help with panic/kgdb
Hi,
First off, let me say it's been a very long time since I've had to deal
with a FreeBSD box panicing, so bear with me.
This particular machine has been acting up since I upgraded to 4.8-p18
from 4.8-p6(?). The only bit of odd hardware in it is a 3Ware IDE RAID
card (full dmesg below). This is the second panic since then.
My main goal here is to try and figure out if it's a hardware issue (bad
memory, dead CPU fan, etc.) or an OS issue, so anyone that can look at the
gdb output below and give me some insight, go ahead.
Thanks,
Charles
Here's what gdb tells me so far:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/local/etc/rc.d]# gdb -k /kernel.debug
/var/crash/vmcore.2
GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
[...]
This GDB was configured as i386-unknown-freebsd...Deprecated bfd_read
called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c
line 2627 in elfstab_build_psymtabs
Deprecated bfd_read called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c
line 933 in fill_symbuf
IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x00414000
initial pcb at physical address 0x00364d20
panicstr: page fault
panic messages:
---
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0x10018
fault code = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc01c3f4c
stack pointer = 0x10:0xc8fb0d68
frame pointer = 0x10:0xc8fb0d74
code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 74356 (find)
interrupt mask = none
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
syncing disks... 19
done
Uptime: 9d13h5m50s
dumping to dev #twed/0x20001, offset 1048608
dump 127 126 125 124 123 122 121 120 119 118 117 116 115 114 113 112 111
110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 100 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90
89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65
64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40
39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15
14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
---
#0 dumpsys () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:487
487 if (dumping++) {
(kgdb) where
#0 dumpsys () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:487
#1 0xc019b007 in boot (howto=256) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:316
#2 0xc019b42c in poweroff_wait (junk=0xc032cdec, howto=-1070413553)
at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:595
#3 0xc02d82a2 in trap_fatal (frame=0xc8fb0d28, eva=65560)
at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:974
#4 0xc02d7f75 in trap_pfault (frame=0xc8fb0d28, usermode=0, eva=65560)
at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:867
#5 0xc02d7b5f in trap (frame={tf_fs = 16, tf_es = 16, tf_ds = 16,
tf_edi = -917549376, tf_esi = -923070808, tf_ebp = -923071116,
tf_isp = -923071148, tf_ebx = 65536, tf_edx = 1068, tf_ecx =
-917549356,
tf_eax = -1057005568, tf_trapno = 12, tf_err = 0, tf_eip =
-1071890612,
tf_cs = 8, tf_eflags = 66050, tf_esp = 0, tf_ss = -917549376})
at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:466
#6 0xc01c3f4c in cache_lookup (dvp=0xc94f4ec0, vpp=0xc8fb0e94,
cnp=0xc8fb0ea8)
at /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c:210
#7 0xc01c4448 in vfs_cache_lookup (ap=0xc8fb0e04)
at /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c:471
#8 0xc02920f5 in ufs_vnoperate (ap=0xc8fb0e04)
at /usr/src/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c:2376
#9 0xc01c755d in lookup (ndp=0xc8fb0e80) at vnode_if.h:52
#10 0xc01c7050 in namei (ndp=0xc8fb0e80) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c:153
#11 0xc01cccb9 in lstat (p=0xc8e11a00, uap=0xc8fb0f80)
at /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c:1823
#12 0xc02d8551 in syscall2 (frame={tf_fs = 47, tf_es = 47, tf_ds = 47,
tf_edi = 134632704, tf_esi = 134632824, tf_ebp = -1077937436,
tf_isp = -923070508, tf_ebx = 672084268, tf_edx = 134557696, tf_ecx
= 0,
tf_eax = 190, tf_trapno = 0, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = 671763988, tf_cs =
31,
tf_eflags = 659, tf_esp = -1077937576, tf_ss = 47})
at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:1175
#13 0xc02cbf85 in Xint0x80_syscall ()
#14 0x280a1469 in ?? ()
#15 0x280a0cf2 in ?? ()
#16 0x804971e in ?? ()
#17 0x804b968 in ?? ()
#18 0x80493ce in ?? ()
If you need me to poke around at any variables, please let me know. As
you can see, this crapped out during the daily run, I'm assuming the
find process that tanked was some part of one of the daily scripts.
Here's the dmesg:
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p18 #4: Tue Apr 27 14:32:39 EDT 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONKEY
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter TSC frequency 451023566 Hz
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (451.02-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12
Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install
Bruce Hunter wrote: I have setup a headless machine via a null modem cable. Instalation went fine. The only problem now, is connecting to the machine after the install. When I #cu -l /dev/cuaao/ I see the boot process, but it gets to the date prompt but doesn't show the login: i did install ssh, but won't let me login with the password I set for root. Any other methods for connecting? This system is connected in my local network, with a firewall protecting my systems. - i am not running xserver on this system Of course you cannot login as root over the ssh connection; that's a default behaviour for security reasons. Haven't you installed a regular user on this PC, which is also member of the wheel group to allow using su for becoming root? Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. For the login prompt, I have following in /etc/ttys on the headless PC: ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 unknown on secure but be sure the serial port is enabled in the BIOS, and you have serial port support compiled into your kernel. Your cu command should then work, I suppose. Cheers, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial console: # echo '-h' /boot.config Also make sure you have the appropriate flags for your serial device driver, for sio on RELENG_4 use device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 or if you're on 5.x edit /boot/device.hints and set hint.sio.0.flags=0x10 (this should be the default though). There's another knob for uart(4) on 5.x but I don't remember it right now. HTH, --Stijn -- The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, Face of Evil pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
tr A-Z a-z
Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this and it suddenly doesn't work anymore: $ echo Z | tr [A-Z] [a-z] ÿ -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tr A-Z a-z
On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 10:53:01 +0200, Christoph Kukulies proclaimed... Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this and it suddenly doesn't work anymore: $ echo Z | tr [A-Z] [a-z] Works fine for me. However, maybe this would help? echo Z | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] -vxla ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tr A-Z a-z
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:53:01AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this and it suddenly doesn't work anymore: $ echo Z | tr [A-Z] [a-z] ÿ Something locale-related? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Tracing DNS queries
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Re: Netfinity 5000 and 5.2.1-RELEASE
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Re: Suexec with Apache 1.3.29
On Monday 03 May 2004 08:26, Mikkel Christensen wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 07:58, Mikkel Christensen wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 19:54, Mikkel Christensen wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 18:20, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:13 PM 4/29/2004, Mikkel Christensen wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 14:22, Marty Landman wrote: Hmm may there is a way to get what I want. If apache's user is add'ed to all the groups that the users are member of this would work. Eg. user1 is member of the group user1. So is the www-user. Now setting permissions 644 would give access to everyone. Setting permissions 640 would deny all other users on the server access to the files. Setting permissions 600 would completely deny everyone from reading the files. This is what I wanted from the beginning. Setting www as group owner of the files would be a lot easier in my oppinion than adding the www-user so every user's group. But it will do. Now I'm happy:-) Hmm not that happy after all. The concept of making the apache user member of many groupt works fine to begin with. But when the number of memberships apache has exceeds a certain number it refuses to start. The number of memberships is not specific but lies around 15-25. Lines like theese are written multiple times (usually about 10 times) to the apache error log: [Mon May 3 10:13:29 2004] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups: unable to set groups for User www and Group 80 Then these lines follows: [Mon May 3 10:13:29 2004] [notice] Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon May 3 10:13:29 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/sbin/suexec) [Mon May 3 10:13:29 2004] [notice] Accept mutex: flock (Default: flock) [Mon May 3 10:13:29 2004] [alert] Child 51086 returned a Fatal error... Apache is exiting! My test setup is FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Apache 1.3.29 with suexec. I guess this might be an issue for an Apache mailinglist unless initgroups is part of the FreeBSD system. Does anyone know this? I didn't find a sollution to that specific problem, but I did found a workaround. Instead all users joins the user nobody's group. Afterwards nobody joing www's group. www now has access to all users files through nobody if the group flag allows it. And because Apache doesn't have to initialize many users upon start it doesn't shutdown. Actually this is kind of cheating in my oppinion but it works great!:) I just wanted to let averybody know in case of somebody is having the same trouble as I did. My tanks to anyone who participated in this thread:-) - Mikkel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install
Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial console: # echo '-h' /boot.config Ah, thanks. I don't have a /boot.config yet. Are you sure this file goes in the top-root directory? Or in /boot/... ? You made me research a little more on this. I do have a file /boot/loader.conf. How about having in here the line console=comconsole (to divert it from the default: console=vidconsole) ? Or will that not do the same? Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tr A-Z a-z
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:57:25AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 10:53:01 +0200, Christoph Kukulies proclaimed... Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this and it suddenly doesn't work anymore: $ echo Z | tr [A-Z] [a-z] Works fine for me. However, maybe this would help? echo Z | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] Yes, that's how I also worked around it but it is dissatisfying :-) $LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 $LOCALE= $SHELL=/bin/sh stty -a speed 9600 baud; 36 rows; 80 columns; lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe echok echoke -echonl echoctl -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho -pendin -nokerninfo -extproc iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel -ignbrk brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk oflags: opost onlcr -ocrnl -oxtabs -onocr -onlret cflags: cread cs7 -parenb -parodd hupcl -clocal -cstopb -crtscts -dsrflow -dtrflow -mdmbuf cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = undef; eol2 = undef; erase = ^?; erase2 = ^H; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V; min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = ^T; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W; FreeBSD-5.2.1 as well a half year old 5.2-current -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tr A-Z a-z
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:59:01AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:53:01AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this and it suddenly doesn't work anymore: $ echo Z | tr [A-Z] [a-z] ÿ Something locale-related? locale LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_TIME=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_ALL= echo Z | tr A-Z a-z | od -x 000 0aff 002 set USER=kuku SSH_CLIENT='137.226.9.123 53261 22' MAIL=/var/mail/kuku HOME=/home/kuku SSH_TTY=/dev/ttyp1 PAGER=more PS1='$ ' OPTIND=1 PS2=' ' LOGNAME=kuku TERM=vt100 BLOCKSIZE=K PPID=49204 PATH=.:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/home/kuku/bin:/usr/local/jdk1.1.5/bin:/usr/local/jsdk/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 SHELL=/bin/sh IFS=' ' CLASSPATH=.:/home/kuku/classes:/usr/local/jdk1.1.5/lib/classes.zip:/usr/local/jdk1.1.5/classes:/usr/local/jserv0.9.11/servclasses.zip:/usr/local/jsdk/lib/classes.zip SSH_CONNECTION='137.226.9.123 53261 213.146.122.181 22' FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES EDITOR=vi It must be something too obvious but I don't see it at the moment. I found that it depends on my special environment settings. A different user doesn't have this problem. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:06:37PM +0900, Rob wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial console: # echo '-h' /boot.config Ah, thanks. I don't have a /boot.config yet. Are you sure this file goes in the top-root directory? Or in /boot/... ? Yes, top-root /. Check the handbook, section 17.6: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html You made me research a little more on this. I do have a file /boot/loader.conf. How about having in here the line console=comconsole (to divert it from the default: console=vidconsole) ? Or will that not do the same? Having -h in /boot.config will also allow the boot blocks to output to your serial console. I suspect console=comconsole would help the loader + kernel. It certainly couldn't hurt I guess :) --Stijn -- The sexual urge of the camel is stranger than anyone thinks. He's lived for years on the desert, and tried to seduce the Sphinx. But the Sphinxs center of pleasure lies buried deep in the Nile, which accounts for the hump on the camel and the Sphinxs inscrutable smile. -- Frantic Fran, http://www.franticfran.com/jokes.htm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
ipfw q
Hello, list. Can anybody help me as I can really understand nothing. The scenario: there is two nets: 192.168.5.0/24 and 192.168.7.0/24. All users normally sit in 192.168.5.0/24, using 192.168.7.0/24 as VPN addresses. All VPN users have access to squid, socks, mail, and pop3. everithing works fine, but now I need to give a direct access for 2 hosts: 192.168.5.220 and 192.168.7.70. I wrote the following rc.firewall script (tun0 is my outside interface): --- #!/bin/sh ipfw -f flush ipfw add check-state ipfw add allow all from me to any ipfw add allow all from any to any via lo0 ipfw add deny all from 10.0.0.0/8 to any in via tun0 ipfw add deny all from 172.16.0.0/12 to any in via tun0 ipfw add deny all from 192.168.0.0/16 to any in via tun0 ipfw add allow icmp from me to any keep-state ipfw add allow icmp from 192.168.5.0/24 to me ipfw add deny all from any to any frag ipfw add divert natd all from 192.168.5.220 to any out xmit tun0 ipfw add divert natd all from 192.168.7.70 to any out recv ppp\* xmit tun0 ipfw add divert natd all from any to 195.5.17.86 in recv tun0 ipfw add allow all from 192.168.5.220 to any in via sk0 ipfw add allow all from 192.168.7.70 to any in via ppp\* ipfw add allow all from me to any ipfw add unreach filter-prohib ip from not me to any out recv any xmit tun0 ipfw add allow gre from 192.168.5.0/24 to me ipfw add allow gre from me to any ipfw add allow tcp from me to any keep-state ipfw add allow udp from me to any keep-state ipfw add allow udp from any to me 53 ipfw add allow tcp from any to any established ipfw add allow tcp from any to me 25 setup ipfw add allow tcp from any to me ssh setup ipfw add allow tcp from any to me http setup via tun0 ipfw add allow tcp from 192.168.7.0/24 to me 3128 setup via ppp\* ipfw add allow tcp from 192.168.7.0/24 to me 2080 setup via ppp\* ipfw add allow tcp from 192.168.7.0/24 to me pop3 setup via ppp\* ipfw add allow tcp from 192.168.5.0/24 to me pptp setup ipfw add allow tcp from 192.168.5.0/24 to me ftp\\-data-ftp setup via sk0 ipfw add allow tcp from any to me 53 setup ipfw add deny log all from any to any Installed it, then used natd -n tun0. Then I am trying to go somewhere using something like: ping freebsd.org. it doesn't work. What am I missing? How should I rewrite my script to achieve a full power? Thanks a lot in advance. -- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov -- profi.kharkov.uaSystems Administrator -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem with FreeBSD 4.8, ipf, ipfnat and forwarding for pcAnywhere
For your telnet test to pcanywhere ports on target Lan pc to work you have to tell telnet on the target to listen on those ports. I believe pcanywhere is one of those applications that imbed the ip address of the remote and host into the packet data and used by the application to establish bi-directional packet exchange. This means that pcanywhere will not work using nated ip address. This is an common design flaw in many 3rd party software providers applications, mostly seen in games and ms/windows netmeeting. Pcanywhere only works over the public internet between two ms/window boxs that use public routable IP address. It will also work between two pc on the Lan because Nating only occurs as packet leaves Lan headed for public internet. If you have an range of static public IP address assigned to you by your ISP then you could assign one of those ip address to the LAN pc you want pcanywhere to work on and you should be good to go. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of adp Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with FreeBSD 4.8, ipf, ipfnat and forwarding for pcAnywhere This shouldn't be that hard, but I can't get it working. I have a FreeBSD firewall with three NICs (Internet, LAN, DMZ). I have bridging enabled between the Internet and DMZ interfaces. I now have an internal computer (LAN) that needs to be accessible via pcAnywhere. I can telnet to the pcAnywhere ports on the internal computer fine from the firewall or the LAN. So that works. However, when I configured ipnat to forward my pcAnywhere ports a telnet from the Internet just stalls. My ipnat configuration: # cat /etc/ipnat.conf (xl0 = internet, xl1 = lan, xl2 = dmz) # pcAnywhere # normal nat for office disabled - this is all i have in ipnat.conf rdr xl0 public-ip/32 port 5631 - 192.168.99.9 port 5631 rdr xl0 public-ip/32 port 5632 - 192.168.99.9 port 5632 And I am allowing in accessing via ipf: pass in quick proto tcp from any to public-ip port = 5631 group 200 pass in quick proto udp from any to public-ip port = 5631 group 200 pass in quick proto tcp from any to public-ip port = 5632 group 200 pass in quick proto udp from any to public-ip port = 5632 group 200 (If I take these out I see the ipmon block messages, but with these they go away, so it's not ipf I don't think.) Am I missing something here? This should work! A tcpdump. I am remote (remote-client): %telnet public-ip 5631 Trying public-ip... (just sits there) On the FreeBSD box: # tcpdump -n -i xl0 port 5631 tcpdump: listening on xl0 23:26:41.772801 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 99416198 0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 23:26:44.772018 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 99416498 0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 23:26:48.013346 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 99416818 0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 23:26:51.230241 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460 (DF) [tos 0x10] 23:26:54.429267 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460 (DF) [tos 0x10] 23:26:57.596288 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460 (DF) [tos 0x10] 23:27:03.809921 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460 (DF) [tos 0x10] 23:27:16.050057 remote-client.3755 public-ip.5631: S 2174885259:2174885259(0) win 57344 mss 1460 (DF) [tos 0x10] ^C 48 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel Oh, and again, I do have bridging enabled between Internet and DMZ: My bridge script: #!/bin/sh echo -n Enabling bridging: if sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1 /dev/null 21; then echo activated. else echo failed. fi echo -n Enabling bridging between xl0 and xl2 interfaces: if sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=xl0,xl2 /dev/null 21; then echo activated. else echo failed. fi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
