Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

2009-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman

David Southwell wrote:

[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Frank 
Steinborn


You should be able to restore the bind from base by using the 
install.sh script in /usr/src/contrib/bind9. Deinstall the 
port first, 

though.

ThanksI deinstalled the port and tried to run install-sh 


# sh install-sh
and got the response:

install: no input file specified

Any chance you might make me a little wiser on how to use install-sh?\


This advice -- to run install-sh -- is incorrect.  install-sh there 
is straight from the bind distribution and assumes you're building it

as a separate piece of software, rather than integrated with the rest
of the system sources.

To reinstall bind from the FreeBSD source tree:

   * Check /etc/src.conf, /etc/make.conf and ensure that there are no
 WITHOUT_BIND or WITHOUT_BIND_NAMED or other relevant flags set 


   * Simplest thing to do is then run through a buildworld cycle.  This
 takes a while and uses some CPU power but it's largely fire-ans-forget.
 Instructions are here:

 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

   * If you're really in a hurry, then you can rebuild just bind etc.
 but this is less certain than the above.  The following is extracted
 from http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:12.bind.asc

  # cd /usr/src/lib/bind
  # make obj && make depend && make && make install
  # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named
  # make obj && make depend && make && make install
  # /etc/rc.d/named restart

As the previous correspondent said, deinstall the port before doing this.
You should not need to recompile any other software because of this change
-- the shlibs generated should be interchangeable -- but you will need to
reboot to make sure that all the running processes are using the correct
version of the resolver functions rather than a memory mapped copy of the
old shlibs even after the actual file was deleted and overwritten.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:
>
>>> Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with.
>>>
>>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>>  option  "AutoAddDevices""off"
>>>  option  "AllowEmptyInput"   "off"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>
>> All right, I did that.
>
> What are you trying to fix with those entries?

Nothing. I was just doing it to see what happens.

>
>> Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the autoconfig now.
>
> And what is in it?

Only this:

Section "ServerFlags"
option  "AutoAddDevices""off"
option  "AllowEmptyInput"   "off"
EndSection

and nothing else.

>
>> The mouse and keyboard still work, and Xorg.0.log follows.
>
>> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
>> (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard
>> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
>
> Well, that's broken.  Look, there are basically two ways to configure
> keyboard and mouse for xorg.  There's the old way, where you have
> InputDevice entries for them in xorg.conf.
>
> Then there's the new way, where you run hal and let it handle the
> keyboard and mouse for xorg.  No InputDevice sections are needed.  For
> example, here is my xorg.conf from the Acer Aspire One.  Note the lack
> of InputDevice sections and those magic ServerFlags options.

It does indeed appear broken. The keyboard and mouse still work, though,
which doesn't make any sense to me. I don't have any InputDevice sections,
as you can see, so if hal isn't configuring the keyboard and mouse, what
is?

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Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi,

> All of the 200 domains on each server have thier own Real Unix user 
> (obviously). Once the NAS is setup, (using NFS), how do the permissions on 
> the NAS machine play out? i.e. when user 'hisname' logs into a server via 
> ftp, and uploads a file to his home directory (which is on the NAS), will 
> the file permissions be the same, and will 'hisname' own the file exactly 
> the same as if he were writing to the local (server) disk? 

That is expected, else something bad would exists in the configuration
of the NAS.

> In the NAS 
> exports do I have to map every user to the NFS or can I just maproot?

Maproot is the easiest as it gives complete access to the NFS exported
directory.

Now you may consider that for security reason, users of client-machine
1 should only be allowed to NFS mount their own home directory.

In that case, you may need the users of client-machine 1 to exist on
client-machine 1 and on the server, etc for machine 2... Actually I
never had this case when a user account only exists on an NFS client
but not on the NFS server, so I am not too sure. I guess that user ID
of the users should be different on every client system.

You may consider an LDAP directory for your users, where the server
would see all the users, but each client-machine would see only the
users belonging to it (I thing that there is an "host" attributes, so
client-1 only sees the users with host=client-1).

Good luck,

Olivier
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Re: devel/pear port build failure

2009-09-30 Thread Terry Sposato
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> Did you work this one out? I am caught with the same problem albeit
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> Thanks,
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having trouble building the devel/pear port. I have tried
>> the following, rebuild all dependant ports (all of php etc.) -
>> Extracted new ports tree, used portmaster, always returns the
>> same error:
>>
>> [got][/usr/ports/devel/pear]# make install clean ===>  Installing
>> for pear-1.8.1 ===>   pear-1.8.1 depends on file:
>> /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found ===>   pear-1.8.1
>> depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/pcre.so - found ===>
>> pear-1.8.1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/xml.so -
>> found ===>   Generating temporary packing list ===>  Checking if
>> devel/pear already installed
>>
>> Bootstrapping Installer... Using previously
>> install ... ok
>>
>> Extracting installer.. Using previously installed
>> installer ... ok
>>
>> Preparing installer.. Updating channel
>> "doc.php.net" Channel "doc.php.net" is up to date Updating
>> channel "pear.php.net" Channel "pear.php.net" is up to date
>> Updating channel "pecl.php.net" Channel "pecl.php.net" is up to
>> date
>>
>> Installing selected packages.. Package:
>> PEAR-stable.. already installed ...
>> ok Package: Structures_Graph-stable.. already
>> installed ... ok Package:
>> Archive_Tar-stable... already installed ...
>> ok Package: Console_Getopt-stable already
>> installed ... ok *** Signal 11
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear.
>>
>> Anyone have this issue?
>>
>> Please reply to me directly as I am currently not on the list.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Terry
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Hi,

I still haven't resolved this issue.
There are some people on the freebsd forums which are having the issue
as well, no fix yet as far as i can tell.

