Re: portsclean -L question
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 04:41:55 am Ghirai wrote: After upgrading couple ports, i get this output with portsclean (sorry for the big paste): ghirai# portsclean -L ** /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 is shadowed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 - libiconv-1.11_1 /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 - libiconv-1.11_1 -- Two packages install the same library in different directories! This looks like an incomplete transition from X11R6 to X!!R7... Any ideas how to fix this? Please read the /usr/ports/UPDATING entry for 20070519. David -- You can't prove it won't happen. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsclean -L question
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 07:28:26 am Ghirai wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:13:51 -0500 David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2008 04:41:55 am Ghirai wrote: After upgrading couple ports, i get this output with portsclean (sorry for the big paste): ghirai# portsclean -L ** /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 is shadowed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 - libiconv-1.11_1 /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 - libiconv-1.11_1 -- Two packages install the same library in different directories! This looks like an incomplete transition from X11R6 to X!!R7... Any ideas how to fix this? Please read the /usr/ports/UPDATING entry for 20070519. Well the thing is Xorg was never installed on this box :/ Can i just nuke /usr/X11R6 and symlink to /usr/ocal ? Maybe... but it's not something I'd personally risk. As I recall there was a lot of frustration for folks who didn't follow the UPDATING procedure verbatim. David -- This message is made from meat by-products. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unwanted text before shell prompt
On Monday 23 June 2008 11:42:56 am Noah wrote: Hi there, I just upgraded my FreeBSD box and now I am find that the is an almost blank line above my shell prompt that contains a % (without the quotes) about 20 columns in. What would be the places that this line could be defined? You appear to be using a c-shell (tcsh most likely). Check the prompt setting in ~/.cshrc. David -- This message beats a hard kick in the face. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Request for a package or port...
On Saturday 12 January 2008 12:40:02 am rpj911 wrote: Hello, I've been using Linux for a few years and just switched to DesktopBSD, very nice. If it's not too much trouble, could you guys port or create a package for the Mnemosyne Project. It's a flashcard program... Thanks. Bob Cincinnati, Ohio I just checked it out. Being a python program mnemosyne installs and runs just fine without any porting really needed. Just extract the tar.gz file from sourceforge.net into something like /usr/ports/local and follow the instructions included in the README. You should be able to install all the dependencies listed there from ports. David -- This message is LOADING... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portsnap -- update claims up to date but it's not.
On Tuesday 25 December 2007 10:49:56 pm Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Maybe I'm just doing this completely wrong: prime# portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. prime# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Mon Nov 12 18:16:16 EST 2007 to Tue Dec 25 21:36:54 EST 2007. Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 4 metadata files... [and so on] Am I using this thing wrong? Try 'portsnap fetch update' David -- This message is not a substitute for human interaction. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD
On Monday 24 December 2007 07:59:00 pm Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 23 Dec 2007 19:12, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I'm switching to UTF-8, and everything seems to work flawlessly, except for Opera. If I type one of the norwegian letters ��� into a text input box all I get is a square box. If I type backspace over it, it gets converted to a questionmark on the first stroke of backspace, and deleted on the second. If I copy the square box into another program, the propper letter is paced. The problem is that the font you're using doesn't support the character(s) you want to type. You'll have to change the font in the opera preferences dialog, I think the bitstream family supports most UTF-8 fonts. This site may be useful in testing: http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/ The DejaVu font set is based on BitstreamVera and supports an even wider range of Unicode characters. /usr/ports/x11-fonts/dejavu David -- This message is a stern warning of things to come. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No audio whatever....
On Monday 17 December 2007 03:46:22 pm Jonathan Horne wrote: speaking of catting ive had to on more than one occasion, make sure that my cat didnt bite thru my audio wire. Heh.. thanks for the tip. That explains why I lost all audio on the right channel. Sure enough, kitten-sized teeth-marks and a severed wire. David -- This message is not based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Absolute FreeBSD
On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:36:35 pm Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If you bought and grokked the first book and have been using FreeBSD ever since, do you really need a book of any kind at this point? Don't you have enough experience under your belt to get by without a book? The operating system books - be it FreeBSD, Linux or Windows, serve an important function of helping people go from zero to 60 in getting up and going with their operating system of choice. But eventually you are going to outgrow them. There are always lots more people at 0 so the authors of these books will never starve, but you need to eventually strike out on your own. Well, to an extent, yes. My copy of The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide came with discs for FreeBSD 4.2. I read it cover to cover at the time and found it very helpful. But now, even when it is largely obsolete, I still find myself referencing it from time to time. Though I'll admit, it resides on a shelf in the smallest room in the house, where it primarily serves as impromptu light reading material. ;) David -- This message has been foretold by Nostradamus. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 08:30:09 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Best regards, Ishihara If the ECCN for the computer hardware won't suffice, then use NLR in block 27 of the Shipper's Export Declaration, and use EAR99 in block 28. David -- When you see the robot, drink! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: K3b
On Sunday 25 November 2007 05:37:46 pm ajtiM wrote: Hi! I am new with FreeBSD. I installed one day ago 7.0 beta3 and I try to learn and setup the system. When I start K3b (KDE) I got a message: No CD/DVD writer found. K3b did not find an optical writing device in your system. Thus, you will not be able to burn CDs or DVDs. However, you can still use other K3b features like audio track extraction or audio transcoding or ISO9660 image creation. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b make showinfo David -- This message is larva-tested, pupa-approved. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unimpressive buildworld time
On Thursday 15 November 2007 11:42:21 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:45:07 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Impressive ;-) My main machine (with an Athlon XP @ 2GHz) takes ~2 hours to build kernel and world (I use a script to do that). My other box is running -CURRENT and takes ~11 hours to build kernel and world (Celeron 500...). Just to supply some numbers that go the other direction :-) With no -j and running gnome and doing other things in the foreground (watching a avi) 1 hr 3 mins on a e6850 w/ 4 gig (amd64) p4 540 3.2GHz, 1GB ram: -- World build completed on Thu Nov 15 19:15:05 CST 2007 -- real63m8.635s user102m44.096s sys 10m44.889s [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# heh, i have appropriately renamed the thread. :) with -j 8 cheers, My Pentium-D 3G DualCore w/2G memory and a pretty vanilla SATA drive does buildworld and 3 different kernels in 68 minutes wall time building 6.3-PRE (aka -STABLE) using -j20. SMP kernels on STABLE (6.x) are going to perform worse than SMP kernels on CURRENT (7-RELENG / 8-CURRENT), depending on the scheduler used (4BSD vs ULE scheduler), as well as a variety of other factors. Remember... performance not only depends upon clock speed or the number of cores you have, but also what caching/prefetching scheme FreeBSD uses (not sure if it's fetches large amounts infrequently or small amounts frequently), how much memory is available to make and its spawned processes (gcc, awk, etc), as well as the number of processes active on the machine, and host usage (high disk usage, high memory usage, etc). After reading through the thread, I noticed that people are making comparing apples to oranges, as... Some people are taking this thread *WAY TOO SERIOUS* as far I can tell it is meant as a light hearted lets post funny numbers thread. And here I was thinking it was a 'my machine can beat up your machine' thread. ;) David -- Controlling you through microchips since 1999. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: python25 core dumps
On Thursday 15 November 2007 03:07:03 am Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: This seems like a problem in qt4 (I don't think the problem is in PyQt), simply try reinstalling that, too (completely; qt4 is split into several ports and pkg_info | grep qt4 is your friend here). A complete rebuild of qt4-* did not solve the problem, however, a complete rebuild of py25-qt4* solved everything. (Except the Gtk problems, naturally) Apparently there was something in the pre-built packages that didn't agree with my machine. I'm hoping that a rebuild of all dependencies for gramps will solve the problems there as well. David -- If this message was not entertaining, write your congressman. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?