buildworld failed
Here's odd. I'm trying to do a buildworld under 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5. src is fully up to date. The buildworld fails as it enters the lib/libncurses subdir during stage 2.1, cleaning up the object tree: [---snip normal output---] === lib/libncurses .depend, line 1: Need an operator .depend, line 2: Need an operator .depend, line 3: Need an operator .depend, line 4: Need an operator .depend, line 5: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. Of course, I can't find the .depend that seems to be wrong... Even doing a make clean in /usr/src results in the same error. Anyone else seen this? I have to say, I am slightly baffled ;-) Thanks, Dan -- Daniel Bye SA-DEV PSINet Europe Brookmount Court Kirkwood Road Cambridge CB4 2QH UK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with FreeBSD 4.8, ipf, ipfnat and forwarding for pcAnywhere
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:37:09PM -0500, adp wrote: And I am allowing in accessing via ipf: pass in quick proto tcp from any to public-ip port = 5631 group 200 pass in quick proto udp from any to public-ip port = 5631 group 200 pass in quick proto tcp from any to public-ip port = 5632 group 200 pass in quick proto udp from any to public-ip port = 5632 group 200 normaly nat happens before the filtering rules are applied so i would try the following: pass in quick proto tcp from any to 192.168.99.9 port = 5631 group 200 . . . hth, toni -- Wer es einmal so weit gebracht hat, dass er nicht | toni at stderror dot at mehr irrt, der hat auch zu arbeiten aufgehoert| Toni Schmidbauer -- Max Planck | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:58:43PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: I see the boot process, but it gets to the date prompt but doesn't show the login: this is mentioned in the fabulous handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html 17.6.5.4 Getting a Login Prompt on the Serial Console hth, toni -- Wer es einmal so weit gebracht hat, dass er nicht | toni at stderror dot at mehr irrt, der hat auch zu arbeiten aufgehoert| Toni Schmidbauer -- Max Planck | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problems resolving sites in browsers under KDE
Just recently I've started having a DNS issue of sorts on two of my workstations running KDE 3.2 on Freebsd 4.9 and using both Mozilla and Firebird for browsers. What happens is I'll be surfing around and suddenly I'll hit something and I can't go forward, I can't go back, I can't go anywhere. It just sits there saying resolving host whatever.com and does this for like 30 seconds, then finally it resolves it and continues on. Then it'll gag again on something else in the page as it's loading and do that all over again. Then I might be fine for another 5-15 minutes before it does it again. When this happens I can jump into a console either via KDE or control-alt-f1 and I can surf all I want to using lynx, I can resolve sites, I can telnet, or do whatever I want. But my browsers just sit there and look stupid. Is there something I'm missing? What could be causing this. It's been occuring periodically before this, but it's really gotten bad now. So far all I can tell that's affected is Mozilla and Firebird. Any ideas guys? Oh, yes. I did test this in Konqueror and it's doing the same thing in there too. So the issue is not unique to just Mozilla and Firebird. But from what I can see, not much else is affected on the network level. Is there ways I can test things in KDE that might give me some more information as to what's causing this? Or is there some network setting somewhere that I should look at? Maybe something that might affect my ability to surf smoothly? I know it's not my internet connection because I can surf just fine in my windows box that sits right next ot it on the same net connection. Any input would be welcome. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Source code of ln command
Greg, Thanks for the info. Could you tell me what is the best way to copy the whole source codes to my machine, so it's easy for me to find and understand in details some system functions? Your help is much appreciated. Best regards, Thuan - Original Message - From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thuan Truong [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:18 PM Subject: Re: Source code of ln command ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UPDATING - perl
Hi, Who do I contact to see if they can add a step to the UPDATING document in ports to make sure/remind/etc people to use.perl port before upgrading all the modules? Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UPDATING - perl
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:13:14AM -0400, Tuc wrote: Who do I contact to see if they can add a step to the UPDATING document in ports to make sure/remind/etc people to use.perl port before upgrading all the modules? Try contacting the maintainer of the perl ports: % cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 % make -V MAINTAINER It might be more worthwhile to put in a pkg-message, which should be displayed any time anyone installs the port or the pkg built from it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Geometry issue
Hi, Having a SCSI Geometry issue on a 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 system. It has a Symbios SDMS PCI SCSI, 53C1010-66 adapter that shows up as : sym0: 1010-66 port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xf600-0xf6001fff,0xf680-0xf68003 ff irq 25 at device 5.0 on pci1 sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-80, LVD, parity checking sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym0: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS. And to it I'm connecting an EasyRaid II RAID box. There is LITTLE I can configure on it, basically termination, SCSI ID, and Raid 0/1/0+1/3/5 and thats pretty much it. When the system boots, the splash screen claims the geometry is 1024/255/63 at 40M sync, and 16 wide. In the controller I've used Alternate CHS Mapping and SCSI Plug and Play Mapping without any differences. When FreeBSD boots, it sees : (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered. da0 at sym1 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 da0: easyRAID II Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 1060184MB (2171256832 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 135154C) When I try to /stand/sysinstall it, fdisk pitches a serious fit about it. What can I do to get this configured properly? It seems that if I bring it down to RAID-1+0, it configures up fine. Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tr A-Z a-z
In the last episode (May 07), Christoph P. Kukulies said: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:59:01AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:53:01AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this and it suddenly doesn't work anymore: $ echo Z | tr [A-Z] [a-z] Something locale-related? locale LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO_8859-1 echo Z | tr A-Z a-z | od -x 000 0aff 002 From the tr manpage: c-cFor non-octal range endpoints represents the range of characters between the range endpoints, inclusive, in ascending order, as defined by the collation sequence. Note that 8859-1 has uppercase and lowercase accented characters, which collate alongside the unaccented characters. /usr/src/share/colldef/la_LN.ISO8859-1.src holds the collation sequence for en_US.ISO_8859-1. There are two lowercase y, but three uppercase Y's. This means that your ranges are different sizes, and Z maps to y:, which happens to be 0xff in the 8859-1 charset. It must be something too obvious but I don't see it at the moment. I found that it depends on my special environment settings. A different user doesn't have this problem. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: KVM Switches
