Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line

Re: /rescue is huge!!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ls -li /rescue total 427594 26 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 [ 64 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 atacontrol 65 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 atm 66 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 atmconfig 67 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to me like they've gone to compete with Vista and have succeeded there, but I find some of the little extras and the core of it seem unfinished somehow. The concept is good (in that it could compete with Vista), but no it's bad. if they wat compete with windows, let they do the whole OS, and

portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During an upgrade of my ports involving x11 portupgrade dies (FreeBSD 7.1, AMD64) Here's what I did: After cvsup, make fetchindex, I did a pkgdb -F and then portupgrade -rf libxcb as per UPDATING of 20090123. Next I did a pkgdb -F again, which complained about obsoleted packages while at

FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a production use - it is start to reboot 3-4 times a day with no reason. We think what it is a hardware problem. We swap RAM - not helps.

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
card because the latest NVidia binary driver doesn't support it). KDE3.5 does what I want my window manager to do - keeps out of my way and works snappily enough that I don't notice it. The claim that KDE4 is faster than KDE3 is frankly incredible to me. fastest and most stable is not using it

Re: Adding partitions to gmirror device

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
2X 250GB SATA drives that I've established a gmirror(8) over, following the instructions in section 19.4 of the Handbook. Now, one of the machines, being transformed into a webserver, needs a separate, newly created /var/www partition (its current partitions only take up 27G of the total

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Proskurin Kirill proskurin...@fxclub.org To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:07:25 PM Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950 Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on sees one. I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC kernel has SMP

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: - Original Message From: Proskurin Kirill proskurin...@fxclub.org To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:07:25 PM Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950 Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a production use - it is start to reboot 3-4 times a day with no reason. We think what it is a hardware

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Proskurin Kirill proskurin...@fxclub.org To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wearab...@yahoo.ca; FreeBSD Questions Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:45:46 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950 Abdullah

Re: jail devfs openpty

2009-01-27 Thread Peter Vereshagin
It appeared to work after rule apply unhide. Will find out more. Just how to delete or view the ruleset? Thanks. Seem to get on it. Looks like it's not very obvious. The cure was: === devfs -m /jailpath/dev rule -s 5 add type tty unhide === the unobvious for me was to put -s in the right place.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a production use - it is start to reboot 3-4 times a day with no reason. We think what it

ddclient broken after portupgrade

2009-01-27 Thread Joris Lammers
Hi, Yesterday evening I tried upgrading my ports by using the portupgrade tool. The exact command that I used was: portupgrade -a --batch All but one package failed to build properly. The offending package was git. For some reason it could not find the p5-xyz module while these were properly

portupgrade xorg-server failure

2009-01-27 Thread Alain G. Fabry
When I try to upgrade my xorg-server, it fails with the following error, apparently it is looking for dri_interface.h (and I have /graphics/dri installed). cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -I../hw/xfree86/os-support -I../hw/xfree86/os-su pport/bus -I../hw/xfree86/common

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Peter
Hi, Try updating to lastest version: BIOS RAID Controller BIOS RAID Controller Firmware Peter Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a

Re: Updates / Upgrades

2009-01-27 Thread Akenner
Da Rock wrote: It can be tricky at first, and I'm not sure about the update-scan utility you're using. Check out the handbook and just run the directions from there: portsnap fetch portsnap update (or you can run portsnap fetch update in one go) then freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update

errors on pkg_create for p5-* ports

2009-01-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, After installing 7.1R ports (portupgraded) I'm trying to create packages of all the ~1000 installed packages; 8 packages, all belonging to bsdpan-* packages from ports/www/p5-* (exact list below) are giving errors; what could I do? the command has been always 'pkg_create -Rnb x';

Re: printf and utf-8

2009-01-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:03:44PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Do you have a suggestion to solve the following problem without using printf(1): I have a text file that I want to print in a box on a terminal from a shell script.

