I've installed the compat6x libraries and made a symlink to /lib for
libc.so.6 as per some docs I found; however, the vmware tools
installation is still failing with:
Unable to copy the source file
/usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/FreeBSD8.0-amd64/vmxnet.ko to
the
destination file
I'm running a modest PC that has FreeBSD-7.2 installed (fairly current
build from CVS).
Today, I did a shutdown -r to reboot the system. When it returned,
the console is reporting:
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
I've gone through and restored the boot loader, this works fine
This is a recent phenomenon.
I use a Mac client (iTerm) to connect to all my hosts internally. Same
network. My connections to the FreeBSD-7.1.x system continually timeout
when idle, and I have to re-connect (thankfully, I use screen). It's
becoming annoying, and though I've set
Does anyone remember the lightweight window manager called MGR, from
Bellcore?
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/MGR/!INDEX.html
I'm curious if anyone out there has gotten this to run on FreeBSD. I
used it on an older system, years ago, and it was pretty effective - and
would be useful
What precautions could I take to prevent users from writing to a portion
of a ZFS mount point that might fill up the underlying filesystem that
wouldn't impede writes to that ZFS mount point. For example:
/foo/bar/volume
If some program accidentally started writing to /foo/bar, as far as I
I'm having the same type of problems when compiling scanlogd (just
posted a separate message about it). I installed the binary *.tbz
package from freebsd.org, and that didn't quite work, there are other
dependencies it needs. It's been a little frustrating.
After a week of trying to resolve these issues, I want to ask if anyone
has had luck getting this lot to compile correctly.
I am looking to get scanlogd compiled with libnids. This is the last
error I get:
cc -shared .libs/libgiofam_la-fam-helper.o
.libs/libgiofam_la-fam-module.o
Does FreeBSD support signed binaries - similar to what other (Linux,
that I've seen) systems can do where the kernel will refuse to run the
binary unless it's passes a digital signature test. I'm curious about
how this works, if (and how) it could be implemented to help lock down a
given
After a long process of figuring out what went wrong, httpd was using a
ton of resources when it received a HUP signal (log rotation at
midnight). Subsequently, php -v was dumping core things pointed to
mysqli.so.
Long story short, I downgraded to mysql-4.10, recompiled php5 and
Mel wrote:
On Friday 22 February 2008 04:26:12 Forrest Aldrich wrote:
Mel wrote:
Your extensions.ini has duplicate and non-existing modules. Start here:
mv /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini.bkp
sort -u /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini.bkp |while
Mel wrote:
You can, if you see this:
(gdb) bt
#0 0x28e4fe5c in ?? ()
#1 0x2855bb83 in pthread_mutex_destroy () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x285e74fd in __tcf_1 () from /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.16
#3 0x2855a97a in __cxa_finalize () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x285e6e4a in
Sorry Mel, I should have looked at the manpage before replying. Here is
the output I got:
# gdb /usr/local/bin/php php.core
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it
Mel wrote:
[ .. ]
Could you disable the accelerator? Can't say I've seen this one before. Just
add a semi colon ';' in front of the module, leave the order in tact. If it
still dumps core, then the imap one.
You might have to recompile php and all the modules with debugging support to
Mel,
I found the duplicate entry, which was in /usr/local/etc/php.ini:
; Zend Extensions
zend_extension=/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/eaccelerator.so
eaccelerator.shm_size=16
eaccelerator.cache_dir=/var/eaccelerator
eaccelerator.enable=1
eaccelerator.optimizer=1
eaccelerator.check_mtime=1
I took a shortcut and decided to comment out all extensions but these:
extension=mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so
extension=eaccelerator.so
Now I run php -v and get this:
# php -v
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/mysqli.so' -
Mel wrote:
On Friday 22 February 2008 18:36:59 Forrest Aldrich wrote:
I took a shortcut and decided to comment out all extensions but these:
extension=mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so
extension=eaccelerator.so
Now I run php -v and get this:
# php -v
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load
Mel,
I recompiled php5 with debugging enabled; but it seems the FreeBSD
php5-extensions build ignores this flag and compiles the extensions
as-is. No option in their makefile.