On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote: I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to add in the FStype column to get my DCD/CDROM burners to work. Ubuntu installed ny 2005 burner automagically. Nothing like that for FreeBSD, so can anybody clue me in what I substitute for udf and cd9660? This is the old and current fstable: # DVD drive (top) /dev/acd0 /media/cdroms/0 udf ro,noauto 0 0 # CD-burner (bottom) /dev/acd1 /media/cdroms/1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 cd9660 is what you need. for the burner at least though, you'll want to make it rw rather than ro. This chapter of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html and the one that follows are worth a careful reading. David -- Please turn off all cellphones and tricorders. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?
On Friday 16 November 2007 10:50:33 pm you wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:24:30PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, David J Brooks wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote: I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to add in the FStype column to get my DCD/CDROM burners to work. Ubuntu installed ny 2005 burner automagically. Nothing like that for FreeBSD, so can anybody clue me in what I substitute for udf and cd9660? This is the old and current fstable: # DVD drive (top) /dev/acd0 /media/cdroms/0 udf ro,noauto 0 0 # CD-burner (bottom) /dev/acd1 /media/cdroms/1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 cd9660 is what you need. for the burner at least though, you'll want to make it rw rather than ro. Good point! Although my CD burner burns CDs just fine with either cdrecord or burncd, even with ro in its fstab line. This chapter of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.h tml and the one that follows are worth a careful reading. I think I have this page bookmarked; can't find it. I'll try rw and ro. Can either you or David explain why I get a popup error: Can't mount volume. [?] When I clicked on the Details, it says: mount_cd9660: /dev/acd1: Operation not permitted I click on System (upper left) - Preferences - Removable Drives and Media Prederences and select every peermissions box. Nothing. (I'm using a data disk, not audio.) Ideas? This page of info from K3B may shed some light on the problem for you: Notes for FreeBSD 5.x and onwards users: 1. The FreeBSD k3b port supports SCSI drives only. If you have IDE CD or DVD drives, use them through the cam system. See Chapter 12.5.9 of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#ATAPICAM) 2. Your CD and DVD drives must have a mount point in /etc/fstab. They have to be accessed through their atapicam device if possible. I.e. the drives have to be adressed by e.g. /dev/cd0 instead of /dev/acd0. 3. k3b has to be started from a root console, which is not recommended. Alternatively do ALL of the following: 3a. set the suid flag on cdrecord and cdrdao. The 'Notes' chapter of 'man cdrecord' discusses this. 3b. - For every user who should be able to use k3b and for every CD or DVD device add a directory in the users home directory. These directories must be owned by the corresponding user. For each such directory add a line in /etc/fstab (see remark 2), like: /dev/cd0c /usr/home/XXX/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,nodev,nosuid 0 0 Furthermore allow user mounts as described in topic 9.22 of the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT To make the chmod's to /dev/cdX permanent, do the following: * add 'devd_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf * add a 'perm cdX 666' to /etc/devfs.conf for each cd/dvd device. X is the device number. If you prefer allow access for a group only, add a 'perm cdX 660' instead, followed by an 'own cdX root:XXX' where XXX is the group name. Alternatively (especially if you are using hot plug capable CD or DVD drives) you could add an 'add path 'cd*' mode 666' or an 'add path 'cd*' mode 660 group XXX' to your /etc/devfs.rules under '[system=10]'. To enable it, add a 'devfs_system_ruleset=system' to your /etc/rc.conf. - or just give mount and umount the suid flag, which is a security leak. 3c. Every user who should be able to use k3b must have read and write access to all pass through devices connected with CD and DVD drives and to the /dev/xpt0 device. Run 'camcontrol devlist' to identify those devices (seek string 'passX' at the end of each line and modify the rights of /dev/passX). Note, that this is a security leak as well but that there is no alternative! To make this changes permanent, add 'devd_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf as described above. Furthermore add a 'perm passX 666' for each pass device and a 'perm xpt0 666'. If you prefer to bind the access rights to a group, use the own command as described above. If you prefer to set this rights dynamically, add a line 'add path 'pass*' ...' to your /etc/devfs.rules as described above. 4. Check, that DMA is activated for atapi devices: 'sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma' If not, set it to 1 and put a 'hw.ata.atapi_dma=1' into /boot/loader.conf. 5. Create a directory on a partition, which has enough disk space to hold a CDs or DVDs content (usually below /usr). Enter this directory in Settings- Configure K3b...-Misc. 6. If you experience problems while burning CDs, try to set the cdrdao driver manually. To do so choose Settings
Re: python25 core dumps
On Thursday 15 November 2007 03:07:03 am Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: This seems like a problem in libaspell; maybe you should simply try to reinstall the aspell port. See below for more info. I rebuilt aspell, but gramps still core dumps. The backtrace shows the same as previously. :/ For comparison, this is what a crash from eric4 (built with PyQt4) looks like: snip backtrace This seems like a problem in qt4 (I don't think the problem is in PyQt), simply try reinstalling that, too (completely; qt4 is split into several ports and pkg_info | grep qt4 is your friend here). Generally, from what I interpret into the second backtrace, you upgraded from some 6 release to 7.0-BETA2, which (amongst other things) means that the C++ libraries have changed (because of a newer compiler, gcc 3.3 vs. 4.2). The compiler has also had changes introduced to the C++ type info descriptor layout (which I should think causes the segmentation fault in typeinfo name in the second backtrace), so that if you have a program that's linked against different versions of libstdc++ (PyQt is linked against that, just as qt4 is), you'll see behaviour like this. To check whether my hypothesis is correct, simply do an ldd on both a PyQt library, and a qt4 shared library (locations of both of which you can extract from the backtrace). If the version of libstdc++ is different, you didn't follow the upgrading procedure which explicitly states to recompile _all_ ports for the new system. These appear to be the same, but its possible my blurry eyes may be overlooking something obvious. /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4: libpng.so.5 = /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5 (0x28185000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x281aa000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x281b2000) libQtCore.so.4 = /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0x28a1a000) libz.so.4 = /lib/libz.so.4 (0x281c9000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 = /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x281db000) libglib-2.0.so.0 = /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x28b89000) libiconv.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28c27000) libXi.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x281e) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x281e8000) libXrandr.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x281f) libXfixes.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x281f7000) libXcursor.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x28d1c000) libXinerama.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x281fc000) libfreetype.so.9 = /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 (0x28d25000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x28d93000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x28dbd000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x28dcb000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x28eb8000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x28fa2000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x28fb7000) libthr.so.3 = /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x28fc2000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28089000) libintl.so.8 = /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x28fd4000) libpcre.so.0 = /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28fdd000) libexpat.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6 (0x29003000) libXau.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x29023000) libXdmcp.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x29026000) librpcsvc.so.4 = /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.4 (0x2902b000) /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so: libQtGui.so.4 = /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0x28b09000) libpng.so.5 = /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5 (0x28185000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x281aa000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x281b2000) libQtCore.so.4 = /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0x29223000) libz.so.4 = /lib/libz.so.4 (0x281c9000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 = /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x281db000) libglib-2.0.so.0 = /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x29392000) libiconv.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x2943) libXi.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x281e) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x281e8000) libXrandr.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x281f) libXfixes.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x281f7000) libXcursor.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x29525000) libXinerama.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x281fc000) libfreetype.so.9 = /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 (0x2952e000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x2959c000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x295c6000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x295d4000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x296c1000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x296d6000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x297c) libthr.so.3 =
Re: from harikrishna
On Thursday 15 November 2007 11:30:40 pm hari krishna wrote: list me few possible faq's for freebsd I'm not sure if you're looking for new/potential user info about FreeBSD or for questions that may come up on how to solve common problems. Either way, the info you're want is probably linked on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html David -- This message was proudly made on Earth. ___ 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 see UNICODE character number?
