleted packages using pkg_delete -drv pcre-8.20 Reinstalled xorg using pkg_add, which unfortunately reinstalled pcre-8.20. I was expecting it to pick up the more recent one. I expected the portsnap update to update packages to a point where they would be using the more recent pcre. Questions: 1. If a package depends on an old version of another package, is it generally supposed to work with a newer version? 2. Will the xorg package work with pcre-8.30_2 if I install that first? If not, should building the port instead work? 3. I tried doing pkg_delete -f pcre-8.20 cd devel/pcre make (built 8.30_2) make install X still came up but gnome2 didn't. I'm pretty sure core x doesn't require pcre, but whatever part of the xorg package that does use it will croak when the time comes. 4. As a result of 3, are the dependency counts in the package registration process all screwed up? 5. If packages depending on older versions of pcre won't work with a newer version and a different port requires a newer version, how do you accomplish that? Will building the older port, instead of installing the package for it, generally allow the older port and the one requiring the newer version of pcre to co-exist? 6. What am I doing wrong? Surely there's a way to get both xorg and oo on the same system... Side issue: The pkg_delete occasionally stopped to ask whether or not to delete a file with mode 555. Despite being nervous about it, I said yes and it seemed to cause no problems. Any particular reason these are installed 555, since they are part of an add-on package? Don't have the names, unfortunately. Thanks for any insights, Gary ___ 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: multiple versions of pcre needed with pkgs and ports
Never mix packages and ports. You would have to be using the EXACT snapshot of ports that the package team used to build the packages for this to be safe. So conclusion: use one or the other, but never both. Things you need to be doing now: 1. Install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run pkg_libchk 2. Recompile every package it lists with broken libraries 3. Continue using ports from now on Everyone learns this the hard way, so don't worry :-) ___ 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 rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitch false in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? -- 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting OptionDontVTSwitch false in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? Of course not or - of. Maybe it belongs to section ServerLayout, I'm not sure, it changes quite often which options are supported and where they have to be placed. :-) And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) -- 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitchfalse in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? Of course not or - of. Maybe it belongs to section ServerLayout, I'm not sure, it changes quite often which options are supported and where they have to be placed. :-) Doesn't seem to help, and also it appears from my researches that is not assignable, but like make options, if it present it is true but there is no way to make it false. And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade does not really provide much help for meta ports, but I took a flier and rolled xorg-server back to 1.7.5,1 and this sort of worked (mapped tty changing to shift-Fx - not my first choice, but makes life possible. portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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 rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitchfalse in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? Of course not or - of. Maybe it belongs to section ServerLayout, I'm not sure, it changes quite often which options are supported and where they have to be placed. :-) And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. ___ 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: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash
Hey all, On 25/05/2012, at 1:47 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as anyone else :-) The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it was an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) and Dane's discovery that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, but em0 is completely unused was starting to prove there is some strong evidence here in favor of the interrupts issue. Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful? Is it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=1 ? The situation I've got that's stable now is: hw.pci.enable_msi=0 hw.pci.enable_msix=0 in /boot/loader.conf and: samael:~:% vmstat -i [ 6:31PM] interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 6 0 irq18: em0 mpt0 3061100 15 irq19: em1 6891706 35 cpu0: timer166383735868 cpu1: timer166382123868 cpu3: timer166382123868 cpu2: timer166382121868 Total 675482914 3525 Not using em0. This works for 8 (FreeBSD samael.slush.ca 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #1: Mon May 7 11:51:03 NZST 2012 r...@samael.slush.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DENE amd64). Neither of those settings on their own seem to stop it from happening. The 9 box I've tried this on still hangs almost every time i run handbrake, no matter whether MSI/MSIX is enabled, or I have separate IRQs for mpt0 and em0/1 I can cause the hang mostly on demand, but not quite sure what information to provide from the hung system. If somebody can let me know what they need, including root access, I can make that happen. Cheers, Dane Thanks! ___ 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: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash
On 24. May 2012, at 13:47 , Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as anyone else :-) The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it was an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) Just for the public archives. Interrupts wasn't me. I might have mentioned disabling cdrom and fdc as good as possible but everything else I cannot remember... and Dane's discovery that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, but em0 is completely unused was starting to prove there is some strong evidence here in favor of the interrupts issue. Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful? Is it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=1 ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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 rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. ___ 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
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Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope: Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] BusID PCI:0:1:0 Driver = xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_4 vgapci0@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x03 card=0x2aca103c chip=0x98021002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' device = 'AMD Radeon HD 6310 GraphicsATI' class = display subclass = VGA Not sure what else might be of interest. 9.0 works pretty well so once every couple of weeks rebooting is a small price as 9.0 and Xorg xorg-7.5.1 supports the NIC and video. On 8.2 no either net and the Vesa driver rendered this system pretty useless FreeBSD-wise on 8.x. ___ 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: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash
Hi, You guys now absolutely, positively have enough information for a PR. It's still not clear whether it's a device/interrupt layer issue in FreeBSD, or whether vmware is doing something wrong with how it implements shared interrupts, or a bit of both.. Adrian On 24 May 2012 13:54, dane foster d...@ilovedene.com wrote: Hey all, On 25/05/2012, at 1:47 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as anyone else :-) The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it was an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) and Dane's discovery that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, but em0 is completely unused was starting to prove there is some strong evidence here in favor of the interrupts issue. Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful? Is it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=1 ? The situation I've got that's stable now is: hw.pci.enable_msi=0 hw.pci.enable_msix=0 in /boot/loader.conf and: samael:~:% vmstat -i [ 6:31PM] interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 6 0 irq18: em0 mpt0 3061100 15 irq19: em1 6891706 35 cpu0: timer 166383735 868 cpu1: timer 166382123 868 cpu3: timer 166382123 868 cpu2: timer 166382121 868 Total 675482914 3525 Not using em0. This works for 8 (FreeBSD samael.slush.ca 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #1: Mon May 7 11:51:03 NZST 2012 r...@samael.slush.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DENE amd64). Neither of those settings on their own seem to stop it from happening. The 9 box I've tried this on still hangs almost every time i run handbrake, no matter whether MSI/MSIX is enabled, or I have separate IRQs for mpt0 and em0/1 I can cause the hang mostly on demand, but not quite sure what information to provide from the hung system. If somebody can let me know what they need, including root access, I can make that happen. Cheers, Dane Thanks! ___ 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 rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. It is definitely a problem for (at least some of) those with Intel chips, but at least for me the VESA driver did not fix the tty switching problem. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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
automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)
1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the build. How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended? I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. In particular, how does one configure a dependent port for the options you want whenever it is built as part of a higher-level build? 2. Do port builds deal with concurrency? i.e. can I safely do a make install in two different ports subtrees simultaneously? I attempted this with gnome2-lite and firefox and ended up with the firefox build barfing on tests in shared-mime-info -- one of the tests failed because a directory already existed. I had to deinstall and reinstall shared-mime-info and then restart the firefox make. The two builds actually ended up in the less likely scenario of trying to build the same dependency at roughly the same time. 3. Do the package builds use the defaults set in the ports tree? If not, how are the options for packages chosen, and how does one determine what the package options are? 4. Is there a discussion anywhere of whether or not one should turn on various optimizations? If these aren't turned on by default, but are safe, why aren't they the default? Is this a cross-platform build issue, and the default is to build for cross-platform? 