Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under
Virtual Box runs it great, both as a host and a guest (its also in the port collection) ___ 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
Lenovo X200s
The Thinkpad series has always had strong FreeBSD support with the two digit models (Xnn) but I am a bit iffy on Lenovo's attempts to morph the Thinkpads into something else via the three digit series (Xnnn). Anybody own a X200s and successfully running FreeBSD 7.x? Cheers, -Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware timekeeping
I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on boot, I routinely lose 15 minutes a day (I keep it up 24x7). I think it is not so much a bug in VMware as opposed to the host OS running slower than it thinks (e.g. maybe a second of OS time is really 1.01 seconds of real time adding up over long periods) if the native OS is under moderate to heavy use. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up Smart Cards? (SCR3310)
Morning everybody, How exactly does one setup FreeBSD (primarily Firefox and Thunderbird) to use smart cards. While I understand both FF and TB have security device settings, trying to figure out how to get FreeBSD to first recognize my card. I have both a STCII and a SCR3310 and not sure what do once I plugged them in and inserted card. Can't find any documentation on this either. # dmesg ugen0: SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR3310 USB Smart Card Reader, class 0/0, rev 2.00/5.18, addr 3 on uhub3 ugen0: at uhub3 port 2 (addr 3) disconnected ugen0: detached ugen0: SCM Microsystems Inc. STCII Smart Card Reader, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.40, addr 3 on uhub3 And then what? Thanks, -Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun Fire x2100
--- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know about? I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server. They have an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with thousands of open connections. Have seen this on my system and have have had a dozen or so folk email me with the identical problem. -Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GELI + sync issue
Hallo, Recently updated to 6.2RC1 and upon reboot GELI is now asking me for a password when it attempts to mount /dev/ad0. This is left over from an old atempt at removable fulldisk encryption that is no longer used. I can type the password wrong 3 time and then it mounts /dev/ad0 as normal. Trying to figure out how correct this. 'geli dump /dev/ad0' lists the metadata (namely the -b problem) but a 'geli kill /dev/ad0' states Userland and kernel parts are out of sync (I also get his prob when I attempt to mount a geli swap partition) I don't think I am actually out of sync though as uname -a gives proper output and I have gone through the src/UPDATING and FBSD Handbook building world process 3 times now. All appears to be working except this. Anybody have any pointers on how to fix and do so w/o losing my current data. Some fun outputs: #bsdlabel /dev/ad0 bsdlabel: /dev/ad0: no valid label found #geli kill -v /dev/ad0 Userland and kernel parts are out of sync. #fdisk *** Working on device /dev/ad0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED # # geli dump /dev/ad0 Metadata on /dev/ad0: magic: GEOM::ELI version: 0 flags: 0x2 algo: AES keylen: 256 provsize: 80026361856 sectorsize: 4096 keys: 0x01 iterations: 66523 Salt: blah Master Key: blah MD5 hash: blah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opera and FreeBSD
My name is Anna Rajsman and I am working in Opera Software. Hallo Anna. Sorry for the rudeness you will get from many of the users on here. I have been using Opera on *nix for nearly a decade now and unlike our flamers, I understand all Opera *nix distro's fall under the Linux subgroup at Opera ... whether this is linux, freebsd, or solaris. Recently I took over Linux distribution at Opera Good deal. A short piece of advice for you is to quickly realize *nix is not monolithic like Microsoft software and Linux / Solaris / *BSD are entirely separate (though similar is some respects) operating systems and not subsets of each other. Many of the more vocal users (who often represent the minority of total users) will immediately tune you out or not give you the time of day for you failing to realize this as they perceive it as an insult. It basically shows you didn't take 30 seconds and google to do you homework. Its like calling a Porsche a BMW because both are European manufactured cars. and I have been going through the distribution agreements we have with Linux providers and I haven't found any with FreeBSD Linux. See above, FreeBSD is NOT a linux distro. We would like to ask you if you would like to distribute the Opera browser with your OS? Or maybe you are doing it already? Would you like to sign a distribution agreement with Opera? Many folk will question the need for this and to be honest, I am not sure if Opera is currently already distributed on the FreeBSD port disc (basically 3rd party application cd). The PROPER people to contact concerning this though are the folk over at the FBSD Foundation who control the legalities. See: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ Last just to warn you, you will find many FBSD Opera users are hostile to Opera itself. Opera has long ignored FBSD specific problem with their software in favor of focusing on Linux development only. See Opera's own FreeBSD forum. Basically if the problem affects Linux and FBSD its fixed, if it effects FBSD only its put on the back burner. This use my product while we ignore your issues has made many of us current (and former) Opera users on FBSD embittered towards your org. We like your product, we despise your treatment of us. -Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 Release delayed?
