big vinum problem

[Octavian Hornoiu]

After a power loss last night i restarted my server with a 425 gig or so
RAID-5 array and expected to go through a length fsck after which the
system would come up.  However, one of the vinum subdisks was down.  So,
i rebooted into single user mode, i restarted the home.p0.s3 subdisk and
then i ran a manual fsck.  What followed was a series of hard errors
that said:

ad7s1e: hard error reading fsbn 86482817 of 43241337-43241448 (ad7s1 bn
86482817; cn 5383 tn 78 sn 8) status=59 error=40
vinum: home.p0.s3 is crashed by force
vinum: home.p0 is degraded
 fatal: home.p0.s3 read error, block 43241337 for 57344 bytes
home.p0.s3 user buffer block 30268632 for 57344 bytes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
ad11s1e hard error etc

then home.p0.s7 becomes corrupt and crashes by force and then i find
myself staring at a screen that says:

CANNOT READ: BLK 297103054
CONTINUE [yn]


I have done this twice now and every time vinum successfully initializes
the subdisk and the plex comes up and is in the "up" state but once i
run fsck it crashes again.  What exactly can i do to remedy this.  If
it's a bad disk i'll replace it but can't vinum work around bad blocks?

My system is FreeBSD 4.9 RC from RELEASE branch with all the latest
patches, i'm fully up to date.  I have 8 subdisks in vinum home.p0.s0-s7
with a 55 GB partition on each drive used by vinum.  All the drives are
identical and all they contain is the vinum partitions.

Please CC me in any emails you send as I am not on the list.

Thanks for your help!  

octavian

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freeBsd

[ral sitaro]

can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it?
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Re: *Editing* PDFs?

[James Leone]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 10/13/03 19:03, James Leone wrote:

The only way I have been able to edit existing PDF's is by installing 
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 in Linux by using Codeweaver's Cross Over Office, 
which is available at www.codeweavers.com.
Which is the original problem :-)
I would categorize PDF files in two ways:

A. Indirectly editable with other programs if you have the program and 
data file (LyX, Scribus)

B. Unencrypted postscript (PDF provided, no source editor available - 
See below)

C. Encrypted postscript   < Adobe Acrobat in Wine is the only 
possibility

I have been able to combine PDF's and create PDF's out of anything 
printable just by using some basic Unix utilities.  I can go into 
detail if someone likes.
Definitely!
Take a look at this post, and its follow up. 
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2002-10/1511.html & 
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2002-10/1519.html

Here is an extreme example, and how much you can do depends upon the 
condition of the PDF file.  Anyway, here is a grand tour of what can be 
done if everything works right.. :-)

Lets just assume that I had a document, written in MS Word emailed to me 
and I needed to incorporate that into a PDF file as the first page, 
Adobe Acrobat is unavailable, but Acrobat Reader is installed.  Assume I 
didn't have Open Office.

You can save the PDF file as a postscript file with Acrobat Reader. To 
convert the .doc file, open it with MS Word in Cross Over Office, print 
it, catch the postscript file before the job finishes, rename it as 
whatever2.ps. You can combine the two postscript files into one with the 
method I describe in those emails.

Now if you are somewhere else without the .doc file, you can still edit 
the postscript file(s). Just name the file whatever.ps, then run 
"ps2ascii whatever.ps," it will produce a text version of the PDF file, 
called whatever.txt.  Edit the text in whatever way you like, use 
whatever tool you like to print, capture the .ps file

James Leone







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WINDOWID

[Gerald S Stoller]

FreeBSD  4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386

I run  XFree86  on my system.  Each process has an environment
variable named  WINDOWID .  What purpose does this variable  serve?  How
is it used?  What can I do with it ((redirect output to another window,
no! for that I can use  /dev/tty )?  I noticed (by converting several
values to hex) that the form of this variable  is
  2 * y * 16^5 + 14 , and I never saw  y > 22 ; this is a result of
looking at around a dozen values.
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fish sftp and konqueror

[Robert Froese]

I'm confused.  I didn't get any response to my last post, in which I asked for 
information about getting fish working in Konqueror.  Does nobody else use 
Konqueror as an sftp or fish GUI interface?  Or, have I done something 
uniquely stupid to break it on my 5.1-R box?

Neither are working for me: sftp not at all and fish not if I try to connect 
to a FreeBSD box.  Funny, but fish works if I try to connect a linux box.  
I've searched the list archives, the KDE bug database, and the FreeBSD bug 
database with no luck.  Perhaps there's a great alternative to sftp or fish 
in Konqueror that I'm not aware of?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

...Robert


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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[ivan georgiev]

> > nsICookieService.idl
> > ../../../dist/bin/xpidl -m header -w -I ../../../dist/idl -I. -o
> > _xpidlgen/nsICookieService nsICookieService.idl
> > gmake[4]: *** [../../../dist/include/necko] Illegal instruction
> > (core dumped)
>
> I think this says all. Try another CPUTYPE and let me know the
> results.

I compiled with CPUTYPE=i686 and it passed successfully the mozilla 
build. However, this time it stopped with this error:

--
Making: ../../../../../../unxfbsd.pro/slb/sablot.lib
Making: ../../../../../../unxfbsd.pro/lib/libsablot.a
dmake:  Error code 139, while making '../../../../../../unxfbsd.pro/
lib/libsablot.a'
---* TG_SLO.MK *---
dmake:  Error code 255, while making './unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/
so_built_so_sablotron'
---* TG_SLO.MK *---

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/
openoffice-devel/work/oo_1.1_src/sablot
dmake:  Error code 1, while making 'build_all'
---* TG_SLO.MK *---
*** Error code 255

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/
portinstall37293.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** The following packages were not installed or upgraded 
(*:skipped / !:failed)
! editors/openoffice-devel  (linker error)


Ivan

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Re: installing amanda from ports

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Michelle wrote:

I'm trying to install amanda from the ports collection.  Before 
running make, the amanda instructions state to run ./configure 
--with-user=amanda --with-group=backup to change the default 
configuration.  How do you do this with FreeBSD?  I've tried running 
./configure from the /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server directory which 
does not work.  Do I need to be in a different directory or is there 
another way to change the options before running make?

Thank you,
Michelle
You may have a "work" dir underneath the
path you stated above.  Check in this dir, and
probably one under it named "amanda-version.number.here"
for a script entitled "configure."  You should be able to
run it from there.  However, you run some risk of
breaking the installation (of Amanda, not FBSD itself...)
Another alternative *might* be to hack the Makefile
(in /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server) to reflect the
config options you want.  Unless you're real
good at shell scripts, you should make a copy
first.  Nope, on second thought, make a copy
first regardless of your 'shellability.'
All that said, it's likely that the version in
the ports tree will run best if you leave it
alone and let it configure itself --- the port
maintainer should have already read all the
instructions you've read (and probably some
others, too...) and has already figured out
the best way to run it on FBSD, and that info
should be in the Makefile.
Finally, many programs allow you to set
the user and group at the command line,
so you might be able to do it there if
the ports sets it up some other way.
(Lots of ways to do stuff in 'Nix)

*disclaimer:  I've never used Amanda
(that doesn't sound quite right), and I
don't even know her personally (insert
other foot there, ;-)
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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Re: /tmp suddenly full - possible DOS hack?

[Kenton Brede]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:59:51PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> List,
>   I have a single FreeBSD server (5.1) that I run at home behind a 
> firewall with ports open for ssh, dns, and http.  I began having 
> trouble with my DNS not responding, then noticed that ssh was not 
> responding either.  Upon logging in at the server, I noticed error 
> messages about my /tmp filesystem being full.  Issuing df revealed the 
> following:
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a253678   72770  16061431%/
> devfs   1   1   0   100%/dev
> /dev/ad0s1e253678 542  232842 0%/tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f   8209710 3440818 411211646%/usr
> /dev/ad0s1d253678  253106  -19722   108%/var
> 
>   Upon further investigation, I noticed a series of grossly bloated 
> messages logs:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel43001 Oct 13 22:37 messages
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel196001815 Oct 13 17:00 messages.0
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel87398 Oct 13 16:00 messages.1.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel87096 Oct 13 15:00 messages.2.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   109446 Oct 13 14:00 messages.3.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   184596 Oct 13 13:00 messages.4.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel36822 Oct 13 12:00 messages.5.bz2
> 
>   This is the first BSD box that I have had that allows DNS queries, 
>   and this is the first time I have experienced something like this.  Is it 
> some sort of DOS attack?  I am sure there are a hundred variables that 
> I am unaware of, but if some of the list sages could be so kind as to 
> prod me in the right direction(s) I would be most appreciative.
> 

Have you looked in the "messages" log files?  What entries do they
contain?  That could give you a clue.
Kent

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/tmp suddenly full - possible DOS hack?

[Barry Hawkins]

List,
	I have a single FreeBSD server (5.1) that I run at home behind a 
firewall with ports open for ssh, dns, and http.  I began having 
trouble with my DNS not responding, then noticed that ssh was not 
responding either.  Upon logging in at the server, I noticed error 
messages about my /tmp filesystem being full.  Issuing df revealed the 
following:

Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a253678   72770  16061431%/
devfs   1   1   0   100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1e253678 542  232842 0%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1f   8209710 3440818 411211646%/usr
/dev/ad0s1d253678  253106  -19722   108%/var
	Upon further investigation, I noticed a series of grossly bloated 
messages logs:

-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel43001 Oct 13 22:37 messages
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel196001815 Oct 13 17:00 messages.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel87398 Oct 13 16:00 messages.1.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel87096 Oct 13 15:00 messages.2.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   109446 Oct 13 14:00 messages.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   184596 Oct 13 13:00 messages.4.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel36822 Oct 13 12:00 messages.5.bz2
	This is the first BSD box that I have had that allows DNS queries, and 
this is the first time I have experienced something like this.  Is it 
some sort of DOS attack?  I am sure there are a hundred variables that 
I am unaware of, but if some of the list sages could be so kind as to 
prod me in the right direction(s) I would be most appreciative.