Anyway, here's the output... I don't think it really says much than before.
Thanks,
Forrest
# php -v
PHP
Mel, etc.,
I downgraded my system back to MySQL-4.1 (where I had updated to
MySQL-5.1) and this has solved the problem.
Lesson: don't upgrade your FreeBSD-6.3/Apache-2.0 system to MySQL-5.x
without making sure it works first ;-) Of course, there was no way I
could have predicted this
Has anyone had luck compiling the SoGo calendaring server on
FreeBSD-6.3? I've found it quite involved and difficult, especially
with the GNUstep dependencies.
http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/sogo.html.
Thanks in advance.
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I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no compile-time
changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98% of the CPU and
hanging. I adjusted the various Max/Min server levels and that seemed
to fix it - except at midnight when the logs are rotated and the server
is sent a
Derek Ragona wrote:
At 08:34 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no
compile-time changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98%
of the CPU and hanging. I adjusted the various Max/Min server levels
and that seemed to fix
Mel wrote:
On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:57:38 Forrest Aldrich wrote:
Here's a recent output of top :
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
94711 www 1 1170 41036K 13852K RUN0 1:43 98.69% httpd
Is this memory rising
Mel wrote:
Your extensions.ini has duplicate and non-existing modules. Start here:
mv /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini.bkp
sort -u /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini.bkp |while read MOD; do
if test -f /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/${MOD##extension=}; then
Mel, I did the recompile (including php5 and php5-extensions) and still
get this:
# php -v
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/mysqli.so' -
/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/mysqli.so: Undefined symbol
spl_ce_RuntimeException in Unknown on line 0
First, thank you to others who posted about this issue.
I altered /etc/ssh/sshd_config for UseDNS no, and noticed I get the
prompt right away, however it still takes about 15 seconds after
authentication to get a shell prompt.
This is FreeBSD version: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #7: Sat Dec 22
Anyone else seeing this problem today?
Name lookup failure for cvsup.FreeBSD.org: Host name lookup failed
Will retry at 07:54:22
Other hosts resolve fine.
I did a search on the lists and didn't notice anything about host
changes, etc.
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The problem ended up being I had the incorrect netmask.
They are using here 255.255.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a freshly-built (cvsup'd today) FreeBSD_6.1 system which fails
to set the default router upon boot.
I
I have a freshly-built (cvsup'd today) FreeBSD_6.1 system which fails to
set the default router upon boot.
I have tried two routers, both on the same /24 segment... network
unreachable. These were set using the defaultrouter=xxx.xx.xxx.xx
in /etc/rc.conf.
However... if I manually use
Anyone here use the PAP2 on FreeBSD.. perhaps with isc-dhcpd.
I plug it in and, despite whatever I configure it to be, it wants to
take over the RFC LAN (systems stop routing/responding).
I'm gonna continue cracking away at it, but figured I'd ask if someone
has seen this problem, etc.
The posted requirements appear to be basic, though I'm wondering if
anyone (with sufficient Linux experience) can comment on whether this
might be successfully built on FreeBSD.
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page
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I have a firewall machine that's slower (it's just a firewall) for which
I'd like to do a buildworld/buildkernel on another faster machine.
The old machine is a 500mhz 686 class machine, the newer is 2.8ghz 686
class. I don't know that I'd need to adjust the CC flags for this, however.
It's
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Neither Derrick nor Chas use FreeBSD and neither have time to play with it.
You need to get someone from the FreeBSD community to care about AFS and
port it.
If you find an FreeBSD kernel expert, we can
The problem was fairly hidden.
It turns out that one of the directories in the PATH of the symbolic
link did not have the search bits enabled (permissions). Once that was
adjusted, it worked fine.
This turns out to be a problem with Apache-2, since it should report a
better (unambiguous)
Hi,
Using FreeBSD_6.0_Beta4 (applies to Beta2, also).
