Re: the pause that removes
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:13PM -0700, prad wrote: one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every linux i've tried, you wait and wait and wait. i presume freebsd just takes the pointer to the file out so it can be overwritten, while may be the linuxes fill stuff with zeros or something like that?? is this instantaneity a result of the ufs file system vs say ext3 or reiser? ext3 has a journal, so I guess the journal has to be updated after a big delete unlike FreeBSD. This could be the delay you've noticed. I don't know anything about Reiser. To confirm this, you could mount the ext3 as ext2 and see if that helps. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.1 phpmyadmin skip logon screen?
Fbsd1 wrote: In 7.1 phpmyadmin now drops you into a logon screen. How do I stop this function and always go to main menu screen? That's nothing to do with the FreeBSD version -- phpMyAdmin works the same on any platform. To make phpMyAdmin auto-login to a DB, you need to use 'config' authentication mode. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#authentication_modes It's probably the least secure authentication mode provided, so you should take further steps in your Apache config to stop the world gaining access to your database. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Advise on PCIX dual network card
Hi, I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
look at chips that are on that card. On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
Hi, look at chips that are on that card. I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? I would need to have the card to lok at the chips, but I need to know what card is good before I order it and before I can look at the chips. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 8.0-CUURENT/amd64 coredumps when shutdown
Hello. I have a difficult problem and apart from possible hardware problems I need to track down problems. My lab's box is a Intel Q6600 driven box with a ASUS P5K-Deluxe WiFi mainboard (Intel P35 chipset, ICH9, 8GB DDR2-800 RAM). Symptomatics: Whenever I shutdown or reboot the box, it dumps a core! This happens only if the box is in multiuser mode. First I suspected the new 'drm' code, but disabling every module loading and even with X11-free environment the box dies when shutting down or reboot. The weir thing is: I realised this faulty behaviour before the upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT/amd64 I did last week when the box ran FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE/amd64. Whenever I left a Xsession, the box died. Whenever I rebootet it, the box died. I already checked cabling and SMART logs of the harddrives making sure there is no issue with lost blocks or similar. Then I tried testing memory, but also with no success finding an issue. A weird behaviour is: whenever I load drm.ko module on that box (remember, P35/ICH9/Q6600, that means NO AGP!) agp.ko gets also loaded. None of the other 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes with PCIe hardware show that behaviour (most of them are older). Well, I saw this strange crashing-behaviour prior to that of my desk's box on one of our DELL PowerEdge 1950 III server days before. That box is running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 on two 4-core XEONs. Whenever I rebootet that box, I got a coredump. That vanished now with the mature of the 8.0-CURRENT sourcs, but it occurs now for the desktop box. I can not provide a sophisticated core or a screendump of the log message since I need the box by the end of the week due to some conference prapartions (so all of the debugging stuff has been disabled), but I will provide more by next week if this issue seems not familiar to someone. By the way, BIOS of the board is 1101 - newest on market for that mobo. I'm open for some hints and tips tracking down the issue ... A dmesg output is provided. Regards, Oliver Copyright (c) 1992-2009 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 is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #2 r189870: Mon Mar 16 09:03:05 UTC 2009 r...@telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TELESTO Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPUQ6600 @ 2.40GHz (3013.58-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6fb Stepping = 11 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0xe3bdSSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF TSC: P-state invariant Cores per package: 4 usable memory = 8579391488 (8181 MB) avail memory = 8283136000 (7899 MB) ACPI APIC Table: A_M_I_ OEMAPIC FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 netsmb_dev: loaded cryptosoft0: software crypto on motherboard acpi0: A_M_I_ OEMXSDT on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, cff0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: High Precision Event Timer iomem 0xfed0-0xfed003ff on acpi0 Timecounter HPET frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xd000-0xdfff,0xfe8e-0xfe8e irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 hdac0: ATI RV730 High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xfe8fc000-0xfe8f irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci1 hdac0: HDA Driver Revision: 20090226_0129 hdac0: [ITHREAD] uhci0: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 16 at device 26.0 on pci0 uhci0: [ITHREAD] uhci0: LegSup = 0x0f30 usbus0: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller on uhci0 uhci1: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0xa880-0xa89f irq 21 at device 26.1 on pci0 uhci1: [ITHREAD] uhci1: LegSup = 0x0f30 usbus1: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller on uhci1 uhci2: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0xac00-0xac1f irq 18 at device 26.2 on pci0 uhci2: [ITHREAD] uhci2: LegSup = 0x0f30 usbus2: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller on uhci2 ehci0: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xfe7ffc00-0xfe7f irq 18 at device 26.7 on pci0 ehci0: [ITHREAD] usbus3: EHCI version 1.0 usbus3: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 hdac1: Intel 82801I High Definition Audio Controller mem
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
so first check what chips it uses before ordering ask manufacturer/seller. or if it's intel - buy without checking :) On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, look at chips that are on that card. I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? I would need to have the card to lok at the chips, but I need to know what card is good before I order it and before I can look at the chips. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Mar 16 10:41:41 thusnelda kernel: Mar 16 10:41:41 thusnelda sshd[19231]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid XXX
After updating the LDAP server from OpenLDAP 2.4.14/db46 to 2.4.15/db47 I receive on an attached client the following message when trying to log in via ssh: Mar 16 10:41:41 thusnelda kernel: Mar 16 10:41:41 thusnelda sshd[19231]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid I'm able to su - to the specific, by ssh blocked user which is kept in LDAP database. I'm a little bit worried, since I also updated OpenLDAP 2.4.14 on the client to OpenLDAP 2.4.15 and did so with nss_ldap and pam_ldap. Searching for IDs on the client which are kept in the LDAP database performs well. Also a authetication of users accessing webpages secured via authentication through LDAP (lighttpd) works well with the LDAP server in question. But no ssh-login works! I checked the sshd_config file in /etc/ssh but it hasn't been changed, so I guess there is possibly another issue. Any hints or tips are appreciated, regards and thanks in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:28:03PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? The Intel PRO/1000 series should all work fine. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
At 03:28 AM 3/16/2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? TIA, Olivier I use the intel PCI-X cards with multiple OS's. They have 2 and 4 port versions. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0. Invalid argument (22) / X.Org Server V. 1.5.3, mga_drv V. 1.9.100, 7.1-STABLE