Regards,

Terry
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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, herbert langhans wrote:

Maybe start over again installing the ports? There are drivers for the 
sis chipset, for the case you havent discovered them: 
/usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis


Please quote a little context to identify the problem.  It's usually not 
necessary to throw out all the ports, or all the xorg ports.  If hal 
support is missing in xorg-server, just rebuilding xorg-server with the 
correct config should be enough.



Also the already mentioned /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse

And then reinstall /usr/ports/x11/xorg (with a make config before)


If necessary (usually not), it won't help unless you

cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
make rmconfig-recursive
make config-recursive

And then rebuild, deinstall, and reinstall the appropriate ports. 
xorg-server for sure, maybe others.


But I would ask again: what, exactly, is the problem to be solved?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:


Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with.

Section "ServerFlags"
 option  "AutoAddDevices""off"
 option  "AllowEmptyInput"   "off"
EndSection

Best regards


All right, I did that.


What are you trying to fix with those entries?


Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the autoconfig now.


And what is in it?


The mouse and keyboard still work, and Xorg.0.log follows.



(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)


Well, that's broken.  Look, there are basically two ways to configure 
keyboard and mouse for xorg.  There's the old way, where you have 
InputDevice entries for them in xorg.conf.


Then there's the new way, where you run hal and let it handle the 
keyboard and mouse for xorg.  No InputDevice sections are needed.  For 
example, here is my xorg.conf from the Acer Aspire One.  Note the lack 
of InputDevice sections and those magic ServerFlags options.


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier   "AA1 Manually Configured"
Screen   0  "Screen0" 0 0
Option   "DontZap" "Off"
Option   "AIGLX" "On"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode  0660
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "LGD"
Option   "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "intel"
VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
BoardName   "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID   "PCI:0:2:0"
Option  "Monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
Option  "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA"
Option  "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option  "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option  "CacheLines" "1980"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1024 600
EndSubSection
EndSection

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, CmdLnKid wrote:

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36 -, chrisa wrote:

(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
   If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable
AllowEmptyInput.


These are normal messages.  (II)nformation, not (EE)rror.


even though the mouse and keyboard both work now.

^^^

Just wanted to emphasize that.

To make sure that it was the most recent log file, I deleted all the 
Xorg logs, restarted it, and read the most recent one. And it still 
contains those lines with the working mouse and keyboard.


Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with.

Section "ServerFlags"
   option  "AutoAddDevices""off"
   option  "AllowEmptyInput"   "off"
EndSection


Why?  Several months ago, these were used to work around bugs.  Shortly 
afterwards, the bugs were fixed.  Now the use of those options is 
causing problems more often than solving them.


The time to add those options is when xorg doesn't work without them.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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syslog-ng.conf.sample from port sysutils/syslog-ng3 errors

2009-09-30 Thread Austin Friestman
The sample config file for syslog-ng3 does not work.
When I install sysutils/syslog-ng3 from ports, the sample config file
/usr/local/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.sample seems to have a number
of things wrong with it.
First, the port is looking for it in /usr/local/etc not
/usr/local/etc/syslog-ng contrary to what most of the tutorials on
it's installation indicate.
Once you've moved the file to the right location, this happens

[afriest...@monolith /usr/local/etc]$ sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/syslog-ng start
Starting syslog_ng.
Configuration file has no version number, assuming syslog-ng 2.1
format. Please add @version: maj.min to the beginning of the file;
WARNING: global: the default value of chain_hostnames is changing to
'no' in version 3.0, please update your configuration accordingly;
Your configuration file uses an obsoleted keyword, please update your
configuration; keyword='sync', change='flush_lines'
WARNING: input: sources do not remove new-line characters from
messages by default in version 3.0, please add 'no-multi-line' flag to
your configuration if you want to retain this functionality;
WARNING: file source: default value of follow_freq in file sources is
changing in 3.0 to '1' for all files except /proc/kmsg;
WARNING: template: the default value for template-escape is changing
to 'no' in version 3.0, please update your configuration file
accordingly;
Unknown facility; facility='console'

Adding @version3.0 to the first line of the file helps quite a bit
[afriest...@monolith /usr/local/etc]$ sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/syslog-ng start
Starting syslog_ng.
Your configuration file uses an obsoleted keyword, please update your
configuration; keyword='sync', change='flush_lines'
Unknown facility; facility='console'

Changing
options { long_hostnames(off); sync(0); };
to
options { long_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); };
takes care of all but that last line.

While searching for answers to this problem, I came across
http://dbaspot.com/forums/solaris/240478-syslog-ng-warning-unknown-facility-facility-authpriv.html
which suggests mapping of the facilities seems to be done in eventlog
(which syslog-ng is based on)
Neither of the two files in /usr/local/include/eventlog (evtlog.h and
evtmaps.h) mention a thing about a console facility
However, there is a LOG_CONSOLE definition in /usr/include/syslog.h,
which is included in the above evtlog.h.  see next line
#define LOG_CONSOLE (14<<3) /* /dev/console output */

I feel like I'm close to getting syslog-ng working, I just need a
little help now that I'm getting into parts of the system I'm not
familiar with.

[afriest...@monolith ~]$ uname -a
FreeBSD monolith.vertive.local 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Mon
Sep 21 16:40:02 CDT 2009
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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread herbert langhans
Maybe start over again installing the ports? There are drivers for the sis 
chipset, for the case you havent discovered them: 
/usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis

Also the already mentioned /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse

And then reinstall /usr/ports/x11/xorg (with a make config before)

I have a similar combination, though using the traditional ps2 mouse..

Cheers
herb langhans

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with.
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>  option  "AutoAddDevices""off"
>  option  "AllowEmptyInput"   "off"
> EndSection
>
> Best regards

All right, I did that. Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the
autoconfig now. The mouse and keyboard still work, and Xorg.0.log follows.


