Re: 8.0 upgrade geometry does not match label

2010-04-30 Thread Reinhard Haller
Am 29.04.2010 16:29, schrieb Marcel Moolenaar: On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, as far as I know my disk is not operating in dangerously dedicated mode. Despite this I'm unable to upgrade to freebsd 8.0. Please explain how or why you can't upgrade. The

Parent Child SIGPIPE and write problem

2010-04-30 Thread Murray Taylor
I am writing a process that has a parent running as a daemon process that has to spawn an appropriate child to parse whatever the parent has in one of several formats (hence the variety of child parsers) I am getting occasional SIGPIPE errors (and the boring bit is that I have put in code that I

Re: Gaming

2010-04-30 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:46:15PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Yes probably, but for now I can play urban terror as well. Which features are missing ? -- Demelier David First, it's shaders support. I've used to play toribash a lot, and it requires OpenGL 1.3 which mesa does support, but it

Re: Gaming

2010-04-30 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:41:33AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: I agree. There's a wiki entry detailing the process: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d There are a few problems with the network interfaces on the 32-64 bit bridge; which will

Re: Gaming

2010-04-30 Thread George Liaskos
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:54 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. ? You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-30 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote: One more problem: there should be a quote at the end of the last line. attach 100 { device-name ugen[0-9].[0-9]; match vendor 0x04b8; match

Broken port 'py-sqlite3'... or maybe something else?

2010-04-30 Thread Modulok
List, I tried to install 'py-sqlite3' with the usual 'make install clean' routine. Instead, I got this: === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for py25-sqlite3-2.5.1_1 = No MD5 checksum recorded for python/Python-2.5.1.tgz. = No SHA256 checksum recorded for

Network Card Ordering

2010-04-30 Thread Dave
Hi all, I am using FreeBSD 7 and all my computers have built in intel lan cards. When you boot you get em0 and em1. On some pc's I add an additional network card which shows up as em2 and em3. The problem I have is that on certain hardware that network card will take the spaces em0 and em1, and

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-30 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b

Re: Rosegarden seg faults

2010-04-30 Thread Da Rock
Still heard no word now, and I've tried the ports list several days ago now. Can anyone tell me what the next step in this process is? Do I contact the maintainer directly? On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:25 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I've installed rosegarden for a task my missus has to do. The only

Re: iwi0 and spontaneous reboot on /etc/rc.d/netif restart

2010-04-30 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hello, I just upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE-p2 from 7.2 and I'm also seeing kernel crashes and reboots after running /etc/rc.d/netif restart, which didn't occur with 7.2. This is reproducible on demand. After writing this email I found the following PR:

upgrading from i386 to AMD64

2010-04-30 Thread Neil Short
Based upon a different question in this forum, I find myself motivated to upgrade my i386 install to AMD64. Can this be done by a simple kernel rebuild or a binary upgrade? Is a full reinstallation necessary? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

upgrading from i386 to AMD64

2010-04-30 Thread Robert Huff
Neil Short writes: Based upon a different question in this forum, I find myself motivated to upgrade my i386 install to AMD64. Can this be done by a simple kernel rebuild or a binary upgrade? Is a full reinstallation necessary? Perhaps not strictly necessary, but the path of

I am new to BSD

2010-04-30 Thread Magel, Reid (DIS)
Here is what I want to use it for. I have background in the Avaya/Lucent PBX world and I know how reliable Unix is. I would like to install a version of unix on a computer and just use it for the following purposes. 1. I want to add a couple terabyte drives to it and share them on my

Re: I am new to BSD

2010-04-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:52:50AM -0700, Magel, Reid (DIS) wrote: Here is what I want to use it for. I have background in the Avaya/Lucent PBX world and I know how reliable Unix is. I would like to install a version of unix on a computer and just use it for the following purposes.

Re: I am new to BSD

2010-04-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Magel, Reid (DIS) davi...@dis.wa.govwrote: 1. I want to add a couple terabyte drives to it and share them on my network. I want my kids and wife to be able to backup their files from a Windows XP, Windows7 or Vista machine to these terabyte drives. 2.