Hi Warren, The last time I saw that error was on a -CURRENT test system several months ago. That system is updating now to the latest -CURRENT. Time will not be available for at least the next few days to try 7.1, but I'll see what I can do. I know that feeling, so thanks for offering. Please take it easy :) The 1.4.9 version of mga may work. I'd give portdowngrade instructions for it, but the anoncvs server isn't answering. I did eye that, funny you say so. I found on some X.org repository that 1.4.9 was considerably 'younger' than 1.9.100. I may (might) have a look at it tonight depending on when I may get outta here. If you have the option of replacing the Matrox card, better-supported Radeons are available in AGP, PCI, and PCIE versions. Oh, I had even less success with a radeon in an IBM box but that's admittedly before 7.4 and probably another story. I'll have another dig into my junk box but so far I only got PCI out of it (and the G200 has AGP, dunno if that makes *the* difference though ;-)). Alright, then, Thanks a lot, and All the best, Peter. -- Peter Cornelius p...@gmx.net - Karlsruhe DE Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
Derek Ragona writes: I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? I use the intel PCI-X cards with multiple OS's. They have 2 and 4 port versions. /Nota bene/: I bought an (AGP) PRO/1000 GT dual port a while back. PRO/1000s generally were harder to find and (if I remember correctly) the two- and four-porters more expensive per port tham /N/ single-port cards. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
LibSM: You should recreate aclocal.m4
Hello, I'm having problems upgrading LibSM.. I'm getting You should recreate aclocal.m4. I tried to run aclocal in work/libSM-1.1.0 but it didn't really help. Thanks for your help Michel FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p12 i386 --- Upgrading 'libSM-1.1.0,1' to 'libSM-1.1.0_1,1' (x11/libSM) --- Building '/usr/ports/x11/libSM' === Cleaning for libSM-1.1.0_1,1 === Extracting for libSM-1.1.0_1,1 = MD5 Checksum OK for xorg/lib/libSM-1.1.0.tar.bz2. = SHA256 Checksum OK for xorg/lib/libSM-1.1.0.tar.bz2. === Patching for libSM-1.1.0_1,1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for libSM-1.1.0_1,1 === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4 - found === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xtrans.pc - found === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/ice.pc - found === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xproto.pc - found === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake-1.10 - found === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 - found === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/libtool - found === libSM-1.1.0_1,1 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === Configuring for libSM-1.1.0_1,1 /usr/local/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK /usr/local/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' /usr/local/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal configure.ac:15: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:196: AC_FOREACH is expanded from... /usr/local/share/aclocal/header.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.ac:15: the top level configure.ac:57: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp /usr/local/share/aclocal/header.m4:58: _AM_DIRNAME is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1578: _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP is expanded from... configure.ac:57: the top level configure.ac:15: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:196: AC_FOREACH is expanded from... aclocal.m4:279: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.ac:15: the top level configure.ac:57: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp aclocal.m4:325: _AM_DIRNAME is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1578: _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP is expanded from... configure.ac:57: the top level configure.ac:15: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:196: AC_FOREACH is expanded from... aclocal.m4:279: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.ac:15: the top level configure.ac:57: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp aclocal.m4:325: _AM_DIRNAME is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1578: _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP is expanded from... configure.ac:57: the top level configure.ac:15: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:196: AC_FOREACH is expanded from... aclocal.m4:279: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.ac:15: the top level configure.ac:57: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp aclocal.m4:325: _AM_DIRNAME is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1578: _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP is expanded from... configure.ac:57: the top level configure.ac:11: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an configure.ac:11: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 configure.ac:11: with aclocal and run automake again. /usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am: The usual way to define `am__fastdepCC' is to add `AC_PROG_CC' /usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again. *** Error code 63 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/libSM. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20090316-95249-1itn24r-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=libSM-1.1.0,1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.1.0,1 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! x11/libSM (libSM-1.1.0,1) (unknown build error) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Inetd and multiple IP addresses
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:38:05AM +0100, skx wrote: I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. I would like to choose only one. I tried 192.168.13.2:nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode but it doesn't work Mar 11 02:59:21 rewers inetd[89528]: 192.168.13.2:nntp/tcp: unknown service What am I doing wrong? Isn't ip:service_name a correct entry? FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p1 with custom kernel if that matters. You want to have a look at hosts_access(5) I've got this in /etc/hosts.allow as an example: leafnode: 127.0.0.1 : allow Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: cvsup TreeList failed connection timed out
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:22:04AM +, RW wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:32:49 -0500 Troy t...@twisted.net wrote: I'm having a problem with cvsup and it just started happening. I have other servers on the same LAN that are having no problem connecting to the very same servers. I found other people that had this problem by searching but nothing gave a definitive answer on how to solve this. I tried to rebuild cvsup from source again and it build just fine but the problem still exists. Since you don't mention that you are running an old release, have you tried switching to csup in the base system? I am on RELENG_7. I just rebuilt the world on the machine when this problem started. I should have mentioned that. I also rebuilt the world on a second server sitting right next to this one and it has no problem with CVSUP. There has to be a cause for why this cvsup is failing or a file that can be deleted and rebuilt or some other troubleshooting to this problem. Anyone have ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
I use the intel PCI-X cards with multiple OS's. They have 2 and 4 port versions. /Nota bene/: I bought an (AGP) PRO/1000 GT dual port a while back. PRO/1000s generally were harder to find and (if I remember correctly) the two- and four-porters more expensive per port tham /N/ single-port cards. PCI-X cards are quite cheap here (up to 4 ports) second-hands because newer computers doesn't have PCI-X. same with SATA controllers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Issue with apcupsd and gd.h missing?