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 01:17:03 am Yuri wrote: What is the easiest way to get the UNICODE number for a Chinese character? I use KDE. All programs just show the character itself when I paste it :-) Have you tried kcharselect ? David -- This message is presented in DoubleVision (where intoxicated) ___ 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 see UNICODE character number?
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 02:19:35 am Yuri wrote: All programs just show the character itself when I paste it :-) Have you tried kcharselect ? Tried it now. When I paste the character to the box in the bottom and press Enter nothing happens. I would like to see it's UNICODE number (like 9991;) But it goes the opposite way: from UNICODE number to the character. The problem though that there are ~20K Chinese characters in UNICODE table. You can look up the character on the table and get the code point. 來 = U+4f86, but with 20k characters that would be a hassle. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. David -- Soon to be a major religion. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
python25 core dumps
Since upgrading to 7.0-BETA2 most of my python based programs fail with Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped). It seems to be limited to gui based programs using Gtk or Qt. Any idea what's going on there? Hints on how to analyze the python.core files would be helpful too. David -- This message coming soon to an illegal DVD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: python25 core dumps
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 05:57:52 pm Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 23:15:36 schrieb David J Brooks: Since upgrading to 7.0-BETA2 most of my python based programs fail with Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped). It seems to be limited to gui based programs using Gtk or Qt. Any idea what's going on there? Hints on how to analyze the python.core files would be helpful too. Easy way to get info from the backtrace: gdb /usr/local/bin/python path to/python.core Then, enter the back command in the post-mortem debugging session and post the output here. Someone (maybe even me) should be able to give you a hint where to look further from there. Ok. Here's what gdb shows for a crash from Gramps (built with py-Gtk2): (gdb) back #0 0x29ea37fd in delete_aspell_speller () from /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.16 #1 0x29e03b3d in gtkspell_set_language_internal () from /usr/local/lib/libgtkspell.so.0 #2 0x29e04084 in gtkspell_set_language () from /usr/local/lib/libgtkspell.so.0 #3 0x29af90ae in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtkspell.so #4 0x29cdf180 in ?? () #5 0x29d28ff4 in ?? () #6 0x in ?? () #7 0xbfbf5218 in ?? () #8 0xbfbf5220 in ?? () #9 0x29d284cc in ?? () #10 0x29af9681 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtkspell.so #11 0x in ?? () #12 0x29d28ff4 in ?? () #13 0x28308080 in ?? () #14 0xbfbf53c8 in ?? () #15 0x080b131a in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) For comparison, this is what a crash from eric4 (built with PyQt4) looks like: (gdb) back #0 0x29224448 in typeinfo name for sipQApplication () from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so #1 0x29595531 in sm_performSaveYourself () from /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #2 0x295956a1 in sm_saveYourselfCallback () from /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #3 0x29aed10b in _SmcProcessMessage () from /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 #4 0x29afffa3 in IceProcessMessages () from /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 #5 0x2958f5c8 in QSmSocketReceiver::socketActivated () from /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #6 0x2958f62f in QSmSocketReceiver::qt_metacall () from /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #7 0x287bc15f in QMetaObject::activate () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #8 0x287bc6d2 in QMetaObject::activate () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #9 0x287d8b33 in QSocketNotifier::activated () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #10 0x287c1e1f in QSocketNotifier::event () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #11 0x295467bd in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper () from /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #12 0x2954c8fe in QApplication::notify () from /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #13 0x291b4a13 in sipQApplication::notify () from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so #14 0x287ab07b in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #15 0x287ccaf3 in socketNotifierSourceDispatch () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #16 0x28852886 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #17 0x28855c02 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #18 0x28856185 in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #19 0x287ccf78 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #20 0x295bd965 in QGuiEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents () from /usr/local/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #21 0x287aac31 in QCoreApplication::processEvents () from /usr/local/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #22 0x28623966 in meth_QCoreApplication_processEvents () from /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so #23 0x080b131a in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () #24 0x080b1fab in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () #25 0x080b1fab in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () #26 0x080b2919 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () #27 0x080b2a67 in PyEval_EvalCode () #28 0x080c9fc6 in Py_CompileString () #29 0x080ca070 in PyRun_FileExFlags () #30 0x080cb569 in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags () #31 0x08056ef1 in Py_Main () #32 0x080563b5 in main () (gdb) I tried tovidgui (build with Tkinter) and it did not crash. David -- Federal law prohibits deleting this message. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0 and 6.3
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 02:17:12 am Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to one over the other? 7.0 is the recommended choice; 6.3 is only for people who cannot update to the new branch yet. http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf Wow! That's a really thorough answer. Thanks Kris! David -- The second best policy is dishonesty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
7.0 and 6.3
Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to one over the other? David -- There is hardly a thing in the world that some man can not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ImageMagick
On Friday 12 October 2007 03:59:12 pm Rem P Roberti wrote: ImageMagick keeps showing up as an upgrade, but when I run portugpgrade I get this message: ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: Presence of FPX breaks self-tests. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. I don't find anything in UPGRADING about this and am wondering whether there is something to be done here. Personally, I'm waiting for the FXP options to be repaired, but if you really want to do the upgrade now, simply run 'make config' in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick and deselect the FXP knob. Then 'make install clean' as normal. David -- You will inherit some money or a small piece of land. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ....
On Sunday 20 May 2007 02:49:49 pm * ** wrote: Hello. idont know if this is right mail. nut i try anyway. =) im trying to install freebsd on my computer, but when the installation is finish and i should login. i type in my account name and password. byt then i only get to something that looks lika a terminal (i use linux now and it looks the same like a terminal there) but ofcourse i would lika it to look like a regular desktop with gnome ore kde, but i dont know what im doing wrong. i hope you can helt me. sorry aboyut my english, but im swedish. =) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html (Sorry. I didn't find a Swedish version of the handbook) David -- To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tiny console screen...
