FreeBSD 9.1 RC3 fails boot on Ivy Bridge?

2012-11-06 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I just downloaded 9.1 RC3 (amd64 USB img) and I tried to install it on an Ivy Bridge CPU system (Gigabyte Z77 DS3H motherboard) without success: the system starts to boot but suddenly blows up and reboots. I tried to boot with verbose mode but this does not help to determine the

osm2pgsql abort trap 6 !?

2011-12-13 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I've compiled converters/osm2pgsql from ports (FreeBSD 9.0-RC1) and when I try to run it I get: Abort trap: 6 I'm trying to see if I have any problem with missing dynamic libraries or whatever, but when I do a ldd `which osm2pgsql` I get: /usr/local/bin/osm2pgsql:

What happens with lang/gnustep-base in FreeBSD 9?

2011-11-20 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I'm currently running the 9.0 RC1 version of FreeBSD and the lang/gnustep-base cannot be installed: it says I need an Objective C compiler but I actually do: clang version 3.0 is an Objective-C compiler too. So what's wrong here? Are there any license issues or something? Thanks,

ZFS import/export weird behaviour

2011-11-03 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I created a ZFS filesystem on a freebsd-zfs partition. So far so good. Now the problem comes when exporting and importing it. I have two boxes with 9.0-RC1. On one of them zfs import says the filesystem is corrupt, whereas in the other box zfs import works fine. How so? Any ideas

FreeBSD 9.0RC1: zpool fails to import an exported pool?

2011-10-31 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I'm plugging this external USB drive of 250Gb on 9.0RC1 and doing this: LAB:~# zpool create MYPOOL /dev/da4 LAB:~# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT MYPOOL 232G 89,5K 232G 0% 1.00x ONLINE - LAB:~# zpool status pool: MYPOOL state: ONLINE

Re: Recommended nVidia card for cuda/opencl on FreeBSD?

2011-10-24 Thread Antonio Vieiro
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:37:28 +0200 Antonio Vieiro articulated: Would anyone on the list suggest a cheap nVidia replacement that can do cuda/opencl? Define cheap. Below USD$50 would be perfect, below USD$75 would be not-so perfect. Above that would be expensive just for experimentation

Re: Recommended nVidia card for cuda/opencl on FreeBSD?

2011-10-24 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:59:58 -0700 From: ??? nm.kn...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Recommended nVidia card for cuda/opencl on FreeBSD? To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID:        cahi1jscy8qt-v7aeqn6bnpp78jgxiz3t32iyosn0nxko7ug...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type:

Recommended nVidia card for cuda/opencl on FreeBSD?

2011-10-23 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I think I'll replace my old ATI Radeon HD 2400 with an nVidia card. The idea is to do some cuda/opencl experiments on FreeBSD. Would anyone on the list suggest a cheap nVidia replacement that can do cuda/opencl? Thanks in advance, Antonio

State of LuaJIT2 port?

2011-10-17 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, As far as I can tell there's no port of LuaJIT2 in FreeBSD. I think there were some problems to have this up and running. Does anyone know of advances on this port? Thanks, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

lock order reversal @ FreeBSD 9.0B3

2011-10-14 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I'm seeing weird messages at dmesg saying someting about lock order reversal (see below) on my FreeBSD 9.0 beta 3. I think this has something to do with the filesystem, so I'm a little bit worried. Does anybody know if this is a known bug? (If so, how do you know?) Shall I report it?

Re: Why does apache22 port want python?

2010-11-04 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Maybe this is configurable in the port? I don't think apache22 depends on python at all, but maybe some apache plugin does. I'd try with make config install clean Cheers, Antonio On 04/11/2010 19:30, Tom Worster wrote: I don't need python for anything, afaik. What does apache want it for?

Re: how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Antonio Vieiro
crontab -e ? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Cheers, Antonio 2010/8/18 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl:  Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron

Can't control laptop's lid... how to debug?

2010-08-18 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I am unable to control my laptop's lid. Whenever I close the lid the system enters a weird state and I have to reboot. I've already added #Lid switch notify 0 { match system ACPI; match subsystem Lid; match notify 0x00; action xset dpms force off; }; notify 0 { match system ACPI;

Status of Java in FreeBSD? (OpenSolaris is dead)

2010-08-13 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, Now that OpenSolaris is dead [1] I was wondering what the status of Java is in FreeBSD. I'm currently using OpenJDK16 from ports. Is OpenJDK free from Oracle hands or not? Would it be possible it dissappearing from the ports because of licensing/patent issues? If so, what are the

Re: Status of Java in FreeBSD? (OpenSolaris is dead)

2010-08-13 Thread Antonio Vieiro
On 13/08/2010 20:57, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote: I'm currently using OpenJDK16 from ports. Is OpenJDK free from Oracle hands or not? Depends what you mean by free. It's under the GPLv2, so I think you should be good wrt copyrights. I

Re: problem mounting USB drive

2010-08-10 Thread Antonio Vieiro
On 10/08/2010 17:32, Ott Köstner wrote: [...] In the /var/log/messages the following message appears: Aug 10 18:27:40 ott kernel: mountmsdosfs(): bad FAT32 filesystem The drive is OK and works fine with Windows. Also, USB flash thumb drives work fine, when used in the same manner with my

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, I heard that Linux filesystems were not reliable because of some bad way of doing caching or something like that. For a study on Linux FS reliability see [1] by Toshiba guys. It seems Linux was upset on this about one year ago [2]. Quoting: Torvalds, for one, didn't seem too excited

