Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Guido Demmenie
On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=13554983 Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=35376691

RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Wood, Russell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM To: Christian Walther Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM,

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Guido Demmenie
On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM To: Christian Walther Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk

RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Wood, Russell
-Original Message- From: Guido Demmenie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:15 PM To: Wood, Russell Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: -Original Message-

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-30 Thread Vince
Stan Cooper wrote: # ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /win Failed to open /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory modprobe: not found Failed to open /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory Failed to create /dev/fuse: No such file or directory fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Christian Walther
On 30/03/07, Wood, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM To: Christian Walther Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is

Re: skype replacement

2007-03-30 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:01:29 -0700 Andriy Babiy wrote: Since skype requires some i386 binary, it doesn't build on amd64. Where did you manage to get the sources? Why didn't you give a try to use the port (/usr/ports/net/skype)? It works just fine at amd64 (COMPAT_IA32 and

apache2x can't autostart under freebsd 6.2

2007-03-30 Thread he ccjj
I setup apache20 or apache22 on freebsd6.2, and eidted /etc/rc.conf, then I can use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh start or /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start to start, but after reboot, I have to restart it manully. This must be a BUG for Freebsd 6.2, how to resolve it?

where environment variable MAIL was set?

2007-03-30 Thread Zheng Tianyu
Hi, All My account name is airfish, after I sued to root, I found that the environment variable MAIL remained MAIL=/var/mail/airfish. As a result, when I start mutt, it opens the airfish's mailbox. That's not what i desired. But I can't find where the MAIL is set. Should I unsetenv MAIL in my

freebsd + squid + pf problem

2007-03-30 Thread he ccjj
I use freebsd + squid + pf to setup a transprarent proxy box. my /etc/pf.conf: ext_if={fxp0} int_if={em0} int_net={192.168.100.254/16} icmp_types=echoreq set block-policy return set optimization aggressive set skip on lo0 scrub in nat on $ext_if from $int_net to any - $ext_if rdr pass on

Re: Moving paritions around

2007-03-30 Thread Ian Smith
On 30 Mar 2007 02:50:31 - John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up my laptop to dual boot between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and FreeBSD. When I first set it up I made the partitions the same size, but since then I found I do a lot more with FreeBSD so I'd rather give it more space.

Re: where environment variable MAIL was set?

2007-03-30 Thread Vince
Zheng Tianyu wrote: Hi, All My account name is airfish, after I sued to root, I found that the environment variable MAIL remained MAIL=/var/mail/airfish. As a result, when I start mutt, it opens the airfish's mailbox. That's not what i desired. But I can't find where the MAIL is set.

Kernel crash on boot from CD (6.2)

2007-03-30 Thread Albert Kok \(Technico Automatisering b.v.\)
Greetings, I have been using FreeBSD for years and with success. I'd like to use FreeBSD as my main operating system on my new HP Pavilion DV6248EU. Specs: AMD Turion64 X2 TL-50, Nvidia Geforce Go 6150, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB HD, DVD RW+DL+LS, LAN/WLAN, 1280x800, etc. I have tried the AMD64

Re: where environment variable MAIL was set?

2007-03-30 Thread Zheng Tianyu
Problem solved. Thank you. Zheng Tianyu On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:59:36AM +0100, Vince wrote: Zheng Tianyu wrote: Hi, All My account name is airfish, after I sued to root, I found that the environment variable MAIL remained MAIL=/var/mail/airfish. As a result, when I start mutt,

Re: Is this a hard drive crash?

2007-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:03 AM 3/29/2007, you wrote: Janos Dohanics wrote: I also ran the Seagate drive utility which found no problems with the drive. When the same kind of crash happened again, I thought the problem may be the IDE controller, I have replaced the motherboard. Now

Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue

2007-03-30 Thread Joseph Marah
Hi KK, thanks. I have tried ctrl+ald+bspace but got a black screen for a split sec abd got right back to KDM login. Also tried ctrl+f1, ctrl+f1 etc but go nowhere. I can get in single user mode but no edit previleges as I am not root. still trying different things. hanks tho. Kevin

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, Ye, by installing the system with the timeout (i.e. just wait it out), then building a kernel without umass at the first opportunity. Still no luck. Today, I tried waiting till the timeout expired, but what happened was, that in the middle of probing, the machine got rebooted. It was