I'm trying to track down a problem I've been having with apache-2.0.54
not following symbolic links.
It's basically come down to my being able to follow the link if it's in
the same directory structure (ie: .. or /path/to/..), but fails
I have FreeBSD-4.11-STABLE on one of my systems. I did a
buildworld/installworld today - but I still have ipfw and not ipfw2 -
even though the manpage says otherwise.
It's been a while since I updated this system - I looked through the
docs and no mention of this in UPDATING etc.
I see in
Thanks this worked well.
One further question, the manpage doesn't really elaborate much on the
use of tables. Particularly, how to utilize them in deny rules.
Anyone have better examples, or did I miss something.
Thanks.
Mike Tancsa wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:12:19 -0400, in
Ah, the wonders of upgrading - /etc/make.conf just needs some updating
per the warnings. ;-) Sorry for the line noise.
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I'm having a problem with dhclient on FreeBSD-4.10, where I can't seem
to get it to work properly.
My ISP uses DHCP (Comcast), and I want to use my own named instance,
opting to forward to theirs. According to the dhclient.conf manpage, I
should be able to do either of these:
interface
I can think of a few ways to resolve this, but I thought to ask here.
I have Comcast for my ISP, and of course DHCP changes /etc/resolv.conf
during each update -- lately, they've been screwing things up bigtime,
such that I simply use my own named instance.
My question is: how to reliably keep
Also of note... if you change the bits on the file to nochg, so it can't
be updated, Comcast will detect this and disable your connection (it
happened to me).
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Can FreeBSD be configured to actually power off the machine, rather than
sit with Press any key to reboot.
We're redeploying some servers, and we'd like them to be powered on
individually, not powered up upon plug-in to the power cable.
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I need extra disk space on one of my machines (in short order). So I
decided to experiment with attaching a USB2.0 hard drive (Maxtor
OneTouch) to the system (SIIG PCI controller). I use a OneTouch on my
Windows/XP sytem and it works really well.
I wanted to explore placing my mailstore on
I have a test machine with FreeBSD-5.3 RC2. It only has 2 drives (ATA).
I am seeing this error (intermittently):
ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3239915
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
Though the system seems to otherwise be working just fine.
This used to be a
is intermittent. But
the system otherwise appears to be peforming fine.
It has 2 10krpm 10gb drives (IDE).
Anyone else seeing this problem?
The last build of this system was Oct 24th, I can CVSup and rebuild if
there have been some corrections ?
Forrest
On 11/05/04 01:22 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat
I've been able to locate some postings that suggested there was an
effort to get SGI's XFS ported to FreeBSD -- along with some concerns
about licensing (GPL) issues.
I'd like to get more information - is there an official project, who's
heading it up, etc. etc.
Thanks.
For the most part, my cable system stays on 24x7, thus my IP address
remains the same (often for the duration of a year). However there are
times when unpredictable things happen, such as outages, that will cause
your IP to change.
I have a number of internal and external dependencies that
I've read several articles out there that address different means to
automate (or standardize, for internal purposes) FreeBSD
installations. One article (which was older) spoke of scripting
sysinstall via an install.cfg with some custom pkg modules to do
edits. The other, exploiting the
We have a 1gz Apple 1U server here -- and I'm wondering if we could run
a *BSD on it, other than Darwin.
Anyone have some info?
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I've been Googling for some information on this (and the Handbook).
We have a scenario whereby we'll be building (over time) several
mostly-identical systems. There are similar tasks that will need to be
performed on those systems (copying over accounts, passwords,
homedirectories), and
There are probably dangerous consequences to doing something like this
improperly; however, there is a project out there called PacketBL:
http://wiki.duskglow.com/index.php/Packetbl
It's for Linux only, unfortunately -- however I like the idea. It
interfaces with the packet filtering system
Is there planned iSCSI support in FreeBSD 4 or 5.
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This has to be a FAQ, but I've not found it yet.
