Enabling atapi-cam and other kernel features
Recently, I read in the FreeBSD handbook, that in order to use the atapi-cam support, it has to be compiled into the kernel. Why not include the atapi-cam support in a module that can simply be loaded by the user without rebooting the machine? It seems like it would be much eisier and less of a hassle that way. It seems like recompiling the kernel (I have done it before) is an awful lot of work just to be able to use some features of the DVD drive which most new computers have these days. The user should be able to add new hardware support to the kernel and reconfigure as much of it as possible without recompiling it, or even rebooting it. This is especially true in troubleshooting where quick changes may be needed and where recompiling each time a setting is changed becomes quite awkward. Allowing more run time configuration would both make FreeBSD more configurable and expert friendly as well as easier to use for everyone. I think in order to make software easy to use, it needs to be highly configurable, and not require a recompile just to add hardware support. Thank you. __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package upgrade problems
Lately I have been having a lot of trouble installing packages from the FreeBSD packages-6-stable packages collection. Often it ends with error messages like this: portupgrade -PP -R -N inkscape --- Skipping 'x11-toolkits/libgnomeprintui' (libgnomeprintui-2.10.2) because a requisite package 'libgnomecanvas-2.12.0' (graphics/libgnomecanvas) failed (specify -k to force) --- Skipping 'textproc/gtkspell2' (gtkspell2-2.0.10_1) because a requisite package 'gtk-2.8.9' (x11-toolkits/gtk20) failed (specify -k to force) --- Skipping 'graphics/inkscape' because a requisite port 'devel/gconf2' failed (specify -k to force) ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11-toolkits/gtk20 (gtk-2.8.9) (package not found) * devel/gconf2 (gconf2-2.12.1) * devel/gnomevfs2 (gnomevfs2-2.12.2) * misc/gnome-icon-theme (gnome-icon-theme-2.12.1_2) * devel/libglade2 (libglade2-2.5.1_3) ! print/libgnomeprint (libgnomeprint-2.10.3_1) (package not found) * graphics/libgnomecanvas (libgnomecanvas-2.12.0) * x11-toolkits/libgnomeprintui (libgnomeprintui-2.10.2) * textproc/gtkspell2 (gtkspell2-2.0.10_1) * graphics/inkscape --- Packages processed: 0 done, 54 ignored, 8 skipped and 2 failed Apparently, some of the packages that inkscape depends on have not been built yet, or, these dependancy packages have been deleted and replaced with new versions, but inkscape has not been rebuilt yet to use them and requires the old versions still. I have a brilliant solution to this problem. Why not simply rebuild all prerequisite packages before rebuilding the package that depends on them? Also, when building a new version of a library package for instance, in addition to placing the new version on ftp, also leave the old version there, if the old version is still being used by a another package that has not been rebuilt yet to use the new version. This would prevent new packages from being installed and replacing older packages until all dependancies have been built, and would also make sure that when a dependancy is rebuilt, the old version of the dependancy remians as well for any packages that have not been rebuilt yet to use the new version of the dependancy. This means that multiple versions of the same dependancy would be present in the FTP directory, until the old version is no longer need by any other packages. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with Tor, SSH packages
I have recently fetched the Tor package from 5-stable, and I have run into some odd problems. Whenever I try to start Tor, I get the following result: tor Oct 02 21:25:37.550 [notice] Tor v0.1.0.14. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. Oct 02 21:25:37.551 [notice] Configuration file '/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc' not present, using reasonable defaults. Oct 02 21:25:37.551 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method kqueue Segmentation fault It is unusual for it to segmentation fault like that and it indicates there is something wrong. Also, I have seen similar behaviour with SSH, where if I also get a segmentation fault when I attempt to start it. ssh -l myaccount localhost Segmentation fault I also noticed that there is no screen utility in the stable packages either. Any help with these issues is greatly appreciated, thank you. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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 Tor, SSH packages
Strangely enough, the SSH problem seems to only happen on some user accounts but not others. The Tor problem seems to exist on all user accounts. --- Alistar Erlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently fetched the Tor package from 5-stable, and I have run into some odd problems. Whenever I try to start Tor, I get the following result: tor Oct 02 21:25:37.550 [notice] Tor v0.1.0.14. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. Oct 02 21:25:37.551 [notice] Configuration file '/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc' not present, using reasonable defaults. Oct 02 21:25:37.551 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method kqueue Segmentation fault It is unusual for it to segmentation fault like that and it indicates there is something wrong. Also, I have seen similar behaviour with SSH, where if I also get a segmentation fault when I attempt to start it. ssh -l myaccount localhost Segmentation fault I also noticed that there is no screen utility in the stable packages either. Any help with these issues is greatly appreciated, thank you. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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 Tor, SSH packages
Ive included some debug output if its any help. gdb /usr/local/bin/tor tor.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you ar welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain condition Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd...(no debugging symbols fo .. Core was generated by `tor'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)... Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libssl.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3...(no debugging symbols )...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1...(no debugging symbols found one. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.1a.so.1...(no debugging symb ound)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.1a.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.5 Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypto.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...d Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypto.so.3 Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)... Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x28153fc1 in MD5_Final () from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 (gdb) bt #0 0x28153fc1 in MD5_Final () from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 #1 0xbfbfe3b4 in ?? () #2 0xbfbfe280 in ?? () #3 0x280b7b12 in r_debug_state () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) gdb /usr/bin/ssh ssh.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd...(no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `ssh'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x in ?? () (gdb) --- Alistar Erlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently fetched the Tor package from 5-stable, and I have run into some odd problems. Whenever I try to start Tor, I get the following result: tor Oct 02 21:25:37.550 [notice] Tor v0.1.0.14. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. Oct 02 21:25:37.551 [notice] Configuration file '/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc' not present, using reasonable defaults. Oct 02 21:25:37.551 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method kqueue Segmentation fault It is unusual for it to segmentation fault like that and it indicates there is something wrong. Also, I have seen similar behaviour with SSH, where if I also get a segmentation fault when I attempt to start it. ssh -l myaccount localhost Segmentation fault I also noticed that there is no screen utility in the stable packages either. Any help with these issues is greatly appreciated, thank you. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! for Good Donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ ___ 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 Tor, SSH packages
I have no experience with Tor, but if you have several things that crash with segfaults it's usually a good indicator that you might have some hardware problems. I dont think its a hardware problem because I dont have these problems with other programs, and it happens *Every time* i try to start these two programs. If it was a hardware program it seems it would be more random than that. The problems also started *after* i upgraded to the latest packages from 5-stable. Previously they worked fine. I also noticed that there is no screen utility in the stable packages either. Screen is in /usr/ports/misc/screen -Glenn Any help with these issues is greatly appreciated, thank you. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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] __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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 read FreeBSD partition under winXP?