What do they mean by this ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/schedule.html that schedule is the perfect world schedule. things have slipped. This has bothered me and has done so since I first started tracking this site back around 5.1 .. why is it the FBSD RELENG team can't take 5 minutes or so once or twice a week to update this site for all us mere mortals who try and plan service windows around items like this (similiar to Microsofts patch tuesday and such)? -Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected
What help do you need to implement the above? Not a coder or software debugger sort of guy so pretty much all :) (as I ain't going to understand the logging / bachs / ktrace output anyways). What does somebody who might understand what is going on need me to provide them. What exactly do I run through ktrace and for that matter, what is ktrace. Same deal with *full logging* with bachs. Think of me a debug stupid ... just a port maintainer not a kernel / code guy :) I can google bachs and ktrace but guessing you all have specific ideas / syntax already in mind. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:09:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: It's not clear what he means by hard crash, but he also says power off, which is the part that is most confusing to me. Hmmm...I missed that part. Yeah, if it powers off then I'm not sure what you can do to debug it. By hard crash I mean the box just instantly powers off. No shutdown syncs, no error, panic's, or dump generated, nothing logged in syslog, and I have a serial cable hooked up to another another dumb terminal hoping to maybe catch a panic or some debug message dumped out over serial as it goes down but nothing there also. It just stops. Also note that this didn't happen on 5.x. And when not running those particular ports the box stays up just fine for weeks on end. Just tried again with 6.1 PRERELEASE and same issue. About all I can think of is to try to reproduce the problem with enough logging enabled (e.g. running the binary under ktrace), with sync-mounted filesystem, and hope that the last few entries give the software developer enough of a clue what the process was doing at the time of shutdown (the operation itself probably will not be logged) that he can focus the investigation further. Want to walk me through this and will do. As I said, reproducible. NOTE: I doubt it a linux syscall issue as i2p / freenet / and tor are all build on FBSD, not linux binaries. Freenet and I2P do use linux-java (as the new diablo ones aren't avaiable for amd64) BUT tor does not. Its all C. Also as noted, other people (using i386, not just amd64) have emailed me (as the tor maintainer) with the exact same problem on entirely different hardware (different nics, motherboards, proc's etc etc). Somebody suggested maybe a ACPI issue but I just don't see how that could me it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected
Hallo everybody. Will prob end up PR'ing this but want to post to the list first and get some feelers. At first I thought it was just me but as the port maintainer for tor-devel I have had a couple other folk email me with the exact same problem (believing tor to be the cause). Its not. Problem: When tor (running in server mode), i2p, or freenet is ran (all high bandwidth, high number of concurrent tcp / udp / ip connections, maybe 2000+ sim connects @ a constant 4 mb) between the 2 and 4 hour mark a system running FBSD 6 will hard crash and power off. This is reproducible (though not on demand, just on arbitrary time between 2 and 4 hours). Troubleshooting so far: - It is NOT an issue on 5.x. It is an issue on both 6.0 and 6.1BETA4. - It is not easy to reproduce. I assume a couple hundred people use these ports and I have only had a dozen or so report this problem to me. All of the people suffering from this though CAN reproduce this crash on demand. I have to assume though the other 99% of users though do not see this error for unknown reasons. - It is not a port issue (as tor/i2p/freenet all can cause it). It is not a java issue (was another early worry of mine but tor is written in C). - The hard crash does NOT generate a dump or panic for anybody I have spoken with. /var/crash comes up empty every time. - It is not platform or hardware specific (this was my initial guess). I have seen this on both the amd64 and i386 archs. I have also seen it on various motherboards and nic's (bge, nv, em). To reiterate, running 5.x on identical hardware does not cause this crash. - It is not a tunable or sysctrl issue as far as I can tell. Spent the last month tuning and watching my system limits and all appears to be good. - My gut feeling is this has something to do with the new network stack introduced in 6.0. - When not running one of the aforementioned ports, system does not crash. I have a three week uptime currently on one of my testbeds experiencing this problem. If I start tor / i2p / or freenet I will crash within hours. Help would be appreciated in resolving this or troubleshooting further. I am at a loss here and me (along with a couple other folk that have emailed me) have some nice expensive paperweights now as they crash on use. If you are developer and want to look into this, I can provide all the info you need, just let me know exactly what it is. Thanks, -Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spam on the list
Lately I have noticed a massive increase in SPAM on various FBSD lists. Do we not have some sort of filter? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Sun X2100 servers: Anybody see any glaring issues with FBSD6 in amd64 mode with them?
So I am thinking about getting one of those new Sun X2100 servers. Was going to go with a competing item a couple days ago but these just came out and are actually priced pretty competively. Anybody have one yet or see any glaring incompatibilities with FBSD 6? Going to ship directly to a colo (where I will install via serial + term server) and going to rather annoyed if I can't get FBSD running on it. On an unrelated to FBSD question, anybody happen to know what a sun service processor is .. its in the options. Curious if FBSD can even use it or if its an OS independent funciton. http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/specifications.jsp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Co-location
I have always had good luck with John Companies (http://www.johncompanies.com/) ... might also want to try Vixie's personal colo site: http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ -Peter --- Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote: Hi, I'm looking for FreeBSD co-located servers on united states or any other country that have good internet connections, for a secondary backup of data and web host for the company I work to, sorry for this OT message, but could any of you send me good sites where i can find this? Is difficult to judge well too outside of this market. TIA, Vinicius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may want to try my ISP. http://home.gti.net/Default.htm Bob Perry ___ 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]
