Re: Typo in portmaster man page?
- Original Message - From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013 5:15 PM Subject: Re: Typo in portmaster man page? On Thu, 09 May 2013 06:06:42 -0500 Bryan Drewery articulated: (I'm not the original author on portmaster). Personally the manpage really confuses me. There's been bigger issues to tackle first though so I have not touched the manpage much. You do realize that the man in manpage is an acronym for, Much About Nothing. that interpretation of yours might be insulting to man page authors :( -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng repositories
yes, it does, bit dated though. - Original Message - From: Eric S Pulley pul...@dabus.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 8:24 PM Subject: Re: pkgng repositories On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:54:33 -0500, Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com wrote: Does some noble soul maintain any publically accessible pkgng repo? PCBSD has one! ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/mirror/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/ (or i386) ___ Also if I remember right Xorg and KDE4 are included on the release DVD image. -- | _ ASCII Ribbon Eric S Pulley | ( ) Campaign Against pul...@dabus.com | X HTML Mail | / \ www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Need bsd make for AIX
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:58 AM, srividy...@tcs.com wrote: Hi Is there any BSD make versions available for AIX platform? We require the make utility of BSD to compile few source programs. Is there any make utility compatible with AIX? Could you please give us the URL where we can get the same? Srividya K Tata Consultancy Services Mailto: srividy...@tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Srividya K Tata Consultancy Services Mailto: srividy...@tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Experience certainty. IT Services Business Solutions Outsourcing =-=-= Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org u can always GNU make http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ICC users compiling FreeBSD
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Rui Paulo rpa...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, I'm looking for people who are using the Intel Compiler to build FreeBSD. Please contact me off list, so I can get a rough estimate on how many people are using it. Regards, -- Rui Paulo ___ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org besides @current and @stable @questions may also like to know of the progress may be not now, later ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: random FreeBSD panics
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it result in reasonable performance penalty. Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is. Try adding options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 to the kernel configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled log outout. ok, after few days of silence I am back with more questions this time system feels little better, it is able to sustain for more time that what 7.3-RELEASE could FreeBSD raptor 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Apr 1 01:20:45 UTC 2010 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON amd64 I am using KDE4, and when OS freezes, well it freezes, means I cannot change to tty0 and see the panic text, if any it might possibly have spit. the stuck frozen GUI keeps staring there. So the question is how to I capture that panic text ? unfortunately I am not getting core files too, so there is nothing I can pick up hints is there some option (KDB, DDB), so that on panic system drop to debugger ? Masoom Shaikh I am having the very same problem, with my AMD64 running i386 (both 7.3-REL and 8.0-REL) keeps crashing, The best part is, if I disable ACPI it crashes before it even boots up so is the case with safe-mode and single-user-mode. With ACPI it boots up but crashes after a while. I have the vmcore files on the system. Who do I contact on this regard ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org can u load that file in kgdb in get backtrace ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card, this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. But it is important for me to press it into service. I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck. so now my questions... Will FBSD 7.3 make use of xf86cfg or some such program. I ask because the X --configure command has never worked for me; Not on any of five different machines I've put FBSD on. I'm not trying to do a sophisticated install either -- and though I've decided against running OpenBSD, the default install put's up X perfectly... (Why??) wish I knew more... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org add this line to your rc.conf hald_enable=YES and restart your machine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I see: Setting master xclock: not found Dropping master While the root screen has: drm0: Intel i845G GMCH on vgapci0 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster info: [drm] AGP at 0xf000 128NB info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 I have: hald_enable=YES in the boot up conf file (/boot/loader.conf) this line was advised to be placed in /etc/rc.conf, NOT /boot/loader.conf or you did a typo while writing this mail ? and Option AutoAddDevice Off Option IgnoreEmptyInput Off in the xorg.conf file On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card, this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. But it is important for me to press it into service. I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck. so now my questions... Will FBSD 7.3 make use of xf86cfg or some such program. I ask because the X --configure command has never worked for me; Not on any of five different machines I've put FBSD on. I'm not trying to do a sophisticated install either -- and though I've decided against running OpenBSD, the default install put's up X perfectly... (Why??) wish I knew more... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org add this line to your rc.conf hald_enable=YES and restart your machine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions, part1(c:) - NTFS part2(d:) - FAT32 part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console as free space Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. have fun!! Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? Win7 was not pre-installed. I have three partitions, part1(c:) - NTFS part2(d:) - FAT32 part3 - UFS2, not visible to Win7, visible in Disk Management console as free space Win7 is installed on part1, part2 is data drive so that bot OSes can read/write do not want to use fusefs first install Win7, then FreeBSD, then boot in Win7 and use EasyBCD to add FreeBSD as another entry remember to advise FreeBSD to not touch MBR. Understood. So for your installation of FreeBSD, selecting None Leave Master Boot Record untouched actually did work - and you did **NOT** find that sysinstall still went ahead and messed with the mbr? Sorry for the questions, but I recall a recent thread where a few people confirmed that this option does not behave as expected, and folks ended up with broken windows mbrs. yes, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056100.html thread is actually correct, for me it is fresh install, in your case it is little tricky to get it straight for a fresh install you can install FreeBSD first then Win7, and then use EasyBSD. done. i guess, i have done that too. i.e. installed FreeBSD after Win7, then used Win7 CD to repair but take care, it can fail with that irritating send, don't send dialog box so here is one trick if you got guts to try :). I recently got saved with this trick you have Win7 pre-installed, now free up some space and let FreeBSD install, select the option do not touch mbr. Next boot you will find Win7 gone. Boot from Win7 CD and let it install at same location where it is/was installed. Setup will warn you of already existing installation. It might additionally say that it will move old installation to Windows.old folder. Ignore this warning and let setup continue. If I remember correctly the second option is Extracting Windows Files(percentage). Let it come to second step and execute it for a 5 mins, then cancel the setup, ignore all warning and it will undo all changes, but by that time it will already have fixed the bootloader problem. After you cancel setup, give it all time it needs to undo, don't force reboot/power down. hope this will enable you too install FreeBSD, a great development environment have fun! Thanks again, Masoom. Regards, S Roberts have fun!! Tell me something - Which of the 3 FreeBSD boot manager options did you select, please? don't let FreeBSD touch your MBR, Win7 won't like that Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Or, am I missing something? I noted that the link by the responder in the thread also refers to a document that is based on windows vista, but will review this as well. Thanks! Regards, S Roberts Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org
why use diablo JDK/JRE ?
what is the need for FreeBSD Foundation to maintain dialbo JDK/JRE binaries when packages for openjdk are available on ftp servers ? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz stupid me, never realized, just assumed that openjdk binaries cannot be distributed I always used to download diablo, then build openjdk :( such a waste of time/effort ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: random FreeBSD panics
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it result in reasonable performance penalty. Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is. Try adding options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 to the kernel configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled log outout. ok, after few days of silence I am back with more questions this time system feels little better, it is able to sustain for more time that what 7.3-RELEASE could FreeBSD raptor 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Apr 1 01:20:45 UTC 2010 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON amd64 I am using KDE4, and when OS freezes, well it freezes, means I cannot change to tty0 and see the panic text, if any it might possibly have spit. the stuck frozen GUI keeps staring there. So the question is how to I capture that panic text ? unfortunately I am not getting core files too, so there is nothing I can pick up hints is there some option (KDB, DDB), so that on panic system drop to debugger ? Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: random FreeBSD panics
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it result in reasonable performance penalty. Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is. Try adding options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 to the kernel this option is already there configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled log outout. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
random FreeBSD panics
Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :( Many times I get vmcore files, not always. I have dumpdev set to AUTO in my rc.conf. Almost every time it just fsck's the file-system on reboot. I have not lost any files though. This is a Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop with 1GB ram, Intel Core2 Duo T5500 with ATI Radeon X1400 card. The installation in question is KDE4 from ports, with radeon/ati driver. I felt the problem is with wpi driver, then suspected dri driver of X. Then I observed system freezes even if none of this is installed. e.g. if it is under some load, like building a port and simultaneously fetching something over network it hangs, and hangs hard. This persuaded me to think something is wrong in kernel scheduling itself. May be it is lost in some deadlock, etc... Thus last weekend I thought I would see how immediate previous version i.e. FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE would behave. I reinstalled FreeBSD7.1 from iso images, svn up'ed FreeBSD7.3 source, did the normal buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld cycle. Unfortunatly this kernel is naughty as well ;-), it also freezes with same stubbornness. But difference is this time I happen to catch something interesting. It panics on NMI, fatal trap 19 while in kernel mode. Loaded the vmcore file in kgdb and got the backtrace. I obtained vmcore files on two occasions. I have attached both the back traces. This error most likely suggests hardware error in RAM, but Windox7 and XP boot just fine and never caused any errors. To verify if I have errors in my RAM I let run sysutils/memtest86+ overnight, to double verify I also executed Windows Memory Diagnostic test for four times. None of them reported errors. Can anyone here suggest any solution. Masoom Shaikh vmcore0.log Description: Binary data vmcore1.log Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: random FreeBSD panics
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :( I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org umm, how do I do that ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: random FreeBSD panics
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 13:18, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :( I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages? umm, how do I do that ? Set vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Report back if it helps or not. nopes, this didn't help too, machine freezed again after using for 30 minutes or so all it was doing is playing amarok, fetching sources from svn repos, and using firefox lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it result in reasonable performance penalty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: KDE firefox integration
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org perhaps you could try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7574 http://ramonantonio.net/kde-firefox/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
NetBSD 5.0 looks cool
here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html certain statements are very impressive in those slides like Build any NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment $ uname -s -m Linux i686 $ cd netbsd-src $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release develop and test 32 bits apps on 64 bit env cc -m 32 does FreeBSD has those two features ? also can anyone comment about locking granularity in FreeBSD kernel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com wrote: On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html If those numbers are characteristic of the operating system's overall performance, then that's a really impressive leap forward for NetBSD. That said, I use FreeBSD mainly on small, individual servers; as we all know, there's a lot more that goes into selecting a server OS than raw performance numbers. Stability, security features (like the ability to run Apache jailed with whatever random, potentially insecure CGI or PHP applications one must install), and ease of software installation and maintenance are important too, and for me FreeBSD excels at these things. But between these massive performance improvements, and its mature Xen compatibility, and the fact that they evicted Sendmail from the base system in favor of Postfix, NetBSD really has my attention. (In fact I'm setting up a VM right now so I can get a feel for how NetBSD + pkgsrc handles as a server.) Now if only it had jails... -- Mark Shroyer http://markshroyer.com/contact/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org bullets on this slide are particluarly interesting http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img6.html 20 secs from boot loader to GDM prompt 4th bullet is quite not clear what Unified kernel image for x86 means ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD sources from svn repos
Hi List, I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/ 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/ 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ (2) is easy, most probably it means stable how about (1) and (2) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
COMPAT_LINUX instead if COMPAT_LINUX32 in man page
Hi list, I prefer to statically link modules instead of loading them via loader.conf. This time I wanted to link linux.ko. The man page for 'linux' suggests to put options COMPAT_LINUX in KERNCONF. I did exactly so, only to see build failure. Failure says unknown option COMPAT_LINUX. With little poking around I figured out the options is COMPAT_LINUX32 and this did make sense as only i386 Linux binaries are supported. I guess man page is in error and needs some love. Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Norbert Papke npa...@acm.org wrote: On November 6, 2009, Masoom Shaikh wrote: problem # 1 The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings - Appearance - Fonts Hinting - Full, and there is is one more option, the name i cannot recall ATM, I have set it to RGB. DPI to 96..this is has worked for all combination of installs I have used so far, viz KDE3 on FreeBSD-6.x to KDE4.1.x on FreeBSD-7.x and KDE4.2 on FreeBSD-8.0RC1 My guess is that print/freetype2 is not built with anti-aliasing support. Rebuild it specifying WITH_LCD_FILTERING . See also http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139603 Cheers, -- Norbert Papke. npa...@acm.org http://saveournet.ca Protecting your Internet's level playing field this time I reverted back to FreeBSD-7.2 untill 8.0 I have same observations, KDE4 based apps are not anti-aliased, but GTK based are, since fonts look excellant in Firefox-3.5.5 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where's my konqueror?