Eric Sheesley-2 wrote: When trying to do a portupgrade of apcupsd I received the following error: checking for gd2/gd.h... no configure: error: Found system GD library but no header file. Please find the file gd.h in your system include directories and report its location to apcupsd-users at lists.sourceforge.net The system is Freebsd 7.1. I checked and gd.h does exist so I'm a bit confused as to what is going on. The file is located in /usr/local/include, a path that it appears the port checks. Anyone else experiencing this? Any suggestions on how to fix it? gd is installed. [snip] Eric, I am seeing exactly the same thing, and I also have gd installed. As described in the error message, I sent the requested output to the maintainer, ite...@freebsd.org. Regards, Steve -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Issue-with-apcupsd-and-gd.h-missing--tp22523557p22539828.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: netstat -NM uses
In the last episode (Mar 16), Cipta H said: I found these options in netstat and I'm interested in what they're for: -M Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default /dev/kmem. -N Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default, which is the kernel image the system has booted from. what are they for? Is it related to retrieving network data from another host / system? What are the uses of these options? Thanks They're for extracting info from kernel crashdumps after the system has rebooted. ps, vmstat, and I think some other commands have them too. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
links vs real directories
I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... I have a Ruby on Rails application running on a FreeBSD server. All Rails apps use the same directory structure, that consists of an application directory, plus a number of subdirectories. One of these sub directories is called 'config'. I would like to move this config directory out of the main Rails app directory, and then add a link from the app directory to the moved config directory. so: app -- config will become app -- config(link) -- config Basically, what I'm doing is: cd ~/app # now in directory with real 'config' dir mv config ~/shared/config ln -s ~/shared/config config That moves the directory and creates a functional link to it (I tested it), but Rails doesn't like it and refuses to run the app. The permissions are correct, I believe: [mas...@on:current] ls -l total 34 ... snip ... drwxrwxr-x 3 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 bin drwxrwxr-x 3 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 components lrwxr-xr-x 1 master master26 Mar 16 11:07 config - /home/ master/shared/config drwxr-xr-x 4 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 db etc... So, I guess a link is NOT exactly equivalent to a directory. At least not the way I am doing it. I'm guessing I'm making a real newbie mistake, so if anyone can set me straight, I'd appreciate it. Thank: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: links vs real directories
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... A *soft* link to a directory entry (be it a directory or a file or something else) is not quite equivalent to the original entry since they are easily distinguished and some programs do treat softlinks differently from other targets. A hardlink to a file is exactly equivalent to the original (since the original directory entry is itself a hardlink). The system does not however allow you to create hardlinks to directories since it is far too easy to make Very Bad Things happen that way. I have a Ruby on Rails application running on a FreeBSD server. All Rails apps use the same directory structure, that consists of an application directory, plus a number of subdirectories. One of these sub directories is called 'config'. I would like to move this config directory out of the main Rails app directory, and then add a link from the app directory to the moved config directory. so: app -- config will become app -- config(link) -- config Basically, what I'm doing is: cd ~/app # now in directory with real 'config' dir mv config ~/shared/config ln -s ~/shared/config config That moves the directory and creates a functional link to it (I tested it), but Rails doesn't like it and refuses to run the app. The permissions are correct, I believe: [mas...@on:current] ls -l total 34 ... snip ... drwxrwxr-x 3 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 bin drwxrwxr-x 3 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 components lrwxr-xr-x 1 master master26 Mar 16 11:07 config - /home/ master/shared/config drwxr-xr-x 4 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 db etc... So, I guess a link is NOT exactly equivalent to a directory. At least not the way I am doing it. I'm guessing I'm making a real newbie mistake, so if anyone can set me straight, I'd appreciate it. Thank: John -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: links vs real directories
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:22 AM, John Almberg wrote:
I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much
the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation
where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong...
I have a Ruby on Rails application running on a FreeBSD server. All
Rails apps use the same directory structure, that consists of an
application directory, plus a number of subdirectories. One of
these sub directories is called 'config'.
I would like to move this config directory out of the main Rails
app directory, and then add a link from the app directory to the
moved config directory.
so:
app -- config
will become
app -- config(link) -- config
Basically, what I'm doing is:
cd ~/app # now in directory with real 'config' dir
mv config ~/shared/config
ln -s ~/shared/config config
That moves the directory and creates a functional link to it (I
tested it), but Rails doesn't like it and refuses to run the app.
The permissions are correct, I believe:
[mas...@on:current] ls -l
total 34
... snip ...
drwxrwxr-x 3 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 bin
drwxrwxr-x 3 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 components
lrwxr-xr-x 1 master master26 Mar 16 11:07 config - /home/
master/shared/config
drwxr-xr-x 4 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 db
etc...
So, I guess a link is NOT exactly equivalent to a directory. At
least not the way I am doing it.
I'm guessing I'm making a real newbie mistake, so if anyone can set
me straight, I'd appreciate it.
Thank: John
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A little more information on this... from the Rails log, I can see
that a Ruby script in the config directory cannot load ('require') a
needed file because it can't find it:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- application
(MissingSource File)
It looks like this require statement is using a relative path, like
'../path/to/file'. Does '..' not work properly with a soft link? In
other words, '..', should mean ~/app, but since the config directory
is really in '~/shared', perhaps '..' translates to '~/shared'? That
would cause the problem finding the file.
Is there a way around this problem?
Digging in man ls, right now..
