Re: Long Uptime
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Bob Bomar wrote: I have a machine that is about to turn 700 days uptime, and I have no plans on rebooting it any time soon. I just wanted to see if there was any infomation from the machine that anybody wanted. Its IP address would be a good start :-) Two years of patches not applied, eh? -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!
You know, for some odd reason the word troll springs to mind... -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please respond in 24 hrs (ref # 624 633 394)
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Benjamin Rossen wrote: To never hear from us again just1ce.com/gone.asp Hey! Is that possible? Spamming on the list! What can be done? It's an open list i.e. you don't have to be a subscriber, and is therefore a spammer's wet dream. There seem to be some anti-spam measures in place, but plainly not enough. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Anthony Atkielski at Wanadoo.FR wrote: [ Not a lot ] Wanadoo.FR - says it all, really. No sane sysadmin accepts mail from that spam-house. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to deal with spam for good?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. Which, of course, will do nothing to stop spam, but only forgeries. This issue has been dealt with many times upon the anti-spam lists. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Luciano Musacchio wrote: I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), It does, and I report it (but not the mailing list itself). -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Renaming root account
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: In my opinion, absolutely none at all. People should never change the default shell of root from /bin/csh and toor is just a hack to please those who are too bored to type: % exec bash I'm not sure what's worse: using anything other than /bin/sh for root's shell, or using /bin/csh for *anything*. Yes, I know it's not the fundamentally broken original CSH, but I still get the willies whenever I see it. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: Just another dirty spammer trick... The timing on this was nothing less than eerie because less than an hour before that post came over, I'd been sitting on their site reading up on FAQ's, forum problem posts etc with a view to installing the 'app. On their homepage *was* a notice that they had just come back online after having changed provider. As you so presciently said, upon reading the post, my reaction *was* indeed; wt? eh?. However, the guys that wrote the app seem like eminently reasonable sober sensible people, this just didn't sound like their style. Thanks for the explanation! Of course, there is a chance that it was genuine, but the odds are against it. If you checked the IP address of the sender i.e. when it it the mailing list server and looked it up in www.openrbl.org you'll probably find it's an open proxy. I no longer have the post, so I can't tell. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: This is what's known as a joe job. Now, who has an interest in discrediting php-fusion? eh? Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad? for the benefit of us uninitiated folks... inquiring minds etc. A joe job is a forgery designed to implicate an innocent site (or person), to get them shut down, etc, The original was in the name of [EMAIL PROTECTED] dot com (or similar) by an annoyed client, hence the name. It's characterised by being so over the top that it can't possibly be true, usually urging recipients to spam other people (as this one does), and invariably supplying personal details of the alleged sender. If your initial reaction is What? That can't be true! then you're probably right, but all the same it manages to enrage enough people to make life uncomfortable for the victim. Just another dirty spammer trick... -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: Note: The paypal payment still stands, please provide us with proof you have forwarded the email to 250 people and include your paypal email address where we can send the money!!! What you're suggesting is spammy. I don't doubt your good intentions, I don't doubt that php-fusion is decent software (I know it is) but *think* about what you suggested. This is what's known as a joe job. Now, who has an interest in discrediting php-fusion? -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd vs. linux
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Loren M. Lang wrote: What do you do with ham radio on freebsd? I haven't looked into it much, but it seems that there isn't nearly as many programs/device drivers for freebsd as linux has. I like how debian actually has a ham radio section for it. I'd like to try out some of the digital radio stuff like AX.25 Lots of stuff - satellite tracking, APRS, etc. There's a mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - devoted to this. They're trying to get a separate ports area, instead of just comms. -- Dave (vk2kfu) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Logo Contest