X.Org X Server 1.6.1
Release Date: 2009-4-14
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386
Current Operating System: FreeBSD nimue.gv.shawcable.net 7.2-RELEASE-p3
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 29 12:51:56 PDT 2009
chr...@nimue.gv.shawcable.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NODEBUG i386
Build Date: 29 September 2009  09:08:23PM

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Sep 30 14:56:25 2009
(==) Using config file: "/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor ""
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
(**) Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
(**) Not automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
built-ins
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
(==) |-->Input Device ""
(==) |-->Input Device ""
(==) No Layout section. Using the default mouse configuration.
(==) No Layout section. Using the default keyboard configuration.
(II) Loader magic: 0x6a0
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 5.0
X.Org XInput driver : 4.0
X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(II) Loader running on freebsd
(--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
(--) using VT number 9

(--) PCI:*(0...@1:0:0) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP
or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter rev 0, Mem @ 0xe000/134217728,
0xec00/131072, I/O @ 0xd000/128, BIOS @ 0x/65536
(II) System resource ranges:
[0] -1  0   0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B]
[1] -1  0   0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B]
[2] -1  0   0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B]
[3] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
[4] -1  0   0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(==) AIGLX disabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(==

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread CmdLnKid

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36 -, chrisa wrote:


On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:


My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and
smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much
adversity to it on this list.

Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed?


I do have it installed. I'm going to try manual configuration to see if
I
can make it work.


If you can tell what graphics card you have, no doubt someone can
provide a sample.  I can come up with ones for ATI and Intel.


It's a Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or something.
Built-in to the motherboard. That's what Xorg autodetects, anyway, and it
starts up and shows blackbox.

I ran Xorg -configure and started it with the result xorg.conf.new, and
that time the screen stayed black throughout. Odd.




By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall
reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything
slower and less responsive. Interesting.


It turns out that hal plus a "disable hal" option makes things not work.
The opposite is probably also true.


Interesting.

Anyhow, I looked at my Xorg.0.log. I noticed a line saying it can't find
any input devices, and relies upon hal to find them. Then I ran a ps -ax
and found that hal isn't running, even though it should be, being set to
start in rc.conf, along with dbus. So I started it, the startup script
appeared to work, but hald still isn't running. Then I started dbus first,
then hald, and they were both running, restarted X, and suddenly it works.

I swear both were running last night when the mouse and keyboard input
didn't work. They are, after all, set to start up at boot time. Also, the
most recent Xorg.0.log contains the lines:

(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
   If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable
AllowEmptyInput.

even though the mouse and keyboard both work now. To make sure that it was
the most recent log file, I deleted all the Xorg logs, restarted it, and
read the most recent one. And it still contains those lines with the
working mouse and keyboard.

Thanks, all, for your help. Now I only have TWO problems left!

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Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with.

Section "ServerFlags"
option  "AutoAddDevices""off"
option  "AllowEmptyInput"   "off"
EndSection

Best regards

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Re: what is wrong with pear?

2009-09-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark

Per olof Ljungmark wrote:

After a pkg_delete -r pear

I get

/usr/ports/devel/pear# portinstall pear
[Updating the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 204 packages
found (-34 +0) (...) done]
[Gathering depends for devel/pear
. done]
--->  Installing 'pear-1.9.0' from a port (devel/pear)
--->  Building '/usr/ports/devel/pear'
===>  Cleaning for pear-1.9.0
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===>  Extracting for pear-1.9.0
=> MD5 Checksum OK for pear-1.9.0.tar.bz2.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for pear-1.9.0.tar.bz2.
===>  Patching for pear-1.9.0
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for pear-1.9.0
===>  Configuring for pear-1.9.0
--->  Installing the new version via the port
===>  Installing for pear-1.9.0
===>   pear-1.9.0 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found
===>   pear-1.9.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/pcre.so -
found
===>   pear-1.9.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/xml.so -
found
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if devel/pear already installed
*** Error code 254

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portinstall20090930-15477-xp5bhw-0 env make reinstall
** Fix the installation problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
! devel/pear(install error)


Well, to answer myself, I don't know. After a pkg_delete -a pear 
installed ok again...

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ndis interface doesn't show up (intel 5300)

2009-09-30 Thread Michal

Hello,

I'm struggling to get Intel 5300 wireless mini pci-e card working on 
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 (amd64, both GENERIC and my custom kernel).
I get no error messages. Kernel module builds and loads fine but then 
ndis interface never shows up.


Here is exactly what I'm doing:
Drivers for XP64 downloaded from intel website. I've tried latest and 
old drivers. Unzipped on FreeBSD.

Then:
ndisgen NETw5x64.inf NETw5x64.sys
 This .INF file appears to be ASCII. [return]
 This .SYS file appears to be in Windows(r) PE format. [return]
 Driver file conversion - conversion was successful. [enter]
 Firmware file conversion [enter]
 Kernel module generation
  Generating Makefile... done.
  Building kernel module... done.
  Cleaning up... done.

So NETw5x64_sys.ko has been successfully generated. Note that when it 
asks me for additional firmware files I don't give it any - is that ok?


Then I'm moving this module to /boot/modules and I'm loading it:
 kldload -v NETw5x64_sys.ko
 Loaded NETw5x64_sys.ko, id=8

And that's pretty much it, module get loaded together with nids.ko and 
if_nids.ko but nothing really happens. No additional network interfaces, 
nothing in dmesg output. Tried with debug.ndis=1 and get no additional 
informations.


Any ideas, please? Anybody got this card to work on FreeBSD?

Michal
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Re: mplayer: X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

2009-09-30 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:36:40PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I've installed port multimedia/mplayer (mplayer-0.99.11_14)
> on 9.0-current ia64.
> 
> Trying to play an mpeg video I get endless stream of 
> 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> V:   7.6 190/190 17% 82%  0.0% 0 0 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

This usually happens when X doesn't have enough resources to
allocate to direct viewing with the xv (XView) driver. This
is very often related to DRM/DRI or memory problems.