Thanks,
--
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.allthingscomputed.com/
weblog: www.allthingscomputed.com/blog/
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Re: Windows Media (blech!)

[Todd Stephens]

On Monday 13 October 2003 09:52 pm, Evan Dower wrote:
>  Is there a way to watch Windows Media files on FreeBSD? I noticed
> NetShow, but it seems to be defunct/missing.
>  Many thanks,

Mplayer supports a wide range of codecs, including MS codecs.  They seem 
to be a little outdated though.  I haven't had much luck playing 
anything other than mpeg with Mplayer.  YMMV.

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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, 
while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

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Re: Windows Media (blech!)

[John Birrell]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:52:15PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote:
> Is there a way to watch Windows Media files on FreeBSD? I noticed NetShow, 
> but it seems to be defunct/missing.

Try mplayer.

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Re: *Editing* PDFs?

[William O'Higgins]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:59:31AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 13, 2003, Alexander Farber wrote:
>>I've read some where that the new OpenOffice is capable of pdf-output
>
>There's an article in this month's Linux Journal on Scribus saying that it
>has very good PDF capabilities.  The article said that Scribus is available
>on a number of *ix platforms, and I think FreeBSD was on the list.

We've determined that Scribus doesn't allow us to edit PDFs created by
others, and thus doesn't fit the original criterion.  That said, people
may be interested in the above-mentioned article.  Here is a URI:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7054
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Windows Media (blech!)

[Evan Dower]

Is there a way to watch Windows Media files on FreeBSD? I noticed NetShow, 
but it seems to be defunct/missing.
Many thanks,
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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[ivan georgiev]

> > nsICookieService.idl
> > ../../../dist/bin/xpidl -m header -w -I ../../../dist/idl -I. -o
> > _xpidlgen/nsICookieService nsICookieService.idl
> > gmake[4]: *** [../../../dist/include/necko] Illegal instruction
> > (core dumped)
>
> I think this says all. Try another CPUTYPE and let me know the
> results.

I forgot to mention that this was compiled with CPUTYPE=p3 (I have p4) 
I will try with pentiumpro(i686) and will let you know.

Thanks,
Ivan

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Re: The find command

[Stephen Hilton]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:02:11 -0400
Gerald S Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> FreeBSD  4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> 
>   I tried out the  -inum  option of the  find  command and find
> that it didn't work.  I got a valid  inode  number from 'ls -i' and fed
> that to 'find  dir  -inum inode#' and got no file names back.  If there
> is someone familiar with this command's code and can fix it, please
> inform me and do so.  I don't know where the error is, i.e., is all the
> code for  -inum  missing or just a small part of it?  I don't know what
> structure contains all the inodes in a partition and how to associate
> inodes with file path-names (but I'd like to know this, so if someone can
> send me data as to where this info is, I would appreciate it).
> I may try to fix it if I can get that info on inodes that I
> mentioned, if no one else can do it.


This works on my 4.9-RC and a 4.8 system.

$ find /usr/home -inum 22050
/usr/home/findme.test
$

HTH,

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Re: Restoring vinum root from dump

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Sunday, 12 October 2003 at 16:26:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [Oops, didn't realize that the thread id was captured in email. Should
> have known, sorry.]
>
> My terminology is all wrong. Just want to do a system restore.
>
> Have two 200GB disks using vinum mirroring for vinum volumes: /, /usr,
> /usr/local, /usr/ports, /usr/home, /var, and /tmp.
> Have one standalone 100GB backup disk.
>
> Did a restore before, but messed everything up and ended up reinstalling
> + redoing vinum setup. Don't want to do that again, so figured best to
> ask and make sure to use the correct restore process.
>
> Should anything special be done during a full restore since volumes are
> mirrored vinum volumes?
> I have complete dump images of the following vinum volumes : /, /usr,
> /usr/local, /usr/ports, /usr/home, /var.
>
> Was wondering if I should take primary drive down and boot from
> secondary drive into single user mode. Then mount the primary drive and
> restore the volumes to the primary drive. Then bring primary drive back
> up and reboot normally and run from primary drive.

There's nothing special that you *need* to do for restoring to a Vinum
volume.  There are, however, things that are important when restoring
system components.  In particular, if you restore /usr/lib you'll
replace the C library /usr/lib/libc.so.  It's then possible to crash
dynamically linked processes (since they no longer have libraries),
after which you could be left with a mainly unusable system.

Vinum offers a solution to this problem, as you've noted: detach a
plex from each volume and restore to it.  Then do some magic in single
user mode to remove the other plex and attach the one you've just
restored to.  I'm not quite sure about the best way of doing this.
I'll think about it, but if anybody else has suggestions for doing
this with the least chance of shooting yourself in the foot, I'd be
interested to hear them.

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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[Jens Rehsack]

Robert Huff wrote:
ivan georgiev writes:


I tried three times to compile openoffice-devel (I use 5-1p10) and it 
always fails when compiling mozilla - on different places and always 
with a core dump. I saw some messages that people are happy with it 
(therefore it must be compileable). Do I have to do something special 
besaides the 
"portinstall  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel" which I use?


Mune breaks also, but at a different place.
Actually, in some ways it's the same place.  OO wants Mozilla,
which wants JDK14,  JDK14 is broken; my last response on the compile
was:
===>  Building for jdk-1.4.1p3_3
# pkg_info | grep jdk-1.4
jdk-1.4.1p4 Java Development Kit 1.4.1
Alexey, Greg and all contributor did a great job with that
patch level, 'cause it runs for me without any problems.
Regards,
Jens
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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[Jens Rehsack]

ivan georgiev wrote:
On Monday 13 October 2003 07:40 pm, Jens Rehsack wrote:
[...]

nsICookieService.idl
../../../dist/bin/xpidl -m header -w -I ../../../dist/idl -I. -o 
_xpidlgen/nsICookieService nsICookieService.idl
gmake[4]: *** [../../../dist/include/necko] Illegal instruction (core 
dumped)
I think this says all. Try another CPUTYPE and let me know the results.

Jens

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The find command

[Gerald S Stoller]

FreeBSD  4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
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  I tried out the  -inum  option of the  find  command and find
that it didn't work.  I got a valid  inode  number from 'ls -i' and fed
that to 'find  dir  -inum inode#' and got no file names back.  If there
is someone familiar with this command's code and can fix it, please
inform me and do so.  I don't know where the error is, i.e., is all the
code for  -inum  missing or just a small part of it?  I don't know what
structure contains all the inodes in a partition and how to associate
inodes with file path-names (but I'd like to know this, so if someone can
send me data as to where this info is, I would appreciate it).
I may try to fix it if I can get that info on inodes that I
mentioned, if no one else can do it.
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Re: Piping Syslogd Output to a Program

[Martin McCormick]

Thank you.  I forgot to check that man page.

Jimmy Olgeni writes:
>Just check the syslog.conf man page and look for the pipe :)
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installing amanda from ports

[Michelle]

I'm trying to install amanda from the ports collection.  Before running 
make, the amanda instructions state to run ./configure 
--with-user=amanda --with-group=backup to change the default 
configuration.  How do you do this with FreeBSD?  I've tried running 
./configure from the /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server directory which does 
not work.  Do I need to be in a different directory or is there another 
way to change the options before running make?

Thank you,
Michelle
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openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[Robert Huff]

ivan georgiev writes:

>  I tried three times to compile openoffice-devel (I use 5-1p10) and it 
>  always fails when compiling mozilla - on different places and always 
>  with a core dump. I saw some messages that people are happy with it 
>  (therefore it must be compileable). Do I have to do something special 
>  besaides the 
>  "portinstall  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel" which I use?

Mune breaks also, but at a different place.
Actually, in some ways it's the same place.  OO wants Mozilla,
which wants JDK14,  JDK14 is broken; my last response on the compile
was:

===>  Building for jdk-1.4.1p3_3
# Start of jdk build
bsd i586 1.4.1-p3 build started: 03-10-09 19:08

It's been running since then using 66% of a P4-2.2g.

By the way, who do I excalate to when the maintainer doesn't
answer e-mail? I've sent two messages to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and
had no response.



Robert Huff




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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[ivan georgiev]

On Monday 13 October 2003 07:40 pm, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> ivan georgiev wrote:
> > On Monday 13 October 2003 07:05 pm, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> >>ivan georgiev wrote:
> >>>I tried three times to compile openoffice-devel (I use 5-1p10)
> >>>and it always fails when compiling mozilla - on different places
> >>>and always with a core dump. I saw some messages that people are
> >>>happy with it (therefore it must be compileable). Do I have to
> >>> do something special besaides the
> >>>"portinstall  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel" which I use?
> >>
> >>Maybe you've specified a to high optimization level in
> >>/etc/make.conf. Check you CFLAGS. Mozilla build break
> >>mostly with anything higher than "-O2".
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Jens
> >
> > Thanks Jens,
> >
> > I have:
> > CFLAGS=-O1 -pipe
> > CPUTYPE=p4
> > in make.conf . I do not think it is a hardware/memory problem,
> > because "make -j4 buildworld" always finishes without a glitch.
> > What else can I check/modify?
>
> Maybe it would be better to set CPUTYPE to p3, 'cause the cc of 5.1
> is known to produce bad code for pentium4 in some situations.
> Furthermore it would really help if you send the message the build
> dumps with.