I know I've seen the fix for this before, but now that I need it I can't find it. I'm setting up a laptop with FreeBSD 6.2. The screen display in X is fine, but the terminal session screens are tiny, center on the display with several inches of black margin. How do I get it to use the entire screen and not that tiny little viewport? David -- Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI
On Monday 16 April 2007 08:38:10 pm Jim Priovolos wrote: Any tips on how to make FreeBSD start with a GUI login screen? I chose gnome and X-Windows in the install and they run in a weird limited way if I start them up after logining in to a command line. But it doesn't start in a way that allows a login to a GUI as the initial login screen. Plus, when I try to execute xterm I get Can't open display even though I've set DISPLAY and display environment variables to :0.0 and localhost:0.0 and ip_address_of_box:0.0. Any help will be appreciated. Have a look at the excellent FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html David -- The Wright Bothers weren't the first to fly. They were just the first not to crash. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble printing from opera
On Sunday 15 April 2007 09:49:57 pm you wrote: im running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3, with KDE, cups, and most current opera. i can print from everything else i use (which is i guess just kmail... but i did test from konqueror, and that works too), but i cannot get opera to send a job to my printer. if i go to the KDE printer manager, i can send a sucessful test page, but opera just quietly prints nothing. where should i start looking to find out where the breakdown is? thanks, I've never found a way to make non-KDE apps print from the KDE print manager. My solution has been to print to pdf and then load that into Kpdf and print from there. If there's a better way to do it, I'd love to learn how. David -- Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. -- Woody Allen, All You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble printing from opera
On Sunday 15 April 2007 10:15:14 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: I've never found a way to make non-KDE apps print from the KDE print manager. My solution has been to print to pdf and then load that into Kpdf and print from there. If there's a better way to do it, I'd love to learn how. David Can't you setup KDE / your apps to print straight out to a printer using lpr? That's what I have done, sort of. I'm filtering through ghostscript to a remote queue on a windows box. I just tried it out most of the non-KDE apps I have that send output to the printer, and in most cases that works fine. Usually the only non KDE app I print from is AbiWord, and for some reason that crashes when I try to print to anything but a postscript or pdf file. But the problem seems to be confined to that one program. Oper printed without a hitch. -- Is death legally binding? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I like Ubuntu
On Friday 13 April 2007 12:21:43 pm Claude Menski wrote: Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? It's easier to spell. -- In 1869 the waffle iron was invented for people who had wrinkled waffles. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for something like an embedded ftp server
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:26:42 pm Derrill Guilbert wrote: I've been given an old machine, and asked to turn it into an ftp server. It will got on its own IP, separate from the one our LAN uses. It will have three read-only users and maybe five read/write users. It will contain design data that we're transferring to the offices in China. That is, we will upload it from here in at the main office, and the China staff will download it to implement the little containers we're building. This does not need to be secure beyond password protection necessarily, though some sort of secure FTP would be fine. What I would really prefer is some sort of BSD based simple FTP server setup. I've found several BSD based router/firewall/whatever servers out there, such as m0n0wall and pfsense, among others, and I would like something that simple for an FTP server. That is, I want to be able to install the server and then only have to configure users, no mess with hardening things and setting up pf or so ... Does such a thing exist? Am I needlessly complicating things for myself in another way (often the case, I'm little more than a user when it comes to FreeBSD)? Any kind of guidance on this topic would be appreciated --- if what I want to do can be done with a custom install of FreeBSD, that'd be wonderful also. Thank you in advance for any guidance. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ftp.html David -- bureaucracy, n: A method for transforming energy into solid waste. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New to FreeBSD
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 09:08:30 am Ivan Zenzerović wrote: hello again. I made a mistake during post install config. I put a name that I don't want for my computer, and when I logon as root it's written in the comand line. How di I change it? Ivan Edit /etc/rc.conf .. find the line hostname=wrong name and change it to the name you prefer. -- Q: How many pre-med's does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Five: One to change the bulb and four to pull the ladder out from under him. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /tmp write failed, filesystem is full
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:17:07 am Michele Endrici wrote: Hi, can anyone help me find a solution to a make problem?? I'm trying to build a kernel for FreeBSD 6.2 with a new driver but the make fails. I tryed in both the old and new school ways but it didn't work anyway. Here is the error i get: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/zlib created for /usr/src/sys/modules/zlib -- stage 2.3: build tools -- cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC; MAKESRCPATH=/usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm make -DNO_CPU_CFLAGS -f /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC yacc -b aicasm_gram -d -o aicasm_gram.c /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_gram.y /tmp: write failed, filesystem is full yacc -b aicasm_macro_gram -p mm -d -o aicasm_macro_gram.c /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_macro_gram.y cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -nostdinc -I/usr/include -I. -I/usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm -c /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -nostdinc -I/usr/include -I. -I/usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm -c /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_symbol.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -nostdinc -I/usr/include -I. -I/usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm -c aicasm_gram.c aicasm_gram.c: In function `yyparse': aicasm_gram.c:2146: error: `initialize_symb' undeclared (first use in this function) aicasm_gram.c:2146: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once aicasm_gram.c:2146: error: for each function it appears in.) aicasm_gram.c:2146: error: syntax error before '}' token aicasm_gram.c:2201: error: syntax error at end of input *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. First of all it tells me /tmp filesystem is full. I run df -h and it's quite full. Hence, I've created a symbolic link to another folder to gain more space ln -s /tmp /var/tmp_fake but i still get the same error. Any suggestion?? Michele Perhaps /var is getting full also? Rather that soft-linking, I think I'd first try to flush out the /tmp filesystem. -- Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. -- A. E. Houseman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive problems
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:29:29 pm Jason Gretz wrote: Hey guys I am adding a hard drive to my FreeBSD 6.1 box and it stalls during booting and makes a beeping noise. I know the hard drive is good because I just swapped it out of another FreeBSD box… So I’m kinda stumped, is there anyways to troubleshoot this? I can’t even boot in “safe” or “single-user mode” Check the jumper settings on the drive itself. You may be trying to add a drive configured as Master into a chain that's expecting a Slave. David -- It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together. -- Washlesky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: regular portsdb maintanence
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 07:25:48 pm Michael P. Soulier wrote: How are dependencies lost anyway? Beyond reading the source, is there a document that tells me how pkgdb works? Have you looked at 'man pkgdb'? -- America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and the scum rises to the top. -- Utah Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uptime
On Friday 23 March 2007 01:45:16 am Stan Cooper wrote: Hi; How do I determine the uptime of my server? Thanks, Stan2 Oddly enough, by typing 'uptime' at the command prompt. David -- An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User mount of usb key drive ... question
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:18, Lane wrote: I guess I don't know how to ask google and man fstab the correct way ... How can I grant a non-root user the authority to mount (and then write to) a usb key drive? Especially when said user is already up in kde? The drive works fine if root mounts it, but I'd rather not be root when I do this on my laptop. And opening a konsole window, suing and then mounting , is cumbersome. I've been looking at man devfs.rules, as this seems to be near the place I want to be. But I haven't quite fingered out a way... Ya'll don't gotta just tell me the answer, if you don't want. I'm a man man, so to speak. I'm eager to look it up myself, only I don't rightly know whereinaheck to look. Lane, I think you'll find this link educational. http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ HTH, David -- Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The fan is always on, even when the desktop is rather cool