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: -- Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec lo0: bpf attached rr232x: no controller detecde. md0: Preloaded image /boot/mfsroot 4423680 bytes at 0xc0af6544 probe64:umass-sim1:1:0:0): error 22

Re: apache2x can't autostart under freebsd 6.2

2007-03-30 Thread Eric Crist
On Mar 30, 2007, at 4:24 AM, he ccjj wrote: I setup apache20 or apache22 on freebsd6.2, and eidted /etc/rc.conf, then I can use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh start or /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start to start, but after reboot, I have to restart it manully. This must be a BUG for Freebsd

Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue

2007-03-30 Thread Christian Walther
On 30/03/07, Joseph Marah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi KK, thanks. I have tried ctrl+ald+bspace but got a black screen for a split sec abd got right back to KDM login. ALT+CTRL+Backspace shuts down the X Server the hard way. A Desktop Manager (KDM, GDM, XDM) is supposed to restart after a

Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
Hi, I'm trying to mount an ntfs drive with mount_ntfs. Now, the system sees the second hard disk, but shows only one partition, ad1s1 wich is NTFS, but on that disk there are 3 ntfs partitions and the system doesn't see them. On windows they work fine. Another thing, after a day or two I tried

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended partitions. This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives. The extended partitions are done differently and are outside the partition table. -Derek At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote:

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Christian Walther wrote: I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=13554983 Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=35376691 Just thought I should

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-30 Thread Stan Cooper
Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:hmm sounds kind of like the fuse kmod isnt loaded. whats the output of kldstat ? # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 14 0xc040 6f6544 kernel 21 0xc0af7000 59f20acpi.ko 31 0xc33a9000 a000 ntfs.ko you should have a module fuse.ko

Floppy drive problem

2007-03-30 Thread Tee Nor
Hello, Installed FreeBSD 6.0 last year, been using as cross development for VME. But discovered can not mount floppy drive, hardware seems ok, per below. However, mount command fails. Any ideas for me? Thanks Tom Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 200MHz), Keyboard Present OpenBoot 3.11, 512 MB

Re: apache2x can't autostart under freebsd 6.2

2007-03-30 Thread he ccjj
Than you for your advice very much, I will try later. On 3/30/07, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 30, 2007, at 4:24 AM, he ccjj wrote: I setup apache20 or apache22 on freebsd6.2, and eidted /etc/rc.conf, then I can use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh start or

No buffer space available

2007-03-30 Thread Thiago Esteves de Oliveira
Hello, I've had a problem with one of my FreeBSD servers, the machine has stopped its network services and then sent these messages: -Mar 27 13:00:03 anubis dhcpd: send_packet: No buffer space available -Mar 27 13:00:26 anubis routed[431]: Send bcast sendto(em0, 146.164.92.255.520): No buffer

Re: Floppy drive problem

2007-03-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:02:10PM +, Tee Nor wrote: Booting: FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed Nov 2 09:45:36 UTC 2005) bootpath=/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],880/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:a After boot: # mount /dev/fd/0 /mnt

Re: apache2x can't autostart under freebsd 6.2

2007-03-30 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Mar 30, 2007, at 4:24 AM, he ccjj wrote: I setup apache20 or apache22 on freebsd6.2, and eidted /etc/rc.conf, then I can use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh start or /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start to start, but after reboot, I have to restart it manully. This must be a BUG for Freebsd

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:56:04AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote: On 30/03/2007 9:22 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:07:23AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote: ... Is it important to use 16 as the offset still, or is this a historical piece of information that is no longer

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:15:19AM +0200, Guido Demmenie wrote: On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM To: Christian

Help Finding Disk Drive Usage

2007-03-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a small system that has happily run various versions of FBSD over the years. Currently it's on 6.1-R-p11. This morning I found /usr was out of disk space. I freed a little by clearing /usr/tmp, /usr/obj, and some log files I didn't need in /usr/var/log just to keep the /usr: write

Re: Help Finding Disk Drive Usage

2007-03-30 Thread Josh Carroll
So why does du report only 2.0 GB of usage while df reports over 6 GB? Where has my storage gone? Or do I not understand proper usage of du? If you removed files that still had open file handles (e.g. from /var/log), they are likely still allocated and showing up in df, but not du since

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-30 Thread Vince
Stan Cooper wrote: Same problem as before.: # ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /win Failed to open /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory modprobe: not found Failed to open /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory Error opening partition device: Operation not permitted Failed to startup