Here is the place where it core dumps:

nsICookieService.idl
../../../dist/bin/xpidl -m header -w -I ../../../dist/idl -I. -o 
_xpidlgen/nsICookieService nsICookieService.idl
gmake[4]: *** [../../../dist/include/necko] Illegal instruction (core 
dumped)
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel/work/
mozilla/work/mozilla/netwerk/cookie/public'
gmake[3]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel/work/
mozilla/work/mozilla/netwerk/cookie'
gmake[2]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel/work/
mozilla/work/mozilla/netwerk'
gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel/work/
mozilla/work/mozilla'
gmake: *** [default] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel/work/mozilla.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/
portinstall23087.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** The following packages were not installed or upgraded 
(*:skipped / !:failed)
! editors/openoffice-devel  (coredump)


Ivan

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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[Jens Rehsack]

ivan georgiev wrote:
On Monday 13 October 2003 07:05 pm, Jens Rehsack wrote:

ivan georgiev wrote:

I tried three times to compile openoffice-devel (I use 5-1p10)
and it always fails when compiling mozilla - on different places
and always with a core dump. I saw some messages that people are
happy with it (therefore it must be compileable). Do I have to do
something special besaides the
"portinstall  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel" which I use?
Maybe you've specified a to high optimization level in
/etc/make.conf. Check you CFLAGS. Mozilla build break
mostly with anything higher than "-O2".
Regards,
Jens


Thanks Jens,

I have:
CFLAGS=-O1 -pipe 
CPUTYPE=p4
in make.conf . I do not think it is a hardware/memory problem, because  
"make -j4 buildworld" always finishes without a glitch. What else can 
I check/modify?
Maybe it would be better to set CPUTYPE to p3, 'cause the cc of 5.1 is
known to produce bad code for pentium4 in some situations.
Furthermore it would really help if you send the message the build dumps 
with.

Regards,
Jens
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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[ivan georgiev]

On Monday 13 October 2003 07:05 pm, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> ivan georgiev wrote:
> > I tried three times to compile openoffice-devel (I use 5-1p10)
> > and it always fails when compiling mozilla - on different places
> > and always with a core dump. I saw some messages that people are
> > happy with it (therefore it must be compileable). Do I have to do
> > something special besaides the
> > "portinstall  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel" which I use?
>
> Maybe you've specified a to high optimization level in
> /etc/make.conf. Check you CFLAGS. Mozilla build break
> mostly with anything higher than "-O2".
>
> Regards,
> Jens

Thanks Jens,

I have:
CFLAGS=-O1 -pipe 
CPUTYPE=p4
in make.conf . I do not think it is a hardware/memory problem, because  
"make -j4 buildworld" always finishes without a glitch. What else can 
I check/modify?

Ivan

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Re: Gateway 980 server freeze?

[rjent]

Greetings,

Additional information:

If I enable the 82544GC onboard nic and place the PCI-X Intel 82544Ei card
a pci standard slot (not pci-x) then the box hangs on boot at the megaraid
controller after sees raid5 stripe.

If I disable the 82544GC onboard nic and place the PCI-X Intel 82544Ei
card a pci standard slot (not pci-x) then the box functions great.


> Greetings,
>
> I am having trouble with a new Gateway 980 server. I am running fresh
> cvsup RELENG_4, kernel is stock except for maxusers set to 512, ipfw
> enabled, and smp enabled. System information is as follows:
>
> Motherboard information is located at:
>
> http://support.gateway.com/s/Servers/COMPO/MOTHERBD/4000791/4000791mv.shtml
>
> The raid card is a LSI U320 LVD 2-Channel SCSI Array Controller. Box
> configure with raid5 +hotswap
>
> Symptoms:
>
> Box doing internal operations all well. Upon placing load on device
> through NIC box freezes. Reproducible via a scp of tar files from any
> server on same switch. After box freezes you can eject a drive from the
> raid5 array and no alarms no trigger hot swap, no nothing.
>
> Additional information:
>
> Have replaced all components with RAID as well as disabled motherboard
> nic and added Intel® 82544 Gigabit Ethernet Controller card.
>
> Have upgraded to latest motherboard bios.
>
> Solutions that seem to cause the problem to go away:
>
> If you plug server box with stock nic into a 10mb port no freeze occurs.
>
> Replace nic with a standard pci (I used 3com905b) and not use a pci-x
> type nic all well and no freeze.
>
> I believe that it is an issue with the pci-x on motherboard.
>
> Any known issues or ideas on how to resolve?
>
> Many thanks.
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Re: openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[Jens Rehsack]

ivan georgiev wrote:
I tried three times to compile openoffice-devel (I use 5-1p10) and it 
always fails when compiling mozilla - on different places and always 
with a core dump. I saw some messages that people are happy with it 
(therefore it must be compileable). Do I have to do something special 
besaides the 
"portinstall  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel" which I use?
Maybe you've specified a to high optimization level in
/etc/make.conf. Check you CFLAGS. Mozilla build break
mostly with anything higher than "-O2".
Regards,
Jens
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DNS trouble with ppp for 4.8 bsd

[brad beday]

Hi,
  I'm trying to set up the internet on freebsd 4.8,
the mini distribution.  When I dial in to my isp using
the "ppp" program, i log on and then switch terminals
to run some tcp application, all i get are the
application messages saying they can't resolve ip
addresses.  For instance, when i try to run:

  ftp ftp.freebsd.org
i get a message saying can't resolve name. or:
  pkg_add -r XFree86
gives me "Host not found"

Do I need to install a name server client?  Or do I
need to install and run some deamon to take requests
and querry some remote name server.  I've set up ppp
through sysinstall and provided it with my isp
"quadrant.net" and the dns number they gave me.  This
number appears in resolve.conf as nameserver
207.###.###.###  - i forget the rest.  I've set my
domain as "net".  Over the summer on a different
machine, i had the same trouble with a different isp
but flukked out and the trouble went a way after i
reinstalled it and was able to use the internet.  Is
there any programs I can use to test the name server
and verify that I'm getting through to it?  I like bsd
and want to get the internet going on it.  What all
files need to be edited when I set up ppp.  When using
ppp i type "set device dev/cuaa1"  "set speed 115200"
"enable dns" "term" "at" ...  If i have to turn on
some client program from my end, is there some way to
explicitly turn it on rather then launching it at boot
time and if so how?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.  Thanks

 

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openoffice-devel compile problems ...

[ivan georgiev]

I tried three times to compile openoffice-devel (I use 5-1p10) and it 
always fails when compiling mozilla - on different places and always 
with a core dump. I saw some messages that people are happy with it 
(therefore it must be compileable). Do I have to do something special 
besaides the 
"portinstall  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel" which I use?

Thanks,
Ivan

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Re: Quick upgrading question

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:47:29 -0500, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > In the last episode (Oct 13), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >> Hi there + happy turkey day,
> >
> > Thanksgiving is in November :)
> 
> Not in Canada.  I remember wondering years back why Western Canadians 
> waited until late November to start the ski season, before I found out 
> "Thanksgiving" comes in October north of the border.  :)

It should be moved a couple of weeks earlier in the States too.
By the time it gets here the harvest is long gone and most of
the fresh stuff is done or rotten.   But, I suppose this is Off Topic
for FreeBSD Questions...

jerry

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Re: Do threads conflict?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 13), Mark said:
> I just installed Sendmail::Milter, which I believe uses the ithreads
> model for Perl. I created my own Milter (Perl-threaded 5.8.0), and
> everything runs fine... Except that now, when the Milter is running,
> tinyproxy 1.5.0 goes haywire, filling up its log like crazy with this
> message:
> 
> "Accept returned an error (Resource temporarily unavailable) ... retrying."
> 
> The only thing tinyproxy and the Milter have in common, is that they
> both use threads.
> 
> Is there perhaps something that prevents both programs from using
> threads? Perhaps the threads-enabled version of the daemonized perl
> Milter keeps a shared library locked? So, now I can run either one or
> the other, but not both. I use this on FreeBSD 4.7R.

They shouldn't conflict.  That sounds like a libc_r bug; I think the
wrapper for accept() should retry the accept() call for the user.

You might want to try updating to 4.8; there were a couple of important
commits to libc_r that fixed bugs that usually affected threaded
daemons:

2002-10-22 09:44  fjoe
don't allow the uthread kernel pipe to use the same descriptors as stdio

2003-06-03 09:09  ru
fix for a stale stdio descriptors flags bugs.

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Re: Quick upgrading question

[Jud]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:47:29 -0500, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

In the last episode (Oct 13), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi there + happy turkey day,
Thanksgiving is in November :)
Not in Canada.  I remember wondering years back why Western Canadians 
waited until late November to start the ski season, before I found out 
"Thanksgiving" comes in October north of the border.  :)

Jud
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Do threads conflict?