Re: portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:37:24PM +0300, o...@adlogic.ru wrote: Ewald, also look at /usr/ports/UPDATING , 20090123 Hi Oleg, Thanks for the hint. Do you mean portupgrade -rf libxcb? I did that before running portupgrade -arR so I assume the problem I'm having is caused by something

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Peter wrote: Hi, Try updating to lastest version: BIOS RAID Controller BIOS RAID Controller Firmware Do you think it can be a problem? It is possible to test it some how? This host is really far away from me. -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill ___

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Michael Toth wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a production use - it is start to reboot 3-4 times a day with no reason. We think what it is a

X - configure - No devices to configure. Configuration failed

2009-01-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I cannot configure X after recent ports upgrade. I followed the /usr/ports/UPGRADING, but no luck. Compaq Armada 1700 laptop FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 xorg-server-1.5.3_2,1 hal-0.5.11_14 and running X -configure I get #cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Toth
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Michael Toth wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a production use - it is start to reboot 3-4 times a day with

Re: errors on pkg_create for p5-* ports

2009-01-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, January 27, 2009 a las 02:59:24PM +0100, Anton Berezin escribió: Matthias, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:15:00PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: After installing 7.1R ports (portupgraded) I'm trying to create packages of all the ~1000 installed packages; 8 packages, all

Re: errors on pkg_create for p5-* ports

2009-01-27 Thread Anton Berezin
Matthias, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:15:00PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: After installing 7.1R ports (portupgraded) I'm trying to create packages of all the ~1000 installed packages; 8 packages, all belonging to bsdpan-* packages from ports/www/p5-* (exact list below) are giving errors;

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, have you solved the problem yet? I also have libXmu failed to upgrade due to libxcb-xlib.la. Thanks!! TFC On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 22:04 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:22 +1000, Da Rock

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Michael Toth wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Michael Toth wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a production use - it is start to reboot 3-4

Re: errors on pkg_create for p5-* ports

2009-01-27 Thread Anton Berezin
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:14:52PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 27, 2009 a las 02:59:24PM +0100, Anton Berezin escribió: Matthias, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:15:00PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: After installing 7.1R ports (portupgraded) I'm trying to

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-27 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Ter, 2009-01-27 às 09:27 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng escreveu: Hi, have you solved the problem yet? I also have libXmu failed to upgrade due to libxcb-xlib.la. Thanks!! I removed every instance of libxb-xlib.la from /usr/local/lib/*.la than it all works again a shell script like:

Re: ddclient broken after portupgrade

2009-01-27 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0100, Joris Lammers wrote: I can't get ddclient to work. A make deinstall; make reinstall does not work. Currently I am trying portupgrade -a -f --batch to try and rebuild every port on my system. What could have been the original problem with git and how

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-27 Thread Doug Poland
Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 16:39:35 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running

Keyboard-beep on FreeBSD?

2009-01-27 Thread herbert langhans
Hi List, a short question: Is there an easy way to get a keyboard-beep (each letter beeping when you type, like an old terminal)? Maybe there is some straight forward settings - before I start to experiment.. Thank you! herbs ___

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0100 (CET) So far I've got those rules: in_if=em0 out_if=em1 management_if=em2 in_ip=100.100.100.1 out_ip=200.200.200.1 management_ip=172.16.0.201

Re: Adding partitions to gmirror device

2009-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:04:11PM -0500, Vladislav Sekulic wrote: Hi! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE on a couple of Sun X2100 servers, each with 2X 250GB SATA drives that I've established a gmirror(8) over, following the instructions in section 19.4 of the Handbook. Now, one of the

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Sebastian Mellmann
Ian Smith wrote: That's a very good ipfw tutorial, given parts of it are a bit outdated (FreeBSD 4.x) but it covers a lot of useful background. I just skimmed lots of it now but nothing I read jarred, unlike the Handbook section. If I choose the default (50 packets) it means that it takes

Quad Ethernet PCI Card ZNYX ZX346Q is supported

2009-01-27 Thread Oliver Adler
Hello, because I'm just building a firewall based on FreeBSD 7.1 I was looking around for a quad port NIC. I got a ZNYX ZX346Q and tested it. It seems to work (I did not yet stress testing). The only problem with the card is, that it doesn't support media autoselect. The media has to be specified

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:56:15 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm also ashamed that they released it in a hurry to compete in this condition to a very sceptical Window$ crowd. People have to use KDE4 in significant numbers for it to mature. The real problem was not that

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 01:02:00 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Because there are many bugs were in 7.0 and got fixed in 7.1, and maybe you are affected by one of them. Even though 7.1 has bugfixes, this kind of guesswork causes a lot of downtime for OP without any certainty that

Quad Ethernet PCI Card ZNYX ZX346Q is supported

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Huff
Oliver Adler writes: because I'm just building a firewall based on FreeBSD 7.1 I was looking around for a quad port NIC. I got a ZNYX ZX346Q and tested it. It seems to work (I did not yet stress testing). The only problem with the card is, that it doesn't support media autoselect. The

