Re: elementar changes between fbsd 6 and current (upcoming 7)

2005-10-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Andrew P. wrote: On 10/12/05, O. Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This should be a short question: I'm interested in some knowledge about essential changes between FreeBSD 6 and CURRENT (upcoming version 7) and I would like to ask the community whether there is something docume

elementar changes between fbsd 6 and current (upcoming 7)

2005-10-12 Thread O. Hartmann
This should be a short question: I'm interested in some knowledge about essential changes between FreeBSD 6 and CURRENT (upcoming version 7) and I would like to ask the community whether there is something documeted outside the mailing lists (plans, development etc.). Thanks in advance, Oliv

Re: FireFox/Mozilla and CUPS/LPD weirdness

2005-10-10 Thread O. Hartmann
Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: On our servers w e do not use CUPS, still LPD. How to configure Firefox/Mozilla using LPD instead of CUPS? How to avoid this blind preconfiguration being used via the ports collection? In the Mozilla Print menu, select Print To

FireFox/Mozilla and CUPS/LPD weirdness

2005-10-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I reported problems with printing from Firefox and Mozilla in the past. Faulty DNS configurations were suspected in the first line but I can confess that our network is setup right way. I figured out that bot Mozilla and Firefox try to print via CUPS (via sockstat, firefox process trys

Re: ports: jdk15/jdk14

2005-10-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Micah wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. Again, I run into frustrations when trying to install JDK14/JDK15 from the ports collection. Operatin system is FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5, recently updated, i386 platform (Dell OptiPlex280). Installation of linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 performed well without problems

ports: jdk15/jdk14

2005-10-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Again, I run into frustrations when trying to install JDK14/JDK15 from the ports collection. Operatin system is FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5, recently updated, i386 platform (Dell OptiPlex280). Installation of linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 performed well without problems. But when trying the installation of

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new machine (though the questi

Continous JAVA build error on AMD64 and i386

2005-09-29 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I reported earlier in this list about trouble in building and installing JAVA on both AMD64 and i386 architectures. In the meanwhile, I can compile ports/jdk15 on AMD64/FreeBSD-6.0, but jdk15 does not include or have the desired plugin for Mozilla/FireFox, so I tried compiling ports/jd

Re: nForce4-SLI, AHCI and NCQ and FreeBSD 6.0

2005-09-23 Thread O. Hartmann
jason wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. I have a little question about the popular nForce4-SLI chipset for the Socket 939 platform. The onboard SATA controller of the nForce4-SLI chipset claims to be NCQ (or SATA II) capable, but nVidia implemented this feature in a not-AHCI-standardised way

port builds: selective compiler options for each port?

2005-09-14 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I run into trouble on building some ports in FreeBSD 6.0. Those troubles are not the same on each portbuild, sometimes it is a compiler option, sometimes it is an option for the relocation of data directories and so on. For instance I tried building Open Office 1.1.5 without JAVA suppo

Re: nForce4-SLI, AHCI and NCQ and FreeBSD 6.0

2005-09-08 Thread O. Hartmann
which should be SATA300). Malachi On 9/6/05, *O. Hartmann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Hello. I have a little question about the popular nForce4-SLI chipset for the Socket 939 platform. The onboard SATA controller of the nForce4-SLI chipset c

Weird print behaviour in Firefox/Mozilla/Thunderbird and FreeBSD 6.0

2005-09-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I realize a weird printing behaviour of Thunderbird/Mozilla/Firefox. Whenever I try to print a page the software gets stuck and it takes several minutes before it come back to ask me for the printer. After clicking on the print button it takes again several minutes before the job gets

nForce4-SLI, AHCI and NCQ and FreeBSD 6.0

2005-09-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I have a little question about the popular nForce4-SLI chipset for the Socket 939 platform. The onboard SATA controller of the nForce4-SLI chipset claims to be NCQ (or SATA II) capable, but nVidia implemented this feature in a not-AHCI-standardised way, but as an own solution. My questi

Re: Mozilla/Firefox weirdness

2005-08-22 Thread O. Hartmann
jason wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. Since I upgrade my box from FreeBSD-5.4 to 6.0 it seems that I run into some really strange Firefox/Mozilla behaviour. The phenomenon is described really quickly: I can not save some configurations, like using which type of SSL/TSL, block popups etc. I

Mozilla/Firefox weirdness

2005-08-22 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Since I upgrade my box from FreeBSD-5.4 to 6.0 it seems that I run into some really strange Firefox/Mozilla behaviour. The phenomenon is described really quickly: I can not save some configurations, like using which type of SSL/TSL, block popups etc. I can mark the boxes, but whenever I

portsnap, only for ports?