I've got a Belkin KVM as well. After some playing around with it I did finally get it going and working. In my rc.conf file I have moused port as /dev/psm0 and my moused type as auto. I did have problems getting my scroll wheel to work, it would only work about half the time. I eventually replaced my MS Intellimouse with a cheapo optical mouse and all the scrolling problems went away. In both situations I have found that when switching from one pc to another that the mouse would at first jump around and randomly click on things when I came back to KDE on BSD. I solved this by locking the screen and then when I come back to KDE, moving the mouse around for a few seconds. It eventually stops jumping around and settles into working quite nicely. Hope this helps. Thad -- Message: 17 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:05:09 -0700 From: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KVM Switches To: Foster, ThomasX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Please excuse my top-posting. But again, the following messages show why this list is a major *plus++. I spent hours digging into various protocols trying to figure out why my mouse went heywire on my new platform. From what I read below, it may be my KVM switch. I've got a Belkin KVM, Logitech 3-buttom mouse, and IBM keybd. Go figure... gary On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:51:53AM -0700, Foster, ThomasX wrote: Does your mouse exhibit the behavior of spitting out sync errors from the console and sticking in the upper corner of your monitor? I had this exact problem with an Intellimouse Optical and an Apex Outlook KVM. There seems to be an issue with most KVMs not passing the protocol correctly when being switched, and psm has issues resyncing. I finally resolved the issue by adding the following flags to my device hints file for my specific kernel: hint.psm.0.flags=0x100 I then enabled device hints in my kernel conf: hints mycustomkernel.hints I recompiled my kernel and have had no problems since. My mouse now works great between my FreeBSD server and my Linux Workstation on the Apex KVM. Hope this helps. Thomas Foster http://www.section6.net http://www.section6.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Brent Macnaughton Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:42 AM To: 'Ron'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: KVM Switches I am willing to wager that it is the KVM switch itself that is the problem. I have had a few problems KVM switches before. 1) We have a Compaq Proliant 1600. On certain KVMs, the keyboard world drop keystrokes. It was impossible to use. I switched the KVM out with a cheap 2 port Hawking unit and it worked fine. 2) We have a Compaq KVM (a very expensive rack-mountable server class unit). It works great, or so we thought. The other day, we swapped out a two button mouse with a wheel-mouse. Guess what? Doesn't work at all. The mouse is fine, it just won't work through the expensive Compaq KVM. Are you using Compaq hardware at all? Maybe that is your problem :) Another thing to mention... When you are booting your FreeBSD box, make sure you are switched to that box and watch it boot. If you are switched to another computer when the mouse daemon loads, I have found that the mouse won't function at all. Brent. -Original Message- From: Ron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KVM Switches Need information on how to get a KVM switch to work with the FreeBSD mouse driver. The Monitor and keyboard work fine but I have to hook a mouse directly to the box for it to work. Thanks, Ron Martin Thad Butterworth UI Exploratory (208)396-5321 http://et.boi.hp.com http://et.boi.hp.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??
cc'ed to questions: let's move it there? Geoffrey Lane wrote: I'm fairly familiar with linux and have been running redhat for a few years now. I'm looking for something I have more control over and isn't bloated with alot of stuff I don't need... BSD is on the top of my list, there are only a few set backs for me to make the switch: 1) should I download and install the new technology releases or use the 4.x branch and what are the differences? First off, before someone else flames in, you are probably going to be told to send this to questions@ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I read both, and will cc: this over so that anything I say that's dumb will get shot down (hopefully before it causes you grief ;-) ) I have had no issues with the 5.X branch, and it will, sooner or later, be the STABLE branch of development, and 4.X will fade into RAM... For me, the most notable difference is that 5.X does background file system checking in the even of improper shutdown, thus speeding up the boot process. It also has a new boot menu with more options, although I've not had cause to use this much, maybe at all. I won't comment on ufs2; it hasn't been default on my installs, so I am running on ufs (the elder file system). The kernel structure is a little different; 5.x is a very modular thing compared to 4.x. PERL in 5.x is 5.6.1 as opposed to 5.0003 ... there was talk of moving PERL out of the base system; but apparently this hasn't happened yet, as perl is still in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin... Please keep in mind this is me talking, and I'm not official or even Real Knowledgeable (tm)on such matters... 2) How do they differ (new tech/4.9)? Is this the same as #1? Or was #1 asking only about installation. In my experience, installation hasn't changed much at all between 4.x and 5.x 3) Are new technology (eg. 5.2.x) considered the unstable branch? Not exactly, but maybe, sort of. The cutting edge chapter of the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook) will give you some insight into this area. It's not exactly that the OS is unstable in 5.X --- there are a few issues still in transition (you mention GEOM?, others report some ACPI issues on some mobos, watchdog timeouts on Intel Gigabit Ether cards (I think...?), problems with ufs2 (only hearsay AFAIAmConcered) --- the real point, at least according to one committer I've talked to, is that 5.X/CURRENT is simply still in development, and it might be possible that someone would, prior to 5.X being deemed STABLE instead of CURRENT, create changes in the codebase that would require everyone to rebuild not only their kernel/userland, but potentially every piece of 3rd party software on a system. Now, I'd consider this fairly unlikely, but it's possible from what he said. In contrast, if anyone committed such a change to the branch after it becomes the STABLE branch (or to 4.X now), he would likely be taken out and flogged, or stapled to the flagpole at Microsoft HQ, or given an extra commit bit or something equally horrifying... 4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space? 5) What is this geometry bug and can it be fixed How? This would at least be dual-boot windows and possibly linux for a little familiarity. So this geometry problem has not allowed me to partition the disk using linux and windows programs afterwards and it sems to have currupted the partition table because there is no visible. I would appreciate someone's reply to these probably stupid questions Thanks for your time Geoff I'm not real familiar with these issues, as I run FBSD dd (alone!) and, as I said, am no expert on disk issues. I'm sorry if you feel I'm wasting your time. There has been a thead or two on the questions list recently about multi-booting, and probably about the Geometry issue as well. I'd certainly recommend browsing the archives at www.freebsd.org/mail ... Good luck, KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help! -- acroread failing to launch
hi, i recently uninstalled almost all of my programs, cleaned out the cruft, and re-installed only the programs i was actually using. +2Gb yay! well, since reinstalling acroread, i'm having problems getting it to run. i vaguely recall having the same issue, when i first installed the program many moons ago, but do not recall what to do to fix. here is the error message: acroread /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory locate libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 i have tried with and without the following paths in my rc.conf file (with reboot, naturally). ldconfig_paths=/usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ /u sr/compat/linux/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib ldconfig_paths_aout=/usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout this is the version i have installed: acroread-5.08 View, distribute and print PDF documents finally, the program was installed with portinstall, so all dependencies should also have been installed. i do have linux_base_8 installed *instead* of 7, but i fixed that dependency through pkgdb -Fu. (also, i have had it working this way in the past, so this shouldn't be the problem). if anyone has any idea what might be wrong, please let me know. from /ports/emulators/linux_base-8/pkg-descr: If you want to run X11 applications, install the x11/linux-XFree86-libs port. hth ch yes, christian, it helped enormously. thank you. not sure how i missed that message, but am really glad that someone caught it. :) thank you very much, epi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs mount
The full fdisk output is:
*** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=4865 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=4865 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 45,(unknown)
start 63, size 30716217 (14998 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 45,(unknown)
start 30716280, size 20482875 (10001 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 51199155, size 12273660 (5992 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63472815, size 14667345 (7161 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
-- In Response to your message -
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 21:51:33 +0100
To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ntfs mount
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
Seems our friends in redmond have done something strange with the
fs type. both w2k partitions on the disk show a type of 45
Hmm, it's not a brand-name PC that came with Windows pre-installed is
it? If so there may be a hidden recovery/diagnostics partition that is
confusing fdisk.