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
Am I correct in my understanding that the stock kernel is GENERIC? Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on

Re: printf and utf-8

2009-01-27 Thread Mel
On Monday 26 January 2009 12:58:06 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and can't find the character count :-/ Eg: $ printf |%-10s| æøå |æøå| $ printf

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
had either followed the Debian approach of keeping KDE3 as the default, or the FreeBSD approach of leaving it up to the user there wouldn't have been such a problem. One of the worst aspect of OSS is the pervasive attitude that software is either bleeding-edge, or it's obsolete. it's not OSS

Re: Quad Ethernet PCI Card ZNYX ZX346Q is supported

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and tested it. It seems to work (I did not yet stress testing). The only problem with the card is, that it doesn't support media autoselect. The media has to be specified with is it Digital DecChip based? i have similar one (not znyx) ahd have similar problem but not the same. looks like PHY

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:57:32 Tom Everett wrote: How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? It doesn't. It's the generic upgrading fixes all advice. I don't see anything since 7.1-RELEASE in 7.1-STABLE even, that would have the potential to fix

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
Thanks! Mel wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:57:32 Tom Everett wrote: How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? It doesn't. It's the generic upgrading fixes all advice. I don't see anything since 7.1-RELEASE in 7.1-STABLE even, that would

Re: Keyboard-beep on FreeBSD?

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man kbdcontrol :) On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, herbert langhans wrote: Hi List, a short question: Is there an easy way to get a keyboard-beep (each letter beeping when you type, like an old terminal)? Maybe there is some straight forward settings - before I start to experiment.. Thank you! herbs

Re: portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:48:58AM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, During an upgrade of my ports involving x11 portupgrade dies (FreeBSD 7.1, AMD64) Here's what I did: After cvsup, make fetchindex, I did a pkgdb -F and then portupgrade -rf libxcb as per UPDATING of 20090123. Next

Re: Keyboard-beep on FreeBSD?

2009-01-27 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 08:13:38 Wojciech Puchar wrote: man kbdcontrol Yeah I looked there too, only can set tone and off/normal/visual. Normal being when console asks attention, not on every stroke. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never

TEST

2009-01-27 Thread Rem P Roberti
Test ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:52:31 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: had either followed the Debian approach of keeping KDE3 as the default, or the FreeBSD approach of leaving it up to the user there wouldn't have been such a problem. One of the worst aspect of OSS

Re: TEST

2009-01-27 Thread nicodache
did not work. please try again. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Test ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Adding partitions to gmirror device

2009-01-27 Thread Vladislav Sekulic
Thanks, Wojciech and Jerry, for your help. Quoting Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu: First of all, you say that you have allocated 27GB of 238GB available. Is that 238GB in the existing slice - gm0s1 or is it outside of that slice? (NOTE, the 's' in the device name stands for slice - so it

RE: OpenOffice 3.0, which java must I use?

2009-01-27 Thread Sebastian Setzer
Thanks, with diablo 1.6 it works. To the openoffice porting team: Could you please mention this on http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/? This page says We support only Java 1.5 The problem with the macro securitylevel dialog wasn't solved by the working java, though. But I found a

tool for detecting filesystem?

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Gould
Background: I received a CD that I couldn't mount on my FreeBSD computer. Later, in a different city, I played it on my MacBook. It was a slideshow with music that had been created using a Roxio product. I did a right-click on the CD's icon and selected Get Info, where I learned that the CD

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Peter
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Peter wrote: Hi, Try updating to lastest version: BIOS RAID Controller BIOS RAID Controller Firmware Do you think it can be a problem? It is possible to test it some how? This host is really far away from me. Last 3 months I had issues will DELL 1650 and DELL

Re: tool for detecting filesystem?