[Mark]

I just installed Sendmail::Milter, which I believe uses the ithreads model
for Perl. I created my own Milter (Perl-threaded 5.8.0), and everything runs
fine... Except that now, when the Milter is running, tinyproxy 1.5.0 goes
haywire, filling up its log like crazy with this message:

"Accept returned an error (Resource temporarily unavailable) ... retrying."

The only thing tinyproxy and the Milter have in common, is that they both
use threads.

Is there perhaps something that prevents both programs from using threads?
Perhaps the threads-enabled version of the daemonized perl Milter keeps a
shared library locked? So, now I can run either one or the other, but not
both. I use this on FreeBSD 4.7R.

Thank you!

- Mark

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Re: StarOffice 7

[David Gerard]

On 10/13/03 15:11, Ray Seals wrote:

Has anyone tried to run Star Office 7 on FreeBSD 5.1 yet?  I have 6 and
I use it daily on my 4.8 machine.  Just wanted to know what type of
battle I would have on my hands trying to get the new one working on
5.1.
 

OpenOffice 1.1 for Linux runs *very* well on FreeBSD 4.8 with
linux_base-7, though it wouldn't work for me on 4.6.2 ...
Install linux_base-7 and see how it goes. OOo 1.1 works, so there's
no reason SO 7 shouldn't.
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Re: *Editing* PDFs?

[David Gerard]

On 10/13/03 19:03, James Leone wrote:

The only way I have been able to edit existing PDF's is by installing 
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 in Linux by using Codeweaver's Cross Over Office, 
which is available at www.codeweavers.com.


Which is the original problem :-)

I've used Acrobat on Windows. It works wonderfully.

I suppose if anyone ever does a good open-source DTP program for Unix, 
it won't be that hard ...

I have been able to combine PDF's and create PDF's out of anything 
printable just by using some basic Unix utilities.  I can go into 
detail if someone likes.


Definitely!

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Re: 4.8, KDE, and a Geforce4 Ti4200 8X

[Eric Dillenseger]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:18:18PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote:
> > X-Windows error.   If anyone has been able to get a nvidia Ti4200
> > working (X-windows), I'd really like to see your config files and know
> > what drivers you're using and where you got them from.
I have it working fairly well, just had an issue with font size.
If you give more details it may be helpfull (agp module?
WITH_FREEBSD_AGP?, etc.)

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 340 255
Identifier  "My Monitor"
HorizSync   31.5 - 64.3
HorizSync   31.5 - 64.3
VertRefresh 40-150
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "NVIDIA"
Driver  "nvidia"
Option "NvAgp" "3"
EndSection

-- 
> Enfin vivement les procs optique qui ne chaufferont pas trop ;-)
Vivement les proc quantiques, en rajoutant un glaçon, on pourra même 
les boire ...
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Piping Syslogd Output to a Program

[Martin McCormick]

Is there a way to run syslogd such that its output can be sent
to a program?

It seems like it may be possible based on a passage in the man
page in section 8 for syslogd.


 into a single line of the form ``last message repeated N times''
 when the output is a pipe to another program.  If specified
 twice, disable this compression in all cases.


That is the only discussion I see in the manual and there
appears to be nothing in the FreeBSD Handbook at least when I was
looking up references to syslogd.

The best outcome will be if one can run syslogd so that it
still produces the files it does, but has this extra channel open to
another program that I would write which works like a very alert
operator that will do X if it sees Y happening.

Thanks for any answers or references that can point us in this
direction.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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Re: 4.8, KDE, and a Geforce4 Ti4200 8X

[Eric F Crist]

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On Monday 13 October 2003 08:13 am, Mark Hummel wrote:
> I suppose the first question should be, is the subject combination even
> possible to configure because so far I don't think it is?
>
> I've read the problems users have had with the default (canned) nv
> driver so
> expecting it not to work I did a XF86Config and sure enough, it didn't
> with my video card. (EE) no driver available. I then installed the
> driver from nVIDIA for my Ti4200.
>
> BTW is anyone aware that when a user invokes the XWindow Developer, the
> kernel sources are supposed to be installed, but are not? Just an
> observation.
>
> The nVIDIA drivers didn't work any better and gave a similar
> unrecoverable
> X-Windows error.   If anyone has been able to get a nvidia Ti4200
> working (X-windows), I'd really like to see your config files and know
> what drivers you're using and where you got them from.
>
> Apparently SciTech is working on a version of Snap Graphics for
> FreeBSD.  From my OS/2 experience I know that Snap Graphics is going to
> be
> wonderful for the FreeBSD community, but in the mean time, I'd really
> need to get the above
> combination working.  Please help.
>
> Mark

I haven't had any problems.  I'm running 5.1_RELEASE and I just used the 
default config for XFree.  I don't do any gaming in FreeBSD, so I don't need 
a lot of the fancier stuff the card has here.

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Re: *Editing* PDFs?

[James Leone]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:59, Bill Campbell wrote:
 

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003, Alexander Farber wrote:
   

I've read some where that the new OpenOffice is capable of pdf-output
 

There's an article in this month's Linux Journal on Scribus saying that it
has very good PDF capabilities.  The article said that Scribus is available
on a number of *ix platforms, and I think FreeBSD was on the list.
The only way I have been able to edit existing PDF's is by installing 
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 in Linux by using Codeweaver's Cross Over Office, 
which is available at www.codeweavers.com.

I have been able to combine PDF's and create PDF's out of anything 
printable just by using some basic Unix utilities.  I can go into detail 
if someone likes.

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Gateway 980 server freeze?

[rjent]

Greetings,

I am having trouble with a new Gateway 980 server. I am running fresh
cvsup RELENG_4, kernel is stock except for maxusers set to 512, ipfw
enabled, and smp enabled. System information is as follows:

Motherboard information is located at:

http://support.gateway.com/s/Servers/COMPO/MOTHERBD/4000791/4000791mv.shtml

The raid card is a LSI U320 LVD 2-Channel SCSI Array Controller. Box
configure with raid5 +hotswap

Symptoms:

Box doing internal operations all well. Upon placing load on device
through NIC box freezes. Reproducible via a scp of tar files from any
server on same switch. After box freezes you can eject a drive from the
raid5 array and no alarms no trigger hot swap, no nothing.

Additional information:

Have replaced all components with RAID as well as disabled motherboard nic
and added Intel® 82544 Gigabit Ethernet Controller card.

Have upgraded to latest motherboard bios.

Solutions that seem to cause the problem to go away:

If you plug server box with stock nic into a 10mb port no freeze occurs.

Replace nic with a standard pci (I used 3com905b) and not use a pci-x type
nic all well and no freeze.

I believe that it is an issue with the pci-x on motherboard.

Any known issues or ideas on how to resolve?

Many thanks.
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RE: NAT and PPPoE problems

[Sean Noonan]

> Hi,
> From my casual observation your rc.conf has a spelling error in it, you
> have gatway_enable="yes" should of course be gateway_enable="yes". Sorry
> if you had picked it up earlier. 

Doh!  That fixed it.  Thanks!  I knew it had to be something simple like
that,
and I even quadruple checked rc.conf for typos, but was concentrating on the
ppp-specific lines since pinging both the internal AND external interfaces
worked (so I figured that the "gateway" portion of the mix was working...)

Thanks again!

-Sean

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Re: *Editing* PDFs?

[Micheas Herman]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:59, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003, Alexander Farber wrote:
> >I've read some where that the new OpenOffice is capable of pdf-output
> 
> There's an article in this month's Linux Journal on Scribus saying that it
> has very good PDF capabilities.  The article said that Scribus is available
> on a number of *ix platforms, and I think FreeBSD was on the list.

Both of them are not capable of editing pdf's. I would try the xpdf
mailing list.  They would be the most likely place to start as they are
the group that reverse engineered the pdf format.

Good luck and please forward me anything you find out.

> 
> >On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:15:27AM +, David Gerard wrote:
> >> We have just seen the many tools for generating PDFs all you want.
> >> 
> >> Is there anything usable on FreeBSD for *editing* existing PDFs, though? 
> >> Any form of replacement whatsoever for the full version of Acrobat?
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Fibre Channel Support

[Kyle Heisner]

I am putting together a  SAN solution for a customer that is using
FreeBSD the customer has asked about support.  I found the Qlogic
support for the HBA but we want to make the SAN as failure proof as
possible.  Is their a path failover software available to fail between
two different channels one being active and the other passive and when
the active path fails the other path becomes the active path.
 
Please help.
 

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Re: network adapter

[C. Ulrich]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:03, Martos wrote:
> Hello, All!
> I have  this network adapter:
> 3Com 3C460B (with usb interface).
> How can I configure it to work under FreeBSD 4.8. Please help. (now it 
> don't want to work).
> 
> Best regards,
> Vlad Skuba

Hi Vlad,

First, have you read all of the applicable documentation on FreeBSD.org
and related man pages? Have you searched Google, mailing lists,
newsgroups, and the FreeBSD problem report database?

Second, you need to tell us a little bit more. The huge number of
possible problems means that even the best and brightest FreeBSD gurus
won't be able to help you out with "it don't want to work." The
following link points to an excellent article on how to ask the right
questions on this list, and likely many others:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html

Give us something more to work with and we'll be glad to help you.

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Re: *Editing* PDFs?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003, Alexander Farber wrote:
>I've read some where that the new OpenOffice is capable of pdf-output

There's an article in this month's Linux Journal on Scribus saying that it
has very good PDF capabilities.  The article said that Scribus is available
on a number of *ix platforms, and I think FreeBSD was on the list.

