Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/28/12 1:52 AM, sw2wolf wrote: uname -a FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #3: Fri Sep 30 15:23:56 CST 2011 r...@mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 I am using 8.2 for a long time. And it works VERY well. Any suggestion is

Re: Delete files let FreeBSD crashes.

2012-02-28 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/28/12 8:11 AM, netroby wrote: i installed freebsd 9 on virtualbox, when i try to delete a directory with following command: rm -rf ./zf2 the system will halt , then restart. i had using fsck -y to check the filesystem, but seems not work. following the output: *** HALT ***

Re: find not traversing all directories on a single zfs file system

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 02:21, Robert Banfield wrote: I have some additional information that I didnt see before actually digging into the log file. It is quite interesting. There are 82,206 subdirectories in one of the folders. Like this: /zfs_mount/directoryA/token[1-82206]/various_tileset_files

posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm putting together a small presentation about FreeBSD for our IT support staff. Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially? The info here is a bit out of date: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html Thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together a small presentation about FreeBSD for our IT support staff. Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially? The info here is a bit out of date: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html Looking at the doc its not that out of

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together a small presentation about FreeBSD for our IT support staff. Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially? The info here is a bit out of date:

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 + Anton Shterenlikht articulated: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together a small presentation about FreeBSD for our IT support staff. Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully?

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 + Anton Shterenlikht articulated: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together a small presentation about FreeBSD for

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/28/12 21:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 + Anton Shterenlikht articulated: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together a

FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread shanib.k.k
HI, Hi am a Ruby on rails developer. I have done a project in ROR and currently its hosted in Ubuntu.Now the requires it to be changed to FreeBSD. As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. Am using Windows OS in my personal system.How

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Blackman
On 28 Feb 2012, at 11:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: sorry to be a pain. Are we talking 10%, 50%, 90% complete? Depending on how you weight the various items of POSIX compliance, a finger-in-the-air guess would be around 90%, but I think only the -hackers list can give you a good answer.

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out. Currently, the machine here runs 8.3 and will stick to 8 until 10.0 or 10.1 will arrive at the scene. But for technical reasons, I have left one machine on 7 after the

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 05:43, shanib.k.k wrote: Hi am a Ruby on rails developer. I have done a project in ROR and currently its hosted in Ubuntu.Now the requires it to be changed to FreeBSD. As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The best place

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Jerome Herman
On 28/02/2012 12:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 + Anton Shterenlikht articulated: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 01:30:09PM +0100, Jerome Herman wrote: On 28/02/2012 12:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 + Anton Shterenlikht articulated: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:

VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? I _was_ considering it for some tests I was running... :( ___

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Stas Verberkt
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:21:35PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out. Currently, the machine here runs 8.3 and will stick to 8 until 10.0 or 10.1 will arrive at the scene. Just

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/28/12 2:14 PM, Stas Verberkt wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:21:35PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out. Currently, the machine here runs 8.3 and will stick to 8 until 10.0

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 13:14, Stas Verberkt wrote: Just wondering: is there any difference between an even and an uneven branch? No. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP:

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread RW
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:52:24 +0100 Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 2/28/12 2:14 PM, Stas Verberkt wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:21:35PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out.

Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread David Walker
Hey. I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. From upgt(4) ... This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of the firmware which can be installed via pkg_add(1) is

zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Randy Schultz
Howdy howdy, Got a zpool that lost a drive: Feb 24 20:46:01 booto kernel: (da30:mpt3:0:6:0): lost device Feb 24 20:46:41 booto kernel: (da30:mpt3:0:6:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0xa, scsi status == 0x0 Feb 24 20:46:41 booto kernel: (da30:mpt3:0:6:0): removing device

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
The real issue is that the USB boot device sits at da16 and if any of the da members below da16 drops, the usb boot device becomes da15 at next boot. The loader.conf still looks at da6 for root device and that is not present. How to solve this issue?

Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Randy Schultz spaketh thusly: -} -}I thought the spare was supposed to come online and be resilvered -}automatically. Did I miss some config thing -}or did I just misunderstand how the hot spare bit works? Gah. Forgot to check the beasty forums (tnx Mark for the gentle

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To PXE-boot a VM guest, set networking to to Bridged and use the PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A)

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:13:41 +0530, shanib.k.k wrote: As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The basic documentation on how to install and configure the system can be found in The FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ available from the main web

Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 15:21, Randy Schultz wrote: Got a zpool that lost a drive: Feb 24 20:46:01 booto kernel: (da30:mpt3:0:6:0): lost device Feb 24 20:46:41 booto kernel: (da30:mpt3:0:6:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0xa, scsi status == 0x0 Feb 24 20:46:41 booto kernel:

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:52:13 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hey. I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. From upgt(4) ... This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:41:29 -0800, bsali...@gmail.com wrote: The real issue is that the USB boot device sits at da16 and if any of the da members below da16 drops, the usb boot device becomes da15 at next boot. The loader.conf still looks at da6 for root device and that is not present. How

Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Matthew Seaman spaketh thusly: -} -}Yes. That's the generally accepted meaning of the concept of a 'hot -}spare.' The fact that the spare hasn't been automatically bought -}on-line in this case is a bug. There's an open PR on the subject: -}