It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came
pre-installed from the factory.
Do you have anything like OnTrack Disk Manager installed to get round
disk size limitations in the BIOS? Unlikely with a machine that runs
W2K, but I do know someone that installed in on a P-III machine when he
built it, using an old 6.5Gbyte disk, because it came with the disk?
No disk manager of any sort running.
Since you have 2 Windows partitions, you haven't installed any form of
multi-OS boot manager have you? You wouldn't need it with W2K but you
may have had if you had 2 different versions of Win9x on there once over?
Only the first partition is bootable, I had two to separate the
standard install from the non-standard (ie the programs I use).
The multi-os boot manager is Smart Boot Manager, but that doesn't change
any partiton ids.
Can you post the whole output of `fdisk ad0', it may just give someone a
clue?
and both freebsd show 165.
Which is correct.
Regards,
Mark
Thanks
Jim
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Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:40:45 +0100
To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rg
From: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ntfs mount
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
when I do a properties under w2k it says file system is ntfs,
fdisk on bsd show partition 1 is sysid 45,(unknown)
Hmm, should be sysid 7. I can't remember if the NTFS driver is built
into the kernel (by default) or it's a kld module under 4.x, I'm running
-CURRENT, but I'm sure I never had to do anything special for NTFS
support in 4.x and the Handbook and FAQ only mention mount_ntfs.
FWIW, here's what I get (single partition, C:, on the first drive). Note
mine is 'da0', not 'ad0', as it's SCSI not IDE:
/home/mark{38}# fdisk da0
*** Working on device /dev/da0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
start 63, size 143347932 (69994 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
UNUSED
The data for partition 3 is:
UNUSED
The data for partition 4 is:
UNUSED
/home/mark{39}#
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Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:01:24 +0100
To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sd.o
rg
From: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ntfs mount
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
yes, there is only one hard disk.
What does the output
5.2.1, Sparc64, Install
Is there a Sparc64 (Ultra5) specific install instructions document? ta, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Makefile for XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 port is broken?
On Friday 07 May 2004 02:54 am, Daniel Wijnands wrote: Did you find a solution for this problem ? You didn't give enough information such as version of FreeBSD that you are running. After I read your message, I tried building it again on 2 recently cvsup'ed different computers running 4-stable and had no problem doing so. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs mount
J. W. Ballantine wrote: The full fdisk output is: *** Working on device /dev/ad0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=4865 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) [snip] I take it that the partition sizees reported are correct? It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. Only the first partition is bootable, I had two to separate the standard install from the non-standard (ie the programs I use). The multi-os boot manager is Smart Boot Manager, but that doesn't change any partiton ids. Not come across Smart Boot Manager but I wonder if it creates a small partition to run from; the OS/2 Boot Manager, which was also shipped with older versions of Partition Magic, did but, like recovery partitions it didn't get a drive letter. Try running: # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/tmp/foo bs=512 count=1 # hd /tmp/foo /tmp/foo.hd This copies the first sector of the disk to a file and hd(1) does a hexdump of the binary file. Open /tmp/foo.hd in an editor and look at the last 4 lines, they should look similar to: 01b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 01 01c0 01 00 a5 7f ff 10 3f 00 00 00 41 97 60 00 00 00 01d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa 0200 (there will be the ASCII to the right of each line but I've not included it to prevent wrapping in the e-mail) The partition type is the third hex number in the last 4 lines; the example above is 'a5' (FreeBSD) and the disk has only one partition which is why the other 3 lines are all zeros. Post the file /tmp/foo.hd here as other stuff may yield clues. Regards, Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
realaudio to mp3/wav conversion utility in FreeBSD ?
I already have a good method for saving realaudio streams to local files. No discussion of this is necessary. So now I have locally saved realaudio files, and I would like to convert them to mp3 (or at least to wav, and then to mp3). There is some lame GUI tool in windows to do this, but of course I would like a CLI tool in FreeBSD. Does such a tool exist ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs mount
On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. Not always. I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's ordered just for the purpose of installing FreeBSD on them for some of our server use...you can specify *no operating system* and they ship you the system and rails with nothing but the hard drives configured for RAID on the PERC controller. No fuss, no muss :-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs mount
The last four lines are not even close:
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01b0 4d 4b 20 42 61 64 21 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 |MK Bad!.|
01c0 01 00 2d fe ff ff 3f 00 00 00 39 b1 d4 01 00 ff |..-...?...9.|
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0200
I use the same boot manager on another system (xp rather than 2k) and
have no problems mounting the disk.
Jim
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 18:40:15 +0100
To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ntfs mount
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
The full fdisk output is:
*** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=4865 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
[snip]
I take it that the partition sizees reported are correct?
It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came
pre-installed from the factory.
I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed.
Only the first partition is bootable, I had two to separate the
standard install from the non-standard (ie the programs I use).
The multi-os boot manager is Smart Boot Manager, but that doesn't change
any partiton ids.
Not come across Smart Boot Manager but I wonder if it creates a small
partition to run from; the OS/2 Boot Manager, which was also shipped
with older versions of Partition Magic, did but, like recovery
partitions it didn't get a drive letter.
Try running:
# dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/tmp/foo bs=512 count=1
# hd /tmp/foo /tmp/foo.hd
This copies the first sector of the disk to a file and hd(1) does a
hexdump of the binary file.
Open /tmp/foo.hd in an editor and look at the last 4 lines, they should
look similar to:
01b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 01
01c0 01 00 a5 7f ff 10 3f 00 00 00 41 97 60 00 00 00
01d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa
0200
(there will be the ASCII to the right of each line but I've not included
it to prevent wrapping in the e-mail)
The partition type is the third hex number in the last 4 lines; the
example above is 'a5' (FreeBSD) and the disk has only one partition
which is why the other 3 lines are all zeros.
Post the file /tmp/foo.hd here as other stuff may yield clues.