-- John
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Re: links vs real directories
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... A *soft* link to a directory entry (be it a directory or a file or something else) is not quite equivalent to the original entry since they are easily distinguished and some programs do treat softlinks differently from other targets. I can see that, now... If I create a soft link to ~/shared/config, and then cd into the directory, when I type 'ls ..', I get the listing for ~/shared, not ~/app. Bummer... I've just dug through man ln, and don't see any obvious solution. Since this must be a problem for anyone who wants to do something like this, I guess I am taking the wrong approach, altogether. Will have to re-think this smell of burning rubber commences... -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg - Resolution issues
Francis Dubé a écrit : Francis Dubé wrote : Hi everyone, I got this TV : http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=tvtype=tvsubtype=lcdmodel_cd=LN40A330J1DXZCfullspec=F I'm trying to use it as my screen under FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE with a resolution of 1366x768 which is suposed to be suported by the TV, acording with the TV's specs. I did the same with another very similar TV and it was working #1 without having to create any Xorg.conf, a plain startx and the display was perfect (1366x768). With my new TV, X only start in 1280x720. So I created a config file with Xorg -configure, then I tried to force Xorg to use 1366x768 but it keeps loading in 1280x720. In my Xorg.0.log it looks like there's no support for the resolution I want : [...] (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf [...] (II) RADEON(0): Panel infos found from DDC detailed: 1280x720 [...] (II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) RADEON(0): clock: 74.2 MHz Image Size: 160 x 90 mm (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1280 h_sync: 1390 h_sync_end 1430 h_blank_end 1650 h_border: 0 (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 720 v_sync: 725 v_sync_end 730 v_blanking: 750 v_border: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) RADEON(0): clock: 74.2 MHz Image Size: 160 x 90 mm (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1920 h_sync: 2008 h_sync_end 2052 h_blank_end 2200 h_border: 0 (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 540 v_sync: 542 v_sync_end 547 v_blanking: 562 v_border: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 23 V max: 61 Hz, H min: 26 H max: 68 kHz, PixClock max 150 MHz (II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: SAMSUNG [...] (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 using initial mode 1280x720 [...] This is how i configured my resolution in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf : [...] Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1366x768 EndSubSection EndSection [...] My video card is a Radeon HD 3450 and my Xorg version is xorg-7.3_2 Also, the only other resolution supported by the TV according to the log file would be 1920x540...but it's not supported by the TV ! Am I missing something ? Thanks for reading. Francis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I had this problem last month, I tought it was fixed using this little trick suggested by Polytropon : Polytropon wrote : If it doesn't work, there's always an option to use xrandr via ~/.xinitrc: xrandr --size 1366x768 xrandr --fb 1366x768 I have a similar issue with the ati driver, using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250) which I need to force to 1400x1050 (worked with old XFree86 and the setting in the config file, as you mentioned it). The autodetection of the screen (21 CRT) leads to stupid values that are completely unusable. The screen is located far from my office so I can't be in front of it to test, that's why I haven't spotted it wasn't working. I tought it was because when i take a screenshot with 'scrot' i get a full screenshot in 1366x768 and everything is clean, but the TV itself shows a 1280x720 display. I should've watched the Xorg's log instead of simply assuming it was working with a screenshot, but anyway now my problem is the same : The PC is configured in 1366x768, but the TV don't care and shows a 1280x720. Anyone got a similar issue and a way to fix it ? Thanks, Francis Dubé Hi! I have the same problem with the same model of TV (Samsung A330). Did you solved your problem? Thanks, Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: links vs real directories
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:47 AM, John Almberg wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... A *soft* link to a directory entry (be it a directory or a file or something else) is not quite equivalent to the original entry since they are easily distinguished and some programs do treat softlinks differently from other targets. I can see that, now... If I create a soft link to ~/shared/config, and then cd into the directory, when I type 'ls ..', I get the listing for ~/shared, not ~/app. Bummer... I've just dug through man ln, and don't see any obvious solution. Since this must be a problem for anyone who wants to do something like this, I guess I am taking the wrong approach, altogether. Will have to re-think this smell of burning rubber commences... Okay! I guess I wasn't the first to have this problem... lndir (in ports) solves the problem by creating a set of soft links for all the files in the 'linked' directory. Kinda kludgy, but it works. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: links vs real directories
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:47:23AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... A *soft* link to a directory entry (be it a directory or a file or something else) is not quite equivalent to the original entry since they are easily distinguished and some programs do treat softlinks differently from other targets. I can see that, now... If I create a soft link to ~/shared/config, and then cd into the directory, when I type 'ls ..', I get the listing for ~/shared, not ~/app. Yes, because '..' is a hardlink to the parent directory, and 'cd' does not know how you got to ~/shared/config so it does not know anything about the softlink used to get theere. Bummer... I've just dug through man ln, and don't see any obvious solution. Since this must be a problem for anyone who wants to do something like this, I guess I am taking the wrong approach, altogether. Will have to re-think this smell of burning rubber commences... -- John -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: links vs real directories
2009/3/16 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com: On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... A *soft* link to a directory entry (be it a directory or a file or something else) is not quite equivalent to the original entry since they are easily distinguished and some programs do treat softlinks differently from other targets. I can see that, now... If I create a soft link to ~/shared/config, and then cd into the directory, when I type 'ls ..', I get the listing for ~/shared, not ~/app. Bummer... I've just dug through man ln, and don't see any obvious solution. Since this must be a problem for anyone who wants to do something like this, I guess I am taking the wrong approach, altogether. Will have to re-think this smell of burning rubber commences... -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org When we're talking in a technical sense, we should probably use the correct terms. The 'official' and more descriptive name for a softlink is a symbolic link. Symbolic links are an absolute nightmare for security purposes, and many programs (especially ones set to run suid) choke on them. This could be intentional Since RoR is free software, you could dive in and edit where it looks for in the source code, or look for a compile-time option. Try /dir/to/port's/work/directory # ./configure --help Chris -- R $h ! $- ! $+ $@ $2 @ $1 .UUCP. (sendmail.cf) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
grammer checker
I use editors/openoffice.org-3 and need to grammer check a text file but there seems to be no option (or plugin) for this in OoO and a search of the ports tree for grammer returned nothing either... ideas (I want to avoid wine+MS office if possible) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: links vs real directories
In response to John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com:
A little more information on this... from the Rails log, I can see
that a Ruby script in the config directory cannot load ('require') a
needed file because it can't find it:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- application
(MissingSource File)
It looks like this require statement is using a relative path, like
'../path/to/file'. Does '..' not work properly with a soft link? In
other words, '..', should mean ~/app, but since the config directory
is really in '~/shared', perhaps '..' translates to '~/shared'? That
would cause the problem finding the file.
That's a common problem with soft links and interpreted languages.
Is there a way around this problem?
Generally, you have to fix this in the application itself. I'm not a
Ruby expert, but I can list some of the methods that solve the problem
in PHP:
1 If Ruby has a config value for including library files (often called a
search path), configure it to the correct paths and tell Ruby to
include the file name with the configured path information.
2 Write a wrapper around the requirement function that normalizes the path
so that it works.
3 Ditch the softlink altogether and require files by absolute path.
The first one is probably the most desirable, although I've had good
success using PHP's __autoload() to accomplish #2. Don't know if there's
an equivalent in Ruby.
In any event, if you're explicitly including files by relative path, you'll
have to stop doing that. It's a bad idea in any event.
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Re: grammer checker
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I use editors/openoffice.org-3 and need to grammer check a text file but there seems to be no option (or plugin) for this in OoO and a search of the ports tree for grammer returned nothing either... ideas (I want to avoid wine+MS office if possible) How about LanguageTool? http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/languagetool Does that do what you're looking for? Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: grammer checker
In response to Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com: I use editors/openoffice.org-3 and need to grammer check a text file but there seems to be no option (or plugin) for this in OoO and a search of the ports tree for grammer returned nothing either... ideas (I want to avoid wine+MS office if possible) Spelling grammar correctly will help: http://www.freshports.org/textproc/link-grammar/ Never used that program myself, so I can't vouch for it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
portsnap ignores REFUSE directives
Hi, I just installed 6.4-RELEASE on the way to -STABLE. I chose NOT to install the ports during installation. I configured /etc/portsnap.conf, uncommenting the REFUSE directives, because I only speak English. I created the proper directories, including /usr/ports. I ran 'portsnap fetch extract', and now I find arabic, chinese, french, german, hebrew, hungarian, etc. in my ports tree. What might be the problem here? -- Thanks, Charles Things that make you say, Hmm... If you spend your day doing nothing, how do you know when you're done? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
What happened with KWeather (from kde3) applet in kde4?