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-30 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:19:47 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but with training my computer is teaching me what is right and what is not. I think. ... and I thought that's why I had stopped using Windows...hmmm ;) _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome An

Re: Moving paritions around

2007-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:50:31AM -, John Levine wrote: I set up my laptop to dual boot between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and FreeBSD. When I first set it up I made the partitions the same size, but since then I found I do a lot more with FreeBSD so I'd rather give it more space. So the last

HP OJ5610 and Cups and Samba and Vista

2007-03-30 Thread Gerry Freymann
Just when I think I've finally got things working... I updated my ports and installed the latest Samba, and I can now use smbclient to list the shares on my Vista box. I wasn't having any luck printing from my FreeBSD 6.2 box with LPD and APSFILTER to the Vista computer. The print queue on the

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:09:51AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote: Hello, here I am again with another problem. Thanks for your answers, I managed to setup my system, and now almost everything works. Still, I must configure my printer (Hp LaserJet 6L), but this is not the issue now. I have

Re: where environment variable MAIL was set?

2007-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:07:35PM +0800, Zheng Tianyu wrote: Hi, All My account name is airfish, after I sued to root, I found that the environment variable MAIL remained MAIL=/var/mail/airfish. As a result, when I start mutt, it opens the airfish's mailbox. That's not what i desired.

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:44:33 +0100 Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=13554983 Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel:

Re: Help Finding Disk Drive Usage

2007-03-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 3/30/2007 8:28 AM Josh Carroll said the following: So why does du report only 2.0 GB of usage while df reports over 6 GB? Where has my storage gone? Or do I not understand proper usage of du? If you removed files that still had open file handles (e.g. from /var/log), they are likely

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:02:11PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:09:51AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote: Hello, here I am again with another problem. Thanks for your answers, I managed to setup my system, and now almost everything works. Still, I must

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, Try waiting about 30 minutes, there was a nasty timeout problem here when I tried it - you might have the same. Google for my posts on freebsd-stable mailing list. Okay, it really seems it's the nasty timeout I am facing (I booted into the verbose mode and it's

Re: Moving paritions around

2007-03-30 Thread John L
Boot from a CD, change the partition table to make the FreeBSD partition start right after the Windows partition Well, sort of maybe.Do you mean the partition table or slice table? It's the think that fdisk manages, which I guess in BSD-ese is the slice table. First, I am guessing

Re: change xorg video resolution

2007-03-30 Thread freenity
well this is what xpdyinfo says. Its screen0 section: screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1024x768 pixels (342x271 millimeters) resolution:76x72 dots per inch depths (7):16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 root window id:0x3e depth of root window:16 planes number of

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-30 Thread Stan Cooper
Yeah, I'm kinda puzzled by that hibernation line. The server was down. I booted up directly into FBSD and ran the command again (just to be sure) and it gave me the same error. Why? I didn't touch Windoze! Stan2 Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stan Cooper wrote: Same problem as before.: #

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:09:51AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote: Hello, here I am again with another problem. Thanks for your answers, I managed to setup my system, and now almost everything works. Still, I must configure my printer (Hp LaserJet 6L), but this is not the issue now. I have

Re: xorg broken after using portupgrade

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le vendredi 30 mars 2007, E. J. Cerejo a écrit : I'm running FBSD release 6.2 and after updating my ports with portupgrade I can start xorg. I'm getting this error message: waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled refcount is 2, should be

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
Ok, I think I understand, but tell me, is there any way I can read those partitions from freebsd? If this helps, on that disk are no windows, there are 3 ntfs partitions. Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended

Re: Moving paritions around

2007-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:41:34PM -0400, John L wrote: Boot from a CD, change the partition table to make the FreeBSD partition start right after the Windows partition Well, sort of maybe.Do you mean the partition table or slice table? It's the think that fdisk manages, which I guess

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-03-30 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ 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

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-03-30 Thread Greg Lehey
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.