>On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:15:27AM +, David Gerard wrote:
>> We have just seen the many tools for generating PDFs all you want.
>> 
>> Is there anything usable on FreeBSD for *editing* existing PDFs, though? 
>> Any form of replacement whatsoever for the full version of Acrobat?
>
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Re: gdm crashes

[Monah Baki]

Yes I did copy factory-gdm.conf over the current gdm.conf. Same problem.

Thank you


On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:06, Monah Baki wrote:
Hi all,

I upgraded my freebsd 5.1 ports tree, so I can install gnome 2.4. When everything was 
installed, 
I tried running as root gdm, I got the following error:

gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children. 

This happens when X is about to start the login screen, flickers and drops to a shell 
and gives 
this error. This happens for 8 times, then this remark:

The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is 
likely that 
something bad is going on. I will wait for 2 minutes before trying to login again on 
display :0.


I also patched the following

http://people.freebsd.org/~marcus/pam_get_user.c.diff

Did you also copy the factory-gdm.conf over the current gdm.conf?

Joe



By default, I setup the system to run wmaker, so if I type startx, I can get in no 
problem.

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sio3 (COM4) problems on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

[Jesse Guardiani]

Howdy list,

I'm having trouble with my sio3 (/dev/cuaa3) port on one
of my servers (with an SMP kernel). When I try to `tip com4`
to a cisco switch using this port, I get only partial data,
and this appears in the logs:

messages:Oct 10 17:18:37 billmax /kernel: sio3 at port 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 9 on isa0
messages:Oct 10 17:18:38 billmax /kernel: sio3: type 16550A
messages:Oct 10 17:20:16 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 1)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:18 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 2)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:21 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 3)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:22 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 4)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:23 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 5)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:27 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 6)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:36 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 7)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:38 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 8)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:45 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 9)
messages:Oct 10 17:20:48 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 10)
messages:Oct 10 17:21:04 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 11)
messages:Oct 10 17:22:15 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 12)
messages:Oct 10 17:40:07 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 13)
messages:Oct 10 17:46:29 billmax /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 14)


If I move the console cable from com4 to com1 on the server and keep the console
cable in the same switch, then `tip com1`, it works fine. It's just the sio3
port that I'm having trouble with. Note that this machine only has sio1 and sio3.

Here's my sio kernel config:

# Serial (COM) ports
device  sio0at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
device  sio1at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
device  sio2at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
device  sio3at isa? port IO_COM4 flags 0x10 irq 9

Also, I've tried it with AND without the 0x10 flag (which I know just allows the
com device to be used as a serial console). AND I've tried it with the "do not use
FIFO" flag (0x2) on COM4, like this:

# Serial (COM) ports
device  sio0at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
device  sio1at isa? disable port IO_COM2 irq 3
device  sio2at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
device  sio3at isa? port IO_COM4 flags 0x2 irq 9



I get the same error in the log either way. Port speed is set to 9600 in all tests.
I get the same problem under conserver, so it's not directly related to the `tip`
command, but the device.

Is there some magic voodoo flag that I need to pass to this port to get it working?

Thanks!

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Re: NAT and PPPoE problems

[Luke Kearney]

Hi,
From my casual observation your rc.conf has a spelling error in it, you
have gatway_enable="yes" should of course be gateway_enable="yes". Sorry
if you had picked it up earlier. 

This is one of my favourites for setting up a router

http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1031194375/index_html

as is 

http://www.schlacter.net/public/FreeBSD-STABLE_and_IPFILTER.html

or

http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/firewall/

Good luck with that one

LukeK


On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:16:34 -0700 (PDT)
Sean Noonan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've used NAT with FreeBSD for years now, but recently had to change my
> ISP.  My new ISP, SBC, uses PPPoE (yuck).  I've finally got PPPoE working,
> but am having a heck of a time getting NAT to work with it.  I'm tracking
> STABLE and cvsup'd, etc, about two weeks ago to 4.9-PRERELEASE.  Here's my
> config:
> 
> /etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
> 
> default:
>  # PPP over Ethernet
>  set log phase tun command
>  set device PPPoE:dc0
>  set mru 1492
>  set mtu 1492
>  set ctsrts off
>  set cd off
>  set redial 0 0
>  set dial
>  set login
>  # set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
>  set ifaddr 67.116.219.246/0 67.116.219.254/0
>  add default HISADDR# Add a (sticky) default route
>  enable lqr
>  enable dns
> SBC:
>  set authname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  set authkey mypassword
> 
> /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> ez_ipupdate_enable="YES"
> firewall_enable="YES"
> firewall_type="open"
> firewall_logging="YES"
> gatway_enable="YES"
> gif_interfaces="gif0"
> # gifconfig_gif0="67.112.141.75 67.52.144.191"
> hostname="sean-noonan.kicks-ass.net"
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.6.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ipsec_enable="YES"
> kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
> linux_enable="YES"
> lpd_endable="YES"
> moused_enable="YES"
> moused_flags="-3"
> moused_type="auto"
> named_enable="NO"
> #natd_enable="YES"
> #natd_interface="dc0"
> network_interfaces="xl0 dc0 gif0 tun0 lo0"
> nfs_reserved_port_only="YES"
> nfs_server_enable="YES"
> nisdomainname="NO"
> ppp_enable="YES"
> ppp_mode="ddial"
> ppp_nat="YES"
> ppp_profile="SBC"
> saver="logo"
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> syslogd_enable="YES"
> tcp_extensions="YES"
> xntpd_enable="YES"
> 
> output of ifconfig -a:
> 
> xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
> inet 192.168.6.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.6.255
> inet6 fe80::2a0:24ff:fed8:4738%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> ether 00:a0:24:d8:47:38
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )
> status: active
> dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe45:5aa8%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> ether 00:04:5a:45:5a:a8
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )
> status: active
> lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00
> ppp0: flags=8010 mtu 1500
> sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552
> faith0: flags=8002 mtu 1500
> tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1492
> inet 67.121.201.208 --> 67.121.203.254 netmask 0x
> Opened by PID 57
> 
> output of netstat -rn:
> 
> Routing tables
> Internet:
> DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs  Use  Netif Expire
> default67.121.203.254 UGSc4   30   tun0
> 67.121.203.254 67.121.201.208 UH  50   tun0
> 127.0.0.1  127.0.0.1  UH  00lo0
> 192.168.6  link#1 UC  10xl0
> 192.168.6.200:0c:76:51:77:7e  UHLW00xl0   1079
> 
> The RFC1918 PC is using 192.168.6.2 for its IP address and 192.168.6.1 for
> its default gateway.  The RFC1918 PC can successfully ping the gateway's
> internal and external interfaces, but nothing beyond.
> 
> Adding an ipfw rule like:
> 
> ipfw add 1 allow log ip from any to any
> 
> shows ping traffic betwen the inside interface of the gateway and the
> RFC1918 PC, but nothing else.
> 
> I've tried several ways of involking NAT, including via the ppp.conf file,
> via the command-line, and via rc.conf (the current flavor).  None seem to
> work.
> 
> Anybody have an ideas on how to proceed??
> 
> TIA,
> 
> --Sean Noonan.
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RE: NAT and PPPoE problems

[Sean Noonan]

> Here are the docs i used when using ADSL w/ PPPoE  and NAT w/ IPFW
> there are 2 writeups here ...first is PPPoE (im assuming you already know
> how to compile your kerel ?) 2nd is  Duel Home host ...and how to setup
> NAT.

Hi Brent,

About the only differences I see in your config vs. mine is that you've
compiled NETGRAPH support directly into
the kernel (but it's my understanding that this was no longer explicitly
needed), and you manually configure the
ed1 interface in rc.conf.  I also notice that you specify NOT to use ARP
(-arp) when you config the interface,
which I don't specify (and the default is to use ARP).

I'll try making the kernel change and the interface config change and see if
makes a difference.

The second doc is basically exactly what I used to do when I used plain-old
Ethernet.  However, as the doc
states, "If the outside interface is ... a PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE) DSL
connection, use ppp(8)'s NAT facility
instead", which is what I'm trying to do ;-)

NAT over plain-old Ethernet works just fine for me.

Thanks again,

Sean.

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StarOffice 7

[Ray Seals]

Has anyone tried to run Star Office 7 on FreeBSD 5.1 yet?  I have 6 and
I use it daily on my 4.8 machine.  Just wanted to know what type of
battle I would have on my hands trying to get the new one working on
5.1.

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Re: Quick upgrading question

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 13), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Hi there + happy turkey day,

Thanksgiving is in November :)
 
> First question ... any drawbacks to doing that upgrade? I'm pretty
> sure that I upgraded this machine from 4.5 to 4.6-2 at some point
> ealier this year and it wasn't as difficult as I had expected.

No, it should be pretty painless.  Just make sure to read
/usr/src/UPDATING and see if anything important changed from 4.6 to
4.8.
 
> Second question, if I do want to upgrade (painlessly) to 4.8, which
> of the following should I be CVSup-ing? RELENG_4_8 or
> RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE? I'm not a total newbie, but I'm not too heavily
> into this "keeping up with FreeBSD" thing, beyond the necessities.

RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE tags what was burned onto the 4.8 CDs being sold
and offered for FTP download, and will never change.

RELENG_4_8 is a brach tag, and will include all security patches
applicable to 4.8, so you probably want to use that.

