FreeBSD installed on a Sager One problem
Hi: I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 RELEASE via FTP to a Sager P8880 Notebook computer I aquired cheap, and without an OS; 2.4ghz Pentium IV (desktop unit) half gig memory, cd r/w 30gig hd, firewire lots of good stuff. Installer set things up almost perfectly with all my favorite apps... XORG .. KDE . Even the TV Tuner and the touch-pad works! What doesn't work, I don't know if there is a fix for. This sager has an MP3 player which pops out of the side. The Idea obviously, is to put music into it's memory stick (detachable) and go jogging with your favorite tunes. I would like to get this last item working if possible. Here is what happens: === booting .. FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 04:45:45 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 da0: NEWTREND MMC READER BULK 2.01 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 29MB (60800 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 29C) [...] umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (SHORT_XFER) umass0: Phase Error, residue = 0 umass0: BBB reset failed, STALLED umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, STALLED umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, STALLED (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x4, scsi status == 0x0 umass0: BBB reset failed, STALLED = Here popped the player out of the laptop umass0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device umass0: detached (da0:dead_sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry = I think the Direct Access SCSI-0 entry is the key? Is there a SCSI loadable module I could try? Is there a probe I could use to possibly match this hardware with a driver? Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Producing a staticly-linked package from ports
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:21:03 -0500 Mikel King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I know this can be done, I am not certain of the exact procedure. Looks like this can NOT be done. I asked the author of claws-mail, and received this response. === From: Colin Leroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: statically-linked version of CM Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:15:52 +0100 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0cvs44 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) On 30 November 2007 at 11h11, Bob Richards wrote: Hi, I compiled claws-mail 3.0.2 with make CFLAGS=$CFLAGS -static, but when I moved the executable to the older install and tried to execute it I get: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgailutil.so.18 not found, required by claws-mail What is the proper way to produce a statically compiled claws-mail? I don't know... I think the problem is that libgtk uses dlopen() to open modules, so you can't really statically link a GTK app... -- Colin == So, at least in the case of claws-mail, this does not appear to be possible. Unless someone here has something else to try? Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Producing a staticly-linked package from ports
I have Claws-mail installed on my workstation. It's compiled here from ports. I need to generate a statically-linked package, for installation on an older install of FreeBSD. (6.1 RELEASE, but running Xorg 6.9.0, I am running Xorg 7.3) Can this be done? If so, what's the general procedure. Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)
To be perfectly clear this isn't really receiving mail. Your configuring a system at dydns.org or some other mail forwarder to receive your mail for you then forward it on to your system using the alternative port. Not what I am doing. I only suggested that to the original poster who has an inbound port25 restriction. I receive all my important email directly. Frankly, unless you processing mail for a lot of people, there is no benefit to running your own mailserver, and you really ought to be using a client-server model for getting mail, as you are doing. The OP just hasn't realized this yet. There are very good reasons why one might want to receive mail directly. I live and work aboard a trawler, I do not always have the same ISP for connectivity. At the home dock, I have DSL, underway, I have a satellite link, close to shore while cruising, or anchored, I have Sprint some marinas offer 80211, etc My Important email, like weather/navigation alerts, family e-mail, work related email is delivered directly to the on-board server, which has a name.servebbs.org, and is kept DNS's properly via dyndns. All of my outbound email is smart-hosted to another ISP on port 587 Start TLS. This way, I do not have to have any special access to any particular ISP to get and send email, it shows up immediately, and I am notified. Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RELENG_6_1 to RELENG_6_2 upgrade question
I am currently running: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p20 #2 After reading the docs, it appears the procedure to upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 is the following: 1) Change: default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1 to tag=RELENG_6_2 in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/cvsupfile 2) run cvsup /usr/local/etc/cvsup/cvsupfile to get the new base and kernel sources 3) run portsnap fetch update to update the ports tree 4) go through the procedure outlined in: file:///usr/share/doc/handbook/makeworld.html This will leave me with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE at the latest patch level for that release yes? I do NOT need to portupgrade -a since this is a minor version upgrade right? TIA Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RELENG_6_1 to RELENG_6_2 upgrade question