5. It looks like the options which show up using sysinstall are from the OPTIONS variable in the Makefile. Is there any convention for where to find out more about the option other than the often useless text hint provided in the menu? e.g. gvfs has an option called FUSE Enable fuse which doesn't say which of the several software systems called FUSE this refers to e.g. OPENGL Use OpenGL graphics doesn't say much about why you would want to do that, what the opengl option actually does, ramifications, whether it will help only if your graphics card / driver supports it, etc. Or is this a documentation project in the offing? Thanks, Gary ___ 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 rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope: Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] BusID PCI:0:1:0 Driver = xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_4 vgapci0@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x03 card=0x2aca103c chip=0x98021002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' device = 'AMD Radeon HD 6310 GraphicsATI' class = display subclass = VGA Not sure what else might be of interest. 9.0 works pretty well so once every couple of weeks rebooting is a small price as 9.0 and Xorg xorg-7.5.1 supports the NIC and video. On 8.2 no either net and the Vesa driver rendered this system pretty useless FreeBSD-wise on 8.x. Mine has xorg-7.5.2 and WITH_XORG_NEW=yes in /etc/make.conf. ___ 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: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)
On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:58 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the build. No. The default options are set by the port maintainer, usually in the port's Makefile. How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended? You can use two approaches: a) Use make config or make config-recursive to to select all choices in one rush, then start building. b) Use a port management tool to do what the commands under a) would do. For example, portmaster --force-config would do so. You can also use the port mangement tool's configuration file to store port-specific selections in a file. There's support for this batch operation style of working to avoid interaction. I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. Check man 7 ports. In particular, how does one configure a dependent port for the options you want whenever it is built as part of a higher-level build? The -recursive targets (make config-recursive et al.) do this. 2. Do port builds deal with concurrency? i.e. can I safely do a make install in two different ports subtrees simultaneously? I think this highly depends. As soon as you _know_ there will be no same dependency occuring, it should be no problem. To avoid this, each port (and the dependencies it needs) could be build in a separate tree, but that could also mean doubled builds; it would also not fully solve the problem of concurrent installations. See the meaning of building dependencies and run dependencies which both tend to be installed to the (same!) system in order to be usable by the successive port building. 3. Do the package builds use the defaults set in the ports tree? If not, how are the options for packages chosen, and how does one determine what the package options are? They use the default options. 4. Is there a discussion anywhere of whether or not one should turn on various optimizations? Depends. For example, if you want to make mplayer run on older systems, you will surely use some optimization and customization. You will also do so if you want all the codecs. Maybe some of the reasons why some options aren't set by default (and therefore not present in the automatically built packages) is patent-lawyer-intellectual-property-blah-pirate-blah stuff, especially because it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the U. S. :-) If these aren't turned on by default, but are safe, why aren't they the default? Maybe because there is no general use benefit in them? Not sure. See also explaination above. Is this a cross-platform build issue, and the default is to build for cross-platform? The ports tree is, if I interpret that correctly, platform-independent. So the selected options should be best choice for all supported platforms (and there's some selective logic in the port building infrastructure itself as well as in some of the Makefiles). 5. It looks like the options which show up using sysinstall are from the OPTIONS variable in the Makefile. Excuse me, where exactly do you see compile-time options in the sysinstall program? I know it can select and install packages, but PORTS? Is there any convention for where to find out more about the option other than the often useless text hint provided in the menu? e.g. gvfs has an option called FUSE Enable fuse which doesn't say which of the several software systems called FUSE this refers to e.g. OPENGL Use OpenGL graphics doesn't say much about why you would want to do that, what the opengl option actually does, ramifications, whether it will help only if your graphics card / driver supports it, etc. Ha, good question! :-) If you deal with ports, it's often useful to have a second system / terminal / computer / ... with a web browser so you can try to look up the meaning of options. If you don't have that, making a selection can be hard: ++ | Options for stupido 19.84 | | ++ | | | [ ] CUPS Enable support for printing (requires CUPS) | | | | [ ] GTK Use GTK backend | | | | [ ] KDE4 Use KDE4 backend in room 101 | | | | [ ] FUSE Enable FUSE | | | | [ ] OPENGL Use OpenGL graphics | | | | [ ] KLOMPATSHUse Klompatsh | | | | [ ] RHUMBOIREUse RHUMBOIRE backend | | | | [ ] QUEEKNARGEnable QUEEKNARG support | | | | [ ] ECK'N'POOT Build with COM-POO-TAIR module| | | | [ ] SHMEER Build bindings for Shmeer and Shmeerlappen| | | | [ ] SHLORTS Enable support for SHLORTS (requires GNOOLFS) | | |
Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: 1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the build. ncurses, not systinstall, but yes. How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended? I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. In particular, how does one configure a dependent port for the options you want whenever it is built as part of a higher-level build? make config-recursive 4. Is there a discussion anywhere of whether or not one should turn on various optimizations? If these aren't turned on by default, but are safe, why aren't they the default? Is this a cross-platform build issue, and the default is to build for cross-platform? In general, if a port can benefit from certain optimizations, it will have an option for that. Setting optimizations system-wide breaks that. And the optimizations that many people try turn out to be detrimental. 5. It looks like the options which show up using sysinstall are from the OPTIONS variable in the Makefile. Is there any convention for where to find out more about the option other than the often useless text hint provided in the menu? e.g. gvfs has an option called FUSE Enable fuse which doesn't say which of the several software systems called FUSE this refers to e.g. OPENGL Use OpenGL graphics doesn't say much about why you would want to do that, what the opengl option actually does, ramifications, whether it will help only if your graphics card / driver supports it, etc. Mostly you would have to look in the Makefile and possibly in the application source for these. Or is this a documentation project in the offing? Well, there's ports(7), and some related chapters in the Handbook. ___ 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: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:58 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 3. Do the package builds use the defaults set in the ports tree? If not, how are the options for packages chosen, and how does one determine what the package options are? They use the default options. This is true for most ports at least, but perhaps not true for all of them. For example the QT4_OPTIONS controls some rather critical functionality which is compiled into the packages however doesn't end up in a default port install without other modification in make.conf. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were a few port config screens that didn't match a package's selected options. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)
I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. Check man 7 ports. Doh. I'm blind. I've read that at least three times looking at other stuff. Makes sense now. Thanks especially because it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the U. S. :-) g... 5. It looks like the options which show up using sysinstall are from the OPTIONS variable in the Makefile. Excuse me, where exactly do you see compile-time options in the sysinstall program? I know it can select and install packages, but PORTS? What I mean is the OPTIONS variable is what shows up when make config is done (now that I understand it a little better) If you deal with ports, it's often useful to have a second system / terminal / computer / ... with a web browser so you can try to look up the meaning of options. If you don't have that, making a selection can be hard: ++ | Options for stupido 19.84 | | ++ | | | [ ] CUPS Enable support for printing (requires CUPS) | | | | [ ] GTK Use GTK backend | | | | [ ] KDE4 Use KDE4 backend in room 101 | | | | [ ] FUSE Enable FUSE | | | | [ ] OPENGL Use OpenGL graphics | | | | [ ] KLOMPATSHUse Klompatsh | | | | [ ] RHUMBOIREUse RHUMBOIRE backend | | | | [ ] QUEEKNARGEnable QUEEKNARG support | | | | [ ] ECK'N'POOT Build with COM-POO-TAIR module| | | | [ ] SHMEER Build bindings for Shmeer and Shmeerlappen| | | | [ ] SHLORTS Enable support for SHLORTS (requires GNOOLFS) | | | | [x] Use nothing, go away. | | +-++-+ | [ OK ] Cancel| ++ Unfortunately, lots-o-computers but only one screen :-( Super. I've been looking for bindings to Shmeerlappen for years. And my shlorts have needed support for a long time too. Or is this a documentation project in the offing? I would welcome a kind of text file that lists all the strange names with a short description of what they are and what you need them for, being more informative than the short one liners in the options dialog. Can someone point me at the code that puts up the menu? ___ 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: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)
On 05/24/12 23:34, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:58 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 3. Do the package builds use the defaults set in the ports tree? If not, how are the options for packages chosen, and how does one determine what the package options are? They use the default options. This is true for most ports at least, but perhaps not true for all of them. For example the QT4_OPTIONS controls some rather critical functionality which is compiled into the packages however doesn't end up in a default port install without other modification in make.conf. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were a few port config screens that didn't match a package's selected options. Is there a way to find out what options a package is built with? ___ 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