On Saturday 16 September 2006 03:05, Wei Hu wrote: Thanks David, I checked this page. now if I do: $ sysctl hw.acpi hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S3 S4 S5 hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5 hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S1 hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE hw.acpi.standby_state: S1 hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3 hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1 hw.acpi.s4bios: 0 hw.acpi.verbose: 0 hw.acpi.reset_video: 1 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported: C1/0 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage: 100.00% and if i do #sudo acpiconf -s 5 OR #sudo acpiconf -s 1 nothing happens. Can I reinstall acpi, if yes, how can i do it? thanks. On 9/16/06, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 18:10, Wei Hu wrote: I have 3 systems in my desktop: 1) When FreeBSD runs, my desktop fans are always running, and this make annoy noisy. 2) However when Debian runs, the fan eventually stops unless I am performing a load intensive task. 3) In Windows, the fan is almost always off. I tried to use acpi and apm, but they are for laptop.(?) In Freebsd, how can I control the cooling fans or how can the system turns the fans off when the load is not heavy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It sounds like a broken ACPI code to me. Check the handbook chapter on debugging ACPI: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html Its been a while since I messed with it, and I finally got my fan problem solved by replacing the computer with one that had a working ACPI bytecode. What The problem is that the ACPI code for your machine was probably compiled with the Microsoft compiler, which gives a clean compile on errors that would be caught by the Intel compiler. You can dump this bytecode to source and try to recompile it with the Intel compiler. That will likely show you what's broken. If you're lucky you may be able to recode to fix the errors and then load your new bytecode rather than the broken one that shipped with your machine. The best place to persue this question further is the freebsd-acpi mail-list. If Nate Lawson can't help you out, you're probably stuck with a noisy machine. At least you can be confident that it won't overheat. :) David -- Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The fan is always on, even when the desktop is rather cool
On Friday 15 September 2006 18:10, Wei Hu wrote: I have 3 systems in my desktop: 1) When FreeBSD runs, my desktop fans are always running, and this make annoy noisy. 2) However when Debian runs, the fan eventually stops unless I am performing a load intensive task. 3) In Windows, the fan is almost always off. I tried to use acpi and apm, but they are for laptop.(?) In Freebsd, how can I control the cooling fans or how can the system turns the fans off when the load is not heavy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It sounds like a broken ACPI code to me. Check the handbook chapter on debugging ACPI: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html David -- Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
On Friday 25 August 2006 04:19, Kyrre Nygård wrote: Hello! I am just wondering why it says: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. when I log in locally, but: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. when I log in via SSH? The difference for you with untrained eyes is the double spacing after the dot instead of the standard single spacing. I was just curious if there's a reason to this or not. Back in the Jurassic era, when typewriters still roamed the earth, it was a convention to leave a double-space following a period so that the reader could more easily distinguish the end of a sentence. With the advent of word processors (and proportional fonts) this double-spacing convention lapsed. My guess is that the code for SSH was written by someone who learned to type on a typewriter, or was taught by someone who learned to type that way. David -- Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What FreeBSD users really want
On Saturday 22 July 2006 10:33, Freminlins wrote: The only thing I wish I had learned so much sooner was set autolist in my .cshrc. I didn't know it was there, and I have no idea why it is not in the default dot.cshrc file. No doubt good reasons, but I got by for months before I found this out. All that time I was going bash can do it, why can't csh? Heh.. I didn't know about it until you mentioned it. What a great little feature! David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server
On Friday 21 July 2006 06:09, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 7/21/06, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can find lots of helpful information about setting up FreeBSD as a print server for Windows clients, but I'm not finding anything helpful about setting things up the other way. Does anyone have any experience doing this? I do it every day: http://www.freshports.org/print/cups-smb-backend/ Here I run into the same problem that I have with Warren Block's lpr suggestion. Following the instructions at:http://iharder.sourceforge.net/macosx/winmacprinter/ I have everything working fine at the XP server side. But when I try to add the networked printer from my FreeBSD box, starting at KMenu-Print System-Print Manager I enter administrator mode and select 'Add printer/class' from the Add menu. This starts the Add Printer Wizard. I select remote LPD Queue add the host and queue info. At the Printer Model Selection page I check the box for Postscript Printer and get a warning dialog: Unable to find the Postscript driver. I have Ghostscript installed and it has served me well in the recent past, so I know it's there. Why can't KDE find it? Where is it looking for the postscript driver? David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED: printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server
On Friday 21 July 2006 10:08, David J Brooks wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 06:09, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 7/21/06, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can find lots of helpful information about setting up FreeBSD as a print server for Windows clients, but I'm not finding anything helpful about setting things up the other way. Does anyone have any experience doing this? I do it every day: http://www.freshports.org/print/cups-smb-backend/ Here I run into the same problem that I have with Warren Block's lpr suggestion. Following the instructions at:http://iharder.sourceforge.net/macosx/winmacprinter/ I have everything working fine at the XP server side. But when I try to add the networked printer from my FreeBSD box, starting at KMenu-Print System-Print Manager I enter administrator mode and select 'Add printer/class' from the Add menu. This starts the Add Printer Wizard. I select remote LPD Queue add the host and queue info. At the Printer Model Selection page I check the box for Postscript Printer and get a warning dialog: Unable to find the Postscript driver. I have Ghostscript installed and it has served me well in the recent past, so I know it's there. Why can't KDE find it? Where is it looking for the postscript driver? David The answer to my own question is: don't try to add printer using KDE... use the CUPS web interface instead. I didn't get the smb deal working, but I was able to attach to it as an lpr spool using the generic postscript driver. Unexpectedly, the quality of the print is a bit better than it was when this printer was directly connected to my FreeBSD box. Thanks to Kirk, Warren and Andrew for the helpful suggestions. If you guys ever get to Houston look me up and I'll buy you a beer. :) David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server
I can find lots of helpful information about setting up FreeBSD as a print server for Windows clients, but I'm not finding anything helpful about setting things up the other way. Does anyone have any experience doing this? David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server
On Thursday 20 July 2006 16:36, Kirk Davis wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J Brooks Posted At: July 20, 2006 3:25 PM Posted To: FreeBSD.Questions Conversation: printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server Subject: printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server I can find lots of helpful information about setting up FreeBSD as a print server for Windows clients, but I'm not finding anything helpful about setting things up the other way. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Check out apsfilter in the ports collection. It work very well for that. OK. I installed apsfilter with 'make BATCH=yes APSFILTER_ALL=yes install' On running SETUP script and selecting the hpjis driver the script informs me that my installation of ghostscript does not support inclide this driver. I browsed through the Makefile in print/ghostscript-gnu and cannot find any mention of ijs. I KNOW there is support there somewhere, because this printer worked fine when it was attached to my FreeBSD box. (Until CUPS became so broken as to be useless.) Any hints on how to configure apsfilter for use with an HP DeskJet 3650? David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AVI to MPEG conversion
On Friday 14 July 2006 05:11, Naim wrote: Hi I am looking for a tool to convert an AVI file into MPEG. I have looked at both mplayer and ffmpeg, but I can't quite seem to figure this out. If anyone has the patience and knowledge of how to do this I would appreciate it a lot. Best and kind regards, Rico Rico, Have a look at multimedia/tovid in the ports collection. It will do exactly what you want. This link provides some basic info.: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/511457.html See the man pages for more details. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: batching port builds