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:28:44 + Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. You might prefer to wait a little while longer, and go straight to 6.3, which is on its way soon. Indeed. Thanks for the heads up. Guess I better subscribe to freebsd-announce! What sort of kick-started this was the fact that there is no longer a 6.1-release packages directory on the ftp servers. Most everything here is ports, so I didn't notice till I tried to test install something via packages and couldn't. I'll wait for 6.3 Thanks again Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:15:59 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think there's an easy way to set up the local Sendmail installation to *receive* email from the world without some sort of `static address' though. Actually there is an easy way, I do it here at my work station which is on a boat, and uses many different modes of connectivity. All of which are floating IPs. Get a domain name at dyndns. ANYTHING.servebbs.com/net/org. (it's free) You can also DNS any domain you own for about $29.00/Year, and simply MX your mail to your dynamic domain machine on a variety of alternative ports. Install ddclient on your machine; it will keep your IP updated at dyndns. Install an mta, like sendmail, and smart-host it to your ISP; or smart-host it to dyndns if your ISP can't/won't do it. I have been doing this for about 2 years now, and have had no problems at all. Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dealing with a failing drive
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:45:46 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... it's a rebadged Adaptec RAID controller using the aac Wonderful; I can now look into and play with the RAID system without taking the OS off-line and going to the bios. Thanks! Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dealing with a failing drive
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:45:46 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sysutils/aaccli aaccli-1.0 Adaptec SCSI RAID administration As I said in my previous post, this is EXACTLY what was wanted. Installation of aaccli was a snap. My only problem was the total lack of documentation; no man page, no info file Capturing the help screens within the CLI was useful, but pretty incomplete. I found an Adaptec doc, describing their cli-sata-scsi-iug program; http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/installation_guides/cli-sata-scsi-iug.pdf This seems to be exactly what aaccli is. Since I usually do this sort of work outside of X, at the console, I converted the adaptec pdf file into a text file using pdftotext. The ridiculous copyright restrictions on this file prevents me from producing a man page, or an info file for redistribution as part of the port! So; If anyone wants either the pdf file, or the converted text file, I would be glad to email same. Just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for either my /usr/local/share/cli/cli-sata-scsi-iug.pdf or for my /usr/local/share/cli/cli-sata-scsi-iug.txt. Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII \\ // Ribbon Campaign \V/ Against HTML /A\ eMail! // \\ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Upgrading X11 port
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:09:20 + Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:53:48AM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: The process described there should work for updating from 6.9 to 7.3 It works just fine. I recently upgraded from 6.9 to 7.3. The procedure outlined in UPDATING works. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dealing with a failing drive
Compaq uses several RAID cards most are under the so-called SmartArray using the ida driver. If this is yours, you can use a utility called idacontrol that can monitor the array, Interesting discussion! I have a similar issue, only it is with a Dell server which has 6 SCSI drives in a hardware raid array. The controller is a Dell PERC 2/Si. Is there an equivalent monitor utility for this as well? I am currently running: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p20 #2. TIA Bob signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Occasional System Lockups
Every couple of days, one of my Dell Work-Stations running freebsd 6.1 simply locks up. The box can be pinged only IE there are no services running, locked up screen/kbd/mouse. No caps-lock light action on kybd... On/OFF time. Actually OFF doesn't work either (It's a dell, with ACPI power switch) only hitting the reset button will revive things. Machine restarts OK, complains about improperly dismounted drives etc. There is no core file, and the last entries in messages just before the lockup always look like this: Aug 23 00:23:02 viola kernel: acd0: WARNING - PREVENT_ALLOW read data overrun 180 Aug 23 00:24:02 viola kernel: acd0: WARNING - PREVENT_ALLOW read data overrun 180 Aug 23 00:26:02 viola kernel: acd0: WARNING - READ_TOC read data overrun 1812 Aug 23 00:28:32 viola kernel: acd0: WARNING - PREVENT_ALLOW read data overrun 180 There was NO CD in the cdrom drive either, This has happened with the original GENERIC kernel, and also with the custom kernel I recently built for that hardware. dmesg output: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 22 03:55:24 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VIOLA Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (531.61-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 267051008 (254 MB) avail memory = 256045056 (244 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: DELL GX110 on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82810E (i810E GMCH) SVGA controller mem 0xf400-0xf7ff,0xff00-0xff07 irq 9 at device 1.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 xl0: 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL port 0xec80-0xecff mem 0xfdfffc00-0xfdfffc7f irq 7 at device 12.0 on pci1 miibus0: MII bus on xl0 xlphy0: 3c905C 10/100 internal PHY on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:4f:09:b1:23 isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel ICH UDMA66 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 uhci0: Intel 82801AA (ICH) USB controller port 0xff80-0xff9f irq 11 at device 31.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82801AA (ICH) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 31.3 (no driver attached) fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: ECP parallel printer port port 0x278-0x27f,0x678-0x67f irq 5 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc on isa0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 531611246 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad0: 9765MB Maxtor 51024U2 DA620CQ0 at ata0-master UDMA66 acd0: CDROM SAMSUNG SC-140B/d005 at ata1-master PIO4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a -- The kernel config file is: cat VIOLA | grep -v ^# machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident VIOLA options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption options INET# InterNETworking options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access
free?