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To PXE-boot a VM guest, set networking to to

tar --exclude not working

2012-02-28 Thread Peter
Hello, Ran into a weird issue where the 'exclude' pattern to tar isn't matching correctly: pkbsd:$find ./ ./ ./file ./dir1 ./dir1/file ./dir2 ./dir2/file This is expected: pkbsd:$tar Jcvf /tmp/tar.test ./ a . a ./file a ./dir1 a ./dir2 a ./dir2/file a ./dir1/file This is correct: pkbsd:$tar

User disappeared during update error

2012-02-28 Thread Ron (Lists)
I did a upgrade to FreeBSD 9 a few weeks ago and just started using it, and when I try and create a new user, I get the follow: pw: user 'todd' disappeared during update adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (todd). I first noticed this issue when trying to install postfix and got a

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:52:32 -0800 (PST), sw2wolf czsq...@163.com a écrit : Hello, I am using 8.2 for a long time. And it works VERY well. If it works don't break it :) I don't use 9.0 on production server, but as far I can see on my desktops (at home and at work) that works fine (with USF2

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Feb 28, 2012 4:13 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out. Currently, the machine here runs 8.3 and will stick to 8 until 10.0 or 10.1 will arrive at the

Re: DTrace userland

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Abramowitz
Here's another way to cause a kernel panic: [marca@freebsd9-0 ~]$ sudo kldload dtraceall [marca@freebsd9-0 ~]$ cat -n test.c 1 #include stdio.h 2 3 int main() 4 { 5sleep(15); 6 7FILE *fp = fopen(hello.txt, w); 8fprintf(fp, Here I am at %s:%d.\n,

Webcam Selection

2012-02-28 Thread Cy Schubert
Hi all, After a number of years just lying in desk drawer my old Logitech spherical webcam died. So, I'm looking for a new one. It's not that I use it a lot. My wife will be heading out of province to our son's place next month to be there for the birth of our first grandson. The plan was to

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
Thanks, I got the part where you can label the partitions but the loader doesn't look at labels. Loader looks at ufs:/dev/da0 So how can this be resolved at boot time (not mount time). Thanks. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Label the drives and use

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, bsali...@gmail.com bsali...@gmail.comwrote: The real issue is that the USB boot device sits at da16 and if any of the da members below da16 drops, the usb boot device becomes da15 at next boot. The loader.conf still looks at da6 for root device and that is not

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
Adam, This worked like a charm :-) I found that my umass-sim0 is at scbus6 and added following lines in loader.conf hint.scbus.6.bus=umass-sim0 hint.da.0.at=scbus6 hint.da.0.target=0 hint.da.0.unit=0 Thanks a lot. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia wtorek, 28 lutego 2012 13:08:04 bsali...@gmail.com pisze: Thanks, I got the part where you can label the partitions but the loader doesn't look at labels. Loader looks at ufs:/dev/da0 So how can this be resolved at boot time (not mount time). Thanks.

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
Maciej I didn't know if the label would work in loader.conf. This solution suggested by Adam worked and seems much simpler than labeling the filesystem. hint.da.0.at=scbus6 Thanks. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl wrote: vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/label/bigdisk

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/29/12 03:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To

Re: Webcam Selection

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/29/12 06:46, Cy Schubert wrote: Hi all, After a number of years just lying in desk drawer my old Logitech spherical webcam died. So, I'm looking for a new one. It's not that I use it a lot. My wife will be heading out of province to our son's place next month to be there for the birth of

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 02/29/12 03:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network

Re: Delete files let FreeBSD crashes.

2012-02-28 Thread netroby
Thanks . I had resolved the problem : 1. restart FreeBSD to single user mode. 2. umount all device then run fsck -f 3. after finished the fsck, restart FreeBSD , return to normal mode. 4. delete the broken directory, and restore the data from backup. 5. every thing seems ok now. netroby

Re: DTrace userland

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Abramowitz
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Rui Paulo rpa...@freebsd.org wrote: Please file a PR. These are problems that we have to fix. I submitted a PR for the kernel panic at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=165541 Marc ___

Re: DTrace userland

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Abramowitz
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Marc Abramowitz msabr...@gmail.comwrote: Here's another way to cause a kernel panic: [marca@freebsd9-0 ~]$ sudo kldload dtraceall ... [marca@freebsd9-0 ~]$ sudo dtrace -n 'pid$target:test:main:entry' -c ./test dtrace: description

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread David Walker
Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. I'm so unfamiliar with pkg_add I'm not sure if that is normal. I'm very new here. Certainly it's not in a suitable format

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. A port (as you can find it inside the archive) is a recipe

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.4.rc5 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2012-02-28 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.4.rc5 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world (help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users). The patch [3] for nVidia users is now included in the package

Re: Webcam Selection

2012-02-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, February 29, 2012 a las 10:20:12AM +1000, Da Rock escribió: On 02/29/12 06:46, Cy Schubert wrote: Hi all, After a number of years just lying in desk drawer my old Logitech spherical webcam died. So, I'm looking for a new one. It's not that I use it a lot. My wife will

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