Regards,
Mark
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Re: ntfs mount
Mark Ovens wrote: Not come across Smart Boot Manager but I wonder if it creates a small partition to run from; the OS/2 Boot Manager, which was also shipped with older versions of Partition Magic, did but, like recovery partitions it didn't get a drive letter. Ah! I've just thought of something. My old machine had Boot Magic installed - the boot manager that came with later versions of Partition Magic and didn't need a dedicated partition. One of it's features let you choose which partitions each OS could see. I never looked into _how_ it did it but I'm now wondering if it worked by setting the partition type id flag to 45 (unknown) in the partition table; I do remember that I had to disable the BIOS boot sector anti-virus feature as it went off everytime I booted. Now, it may be that this is how Smart Boot Manager works. You could confirm it by viewing the MBR when booted into Windows, you can get a copy of dd(1) and hd(1) for windows from cygwin.com or you can use DSKPROBE.EXE which is in the NT4 Resource Kit (if you can find a copy - e-mail me if you can't) and see if the partition type for the first two partitions is now set to 7 (NTFS), and maybe the FreeBSD partitions are now 45? Regards, Parish ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs mount
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. Not always. I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's ordered just for the purpose of installing FreeBSD on them for some of our server use...you can specify *no operating system* and they ship you the system and rails with nothing but the hard drives configured for RAID on the PERC controller. No fuss, no muss :-) That's good to know :-) Does it only apply to servers, or can you get desktop machines /sans/ OS? Regards, Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs mount
Only if it treats w2k different than 98 and XP. I've had the same boot manager on dual boot machines with the two MS OSes and FreeBSD and have no trouble mounting the ms partitions on FreeBSD. Jim -- In Response to your message - Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:10:17 +0100 To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ntfs mount Mark Ovens wrote: Not come across Smart Boot Manager but I wonder if it creates a small partition to run from; the OS/2 Boot Manager, which was also shipped with older versions of Partition Magic, did but, like recovery partitions it didn't get a drive letter. Ah! I've just thought of something. My old machine had Boot Magic installed - the boot manager that came with later versions of Partition Magic and didn't need a dedicated partition. One of it's features let you choose which partitions each OS could see. I never looked into _how_ it did it but I'm now wondering if it worked by setting the partition type id flag to 45 (unknown) in the partition table; I do remember that I had to disable the BIOS boot sector anti-virus feature as it went off everytime I booted. Now, it may be that this is how Smart Boot Manager works. You could confirm it by viewing the MBR when booted into Windows, you can get a copy of dd(1) and hd(1) for windows from cygwin.com or you can use DSKPROBE.EXE which is in the NT4 Resource Kit (if you can find a copy - e-mail me if you can't) and see if the partition type for the first two partitions is now set to 7 (NTFS), and maybe the FreeBSD partitions are now 45? Regards, Parish ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs mount
On May 7, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. Not always. I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's ordered just for the purpose of installing FreeBSD on them for some of our server use...you can specify *no operating system* and they ship you the system and rails with nothing but the hard drives configured for RAID on the PERC controller. No fuss, no muss :-) That's good to know :-) Does it only apply to servers, or can you get desktop machines /sans/ OS? I don't know for sure to give an authoritative answer; if you call them for ordering, you should be able to cajole them into it. We may get different treatment because we're a school and they like us calling them back when another project needs another server (I think educational institutions are considered businesses by Dell, so we can all our sales rep and they seem to be able to work whatever magic we want for configurations when we make it clear that's what we want). Dell doesn't make systems, IIRC, until they are ordered...read something about how it cuts down on inventory left in warehouses and allows for customization...so I don't see why they couldn't make a desktop system sans OS. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mono
Hi I am trying to install mono on my freebsd box and i have these error mono... does not work on -CURRENT with garbage collection enabled i am runing 5.2 Release i probe in one machine that have 4.9 and it install well what should ido to install it in my 5.2 if its possible ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mono
Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: Hi I am trying to install mono on my freebsd box and i have these error mono... does not work on -CURRENT with garbage collection enabled i am runing 5.2 Release i probe in one machine that have 4.9 and it install well what should ido to install it in my 5.2 if its possible Keep in mind that this message means that the port is _broken_ on FreeBSD 5. Mono will crash if you run it on 5. That being said, if you'd like to help track down the problem, edit the Makefile and comment out the line that reads: IGNORE= Does not work on -CURRENT with garbage collection enabled Then you can experiment with the crashes and help find the problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help! -- acroread failing to launch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: acroread /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory locate libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 i have tried with and without the following paths in my rc.conf file (with reboot, naturally). ldconfig_paths=/usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ /u sr/compat/linux/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib ldconfig_paths_aout=/usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout this is the version i have installed: acroread-5.08 View, distribute and print PDF documents finally, the program was installed with portinstall, so all dependencies should also have been installed. i do have linux_base_8 installed *instead* of 7, but i fixed that dependency through pkgdb -Fu. (also, i have had it working this way in the past, so this shouldn't be the problem). if anyone has any idea what might be wrong, please let me know. acroread wants libXt.so.6 and can't find it. Is it installed? Note that pkgdb can fix what its own database thinks are the dependencies for acroread, but if acroread *actually* needs linux_base-7, then, well, that's what it needs. You might be able to get away with just copying in the libraries that acroread complains are missing. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help! -- acroread failing to launch
hi lowell, problem already solved. it may have been confusing because my last reply didn't follow the usual '' indent format. i had to cut and paste the message from the website, because i never received a copy of the message. thanks for your offer to help. cheers, epi. On 07 May 2004 15:24:13 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: acroread /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory locate libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 i have tried with and without the following paths in my rc.conf file (with reboot, naturally). ldconfig_paths=/usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ /u sr/compat/linux/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib ldconfig_paths_aout=/usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout this is the version i have installed: acroread-5.08 View, distribute and print PDF documents finally, the program was installed with portinstall, so all dependencies should also have been installed. i do have linux_base_8 installed*instead* of 7, but i fixed that dependency through pkgdb -Fu. (also, i have had it working this way in the past, so this shouldn't be the problem). if anyone has any idea what might be wrong, please let me know. acroread wants libXt.so.6 and can't find it. Is it installed? Note that pkgdb can fix what its own database thinks are the dependencies for acroread, but if acroread *actually* needs linux_base-7, then, well, that's what it needs. You might be able to get away with just copying in the libraries that acroread complains are missing. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
startx failing to work after Gnome update
Hello, I've recently updated my Gnome packags to version 2.6 and since then, X has failed to work when I start it as a non-root user. (It does work as root) I get a message about being unable to replace the log file. Has anyone got any ideas on where I went wrong? Thank you, N. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: realaudio to mp3/wav conversion utility in FreeBSD ?
Joe Schmoe wrote: I already have a good method for saving realaudio streams to local files. No discussion of this is necessary. So now I have locally saved realaudio files, and I would like to convert them to mp3 (or at least to wav, and then to mp3). There is some lame GUI tool in windows to do this, but of course I would like a CLI tool in FreeBSD. Does such a tool exist ? Yes, it does: Mplayer! Install the mplayer port with support for realaudio. The following will convert a ra stream (or any other audio stream mplayer supports) and save in wave format to the file audiodump.wav: mplayer file.ra -ao pcm From there, you can use lame to convert it in the mp3 format. I have attached a script, that converts all *.wma files in a directory into mp3s, but it should be easy enough to adopt to your situation. I once found it via google; there are credits for the authors in the script. Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??
On Friday 07 May 2004 16:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space? Yes, anything can be used as swap space, but be sure to determine the correct device file, or else you'll overwrite precious data. If, for example, you have the Linux swap on the second slice on the first IDE drive, the device file would be: /dev/ad0s2 (at least for 4.9, I think for 5.X it's /dev/ad0s2c but I'm not sure). Daniela ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: realaudio to mp3/wav conversion utility in FreeBSD ?