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I agree. I even would bring back the issue of a separate freebsd.com website presenting the business case of FreeBSD while freebsd.org is perfect as it is now for people looking for technical information about how to use the system. That is what sendmail did and I think it works very well. dave:~ [72]% whois freebsd.com Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: FREEBSD.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server: FINKPLOYD.NRG4U.COM Name Server: SNATCH.Z0RG.ORG Name Server: C00L3R.NETWORX.CH Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK Updated Date: 03-jan-2005 Creation Date: 22-mar-1998 Expiration Date: 21-mar-2008 -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, markzero wrote: These switches should technically not be able to work without a power supply but evidently they work just fine. I don't question the arrangement, I just observe it from across the room. We get along fine. Many KVMs draw power from the mouse/keyboard ports. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JDK1.4.2 and Opera
On Mon, 30 Jan 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: Undefined symbol __cxa_atexit and it promptly exits (no core dump). This used to work pre-JDK... As I don't do Java, where did I go wrong? In the meantime, I've disabled Java within Opera as a work-around. did you try deinstall/reinstall Opera? If that's too heavy-handed, you can just extract the install patch from the port and run that, but reinstalling the whole port is probably less effort in the end (Opera is a *very* quick and easy port to install). Made no difference... I also updated compat4x due to a message that I'd missed earlier. I don't need the Java functionality, so I've left it disabled. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JDK1.4.2 and Opera
Opera 7.54 from ports, FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE After have gone through the traumatic experience of installing JDK 142 (to get OpenOffice using it), I find it's broken Opera. When selecting a page that uses Java, I get: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: Undefined symbol __cxa_atexit and it promptly exits (no core dump). This used to work pre-JDK... As I don't do Java, where did I go wrong? In the meantime, I've disabled Java within Opera as a work-around. No need to reply to me personally, as I'm on the list. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: image on website
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote: Someone else has answered your specific question, but I can't help but wondering how an image of Beastie (BSD) swinging a large rubber mallet fits in your project on menstrual cycles, fertility and contraception. My guesses might be a bit far afield. Of course, you might have to be female to understand... -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: BSD
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, DanGer wrote: No. It means Berkeley Software Distribution. but what about: **BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ? taken from www.bsd.org That would be BSDI, a commercial venture who (until they were done over by WinDriver) gave us BSD/OS. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 Install
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: [RHETORICAL_MODE=ON] Where, I wonder, are all these folks suddenly coming from? [SUPREME_IRONY_MODE=ON] Well anyway, it's nice to know I'm a grizzled old graybeard unix admin. I'll bet my beard's greyer than yours! Edition 5, on a PDP-11/40, in 1975. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 Install
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Chris wrote: Rarely have I found such an amateurish installation procedure. *Stuff cut due - idiot has no clue what word wrap is etc.* Where are we getting these 'tards from as of late. Hmm, could be just the one that keeps plastering essance of the same post. Either that, or they've figured out how to breed... -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Christian Hiris wrote: I think the official FreeBSD download page is http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/ All the packages I have seen there are ver. 1.1.3. for various FreeBSD branches including 5.3. Yes!!! I knew I got it from somewhere when I was on 4.7, but for the life of me I couldn't find it. Thanks. -- Dave, a happy OOo camper again ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice (even though this is not listed as a dependency). It is, actually. You only need linprocfs in order to build jdk14, because bootstrapping a java compiler requires a java compiler (i.e. we use a linux binary jdk). If you already had jdk14 installed before you tried to build OO, you wouldn't need to compile another jdk. Ah, that explains it! Thanks. Just like GCC in a way, except GCC doesn't need GCC (last time I built it from scratch) but you *do* have to compile it with itself again. I may as well have another go in that case, although OOo works without it. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: 4.10 *is* supported, and 5.3 works as advertised - what the hell is your *problem* exactly??? _ /| /| | | | ||__|| | |Please do not| / O O\__ | feed the | / \ | Trolls | / \ \|_| / _\ \ || /|\\ \ || / | | | |\/ || / \|_|_|/ | _|| / / \|| || / | | | --| | | | | --| * _| |_|_|_| | \-/ *-- _--\ _ \ | || / _ \\|/ ` * / \_ /- | | | * ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modem not responding to mgetty