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
Not that I know of. The extended partitions are implemented as linked-lists, and not in a partition table as standard partitions are and the mount_ntfs is not written for the extended partitions. You can move things back and forth using the one partition that you can access. -Derek

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
On 3/30/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:02:11PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:09:51AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote: Hello, here I am again with another problem. Thanks for your answers, I managed to setup my system, and

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
Could I maybe fix this with trying to make the partitions again or something like this from windows with partition magic? I supose that on the same way freebsd does with it's partitions? Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I know of. The extended partitions are

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:21:32PM +0200, Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Try xvidtune. Thanks, I'll try. I knew of that program, but with time I forgot it's name. I must say that freebsd works very well as a workstation, there are no viruses (am I right?), As good as right. There have been

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
You'd have to enlarge the primary partition and move the data from the two extended partitions into that partition. -Derek At 12:27 PM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote: Could I maybe fix this with trying to make the partitions again or something like this from

ATI x1600 support

2007-03-30 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I just received a new laptop Compaq nc8430 with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 graphics card. Didn't have a selection option, just take what you get. Has anybody got this working with a decent resolution? I can't get it better then 1024x768. Is there a way to bring it to 1280x800. Where

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Christian Walther
On 30/03/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=13554983 Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA

question about superkaramba

2007-03-30 Thread freenity
Hi. I have installed the latest super karamba for kde 3.5.4 on my freebsd 6.2release amd64. I installed a theme called GlassMonitor that is supposed to show some statistics about cpu, memory, disks and internet traffic. It detects some of them but not all. It doesnt detect the cpu frequency, cpu

Re: UPDATE: Server hanged on VFS lock problem

2007-03-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Kris Kennaway wrote: FYI I tried to contact you off-list but you posted with an invalid address so I didn't bother. Sorry, my mistake. This is a valid address. Why didn't you cc the list, though? I appreciate your help, in any case. Thanks. bye av.

Router with 2 internet connections

2007-03-30 Thread Kevin Glick
I've got a BSD router with two internet connections: dc0 (DSL) and dc1 (Cable) I also have an internal nic: rl0 (192.168.0.1) I've got PF setup and running nat. What I need to know is this; Can I easily route all outbound traffic from 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.250 out the dc1 interface,

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Derek Ragona wrote: You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended partitions. This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives. The extended partitions are done differently and are outside the partition table. -Derek At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007,

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Stan Cooper wrote: Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:hmm sounds kind of like the fuse kmod isnt loaded. whats the output of kldstat ? # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 14 0xc040 6f6544 kernel 21 0xc0af7000 59f20acpi.ko 31 0xc33a9000 a000 ntfs.ko

Re: ATI x1600 support

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hello, I just received a new laptop Compaq nc8430 with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 graphics card. Didn't have a selection option, just take what you get. Has anybody got this working with a decent resolution? I can't get it better then 1024x768. Is there a way to bring it

Re: question about superkaramba

2007-03-30 Thread Kimi Ostro
On 30/03/07, freenity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Hi I have installed the latest super karamba for kde 3.5.4 on my freebsd 6.2release amd64. I notice SuperKaramba is very Linuxcentric, sadly. I installed a theme called GlassMonitor that is supposed to show some statistics about cpu,

Ports maintainer or adopting a port

2007-03-30 Thread Kimi Ostro
Hello list Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, basically I am looking to hear from past, current and future ports maintainers: is it fun? what are the requirements? (besides time) what does it mean to you? do you recommend it? best way to get started? what do I need to know about

Re: UPDATE: Server hanged on VFS lock problem

2007-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:39:49PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: FYI I tried to contact you off-list but you posted with an invalid address so I didn't bother. Sorry, my mistake. This is a valid address. Why didn't you cc the list, though? Because I was trying to

Re: Ports maintainer or adopting a port

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kimi Ostro wrote: Hello list Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, basically I am looking to hear from past, current and future ports maintainers: is it fun? what are the requirements? (besides time) what does it mean to you? do you recommend it? best way to get started? what do I

Re: skype replacement

2007-03-30 Thread Andriy Babiy
Since skype requires some i386 binary, it doesn't build on amd64. Where did you manage to get the sources? Why didn't you give a try to use the port (/usr/ports/net/skype)? It works just fine at amd64 (COMPAT_IA32 and COMPAT_LINUX32 should be used for kernel configuration).

Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue

2007-03-30 Thread Andriy Babiy
Hi KK, thanks.  I have tried ctrl+ald+bspace but got a black screen for a split sec abd got right back to KDM login.  Also tried ctrl+f1, ctrl+f1 etc but go nowhere.     I can get in single user mode but no edit previleges as I am not root.  still trying different things.  hanks tho. Hi.