Trading cautiously on new ports

2006-02-25 Thread Chandan Haldar
I managed to recover from my misadventures (trying to upgrade gnome) the dumb way, namely, by reinstalling FreeBSD (6.0 Release) and the ports from the ISO CD images. Fortunately the process is fast and painless. Hats off to the folks who make the ISO images. I have over 300 ports installed.

Re: AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus

2006-02-25 Thread Konstantin Dimitrov
according to http://www.ixbt.com/monitor/aver-cardbus-hybrid.shtml AverTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus uses Xceive XC3018 Silicon Tuner ( http://www.xceive.com ) and that chip is not supported from the saa.ko: Makevars: # Onboard Tuner Selection flags # # Default tuner API type is TUNER_APITYPE_PHILIPS #

Install USB Printer on FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread Alin Tuhut
Hello, I am trying with no luck setting up a an USB Xerox Phaser 3116 printer on FreeBSD 6.0 I have installed and enabled CUPS and from the CUPS web admin area I have added the printer as USB Printer #1. When I try to print a test page the printer makes a normal noise like it is trying to get

Re: Install USB Printer on FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:23, Alin Tuhut wrote: Hello, I am trying with no luck setting up a an USB Xerox Phaser 3116 printer on FreeBSD 6.0 I have installed and enabled CUPS and from the CUPS web admin area I have added the printer as USB Printer #1. When I try to print a test page

pf binat problem

2006-02-25 Thread Leon Botes
# network diagram #__ # | | dsl1_if---dsl1_rt # | | # pri_net---pri_if| freebsd | dsl2_if---dsl2_rt # |pf| # dmz_srv---dmz_if| firewall | dig_ifdig_rt #

Re: Install USB Printer on FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread robert
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 12:28 +0200, Alin Tuhut wrote: robert wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 11:23 +0200, Alin Tuhut wrote: Hello, I am trying with no luck setting up a an USB Xerox Phaser 3116 printer on FreeBSD 6.0 I have installed and enabled CUPS and from the CUPS web

winmodem driver

2006-02-25 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... is there a win modem driver in 6.0 that can be used with the build-in modem on ibm thinkpads? thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: winmodem driver

2006-02-25 Thread Robert Slade
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 11:21, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... is there a win modem driver in 6.0 that can be used with the build-in modem on ibm thinkpads? thanks... Kalin, Probably not as the Win bit normally stands for windows.. Have you looked in the supported HW list:

Re: winmodem driver

2006-02-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Saturday 25 February 2006 05:21, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... is there a win modem driver in 6.0 that can be used with the build-in modem on ibm thinkpads? Have you tried /usr/ports/comms/mwavem ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

queries providing write support to ufs2 in linux

2006-02-25 Thread rachana maniyar
hello, Currently I am trying to give write support to the UFS2 file system in linux 2.6.10 which is a native file system for FreeBSD operating system.Right now the UFS2 has just read-only support in linux. The current status is that i have been able to create the directories

Re: Ping timeout

2006-02-25 Thread Ken Stevenson
Gargi Bodke wrote: Hi I am new to this list and new to freebsd also. I have a Freebsd server set up with apache and qmail on it, with an ADSL connection to the internet. Most of the time the server works fine but it is not available early mornings and weekends. The machine is physically at

Mailinglist via news-server

2006-02-25 Thread Kees Plonsz
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increase semon

2006-02-25 Thread Ramon Echols
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RE: winmodem driver

2006-02-25 Thread fbsd_user
Modems are manufactured for two target markets, MS/Windows and every thing else. Winmodems are cheep because the hardware controller function is handled by the software you have to install into windows. This hardware controller function is contained in a chip on the modem circuit board.

wireless question

2006-02-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
Up 'till now all my (home) netwrok computers are cabled. My FreeBSD-6.1PR is hidden in the closet (I want no noise!) The problem is my new notebook -- it's wireless. so now I have to learn how to deal with this. I don't want my server leaving the closet (too much noise). Can someone give me some

RE: Asus P5MT-M and FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-25 Thread fbsd_user
Sounds like a bug to me. Submit a problem report on it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben House Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 2:13 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Asus P5MT-M and FreeBSD 6.0 I am attempting to install

RE: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread fbsd_user
Your testing is way to general to make the blanket statement that something is wrong with FreeBSD. You say you did a transfer between boxes but give no details how you did it or what operating system is on the sending and receiving boxes. Did you use FTP or ssh? Ssh has know buffer size problems

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-25 11:51, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 24 February 2006 at 14:10:59 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-24 16:50, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably a good idea. Can somebody from the doc project comment? Yes. I would

Re: wireless question

2006-02-25 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up 'till now all my (home) netwrok computers are cabled. My FreeBSD-6.1PR is hidden in the closet (I want no noise!) The problem is my new notebook -- it's wireless. so now I have to learn how to deal with this. I don't want my server leaving the