Oops, the script was stripped off by the mailing list software. I'll post it inline now. - cut here - #!/bin/sh # extraido de http://bulmalug.net/impresion.phtml?nIdNoticia=1744 # y modificado por mapelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] # necesita mplayer y lame # Convertimos wma a mp3 for f in *.wma do mplayer $f -ao pcm mv audiodump.wav $f.wav #lame $f.wav # modificado por mapelo para hacer variable vibrate y de mayor calidad lame --vbr-new -V 3 -b 128 $f.wav rm $f.wav done - cut here - signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port
Trying to install openoffice from ports tree cvsupped yesterday and failing. I don't want to install from a package, as I get an icky mess between gtk 1 (which the openoffice package wants) and gtk 2 (which the latest gnome wants) Suggestions? FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, when I try to build, it stops thusly: ... Build Tool Settings: UNIXCOMMAND_PATH = /bin/ COMPILER_PATH = /usr/bin/ DEVTOOLS_PATH = /usr/local/bin/ USRBIN_PATH = /usr/bin/ MOTIF_DIR = /usr/X11R6 CC_VER = 2.95.4 ZIP_VER = 2.3 PATH = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin Build Directives: USE_ONLY_BOOTDIR_TOOLS = USE_HOTSPOT_INTERPRETER_MODE = PEDANTIC = DEV_ONLY = YES J2RE_ONLY = NO_DOCS = NO_IMAGES = TOOLS_ONLY = true INSANE = Build Platform Settings: PLATFORM = bsd ARCH = i586 LIBARCH = i386 ARCH_FAMILY = i586 ARCH_DATA_MODEL = 32 OS_VERSION = 4.9-RELEASE TRUE_PLATFORM = FreeBSD (4.x STABLE way) FREE_SPACE = 62703400 GNU Make Settings: MAKE = gmake MAKE VERSION = MAKECMDGOALS = sanity MAKEFLAGS = SHELL = /bin/sh Target Build Versions: JDK_VERSION = 1.4.2 MILESTONE = p6 BUILD_NUMBER = wmoran_07_may_2004_11_53 External File/Binary Locations: HOTSPOT_SERVER_PATH = /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/server HOTSPOT_CLIENT_PATH = /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/client MOTIF_DIR = /usr/X11R6 CACERTS_FILE = ./../src/share/lib/security/cacerts WARNING: Your build environment has the variable DEV_ONLY defined. This will result in a development-only build of the J2SE workspace, lacking the documentation build and installation bundles. ERROR: Your JAVAWS_BOOTDIR environment variable does not point to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build. A Java 2 SDK 1.4 build must be bootstrapped using J2SDK 1.4.0 fcs (or later). Apparently, your bootstrap JDK is version Abort trap Please update your ALT_JAVAWS_BOOTDIR setting and start your build again. ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build. A Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 build must be bootstrapped using J2SDK 1.4.1 fcs (or later). Apparently, your bootstrap JDK is version Abort trap Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting and start your build again. Exiting because of the above error(s). gmake: *** [post-sanity] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 stable release info
On Thu, 6 May 2004 10:36 pm, JJB wrote: The official 4.10 schedule says 4.10 stable release was scheduled for May 5. The FTP sites still have RC2 and the 4.10 to-do list talks about RC3. Anybody from the release team care to comment on what is the holdup and when 4.10 going to be updated to the mirror FTP sites? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/schedule.html Whenever I see a release put back I think Thank goodness for the FreeBSD team that they make sure that it is working before they release it rather than adhering to any artificial release dates. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?
Hello, is there any hardware SCSI RAID controller that is fully supported in FreeBSD? By fully supported I mean being able to monitor and talk to the controller on a live system in order to initiate a rebuild on a replace drive and such. Mylex/Adaptec seems to be a dead end, LSI's MegaRAIDs I'm not sure about. Anything else out there? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Source code of ln command
On Friday, 7 May 2004 at 10:00:50 -0400, Thuan Truong wrote: Greg, Thanks for the info. Could you tell me what is the best way to copy the whole source codes to my machine, so it's easy for me to find and understand in details some system functions? This is a FAQ. The source code is included with all distributions of FreeBSD. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and he will sort things out for you. Don't send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? === Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In addition, the FreeBSD-newbies list caters
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: segmentation fault-- is my array too long?
On Friday 07 May 2004 06:42, Henrik W Lund wrote: malloc() is your friend! :-) -- double *ncost = malloc(sizeof (double) * persons * scens); -- This ought to do the trick. Just remember to make sure that malloc returns a valid pointer, otherwise you'll have another seg fault. I'm pretty sure you can adress the pointer like you do with the array there (ncost[persons][0], etc...); if not, you can always do ncost(sizeof(double) * persons + 0), etc... /* AMENDMENT!!! */ In my haste, I totally forgot my pointer dereferencing. The correct way to reference a pointer as a two dimensional array is, of course, thus: *(ncost + (sizeof(double) * persons) + 0)) = 0.00; You've still got it wrong! ncost increments in units of size equal to that which it points so it should be: *(ncost + person*scens + scen) where person is the first index and scen the second. or in the particular instance *(ncost + person*scens + 0) = 0.00; For easier to read code it would be better to use: double (*ncost)[scens] = malloc( persons * sizeof *ncost ); and dereference as: ncost[person][scen] or in particular ncost[person][0] = 0.0; And for the OP it is usual to write constants generated with #define in upper-case. It generally seems to help to make the code easier to follow. In this case: PERSONS instead of persons and SCENS instead of scens This also make the distinction between PERSONS and person more evident while retaining their implied connection. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Plod-like tool in ports
* Viktor Lazlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-06 21:22]: On Thu, 6 May 2004, Joshua Lokken wrote: Does anyone out there use a tool similar to plod for personal logging of administrative tasks? I've looked through /usr/ports/sysutils, and didn't see anything that caught my eye. Why not just use plod then? It works fine under both FreeBSD and Linux. Indeed, it's working nicely. -- Joshua This is Papa Bear. Put out an APB on a suspect, driving a ... car of some sort, heading in the direction of ... that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless, repeat HATLESS! -- Chief Clancy Wiggam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?
On May 7, 2004, at 5:13 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, is there any hardware SCSI RAID controller that is fully supported in FreeBSD? By fully supported I mean being able to monitor and talk to the controller on a live system in order to initiate a rebuild on a replace drive and such. Mylex/Adaptec seems to be a dead end, If you build your kernel with Linux compatibility, then you can use the Linux command line (and probably the browser edition) of the Adaptec stuff for the aac based controllers like the 2200S. The adaptec command line tools for the 2100s have worked pretty well for me Chad LSI's MegaRAIDs I'm not sure about. Anything else out there? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port
On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:24, Bill Moran wrote: Trying to install openoffice from ports tree cvsupped yesterday and failing. I don't want to install from a package, as I get an icky mess between gtk 1 (which the openoffice package wants) and gtk 2 (which the latest gnome wants) Suggestions? FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, when I try to build, it stops thusly: ... Build Tool Settings: UNIXCOMMAND_PATH = /bin/ COMPILER_PATH = /usr/bin/ DEVTOOLS_PATH = /usr/local/bin/ USRBIN_PATH = /usr/bin/ MOTIF_DIR = /usr/X11R6 CC_VER = 2.95.4 ZIP_VER = 2.3 PATH = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin: /usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin Build Directives: USE_ONLY_BOOTDIR_TOOLS = USE_HOTSPOT_INTERPRETER_MODE = PEDANTIC = DEV_ONLY = YES J2RE_ONLY = NO_DOCS = NO_IMAGES = TOOLS_ONLY = true INSANE = Build Platform Settings: PLATFORM = bsd ARCH = i586 LIBARCH = i386 ARCH_FAMILY = i586 ARCH_DATA_MODEL = 32 OS_VERSION = 4.9-RELEASE TRUE_PLATFORM = FreeBSD (4.x STABLE way) FREE_SPACE = 62703400 GNU Make Settings: MAKE = gmake MAKE VERSION = MAKECMDGOALS = sanity MAKEFLAGS = SHELL = /bin/sh Target Build Versions: JDK_VERSION = 1.4.2 MILESTONE = p6 BUILD_NUMBER = wmoran_07_may_2004_11_53 External File/Binary Locations: HOTSPOT_SERVER_PATH = /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/server HOTSPOT_CLIENT_PATH = /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/client MOTIF_DIR = /usr/X11R6 CACERTS_FILE = ./../src/share/lib/security/cacerts WARNING: Your build environment has the variable DEV_ONLY defined. This will result in a development-only build of the J2SE workspace, lacking the documentation build and installation bundles. ERROR: Your JAVAWS_BOOTDIR environment variable does not point to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build. A Java 2 SDK 1.4 build must be bootstrapped using J2SDK 1.4.0 fcs (or later). Apparently, your bootstrap JDK is version Abort trap Please update your ALT_JAVAWS_BOOTDIR setting and start your build again. ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build. A Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 build must be bootstrapped using J2SDK 1.4.1 fcs (or later). Apparently, your bootstrap JDK is version Abort trap Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting and start your build again. Exiting because of the above error(s). gmake: *** [post-sanity] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. Something went wrong when building the jdk14 dependency. If there is no valid jdk14 installed on your system, you need the linux-sun-jdk14 for bootstrapping the build of jdk14. Try to build jdk14 with the WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP knob set, which requires also linux-emulation enabled and linprocfs mounted. cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 make WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP=yes If this doesn't work install the linux-sun-jdk14 package manually and restart the jdk14 build as described above. regards ch pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port
Christian Hiris wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:24, Bill Moran wrote: Trying to install openoffice from ports tree cvsupped yesterday and failing. I don't want to install from a package, as I get an icky mess between gtk 1 (which the openoffice package wants) and gtk 2 (which the latest gnome wants) Suggestions? FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, when I try to build, it stops thusly: ... snip ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build. A Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 build must be bootstrapped using J2SDK 1.4.1 fcs (or later). Apparently, your bootstrap JDK is version Abort trap Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting and start your build again. Exiting because of the above error(s). gmake: *** [post-sanity] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. Something went wrong when building the jdk14 dependency. If there is no valid jdk14 installed on your system, you need the linux-sun-jdk14 for bootstrapping the build of jdk14. Try to build jdk14 with the WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP knob set, which requires also linux-emulation enabled and linprocfs mounted. cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 make WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP=yes If this doesn't work install the linux-sun-jdk14 package manually and restart the jdk14 build as described above. While you're answer didn't directly solve the problem, it gave me the hint I needed to get things going. Linux compat was installed, but not enabled. I did a kldload linux.ko and restarted the build, and it's progressing nicely now. I didn't know linux emu was necessary to run OpenOffice? Is it just for building or is it required to run as well? Thanks for the help. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?