I installed kde4. And can't find KWeather that happily worked in kde3.5. It's not in any list and can't be found in ports either. Thanks, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: links vs real directories
drwxr-xr-x 4 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 db etc... So, I guess a link is NOT exactly equivalent to a directory. At least not the way I am doing it. I'm guessing I'm making a real newbie mistake, so if anyone can set me straight, I'd appreciate it. IMHO you did everything properly, this program must actually check if it's link. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsd vs gpl
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:36:21AM +, Saifi Khan wrote: There are two rights associated. Rights to Usage Rights to Modify When you take a piece of code licensed under GPL and modify it, you are required to make your changes available and also under the same license ie. GPL. So the rights to modify comes with covenants in GPL. In the case of BSD and ASL, there is no such covenant. It may also be pertinent to know that under any license, the recipient cannot change the copyright ownership or the notice for eg. ... The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. ... This is not an accurate representation. You have the right to modify with BSD-licensed code just as with GPLed code. The difference is that, if you distribute what you've modified, with the GPL you are required to conform to specific restrictions on how it may distributed, whereas with the BSD license that requirement does not exist. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth The Financial Times: As an ultimate incentive to solve the millennium bug computer problem, China has ordered its airline executives to take a flight on January 1, 2000. pgp33YZBJvL4O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Shared ftp access to a apache root
Good afternoon all, I have a strange request and mind is just not up to the task today. We have a client who wants each web developer (there are four) to have a unique login to the same apache site root. I am not even certain that is possible. Anyone have any ideas? This is a dedicated server running FreeBSD 6.4 inside ESXi. DAve -- Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it. John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Shared ftp access to a apache root
DAve wrote: Good afternoon all, I have a strange request and mind is just not up to the task today. We have a client who wants each web developer (there are four) to have a unique login to the same apache site root. That would be a unique FTP login, again, my mind is toast today. DAve I am not even certain that is possible. Anyone have any ideas? This is a dedicated server running FreeBSD 6.4 inside ESXi. DAve -- Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it. John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Shared ftp access to a apache root
DAve wrote: Good afternoon all, I have a strange request and mind is just not up to the task today. We have a client who wants each web developer (there are four) to have a unique login to the same apache site root. I am not even certain that is possible. Anyone have any ideas? This is a dedicated server running FreeBSD 6.4 inside ESXi. DAve Make the 4 users sharing the home directory and their main group. At your ftp server configuration change umask or default permissions so owner and group can read and write to files and directories. You are done, all of them can connect and will connect to the same home directory (www site root) and when upload something will be writable by the others. I hope this helps Rodrigo smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: bsd vs gpl
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:36:44PM -0700, prad wrote: thank you everyone for your comments on this topic. A few more links: + Copyfree licensing http://copyfree.org/ + Copyfree vs. Copyleft http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Copyfree_vs_Copyleft + BSD/Copyfree vs. Corporate Copyleft http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=622 + Choose the right licensing model for security software http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=610 -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpcJ3CbiK5F8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: portsnap ignores REFUSE directives
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:18:06 -0500 Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi, I just installed 6.4-RELEASE on the way to -STABLE. I chose NOT to install the ports during installation. I configured /etc/portsnap.conf, uncommenting the REFUSE directives, because I only speak English. I created the proper directories, including /usr/ports. I ran 'portsnap fetch extract', and now I find arabic, chinese, french, german, hebrew, hungarian, etc. in my ports tree. What might be the problem here? Are these directories actually populated with ports? If not, my guess is that it's simply ignoring ports that match the category, rather than removing the category entirely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
installing packages
Hi, this are my questions. 1) I've installed many packages using pkg_add -rK [package] because I had the idea to use the same packages on a different PC. Packages are present in the directory i used as a repository, but only the requested packages, not the dependecies. When I tried on another PC pkg_add [package] (I've copied all the requested packages on a USB HD) the program tells me that it cannot find dependencies. What is my mistake? 2) I've installed FreeBSD 7.1 on a 2.6Gh Celeron with 1Gb of RAM and a fast internet connection. I haven't installed KDE 3.5 because I wished to install KDE 4. When I used pkg_add -r kde4 the PC worked for almost 6 hours. During the installation I saw many error messages but, when finished, KDE was working. Is this the only possibility or is there a better way to install a big program with a lot of dependecies? Thanks for help. Marco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing packages
Is this the only possibility or is there a better way to install a big program with a lot of dependecies? Not the best way, but certainly the fastest. Best way if you ask me is through the ports system. Keep in mind that it takes so much longer (~days) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portsnap ignores REFUSE directives
On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:28 PM, RW wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:18:06 -0500 Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi, I just installed 6.4-RELEASE on the way to -STABLE. I chose NOT to install the ports during installation. I configured /etc/portsnap.conf, uncommenting the REFUSE directives, because I only speak English. I created the proper directories, including /usr/ports. I ran 'portsnap fetch extract', and now I find arabic, chinese, french, german, hebrew, hungarian, etc. in my ports tree. What might be the problem here? Are these directories actually populated with ports? If not, my guess is that it's simply ignoring ports that match the category, rather than removing the category entirely. I checked the chinese, and yes, there are ports as well as the makefile etc. under the port. Looks completely normal as if I wasn't using REFUSE. If you look at the /etc/portsnap.conf file, the lines look like this: # # # REFUSE this that t'other # REFUSE some more stuff I just deleted the '#' and left the space at the beginning of the line. Surely that wouldn't fubar it, would it? I'll try again and remove the leading space, but I'n not optimistic. Is the portsnap author a member of this list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
installing packages
This is the reason why I prefer to use packages. I don't need a perfect machine as I don't use it it for professional purposes.So I will use this method. Is this the only possibility or is there a better way to install a big program with a lot of dependecies?Not the best way, but certainly the fastest. Best way if you ask me is through the ports system. Keep in mind that it takes so much longer (~days) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Speeding up exit(2)?