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Re: 4.8, KDE, and a Geforce4 Ti4200 8X

[Karel J. Bosschaart]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:13:41PM +0200, Mark Hummel wrote:
> I suppose the first question should be, is the subject combination even
> possible to configure because so far I don't think it is?
>
Why would it be impossible? I'm running FreeBSD 4.x with KDE and an 
nvidia Ti4200 card, although I don't know my AGP speed for sure (I 
think it's 4x). Runs fine, both with XFree86's nv driver and nvidia's 
driver, compiled from ports. I find that the nv driver is more stable
in general, but the nvidia driver is needed for playing 3D accelerated 
games, the reason I bought this card. It crashes the machine occasionally,
but I'm happy with the performance. 

Be sure to read the docs/readme that come with the nvidia driver,
there are several issues (AGP driver for instance).

> I've read the problems users have had with the default (canned) nv
> driver so
> expecting it not to work I did a XF86Config and sure enough, it didn't
> with my video card. (EE) no driver available. I then installed the
> driver from nVIDIA for my Ti4200.
> 
Post the lines with (EE), they might give a clue why it's not working.

> BTW is anyone aware that when a user invokes the XWindow Developer, the
> kernel sources are supposed to be installed, but are not? Just an
> observation.
>
What is XWindow Developer?? 

> The nVIDIA drivers didn't work any better and gave a similar
> unrecoverable
> X-Windows error.   If anyone has been able to get a nvidia Ti4200
> working (X-windows), I'd really like to see your config files and know
> what drivers you're using and where you got them from.
> 
I could send it to you (when I'm home since there is the PC with nvidia
card), but if you don't know why your setup doesn't work this won't help 
you much I'm afraid. (My guess is that the error has nothing to do with
the driver itself, therefore it gives a similar error in both cases.)

Karel.
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Quick upgrading question

[phillip.smith]

Hi there + happy turkey day,

Quick question today (and please cc me directly with your reply, as I'm not on this 
list formally) about updating my FreeBSD 4.6-2 box. Given the recent flurry of 
security advisories, I wanted to take a moment this weekend to patch my production 
system ... however, during the patch process, I saw a few unsucessful hunks and such. 
I've re-comiled the kernel (as required by some of the patches) and all seems okay 
there. But, I'm starting to think that it may just be time to upgrade the system to 
4.8.

First question ... any drawbacks to doing that upgrade? I'm pretty sure that I 
upgraded this machine from 4.5 to 4.6-2 at some point ealier this year and it wasn't 
as difficult as I had expected.

Second question, if I do want to upgrade (painlessly) to 4.8, which of the following 
should I be CVSup-ing? RELENG_4_8 or RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE? I'm not a total newbie, but 
I'm not too heavily into this "keeping up with FreeBSD" thing, beyond the necessities.

Any help, thought, and advise appreciated.

Phillip.
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Re: Problem with adding more swap !

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Hi, 
> 
>   I've heard if there are many disks on one machine
> it's good (in respect of performance) for adding swap
> parition on multiple drive, what does this mean
> (if that's true) ?

Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can
speed things up.  But, generally I think that swap is used in
a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the 
next one is started, etc.  So, that would mean that you would
want to put only a little on the boot drive (you need some there
for special occasions) and most of the rest on another drive
and another controller if you can.   Compared to the CPU, disk
access is rather slow, so anything you can do to spread out
the work across more than one disk tends to speed things up.

But, if you are the only one using the machine and that is 
mostly for one activity at a time you probably won't notice
any difference.

jerry

> 
>   My box has six IDE drives two on primary, two on 
> secondary and two connected via IDE controller.
> 
> TIA,
> pjn
> 
> 
>  --- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 
> > > Hi, all
> > > 
> > >The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
> > > as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
> > > swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
> > > it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The disk structure: 
> > > 
> > > ad0s1 --> ad0s1a   /  (boot from here)
> > >   --> ad0s1b   swap
> > >   --> ad0s1e   /var
> > >   --> ad0s1f   /tmp
> > >   --> ad0s1g   /usr
> > > 
> > > ad0s2 --> ad0s2e   /usr1  (data)
> > > 
> > > Do I need to add another swap partition as "ad0s2b" ?
> > 
> > Hmmm.   I am not quite sure why you would have made two
> > separate
> > slices on the one disk for FreeBSD instead of having another
> > partition on slice-1, but...
> > 
> > Anyway, what do you mean 'as a system grows'?   Unless you
> > have some
> > very memory hungry applications or large numbers of processes
> > that 
> > hang around but don't really need a lot of processor time,
> > generally 
> > you figure swap size needs by memory size.   You want at least
> > more
> > than your physical memory and 2X to 2-1/2X physical memory is
> > the
> > typical rule of thumb.   If you already meet that, don't worry
> > about,
> > unless you have some other indication that you are running out
> > of
> > combined memory/swap (page) space.   NOTE that the virtual
> > memory
> > system uses swap space for its paging.  Typically, not much
> > actual
> > swapping really happens, though it can if there are a lot of
> > processes
> > not doing anything.
> > 
> > You can make a file pretty much anywhere there is room and set
> > things
> > up to swap to it, but that should be considered only a
> > temporary solution.   
> > The better thing is to make either a larger s1b or make an s2b
> > partition 
> > for swap (or add a disk - ad1s1b, + whatever) as you say.
> > 
> > In either case (enlarging s1b or making an s2b), unless you
> > have space
> > left in one of those slices that you did not already use up in
> > the
> > existing partitions,  it means redoing the filesystems already
> > on the 
> > slice.  That means backing up everything on the slice,
> > repartitioning, 
> > newfsing and restoring everything.  So, given this, it would
> > probably 
> > be a good time to rethink your whole disk layout and go from
> > there.
> > Maybe it would also be a good time to go to an additional or
> > larger
> > disk as well.
> > 
> > jerry
> > 
> > > 
> > > TIA,
> > > pjn 
> 
> 
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Re: NAT and PPPoE problems

[Brent Bailey]

Here are the docs i used when using ADSL w/ PPPoE  and NAT w/ IPFW
there are 2 writeups here ...first is PPPoE (im assuming you already know
how to compile your kerel ?) 2nd is  Duel Home host ...and how to setup
NAT.

hope this helps

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FreeBSD PPPoE HOWTO

FreeBSD Requirements for PPPoE

Be sure that you have a version of userppp that supports PPPoE. Please note
that userppp is included in FreeBSD. It is not add-on software. Recent
FreeBSD releases should be fine.

Any -CURRENT, -STABLE and -RELEASE versions of FreeBSD should be able to
support PPPoE. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT and 3.3-STABLE releases have been tested
and found to work.

Configuring FreeBSD Kernel for PPPoE

In order to support PPPoE, three lines must be added at the end of the
FreeBSD kernel file. Beginners with no idea how to compile a kernel, please
read the following carefully. For more experienced users who know how to
compile a kernel, just see step 3 below and add the three lines to your
kernel.

  1. First you must change to the kernel configuration directory:

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf

  2. In the kernel configuration directory, use your favorite text editor
and edit the kernel file. For example, if you use emacs, you would
type:

vi KERNEL

  3. Go to the end of the kernel file and add the following three lines:

options NETGRAPH
options NETGRAPH_PPPOE
options NETGRAPH_SOCKET

  4. After adding these three lines, save the modified kernel file.

  5. Type this command to set the kernel configuration:

config KERNEL

  6. Now you must change to the kernel setup directory:

cd ../../compile/KERNEL

  7. In the kernel setup directory, type the following three commands:

make depend
make
make install

Your kernel is now ready for PPPoE!

Configuring FreeBSD /etc/ppp/ppp.conf File

To edit the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file, just use your favorite text editor.
Replace any existing file content with the lines below. Be sure the "set
device PPPoE:---" line is correct for your network interface card. (We used
ed1 for the NIC in this example.) Change the authname and authkey to your
sympatico user id (b1xx) and your password.

# /etc/ppp/ppp.conf

default:
set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
nat enable yes
nat same_ports yes
nat use_sockets yes
set redial 15 28800
set reconnect 15 28800

pppoe:
set device PPPoE:ed1:
set mru 1492
set mtu 1492
set speed sync
enable lqr
set lqrperiod 5
set cd 5
set dial
set login
set timeout 0
set authname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set authkey yourpassword
set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
add default HISADDR
enable dns

# end of ppp configuration

Configuring FreeBSD /etc/rc.conf  File

The /etc/rc.conf file should be set up as follows for the ethernet interface
that goes to your DSL modem. (Again, this example uses ed1 for the NIC.)

# /etc/rc.conf

network_interfaces="auto"  #Set network interfaces automatically
ifconfig_ed1="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 -arp up"
ppp_enable="YES"#This enables PPP on startup
(recommended)
ppp_mode="background"
ppp_profile="pppoe"

#end of  /etc/rc.conf

Rebooting the System

After you have compiled the kernel to support PPPoE and have edited the
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf and /etc/rc.conf files with the right configuration, you
can reboot your system. If you enabled ppp in the /etc/rc.conf as
recommended, you should be connected and can now enjoy surfing the net on
FreeBSD using PPPoE.