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:50 PM, usleepl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra h.sku...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I installed kdebase-4.3.1_1, but cannot find konqueror. It's supposed be a part of kdebase, isn't it? % grep konqueror /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/pkg-plist bin/konqueror lib/libkdeinit4_konqueror.so [...] my 4.3.0 decided to install everything into /usr/local/kde4. so my konq is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/konqueror. don't know why. didn't dare to ask. for co-existence with kde3 regards, usleep --Herbert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems
my wlan0 is created for wpi0 (I start the wifi with /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant onestart wlan0): wlans_wpi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=NOAUTO DHCP WPA what's in your rc.conf? wlans_wpi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=DHCP WPA do I really need to put wlan0 in quotes ? cud that be the problem ? will try now removing them How can i install all files under /etc from the source ? cd /usr/src mergemaster -i thanks, i was thinking my /etc was fu*ked ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl rne...@ringofsaturn.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1 installation. building and installing was smooth as always has been. Then I pkg_add'ed xorg and KDE4, this was painless too. I am very disappointed with my experience problem # 1 The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings - Appearance - Fonts Hinting - Full, and there is is one more option, the name i cannot recall ATM, I have set it to RGB. DPI to 96..this is has worked for all combination of installs I have used so far, viz KDE3 on FreeBSD-6.x to KDE4.1.x on FreeBSD-7.x and KDE4.2 on FreeBSD-8.0RC1 problem # 2 I observed that both FreeBSD8.0-RC1 and FreeBSD8.0-RC2, simply freeze due to no reason. The pain is I don't get a core dump. When it freezes the only option is to hard boot by reseting the power. This might need more information to guess the cause. I will give basic info. This is Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop, with Intel Core2. My suspect mostly goes to wpi driver, no proof, just my gut feeling. problem # 3 starting with 8.0 wpi driver no longer is the interface, wlanX is to be created. this is not news, but every time I manually create the wlan0 interface and spawn wpa_supplicant. This shuould be automatic, as I have followed the guidelines of rc.conf(5). I can provide output of rc_debug=YES if someone is willing. How can i install all files under /etc from the source ? Masoom Shaikh Regarding #2, I suggest disabling ACPI. I also had system freezes happen on my computer until I did this but this has always been an ongoing issue with my system and I lose nothing by turning it off. Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl http://networking.ringofsaturn.com how do we disable acpi ? is it hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot ? if it is I guess I shud set it to 1 in loader.conf, it still remains 0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
KDE4 + FreeBSD-8.0-RC2, no anti aliasing
here is my ~/.fonts.conf ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd' fontconfig match target=font edit mode=assign name=rgba constrgb/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hinting booltrue/bool /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hintstyle consthintfull/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=antialias booltrue/bool /edit /match /fontconfig fonts look good, just little blurry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
bluetooth.h, c++ include error
Hello, while going through bluetooth.h, I observed int bt_devfilter(int s, struct bt_devfilter const *new, struct bt_devfilter *old); this line appears in bluetooth.h @ line # 166, rv197571 see ? the variable named 'new' will cause trouble to c++ source files i honestly believe this is not intentional, c++ programmers will have to perform some acrobats to get past this thanks, Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@k1.com.br wrote: Hello, I have the package for openoffice 3.2m49 for the FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 available for the languages EN and pt_BR in UTF-8, with full support for cups. If you are interested, I can upload the package (120Mb) in the tinderbox. please do that I think it is interesting for the FreeBSD community, as with this port, FreeBSD is much ahead then the Linux office package if it is, it is because of people like you, thanks Sergio Thanks for your attention, Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org OOo just does not make sense to compile from source unless development environment is needed. I compiled it last time and it took so long that I felt I have wasted my time and computing power for almost same result as pkg_add of pre-built binaries. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: First time user problems
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Alhaji Barrie alhaji.bar...@comcast.netwrote: I am a new user of Free BSD. I just completed the install of Free BSD on a Dell PC but I cannot get past the initial login prompt. I typed the user name I supplied during the installation process to no avail. In the last two days, I have browsed the web and used some of the suggestion provided. I also consulted the documentation in this web site. To put it simply, I am missing the syntax for the user name and password. Can someone help with the step by step process of getting past the original login screen? Alhaji I Barrie Network Security Analyst ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org fresh FreeBSD install has no root password, it is empty if you have not changed it during install. I guess you already know username for root is 'root' and there is not no specialised syntax for login ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hardware list in a machine