Wojciech Puchar(woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl)@2009.03.15 19:14:57 +0100: would be really nice about advocacy of GOOD web browser that not only exits faster, but WORKS faster. i don't know any, except links but links doesn't have CSS support I know one: Google Chrome - but it's only for Windows. Not only was it designed to be faster, but also more secure. It uses multi-process model for fault isolation and less memory fragmentation, the one so familiar to *nix. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MSI nettop supported?
Jaime ja...@snowmoon.com writes: I'm considering getting one of MSI's nettop computers to run a small server in my home. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it would run FreeBSD or not? There is a model with Linux pre-installed, so I'm hopeful. I just figured I'd ask before spending a few hundred dollars. :) http://msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=Wind_Nettop_CS120class=npc Also, I have no prior experience with FreeBSD's wifi support or using Compact Flash or SD cards. (Despite using FreeBSD since version 2.2.1!) Any pointers? The wifi support is hard to evaluate, because that web page doesn't list any details about the hardware. Flash disks are no big deal, especially if they will already be inserted at boot time. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Portinstall insists on rebuilding openldap client
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:12:56PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I was trying to install samba and it keeps wanting to build the openldap client package that I already have installed. I really don't want to mess with that as it is also supporting other packages for the mail system. Why would it be wanting to build a package that is already installed? mx1# ls /var/db/pkg | grep ldap openldap-sasl-client-2.3.43 openldap-sasl-server-2.3.43 p5-perl-ldap-0.34 php5-ldap-5.2.5_1 phpldapadmin-1.1.0.5_1,1 mx1# portinstall samba --- Found 3 ports matching 'samba': net/samba3 net/samba32 net/samba33 Install 'net/samba3'? [yes] no Install 'net/samba32'? [yes] no Install 'net/samba33'? [yes] [Gathering depends for net/samba33 done] --- Installing 'openldap-sasl-client-2.3.43' from a port (net/openldap23-client) --- Building '/usr/ports/net/openldap23-client' === Cleaning for openldap-sasl-client-2.3.43 === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for openldap-sasl-client-2.3.43 = MD5 Checksum OK for openldap-2.3.43.tgz. = SHA256 Checksum OK for openldap-2.3.43.tgz -- Robert You could try using the exclude flag of portupgrade: # portupgrade -Nvx samba33 openldap23-client (I havent tested it). I don't think you would have a problem if it did rebuild the ldap client though as it should use the same config options that you originally built it with. An alternative is to build samba without ldap support by unchecking that option within make config (I guess you probably want ldap support with samba though). Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing packages
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:22:02PM +0100, marco.borsat...@libero.it wrote: Hi, this are my questions. 1) I've installed many packages using pkg_add -rK [package] because I had the idea to use the same packages on a different PC. Packages are present in the directory i used as a repository, but only the requested packages, not the dependecies. When creating packages with pkg_add, also add the -R option to create packages for all dependencies. When I tried on another PC pkg_add [package] (I've copied all the requested packages on a USB HD) the program tells me that it cannot find dependencies. What is my mistake? Not creating packages for all required dependencies, I think. Probably the easiest way is to install all the ports you want on one machine, and then copy /usr/local and /var/db/pkg to the other PC. Provided of course that both machines use the same hardware architecture! Use rsync(1) if you can make a network connection between the machines. This can be very fast. Otherwise write the files to a USB disk. 2) I've installed FreeBSD 7.1 on a 2.6Gh Celeron with 1Gb of RAM and a fast internet connection. I haven't installed KDE 3.5 because I wished to install KDE 4. When I used pkg_add -r kde4 the PC worked for almost 6 hours. During the installation I saw many error messages but, when finished, KDE was working. Is this the only possibility or is there a better way to install a big program with a lot of dependecies? I prefer compiling ports from source myself, so I can use non-standard options. But this might take a lot longer. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpDFK0NxKFB3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Speeding up exit(2)?
I know one: Google Chrome - but it's only for Windows. Not only was it designed to be faster, but also more secure. You mean more securely getting all data about user for google. NO THANKS! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: issues in XFCE 4.6
Keith Seyffarth said the following on 2009-03-16 02:38: Sorry, should have had you do rmconfig-recursive first. There's a OK. I'll have to think about that. It is mostly working now, having added an xrandr line to the .xinitrc file to fix the resolution. What line was that? xrandr -s 1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portsnap ignores REFUSE directives
On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Charles Howse wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:28 PM, RW wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:18:06 -0500 Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi, I just installed 6.4-RELEASE on the way to -STABLE. I chose NOT to install the ports during installation. I configured /etc/portsnap.conf, uncommenting the REFUSE directives, because I only speak English. I created the proper directories, including /usr/ports. I ran 'portsnap fetch extract', and now I find arabic, chinese, french, german, hebrew, hungarian, etc. in my ports tree. What might be the problem here? Are these directories actually populated with ports? If not, my guess is that it's simply ignoring ports that match the category, rather than removing the category entirely. I checked the chinese, and yes, there are ports as well as the makefile etc. under the port. Looks completely normal as if I wasn't using REFUSE. If you look at the /etc/portsnap.conf file, the lines look like this: # # # REFUSE this that t'other # REFUSE some more stuff I just deleted the '#' and left the space at the beginning of the line. Surely that wouldn't fubar it, would it? I'll try again and remove the leading space, but I'n not optimistic. Is the portsnap author a member of this list? I fired off a quick email to the portsnap author, and here is his reply: Hello, I was just wondering if you were answering questions about portsnap? You might want to look at the thread on freebsd-questions titled 'portsnap ignores REFUSE directives' REFUSE directives must start a line in portsnap.conf -- your leading whitespace is making portsnap not recognize the option. I guess that settles that. :-) Nice to know that folks higher in the FreeBSD 'food chain' are so quick to respond and help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MSI nettop supported?