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Timothy Luoma wrote: Oh well, I'll have to see if the local WalMart (our closest thing we have to an electronics store) has an external, non-USB modem. This outta be good. You're saying that USB modems are not good? Are they winmodems too? I'm looking for a fax-modem for a lap-top, and I don't fancy the idea of an external modem (via a USB-serial cable) because of the need for a power supply as well. I do have a Cardbus slot, though... -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: Ah. So the troll didn't really expect *anybody* reasonably to have provided support. It just wanted something to bitch about on this list. It should go back to the bit bucket it came from. Procmail is your friend. Something like: # # Well-known AOL troll on FreeBSD. # :0: * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null (Quoted from memory. Usual disclaimers. Worth precisely what you paid for it. Contents may settle during delivery. May contain sharp objects or traces of peanuts. Etc.) -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: You need to instead block Tm[0-9]+ because he likes to change his address every few weeks [1]. Ah, thanks; filter updated accordingly :-) [1] Perhaps the counter reflects the number of times his AOL account has been deleted. Indeed, PS: cable.rogers.com filter now removed; they had a *bad* spamming problem a while back, but now the infected boxes are now more-or-less permanently listed in the various DNSBLs. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that challence is interesting in itself, it's probably more convenient to download and install a binary package from somewhere in the general direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html Maybe it's just me, but I can't actually see a package for 1.1.4 there. unless those Japanese versions will work in Australia (and I don't read JP)... Running 5.3-STABLE/i386 here. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I can't actually see a package for 1.1.4 there. unless those Japanese versions will work in Australia (and I don't read JP)... OOPS. Looks like I did not look too closely. It certainly looks like they haven't gotten around to making FreeBSD 1.1.4 packages yet. Then again, I'm not sure what got fixed between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4. I doubt whether it's even as up to date as that. From the site: | Downloading FreeBSD packages: | | OOo 1.1.3 for 4.10 and 1.1.2 for 5.2.1-RELEASE | | sourceforge.jp site (some volatile developer versions and old packages are available) | | FreeBSD Porting status: | current target platforms are FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386, and 4.10-RELEASE/i386 | | OpenOffice.org ver. 1.1.3 | 9 patches should be investigated; actively maintained | | OpenOffice.org ver. 1.1.4 (SRX645_m49) | 8 patches should be investigated; actively maintained The latter, SRX645_m49, was the one I checked, and although it *may* offer a non-JP download version, the page is in Japanese. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops do we have to jump through? ===Verifying install for /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin/javac in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14 === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.06_1 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586.bin) from http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_06-oth-JPRSiteId=JSCTransactionId=noreg, place it in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again. *** Error code 1 -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Matthew Seaman wrote: The OpenOffice port really is a bit of a monster: non-gurus are strongly advised to install OpenOffice via packages. Well, I wouldn't call myself a non-guru (I've been dealing with Unix since Edition 5 back in 1975) but this one definitely has me beaten... -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said system, but did not get bootable CDs either way. I also tried mounting the Windows partition onto /mnt under 5.2.1 and using the burncd command to burn the first file onto a CD-RW and, later, the second file onto a CD-RW. Neither attempt gave me a bootable CD. What, exactly, was your burncd command? Using 4.10 to create 5.3 CDs, this just worked, using write-once CDs: burncd -f /dev/acd0c data /var/tmp/cd.iso fixate -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path correctly:-): mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt [...] Try copying the file to a local BSD file-system; the NTFS semantics could be getting in the way. Also try write-once media, if you can, as I've occasionally had difficulties with rewriteable media. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote: Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 broke the driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think this could be related to my specific hardware? Could be; grab the latest Xorg from CVS, as a fix to the 810 driver (6.8.1_1) was committed yesterday. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Adam Fabian wrote: I upgraded from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1 and also got obscure (but different) error messages. The 5.3 packages on FreeBSD's FTP servers are 6.7.0. After looking a bit and not really finding a solution to my problem, I just downloaded the binary packages and downgraded back to 6.7.0. (This is probably a lot easier than compiling, since you'd probably have to use portdowngrade on a lot of ports, or do it manually, or some such.) Apparently this is a known issue with 6.8.1 and the i810 driver; see Problem Report ports/75425 for more info (and to contribute further info). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/75425 -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?