As a work around, try playing the video with the x11 driver
instead:

$ mplayer -vo x11 somefile.avi

On a very slow machine, x11 isn't as good as xv driver, but it's
better than nothing. On a reasonably fast machine (2 GB or so),
you shouldn't notice any difference.

Also you can't use full screen mode with x11 driver like with xv, but
if your CPU is fast enough, you can use software zooming with the -zoom
option.

BTW, I often experience that mplayer with -vo xv works very well the
first time I start X (directly after booting), but not on subsequent
starts of X. I traced this down to the following data point, but was
unable to investigate further as I have NO experience in drm/dri
debugging:

On a first start of X on my machine, xvinfo yields:

$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "RadeonHD Textured Video"
number of ports: 16
port base: 64
operations supported: PutImage 
supported visuals:
  depth 24, visualID 0x21
no port attributes defined
maximum XvImage size: 8192 x 8192

(...)

and mplayer -vo xv ... and everything else works great;
while on subsequent starts of X, it returns something like

$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

and mplayer -vo xv yields those X11 BadAlloc errors, and scrolling
in tin/rtin, firefox etc... is *painfully* slow.

This is with the following kld modules
 51 0x80e67000 5ab6dradeon.ko
 61 0x80ec2000 11795drm.ko
and radeonhd driver:

  drm0:  on vgapci0
  info: [drm] MSI enabled 1 message(s)
  vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
  info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080528
  info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
  info: [drm] Loading RS780/RS880 Microcode
  info: [drm] Resetting GPU
  info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
  drm0: [ITHREAD]

It may be similar with other Xorg drivers that can't initialize
drm/dri properly, or can't allocate enough memory for DRI to
mplayer. X11 BadAlloc can also happen on large videos only, while
mplayer is able to play smaller videos with xv...

Good luck.

> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> Please advise
> 
> many thanks
> 
> -- 
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> Mech Eng Dept
> Bristol University
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-cpghost.

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Re: how to play *.evo animations (EnSight proprietary format)?

2009-09-30 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:01 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht  
wrote:
> I've had a quick look at the ports tree, and searched
> the net a bit, but cannot find a program which would
> play *.evo files on FreeBSD.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Have you already tried the "bleeding obvious", mplayer? :-)



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Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Polytropon
About the dd method:

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:30:58 -0400, Jerry McAllister  wrote:
> It can be used, but it is not a good way to do it.

For regular backups or even for cloning, it's not very
performant, I agree. I'm mostly using this method for
forensic purposes, when I need a copy of a media (a
whole disk, one slice or a particular partition) to toy
around with, so I don't mess up the original data.



> That is because it copies sector by sector and the new 
> disk/filesystem may not match the old exactly. 

That's a known problem. Another problem is time complexity.
The dd program does copy everything - even the unused disk
blocks (which don't need to be copied). This makes this
process often last very long.



> Besides
> when it is newly written on a file by file basis, it can
> be more efficiently laid out and accomodate any changes in
> size and sector addressing.  dd cannot do that.

That's true. This is the point where tools like cpdup and
rsync come into mind (according to creating backups or
clones).



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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:
>
>>> My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and
>>> smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much
>>> adversity to it on this list.
>>>
>>> Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed?
>>
>> I do have it installed. I'm going to try manual configuration to see if
>> I
>> can make it work.
>
> If you can tell what graphics card you have, no doubt someone can
> provide a sample.  I can come up with ones for ATI and Intel.

It's a Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or something.
Built-in to the motherboard. That's what Xorg autodetects, anyway, and it
starts up and shows blackbox.

I ran Xorg -configure and started it with the result xorg.conf.new, and
that time the screen stayed black throughout. Odd.

>
>> By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall
>> reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything
>> slower and less responsive. Interesting.
>
> It turns out that hal plus a "disable hal" option makes things not work.
> The opposite is probably also true.

Interesting.

Anyhow, I looked at my Xorg.0.log. I noticed a line saying it can't find
any input devices, and relies upon hal to find them. Then I ran a ps -ax
and found that hal isn't running, even though it should be, being set to
start in rc.conf, along with dbus. So I started it, the startup script
appeared to work, but hald still isn't running. Then I started dbus first,
then hald, and they were both running, restarted X, and suddenly it works.

I swear both were running last night when the mouse and keyboard input
didn't work. They are, after all, set to start up at boot time. Also, the
most recent Xorg.0.log contains the lines:

(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable
AllowEmptyInput.

even though the mouse and keyboard both work now. To make sure that it was
the most recent log file, I deleted all the Xorg logs, restarted it, and
read the most recent one. And it still contains those lines with the
working mouse and keyboard.

Thanks, all, for your help. Now I only have TWO problems left!

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more problems. but not with 7.2

2009-09-30 Thread Henry Olyer
First, I want to thank Kenneth and Warren, and a few others who's names I
never caught.  I am up now with FBSD 7.2, on a browser and with my air-card
running.

Okay, so now I am back at work on my application.   A few of you know of my
"science-fiction" work.

I'm trying to run a movie using mplayer.  Here follows the text from an X
session.  How do I configure my sound (same machine, the CQ60-419WM,) and
also tighen up the font's, please?