Re... Flash disks are no big deal, especially if they will already be inserted at boot time. I take it that the atom CPU just works, right? Regarding the WindPC 2713 (if that's the one you look at), I am not even sure whether there is a WLAN card in it at all (the Wind U100X netbook allegedly has an Atheros AR928X as per iX 3/2009, [1]), and iX also comments that it was somewhat slow in their test. In their article, they recommend to buy parts, and so do other people [3] but due to lack of time funding, I have no personal experience. Hth., anyways... Regards, Peter. --- [1] http://www.ix.de/ [2] Links of the article, http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2009/03/links/078.shtml [3] http://www.skyline-service.de/stromsparserver.php Babelfish: http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=delp=de_entrurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyline-service.de%2Fstromsparserver.php -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0. Invalid argument (22) / X.Org Server V. 1.5.3, mga_drv V. 1.9.100, 7.1-STABLE
Hiya, re... The 1.4.9 version of mga may work. I'd give portdowngrade instructions for it, but the anoncvs server isn't answering. I did eye that, funny you say so. I found on some X.org repository that 1.4.9 was considerably 'younger' than 1.9.100. I may (might) have a look at it tonight depending on when I may get outta here. I did get out late but I could not leave it, as usual, so got the 1.4.9 (Makefile,v 1.7 2009/01/08 16:58:29 and the corresponding distinfo), rebuilt the port and, success... Well, mostly. I had to DefaultDepth 16 in the Screen to really get her up (errors otherwise, [1]). The other option probably is to go w/o DRI, and I really may consider that since it looks kinda crappy still -- but not today anymore. At least, we're back to xorg.conf, and also there still is the option with the junk box... :) So thanks for the hint, and All the best regards, Peter. --- [1] Errors remain at 24 bpp depth. (EE) MGA(0): Static buffer allocation failed, not initializing the DRI (EE) MGA(0): Need at least 9216 kB video memory at this resolution, bit depth -- Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Speeding up exit(2)?
No, that's not what I meant. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Software RAID performance? RAID-Z or vinum and RAID5?
I'm looking into moving a workstation from Ubuntu 10 to FreeBSD 7.1 (both amd64) and I'm a bit worried about storage -- specifically moving from mdadm, which performs very well for me. Current in Linux I use an mdadm RAID5 of 5 disks. After investigating FreeBSD storage options, RAID-Z sounds optimal[1]. I'd like to avoid levels 3 and 1 due to write bottlenecks[2], and level 0 for obvious reasons. Migrating from the existing mdadm is not an issue. I also do not plan to boot from the software array. Various docs/postings seem to indicate that using ZFS/RAID-Z under FreeBSD will destroy my computer, run over my cat, and bail out the investment banking industry. Will it really perform that poorly on a Phenom and 8GB RAM? Significantly more resources than mdadm in Linux? How about compared to RAID 5 under vinum? Thanks, ~Mike Manlief 1: The ability to read the array with the Linux FUSE ZFS implementation is very appealing; don't care about performance for such inter-op scenarios. Copy-on-write sounds awesome too. 2: ...and even level 5, now that I've learned of RAID-Z. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Olivier Nicole wrote: I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC (if you have one) firmwares are all up to date. Barring that, have you tried another installation CD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
libburnia / xfburn won't recognize NEC ND-3500AG
I've had this drive forever. I actually burn CD's with it all the time, but you know, sometimes, a gui really is more convineient. Xfburn stubbornly refuses to detect it, however...even when I run as root... Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
snd_hda questions
With the recent snd_hda changes, I have more audio devices than ever: hdac0: HDA Codec #0: Realtek ALC880 pcm0: HDA Realtek ALC880 PCM #0 Digital at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm1: HDA Realtek ALC880 PCM #1 Analog at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm2: HDA Realtek ALC880 PCM #2 Analog at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm3: HDA Realtek ALC880 PCM #3 Analog at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 hd...@pci0:0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x814e1043 chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '11583659 Realtek High Definition Audio Controllers' class = multimedia subclass = HDA With hw.snd.default_unit=1 I have (adjusting vol and pcm changes volume level here.) Mixer vol is currently set to 55:55 Mixer pcm is currently set to 50:50 Mixer mix is currently set to 0:0 With hw.snd.default_unit=2 I have (adjusting vol and pcm does nothing here, 0:0 or 100:100 nothing changes) Mixer vol is currently set to 0:0 Mixer pcm is currently set to 0:0 Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0 Mixer mix is currently set to 60:60 Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0 Recording source: mic With hw.snd.default_unit=3 I have Recording source: Mail notification sounds from Thunderbird are barely audible, and I can't control the volume for it. Can someone point me in the right direction to control/use the different pcm* devices, the man pages aren't totally clear to me. Thanks -- Over the years I've come to regard you as people I've met. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing packages
marco.borsat...@libero.it wrote: Hi, this are my questions. 1) I've installed many packages using pkg_add -rK [package] because I had the idea to use the same packages on a different PC. Packages are present in the directory i used as a repository, but only the requested packages, not the dependecies. what you did only saves (keeps) the *first* package you enter in the pkg_add command (only 1 package). not sure how well -R works, but you would be better off with portupgrade -NPP x11/xorg etc.. to use packages or portupgrade -Np x11/kde4 or portmaster -gu x11/kde4 to use ports and keep packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Need help for acroread8
Hi all, After browsing mailing lists for hours, I was finally able to install acroread8 on my FreeBSD 7.1R system. But it STILL does not start. Attached below is the output (repeated messages removed) : Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (acroread:9218): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory (acroread:9218): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported (acroread:9218): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (acroread:9218): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed (acroread:9218): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed (acroread:9218): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/etc/pango/pango.modules' You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules. (acroread:9218): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs-num_glyphs 0) aborting... [2]+ Exit 1 acroread My loader.conf has linux_load=YES, rc.conf has linux_enable=YES, linprocfs_enable=YES and fstab has an entry for linproc. I downloaded the latest ports tarball yesterday, did a 'portupgrade -rf emulators/linux_base-fc4', and [re]installed a number of ports (pango, linux-pango, cairo, linux-cairo, gdk-pixbuf, linux-gdk-pixbuf, pixman and may be a couple more). Then I installed acroread8. But it still does not start, as you can from the message above. Actually, there is at least one bug in the port as the message reveals. At runtime, acroread8 tries to look for /etc/pango/pango.modules, which - because of the port's linux heritage - translates to /compat/linux/etc/pango/pango.modules. This path is incorrect, at least with linux_base-fc4 - with which the correct path turns out to be /compat/linux/etc/pango/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules in my case. The user has to fix it with a symlink himself. I am beginning to wonder why can't FreeBSD simply put on the distribution media binary packages for programs that almost everyone uses these days (thunderbird, acroread) and which take an immense amount of time/effort to build. The FreeBSD DVD is more than half empty and I am sure nobody would mind spending a couple of hours extra at download-time what possibly might save a couple of weeks and a whole lot of headaches at install-time. Anyway, if anyone has any clue how to get me out of this acroread mess, I would be really grateful. Thanks in advance Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Compiling everything myself?
Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that I install every skin of KDE to get KDE up and running. I hope FreeBSD will be better! :-) What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries (like Debian) only? Thanks in advanced. -- Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Compiling everything myself?
-- On March 16, 2009 09:11:32 pm Daniel wrote: Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that I install every skin of KDE to get KDE up and running. I hope FreeBSD will be better! :-) What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries (like Debian) only? Thanks in advanced. You can do either one. The ports system automates source download, compilation and installation. The package system fetches and installs pre-compiled binaries. Take your pick. Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Compiling everything myself?
Hello On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Daniel annonymejens+...@runbox.no wrote: Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that I install every skin of KDE to get KDE up and running. I hope FreeBSD will be better! :-) What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries (like Debian) only? You can get the system's sources using csup or cvsup, please check the handbook at [1]. The system consist of the kernel and the world. You can rebuild the kernel and the world following [2]. For applications such as KDE you can use the ports tree or install the as packages. These options are described at [3]. Regards Rambius P.S. I do not understand what you mean with getting binaries like Debian only. As far as I remember in (but I may be wrong) Debian using its package management system you can build pretty much everything and it treats even the linux kernel as a package. This is different in FreeBSD - you do not install the kernel as a package or port. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html [3] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card
Hi, PRO/1000s generally were harder to find and (if I remember correctly) the two- and four-porters more expensive per port tham /N/ single-port cards. Thanks, but I have only one slot (1U rack) and I need 2 ports, so I have little choice :) Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC (if you have one) firmwares are all up to date. OK. Barring that, have you tried another installation CD? No, but that very installation CD worked well on other machines (Dell 1950 and Dell 200). And both Dell 2950 are failing the same way. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD7.1/i386 crash (fatal trap 12)
Hello, I have problem with FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE/i386. We have FreeBSD-based cluster of VPN servers (mpd3.18 as PPTP server), and sometimes its fall down. #dmesg | less Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 1; apic id = 01 fault virtual address = 0x1ac fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0x806d673a stack pointer = 0x28:0xe6c6ca68 frame pointer = 0x28:0xe6c6cacc 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 = 12 (swi1: net) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 1 Uptime: 1d13h20m2s Cannot dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... # uname -a FreeBSD vpn-17 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #6: Wed Mar 11 12:59:09 YEKT 2009 r...@vpn:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/kconf i386 # nm -n /usr/local/drbd/vpntest/boot/kernel/kernel | grep 806d67 806d671b t ng_pptpgre_rcvdata_lower Sometimes: #dmesg | grep 'instruction pointer' instruction pointer = 0x20:0x806ca7e1 # nm -n /usr/local/drbd/vpntest/boot/kernel/kernel | grep 806ca7 806ca740 t ng_iface_ioctl What can I do with it? I don`t have experience in using gdb or programming on C. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Need help for acroread8
--- On Mon, 3/16/09, Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: From: Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com Subject: Need help for acroread8 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bf20...@yahoo.com Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 9:03 PM Hi all, After browsing mailing lists for hours, I was finally able to install acroread8 on my FreeBSD 7.1R system. But it STILL does not start. Attached below is the output (repeated messages removed) : Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (acroread:9218): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory (acroread:9218): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported (acroread:9218): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (acroread:9218): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed (acroread:9218): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed (acroread:9218): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/etc/pango/pango.modules' You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules. (acroread:9218): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs-num_glyphs 0) aborting... [2]+ Exit 1 acroread My loader.conf has linux_load=YES, rc.conf has linux_enable=YES, linprocfs_enable=YES and fstab has an entry for linproc. I downloaded the latest ports tarball yesterday, did a 'portupgrade -rf emulators/linux_base-fc4', and [re]installed a number of ports (pango, linux-pango, cairo, linux-cairo, gdk-pixbuf, linux-gdk-pixbuf, pixman and may be a couple more). Then I installed acroread8. But it still does not start, as you can from the message above. Actually, there is at least one bug in the port as the message reveals. At runtime, acroread8 tries to look for /etc/pango/pango.modules, which - because of the port's linux heritage - translates to /compat/linux/etc/pango/pango.modules. This path is incorrect, at least with linux_base-fc4 - with which the correct path turns out to be /compat/linux/etc/pango/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules in my case. The user has to fix it with a symlink himself. I am beginning to wonder why can't FreeBSD simply put on the distribution media binary packages for programs that almost everyone uses these days (thunderbird, acroread) and which take an immense amount of time/effort to build. The FreeBSD DVD is more than half empty and I am sure nobody would mind spending a couple of hours extra at download-time what possibly might save a couple of weeks and a whole lot of headaches at install-time. Anyway, if anyone has any clue how to get me out of this acroread mess, I would be really grateful. Thanks in advance Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com The DVD is new. Until fairly recently, only CDs were built, and so the people making the distribution were somewhat conservative in their choice of software to include. And with a big DVD image both users and FreeBSD servers will have to cope with more network traffic. Also, everyone has their own ideas about what to include, and you can't satisfy everyone. I have been using FreeBSD for years now and I have never used any of the software that you mention. In this case, though, there is another constraint: the Adobe software has a more restrictive license which forbids redistribution, without going through the trouble of obtaining a Distribution License Agreement, renewing the license, determining whether you are in complicance, etc, etc. The FreeBSD project is generally opposed to using such software, and in any case they don't want to be burdened with legal rigmarole and expense. So you should complain to Adobe (good luck! ;) ) about this, not FreeBSD. (If you do, you can tell Adobe to get off their asses and build native FreeBSD binaries, so that you won't have to jump through all these hoops.) Have you examined your alternatives? There are a number of other PDF readers in Ports that don't have restrictive licenses, and don't require Linux emulation, and will serve just as well except perhaps on some very new PDF files with special features that aren't all that commmon and may not work anyway: 1) print/ghostscript, either by itself, or with one of it's many front-ends: print/gv print/gspdf print/gsview ... 2) a graphics/poppler based front-end: graphics/epdfview graphics/evince ... 3) graphics/xpdf 4) print/pdf-renderer etc. Likewise, there are many alternatives to Thunderbird. To
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