On Friday 30 June 2006 11:10, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Apologies if this is in a FAQ, I didn't see it. How does one tell the ports system to not query interactively for input, and just take default build options, or a predefined set of options? Running a portupgrade -a and finding the night wasted while the box sat waiting for input is no fun at all. If you do 'make -DBATCH' instead of 'make' - you will use the preset defaults for each port with options. Or you can do 'make config-recursive' - which will offer you all the option screens for the port in whose directory you're currently in and all its dependencies. See 'man ports' for more information. To use those with 'portupgrade -a' will probably take some custom scripting. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: batching port builds
On Friday 30 June 2006 13:25, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 30/06/06 David J Brooks said: If you do 'make -DBATCH' instead of 'make' - you will use the preset defaults for each port with options. Or you can do 'make config-recursive' - which will offer you all the option screens for the port in whose directory you're currently in and all its dependencies. See 'man ports' for more information. To use those with 'portupgrade -a' will probably take some custom scripting. Ah, so there's no make.conf option for this? If there is, I'm unaware of it. Then again, I rarely use 'portupgrade -a' myself. I start with 'portversion -v -l ' and work my way down the list interactively. It's more time consuming, but I tend to learn things along the way. :) David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating DVD Movies
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:03, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Does this app only do AVI to MPEG? tovid takes any multimedia video file as input, and produces (S)VCD or DVD-compliant MPEG video files as output. The output of tovid then becomes an input to makevcd or makedvd, and so on. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating DVD Movies
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 19:48, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Greetings, i was wondering if anyone had a good tool recommendation for creating DVD movies with FreeBSD. Since I have a child growing up, it is appealing to me to make a copy of their favorite DVD and burn it so they can handle the copy, not the original (legal to make backup copies). I also was thinking it could be handy to author my own dvds, but that might not be for a while. So far, I can use mplayer to get the DVD to an avi file, but I can't find anything to get it back onto a dvd. I have tried dvdauthor, but the app kept crashing. Does anyone have any suggestions for this? What you need is tovid. (/usr/ports/multimedia/tovid). This link... http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/511457.html ...gives some very basic instructions, but read the manpages for all the nifty options. It's three steps from avi to dvd. 1) tovid converts the avi to mpeg, 2) makexml produces an xml script to feed into makedvd and 3) makedvd splits the mpeg into all the TS_VIDEO/VOBs and whatnots and can leave with with either a raw directory structure, an ISO file, or burn it straight to dvd for you. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
On Sunday 04 June 2006 08:11, Jack Stone wrote: Hello: I have 2 files that resists all efforts to delete them. I can even move them to another directory, but still cannot delete. Can chmod too, but still same resistance; I originally figured they occupied a bad spot on the HD, but now not sure about that. Please, any suggestions about what to do to remove these files? Here are the files and the error message: rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm: Operation not permitted rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm: Operation not permitted I've gone all the way down to the last dir and tried to delete them there. No joy! All directories in between only include the dirs and no files. I want to delete the entire path of directories, but those 2 stubborn files will not permit that. rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys: Directory not empty Please, any help appreciated! I had a similar problem recently with some a directory created on the fly by ktorrent. Everytime I tried to delete them they would appear in the trashcan, I would flush them, and sooner or later the directory and all its files would be right back where they started. I finally noticed that they reappeared everytime I restarted ktorrent. So I went poking under the hood and found a reference to them in deep down in ~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/cache folder. Apparently ktorrent was recreating empty files in anticipation of downloading a torrent that was no longer in the queue. Perhaps something similar is going on with your machine? David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (6.1) KDE starts fine, no background(?)
On Saturday 13 May 2006 09:49, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, First off, thanks to the FreeBSD team for yet another release and thanks again for the ability to install this new OS with floppies. I have a very good laptop with no CDROM. Now, I just installed, got X working fine, started KDE and the whole startup panels began, questions, etc. Finished. But had NO background, just the toolbar appeared. The apps work, just nothing but black for the background. This is a first for me since FreeBSD-3.4 Thanks I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. It turned out that an upgrade of X had overwritten my nvidia-driver. Rebuilding the driver solved the problem. HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE + GNOME?
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 13:34, Duane Whitty wrote: Perhaps I should be more clear. Is there anyone reading who currently has KDE 3.5.x and GNOME 2.12.x installed concurrently on their systems? Did you experience installation problems with respect to dependencies? Are you able to choose between running KDE and GNOME as simply as by running startkde or startgnome (or whatever the start gnome command is)? I like KDE and some of its applications and I don't necessarily wish to switch to using something else exclusively. I have many good things about GNOME and would like to try it out. I want to be able to switch back-and-forth whenever I want. Has anyone else tried this? Thanks for your responses. I have both Kde 3.5.2 and Gnome 2.12 installed. I don't actually use gnome, but I need several parts of it as dependencies for other packages that I do run, and having enough drive space to do so, I just keep the whole thing up to date. Both run without any problems. FWIW, I have the opposite opinion from Paul on which is prettier. I think Kde is much more attractive than the rather spartan Gnome environment. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting problems
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:46, boy red wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i actually start using the computer. please help. It sounds like everything has gone well so far, and that you are booting into a shell (command line interface). You ARE 'in' at this point. Where you go from there depends on how you intend to use the computer. You'll probably want to read the Handbook for further information. Here are a few chapters that will likely be helpful for you starting out: UNIX Basics: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics.html Installing Applications: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Setting up a graphical user interface: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html FreeBSD is going to give you a lot of choices in how you do things from this point on. (And honestly, up to this point as well ;) Which choices you make will depend on your personal preferences, what you want the machine to do for you, and how you want it do do those things. For all of these, the Handbook is your first and best resource.If you get lost along the way, this list isn't a bad place to ask for clarification. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /boot at beginning of drive
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:29, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var 4gb /usr 4gb /home remainder (about 60gb) then /var/db/mysql - /home/mysql and /tmp on swap Any possible issues with this? I think it unlikely that mounting /tmp on the swap partition will work, because swap isn't a filesystem in the usual sense of the word. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /boot at beginning of drive
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var 4gb /usr 4gb /home remainder (about 60gb) then /var/db/mysql - /home/mysql and /tmp on swap Any possible issues with this? I think it unlikely that mounting /tmp on the swap partition will work, because swap isn't a filesystem in the usual sense of the word. http://users.rcn.com/rneswold/fbsd-init.html#AEN258 I stand corrected. I can still envision problems if tmp files use enough space to prevent a memory swap. Running out of swap space is not healthy. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?
On Monday 17 April 2006 17:41, Matt Rajca wrote: ? In /rtc/rc.conf add a line like this: hostname=host.network.net If you are running network services such as DNS, etc. you may need to change it in those configuration files as well. HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /boot/loader and modules
On Sunday 16 April 2006 17:42, jesse marquez wrote: Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 6.0 - Release on a Gateway 450SX4 laptop. For some reason it seems the loader is not reading the local changes made to /boot/loader.conf . Have any of you expierenced this? I've checked my changes made to loader.conf and they all seem fine. /boot/loader.rc looks fine as well. It doesn't seem like it's anything obvious, any help is appreciated. It would be helpful if you could post the contents of your /boot/loader.conf to the list. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?