Player 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) SI-42 (Family: 17, Model: 3, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing DAF_English.mov.
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 2
VIDEO:  [avc1]  720x404  24bpp  23.976 fps0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==
==
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)
decoder)
==
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or
directory
AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 404 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 720x404 => 720x404 Planar YV12
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
A: 111.8 V: 111.8 A-V:  0.001 ct:  0.022 2682/2682  8%  2%  1.0% 26 0
Exiting... (Quit)
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RE: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

2009-09-30 Thread David Southwell
 

> -Original Message-
> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> da...@vizion2000.net
> Sent: 29 September 2009 13:06
> To: 'Frank Steinborn'
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3
> 
>  
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Frank 
> > Steinborn
> > Sent: 29 September 2009 11:47
> > To: David Southwell
> > Cc: ' ?'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3
> > 
> > David Southwell wrote:
> > > By base-bind I mean the version of bind that is included 
> in freebsd
> > > 7.2 operating system which is a version earlier than the
> > latest Bind96.
> > > 
> > > When installing bind96 and I did not keep base-bind.
> > > 
> > > Now multiple ports give the following type of problem 
> -this is just 
> > > one example.
> > > ___
> > > gnome-vfs-2.24.1_1
> > > 
> > > compile stops with message:
> > > 
> > > ===>  gnome-vfs-2.24.1_1 depends on shared library: pango-1.0.0 - 
> > > found
> > > gnome-vfs-2.24.1_1: bind installed with PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIOND 
> > > causes build problems.
> > > *** error code 1
> > > 
> > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs
> > > *** Error Code 1
> > > 
> > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs
> > > _
> > 
> > You should be able to restore the bind from base by using the 
> > install.sh script in /usr/src/contrib/bind9. Deinstall the 
> port first, 
> > though.
> > 
> ThanksI deinstalled the port and tried to run install-sh 
> 
> # sh install-sh
> and got the response:
> > install: no input file specified
> 
> Any chance you might make me a little wiser on how to use install-sh?\
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
Sorrty to ask again - but I really need to solve this problem asap.

Thanks in advance

David

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:


My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and
smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much
adversity to it on this list.

Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed?


I do have it installed. I'm going to try manual configuration to see if I
can make it work.


If you can tell what graphics card you have, no doubt someone can 
provide a sample.  I can come up with ones for ATI and Intel.



By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall
reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything
slower and less responsive. Interesting.


It turns out that hal plus a "disable hal" option makes things not work. 
The opposite is probably also true.


-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 30/09/2009 à 11:19:15-0500, Mark Linimon a écrit
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> > I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently.
> 
> As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the
> developer threatened us with a lawsuit.  This repeats what he has
> previously done to several other BSDs and several Linux distributions.
> This is why ports for his software are no longer available for these
> platforms.
> 
> Whether the license has changed or not, the fact that the author feels
> the desire to use lawsuits to achieve his goals makes his software too
> much of a liability for FreeBSD to redistribute.
> 

Well I think you decision is already take so I'm not going argue with you.
Just little information : As I understand Tuomo Valkonen as stop the
developement of this software. Here is what he say :

 «I have recently given up on the failure known as Linux, and switched to
 Windows. As I thus probably won't be working much on Ion3 anymore, and
 since it seems very stable anyway, the 28-day clause in the license should
 serve little practical purpose anymore. It has therefore been lifted.»
 
--> http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/news.html

Anyway if you don't want that ports I can understand easily why. That make
me sad, but thanks to Dmitry I can use ion-3  and because ion-3 not
going to evolve I'm going to keep that «pseudo-ports» in some «safe»-place.

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM,  wrote:

> > My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and
> > smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much
> > adversity to it on this list.
> >
> > Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed?
>
> I do have it installed. I'm going to try manual configuration to see if I
> can make it work.
>
> By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled?


Yup

I recall
> reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything
> slower and less responsive. Interesting.
>

I think this was due to couple of different factors with a large one being a
one point there was a bug causing extreme cpu usage.  IMO, there was also
been a lot of misinformation and probably misconfiguration due to it.

As stated already, posting /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the best way to solve
this.



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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and
> smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much
> adversity to it on this list.
>
> Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed?

I do have it installed. I'm going to try manual configuration to see if I
can make it work.

By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall
reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything
slower and less responsive. Interesting.

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:
>
>> I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant machine made it
>> compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly
>> different i386 machine didn't?
>
> Not really.  There are lots of ways for two "slightly" different
> machines to be really different.

Fair enough. This makes me wonder, though, how the packages downloaded
from the ftp server can be run without problems on most machines. What is
the difference between the machine compiling those for everyone to use and
me compiling my own for another of my machines to use? Is there something
you have to do to make sure they're compatible?

>> Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X, and from what I'm hearing,
>> it's possible to get the mouse to work in X without it, so I am going
>> to get rid of hal.
>
> Or you could fix your configuration.

I'd love to.

>> By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a
>> usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it.
>
> Your xorg.conf probably has outdated options in it.  But it's hard to
> tell without seeing it.

Actually, I don't have one at all. I'm letting Xorg autodetect everything.
Evidently it's not autodetecting the mouse. I'm thinking it's time to try
manual configuration.

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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 30/09/2009 à 18:58:43+0200, Albert Shih a écrit
>  Le 30/09/2009 à 17:27:46+0200, Gary Jennejohn a écrit
> > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0200
> > Albert Shih  wrote:
> > 
> > >  Le 30/09/2009 __ 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a __crit
> > > > * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe 
> > > > > someone
> > > > > have the patch file for the system.mk ? 
> > > > 
> > > > Please try this:
> > > > 
> > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar
> > > > 
> > > > It builds file in tinderbox, but I haven't tested how it works yet.
> > > 
> > > I'm happy to see I'm not the only ET 
> > > (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/)
> > > to like this wm ;-)
> > > 
> > > Well I've just try you tarbut it's not working.
> > > 
> > 
> > Not a very useful "error" message.
> 
> You right.
> 
> > 
> > I just installed it (9-CURRENT AMD64) and it works just fine for me.  At
> > least, the basic functionality seems to be there.
> 
> You right again
> 
> It's work...I don't known why (I'm not a FreeBSD-ports guru...) if I try to
> build outside the ports tree, just with the patch file it's don't wokr.
> 
> But inside de ports tree it's working.
> 
and after 3h of using, I think the ports is good.

You save «my life» ;-)

Thanks again. 

Regards.

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM,  wrote:

> > I had similar troubles with hal.
> >
> > The easiest solutions is to get rid of hal. Deinstall it. The
> xorg-package
> > you can compile without hal (use make configure and uncheck hal) and it
> > will work.
> >
> > Cheers
> > herb langhans
>
> Thank you.
>
> I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant machine made it
> compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly
> different i386 machine didn't? Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X,
> and from what I'm hearing, it's possible to get the mouse to work in X
> without it, so I am going to get rid of hal.
>
> By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a
> usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it.
>
> Cheers.
>
> My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and
smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much
adversity to it on this list.

Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed?

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:


I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant machine made it
compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly
different i386 machine didn't?


Not really.  There are lots of ways for two "slightly" different 
machines to be really different.


Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X, and from what I'm hearing, 
it's possible to get the mouse to work in X without it, so I am going 
to get rid of hal.


Or you could fix your configuration.


By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a
usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it.


Your xorg.conf probably has outdated options in it.  But it's hard to 
tell without seeing it.


-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> I had similar troubles with hal.
>
> The easiest solutions is to get rid of hal. Deinstall it. The xorg-package
> you can compile without hal (use make configure and uncheck hal) and it
> will work.
>
> Cheers
> herb langhans

Thank you.

I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant machine made it
compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly
different i386 machine didn't? Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X,
and from what I'm hearing, it's possible to get the mouse to work in X
without it, so I am going to get rid of hal.

By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a
usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it.

Cheers.

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Re: Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1

2009-09-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/30/09, Leonardo M. Ramé  wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0-RC1 without success. Any hint?
>
> This is my data:
>
> uname -a:
> FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906 FreeBSD
> 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun  7 10:23:49 UTC 2009
> r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> freebsd-update:
>
> [r...@toshiba-leo]# freebsd-update -v debug -r 8.0-RC1 upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update5.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update4.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
>
>
> Leonardo M. Ramé
> http://leonardorame.blogspot.com


freebsd-update code (at last check) supported updating -RELEASE and
-SECURITY systems, but not -STABLE.

Because it's trying to fetch a -STABLE uname, and it doesn't have an
idea of the latest time it was built (looks like a snapshot, to us
humans), it is unable to move past the keys.

You'll need to run -RELEASE[-p#] to update or update from source.


the freebsd-update program is a shell script.  read it, it's enlightening.

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Re: just cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
PJ wrote:
> Maybe this is what I really need since I want to set up 3 identical 7.2
> computers and back them up and update as needed. This should assure a
> minimum of headaches like what I have been experienceg lately.
> This link
> http://cabstand.com/usbflash.html
> seems to be about right, but I'd like to get some opinions on what would
> be the best way to go about this.
> I assume that I must do one difinitive installation on 1 computer. Then
> to clone, do I dump the partitions to a usb disk and restore to the
> other two computers; or do I follow the instructions on the above link.
> Obviously, it would be nice if it could be K.I.S.S.
>
>   

Can't tell about these instructions (would be nice to try them though)
but I can assure you I've used the dump/restore method numerous times
and it works great.
There are a few things one should take care of:

1. Don't forget to install MBR / boot blocks on your new disk after
restoring the dump(s)
(see also this post
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/201809.html)
2. Don't forget to manually create directories that you excluded from
your dump (like /dev /mnt)
3. Since you will (obviously) not dump /tmp don't forget to set the
sticky bit on it when you newfs and mount it - All sort of weird things
will happen if it is not set.
4. If the machines are identical it probably doesn't matter, but it
would be a good idea to label the partitions so you don't have to rely
on device names in fstab (as these change depending on the motherboard,
disk controller, sata connector used etc.), see
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html

You can even restore by booting the FreeBSD live FS CD (or the DVD). As
I recall you may have to define TMPDIR to something writable (to a
directory in the USB disk you are using for the dumps) for restore to
work properly.  Restore will tell you about this if needed.
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just cloning

2009-09-30 Thread PJ
Maybe this is what I really need since I want to set up 3 identical 7.2
computers and back them up and update as needed. This should assure a
minimum of headaches like what I have been experienceg lately.
This link
http://cabstand.com/usbflash.html
seems to be about right, but I'd like to get some opinions on what would
be the best way to go about this.
I assume that I must do one difinitive installation on 1 computer. Then
to clone, do I dump the partitions to a usb disk and restore to the
other two computers; or do I follow the instructions on the above link.
Obviously, it would be nice if it could be K.I.S.S.

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Questions regarding portmaster's man page

2009-09-30 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi!

The man page for portmaster say this:
 Alternatively you could use portmaster -a -f -D to do an ``in place''
 update of your ports.  If that process is interrupted for any reason you
 can use portmaster -a -f -D -R to avoid rebuilding ports already rebuilt
 on previous runs.  However the first method (delete everything and rein-
 stall) is preferred.

I'm wondering why the first method is preferred.

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Re: mplayer: X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

2009-09-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:36:40PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I've installed port multimedia/mplayer (mplayer-0.99.11_14)
> on 9.0-current ia64.
> 
> Trying to play an mpeg video I get endless stream of 
> 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> V:   7.6 190/190 17% 82%  0.0% 0 0 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)

the same error happens on i386 HEAD:

Playing /usr/home/mexas/ex1.mpg.
MPEG-ES file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG1  656x432  (aspect 1)  25.000 fps  1152.0 kbps (144.0 kbyte/s)
==
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 656 x 432 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 656 x 432 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.52:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 656x432 => 656x432 Planar YV12 
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.  

Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
[ws] Error in display.
[ws]  Error code: 11 ( BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) )
[ws]  Request code: 132
[ws]  Minor code: 19
[ws]  Modules: flip_page

many thanks for any advice

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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 30/09/2009 à 17:27:46+0200, Gary Jennejohn a écrit
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0200
> Albert Shih  wrote:
> 
> >  Le 30/09/2009 __ 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a __crit
> > > * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe 
> > > > someone
> > > > have the patch file for the system.mk ? 
> > > 
> > > Please try this:
> > > 
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar
> > > 
> > > It builds file in tinderbox, but I haven't tested how it works yet.
> > 
> > I'm happy to see I'm not the only ET (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/)
> > to like this wm ;-)
> > 
> > Well I've just try you tarbut it's not working.
> > 
> 
> Not a very useful "error" message.

