Alternate method for fetching source

2010-06-04 Thread Ross Penner
I'm trying to update my system and when I run cvsup, the connection repeatedly has problems (TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed). I'm wondering if anybody can suggest any other method to grab the current source files? Thanks for any ideas

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-27 Thread Ross Penner
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Ross == Ross Penner ross.pen...@gmail.com writes: Ross That seems to have been the problem. Yes, what I learned the hard way is that every single step there needs to be precisely followed, without deviation

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-27 Thread Ross Penner
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/1/27 Ross Penner ross.pen...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Ross == Ross Penner ross.pen...@gmail.com writes: Ross That seems to have been the problem

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-26 Thread Ross Penner
That seems to have been the problem. Thanks for the help. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same issue because i forgot to copy the zpool.cache under /zroot/boot/zfs. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Ross Penner ross.pen...@gmail.com wrote

Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-25 Thread Ross Penner
I'm trying to set up a system using ZFS as the root filesystem. I followed this guide: (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot). Everything went swimmingly until I rebooted and the system failed to load. output: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@, Mon Jan 25 13:03:11 UTC

pkg_delete core dumping on 7.1

2009-02-10 Thread Ross Penner
hey list, I've recently upgraded my machine (FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE) and pkg_delete is segfaulting and dumping it's core when trying to deinstall packages. What makes it more bizzare is that it had worked right after the upgrade and now it doesn't. I know there's probably more information I could

using libmap to substitute libthr.so.3 for libpthread.so.2

2008-03-17 Thread Ross Penner
be greatly appreciated. On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:06 -0600, Ross Penner wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: musicpd doesn't really like playing with libthr. I find remapping libthr

USB Wireless card for an access point

2008-03-05 Thread Ross Penner
Hi list, I currently have a FreeBSD machine that acts as a router and fileserver for my local home network. I'm hoping to set up a wireless access point so I don't have to steal my neighbour's wireless. The PC I'm using for FreeBSD has no free PCI slots so I'm forced to settle for a USB device.

Diagnosing an unstable machine

2007-12-01 Thread Ross Penner
I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 to run as a fileserver and gateway for my home. It's been incredibly unstable and I'm trying to figure out why. What can I do to try and figure out what is causing these crashes? Apparently the machine just rebooted 20min ago looking at the uptime. They're seemingly

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-25 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:02:21PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should

Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will specifying the chipset as

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip have support

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Ross Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. I get: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 Is this something I should

Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg55434.html) about just such a thing. The script

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 16:21 On 8/1/07, *Reid Linnemann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system

Downgrading from current

2007-07-29 Thread Ross Penner
I recently upgraded my system from stable to current to try and take advantage of some of wireless features offered. Unfortunetly, things didn't work out as well as I'd like to and I want to downgrade. Reading online, it seems that downgrading isn't supported and it's probably best to just

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Ross Penner
On 5/15/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter and discovered

File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Ross Penner
I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as root and I got the following: rosbot# fsck ** /dev/ar0s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on

diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Ross Penner
Hi mailing list. I've been running FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer as a gateway for my (very small) local area network. Every two weeks since I've got it up and running, it will completely lock up, seemingly randomly. I would love to investigate the root of the problem, but I'm not exactly sure where

Natd is not working as expected

2007-01-09 Thread Ross Penner
on where to look to diagnose this issue. the bind9 server is functioning correctly as I'm able to resolve IP address, but no packets seem to be getting through. Thanks ahead of time for any help you can give, Ross Penner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Changing root's shell

2006-08-08 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/8/06, Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: how do you drop to single user mode? I just know how to get there at boot time. Thanks. On 8/8/06, *Pete Slagle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ross wrote: so it seems changed root

Xorg changing modes

2005-07-14 Thread Ross Penner
I've been having trouble getting Xorg to change video modes. I want it to run in 1280x1024 but it drops to 640x480 when I test it. I used the handbook as my guide. My hardware is pretty old. I have a PIII 500 with a voodoo 3 (agp). I've attached my Xorg.conf as well as the log file. hopefully

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2005-03-05 Thread Ross Penner
Hi, I searched the archive to no avail on my problem altough I'm sure it's quite simple. I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card which I would be quite happy to use, BUT, I'm having a hang up when installing the port 'sound/aureal-kmod'. I get the error message: === aureal-kmod-1.5_5 You