Did you try this one: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/. --- snnn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to read FreeBSD partition under winXP? Is there some freeware I can download? I think this is a frequently question, I searched it on google, and find one named FFS Driver Mount Manager on sourceforge.net.It's easy to use,but I can only mount one partition /... Who can told me how to use it? Or give me a link to another similar software? Thanks. p.s.I'm a newbie of this mail list,is here any FAQs (of this mail list) I can read first? -- http://www.freewebs.com/snnn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: Defragmentation needed with FreeBSD ...
--- Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/2/05, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/2/2005 9:40:11 AM, Gerard Seibert Replied: I have both Windows and FreeBSD boxes, and I can honestly say that I do not hear the hdd scratching (I certainly hope it is not scratching). It sounds to me like you have a serious problem with your HD. Perhaps it is time to trade it in for a newer model. Yes, a HD should not be heard, then it's time to be very afraid! It happened to me yesterday, so I know... :( You know, it depends. Most of my Seagate drives are almost silent, but Maxtor and Hitachi (IBM) can easily be heard. They can? I have always taken sound as a sign of troubles. Anyway, any should above should be taken with a grain of salt. :) SMART have some merit. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: Defragmentation needed with FreeBSD ...
--- Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/2/05, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/2/2005 9:40:11 AM, Gerard Seibert Replied: I have both Windows and FreeBSD boxes, and I can honestly say that I do not hear the hdd scratching (I certainly hope it is not scratching). It sounds to me like you have a serious problem with your HD. Perhaps it is time to trade it in for a newer model. Yes, a HD should not be heard, then it's time to be very afraid! It happened to me yesterday, so I know... :( You know, it depends. Most of my Seagate drives are almost silent, but Maxtor and Hitachi (IBM) can easily be heard. They can? I have always taken sound as a sign of troubles. Anyway, any should above should be taken with a grain of salt. :) SMART have some merit. /andreas I would say that if the HDD starts making new noises that it didnt make previously, then definitely there may be something wrong. Some hard disks do make noises when reading data, others do not. I have had some that are easily heard, and they always were that way, and others that are silent. As far as backing up data, CDs are an option but with a lot of data that gets a bit inconvenient, maybe one of the GUI CD writer tools on FreeBSD makes spanning multiple CDs less of a performance. Maybe there is some tool to verify the CDs where written properly as well. I hope. I have another computer that I just copy the data to. Some people just install two hard drives inside their system and use the second as a backup. Some people use external USB hard drives. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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 read FreeBSD partition under winXP?
--- snnn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alistar Erlas wrote: Did you try this one: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/. YES! just this one. But it only mounted the / partition.I need /var,/usr/,etc... Well, I think that what is happening is perhaps your /var, /usr and so on are under different partitions or subpartitions (disklabels as freebsd calls them). If so, you should be able to still get to them by mounting each of those partitions seperately with ffsdrv. Latest versions of ffsdrv have support for disklabel subpartitions. This means that /usr, /var may be mounted on windows under seperate drives, like X:\, Y:\, Z:\ etc. FreeBSD lets you mount other partitions into directories on the root / filesystem partition. One partition can be the / filesystem, and new partitions can be mounted at /usr, or another other location. Windows on the other hand represents each partition with a drive letter BTW,sorry for sending this thread 2 times,because I received an delivery failure notification from my smtp server. This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this a dead adress in this maillist? need we report it to the administrator? -- http://www.freewebs.com/snnn __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
User configurable swap files
Hello, I have a feature idea that might be interesting and I think would be very useful. I think it would be an excellent feature to be able, in addition to using a swap partition, also be able to create files in a filesystem that can be used for additional VM space, especially which can be created while the kernel is running and a maximum size that can also be configured during run time. I have run into the problem of where the system has run out of VM space on the system, but I would rather not have to repartition. This would add a lot of flexibility as well by allowing the swap space used on the disk to be variable, only the amount of space needed could be used rather than a fix sized partition. It is important to allow users to define as many swap files as they wish. Users could for instance define swap files on filesystems on flash memory sticks that you plugin to USB ports. Instant memory upgrade. Or they could set them up on remote filesystems. many possibilities. Thank you, for your attention it is greatly appreciated. You attention to this letter is greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