devinfo -v On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: local copy of handbook
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:27:31AM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: snip wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) The fdp primer introduces it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html All the docs are written it, from which the html, postscript etc. are generated. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html thank you Frank, but that was a joke :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: local copy of handbook
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html Hi Masoom, We have been working on a patch for the Handbook that adds a short description of the same process. The patch has been recently posted to freebsd-doc, by Gabor Pali: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2008-December/015315.html Since you already have written something similar, do you think we can convince you to review the patch? It would be nice if you could help us improve it or make it easier to read, and use. Hi Giorgos, I think your post was meant to be addressed to me as I wrote the above guide. even I was confused :). Damn, i have never contributed a line to FreeBSD :( am a professional C/C++ programmer on windoz with minimal expertise in using patch, binutils etc, FreeBSD is just my hobby @ home. I will contribute some day, amen thanks to guys like Frank, appreciate their work I'd be happy to review the patch that Gabor has written if necessary add or subtract from it. It will take me a bit of time to get up to speed with the mark-up review/grok the updating docs in the round. ATM, they certainly fall short of including anything about updating a local copy of the docs. I'll sign up for docs@ then my impertinent/stupid questions about the docs can be answered therehopefully ;) Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: local copy of handbook
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html Hi Masoom, We have been working on a patch for the Handbook that adds a short description of the same process. The patch has been recently posted to freebsd-doc, by Gabor Pali: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2008-December/015315.html Since you already have written something similar, do you think we can convince you to review the patch? It would be nice if you could help us improve it or make it easier to read, and use. Hi Giorgos, I think your post was meant to be addressed to me as I wrote the above guide. Yes. Sorry about that Frank :) I'd be happy to review the patch that Gabor has written if necessary add or subtract from it. It will take me a bit of time to get up to speed with the mark-up review/grok the updating docs in the round. ATM, they certainly fall short of including anything about updating a local copy of the docs. I can build a patched Handbook and upload it online, if that helps. Then you don't have to learn SGML to read it. Just let me know if you need it, and it's done. wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: local copy of handbook
On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all doc-all csup updates the source each time, but now i am not sure about doc!! If you do it that way, you have to generate the html files yourself, cvup fetches generic data files that can be used to generate html , pdf etc. What I do these days is mirror the online version with wget. #!/bin/sh cd /usr/share/doc/en wg_args= --mirror -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 --limit-rate=33k bg_flags= # Run quietly from cron [ ! -t 0 ] bg_flags= --quiet wget $bg_flags $wg_args http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org that is clever use of wget :) but can't docs remain updated with csup ? if yes, how ? otherwise I will be happy to generate them from sources if they happen to be some simple target Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
local copy of handbook
hello list, in my previous FBSD installations i always had a local copy of handbook never bothered how it got there, until now. i lost my installation due to some good ups. reinstalled minimal 7.0 and build installed kernel world uname -a FreeBSD raptor 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Dec 17 13:27:42 UTC 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARGON18 amd64 now i cannot see local copy of handbook, i had look at FreeBSD Documentation Primer but that seems overkill and geared towards contributing documentation http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/ also I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all doc-all csup updates the source each time, but now i am not sure about doc!! hints and help ? Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: amarok install failure
@@
{
if( create )
{
-check_folder = createFolder( (*it).utf8() , parent_id );
+check_folder = createFolder( (*it).utf8() , parent_id);
if( check_folder == 0 )
{
m_critical_mutex.unlock();
@@ -608,7 +610,9 @@
{
debug() Creating new folder ' name ' as a child of
parent_id endl;
char *name_copy = qstrdup( name );
-uint32_t new_folder_id = LIBMTP_Create_Folder( m_device, name_copy,
parent_id );
+// XXX: storage_id not used anywhere, so pass in 0, but upstream
+// should revisit this.
+uint32_t new_folder_id = LIBMTP_Create_Folder( m_device, name_copy,
parent_id, 0 );
delete(name_copy);
debug() New folder ID: new_folder_id endl;
if( new_folder_id == 0 )
@@ -913,7 +917,8 @@
if( item-playlist()-id() == 0 )
{
debug() creating new playlist : metadata-name endl;
-int ret = LIBMTP_Create_New_Playlist( m_device, metadata, 0 );
+ metadata-parent_id = 0;
+int ret = LIBMTP_Create_New_Playlist( m_device, metadata);
if( ret == 0 )
{
item-playlist()-setId( metadata-playlist_id );
Mel,
amaroK is one of my favorites. Any idea if/how soon your
patch will be in ports? ---It's been awhile since my last
portupgrade and I'd hate to break this one, especially!
gary
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yeah true, Amarok happens to be my fav too!! ;-)
not willing to sound impatient but when can we expect to see 2.0 in ports ?