When compiling the port version of Apache, what trick can be used to get
both mod_ssl and mod_perl compiled into the server.
Regarding mod_php4 .. the port enables a php4_options file, but I don't
see provisions anywhere (except for manually
Hi there,
I'm interested in what motherboards most recommend now for higher
performance FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x systems. I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum,
with SATA and have had several problems, such that I will replace it
with something better -- perhaps ASUS?
Feedback appreciated.
I am building a new system that has SATA drives in it (Silicon Image).
Got this error today, which caused the system to freeze. The
motherboard is SOYO Dragon Platinum. Anyone know what the problem might be?
ad4: Timeout READ_DMA ... LBA=156301425
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I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places Perl-5.6 on the system.
It's not clear to me whether it's safe to pkg_delete this in favor of
Perl-5.8 (which I want to install). I tried searching the list archive
and didn't find anything (yet).
Anyone accomplish this?
Thanks Kris. Does the basic installation of 5.6 have any dependency
modules? I hear there is a way with CPAN to port those over to a new
perl installation.
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed
I posted a message recently about troubles encountered with FreeBSD-5.x
and my SATA drives, controlled by an on-board Silicon Image chip.
I understand there were some code glitches in between and thus my update
via CVS and subsequent rebuild of the system created a problem.
However, just to be
I understand that FFS has some performance problems in directory/file
structures that have over 1000 entires... though I'm not sure this
applies to FFS under FreeBSD-5.x. Can someone comment on this?
Forrest
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Curious how FreeBSD ffs performs in Enterprise-level environments (ie:
email stores that send 100's of thousands of messages per day) versus
other filesystems like XFS (I heard thre's a port going on for
FreeBSD..?), ReiserFS, et al. Is there a FAQ that covers some of this
and the various
Not trying to start a holy war - just looking into hard facts to
support some systems I'm designing. FFS will either work, or it
won't. Black or white.
The type of I/O I'm talking about will be in the 100's of thousands of
email messages (probably more) per day... obviously the underlying
Does anyone have a working X config for the Number 9 PC Revolution IV
card along with the SGI 1600SW Monitor (flatpanel).
I've given up trying to tweak it. This is on FreeBSD-5.2.1... the
stock monitor database is rather minimal.
Thanks.
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I'm about to install/build a new FreeBSD system... but am curious if
anyone has gotten a sufficient driver for this card. ATI provides one
for Linux, of course... (frustrating) but not FreeBSD.
Thanks.
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I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum Edition motherboard, with SATA drives.
According to FreeBSD's installation process, my geometry is incorrectly
set. So, I did as it asked, rebooted into the BIOS and retrieved the
figures:
Cylinders: 38309
Head: 16
Pre: 0
LandZone:
I'm working with mod_perl-1.x *current* on FreeBSD-4.9.
For some time, I've had some difficulty getting this lot to work correctly,
as an OBJ (non-DSO). During the compile, I get a slew of
Dynaloader-related errors in the linking process.
So today, I tried testing the compile using the SYSTEM
No, use /usr/bin/perl (SYSTEM) versus /usr/local/bin/perl and adjust my
makepl_args file accordingly.
At 06:39 AM 1/26/2004, you wrote:
Forrest Aldrich asked on Mon Jan 26, 2004:
I'm working with mod_perl-1.x *current* on FreeBSD-4.9.
For some time, I've had some difficulty getting this lot
Will there be support for USB 2.0 in FreeBSD 4.x, or must I update to
FreeBSD 5.x and use ehci.
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Has anyone considered enabling ipfw to output XML? This might be useful
for stats gathering/display, etc.
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I had posted recently regarding a mysterious problem I had with my manpage
subsystem not working properly. This has been a problem for quite some time.
After analyzing ktrace/kdump outputs, removing any conflicting *roff files
in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share, we still couldn't get it
Can someone explain what this error might be:
nroff -man nasm.1 nasm.man
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
*** Error code 1
Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of manpages
(they don't work). Can't figure it out...
available, etc.