Re: Gnome theme and window preferences not completely honored

2010-08-02 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, Just for the records: an upgrade on x11-wm/metacity (I'm running 2.30.1 right now) solved the focus problems in gnome. Cheers, Antonio On 23/07/2010 11:36, Antonio Vieiro wrote: Hi, I'm running 8.1-RC2 (metacity 2.30.1) and focus-follows-mouse simply doesn't work. I think

Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Vieiro
built automatically (java). That's why there's a seperate site for them. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: D'oh! Are those the official packages? pkg_add -r -v openoffice3 didn't work from the command line (that's why I posted this, just in case there're

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Vieiro
On 24/07/2010 04:01, Victor Skovorodnikov wrote: [...] I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get deterred by its un-Christian logo. [...] The logo means that all the people not trying out FreeBSD are going to go directly to hell after death. The logo is not

Re: Upgraded cups - no cups printer in firefox after the upgrade

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Vieiro
This one? http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/CUPS#CUPS_and_Gnome_Warning Cheers, Antonio On 29/07/2010 23:41, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: When updating the cups port my cups networked printer tends to fall out from firefox, epdfview etc. Last time I found a webpage with some cups related ports

Compiling vim with gnome, anyone?

2010-07-28 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I'm trying to comile /usr/ports/editors/vim with gnome support. To show the options I use make -DWITH_VIM_OPTIONS config and I select gnome in a dialog that is shown. After that I issue a make -DWITH_VIM_OPTIONS But vim does not compile with gnome libraries. Anyone

Re: Compiling vim with gnome, anyone?

2010-07-28 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, Thanks! That solved the issue. Cheers, Antonio On 28/07/2010 15:16, 文鳥 wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:07:38 +0200 Antonio Vieiroanto...@antonioshome.net wrote: make -DWITH_VIM_OPTIONS config Hi Antonio, I also had problems getting gnome support added, but at least the

Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-27 Thread Antonio Vieiro
D'oh! Are those the official packages? pkg_add -r -v openoffice3 didn't work from the command line (that's why I posted this, just in case there're any other newbies reading this ;-)). Cheers, Antonio On 27/07/2010 17:15, Jack L. wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Antonio Vieiro anto

OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-26 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, For those trying to test OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (no official package yet): This: ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/OOo_3.2.1_FreeBSD81Intel_install_es.tbz From ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-23 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, This is working for me correctly. In gnome select Sistema/Preferencias/Teclado (System/preferences/Keyboard) and select the appropriate layout. Also on my .bash_profile I've included a: export LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-15 Cheers, Antonio On 18/07/2010 18:49, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi,I'm

Re: Gnome theme and window preferences not completely honored

2010-07-23 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, I'm running 8.1-RC2 (metacity 2.30.1) and focus-follows-mouse simply doesn't work. I think this is a metactity bug or something, maybe this is related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155450 Any workaround to have focus-follows-mouse again would be greatly appreciated, as I

Would you recommend installing 8.1RC2?

2010-06-28 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I'm brand new to FreeBSD. I've got 8.0-RELEASE up and running in my main workstation and I'm quite happy with it. Great job congratulations. I'm eager to try out 8.1, and I was thinking of trying it out on my laptop for my daily work (I'm currently running OpenSolaris 2009.06). My

Re: Would you recommend installing 8.1RC2?

2010-06-28 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, Thanks all for your replies. First of all: I've seen 8.1RC2 announced here: http://www.evilcoder.org/2010/06/27/freebsd-8-1-rc2-released/ But there're no links, I imagine it's about to be released or something. I think I'll try 8.1RC2 as soon as it's released. I also think that the

Re: Question on packages and ports (and versions)

2010-06-11 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, Ah, I see. So if I need a more advanced version of some software, that has been installed as a package, I can use portupgrade (or other port management tools) to upgrade the package to a port. Am I right? Thanks, Antonio (As a newbie I'm somewhat concerned about keeping consistency between

Problems with textproc/iso8879 port?

2010-06-11 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I'm trying to install port iso8879 in 8.0-RELEASE (needed by docbook and by gnome and wxgtk28) and I'm getting the problem below. I contacted the maintainer without success. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks in advance, Antonio [r...@casa /usr/ports/textproc/iso8879]# make ===

Re: Problems with textproc/iso8879 port?

2010-06-11 Thread Antonio Vieiro
On 11/06/10 20:34, Dan Nelson wrote: If I remove the file in /usr/ports/distfiles/isoENTS.zip and try again the build fails too: It looks like a problem with the zip command in textproc/iso8879/Makefile: @${UNZIP_CMD} -q -o ${DISTDIR}/${DISTFILES} -d ${INSTDIR} The -d option to unzip is

Question on packages and ports (and versions)

2010-06-10 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I can't find an answer to this question, so I decided to post here. Since I'm not very good at english let me ask this with an example. I assume that packages and ports may have different versions of the same software (am I right?) so, for instance, if you install gnome with packages you

Re: kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards

2010-06-08 Thread Antonio Vieiro
This may be of help: http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-2805.html Cheers, Antonio 2010/6/8 Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr: Hello All since few days I get those messages into console and /var/log/messages The machine is a IBM X3650 dual CPU , I've read it could be multi-cpu

What happens with x11-toolkits/linux-f10-gtk2 ?

2010-06-06 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, First of all my apologies if this is not an appropriate list. I'm a newbie in FreeBSD and I'm a bit overwhelmed about mailing lists and asking for help. If this list is not appropriate for this question I'd appreciate if anyone could suggest an appropriate one. The fact is that I've just