2005-08-19 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I have some questions about portsnap. The intention of portsnap seems to be reasonable. But I miss a similar facility updating the operating system! One of the major arguments using portsnap is to avoid the intrusion of malicous code, injected via a 'man in the middle'. Thinking of so c

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-11 Thread O. Hartmann
Mike Jakubik wrote: On Wed, August 10, 2005 6:37 am, Dmitry Mityugov said: There are Maxtor MaXLine II and III, and perhaps several other models, that are supposed to work 24/7. Right, i have a dead 250GB Maxline Plus II drive on my desk, only after about 1.5 years. At least its still on wa

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Chuck Swiger wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: [ ... ] One of my SATA disks, the SAMSUNG SP2004C seems to show errors during operation (and also showd under 5.4-RELEASE-p3). Sometimes I get this error: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599 while the machine still

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:25 PM 08/08/2005, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. My box is a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 driven ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe based AMD64 boxed (see dmesg). One of my SATA disks, the SAMSUNG SP2004C seems to show errors during operation (and also showd under 5.4-RELEASE-p3). Sometimes I

ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. My box is a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 driven ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe based AMD64 boxed (see dmesg). One of my SATA disks, the SAMSUNG SP2004C seems to show errors during operation (and also showd under 5.4-RELEASE-p3). Sometimes I get this error: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying

SATA HD power management disabling

2005-06-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. On one of my workstaions (AMD64, FBSD 5.4-STABLE) I utilize two SATA drives, one is a 200GB Maxtor (2B200MO, SATA I), the other a Samsung 200GB (SP2004C, SATA II). Using atacontrol cap shows me on both devices power management yes yes advanced power management

Creating a specific/own installation set

2005-05-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello out here. My intention is as follows. I would like to create an installation DVD for FreeBSD/AMD64 with a specific set of packages. I would like to do so because I have a set of AMD64 machines which are not connected to a fast internet wire (some due to security reasons, others in privat

burncd in FBSD 5.4-STABLE does not fixate

2005-05-01 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Before doing again a send-pr, I would like to spread out that burncd still has problems fixating CD-RW/CD-R. Burning CD-R and/or CD-RW with command line #hello: burncd -v -f /dev/acd1 data foo.iso fixate leaves the CD-R or CD-RW unfixated and I need to fixate the CD-R or CD-RW with #hel

Re: getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread O. Hartmann
Tilman Linneweh wrote: * "O. Hartmann" [Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 12:21 GMT]: I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks (developer, porter). On each nstallation CD I can find various han

getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks (developer, porter). On each nstallation CD I can find various handbook types (PS, PDF, HTML). My intention is having a local webserver at the department keeping t

burncd in FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

2005-04-21 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Before sending a PR, I would like to ask about the state of burncd. It is not working properly for me. My hardware is a AMD64 based system with A NEC ND 3500AG/2.19 and a DELL Optiplex 280/i386 with a HP 1100 (both drives DVD+-RW). Burning DVD+RW is ok on formated media. Formatting DVD+RW

Using ppp/tun0 manually, how to trigger 'pf' automaticaly

2005-04-07 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I use the ppp utility to configure and setup a line (at the moment no other way possible). How can I trigger 'pfctl -F all -f /etc/pf.conf' after the line has been setup to make pf working with the tun0 assigned IP? Or are there other way doing so? Thanks, Oliver __

Debug tags in FreeBSD

2005-04-07 Thread O. Hartmann
Dear Sirs. Sometimes I watch compiling 'world' or 'kernel' and recognize some '-g' options while compiling, especially when doing so with a FreeBSD 5.X-STABLE branch. Are all pre-releases of FreeBSD due to development and bug tracking 'tagged' with debugger options and do they go away with a 'RE

Re: How download installed packages' sourcesfiles

2005-03-25 Thread O. Hartmann
Chuck Swiger schrieb: O. Hartmann wrote: [ ... ] Unforunately "portupdate" does not have a simple functionality to gather all tarballs from each installed port and its friends it depends on. Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help. Try using "make fetch-re

How download installed packages' sourcesfiles

2005-03-25 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I run into the follwoing problem. Using an internet connected at my lab makes me happy installing each package I need from source. At home I have only a very slow moem connection, but I need also the same packages (not precompiled, the sources) there. One idea was to "fetch" every source

FreeBSD 5.4-PREREL Linuxulator issues with cvsupdate today

2005-03-01 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I played around with the ICC/ICF compiler of the Intel 8.1 suite and I did all the steps as recommended (deinstalling linux_devtools etc.). I found out, that I can compile something, but crashes immediately. I switched back to the PGI 5.2 compiler, therefore, I installed linux_devtools aga