On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:56, Micah wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho -- http://gftp.seul.org/ sorry, i should have mentioned i use KDE. will gftp be any trouble to compile, or is it going to pull down the entire gnome to go with it? im really looking for something that works well under KDE. thanks, jonathan horne May not be graphical enough, but Konqueror's built in ftp, sftp, and fish support has always been enough for my needs and it doesn't require any extra packages outside KDE. Just type ftp://ftp.example.com or ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the location bar. Konqueror is generally what I use as well. Another good alternative is Kasablanca. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
persistent mixer volume levels
What is the preferred method for making mixer volume levels persistent? As it stands now my sounds levels are dropped to about 75% after each reboot. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: persistent mixer volume levels
On Friday 14 April 2006 15:33, Bigby Findrake wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, David J Brooks wrote: What is the preferred method for making mixer volume levels persistent? As it stands now my sounds levels are dropped to about 75% after each reboot. I suppose preferred would depend on what your priorities are. If you change the kernel source, it would be hard for you to change those defaults later, as opposed to making a startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. If you want to set the kernel defaults, they appear to be in mixer.c (find /usr/src/sys -name mixer.c -print) in snd_mixerdefaults. Curious! I wrote up an rc.d script that seemes to work fine on reboot. I get console messages confirming that volume has been changed. But as soon as I log in, either as root or a normal user, I type 'mixer' and it shows the volume levels back where they were before. I'm guessing that there is something else either in rc.d or in the login sequence that is setting the mixer after my script runs. Any ideas what that might be? David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: persistent mixer volume levels (solved)
On Friday 14 April 2006 16:21, David J Brooks wrote: Curious! I wrote up an rc.d script that seemes to work fine on reboot. I get console messages confirming that volume has been changed. But as soon as I log in, either as root or a normal user, I type 'mixer' and it shows the volume levels back where they were before. I'm guessing that there is something else either in rc.d or in the login sequence that is setting the mixer after my script runs. Any ideas what that might be? Heh.. I should have explored more before asking. It all comes down to /etc/rc.d/mixer. This script resets all the volume levels from a saved state. The way to change it, (with persistence) is to set the mixer levels manually, then run '/etc/rc.d/mixer stop' which saves the current state. Fortunately I named my unnecessary script 'volume' so that it hasn't overwritten the canonical /etc/rc.d/mixer script. :) David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining whether or not a SCSI disk is in use
On Friday 14 April 2006 16:43, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Apr 14, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Bigby Findrake wrote:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Bigby Findrake wrote:
I'm sorry, I'm an idiot - the script, in its current incarnation,
needs to be modified. It's doing exactly what you don't want it to
do - it will shut down the disk if there was activity. The if
statement should read:
if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Yes. Recently accessed or is being accessed.
-Garrett
Well, for a shell-script-hack, which (i) requires no new kernel
and (ii) could be fairly portable but (iii) could conceivably miss
some activity, you could do something like the following:
#!/bin/sh
DISKDEV=da0
SHUTDOWN_COMMAND=camcontrol stop 0,1,0
SECONDS=60
# check for activity
# watch iostat for $SECONDS seconds for anything
iostat -d $DISKDEV 1 5 | awk ' NR2 $20 { print x } ' |\
grep x /dev/null
STATUS=$?
if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
then
# there was activity,
$SHUTDOWN_COMMAND
fi
Brilliant! That's exactly what I was looking for!
The only thing I've noticed is that there is a small amount of data
being transferred while the disk is idle, so perhaps the sampling
needs to watch for the amount of data as well as the overall
transactions being done to properly fix up a script to do this?
Anyhow, I'll end up doing that, but thanks for the command :).
Perhaps a softupdate hasn't completed yet?
David
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ipfw acting strange
I'm stumped. This afternoon I upgraded the outward facing NIC on my gateway, with a corresponding device name change from rl0 to fxp1. I have edited rc.conf to reflect the change and made what I thought were the appropriate changes to rc.firewall. On bootup the console displays the corrected rule-set loading: 00050 divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 but when I log in and type 'ipfw list' the role shows up as: 00050 divert 8668 ip from any to any via rl0 As a result, the other machines on the LAN cannot access the internet. For the life of me I cannot figure out where the old NIC is being read into the rule-set. Here are the relevant lines from rc.conf: firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=open # only temporary. :) firewall_script=/etc/rc.firewall # should be default anyway gateway_enable=YES hostname=fuzzy.home.net ifconfig_fxp1=DHCP ifconfig_fxp0=inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 natd_enable=YES natd_interface=fxp1 natd_flags=-dynamic -m David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw acting strange
On Friday 14 April 2006 23:14, David J Brooks wrote: I'm stumped. This afternoon I upgraded the outward facing NIC on my gateway, with a corresponding device name change from rl0 to fxp1. I have edited rc.conf to reflect the change and made what I thought were the appropriate changes to rc.firewall. On bootup the console displays the corrected rule-set loading: 00050 divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 err.. type here.. the correct rule refers to fxp1, and that is how it appears at boot time. After login it appears as rl0. but when I log in and type 'ipfw list' the role shows up as: 00050 divert 8668 ip from any to any via rl0 As a result, the other machines on the LAN cannot access the internet. For the life of me I cannot figure out where the old NIC is being read into the rule-set. Here are the relevant lines from rc.conf: firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=open # only temporary. :) firewall_script=/etc/rc.firewall # should be default anyway gateway_enable=YES hostname=fuzzy.home.net ifconfig_fxp1=DHCP ifconfig_fxp0=inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 natd_enable=YES natd_interface=fxp1 natd_flags=-dynamic -m David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DMA TIMEOUT
On Thursday 13 April 2006 01:58, Perttu Laine wrote: I have problem with ATA drive having DMA TIMEOUTs. It might work day or two fine with DMA mode on but then system halts on those dma timeout problems. hardware is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5:0: class=0x018085 card=0x4d68105a chip=0x4d69105a rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' device = 'PDC20269 Ultra133 TX2 EIDE Controller' class= mass storage and PDC20269 is on supported list (5.4-RELEASE). and has one 160GB drive in it. When I first got this problem I tried change cable, changed drive to another similar one and moved drive to different place on card. No help. Now it has been running on PIO mode about a year without any problems at all. So I wonder if there actually is some problem in ata drivers and is there maybe any fixes on those drivers in new releases? So would upgrade to 5.5 or 6.1 help on this? upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4 didn't help... I can actually run it on PIO-mode but sometimes DMA could give little more speed so if you would be cool if I can get it work with DMA mode on. I had a similar situation under 6.0. My secondary drive would throw DMA read errors at bootup, adding several minutes to the boot process, so I ran it in PIO mode. The upgrade to 6.1 solved it, both drives work fine as DMA now. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help clarify the '-l' option of ls(1).
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 10:47, David Robillard wrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to have an explication about the '-l' (minus L) option of the ls(1) command. What exactly is the signification of the second column in the display? The man page states that it is 'the number of links'. But what does it mean exactly? The man page states: -l (The lowercase letter ``ell''.) List files in the long format, as described in the The Long Format subsection below. So we check 'The Long Format' section which says: The Long Format If the -l option is given, the following information is displayed for each file: file mode, number of links, owner name, group name, MAC label [output truncated] Does anyone know any details about this 'number of links' ??? Take a look at 'man 1 link'. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which mixer device do KDE system notifications use?