tried building directly, but hit a block when it asked mysql lib
in ports there are quite a number of MySQL versions and they all (nearly)
have client and server ports. Not willing to break other things for the sake
of candy, i aborted
Masoom Shaikh
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Re: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port
can try `pkg_delete -a` On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? I'm considering a move to kde4 but I want a clean install, so I want to remove the kde3 meta-port first. Thanks /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing FreeBSD
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Rommel Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir/Madam: Pleasant day! First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn't be directed to you, please help me direct to the right person. Few months ago I've purchase a FreeBSD book which includes an installation DVD for FreeBSD 6.1. I tried to install it in my Toshiba Satellite, Intel Centrino with current Windows XP SP3 OS after doing some partition. But, I'm stock with boot error; sorry I'm very new to this system; I tried to search for an answer but no to avail. Here is the last part of the error: . Pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 Pci6: network at device 2.0 (no driver attached) Cbb0: PCI-CArdBus Bridge eme 0x8007000-0xb8007fff irq 16 at device 4.0 on pci6 Cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 Pccard0: 16-bit PCCard on cbb0 Fwohci0: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xb8008000-0xb80087ff,0xb80-0xb8003fff irq 18 at device 4.2 on pci6 Fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0) Fwohci0: No. Of Isochronous channels is 4. Fwohci0: EUI64 00:02:3f:58:69:40:a5:e6 NMI ISA b0, EISA ff RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. the above line is very clear to me. RAM is gone. Then it implies u cannot boot XP on this machine, can you ? Fatal trap 19: non-maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mode Instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0528586 Stack pointer = 0x28:0xc10209c4 Frame pointer = 0x28:0xc10209d8 Code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 Processor eflags = interrupt enable, IOPL = 0 Current process= 0 (swapper) Trap number = 19 Panic: non-maskable interrupt trap Uptime: 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds – press a key on the console to abort Hope you can enlighten me on this matter. Thank you and more power! Best Regards, RommelTan --- The information contained in this Internet message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity identified. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of the information contained in this Internet message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) immediately. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: large binary, why not strip ?
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:42:12AM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? do I miss anything ? I haven't seen anyone point out the downside to stripping binaries and libraries: removal of debugging symbols. Agreed. But not every 'user' is interested in backtrace. It can be argued user can send the trace to someone who is. Well my only point is choice, I should have choice to install un-stripped bins only if I wish, since for those who have no idea what such symbols are, backtrace is some kind of boring text. I don't like bins for which `nm` does not give me symbols :) I was just wondering if installing stripped bins may save small space for those of whom PC means mail, IM, mp3, orkut etc The apebajs program suddenly crashes in some library, here's the now-completely-useless backtrace. The user is then forced to go back and recompile *everything* to get debugging symbols. The non-stripping situation is on a per-port basis, AFAIK. Not all ports have WITH_DEBUG. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: large binary, why not strip ?
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? me too do I miss anything ? no. I am confused why both of you are seeing most of the programs installed this way. Can you confirm that this is true and not just an exaggeration? As Matthew says, there are some ports that fail to strip their binaries because of how they install files (using cp etc). These are bugs that should be reported to their maintainers on a case by case basis. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before sending mail I manually stripped * in /usr/local/bin else I cud send u the o/p of `ls -lhS` yes, most is bit exaggerated...I perhaps was talking about first five binaries listed in increasing order of size... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? do I miss anything ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash9 checklist
will this howto work for amd64 ? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Steve Polyack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen Lock wrote: Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox: (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on -emulation...) If you have additions to this please post a followup to this thread, keeping the Cc: (I'm not on -questions...) 1. You need RELENG_7 from at least Mon Oct 20 11:15:57 2008 UTC (the relevant MFC commits are: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=183819 http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=184075 - a recent HEAD should also work of course.) There are linprocfs patches for RELENG_6 too (merging the former commit), but the latter commit can't be merged to 6 (and 7.0) since they lack the cpuset bits, so flash9 probably won't work on SMP there. (Although if you have SMP you probably should be running 7 anyway. :) Oh and if you do have SMP you also need to use the ULE scheduler, the cpuset syscalls are not supported with 4BSD. linprocfs patches for 6: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.3.patchhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Enox/linprocfs-6.3.patch http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.4.patchhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Enox/linprocfs-6.4.patch 2. Your portstree needs to be from at least Sun Oct 19 17:37:28 2008 UTC (the last www/linux-flashplugin9 commit is: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2008-October/158404.html ) 3. Make sure linprocfs is mounted to /compat/linux/proc . 