On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:27:34AM -0400, Chris Hill wrote:
Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess
that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes.
What version number would you call some time ago? I just used Ctrl-Q
about six hours or so ago.
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:53:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Riegler wrote:
Has anyone tested Arora?
I wouldn't recommend Arora as a lightweight browser to anyone who isn't
already using applications built with the Qt toolkit. If you're a KDE
user, it may be a good choice; if you aren't, it spectacularly
On Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 22:49:09 PDT Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:37:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:15:18 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com
wrote:
Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own directory
folder.
Terminology: the
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:37:46PM +, b. f. wrote:
Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl wrote:
What you can do is make a list of all installed ports with
ports-mgmt/portmaster:
portmaster -L ports.list
Looking through this list, you'll see four categories;
- Root ports (No dependencies,
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:15:18 -0500
Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul
Schmehlpschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way
to go about it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:46:05AM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
BSD=Berkeley Software Distribution AKA distro of Unix
That's not the same as saying that FreeBSD is a distribution. FreeBSD
is not called a BSD of Unix, after all. It's a BSD Unix system or
BSD Unix OS, or simply a BSD Unix. The
On 8/7/09, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Hmm. here is the output from df:
~
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a507630 363386 10363478%/
devfs 11 0 100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1e507630 107700
Identry wrote:
Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your
Hi,
Am Donnerstag, 06. Aug 2009, 15:37:34 -0800 schrieb Mel Flynn:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 12:46:21 Bertram Scharpf wrote:
You might get some help on freebsd-x11 list.
As I mentioned twice I manage to reproduce the problem just
calling dd. It is definitely not an X11 issue.
I really made
Hi,
reading around the FAQ for FreeBSD mailing list, I see that the
mailing list server does some message cleaning (converting HTML to
text, etc).
From reading the list, it does a very good job and I would not mind
using the same facility for my own mail if only I knew what is being
used.
I
Hi,
With some delay...
Thanks Matthew,
What rule, in what file should I set-up to have my mail sendmail mail
server duplicate all messages to another mail server?
=20
I am in the proces sof setting-up a new mail server; in the meantime I
want all messages arriving to my current mail
Chad Perrin wrote:
Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess
that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes.
What version number would you call some time ago? I just used Ctrl-Q
about six hours or so ago.
The FreeBSD machine with Firefox is down but
That would be neat :)
And I think your correct about the dirrmtry .. since the auto could contain
shared files
But I don't know about the rest
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote:
Kalle Møller wrote:
Damn have no clue how to build fix or anything with
Dear Darling,
I am always looking for ways to provide you with valuable information to help
you and your business thrive. I have provided countless seminars, videos, and
articles on many very important strategies that every business should think
about implementing.
Today, I am going to
hi,
while upgrading firefox 3.0.11-1, this error appeared to me:
--- Upgrading 'firefox-3.0.11,1' to 'firefox-3.0.13,1' (www/firefox3)
--- Building '/usr/ports/www/firefox3'
=== Cleaning for firefox-3.0.13,1
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:33:38 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
i'd be interested in Paul's question. it may be that kde3
is sopping up wy to much disc space. only have 6.5g
left
KDE4 makes KDE3 look like Fluxbox.
I can't remember the exact figures on
I'd really love to see chromium ported over.
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I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
twice),
I was afraid to run fsck before backing up everything I might possibly
need, so I spent most of last night mounting all the partitions and
backing up things.
I was able to manually mount all the partitions and all the
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:23 AM, RWrwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:33:38 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
i'd be interested in Paul's question. it may be that kde3
is sopping up wy to much disc space. only have 6.5g
left
KDE4
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:32:38AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
I'd really love to see chromium ported over.
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On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:53:05 -0500
Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote:
--On August 6, 2009 7:15:18 PM -0500 Andrew Gould
andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own
directory folder. This may imply that KDE3 and KDE4 can coexist.
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:12:03 -0500
Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in
resource consumption? (Please forgive me - I know that's a horribly
subjective question.)
IMO it's less usable in terms of ergonomics, and they
Are you using the GENERIC kernel
After more research, I think the answer to this is no. There is a
directory called /boot/kernel.old. From my reading, I believe this is
the original generic kernel?
if not have you tried it?
Not yet. Section 24.2.3 Major and Minor Upgrades of the Handbook
says
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Identry jalmb...@identry.com wrote:
I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
twice),
I was afraid to run fsck before backing up everything I might possibly
need, so I spent most of last night mounting all the partitions and
backing
We have a suite of applications with a Java GUI controlling everything.
One of the actions the user can perform is to set the time zone. We do
this through our Java application and update the /etc/localtime as
required. We also make an API call to tell the JVM that the time zone as
changed, and
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:31:01AM -0400, Identry wrote:
Are you using the GENERIC kernel
After more research, I think the answer to this is no. There is a
directory called /boot/kernel.old. From my reading, I believe this is
the original generic kernel?