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:54, ptitoliv wrote: Mathieu CHATEAU a écrit : try this: ping -c 1000 -s 1500 IP_TO_PING wait for the 1000 ping to go trough. You should not have more than 0,5% of loss (is the servers aren't overload). If it's more or equal than 0,5%, it comes from the network

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread ivan . roth
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later renamed to The Complete FreeBSD. I have always retained full rights to the book, and for today I've

Re: no usb detection during load

2006-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter de Rooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: More symptoms: - the detection of the usb drive after adding to fstab was a fluke. The next few boots it was missing again... - I have seen the usb mouse and printer appear at boot twice now; each time after changing boot parameters (boot verbose,

Re: Ping timeout

2006-02-25 Thread Gargi Bodke
I ping the IP. DNS is fine. I use the same ISP as the server. So when it works the server is 2 hops away. Will check out on Freebsd firewalls. On 2/25/06, Ken Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gargi Bodke wrote: Hi I am new to this list and new to freebsd also. I have a Freebsd server

RE: setting up french keyboard

2006-02-25 Thread Webster, Andrew
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:34 To: Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD and HP DV4000

2006-02-25 Thread Nelson Carnauba
Hi, Everyone, I am MSC candidate, and i have been doing a study on open source and distributed software development, and for this, i am searching for learning more about open source communities and their best practices applied in this development environment. So, i am migrating to freebsd

Is it hack? How to prevent!

2006-02-25 Thread The Happy
Hello everyone, I'm on freebsd 4.8R acting as a webserver and email server, I keep getting In my /var/log/messages a strange 3 type of messages, 1) mysqld[8541]: error: /etc/hosts.allow, line 212: twist option in resident process last message repeated 73 times 2) inetd[50977]:

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread chris
If you are testing it through your home this test is irrelevant as there is a lot that could cause it to slow down if you test it from the freebsd box to another freebsd box on the same switch i bet it would be faster then the shity debian box the internet is a weird place one momment its quick

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD (5150)

2006-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Greg, I want to thank you for you help in making FreeBSD what it is today. I first met Greg on a fluke and a weird one that that too. While working in techsupport at Linuxcare, and the only one to my knowledge doing so running FreeBSD, I was sitting there one day and

Re: winmodem driver

2006-02-25 Thread kalin mintchev
Have you tried /usr/ports/comms/mwavem ? thanks David... i'll try it but this one is way newer - it's a t30... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Trading cautiously on new ports

2006-02-25 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Chandan Haldar thusly... This led me to find out how to check out the effects of installing a new port or new versions of installed ports (from a portsnap fetch or cvsup download) non-destructively by extracting the new version of a port PATH as a non-root

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-25 Thread Kristian Vaaf
At 16:59 24.02.2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-24 16:45, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:47 21.02.2006, Kris Anderson wrote: --- Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I don't know what's wrong. But all my makes error out. I've tried over and over again. And

Re: How to ensure one blank line on top of ASCII files?

2006-02-25 Thread Kristian Vaaf
At 01:51 14.02.2006, Randy Pratt wrote: Hi, I'm replying offlist since this isn't particularly a FreeBSD question. Something like this may work for you: addline.sh: == #!/bin/sh #Check if file begins with blank line, if not, insert a blank line

RE: Is it hack? How to prevent!

2006-02-25 Thread fbsd_user
What this means is you have no firewall blocking the port numbers those services use. Or you really do have mysql, and SSH installed and people are trying to remotely login and your box is doing its job of denying the unauthorized login attempt. But my money is on the firewall. You have none or

RE: pf binat problem

2006-02-25 Thread fbsd_user
This question was just covered on this list during the last 7 days. Search the questions archives at http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leon Botes Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 5:15 AM To:

Re: winmodem driver

2006-02-25 Thread James Long
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:21:12 -0500 (EST) From: kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: winmodem driver To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 hi all... is there a win modem driver in 6.0 that can be used with the

install-info: menu item '...' already exists (was Re: Unable to install 'dirmngr')

2006-02-25 Thread Jonathan Noack
When attempting to install 'dirmngr', I am greeted with this error message: gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/security/dirmngr/work/dirmngr-0.9.3/tests' gmake[1]: Leaving

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread Kris Anderson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later renamed to The Complete FreeBSD. I have always retained full

Re: Redirecting Traffic with PF

2006-02-25 Thread Frank Staals
Noel Jones wrote: On 2/24/06, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I have an FreeBSD server/firewall running 5-Stable with PF. I want to redirect all udp traffic on port 27902 from the internet to a computer in my network. I used this rule but I have some problem with it: sometimes

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD (5150)