WhenI was using Linux, I got used to running free; a quick nd dirty way to ascertain memory/swap usage. Is there an equivalent command in freebsd? Bob pgptirgi6Rys6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mount Point permissions
On Thursday 10 August 2006 00:50, Micah wrote: One possible workaround is to use msdosfs instead of ufs. Seems to work fine for my regular user account. But I agree that floppy support sucks. Try accidentally mounting a write-protected floppy as rw. You get a flood of errors that cannot be cleared without a reboot. Micah: If we are intent to ween people off Micro$h|t, we have to take care of the little things. It's hard to sell an alternative, when that alternative barfs on a simple thing like Floppy-Use. The big stuff is in place already; M$ cpmpatibilitynin WP, Spread-sheets, mail... etc. is already far better than M$. It is the small crap, liike Floppy drive use, which makes the conversion a problem! The open-source community have to get their act together, and realize that main-stream users will gladly switch to FreeBsd/Linux when and ONLY when all the basics are working. For a geek, these problems are trivial; for a WindowZ idiot, these thjings are what kills a sale, and maintains Wind0WZ dominance in user-space. Bob pgpeCKO0kLCE8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mount Point permissions
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 17:44, you wrote: The root directory of the filesystem mounted determines the ownership and access rights on it. By default, newfs will assign is to root and set the rights to 0755. You'll need to chown the directory to the desired user. Stefan: Yeah I noticed that. If I become root, and chown the mounted floppy to bob:bob, then on all subsequent mounts of that particular media bob has write access; but ONLY after root intervention. What this means however, is that I can NOT set up a work-station where the user has no root access, and expect that user to effectively use the floppy drive. What a pain! The user can format, mount, and read; but until the media is choned to her/him, by root, they can't write. I didn't have this problem with Linux. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount Point permissions
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:23, you wrote: What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers, I went so far as chown bob:bob /dev/fd0 But after newfs get's through with the new floppy, it's chowned to root. add a group floppyusers to /etc/group and make bob a member of that group. Chmod 664 /dev/fd0 Went down that road as well; created a group called mounters, added bob to it no good! I even copied newfs to /home/bob/bin, put home/bob/bin first in the PATH, made that newfs setuid/setgid bob no effect :-( Root wants to own the newly created file system no matter who formatted or created it. Unfortunately I don't have any machines with floppy drives to test with. I personally don't have a need for floppy drives either; but I am setting up a dozen W/S to replace WINDOWZ in an office environment, and people expect to be able to use their floppies (especially with the GUI tools in KDE 3.5). I am hoping to use freebsd instead of Linux; which has become hard to maintain in long-term use because of things like libraries changing so often. The lack of Library-Hell in freebsd is refreshing. I guess floppy-hell is better than Library-hell :-) Floppy support is pretty bad on freebsd! I made the mistake of ejecting a mounted floppy yesterday; total system lock-up! I mean it was power off/on time! Not good! Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mount Point permissions
Hi All: This is week 3 on a new freebsd 6.1 install. I LOVE it! I am having a silly problem using my floppy drive. I can successfully fdformat a new floppy, I can newfs it, I can mount it OK what I can not do is write to it! My fstab line is: /dev/fd0 /usr/home/bob/floppy ufs rw,noauto,user 0 0 After a format, lable, and newfs, I can: mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /home/bob/floppy ok. The permissions on mount-point /home/bob/floppy are 770 with bob:bob After the mount operation I see: ls -al floppy drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Aug 7 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 60 bob bob 4096 Aug 7 11:03 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Aug 7 11:22 .snap And of course, bob can only read, but not write. $ touch floppy/test touch: floppy/test: Permission denied How can I correct the post-mount permissions? TIA Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