Starting PPP Manually

If you did not enable ppp to automatically connect on startup in the
/etc/rc.conf file, you can use this command to connect to the Internet
manually:

ppp -background pppoe





##
 IPFW & NAT #

using IPFW and NATD
Applicable to: FreeBSD 4.2
Updated: January 1, 2001
This cheat sheet describes how to set up a dual-homed host (gateway) using
kernel packet filtering (IPFW) and the network address traslation daemon
(NATD). This procedure assumes the FreeBSD machine is equipped with two
ethernet interfaces. If the outside interface is a dial-up connection or a
PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE) DSL connection, use ppp(8)'s NAT facility
instead.

Before performing this procedure, you should read the FreeBSD Handbook
sections Firewalls and Gateways and Routes, and review the ipfirewall(4),
ipfw(8), and natd(8) manual pages.


For the purpose of this procedure, the following assumptions have been made:


The outside (Internet) interface is device 'dc0' and is assigned the IP
address 123.45.67.89/22, either static or dynamic (DHCP).
The inside interface is devi

Re: Problem with adding more swap !

[Supote Leelasupphakorn]

Hi, 

  I've heard if there are many disks on one machine
it's good (in respect of performance) for adding swap
parition on multiple drive, what does this mean
(if that's true) ?

  My box has six IDE drives two on primary, two on 
secondary and two connected via IDE controller.

TIA,
pjn


 --- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 
> > Hi, all
> > 
> >The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
> > as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
> > swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
> > it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?
> > 
> > 
> > The disk structure: 
> > 
> > ad0s1 --> ad0s1a   /  (boot from here)
> >   --> ad0s1b   swap
> >   --> ad0s1e   /var
> >   --> ad0s1f   /tmp
> >   --> ad0s1g   /usr
> > 
> > ad0s2 --> ad0s2e   /usr1  (data)
> > 
> > Do I need to add another swap partition as "ad0s2b" ?
> 
> Hmmm.   I am not quite sure why you would have made two
> separate
> slices on the one disk for FreeBSD instead of having another
> partition on slice-1, but...
> 
> Anyway, what do you mean 'as a system grows'?   Unless you
> have some
> very memory hungry applications or large numbers of processes
> that 
> hang around but don't really need a lot of processor time,
> generally 
> you figure swap size needs by memory size.   You want at least
> more
> than your physical memory and 2X to 2-1/2X physical memory is
> the
> typical rule of thumb.   If you already meet that, don't worry
> about,
> unless you have some other indication that you are running out
> of
> combined memory/swap (page) space.   NOTE that the virtual
> memory
> system uses swap space for its paging.  Typically, not much
> actual
> swapping really happens, though it can if there are a lot of
> processes
> not doing anything.
> 
> You can make a file pretty much anywhere there is room and set
> things
> up to swap to it, but that should be considered only a
> temporary solution.   
> The better thing is to make either a larger s1b or make an s2b
> partition 
> for swap (or add a disk - ad1s1b, + whatever) as you say.
> 
> In either case (enlarging s1b or making an s2b), unless you
> have space
> left in one of those slices that you did not already use up in
> the
> existing partitions,  it means redoing the filesystems already
> on the 
> slice.  That means backing up everything on the slice,
> repartitioning, 
> newfsing and restoring everything.  So, given this, it would
> probably 
> be a good time to rethink your whole disk layout and go from
> there.
> Maybe it would also be a good time to go to an additional or
> larger
> disk as well.
> 
> jerry
> 
> > 
> > TIA,
> > pjn 


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network adapter

[Martos]

Hello, All!
I have  this network adapter:
3Com 3C460B (with usb interface).
How can I configure it to work under FreeBSD 4.8. Please help. (now it 
don't want to work).

Best regards,
Vlad Skuba
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Re: NAT and PPPoE problems

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:16:34PM -0700, Sean Noonan wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've used NAT with FreeBSD for years now, but recently had to change my
> ISP.  My new ISP, SBC, uses PPPoE (yuck).  I've finally got PPPoE working,
> but am having a heck of a time getting NAT to work with it.  I'm tracking
> STABLE and cvsup'd, etc, about two weeks ago to 4.9-PRERELEASE.  Here's my
> config:
> 
Its my experiance that its best if you have some external hardware
that handels this. My provider uses PPTP but my ADSL modum handels this
and routes all the packets to me.

-- 
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Re: Problem with adding more swap !

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Hi, all
> 
>The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
> as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
> swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
> it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?
> 
> 
> The disk structure: 
> 
> ad0s1 --> ad0s1a   /  (boot from here)
>   --> ad0s1b   swap
>   --> ad0s1e   /var
>   --> ad0s1f   /tmp
>   --> ad0s1g   /usr
> 
> ad0s2 --> ad0s2e   /usr1  (data)
> 
> Do I need to add another swap partition as "ad0s2b" ?

Hmmm.   I am not quite sure why you would have made two separate
slices on the one disk for FreeBSD instead of having another
partition on slice-1, but...

Anyway, what do you mean 'as a system grows'?   Unless you have some
very memory hungry applications or large numbers of processes that 
hang around but don't really need a lot of processor time, generally 
you figure swap size needs by memory size.   You want at least more
than your physical memory and 2X to 2-1/2X physical memory is the
typical rule of thumb.   If you already meet that, don't worry about,
unless you have some other indication that you are running out of
combined memory/swap (page) space.   NOTE that the virtual memory
system uses swap space for its paging.  Typically, not much actual
swapping really happens, though it can if there are a lot of processes
not doing anything.

You can make a file pretty much anywhere there is room and set things
up to swap to it, but that should be considered only a temporary solution.   
The better thing is to make either a larger s1b or make an s2b partition 
for swap (or add a disk - ad1s1b, + whatever) as you say.

In either case (enlarging s1b or making an s2b), unless you have space
left in one of those slices that you did not already use up in the
existing partitions,  it means redoing the filesystems already on the 
slice.  That means backing up everything on the slice, repartitioning, 
newfsing and restoring everything.  So, given this, it would probably 
be a good time to rethink your whole disk layout and go from there.
Maybe it would also be a good time to go to an additional or larger
disk as well.

jerry

> 
> TIA,
> pjn
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Re: FreeBSD 4.8-P10 --Mouse doesn't move in the console or XFree86--

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:41:04AM -0400, nw1 wrote:
> Neither mouse will work in the console or in XFree86.
> 
> Gigabyte GA-6BXDS = main board
> BIOS= AWARD (2A69KG01) ver. 4.51PG
> 
> In the PCI/ISA section of the BIOS, a USB setting of: "Assign IRQ For USB: Enabled" 
> (is
> set)
> There is also a "USB Keyboard Support" setting within the BIOS's  "INTERGRATED
> PEROPHERALS" section; I have tried this setting to both "Enabled and Disabled".
> 
> There aren't any other USB settings in this BIOS.
> 
> We are using these devices that are known working devices.
> Mouse-1 is: Logitech | model: M-BD58 | optical corded wheel
> Mouse-2 is: Logitech | model: M-RM67A | Optical cordless wheel

The models doesn't tell me much. I have a optical cordless wheel mouse
from logitech and this work fine here. The USB plugin should work but I
didn't try it here. I did try USB on a mouse much like you type 1.

> Our Kernel:
> # USB support
> device  uhci# UHCI PCI->USB interface
> device  usb # USB Bus (required)
> device  ums # Mouse
> pseudo-device   ether   # Ethernet support

Instead of using your own kernel, try using the GENERIC kernel instead
for the test.

> 
> Our /etc/rc.conf:
> # grep -i mouse /etc/rc.conf
> moused_enable="YES"
> moused_port="/dev/ums0"

You could try to add this:
moused_type="auto" (you may have to specify the type for USB)

> # grep -i usb /etc/rc.conf
> usbd_enable="YES"
> 
> Our /dev:
> ls -l /dev | grep -i ums
> crw-rw   1 root   operator  111,   0 Sep 27 13:16 ums0
> 
> dmesg reports:
> # dmesg | grep -i usb
> uhci0:  port 0xa000-0xa01f irq 10 at device 
> 7.2
> on pci0
> usb0:  on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> ums0: Logitech USB Mouse, rev 1.10/6.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> 
> Upon booting into the OS, using the above BIOS, and other settings --with either of 
> the
> above devices; the mouse is seen on screen, but it refuse to respond while moving the
> hand-held device.  Should we unplug one mouse (from either usb port) to test the 
> other
> mouse, we receive the following on-screen message(s), respectively of the 
> motherboards USB
> port we were using:
> 
> uhub0: device problem, disabling port 2
> uhub0: device problem, disabling port 1
> 
> When we plug the devices back in to either of the motherboards mouse ports, there's 
> no
> indication at all, from the OS, that a USB device was attached.
> 
> Reminder: these devices are in perfect working order.

I can't give you a comment on this. It look ok.

-- 
Alex

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4.8, KDE, and a Geforce4 Ti4200 8X

[Mark Hummel]

I suppose the first question should be, is the subject combination even
possible to configure because so far I don't think it is?

I've read the problems users have had with the default (canned) nv
driver so
expecting it not to work I did a XF86Config and sure enough, it didn't
with my video card. (EE) no driver available. I then installed the
driver from nVIDIA for my Ti4200.

BTW is anyone aware that when a user invokes the XWindow Developer, the
kernel sources are supposed to be installed, but are not? Just an
observation.

The nVIDIA drivers didn't work any better and gave a similar
unrecoverable
X-Windows error.   If anyone has been able to get a nvidia Ti4200
working (X-windows), I'd really like to see your config files and know
what drivers you're using and where you got them from.