On May 7, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, is there any hardware SCSI RAID controller that is fully supported in FreeBSD? By fully supported I mean being able to monitor and talk to the controller on a live system in order to initiate a rebuild on a replace drive and such. Mylex/Adaptec seems to be a dead end, LSI's MegaRAIDs I'm not sure about. Anything else out there? Adaptec; I think that is what the Dell PERC controllers use (just rebranded?). There' s a CLI utility that was ported from the Linux world...aacli I think is what it is called (or something similar to it). Although I haven't had to try the actual rebuild from the CLI (THANK $DEITY, knock on wood...), the command line program does talk to the controller for information. Try digging around for what the PERC controllers use for their chipset... -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?
Either Adaptec or AMI Logic ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port
On Saturday 08 May 2004 04:40, Bill Moran wrote: Christian Hiris wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:24, Bill Moran wrote: Trying to install openoffice from ports tree cvsupped yesterday and failing. I don't want to install from a package, as I get an icky mess between gtk 1 (which the openoffice package wants) and gtk 2 (which the latest gnome wants) Suggestions? FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, when I try to build, it stops thusly: ... snip ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build. A Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 build must be bootstrapped using J2SDK 1.4.1 fcs (or later). Apparently, your bootstrap JDK is version Abort trap Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting and start your build again. Exiting because of the above error(s). gmake: *** [post-sanity] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. Something went wrong when building the jdk14 dependency. If there is no valid jdk14 installed on your system, you need the linux-sun-jdk14 for bootstrapping the build of jdk14. Try to build jdk14 with the WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP knob set, which requires also linux-emulation enabled and linprocfs mounted. cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 make WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP=yes If this doesn't work install the linux-sun-jdk14 package manually and restart the jdk14 build as described above. While you're answer didn't directly solve the problem, it gave me the hint I needed to get things going. Linux compat was installed, but not enabled. I did a kldload linux.ko and restarted the build, and it's progressing nicely now. I didn't know linux emu was necessary to run OpenOffice? Is it just for building or is it required to run as well? It's just needed to build the native jdk14, which uses the linux-jdk14 for bootstrapping. no need at runtime as far as i know. Thanks for the help. pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Penggy for AOL
I'm trying to install Penggy, so I can connect through dialup using an AOL account I have. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1. The modem I have is recognized in FreeBSD. I downloaded the source file from the homepage, then ran ./configure and said that it couldn't find Guile (which I don't have installed). Then I tried to run make, but it said there was nothing to make. I would appreciate it if someone could guide me through installing and configuring penggy so I can use an AOL account I have. __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports Index Update Error - mail/lmtpd Failure
On (05/05/04 10:18), Kent Stewart wrote: From: Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ports Index Update Error - mail/lmtpd Failure Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:18:15 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 05 May 2004 09:42 am, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-04 22:04]: Was unsucessful at upgrading my ports system Saturday due to a failure during the port index update. More specifically, I received an error message stating that mail/lmtpd file failed. The upgrade process is fairly basic beginning with a backup of /var/db/pkg, followed with pkgdb -Fv, cvsup -g -L 2 -z cvsupfile, and then portsdb -uU. The error ocurred during the index update and a message followed describing the error stating Makefile, line 47: You cannot use DB3 and DB4 in the same time. I've been using the ports collection happily for a couple of years now, and portsdb -Uu has correctly made me an index once. I believe it's redundant, though, to immediately follow a cvsup with a portsdb -Uu, as the cvsup takes care of the index for you. I wouldn't worry too much; I've seen other folks recommend recvsupping and trying again; It should be ok to ignore it; at least I always have. This is really not true. INDEX is updated infrequently and depending on the version cvsup downloads will leave you with a version that can be as much as 2 months out of date. If you don't use ports such as portupgrade, it doesn't matter because make will use the proper parameters from the port location. If you want to use portupgrade, you have to rebuild INDEX[-5] and INDEX.db after every cvsup. If you check the update dates on INDEX, you will see that it was updated on 1 May, 28 Apr, 3 Apr, and then on 13 Feb. You could have missed an important security fix because none of the ports such as portversion or pkg_version would have recognized that the port had been updated. If it has only made a proper INDEX twice for you, I really suspect that you are refusing ports that are important to the make index process. I build the INDEXs twice a day and the last time make index failed was on 12-13 Apr. FWIW, portsdb -U now uses make index to build INDEX. First, I need to thank all who took the time to respond for your contrib- utions. I'm as much a newbie to FreeBSD as I am to sysadmin so I'm sure you'll understand why I prefer to work within the box at this time. The portsdb man page recommends running portsdb -uU after every CVSup and I feel more comfortable following those guidelines. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with INDEX so I'll treat it as an opportunity. My INDEX file was last updated Apr 30 so if I understand your recommendations, I can CVSup again, followed by portsdb -uU and hope for a clean build, or use make INDEX and work with the advice provided if it fails again. If that's unsucessful, run pkg_deinstall db3 since it's not required by any other package and try again. I've also checked my /etc/make.conf and the only settings that are uncommented include CFLAGS= -O -pipe, BDECFLAGS= (whole list of stuff), NOPROFILE= true, WITH_FAM= yes, and WITH_LAME= yes. Not sure what they do (another opportunity). Will let you know how things work out. BTW, I was also very glad to see my message posted finally. Just set up mutt and unfortunately had an ill-configured sendmail file that prevented me from sucessfully sending mail out for over a week. All better now, I hope. Thanks again. Bob Perry I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