4. Make sure www/nspluginwrapper, www/linux-flashplugin9 and dependencies are installed and up to date(!). (the default emulators/linux_base-fc4 should work, if you want to use a later one don't forget to set compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 in sysctl.conf and OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT to whichever version you use in make.conf. Note however that on 6, only the default compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 really works.) 5. If the plugin doesnt show up in firefox' about:plugins, run nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so and restart firefox. 6. And remember there's a security advisory for the current version of flash9, http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/78f456fd-9c87-11dd-a55e-00163e16.html (if you use portaudit you need to `make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES ...' to be able to install the port), and fc4 seems to be eol'd too, so you probably want to install something like the noscript firefox extension, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 and only allow plugins (and scripts, tho thats a different problem) on sites you trust... And finally, if you still get crashes after following the above even on pages that are reported to work now (like youtube) you probably want to run `ktrace -di firefox...' and look at the output using linux_kdump (thats the devel/linux_kdump port, you want to use a package), paying specific attention to the lines above `PSIG SIGSEGV' (or whichever signal you got), maybe there are still shlibs missing that the plugin needs (NAMI ...something.so...), and if this is the case tell us about it so the appropriate dependencies can be added to the relevant ports. If you can't figure it out I guess it doesn't hurt to post the last few 100 lines of the dump up to the relevant PSIG on -emulation... You may also want to check linked shlibs like this: /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so and /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin (if you see `not found' in there you know something is wrong) - although that doesn't show libs that may be dlopen()d at runtime. Thanks for this. I was able to get linux-flashplugin9 working in native Firefox 3.0.3 on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386. The only additional thing I had to do was copy /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.sointo ~/.mozilla/plugins/ for Firefox to recognize the plugin. After that Youtube, google video, and google maps (incl. street view) work fine, but slow. A friend of mine with a very similar setup was not so lucky and still has problems with flash9 locking up FF. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE
Hi folks, y'day I csuped the src and built installed the kernel from RELENG_7 I was expecting FreeBSD-BETA2 in output of `uname -a` it is still -PRERELEASE, is it by decision or I have to change something ? I greped /usr/src for PRERELEASE but cud not locate it. I guess release engineering team does that. comments ? Aston ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE
thanks to all those gr8 comments, I learnt. and sorry for creating noise, I was in office and thus could not put required effort. as far as liking of release names goes, I feel BETA-x naming practice serves the purpose, it makes sense to casual users. changing version with date is too fastjust my two cents if they count ;-) Aston On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Fri, 10/24/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE To: Masoom Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 6:26 AM On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 03:07:32PM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hi folks, y'day I csuped the src and built installed the kernel from RELENG_7 I was expecting FreeBSD-BETA2 in output of `uname -a` it is still -PRERELEASE, is it by decision or I have to change something ? I greped /usr/src for PRERELEASE but cud not locate it. I guess release engineering team does that. comments ? This question keeps coming up. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-October/184992.html RELENG_7 == PRERELEASE. There is no BETA2 tag to follow. No one is sure at this point where the BETA2 string has come from (meaning why it was idealised or why it's being used). I'm of the belief that it's something Ken is hand-hacking in newvers.sh before building + making ISO releases and putting them up on the mirrors. And I am also of the opinion that this should stop, and we should simply name the releases PRERELEASE-MMDD to signify the build date. It seems likely. I've only ever seen -PRERELEASE and -STABLE, when tracking RELENG_[0-9] branch. On the other hand, I have seen -RELEASE, -BETA, -RC, etc, when installing from media. Perhaps differentiating these isn't a bad idea, however, when it comes to uname output in PR's, despite the queries it generates over here. A media install can always be safely assumed to be a given set of code, while if someone is tracking a branch via cvsup, the build time would show up in uname output, however the user may still need to be queried for rcsid's or asked to cvsup to the latest if the issue is considered to possibly be a base system and/or kernel code issue. It's probably worth discussion and consideration, though. I don't know if/how useful the utility of the current naming conventions are to folks trying to solve potential code bug PRs. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