'at' command syntax

2010-04-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm am unable to figure out the proper syntax of the 'at' command. I've read the man page over and over. I've attempted Google searches but there is a lot of 'at' in the world. Can someone please point out what's wrong with this syntax? at noon '/usr/local/bin/curl -u user:pass -d

Re: 'at' command syntax

2010-04-30 Thread tk
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:52:26AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Hi Drew, at reads its job from standard input, so basically you have to $ echo '$yourcommand' | at noon An alternative is to save you command in a small text file, and either $ cat $file | at noon or $ at -f $file noon Hope

help

2010-04-30 Thread Okechukwu Bartholomew Asobie
How may I resolve this problem *** $ pine The /home/oba/mail subdirectory already exists, but it is not writable by Pine so Pine cannot run. Please correct the permissions and restart Pine.

Re: 'at' command syntax

2010-04-30 Thread Allie Daneman
Read the man page...that should shed light on the issue. Sent from my electronic slavery device. On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:52, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: I'm am unable to figure out the proper syntax of the 'at' command. I've read the man page over and over. I've

More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs,

Re: 'at' command syntax

2010-04-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/30/2010 10:11 AM, Allie Daneman wrote: Read the man page...that should shed light on the issue. Sent from my electronic slavery device. [snip] I've read the man page over and over. Thanks for your reply. I started there but guess I am dense. However Thomas' post told me that I

Re: Disk Usage

2010-04-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 23 April 2010 12:24, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:06:14 -0400 ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com articulated: 64bit executables are going to be larger, sometimes as much as 2x, but do you now have a bunch of (large) /boot/kernel/*.symbols files now? I

Re: How to determine /dev/ad* from mount label

2010-04-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 27 April 2010 18:29, Mark G. mark-fbsd-quest-10+20100...@giovannetti.ca wrote: On 04/27/2010 00:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Mark G.mark-fbsd-quest-10+20100...@giovannetti.ca  writes: [...] I just wanted to know if there was a utility to tell me which actual device was mounted.  I also tried

Re: I am new to BSD

2010-04-30 Thread osp
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:52:50AM -0700, Magel, Reid (DIS) wrote: Here is what I want to use it for. I have background in the Avaya/Lucent PBX world and I know how reliable Unix is. I would like to install a version of unix on a computer and just use it for the following

Re: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code

2010-04-30 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Dan, thanks for your reply: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 29), Joerg Bruehe said: For some long, unknown time, the MySQL code contains a variable net_retry_count which is by default set to 10 (ten) for all platforms, but to 100 (1 million) for FreeBSD (during configure

Re: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code

2010-04-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 30), Joerg Bruehe said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 29), Joerg Bruehe said: For some long, unknown time, the MySQL code contains a variable net_retry_count which is by default set to 10 (ten) for all platforms, but to 100 (1 million) for FreeBSD

Re: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code

2010-04-30 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Dan, your info is very valuable - thanks: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 30), Joerg Bruehe said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 29), Joerg Bruehe said: For some long, unknown time, the MySQL code contains a variable net_retry_count which is by default set to 10

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions?  Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(8) supports

Re: nfe0 startup

2010-04-30 Thread Robert Jenssen
Hi, Many thanks to those who responded to my question. It seems that waiting for the network to start up is a common problem. Recently Jeremy Chadwick proprosed adding a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/waitnetwork script. In response others have suggested the more radical step of replacing /etc/rc.d with

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-30 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 30 2010 13:39, S Roberts wrote: Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl:

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible.

Re: I am new to BSD

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:34:52 HST, o...@aloha.com wrote: Best thing is to agree to install ports collection during OS installation. This does not install all sourcecode, just the index. The traditional way to install is cd to the port folder and do make, make install, make clean.

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the

ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Gary Kline
i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. still, getting-real, i checked out the power stats for the various chipsets. right now, everybody is racing for efficiency. not here yet. i'm

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you mean that a modern desktop PC consumes as much power as my old

8.0-RELEASE install freezes

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Bernacki
Hi, I have an ancient Pentium II 350Mhz system that I've used as a home firewall for several years. I decided to try to upgrade it from 6.1 to 8.0 today, but I was unable to get the kernel to boot without freezing. The point at which it froze was: vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df

Re: 'at' command syntax

2010-04-30 Thread mikel king
On Apr 30, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 4/30/2010 10:11 AM, Allie Daneman wrote: Read the man page...that should shed light on the issue. Sent from my electronic slavery device. [snip] I've read the man page over and over. Thanks for your reply. I started there but guess

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer

Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?

2010-04-30 Thread Fbsd1
Fbsd1 wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB