Re: AMANDA 2.5.1p2 and GNU tar 1.16.1, the latter returning 1
Hi, Does anybody besides me have problems with AMANDA 2.5.1p2 and GNU tar 1.16.1? The problem is that gtar exits with an exit status of 1 after creating the archive. This leeds to AMANDA dumping the affected filesystems at least twice. [..] Here's an exerpt from an AMANDA mail report: /-- monitor.fig.ol.no / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1] sendbackup: start [monitor.fig.ol.no:/ level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/gtar -f - ... sendbackup: info end ? GNUTAR: ./proc: file changed as we read it | Total bytes written: 173752320 (166MiB, 3.0MiB/s) sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1] \ the exit status of 1 is due to ./proc: file changed as we read it. As you probably don't want to backup /proc anyway, exclude it from your backup config. Wolfgang ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMANDA 2.5.1p2 and GNU tar 1.16.1, the latter returning 1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:31+0100, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: /-- monitor.fig.ol.no / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1] sendbackup: start [monitor.fig.ol.no:/ level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/gtar -f - ... sendbackup: info end ? GNUTAR: ./proc: file changed as we read it | Total bytes written: 173752320 (166MiB, 3.0MiB/s) sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1] \ the exit status of 1 is due to ./proc: file changed as we read it. Are you absolutely sure? gtar is run with, among other options, --one-file-system and - --ignore-failed-read. As you probably don't want to backup /proc anyway, exclude it from your backup config. This shouldn't be neccessary since / is the only specified filesystem. Trond. - -- - -- Trond Endrestøl | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 6.2-S Pine 4.64 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFxFZhbYWZalUoElsRAs3XAJ9LCdlXLXAemoloa+GaItKt8K8zsQCdHrLQ bZwU2/DGVrcL9CdaL1O/JuE= =56Zy -END PGP SIGNATURE-___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Binary Compitability
How important is it to include Linux binary compatibility when installing 6.2-RELEASE? I am guessing it is only needed if I want to use an application that was compiled by/for Linux, but I am new to FreeBSD so I will be using it mostly for: 1 - learning the system (i.e. what goes where, when and why) and how to configure whatever can be configured. 2 - running GNUstep and related development applications to compliment my Obj-C/Cocoa development. 3 - running GNOME and/or KDE since GNUstep has a limited number of applications available, most notably, a web browser. 4 - learning to create and use shell scripts to customize my environment. The only applications I will be using are the ones in the ports collection that I can use portmanager to create and update. 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Binary Compitability
Thomas Roberts wrote: How important is it to include Linux binary compatibility when installing 6.2-RELEASE? I am guessing it is only needed if I want to use an application that was compiled by/for Linux, but I am new to FreeBSD so I will be using it mostly for: 1 - learning the system (i.e. what goes where, when and why) and how to configure whatever can be configured. 2 - running GNUstep and related development applications to compliment my Obj-C/Cocoa development. 3 - running GNOME and/or KDE since GNUstep has a limited number of applications available, most notably, a web browser. 4 - learning to create and use shell scripts to customize my environment. The only applications I will be using are the ones in the ports collection that I can use portmanager to create and update. Your assumption is correct. Linux binary compatibility is only necessary when you need to install some pre-compiled binaries from Linux system, and this is usually a last resort if you don't get source code. Native versions, if available, are usually better. Cheers, -- Xin LI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: parallel port printer: interrupt storm system slowdown with 6.2-release
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:32:05 +0100, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the parallel port in polling mode with 'lptcontrol -p'. Or by putting 'hint.ppc.0.flags=0x28' in /boot/device.hints, and reboot. Roland I already tried all the lptcontrol modes, including -p, without success. Any other ideas? Regards, Jost Menke ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:07:12 + Bruce M. Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until the btx code is rewritten to deal with BIOS routines which expect to be run from within real mode and not vm86 mode, GRUB is probably the most convenient workaround for the issue. Hmm, I am trying to get grub to work. Do I need a special version of grub in order to boot FreeBSD? I now have an external usb hard drive with the following partitions: 1: primary partition, FreeBSD (6.x) 2: primary partition, FreeBSD (7.x) 3: extended partition, contains - linux-swap (2 GB) - linux, ext3 Ubuntu 6.10 with grub 0.97 (it is the version that comes with Ubuntu 6.10) as boot loader. However, when I try to load FreeBSD, it doesn't work, I only get this error: 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS I also tried grub-install with the --force-lba parameter, that didn't help either. Any hints? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dd as an imaging solution.