Thanks,
Forrest
At 03:32 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:28:03 -0500 Forrest Aldrich
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Can someone explain what this error might be:
nroff -man nasm.1 nasm.man
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
*** Error code 1
/truss.out man xxx
?
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:45:11 -0500 Forrest Aldrich
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Hi Larry,
I seem to have this file:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5102 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1551 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty.tmac
?
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Hi Larry,
I seem to have this file:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5102 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1551 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty.tmac
This has been a problem
I posted about this a while ago.
For some time, I've had a broken manpage system on my FreeBSB
box. Currently, it's at FreeBSD-4.9.
The symptoms are: sometimes I get an error about not being able to locate
tmac for tty-char. Though I can find that in /usr/local/share/groff,
etc. Most
Why would this be happening, and how can I fix this - the man subsystem
hasn't been working because of this for a while. This is
FreeBSD-4.9-Prerelease:
# gdb man man
GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
This GDB was configured as i386-unknown-freebsd...(no debugging symbols
found)...
/usr/share/tmac/man:
I've verified, after a few system rebuilds, that the groff installation is
doing something wrong. The end result is the general failure of the
manpage subsystem. Here's what's happening:
The general error I'll get when attempting to process any manpage (via
man or just groff/nroff) is:
Hi there,
When I do that, the same exact thing happens... and it's not making any
sense to me. What database(s) are dependent upon by man?
# zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz |nroff -man
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
Forrest
At 11:21 PM 8/1/2003, you wrote:
Forrest
no idea why,
and I presumed that there must be a bug in CVS.
What else can I look at
Thanks,
Forrest
At 12:26 PM 7/20/2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The errors continue with port builds:
nroff -man nasm.1 nasm.man
troff: fatal error: can't find macro
The errors continue with port builds:
nroff -man nasm.1 nasm.man
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
*** Error code 1
But I see in /usr/share/tmac:
tmac.tty-char
Has anyone else run across this bug. Is this a matter of rebuilding an
index somewhere.
_F
Since about 2 days ago, successive rebuilds of FreeBSD-4.8 (current CVS)
have resulted in a faulty manpage system, with errors like:
Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro file
tty-char
Done.
Groff sometimes complains about ascii device, etc.
What's the scoop?
Curious if anyone knows of a port of the free (and compact) Bellcore MGR
window manager to FreeBSD. I seem to recall hearing it was ported to
FreeBSD-2.x, but that was quite some time ago.
It was originally a free replacement for the old UNIX-PC wmgr system.
Thanks...
I have an older 6gb BusLink USB 1.0 drive that could handle some backup configs.
Per chance is there a way to use this under FreeBSD-4.8?
Thx...
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Someone had asked me to post the output of usbdevs:
addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel
addr 2: USB-ATAPI4 Bridge Controller, BUSlink Inc.
So the system sees the USB hard drive. But it's not clear whether I can
actually use this as a filesystem or not.
Thanks.
Has anyone used the HP C1537A L706 on FreeBSD - it should work fine in
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I attached a basic 4mm tape drive (SCSI-2) to my system, which is detected
by the kernel. But mt reports the device(s) are not configured.Here
is dmesg:
sa0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
sa0: HP C1537A L706 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz,
I did some reading through other posts, and wanted to get some more input
about this.
In a mail gateway configuration, several people have suggested that using a
tmpfs (or mfs, depending upon your flavor of Unix) would provide a
performance increase (i/o). Though someone argued (on a list
I've a user that has a funny last name, which is separated by a real
(space). Because of this, most programs will parse it as having a first,
middle, last. Is there some fancy way I can get this joined without
cosmetically altering it to have another character to join it (like a hard
Sorry, forgot the URL to the project, which is at
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
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I'm looking for different filesystem options for FreeBSD.
I'm ripping apart a Linux machine that's running a mail service which
utilizes the reiserfs for performance gain. Since that's not available
for FreeBSD (I ran across some flames about it, actually) - I wonder what
alternatives exist
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