You right.

> 
> I just installed it (9-CURRENT AMD64) and it works just fine for me.  At
> least, the basic functionality seems to be there.

You right again

It's work...I don't known why (I'm not a FreeBSD-ports guru...) if I try to
build outside the ports tree, just with the patch file it's don't wokr.

But inside de ports tree it's working.

I'm using 

FreeBSD-8.0-RC1

with all ports up2date.

Thanks for Dmitry for this ports. I'm going to keep this thing somewhere

Regards.


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mplayer: X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

2009-09-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've installed port multimedia/mplayer (mplayer-0.99.11_14)
on 9.0-current ia64.

Trying to play an mpeg video I get endless stream of 

X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
V:   7.6 190/190 17% 82%  0.0% 0 0 
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

Exiting... (End of file)

Please advise

many thanks

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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently.

As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the
developer threatened us with a lawsuit.  This repeats what he has
previously done to several other BSDs and several Linux distributions.
This is why ports for his software are no longer available for these
platforms.

Whether the license has changed or not, the fact that the author feels
the desire to use lawsuits to achieve his goals makes his software too
much of a liability for FreeBSD to redistribute.

mcl
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how to play *.evo animations (EnSight proprietary format)?

2009-09-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've several old *.evo animations. This is the
proprietary format developed by CEI:

http://www.ensight.com/envideo.html

CEI have free players for MSWindows, MacOS and linux.
I've had a quick look at the ports tree, and searched
the net a bit, but cannot find a program which would
play *.evo files on FreeBSD.

Any suggestions?

many thanks
anton

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what is wrong with pear?

2009-09-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
After a pkg_delete -r pear

I get

/usr/ports/devel/pear# portinstall pear
[Updating the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 204 packages
found (-34 +0) (...) done]
[Gathering depends for devel/pear
. done]
--->  Installing 'pear-1.9.0' from a port (devel/pear)
--->  Building '/usr/ports/devel/pear'
===>  Cleaning for pear-1.9.0
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===>  Extracting for pear-1.9.0
=> MD5 Checksum OK for pear-1.9.0.tar.bz2.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for pear-1.9.0.tar.bz2.
===>  Patching for pear-1.9.0
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for pear-1.9.0
===>  Configuring for pear-1.9.0
--->  Installing the new version via the port
===>  Installing for pear-1.9.0
===>   pear-1.9.0 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found
===>   pear-1.9.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/pcre.so -
found
===>   pear-1.9.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/xml.so -
found
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if devel/pear already installed
*** Error code 254

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portinstall20090930-15477-xp5bhw-0 env make reinstall
** Fix the installation problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
! devel/pear(install error)
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Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:08:05AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:

> Forgot to mention this:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ  wrote:
> > 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f
> > and g slices or is it partitions?
> 
> The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e, f and g partitions) can
> be copied 1:1 with dd. By using dump + restore, the partitions
> need to be copied after another. In each case, the entire system
> will be copied. For this purpose, even the long lasting
> 
>   # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=1m
>   # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1
> 
> method can be used.
> 

It can be used, but it is not a good way to do it.
That is because it copies sector by sector and the new 
disk/filesystem may not match the old exactly.  Besides
when it is newly written on a file by file basis, it can
be more efficiently laid out and accomodate any changes in
size and sector addressing.  dd cannot do that.

jerry


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Re: Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

> > From: Adam Vande More 
> > Subject: Re: Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1
> > To: "Leonardo M. Ramé" 
> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 11:45 AM
> > On Wed, Sep 30,
> > 2009 at 9:38 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé 
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0-RC1 without
> > success. Any hint?
> >
> >
> >
> > This is my data:
> >
> >
> >
> > uname -a:
> >
> > FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906
> > FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun  7 10:23:49 UTC 2009
> >
> > r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> >  amd64
> >
> >
> >
> > freebsd-update:
> >
> >
> >
> > [r...@toshiba-leo]# freebsd-update -v debug -r 8.0-RC1
> > upgrade
> >
> > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org
> > mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> >
> > Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update5.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl:
> > Not Found
> >
> > failed.
> >
> > Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl:
> > Not Found
> >
> > failed.
> >
> > Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update4.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl:
> > Not Found
> >
> > failed.
> >
> > No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Leonardo M. Ramé
> >
> > http://leonardorame.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > man freebsd-update
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >  The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install,
> > and rollback binary
> >  updates to the FreeBSD base system.  Note that
> > updates are only available
> >
> >  if they are being built for the FreeBSD release
> > and architecture being
> >  used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team
> > only builds updates for
> >  releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD
> > Release Engineering Team,
> >
> >  e.g., FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but
> > not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
> >  or FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
> >
> > You are not running supported version.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Adam Vande More
> >
>
>
> Thanks Adam, any workaround to upgrade to 8.0?
>
> Leonardo.
>
>
I normally csup(1) whatever branch I'm trying to get too.
/usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile is a good starting although
you'll need to edit *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 and an appropriate
*default host= line.  Then use handbook for building and installing
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html

You'll also want to do something like the following from portmaster man
page.

 Using portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all your ports:
   1. portmaster --list-origins > ~/installed-port-list
   2. Update your ports tree
   3. portmaster --clean-distfiles-all
   4. portmaster --check-port-dbdir
   5. portmaster -Faf
   6. pkg_delete '*'
   7. rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg
   8. Manually check /usr/local and /var/db/pkg
  to make sure that they are really empty
   9. portmaster `cat ~/installed-port-list`

 You probably want to use the -D option for the installation and then
run
 --clean-distfiles[-all] again when you are done.  You might also want
to
 consider using the --force-config option when installing the new ports.