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Later, in a different city, I played it on my MacBook. It was a slideshow with music that had been created using a Roxio product. I did a right-click on the CD's icon and selected Get Info, where I learned that the CD was formatted for UDF. What would have been the best/easiest way to

Re[2]: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Sebastian. Вы писали 26 января 2009 г., 12:16:18: SM Ian Smith wrote: SM On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0100 (CET) So far I've got those rules: in_if=em0 out_if=em1 management_if=em2 in_ip=100.100.100.1 out_ip=200.200.200.1 management_ip=172.16.0.201

Restarting new Xorg freezes system

2009-01-27 Thread Luke Dean
The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the radeon driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was built from scratch by Xorg -configure, plus I added Option AllowEmptyInput off to the ServerLayout section, per

Re: Adding partitions to gmirror device

2009-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:49:36PM -0500, Vladislav Sekulic wrote: Thanks, Wojciech and Jerry, for your help. Quoting Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu: First of all, you say that you have allocated 27GB of 238GB available. Is that 238GB in the existing slice - gm0s1 or is it outside of

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Peter пишет: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Peter wrote: Hi, Try updating to lastest version: BIOS RAID Controller BIOS RAID Controller Firmware Do you think it can be a problem? It is possible to test it some how? This host is really far away from me. Last 3 months I had

Re[2]: Can not set up two ADSL link to provider

2009-01-27 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Chuck. Вы писали 27 января 2009 г., 1:57:10: CS On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:34 PM, KES wrote: I can not setup two ADSL PPPoE Links to same provider. Because of imposibility to setup route for second connection First connection gets: ng0:

Re: Re[2]: Can not set up two ADSL link to provider

2009-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:23 AM, KES wrote: CS ...talks about After you configure the LAG bundle, you can route IP CS traffic over it, create a VLAN over it, or route PPPoE traffic over it. I do not want to aggregate links. I want use them as standalone I had two servers, two lans and two

Re: tool for detecting filesystem?

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Later, in a different city, I played it on my MacBook. It was a slideshow with music that had been created using a Roxio product. I did a right-click on the CD's icon and selected Get Info, where I

Control IRQ assignment?

2009-01-27 Thread patrick
I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 on a new Dell Inspiron 530s. I'm having an issue where the same IRQ is being assigned for multiple devices, and I have a device that absolutely needs its own IRQ. The BIOS is very limiting, and won't allow me to disable shared IRQ assignment. Some suggestions I've read

audit not working

2009-01-27 Thread Martin Badie
Hi, I am trying to have audit logs but i can't and frankly I couldn't able to find out what is wrong with my conf files: audit_control: dir:/var/audit flags:lo,+ex minfree:20 naflags:lo policy:cnt,argv filesz:0 audit_warn: logger -p security.warning audit warning: $@ # # Compress audit trail

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Michael toth
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Michael Toth wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Michael Toth wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. What we have: Dell 2950 with FreeBSD-7.0-p9 on it. It work as mail server(Exim+Dovecot and so on). All latest version from ports. After start a production use

Question about install of Fortran compiler

2009-01-27 Thread V. M. Tame-Reyes
Hello FreeBSD community, I had a friend download all the files in freeBSD ports site (the official one) so i have a large collection of .tbz files but i don't seem to be able to find a correct fortran 77 compiler, i already installed c compiler, but calling g77 wouldn't work. Any help anyone

Re: Question about install of Fortran compiler

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
The FreeBSD ports tree has a number of Fortran compilers in the ports collection: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/lang.html To install one from the ports collection, su to root and then install the port. For example to install G95 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/lang/g95/pkg-descr)

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:27 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, have you solved the problem yet? I also have libXmu failed to upgrade due to libxcb-xlib.la. Thanks!! Yeah, it worked. Run 'portupgrade -a -rf libxcb' and go and do something else for a day... :) TFC On Mon, Jan 26, 2009

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:47 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Ter, 2009-01-27 às 09:27 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng escreveu: Hi, have you solved the problem yet? I also have libXmu failed to upgrade due to libxcb-xlib.la. Thanks!! I removed every instance of libxb-xlib.la from

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
stupid things I do share this point of view, but sadly, an open system like the Web has been polluted and made unusable (or at least has the tendency to be this way) for those who cannot access this propretary product / format. Don't get me wrong, I've played a bit with Flash on FreeBSD, found

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 16:04 +, RW wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:56:15 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm also ashamed that they released it in a hurry to compete in this condition to a very sceptical Window$ crowd. People have to use KDE4 in significant

Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new FreeBSD6.3 system. If I can't figure out what is wrong

Re: Control IRQ assignment?