Try this:
# strings
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Identry jalmb...@identry.com wrote:
Are you using the GENERIC kernel
After more research, I think the answer to this is no. There is a
directory called /boot/kernel.old. From my reading, I believe this is
the original generic kernel?
if not have you tried
Try this:
# strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/'
# strings /boot/kernel.old/kernel | grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/'
$ strings kernel/kernel |grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys'
r...@on.identry.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INET_ON
$ strings kernel.old/kernel |grep
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:59:13AM -0400, Identry wrote:
Try this:
# strings /boot/kernel/kernel ? ? | grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/'
# strings /boot/kernel.old/kernel | grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/'
$ strings kernel/kernel |grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys'
--On Friday, August 07, 2009 07:56:01 -0500 Stefan Miklosovic
miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
while upgrading firefox 3.0.11-1, this error appeared to me:
--- Upgrading 'firefox-3.0.11,1' to 'firefox-3.0.13,1' (www/firefox3)
--- Building '/usr/ports/www/firefox3'
=== Cleaning for
Le Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:53:05 -0500,
Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com a écrit :
I don't want to run KDE3 and KDE4 side by side. I want to migrate
from the former to the latter.
K3B needs kde3 and amarok2 is not yet ready for KDE 4.3. I still use
amarok 1.4.
There is no problem to use
If you did not touch the kernel, there is no need to boot GENERIC! Plus you
have said that this box is running PF, which is not in the GENERIC kernel!
Personally, I am interested in knowing why the system does not mount the
root partition on its own when you can do it by hand and it does not
--On Friday, August 07, 2009 00:27:00 -0500 Kent Stewart kstew...@owt.com
wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 05:53:05 pm Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On August 6, 2009 7:15:18 PM -0500 Andrew Gould
andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:08:44AM -0400, Identry wrote:
if not have you tried it?
No. I need to figure out how to do that, and I didn't have enough
brain power last night after doing all those backups.
After sleeping on it, I am wondering if I can kill two birds with one
stone... by
So I guess the question now is, if I can mount it manually, why
doesn't it mount during the boot process?
I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
twice)
So I've been thinking about how to run fsck...
At the moment, I have to boot from an install cd, go into fixit
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The problem is with our C applications. They continue to operate with
the old time zone, so things like timestamps in log files are not in
sync with the timestamps in the Java app log files. If we stop and
restart
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:25:48AM -0400, Identry wrote:
So I guess the question now is, if I can mount it manually, why
doesn't it mount during the boot process?
I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
twice)
So I've been thinking about how to run fsck...
Realize that if you upgrade to 7.x, you'll have to remove and reinstall
all ports because the version number of shared system libraries will
have changed.
Yes, I've decided this is way too complicated.
Or would it be safer to try to bring up the machine on it's own with a
6.2 generic
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Identry jalmb...@identry.com wrote:
So I guess the question now is, if I can mount it manually, why
doesn't it mount during the boot process?
I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
twice)
So I've been thinking about how to run
fsck is run when all file systems are unmounted!
If you can, choose single use mode, press enter when it says something like
/bin/sh (I don't remember the wordings) and then on the subsequent
prompt,,
# fsck -y [Press enter here]
That is all you need. Once it completes, it will bring back
Should I use any flags? Should I mount the filesystems read write or read
only?
You should never fsck a filesystem when its mounted!
Ah... glad I asked.
I think you should start by reading the manual pages for fsck and
fsck_ffs. I would start with 'fsck_ffs -fp /dev/yourdevicenode'.
I'm obviously getting more and more stupid.
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 02:04:16 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
To conform with the growisofs manual, you could symlink it to /dev/dvd
using the setting
linkacd0cdrom
in /etc/devfs.conf.
Wrong line copies. Should be:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 12:26:10PM -0400, Identry wrote:
Should I use any flags? Should I mount the filesystems read write or read
only?
You should never fsck a filesystem when its mounted!
Ah... glad I asked.
Actually it is only when a filesystem is mounted read-write that you must
Did you try unsetting TZ and then calling tzset()? The man page
implies that doing so will force a reread of /etc/localtime
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzsetsourceid=opensearch):
The tzset() function initializes time conversion information used by
the library routine localtime(3).
On Thursday 06 August 2009 19:26:20 Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On August 6, 2009 9:29:30 PM -0500 Mel Flynn
mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 15:21:14 Paul Schmehl wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go
Yesterday I upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0beta2, had some issues with fuse.ko
and linux compat, but rebuilt and worked ok, I'm having problems trying
to mount my SATA 250GB HD, because it just finds one partition
(/dev/ad4s1), but I really have 2 partitions there
(/dev/ad4s5 /dev/ad4s6) which are ntfs,
Gary Kline wrote:
Super! just offhand, can i install PCSD *over* thius FBSd
--7.1--? Keep /usr/home and so on? Or is PCBSD a
do-it-from-scratch? (I'm pretty much OS agnostic [[so long
as it's somethng like UNIX]], but here I know where things
live... With
I receive data on the serial port (flags O_NONBLOCK, VMIN=0, VTIME=0,
B115200). The time the data shows up is quantized to 5ms. Where does
this 5ms quantization comes from?