My KDE system notifications are too loud relative to other sounds like the CD player. I know I can use mixer to adjust the volume, but which device should I be tampering with? David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 14:03, fredthetree wrote: glx doesn't work. both glx and dri are in my xorg.conf, i'm using the nv driver, i have graphics/dri installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ glxgears Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a FreeBSD daniel.higham.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Apr 7 23:44:35 ADT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MACHINE i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pkg_info |grep dri dri-6.4.1,2 OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for the DRI relevent bits of xorg.conf: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option HWcursor # [bool] #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option ShadowFB # [bool] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option Rotate# [str] #Option VideoKey # i #Option FlatPanel # [bool] #Option FPDither # [bool] #Option CrtcNumber# i #Option FPScale # [bool] #Option FPTweak # i Identifier Card0 Driver nv VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Try adding this section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:07, fredthetree wrote: nothing. i just noticed something though: X Window System Version 6.9.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD daniel.higham.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Apr 7 23:44:35 ADT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MACHINE i386 Build Date: 08 April 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Apr 12 16:59:25 2006 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (EE) Failed to load module glx (module does not exist, 0) so where do i get the glx module? Right here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-8178.html :) David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:14, fredthetree wrote: i installed the x11/nvidia-driver port with -DWITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT for my ancient TNT2 64. too bad the screen resolution isn't as good =/ Did you also build the nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings tools? Both are available in /usr/ports/x11. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Drive errors on boot
On Monday 10 April 2006 09:26, Bryan Curl wrote: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My apologies if this is a repost. It seems either I had a gmail problem or list never posted the question. I have subscribed with another address to monitor problem. Anyway, here is my question again. I get the following errors from dmesg on one of my ide drives on boot. Other similar drives dont error and are setup the same in bios (except cylinder block config of course) System and this drive seem to work fine otherwise. I re-fdisk this one but it still does this error. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: Tue Apr 4 09:43:53 MDT 2006 ad1: 1916MB Maxtor 72004 AP 2A3C0B31 at ata0-slave WDMA2 ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=3924359 ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=3924343 ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=3924356 ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=3924359 This is probably a hardware problem. My first guess would be cabling. Try swapping the cable. And make sure there is a master on the bus if this one is probing as a slave. This is the primary slave drive. Primary master is the boot drive where OS lives. The master is cabled on the end connector and the slave is connected to the middle connector on the cable. The supplied documentation on the drive jumpers is vague at best. It only makes mention of one jumper (master or slave positions) There are 3 other jumpers on the drive that are not mentioned. Looks to me like DMA feature isn't working but I dont know if this is activated by a jumper or by firmware somehow. I dont know what causes these errors either. dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state The driver tried to force the transmitter and receiver to be idle temporarily, and failed. There are a number of different cases where the driver tries to do this, so it's hard to guess exactly what's happening this time. Some of the relevant variables are: whether this happens at boot time, whether it happens after an underrun or overrun, and which real controller chip you have. I have seen this error on every FreeBSD installation I have ever had. To my knowledge, it never seemed to bother anything. I just hate watching errors scroll by. I solved this same error on my machine by adding sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to /boot/loader.conf That slows down drive access something fierce, but it worked for me. Once the machine has booted you may be able to turn DMA access back on with atacontrol(8). The problem was ultimately solved for me by upgrading to 6.1-PRERELEASE. HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help?
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 18:18, Tom wrote: I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. My first question is where can I find a site that will list all approved or thoroughly checked out hardware to build a box (motherboards, and the like). I don't have the time, or patience to get into major software conflicts or bugs. I want to follow a A to B to C box build and software setup. Is there someone (or more) to guide me through the process? Is there a website with complete and accurate information on it? Is there a BSD for idiots instruction book that's current? Is there a BSD project team working with manufactures and touting their successes? Help! You can find information about supported hardware for any release of FreeBSD here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ 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 create da* device?
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 09:46, Peter wrote: Do you have another usb drive that works? Yes! An identical drive works but this one doesn't (anymore). But why does it work with Windows? The same behaviour is exhibited on another machine (6.0) [both disks worked and then this one ceased to work]. The system I am currently using is 5.4. Try plugging it into the box with a USB extender cable... I have a umass 'flash' drive that works fine on every computer I've plugged it into, except for the one at my office. On that machine (an XP box) it isn't recognized at all, unless I use an extender. It seems to be a unique problem between that particular device and that particular machine. Go figure... David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?
On Saturday 25 March 2006 20:52, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash The feedback is something like device ad0 doesn't allow action Can anybody help me? Try mounting /dev/ad0s1 instead and see if that works. Failing that, you might want to make sure you have everything you need in your kernel config. Umass devices need some of the scsi devices as well to functionproperly. The chapter in the Handbook on building a custom kernel should be helpful i that regard. David J Brooks -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established userbase. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thanks! and... the su command
On Sunday 26 March 2006 00:45, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hi!. Thanks for helping me with the USB flash memory. I've also have trouble with the su command... since I installed the FreeBSD 5.4, everytime I try to login as root with su, the shell answers me with Sorry... and that's all. Is it wrong configured or installed? That's the same error I get when I've mistyped the root password. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established userbase. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no cd* devices appear in /dev [was Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE]
On Monday 06 March 2006 14:11, Duane Whitty wrote: On Monday March 6 2006 16:09 David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote This reminds me to ask: I have ATAPICAM enable in my kernal, specifically so that k3b can find my dvd+rw ... but no cd* devives appear in /dev, and k3b cannot find anything no matter where I tell it to look .. I must be overlooking something, but what? Hi, look at man 4 atapicam. The examples section lists the other devices you need configured in the kernel. Hope this helps, --Duane Thanks. That and the 'make showinfo' in sysutils/k3b that I somehow missed the first trip 'round have it all working smoothly. -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established userbase. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
On Sunday 05 March 2006 22:24, Duane Whitty wrote: On Sunday 05 March 2006 17:31, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:12:36PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:30, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:37PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any information/opinion as to why device atapicam is not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel. It's not an appropriate default, since it modifies the way the ata subsystem works in ways the maintainer does not wish to support, Sorry, but do you mean the ata subsystem maintainer or the atapicam maintainer? The former. Is atapicam part of the base? Yes. I was under the impression it implements an abstracted SCSI interface over the ata device subsystem but maybe I'm not adequately understanding what's really happening. As the name suggests, it provides a CAM front-end to the devices, which is the same front-end used by the SCSI devices, so tools that expect to use CAM can work on the ATA devices too. Ah, ok -- CAM -- common access method. I'm getting this Just an observation but it seems as though there is a great deal of use being made of the atapicam subsystem. I noticed for instance that in addition to /dev/cd0 that /dev/pass0 and /dev/da0 also did not show up until I rebuilt with atapicam or did I just miss them? The equivalent devices have different names under atapicam than ata, but why do you think they are necessary? because I misunderstood what umass needed and I inappropriately generalized on the basis of one port (k3b) Unless I'm wrong doesn't this mean that usb drives and those types of devices need the atapicam subsystem? I suspect you're wrong. Kris Hi, Thanks Kris. Your suspicions were correct. I was wrong. I re-read the man pages for da, pass, and umass, and nowhere did it say I needed atapicam. So thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I rebooted with the GENERIC kernel, plugged in my usb memory device, and everything worked great. The k3b port required this and I suppose I generalized when I should not have. Again, much thanks. --Duane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This reminds me to ask: I have ATAPICAM enable in my kernal, specifically so that k3b can find my dvd+rw ... but no cd* devives appear in /dev, and k3b cannot find anything no matter where I tell it to look .. I must be overlooking something, but what? -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established userbase. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Cron
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 01:10, perikillo wrote: root: not found The FAQ explains it all: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established userbase. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install USB Printer on FreeBSD
On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:23, Alin Tuhut wrote: Hello, I am trying with no luck setting up a an USB Xerox Phaser 3116 printer on FreeBSD 6.0 I have installed and enabled CUPS and from the CUPS web admin area I have added the printer as USB Printer #1. When I try to print a test page the printer makes a normal noise like it is trying to get paper but it does not print. Just stops. If I try to print a file nothing happens. As far as I know the printer knows Postcript but in CUPS I could only choose RAW when it asked about the driver. What should I do? Do you have ghostscript properly installed and configured? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: winmodem driver
On Saturday 25 February 2006 05:21, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... is there a win modem driver in 6.0 that can be used with the build-in modem on ibm thinkpads? Have you tried /usr/ports/comms/mwavem ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