On Thu, 29 Dec 2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote: It kind of depends on your X configuration, I would think. Were you using DRI or not? If so, did you rebuild it? Were you using third-party drivers (e.g., NVidia)? DRI is not supported (the reason for one of the errors) because hardware cursors aren't supported (the reason for the other error). Disabling both still gives me a SIGSEGV, with a useless coredump (stack frames corrupted). And I was using whatever native drivers were present. I got a private reply saying there are issues with this version and my hardware, so I'll take it to the freebsd-x11 list as he suggested. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to monitor processor temperature from command line?
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Eric F Crist wrote: How can I monitor my processor temperature from the command line? I'm looking at possibly writing a script that will allow me to average the CPU temps and report them as part of the periodic/daily report. /usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon/pkg-descr: This is an X/tty motherboard monitor which supports LM78/79, WINBond 83781D/83782D/83783S, ASUS 991227F, and VIA VT82C686A/B PC-health chips via 3 methods: ISA-I/O, SMBus, VIA-direct. Run mbmon -h or xmbmon -help to see the usage. ***CAUTION*** These programs access to the SMBus or the ISA-IO port directly under the superuser privilege, so it may cause a system crash. Please test mbmon -d or xmbmon -debug first. WWW: http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/download.html -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?
Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a portupgrade. Now, it's unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the other straight away (I know, a big mistake). Anyway, after what seemed like an eternity (and probably maxing out my ADSL link in the process) everything finished, and I fired up X (X.org, which I had originally, so no issues with XFree86 etc as mentioned in UPDATING). Obscure error messages: (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate HW (ARGB) cursor space. (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting This used to work, so what broke? I can't even run xorgcfg either, for the same reason! I note that Xorg went from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1, and I poked around wiki.x.org hoping to get release notes etc, to no avail - the links are broken. It also offered the advice of running xorgcfg (see above), or sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which turned out to be a mailing list to which one has to subscribe). Under the Known issues after updating page, it says to be found and written down... (I kid you not). What do I do now? Reinstall FreeBSD? Install XFree86 instead? Somehow downgrade to 6.7.0 until wiki.x.org gets its act together? Do I need some hitherto-unneeded kernel options? -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB floppy: Synchronize cache failed
FreeBSD 5.3, Imation USB floppy drive (a rebadged Mitsumi). Works OK, but the probe messages are annoying (and fill my log): Dec 26 22:23:05 stinky kernel: umass0: MITSUMI MITSUMI USB FDD, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3 Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: da0: MITSUMI USB FDD 1050 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: da0: 1MB (2880 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 1C) Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: umass0: Unsupported UFI command 0x35 Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: umass0: Unsupported UFI command 0x35 Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: umass0: Unsupported UFI command 0x35 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: umass0: Unsupported UFI command 0x35 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: umass0: Unsupported UFI command 0x35 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: umass0: Unsupported UFI command 0x35 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: umass0: Unsupported UFI command 0x35 Dec 26 22:23:08 stinky kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 And that was just *one* insertion. On 4.10 it's quiet (and works). Any way that I can shut it up? I see this has been raised in the past, but I didn't see any resolutions. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Create device
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Chris Hill wrote: MAKEDEV doesn't exist on 5.x, so if you're running 5.x that might also explain it not working. That's because on 5.x you don't need it; devices live in their own special filesystem, and are created on the fly: stinky% df /dev Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on devfs 11 0 100%/dev -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Murray Taylor wrote: IBM Think pads seem to go ok -- 4.8, 4.9, 4.10 I've had better luck with 5.3 on my R31 - it recognises ACPI and the 32-bit CardBus slot, amongst others. Witl laptops you really want the latest, to support their weird hardware. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