Several months ago I was using Freesbie 1.x to dd a harddrive across the network as a drive duplication effort. This worked 7 computers got the image. I'm trying to do this again so I got the new Freesbie release 2.0 and fired it up across the computers and tried something simple such as: dd if=/dev/ad0 bs=1m | nc othercomputer 1 on the image provider nc -l 1 | dd of=/dev/ad0 bs=1m on the computer to receive the image. I received an operation not permitted. My first thought was they must be mounted. a quick check, and it seems they weren't. Next, am I really root? And sure enough I was. After a bit of discussion in #freesbie on freenode got me to set kern.geom.debugflags to 16 and I was able to write to ad0 like I had previously done. Yet when I tried to write to an individual slice I was presented with the same error. Anyone have any clue ? The eventual goal is to have a mass imaging all at once with dd, nc and tee ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless + ndis on Compaq TC1000 revisited
On Saturday 03 February 2007 02:05, John Nielsen wrote: This is a bit of a followup to my post of over a year ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-November/020289.ht ml I've been playing with FreeBSD on the TC1000 Tablet PC again lately and brought it up to 6-STABLE. Compaq still has the same (Windows) drivers for the built-in wlan device as they did the last time, and it still doesn't work with ndis (ndisgen succeeds but the module causes a panic when it is loaded). However today I was able to locate an alternate driver for the card on one of the secondhand Windows driver websites. It's an NDIS 5.1 driver that works with my hardware under Windows XP, but it doesn't seem terribly modern (it comes with its own utility for setting the wireless settings). Under FreeBSD, ndisgen produced a module without any problem, and this one _doesn't_ case a panic when loaded. And it only sometimes causes a panic when trying to configure the interface (possibly just a race condition at boot). I'm now able to configure the interface and see it associate on both ends. When I attempt to get a DHCP lease, the DHCP server sees the request and sends an offer but the tablet never receives it for some reason. So it seems I can send (on Layer 2 at least) but not receive. Layer 3 doesn't work in either direction, presumably because the tablet never gets any ARP replies. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with similar situations and/or ideas for workarounds or troubleshooting strategies (or even vague theories). The files I'm using are netvnpci.inf and pcifvnet.sys--a FastVNET PCI 11M Network Adapter driver from ATMEL. In case anyone's interested (Milan O, are you out there?), I got this working (for basic values of working). I didn't actually get anywhere with the NDIS 5.1 (WinXP) driver, but I can send _and_ receive using the NDIS 5.0 (Win2k) driver. The driver is a pseudo-ethernet driver (from the days before Windows had 802.11 support) so it has some warts, but working is better than not, IMO. I actually had the same problem with this one as I did with the other one (could send but not receive) until I disabled usbd. No idea why that matters, but running usbd definitely makes the driver stop receiving packets. This might be related to the issues I was having with the XP driver, but the same workaround (disabling usbd) didn't have any effect with that one. For anyone who might want to do the same thing, here's what I did: Download Atmeldrivers.zip (9.7M) from DriverGuide.com (registration required). Extract and go to the USB Adapter/Driver and Utility/Drivers/PCI/win982k directory. Run ndisgen using NETVNpci.INF and pcifvnet.sys. Copy the resultant pcifvnet_sys.ko into /boot/modules. Add 'pcifvnet_sys_load=YES' to /boot/loader.conf. Add 'ifconfig_ndis0=DHCP' to /etc/rc.conf. Create an /etc/rc.early file with contents similar to this: #!/bin/sh sysctl dev.ndis.0.ESSID=myssid ifconfig ndis0 up sleep 5 Apply the attached patch to src/sys/dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c, then rebuild and reinstall the ndis and if_ndis modules. This might be optional (not 100% sure), but without it you'll get lots of complaints about unknown ethernet speeds. The patch just tells the driver to treat all the wireless speeds as 10baseT. Reboot. I'm not sure if setting the ESSID is necessary or even useful, since the card will associate fine without it. I also don't know if or how well WEP works using the registry-key sysctls. I'm still open to thoughts on why the WinXP driver wouldn't work or why this one only works without usbd, but I'm probably done messing with it for a little while at least. JN --- if_ndis.c.orig Sat Feb 3 15:51:11 2007 +++ if_ndis.c Sat Feb 3 17:23:27 2007 @@ -2007,6 +2007,18 @@ case 10: ifmr-ifm_active |= IFM_10_T; break; + case 1: + ifmr-ifm_active |= IFM_10_T; + break; + case 2: + ifmr-ifm_active |= IFM_10_T; + break; + case 55000: + ifmr-ifm_active |= IFM_10_T; + break; + case 11: + ifmr-ifm_active |= IFM_10_T; + break; case 100: ifmr-ifm_active |= IFM_100_TX; break; ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with s5000PAL using a SRCS16 in Raid 5 with 5 * 500gig drives
Hello, Does anyone have any suggestions how to better diagnose this problem? I have installed a trimmed down custom kernel with a rebuild of the latest stable version and it did not make a difference. It would be great to get to the bottom of the reason for the odd freezing from time to time as the system is not stable in its current state. What tools do people use to diagnose such problems as I have never had this problem in Freebsd? Thanks, Paul I have been having troubles installing the amd64 platform on an Intel S5000pal system with the SRCS16 Raid controller using Raid 5 with 5 * 500gig drives. In order to get it to install I had to split the raid setup into two logical arrays. I guess it was too close to the 2TB limit as it was giving me read sector error when booting. However I now have it booting but it gets stuck at the Attempting to mount / (the root partition). This goes on for like 20 minutes and then it finally proceeds. This seems odd and clearly is a problem to mount the small / root partition that is only a few gigs big. Does anyone have an idea what is going on here? I also noticed it with adding a user it added the user but got stuck for like 10 minutes before proceeding. This system has 16GIG of ram using the amd64 platform and has 2 dual core cps running. I installed the centos just to see if there were any problems with this operating system (in case this was hardware related) but it worked 100% without any fuss. The problem is I want to use Freebsd :) So I do not believe this is hardware related. If anyone reading this has set up a S5000PAL system can they let me know what settings they used to have a successful installation? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd on laptop (len problem)
i installed freebsd 6 on a old laptop, it's p3 600 mhz. everthing goes fine, but after installation, my len is not working. It's IBM 10/10 EtherJet CardBus Adapter and connected in pcmci . it's not detected. Any idea ? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