Increasing kern.hz to 1 does not reduce this effect.
Thank you,
Chris
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Peter Steele wrote:
Did you try unsetting TZ and then calling tzset()? The man page
implies that doing so will force a reread of /etc/localtime
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzsetsourceid=opensearch):
The tzset() function initializes
On 8/7/09, Identry iden...@gmail.com wrote:
If you did not touch the kernel, there is no need to boot GENERIC! Plus
you
have said that this box is running PF, which is not in the GENERIC kernel!
Personally, I am interested in knowing why the system does not mount the
root partition on its own
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:25:38 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
It's nice to be able to go on vacation, without worrying about the
servers back home craping out :)
Vacation? Weekend! :-)
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From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
Thank-you for your replies. I guess
my main concern was I'm not sure when to stop banging my
head against the wall and ask for help. The checklist kind
of goes like:
Did you read the FAQ and release notes?
Did you read the handbook?
Did read the man pages?
Did you search the mailing-list
I wonder if you'd get more insight by asking the question in -hackers.
Perhaps there are some libc experts listening there.
Well, I still haven't found the magic so I'll try my luck there...
Thanks for the feedback.
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I think you should start by reading the manual pages for fsck and
fsck_ffs. I would start with 'fsck_ffs -fp /dev/yourdevicenode'.
Okay, back in the data center. I ran fsck_ffs -fp on my root file
system and it returned with no errors. It just printed some
information about number of files,
Non-printable-character (NPC)
NPCs may be a culprit for a file that used to work, now doesn't. Or a
inode oddity.
I've been following this thread but haven't chipped in because of
timing (you driving to the datacenter).
Here's what I'd consider:
# mv /etc/fstab /etc/old-fstab
and
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 02:04:16 +0200
From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:09:51 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr
wrote:
Windows experience won't
Okay, back in the data center. I ran fsck_ffs -fp on my root file
system and it returned with no errors. It just printed some
information about number of files, used, free space, etc., ending with
the interesting fact of .3% fragmentation.
Then I reran it without the -fp and it printed Phase
On Thursday 06 August 2009 06:54:52 Kalle Møller wrote:
Damn have no clue how to build fix or anything with plist ... Except it
seemd to be a list of the files used ??
Try attached patch. Checking WITH_PYTHON now. Also fixed pkg-install while I
was in there to respect a FLOWD_UID variable, so
Well, something got worse. After running fsck_ffs with no errors, I
tried to boot the machine. It got to the point where it printed:
snip
Booting from BIOS Partition 0
PS2 keyboard detected
PS2 mouse detected
and it just hangs at that point.
Worse and worse... The machine won't boot from
On Friday 07 August 2009 03:21:30 Bertram Scharpf wrote:
Hi,
Am Donnerstag, 06. Aug 2009, 15:37:34 -0800 schrieb Mel Flynn:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 12:46:21 Bertram Scharpf wrote:
You might get some help on freebsd-x11 list.
As I mentioned twice I manage to reproduce the problem just
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:41:57PM -0400, Identry wrote:
Okay, back in the data center. I ran fsck_ffs -fp on my root file
system and it returned with no errors. It just printed some
information about number of files, used, free space, etc., ending with
the interesting fact of .3%
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:47:58AM -0400, Identry wrote:
Realize that if you upgrade to 7.x, you'll have to remove and reinstall
all ports because the version number of shared system libraries will
have changed.
Yes, I've decided this is way too complicated.
Or would it be safer to
On 8/7/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
Sadly, I agree.
Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard)
Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your boot drive
But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue is malfunctioning.
Do you
Chris Stankevitz wrote:
Q: What is the source of the alternating +/- 5ms bias that comes and
goes every few seconds?
This helps: add these lines to /boot/device.hints and reboot
hint.sio.0.flags=0x20
hint.sio.1.flags=0x20
Chris
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On 8/7/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
Sadly, I agree.
Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard)
Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your boot drive
But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue
On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
reading around the FAQ for FreeBSD mailing list, I see that the
mailing list server does some message cleaning (converting HTML to
text, etc).
I don't want just any solution, that works more or less, but the very
well tested solution used by
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:23:20PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:33:38 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
i'd be interested in Paul's question. it may be that kde3
is sopping up wy to much disc space. only have 6.5g
left
KDE4 makes KDE3 look
I found the following links online, I am wondering is this possible
using pf and netgraph instead?
http://www.michaelbrumm.com/how-to-aggregate-bandwidth.html
http://www.mushroomnetworks.com/product.aspx?product_id=1009tab=features
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