This was going to be a long story, involving why I'm having trouble getting both USB-serial cables and PC-cards to work on this thing, but eventually after Googling around and sorting out the wheat from the chaff it boils down to this: IBM R31 Thinkpad 2656KAM. PC-card slot doesn't work, yet seems to generate spurious interrupts whenever an Ethernet packet is received, saying card inserted then suddenly not there (yes, it *does* coincide with network activity). Said slot seems to be a Cardbus thing (whatever that is, as I don't do Windoze), which I gather is supported in 5.3 but not 4.10? Delving into the BIOS (ugh), it says that PCI1 and PCI2 are on IRQ10, and PCI[34] are on IRQ11 (note that knowledge of Intel's excuse for an architecture is not my strong point). The output of GENERIC's dmesg follows. So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3? - Copyright (c) 1992-2004 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 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1200MHz (1199.87-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6b4 Stepping = 4 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 125632512 (122688K bytes) config di bt0 config di aic0 config di aha0 config di adv0 config q avail memory = 116789248 (114052K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel kernel.GENERIC at 0xc0551000. Preloaded userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf at 0xc05510a4. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk pcibios: No call entry point npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: Host to PCI bridge on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82830M (830M GMCH) SVGA controller mem 0x9010-0x9017,0x9800-0x9fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: detected 8060k stolen memory agp0: aperture size is 128M pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x3577) at 2.1 uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port 0xa4a0-0xa4bf irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 usb0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A 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 uhci1: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B port 0xa4e0-0xa4ff irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 usb1: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ums0: vendor 0x04fc USB Wheel Mouse, rev 1.10/1.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. uhci2: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 usb2: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pcib1: PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=2448) at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 fxp0: Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) Pro/100 VE Ethernet port 0x7000-0x703f mem 0x8010-0x80100fff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci1 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:00:e2:8a:50:c7 inphy0: i82562ET 10/100 media interface on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pcic0: TI PCI-1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci1 pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x8800 pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [speaker enable][pwr save][CSC serial isa irq] pccard0: PC Card 16-bit bus (classic) on pcic0 isab0: PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=8086 device=248c) at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel ICH3 ATA100 controller port 0xa890-0xa89f,0xa878-0xa87b,0xa860-0xa867,0xa848-0xa84b,0xa830-0xa837 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2483) at 31.3 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2485) at 31.5 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2486) at 31.6 irq 11 pmtimer0 on isa0 fdc0: ready for input in output fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Uwe Laverenz wrote: You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is quite necessary on a notebook. I downloaded the 5.3 mini-install ISO and tried it out, and yes, it finds a lot more things. ACPI is recognised, an unknown card on PCI0 turned out to be the video chip (!), and a lot more (CardBus, power switch (?), lid switch (?)) etc. So, 5.3 is the way to go. Thanks! -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, David Gerard wrote: Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop? Sound is not one of my priorities (as long as the speakers go beep), but a working PC-card slot (so I can lose the umbilical cord in favour of a WiFi connection back to my server) and USB-serial cables (so I can use a real modem, along with GPS receivers etc) are. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice - Java problems
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Tabor Kelly wrote: How I got Openoffice 1.1.3 to compile on my laptop: portinstall java/jdk14 portinstall openoffice note: 'portinstall java/jdk14' installs the natively compiled FreeBSD version of Java, and as a dependency (for the build only) installs the linux JDK. Many thanks - I'll give that a go tonight (too many late nights lately). I knew I got it to work in the past, but couldn't remember how. PS- Yes, this does mean the port is broken. I was starting to suspect that :-( -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice - Java problems
I'm trying to compile OpenOffice 1.1 for FreeBSD 4.10 (may as well exercise the lap-top). After grabbing all the Linuxy bits for Java JDK14, I now find it wants a Solaris library under /compat/svr4/lib (libc.so.2 or similar), and this is found only on a Solaris/86 CD, which of course not being a licensee I don't have. So, I give up and install the package instead, but the installation window says it can't find a Java Runtime Environment, and would I like to run without one? Sure, I metaphorically say, only to have it say that some functionality will be lost - OK? - and drops me back to the choice box again. Catch-22. I have got an earlier version to install (from the package), but I have no idea how it handled the Java stuff, so has anyone managed to compile/install OpenOffice on FreeBSD 4.10 (no updates)? [No need to Cc me; I'm on the list] -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Designed for FreeBSD stickers