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes

2005-02-28 Thread O. Hartmann
tupid misconfigurations in the kernel. That's it ... Sorry Oliver P.S. Why is this behaviour so lethal to the kernel? Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 11:06 am, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: I did a cvsupdate several minutes before and tried to

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes

2005-02-28 Thread O. Hartmann
the onboard plugins will help - if not, there is another issue ... Oliver Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 11:06 am, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: I did a cvsupdate several minutes before and tried to build world. A buildworld stops as shown bel

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes

2005-02-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Sorry, my build world froze this minute, I have no contact to the machine and the scientist, which helped remotely, ist at home, should go for tomorrow ... :-( Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: Also, the system is really instable after I build the kernel for itself

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes

2005-02-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: I did a cvsupdate several minutes before and tried to build world. A buildworld stops as shown below in building libkvm. This is believed to now be fixed with an updated kvm_proc.c. If not, please let me know. I did just within

FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes

2005-02-28 Thread O. Hartmann
I did a cvsupdate several minutes before and tried to build world. A buildworld stops as shown below in building libkvm. Also, the system is really instable after I build the kernel for itself. Under heavy load, the machine get stuck and freezes. I have no more informations due to remote control of

Re: Kernel/Userland Mem-Space Tuning (1/3 on IA32)

2005-02-27 Thread O. Hartmann
David G. Lawrence wrote: sure about the exakt syntax but I know someone can change the half by half parity towards 1 to 3 in XP). I'm not sure whether FreeBSD divides kernel/userland address space this way, I know Linux and Windows does and on Windows we changed this (not yet on Linux and not ye

Re: Kernel/Userland Mem-Space Tuning (1/3 on IA32)

2005-02-27 Thread O. Hartmann
David G. Lawrence wrote: Hello. I read about address space division of recent operating systems like Linux and Windows XP. In both cases, the whole address space of the 32 or 64 Bit system is divided into halfes, 2GB for kernel, 2 GB for process(es) (speaking in 32Bit words). The same in 64bit s

Kernel/Userland Mem-Space Tuning (1/3 on IA32)

2005-02-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I read about address space division of recent operating systems like Linux and Windows XP. In both cases, the whole address space of the 32 or 64 Bit system is divided into halfes, 2GB for kernel, 2 GB for process(es) (speaking in 32Bit words). The same in 64bit systems like AMD64. Those

Setting MAXDSIZ, MAXSSIZ, DFLDSIZ via kernel OIDs?

2005-02-24 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Due to runtime problems of several F77 code based scientific software I increased possible data segment size and stack by the shown values. options MAXDSIZ=(2048UL*1024*1024) options MAXSSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) These changes implies b

Magicfilter 2.X and duplex printing

2005-02-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Using magicfilter 2.3.b out of the ports runs me into a problem printing duplex on a duplex capable PS printer. In magicfilter 1.X it was simple inserting an intermediate conversion step with "psset" for preparing data stream being print duplex and/or selecting a different tray for certai

Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Dave Carrera schrieb: Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my freebsd. What would be ideal is a micro kernal on a floppy disk or self booti

Re: enable linux compatibility

2005-01-28 Thread O. Hartmann
saravanan ganapathy schrieb: --- Xian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 13:39, saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai I tried to enable linux compatibility on my freebsd (5.3 Release)kernel by adding 'options COMPAT_LINUX' in my kernel config file and reco

options PREEMPTION: system failure issue?

2005-01-21 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I have a very simple question about the kernel options options PREEMPTION options MUTEX_WAKE_ALL Have they performance penalties, stability issues in FreeBSD 5.3 (especially SMP environment but also in UP environment)? PREEMPTION ist listet in "NOTES" as a debuggin option but discussed pr

nForce4-SLI, PCIe, ATI X600 supported by FreeBSD 5.3?

2005-01-21 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I would like to know whether this hardware combination is supported by FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE: Mainboard: ASUS A8N-SLI or GigaByte K8NXP-SLI with ATHLON 64/Winchester (2.0Ghz) SATA harddrive ATI Radeon X600/Pro based PCIe(!) graphics board Especially the GBit NIC should be supported ( # Marv

Re: copying from DVD drive causes crash: vm_fault: pager readerror, pid 13421 (cp) on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

2005-01-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Daniel O'Connor schrieb: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:16, O. Hartmann wrote: Doing dd from the DVD drive (NEC ND 3500AG/2.18) fails in a corrupt image afterwards, copying with 'cp' from a inserted CD triggers the shown error and box dies immediately: Jan 6 12:17:20 edda kernel: cd

copying from DVD drive causes crash: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 13421 (cp) on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

2005-01-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Doing dd from the DVD drive (NEC ND 3500AG/2.18) fails in a corrupt image afterwards, copying with 'cp' from a inserted CD triggers the shown error and box dies immediately: Jan 6 12:17:20 edda kernel: cd9660: RockRidge Extension Jan 6 12:17:50 edda kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQ

magicfilter 2.3.b: double sided printing on PS printer possible?