Apparently SciTech is working on a version of Snap Graphics for
FreeBSD.  From my OS/2 experience I know that Snap Graphics is going to
be
wonderful for the FreeBSD community, but in the mean time, I'd really
need to get the above
combination working.  Please help. 

Mark


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Re: Problem with adding more swap !

[Sunil Sunder Raj]

Hi,

Create a swap file system on a partition where you have excess space.

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 count=128 bs=1m
  chmod 600 /usr/swap0
  mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/swap0 -u 3
  swapon /dev/md3
You can check the output of swapinfo to confirm. You will have to load the 
swap file system at system startup also.

Regards
SSR

From: Supote Leelasupphakorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem with adding more swap !
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:25:17 +0100 (BST)
Hi, all

   The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?
The disk structure:

ad0s1 --> ad0s1a   /  (boot from here)
  --> ad0s1b   swap
  --> ad0s1e   /var
  --> ad0s1f   /tmp
  --> ad0s1g   /usr
ad0s2 --> ad0s2e   /usr1  (data)

Do I need to add another swap partition as "ad0s2b" ?

TIA,
pjn

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gdm crashes

[Monah Baki]

Hi all,

I upgraded my freebsd 5.1 ports tree, so I can install gnome 2.4. When everything was 
installed, 
I tried running as root gdm, I got the following error:

gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children. 

This happens when X is about to start the login screen, flickers and drops to a shell 
and gives 
this error. This happens for 8 times, then this remark:

The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is 
likely that 
something bad is going on. I will wait for 2 minutes before trying to login again on 
display :0.


I also patched the following

http://people.freebsd.org/~marcus/pam_get_user.c.diff


By default, I setup the system to run wmaker, so if I type startx, I can get in no 
problem.

Thank you

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ipfw and MAC Addresses

[traore]

I'm using Freebsd 5.0 Release.
And i want to use ipfw with Mac adresses fitering. But its not working.
When i add a rule like:
ipfw add 49 deny mac any 00:E0:18:F1:57:94 

the kernel change it to be:
ipfw add 49 deny ip from any to any mac any 00:E0:18:F1:54:94 

Can you help me?

Rgards!

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Re: *Editing* PDFs?

[Alexander Farber]

I've read some where that the new OpenOffice is capable of pdf-output

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:15:27AM +, David Gerard wrote:
> We have just seen the many tools for generating PDFs all you want.
> 
> Is there anything usable on FreeBSD for *editing* existing PDFs, though? 
> Any form of replacement whatsoever for the full version of Acrobat?

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Re: what gsm modems?

[Jacob Vennervald]

Hi Niklas

Tak a look at www.kannel.org
That's an open source SMS and WAP gateay project.

Best regards,
Jacob Vennervald

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:38, Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering what GSM modems work with FreeBSD 5.1 at the moment? I'm
> setting up an intrusion detection system that I need to alert me by SMS
> should anything unusual happen. I'm planning on using comm/gsmlib but need
> to know what modems I can use (and if you have any recommendations or
> experiences, I'd love to hear about them).
> 
> Cheers
> 
>   Niklas Saers
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Venlig hilsen / Best regards,
Jacob Vennervald
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Tuborg Boulevard 12
2900 Hellerup
Denmark
Phone:  +45 36 94 41 66
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Re: what gsm modems?

[Alex Trull]

* Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-13 10:38:13 +0200]:

> Hi,
> I was wondering what GSM modems work with FreeBSD 5.1 at the moment? I'm
> setting up an intrusion detection system that I need to alert me by SMS
> should anything unusual happen. I'm planning on using comm/gsmlib but need
> to know what modems I can use (and if you have any recommendations or
> experiences, I'd love to hear about them).
> 
> Cheers
> 
>   Niklas Saers
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Hi Niklas,

Almost all the gsm modems you'll find available (siemens tc35, wavecom wm, 
nokia premicell.. ) use an rs232 interface. (a perfectly standard serial 
interface)

There is a standard GSM AT command set but each manufacturer might have 
their own quirks and special commands for battery life(!), etc etc.

I mention battery life: your average cellphone should have a serial 
interface available and hence a console for AT commands. The components 
related to GSM comms are quite generic between cellphones and GSM modems 
and your results should be the same.

Almost all available modems should be perfectly acceptable, you can also try a 
cell phone+serial"data" cable.

At my company we use siemens tc35 modems slaved to 8-port serial cards (comtrol
octacable things) for SMS service testing. We haven't had any problems since we 
started using them three years ago.

Cheers,

Alex Trull
Systems and Network Administrator
C : +44 (0) 7966  203990  | Hybyte Solutions & Services Ltd
D : +44 (0) 2079  764219  | 114-116 Rochester Row
S : +44 (0) 2079  764200  | Victoria, London
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Re: portupgrade -Fa

[bsd]

Alex de Kruijff writes: 

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:29:40PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
The strange part is that on some of the servers the script works just
fine, and on others it runs, and emails me what looks like a job well
done, but the distfile has NOT been fetched.  When I then go to do the
actual upgrade, the distfile must first be fetched by portupgrade before
it proceeds to build.
There could be any number of problems that may be the cause of this. I
realy can't see that from here.  What you need to do is to do a check on
every machine that doesn't work. I find it best to go from where the
process begins and go all the way down to portupgrade. Try to find where
it goes wrong. It could be that the crontab is wrong or that portupgrade
isn't installed. 

Alex, 

thanks for your response. 

I've tried what you say before I sent the email.  What confuses me is that 
the script runs fine if I log in and run it at the CLI.  And it definitely 
runs from cron, because I get the email I am expecting, which is the output 
that would normally go to the terminal. 

So, the crontab is evidently active, and portupgrade is correctly installed 
and configured. 

But the actual fetch of the file simply does not happen if it is run from 
cron...  Yet, on other servers it all works fine... 

?!?!?!? 

Still confused.
Patrick.
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Problem with adding more swap !

[Supote Leelasupphakorn]

Hi, all

   The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?


The disk structure: 

ad0s1 --> ad0s1a   /  (boot from here)
  --> ad0s1b   swap
  --> ad0s1e   /var
  --> ad0s1f   /tmp
  --> ad0s1g   /usr

ad0s2 --> ad0s2e   /usr1  (data)

Do I need to add another swap partition as "ad0s2b" ?

TIA,
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what gsm modems?

[Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount]

Hi,
I was wondering what GSM modems work with FreeBSD 5.1 at the moment? I'm
setting up an intrusion detection system that I need to alert me by SMS
should anything unusual happen. I'm planning on using comm/gsmlib but need
to know what modems I can use (and if you have any recommendations or
experiences, I'd love to hear about them).

Cheers

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*Editing* PDFs?

[David Gerard]

We have just seen the many tools for generating PDFs all you want.

Is there anything usable on FreeBSD for *editing* existing PDFs, though? 
Any form of replacement whatsoever for the full version of Acrobat?

- d.



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Re: Sendmail hosed after hostname changed

[Ruben de Groot]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:15:21PM -0500, Charles Howse typed:



> > >Oct 12 13:19:06 larry sm-mta[1725]: h9C4x1o1000716:
> > >to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=13:20:05, 
> > xdelay=00:00:00,
> > >mailer=esmtp, pri=2550418, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0,
> > >stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > Did you update /etc/mail/relay-domains and /etc/mail/local-host-names?
> 
> Those files did not exist.  
> I couldn't find anything about the format of those files, so...
> I touched them, and added larry.howse.homeunix.net to local-host-names,
> and howse.homeunix.net to relay-domains.

Put howse.homeunix.net in local-host-names as well.

> Then I rebooted, and sent an email from root to charles (on larry).
> Then I checked charles' mail - no mail
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tail /var/log/maillog
> Oct 12 15:52:11 larry sm-mta[122]: h9C9J5o3001281:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=11:33:05, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=2205654, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> Oct 12 15:52:11 larry sm-mta[122]: h9C83to1001214:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=12:48:16, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=2460401, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> Oct 12 15:52:11 larry sm-mta[122]: h9C83ao1001150:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=12:48:34, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=2460404, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> Oct 12 15:52:11 larry sm-mta[122]: h9C82Ho1000954:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=12:49:54, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=2658398, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> Oct 12 15:52:11 larry sm-mta[122]: h9C4w1o1000696:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=15:54:09, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=3090389, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> Oct 12 15:52:11 larry sm-mta[122]: h9C4x1o1000716:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=15:53:10, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=3090418, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> Oct 12 15:52:54 larry sendmail[182]: h9CKqsWb000182: from=root, size=31,
> class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Oct 12 15:52:54 larry sm-mta[183]: h9CKqsAs000183:
> from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=374, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost.howse.homeunix.net
> [127.0.0.1]
> Oct 12 15:52:54 larry sendmail[182]: h9CKqsWb000182: to=charles,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=30027, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (h9CKqsAs000183 Message accepted for delivery)
> Oct 12 15:52:54 larry sm-mta[185]: h9CKqsAs000183:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=30370, relay=howse.homeunix.net. [66.168.145.25],
> dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by howse.homeunix.net.
> 
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Re: vim and printing

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

* Bryan Cassidy:

> All this  talk about vim  made me  wonder something.. BTW, I  love vim
> compared to vi. Don't know what it  is yet but I felt very comfortable
> and confident using it. I was just  wondering. Is there a way to print
> with a command  "inside" vi? Sometimes I would just like  to print the
> file and don't want to quit, save, and print it.

The command you are looking for is called: hardcopy
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Jean-Baptiste Quenot
http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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