Whilst upgrading another laptop to FreeBSD, a thought occurred to me: is there a source of Designed for FreeBSD stickers (with Beastie logo) that can be used to replace the Designed for M*cr*s*ft W*nd*ws XP ones? PS: No need to Cc: me, as I'm on the list. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Meanwhile, back in the real world, we like to be able to help our users by letting them easily post questions. And nothing's stopping them from doing so. In which real world are you? By trimming everything away and replying to just one sentence of the reply Kris gave, there simply isn't enough context to see what his post was about. Please keep as much of the original post as necessary when replying :-) I did; one can look up previous posts. And after a screenful of your post, in turn quoting someone else, I'm afraid that I stopped reading after that... -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in ls and mkdir
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: Isn't linux_base based on RedHat? There are ls and mkdir binaries in /usr/compat/linux/bin, I suppose those could be affected by this. Over on Full-Disclosure they reckon it's a trojan, as it's unsigned and not in the usual format for such announcements. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I think we all agree that you wouldn't let a windows tech touch your unix-like box, but you'd have no problem having a unix tech install a windows application. 'nuf said. Does this make you think at all? .:\:/:. +---+ .:\:\:/:/:. | PLEASE DO NOT |:.:\:\:/:/:.: | FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=: | | '=(\ 9 9 /)=' | Thank you, | ( (_) ) | Management | /`-vvv-'\ +---+ / \ | |@@@ / /|,|\ \ | |@@@ /_// /^\ \\_\ @x@@x@| | |/ WW( ( ) )WW \/| |\| __\,,\ /,,/__ \||/ | | | jgs (__Y__) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: [ Do Not Feed The Trolls ] \||/ | | | jgs (__Y__) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Nice artwork. I think I will appropriate it just for fun. I hope it is under the BSD copyright/license. It's been around for at least 15 years, if not more; first seen on Usenet (back when it was a useful resource). You probably ought to preserve the (presumably) author's initials, jgs, in the spirit of the BSD licence :-) -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private email addresses
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Rob wrote: I think spamfilters are doing already a good job here; spam that makes it through to the lists, seems to be fairly small. In addition, I believe it's the policy of the list maintainers, to keep the thresshold as low as possible for participation in the QA. You can avoid subscription by following the newsgroup instead (e.g. on gmane). So it's already filtered? OK, I guess I'll stay :-) However, there's a more serious problem: all emails to the FreeBSD lists are propagated to public newsgroups and archives with the original (private) email addresses unmodified. Since the newsgroups and archives are public, it's a great source of email addresses for spammers. That is indeed a *huge* problem, and should be addressed. Especially innocent people, who just want to ask a question, will suffer, since they may realize too late (if not even never realizing at all!) that the lists are actually advertising their private email addresses on the public newsgroups and archives. And these are the ones who will tell their friends: I tried FreeBSD, and since then I've got all this spam! Not good for the cause. And in case anyone's wondering, I block by source, not by content. It would be much better if propagation to the newsgroups and archives would scramble the private email addresses, to make such lists unusable for collectors of email addresses for sending spam. Trivial to do; just replace @ with something that a machine cannot easily parse. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: Meanwhile, back in the real world, we like to be able to help our users by letting them easily post questions. And nothing's stopping them from doing so. In which real world are you? -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Dave Horsfall wrote: [ Anyone can post to -questions ] Gawd; I hope it's moderated in that case... And several spams later, received via this very list... So, is this list a spam-magnet i.e any spammer can post to it without fear? If so, not only have you just lost me as a potential contributor, but it's going to get listed as such. There is *no* excuse for running an open mailing list any more. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: [ Re-sent; I forgot I wasn't on the list ] No need to resend: non members are allowed to post to freebsd-questions@ Gawd; I hope it's moderated in that case... Anyway, I believe in joining a list if I'm going to want to use it. [ FreeBSD/Solaris differences in use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ldconfig ] See libmap.conf(5) for what is probably the answer to your problem. If you fiddle the ABI version number on your regressed OpenSSL shlib, you can use libmap.cong(5) to force whatever applications you're interested in to link against it. Note that playing with shlib mappings like this is fraught with pitfalls and likely to result in premature hair loss, so proceed carefully. Many thanks! Although I still have lots of hair, my beard is greying by the moment. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
