Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is deliberate. If the system panics, stuff that was in the message buffer (and might not be on disk) can be read when the system reboots. If there is no crashdump, this might be the only record of what

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:48:36PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:39:36PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: I hope that never gets committed - it will make debugging kernel problems much harder. There is already a

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is deliberate. If the system panics, stuff that was in the message buffer (and might not be on disk) can be read when the system

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:48:36PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:39:36PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: I hope that never gets committed - it will make debugging kernel problems

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:31 - Pegasus Mc Cleaft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am having difficulties rebuilding the world after some patches were made today. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same troubles? ld -static -N --gc-sections -nostdlib -m

Re: Reccomendation for tools to use on FreeBSD for a wiki ?

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:24:21 +0100, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi hackers, Maybe Some of you might suggest some software I might install, Wiki I guess. ? I got zero response from ports@, I could use some reccomendations please. PS From http://wiki.freebsd.org/HelpContents I

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Kevin Day
On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:03 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: This has two problems, but I'm probably missing something: 1) See my original post, re: users of our systems use dmesg to find out what the status of the system is. By status I don't mean from the point the kernel finished to now, I

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Freddie Cash
On November 20, 2008 02:42 am Nate Eldredge wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:48:36PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:39:36PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: I hope that never gets

Re: Reccomendation for tools to use on FreeBSD for a wiki ?

2008-11-20 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi, Will you tell us which one you selected? Happy to, when I know which why, likely it'll be a while before that. Just an unpaid hobby, not spending 8 hours/day on selection/install tuning. Whether then I'll remember to post, or you'll want to remind me, we'll see :-) PS I started with

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Olivier SMEDTS
What is your MACHINE_ARCH ? Mine is amd64, I think there's a problem with the conditional in sys/boot/i386/gptzfsboot/Makefile. ld doesn't need gptzfsboot.o on i386. Olivier 2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/20 Pascal Hofstee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:31

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Olivier SMEDTS
2008/11/20 Pascal Hofstee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:31 - Pegasus Mc Cleaft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am having difficulties rebuilding the world after some patches were made today. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same troubles?

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Olivier SMEDTS
2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/20 Pascal Hofstee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:31 - Pegasus Mc Cleaft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am having difficulties rebuilding the world after some patches were made today. I was wondering if

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Olivier SMEDTS
2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/20 Pascal Hofstee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:31 - Pegasus Mc Cleaft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am having difficulties rebuilding the world after some

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
On Thursday 20 November 2008 18:57:53 Olivier SMEDTS wrote: What is your MACHINE_ARCH ? Mine is amd64, I think there's a problem with the conditional in sys/boot/i386/gptzfsboot/Makefile. ld doesn't need gptzfsboot.o on i386. Olivier 2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Olivier SMEDTS
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 07:49:06PM +, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2008 18:57:53 Olivier SMEDTS wrote: What is your MACHINE_ARCH ? Mine is amd64, I think there's a problem with the conditional in sys/boot/i386/gptzfsboot/Makefile. ld doesn't need gptzfsboot.o on

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-20 Thread Olivier SMEDTS
2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 07:49:06PM +, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2008 18:57:53 Olivier SMEDTS wrote: What is your MACHINE_ARCH ? Mine is amd64, I think there's a problem with the conditional in