2005-01-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Dear Sirs. Since the change from the older magicfilter 1.X to the newer version 2.X it's impoosible to me to print double sided on a double sided-capable PS-printer. In magicfilter 1.X I was able to add several piped preprocessings (psset ---setpagedevice=DOUBLE:true). In magicfilter 2.X this s

Re: fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL)

2004-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
Marco Beishuizen schrieb: On stardate Wed, 22 Dec 2004, the wise O. Hartmann entered: Please try to boot your system in single user mode (type '4' in the start screen, where the countdown can be watched) an do a 'fsck -y'. Then watch whether your box gets stuck or. If it also

Re: fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL)

2004-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
Marco Beishuizen schrieb: Hi, I have a problem with fsck. After a lockup of X.org I couldn't use my keyboard anymore and I had to reset the computer. When it rebooted fsck didn't start immediately, but started after the login in the background. After some checks fsck stops working but stays a ru

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and BIND9 problems!

2004-12-21 Thread O. Hartmann
O. Hartmann schrieb: O. Hartmann schrieb: Daniel Bye schrieb: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:26:26PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Dear Sirs. Compiling PHP 5.0.3 from PHP.NET, PHP 5.0.2 from ./ports collection and PHP5-SNAP from php.net fail in compiling in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE (cvsupdated and rebuilt

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and BIND9 problems!

2004-12-21 Thread O. Hartmann
O. Hartmann schrieb: Daniel Bye schrieb: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:26:26PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Dear Sirs. Compiling PHP 5.0.3 from PHP.NET, PHP 5.0.2 from ./ports collection and PHP5-SNAP from php.net fail in compiling in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE (cvsupdated and rebuilt today!) with an error

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and BIND9 problems!

2004-12-20 Thread O. Hartmann
Daniel Bye schrieb: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:26:26PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Dear Sirs. Compiling PHP 5.0.3 from PHP.NET, PHP 5.0.2 from ./ports collection and PHP5-SNAP from php.net fail in compiling in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE (cvsupdated and rebuilt today!) with an error that seems to be

FreeBSD 5.3 and BIND9 problems!

2004-12-19 Thread O. Hartmann
Dear Sirs. Compiling PHP 5.0.3 from PHP.NET, PHP 5.0.2 from ./ports collection and PHP5-SNAP from php.net fail in compiling in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE (cvsupdated and rebuilt today!) with an error that seems to be BIND9 specific: ext/standard/dns.lo(.text+0x1d49): In function `.L166': : undefined re

Re: Firefox headaches

2004-12-18 Thread O. Hartmann
Marco Beishuizen schrieb: On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 21:53, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Something's not right with firefox. Now that I've got the printing problems more or less solved, it crashes almost every time I hit a page with flash. I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and flashp

Re: Trouble with ULE scheduler

2004-12-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Peter Farmer schrieb: From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html (1 Nov 2004) The ULE scheduler described in the release notes has been completely disabled to discourage its use because it has stability problems. HTH Is there a way to explicitely enable it for testing purposes? Oliver

php5 will not compile in FBSD 5.3

2004-12-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I try to compile PHP 5.0.3 (and the port) and I get this error in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE: ext/standard/dns.lo(.text+0x1d49): In function `.L166': : undefined reference to `res_ninit' ext/standard/dns.lo(.text+0x1db5): In function `.L166': : undefined reference to `res_nmkquery' ext/standard/dn

Re: How can I make a program keep running even after I logout?

2004-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Mat Kovach schrieb: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:40:02PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi, I want to cvsup or/and portupgrade and logout but the program keep running? Try screen: /usr/ports/misc/screen To run it, simply type `screen`, do your work, type "Ctrl-A d" to detach (you can go hom

Re: cpu temperature

2004-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Dominique Goncalves schrieb: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:33:02 +0100, Lukasz Bigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:19:24 +0800 "Spades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could try /usr/ports/sysutils/healthd. I can also send You a small PHP script which grabs some ACPI values us

FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE: PHP 5.0.2 won't compile

2004-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Under FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, PHP 5.0.2 from ports collection will not compile anymore. Compilation ends up with ext/standard/dns.lo(.text+0x1d49): In function `.L166': : undefined reference to `res_ninit' ext/standard/dns.lo(.text+0x1db5): In function `.L166': : undefined reference to `res_nmk

HELP! Slice/Partition on RAID lost!

2004-03-29 Thread O. Hartmann
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