2006-02-25 Thread James S Blankenship
Another note of thanks for The Complete FreeBSD. I first bought the third edition published by Walnut Creek CDROM. In fact, it's sitting on my desk now. It's the book that kept me at FreeBSD when I was most frustrated. I'm still relatively new at this, but I love learning all I can about

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread ptitoliv
Mathieu CHATEAU a écrit : Are the debian freebsd on the same segment ? if so, are they using the same router/gateway ? No, there is the same CISCO Router between the two boxes. did you customize/set up things, like ipfw or set specific things via sysctl ? I tried to modify the tcp

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread ptitoliv
Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Not hardly. I'll bet that 950kB/s for the Debian box was the peak download speed and it didn't maintain it through the entire download. Don The Debian Box is capable to make a 5 MB/s stable connection easily. Regards, Ptitoliv

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-25 21:22, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 16:59 24.02.2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-24 16:45, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of the reason I think, why most people these days seem to go (back) to DragonflyBSD. This is very uncalled for. If

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread ptitoliv
Danial Thom a écrit : It seems unlikely that he'd get good throughput in one direction if the link was hosed. One dropped packets and you're shot. The easy way to test this is to eliminate the switch..hook the Freebsd box directly to the linux box. Impossible to do that because the boxes

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread ptitoliv
fbsd_user a écrit : On one side there is a Debian Sarge 3.0 box On the other side there is a FreeBSD 5.3. I made the same tests on another network (same architecture but on a different hosting service network) On one side there is a Debian Sarge 3.1 On the other side there is a FreeBSD 5.4

Unable to find 'automake'

2006-02-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
Using FreeBSD 5.4 While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message: Making all in libMG Making all in src cd ../.. /bin/sh /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/work/portmanager-0.4.1/missing --run automake --gnu libMG/src/Makefile automake: not found WARNING: `automake' is missing on

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:30, ptitoliv wrote: Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Not hardly. I'll bet that 950kB/s for the Debian box was the peak download speed and it didn't maintain it through the entire download. Don The Debian Box is capable to make a 5 MB/s stable connection easily.

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread ptitoliv
Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Maybe, but not to the internet on an 1.5Mb/s connection. Your aDSL line is only good for at most 1.5M and that's not guaranteed to happen all the time. There are a lot of things that go on to throttle that. At home I can connect between computers at 100 Mb/s, so

pork missing a perl library

2006-02-25 Thread Anthony Philipp
Hello everyone, When I try to run pork, I get this error: $ pork /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by pork It used to work, and I certainly didn't manually remove the library, so I'm not quite sure what to do. This might help: $ uname -a FreeBSD

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 February 2006 18:00, ptitoliv wrote: Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Maybe, but not to the internet on an 1.5Mb/s connection. Your aDSL line is only good for at most 1.5M and that's not guaranteed to happen all the time. There are a lot of things that go on to throttle that. At

Updating OpenSSH

2006-02-25 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, quick question. How do I update the OpenSSH which ships with FreeBSD6.0-RELEASE by default? It's just that I dont feel secure running an old version (4.2p1) of OpenSSH when there is a newer (4.3) version available. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Unable to find 'automake'

2006-02-25 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:23, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using FreeBSD 5.4 While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message: Making all in libMG Making all in src cd ../.. /bin/sh /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/work/portmanager-0.4.1/missing --run automake --gnu

Dummynet with Dynamic IPFW Rules

2006-02-25 Thread RW
I've been looking into using Dummynet for outgoing traffic, and I've found it hard going because the tutorials and how-to's deal with it in isolation, without indicating how it would be used in a real firewall. They generally suggest setting net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1, which as I understand

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2006-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-26 01:25, Daniel A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, quick question. How do I update the OpenSSH which ships with FreeBSD6.0-RELEASE by default? It's just that I dont feel secure running an old version (4.2p1) of OpenSSH when there is a newer (4.3) version available. To get security

Re: Unable to find 'automake'

2006-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using FreeBSD 5.4 While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message: Making all in libMG Making all in src cd ../.. /bin/sh /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/work/portmanager-0.4.1/missing --run automake --gnu

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2006-02-25 Thread Daniel A.
So, basically, if I want the newest version of OpenSSH running on my system, I have to not use the one shipped with 6.0-RELEASE, and install OpenSSH from ports? On 2/26/06, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-26 01:25, Daniel A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, quick question.

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2006-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-26 03:32, Daniel A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, if I want the newest version of OpenSSH running on my system, I have to not use the one shipped with 6.0-RELEASE, and install OpenSSH from ports? Maybe. But do you *want* the latest version? If the base-system version is

anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Robert Huff
I just had my -CURRENT* machine crash under moderate load. No dump is available because the machine locked hard, but I did copy this off the screen: re0: diagnostic failed to receive packet in loopback mode re0: attach aborted due to hardware diagnostic failure panic: mtx_lock() of spin

changing Sendmail server's IP address, nightmare!

