The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-01-27 - 2008-02-16

2008-02-16 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: question about xwindows

2008-02-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, first of all, you used that bad letter. Just call it X. Never add an s at the end of the other word. Some people are real allergic to this. Robert Falanga wrote: First let me say that I am quite new at freebsd or any other unix type system. My son helped me set up the xwindows (KDE) on th

question about xwindows

2008-02-16 Thread Robert Falanga
First let me say that I am quite new at freebsd or any other unix type system. My son helped me set up the xwindows (KDE) on this system. It has worked OK for quite a while and then yesterday I was trying to install a printer. Evidently I messed something up and now I get the following: host

Re: Shutdown anomaly

2008-02-16 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:43:17PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Jonathan Chen writes: > > > > I am seeing the following messages, which appear to indicate a memory > > > overwrite: > > > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'vnlru' to stop...done > > > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for syst

Re: Lockup on Boot due to ACPI (Freebsd 7.0-RC2 i386)

2008-02-16 Thread Jason Morgan
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:49:20AM -0500, Jason Morgan wrote: > I just upgraded a system from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RC2 (both i386) only > to discover that the system won't boot with ACPI enabled. ACPI was > working fine in 6.3. The problems occur at boot-up -- the system > simply stops loading at app

Re: Shutdown anomaly

2008-02-16 Thread Robert Huff
Jonathan Chen writes: > > I am seeing the following messages, which appear to indicate a memory > > overwrite: > > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'vnlru' to stop...done > > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'bufdaemon' to stop...done > > a > > iStyinncgi n(gm adxi

Re: Problem building loader in RELENG_7

2008-02-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: Just updated my source tree, I'm on FreeBSD bifrost 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Feb 12 09:52:32 CET 2008. Then I did [snip] /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../libi386/libi386.a(biosdisk.o)(.text+0xca9)

Re: Shutdown anomaly

2008-02-16 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:42:52AM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I am seeing the following messages, which appear to indicate a memory > overwrite: > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'vnlru' to stop...done > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'bufdaemon' to stop...done > a

RE: FreeBSD6.2 What is the easiest Way to Capture RS-232 SerialData?

2008-02-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
If that is SMDR phone system data your handling, once you get the program done would you mind posting a copy? Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin > McCormick > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:02 AM > To: freebsd-questions@fr

RE: To sourceforge or not to sourceforge

2008-02-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Pansters > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:24 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: To sourceforge or not to sourceforge > > > Hi folks, > > II would like to sollicit opinions and ad

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:30:37PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > Brian A. Seklecki wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? >>> I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. >>> >

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Peter Boosten wrote: Brian, thanks for your answer (and sugggestion). Isn't a drive supposed to mark a bad sector as bad and ignore it (that is: They ship with a certain number of unallocated sectors to reassign failed ones to (I dont think ATA/IDE disks have a way to as

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Peter Boosten
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 ra kernel:

IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being assigned to the lo0 interface. What would cause this? I've looked at his configs and they're the same as on my system (obviously something is different, but I don't know what). I see in his /etc/defaults/rc.conf the "ifco

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? > I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. > > ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 > ra kernel: ad0: FAILURE

Shutdown anomaly

2008-02-16 Thread Steven Friedrich
I am seeing the following messages, which appear to indicate a memory overwrite: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'bufdaemon' to stop...done a iStyinncgi n(gm adxi s6k0s ,s evcnoonddess) rfeomra isnyisntge.m. .pr0o

Re: (no subject)

2008-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:11 +0100, Lubomir Matousek wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > > > > > I have the following problem when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2) > > > > > > > > -- > > > > rmuser -v hana > > > > Matching password entry: > > > > > >

disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 ra kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51 error=4 LBA=281550271 ra kernel: g_vfs_done():

mysql client

2008-02-16 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, Just after upgrading the mysql client to mysql-client-5.1.23 on 6.3, it seems that it's completely ignoring ~/.my.cnf. Anyone else has this problem? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: (no subject)

2008-02-16 Thread James
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:11 +0100, Lubomir Matousek wrote: > Dear list, > > > > I have the following problem when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2) > > > > -- > > rmuser -v hana > > Matching password entry: > > > > hana:*:1091:1092::0:0:/usr/home/hana:/usr/sbin/nologin > > > >

Rebuild Problem

2008-02-16 Thread tonylabarbara
Hi: Strange problem here. /usr/local got wiped for no reason I can think of. I canĀ“t even change the pw. Nothing on this build anyway. But went to rebuild (6.2) and got caught in a loop in these steps: -- Select Drive -- FDISK Partition Editor ("Q") -- Install Boot Manager I would prefer to r

Re: problem with network card in P35+ICH9

2008-02-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I own a MSI P35 Neo with following chips [1]: "One Ultra DMA 66/100/133 IDE controller integrated in Marvell(R) 88SE6111" "SATAII controller integrated in ICH9/ICH9R and Marvell(R) 88SE6111 chipest" "Supports AHCI controller with SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5 or JBOD mode by ICH9R" "Supports one SATAII por

Re: problem with network card in P35+ICH9

2008-02-16 Thread Vincent Barus
On Dec 9, 2007 4:00 PM, Playnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a server based gigabyte MB with core2 quadro, > > P35+ICH9 > > > > From the below let me guess it is in the MSI Neo familiy of > > Mobo's > > you will want the following patches for re: > > > > http://people.freebsd.o

Re: Stuck on loader.conf

2008-02-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As a newbie on freebsd I eagerly played this featureful OS, now my last one being the serial console, sure enough my two fsbd box can connect to each other console via com port/null-modem connection, unfortunately as I had already finished I revert but the old entry on /etc/ttys but forgot to tak

Stuck on loader.conf

2008-02-16 Thread joseph blase
Hi All, As a newbie on freebsd I eagerly played this featureful OS, now my last one being the serial console, sure enough my two fsbd box can connect to each other console via com port/null-modem connection, unfortunately as I had already finished I revert but the old entry on /etc/ttys but forgo

Re: need help getting lpr/lpt working again.

2008-02-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:47:30PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > People, > > Can anybody clue me in on getting my hp500 working? > I don't care if I use CUPS or the old way with lpd and lpr. > There is no /dev/lpt0 in /dev, and /etc/devfs.* does not > create this

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2008-02-16 Thread Lubomir Matousek
Dear list, I have the following problem when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2) -- rmuser -v hana Matching password entry: hana:*:1091:1092::0:0:/usr/home/hana:/usr/sbin/nologin Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory (/usr/home/hanka)? yes Removing