2009-01-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 27), patrick said: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 on a new Dell Inspiron 530s. I'm having an issue where the same IRQ is being assigned for multiple devices, and I have a device that absolutely needs its own IRQ. The BIOS is very limiting, and won't allow me to disable

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:53:51 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: fortunately it's only tendency to trendy software like KDE. not for all unix software. But sadly for the most software that is used for real productivity, such as media players, programming

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: had either followed the Debian approach of keeping KDE3 as the default, or the FreeBSD approach of leaving it up to the user there wouldn't have been such a problem. One of the worst aspect of OSS is the pervasive attitude that

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new FreeBSD6.3 system. if you are backup up to disk on

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
long-time. Another fair comment, but they were still competing with Vista to the punch and only just made it- consider the media releases around the time of the Vista launch from the kde marketers. They were offering kde on M $! let they compete how much as they like. be happy at least in this

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
worse, if I compare them to older versions. And if I try to print pages, they look terrible (exceed page borders). Furthermore, it crashes more often than Opera 5 or 7. When do you have opera 7 package somewhere? i would like to downgrade. yes it got very bad. Ah yes, and Firefox doesn't have

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Leave all this colorful whistles to average monkey. Ok, call me monkey average then :) Yes i do. Only this monkey is starting to work on drivers for FreeBSD And first wasting half of it's time for all this cool stuff instead of work on drivers! Of course we are happy someone works

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
do stupid things I really, really dislike the notion that any company, in the selfishly sheer pursuit of profits, should be able to dictate to anyone what that person should be able to do, giving that it's within the limits of the law. Not allowing one to view many sites ISN'T within the moral

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
mail# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/megarc mail# make install clean === megarc-1.51 is marked as broken: Running megarc seems to cause memory corruption. We have a PR open on that - ports/130326:

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands working, but then it all died when I moved it to a

Re: make -jN build with portmaster

2009-01-27 Thread Mel
On Monday 26 January 2009 09:14:21 cpghost wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:41:05PM -0900, Mel wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009 20:48:22 Doug Barton wrote: Josh Carroll wrote: What I do is the following via make.conf, I think this is a good solution. Given that incredible

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-27 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin McCormick wrote: Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands working, but then it all died when I moved it

Laptop battery life on FreeBSD

2009-01-27 Thread Shawn Badger
Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my laptop, replacing Arch Linux and I noticed a significant drop in my battery life (from ~3 hours to ~1.5 hours). I realize that Linux has their tickless kernel, which I am sure explains the difference, but my question is... is there anything I can do

Re: Laptop battery life on FreeBSD

2009-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: I'm somewhat of a minimalist and don't use X11. I've disabled the bluetooth adapter, but frequently use my wireless adapter (intel pro/ 2200bg). Does anyone have any suggestions that could potentially extend my battery life? Have you tried

Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line

Re: SMP Problem on IBM x330 Server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
Garrett Cooper wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Tom Everett t...@khubla.com wrote: the CPUs are active in the BIOS. The BIOS is v 1.05. with 1.06 being the very latest. According to IBM the changes from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 are Added in serial remote console redirection Fixed PXE ROM

Re: Laptop battery life on FreeBSD

2009-01-27 Thread Shawn Badger
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: I'm somewhat of a minimalist and don't use X11. I've disabled the bluetooth adapter, but frequently use my wireless adapter (intel pro/2200bg). Does anyone have any suggestions that could potentially extend my battery

Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread craig001
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line

Re: Laptop battery life on FreeBSD

2009-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: Have you tried reducing HZ to 100 (put kern.hz=100 in /boot/ loader.conf and reboot)? Are you running powerd? Look into sysctl hw.acpi and sysctl debug.cpufreq Thanks for the ideas Chuck. I lowered kern.hz to 100 as you suggested (does

comms/qfaxreader - printer recognition issue

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Mende
Good day list; Upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0 via clean install from CDs, then to 7.1 via binary update. After upgrading to 7.0 I rebuilt and install all the same ports using the same makefile except that the perl entries are updated. This port built and install beautifully except it no longer

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:15:09 +, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: IMO these basic window managers are ok if you *only* use them via a keyboard, but if you ever use a mouse they're very poor ergonomically. Well, I found this a problem, too, but very early recognized that there are window

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-27 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:23:31 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what i personally found is that webpage that can't be viewed at all without flash most often doesn't have any usable information. There are web pages that, without Flash, won't even let you know if

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:36:22 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programming environment? what do you mean? Some heler application for integration and managing source files, such as KDevelop, Eclipse or the like. unix itself is THE BEST (tm) programming

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:36:34 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: That said I'm using xfce4 (based on your comments) adjusted to use transparency and all the cool stuff (even compiz-fusion, which I haven't yet found a use for so its disabled atm). Maybe this is interesting or

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