2006-02-25 Thread Curtis Hart
Does anyone have any specific information on making IP address changes to Sendmail servers since I have found that this situation is a lot more difficult/tedious than I had thought. The Sendmail server in question is also providing DNS for a web server, but I would like to use our new

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:33:06PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: I just had my -CURRENT* machine crash under moderate load. No dump is available because the machine locked hard, but I did copy this off the screen: re0: diagnostic failed to receive packet in loopback mode re0: attach

Re: Some SMP questions

2006-02-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 23, 2006 7:23:53 PM -0500 Jerry Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default kernel doesn't support SMP. You have to recompile with the SMP config and it'll start getting your other processor. Thanks, Jerry. I've compiled a few Linux kernels, and I can tell you, compiling the

Re: changing Sendmail server's IP address, nightmare!

2006-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-25 19:35, Curtis Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any specific information on making IP address changes to Sendmail servers since I have found that this situation is a lot more difficult/tedious than I had thought. The Sendmail server in question is also providing

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Robert Huff
Kris Kennaway writes: Before I take this to current@ - has anyone seen anything like this before? A quick check of the archives and the web in general didn't show anything. You need to at least get a traceback from the panic, and preferably a crashdump. Understood.

Re: pork missing a perl library

2006-02-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:07:36PM -0600, Anthony Philipp wrote: Hello everyone, When I try to run pork, I get this error: $ pork /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by pork It used to work, and I certainly didn't manually remove the library, so I'm not

error to build scilab-3.1.1 from port

2006-02-25 Thread lveax
hey all i have freebsd6.0 installed $ uname -rsm FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386 i can't build scilab-3.1.1from port i got this error Creation of ../../libs/tclsci.a making all in routines/pvm... cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Dfreebsd -DWITH_ATLAS -I/usr/local/include -c pvm_grp.c cc

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:33:06PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: I just had my -CURRENT* machine crash under moderate load. No dump is available because the machine locked hard, but I did copy this off the screen: re0: diagnostic failed to receive packet in

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:08:47PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:33:06PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: I just had my -CURRENT* machine crash under moderate load. No dump is available because the machine locked hard, but I did copy this

Re: pork missing a perl library

2006-02-25 Thread Anthony Philipp
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:49:42PM +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:07:36PM -0600, Anthony Philipp wrote: Hello everyone, When I try to run pork, I get this error: $ pork /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:08:47PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:33:06PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: I just had my -CURRENT* machine crash under moderate load. No dump is available because the

Re: pork missing a perl library

2006-02-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:18:41AM -0600, Anthony Philipp wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:49:42PM +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:07:36PM -0600, Anthony Philipp wrote: Hello everyone, When I try to run pork, I get this error: $

Re: VPN Jail(s) ...

2006-02-25 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:03:26PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I asked this a little while ago, and had alot of good answers ... but, after doing some thinking, I'm wondering if there might be a better way of doing it, that removed the requirement for 'hitting' the base operating

Re: A question on console and UTF-8

2006-02-25 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:35:51PM +0200, a wrote: How to force a console to use a multibyte character set (UTF-8)? I use FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. AFAIK, FreeBSD does not support UTF-8 locales on text console. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

libtool port directory error during portupgrade

2006-02-25 Thread Xn Nooby
I was trying to update my system from FreeBSD 6.1 P#1 to FreeBSD 6.1 P#2, and after I did a portupgrade -arR, the following text was in the output: snip --- Cleaning out obsolete shared libraries [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 196 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ---

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:22:59PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: re0: diagnostic failed to receive packet in loopback mode re0: attach aborted due to hardware diagnostic failure panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex (null) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb,c:862 re0 is a Linksys EG-1032, less than

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:22:59PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: re0: diagnostic failed to receive packet in loopback mode re0: attach aborted due to hardware diagnostic failure panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex (null) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb,c:862 re0 is

Re: libtool port directory error during portupgrade

2006-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:55:44AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I was trying to update my system from FreeBSD 6.1 P#1 to FreeBSD 6.1 P#2, and after I did a portupgrade -arR, the following text was in the output: Read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Kris pgpwnhNOoN4HU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libtool port directory error during portupgrade

2006-02-25 Thread Xn Nooby
Thanks, that indeed had the answer. I guess I will reinstall. On 2/26/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:55:44AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I was trying to update my system from FreeBSD 6.1 P#1 to FreeBSD 6.1P#2, and after I did a portupgrade -arR, the

Smbfs hang when connection broken

2006-02-25 Thread Jonathan Wallace
Processes that access a share from a remote machine hang if the connection goes away. I'm using FBSD V5.4 and mount_smbfs. This can be replicated by the following sequence: 1) Share a file system from a remote Windows machine. 2) Mount the share using mount_smbfs 3) Start a tar() command to