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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0200
Albert Shih  wrote:

>  Le 30/09/2009 __ 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a __crit
> > * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote:
> > 
> > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone
> > > have the patch file for the system.mk ? 
> > 
> > Please try this:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar
> > 
> > It builds file in tinderbox, but I haven't tested how it works yet.
> 
> I'm happy to see I'm not the only ET (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/)
> to like this wm ;-)
> 
> Well I've just try you tarbut it's not working.
> 

Not a very useful "error" message.

I just installed it (9-CURRENT AMD64) and it works just fine for me.  At
least, the basic functionality seems to be there.

I didn't do more testing because I can't stand it.

---
Gary Jennejohn
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Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:48:30PM -0400, PJ wrote:

> Polytropon wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ  wrote:
> >   
> >> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can
> >> it be dumped if its been formatted?
> >> 
> > When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your
> > commands. Failure to do so can cause data loss. In the example
> > you presented, ad1 was the source disk, ad2 the target disk.
> > You DON'T want to newfs your source disk.
> >   
> >> And what exactly does stdout mean?
> >> 
> >
> > This refers to the standard output. In most cases, this is the
> > terminal, the screen, such as
> >
> > # cat /etc/fstab
> >
> > will write the /etc/fstab to stdout. If you redirect it, for
> > example by using > or |, you can make stdout a file, or the
> > input - stdin - for another program.
> >
> > This is how the dump | restore process works: It leaves out
> > the "use the tape" or "use the file", but instead directs the
> > output of dump - the dump itself - to the restore program as
> > input to be restored.
> >   
> >> What is dump doing? outputting what to where exactly?
> >> 
> > The dump program is outputting a dump of the specified partition
> > to the standard output, which in this case is directly trans-
> > mitted to the restore program, which "picks it up" and processes
> > it = restores it.
> >
> >> I don't see it or
> >> should I say, understand this at all.
> >
> > Have a look at the command line again, simplified:
> >
> > # dump -0 -f - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -r -f -
> >
> > Run the dump program, do a full backup of the 1st partition of
> > the 1st slice of the 1st disk, write this dump to the standard
> > output, pipe this output to the restore program, do a full
> > restore, read the dump to be restored from standard input.
> >   
> >> and then the restore is from what
> >> to where?
> >
> > The restore program gets the dump to be restored from the standard
> > input - remember, that's the output of the dump program - and
> > writes it to the current working directory. That's the reason
> > why you should always check with
> >
> > # pwd
> >
> > in which directory you're currently located, because that will
> > be the place where the restored data will appear.
> >   
> >> "write error 10 blocks into volume 1
> >> do you want to restart:"
> >> 
> >
> > Could you present the command you're actually using, especially
> > with where you issued it from?
> >   
> Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was
> issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it
> from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from / as
> that is what I was trying to dump :-[

No, that is not a problem.   You can be in any directory and do the dump
command, except if you want that restore to work you have to be in
the receiving filesystem/directory.

I just noticed that I missed that you were newfs-ing the wrong partition.
That was the one you wanted to read from and your newfs would wipe out
everything on it.If you do the newfs - a good idea - it has to be
on the new filesystem you will be writing to.

jerry



> >   
> >> The first time I tried with -L the error was 20 blocks...
> >> Both the slices for dump from and to are same size (2gb) and certainly
> >> not full by a long shot ( if I reccall correctly, only about 14% is used)
> >> 
> >
> > I'm not sure where you put the dump file. "Write error" seems
> > to indicate one of the following problems:
> > a) The snapshot cannot be created.
> > b) The dump file cannot be created.
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> >> And what's this about a snapshot? AFAIK, I'm not making a snapshot;
> >> anyway, there is no long pause except for the dumb look on my face upon
> >> seeing these messages.
> >> 
> >
> > Check "man dump" and search for the -L option. The dump program,
> > in order to obtain a dump from a file system that's currently in
> > use, will need to make a snapshot because it cannot handle data
> > that is changing. So it will dump the data with the state of the
> > snapshot, allowing the file system to be altered afterwards.
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> >> As it is, I am currently erasing the brand new 500gb disk on which I
> >> want to restore.
> >> 
> >
> > Excellent.
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> >> Things started out really bad... don't u;nderstand what is going on.
> >> 
> >
> > Polite question: Have you read the manpages and the section in the
> > Handbook?
> >   
> Yes... but my brain can't handle it all so quickly... and being as
> impatient as I am, I tend to miss things on the run... it usually comes
> to me sooner or later... unfortunately, it's more often later than
> sooner... I've been reading the stuff in the man pages, and getting more
> confused by googling... Actually, I've been trying to get things
> straightened ot for at least 3 days already.
> >
> >
> >   
> >> I
> >> installed a minimal 7.2, boot

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:44:38PM -0400, PJ wrote:

> I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing
> up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer.
> I would like to do 2 things:
> 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation
> 2. set up a backup script to back up changes either every night or once
> a week
> 
> There are numerous solutions out there; but they are mostly confusing,
> erroneous or non functional.
> To start, could someone please explail to the the following, which I
> found here:http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=185

This page is essentially correct.   But, it covers several situations.
You need to decide which situation you are working on.

Are  you trying to make a backup of your system in case something
fails or are you trying to make a clone to boot in another system?

As for the restore, are you trying to use it to create a disk to
move to another machine to boot with or to recover a failed disk
on the same machine or just have a bootable disk handy if your
current one fails?Each is different.

If you are just making a dump in case of a disk failure, then
just dump to a file on some removable media (USB drive, Tape, 
across the net, etc) and forget about doing the restore for now.
You do that if the disk fails and you have acquired a new disk
and prepared it for service including slicing and partitioning 
and putting an MBR on it and a boot sector.  Then you use the
fixit boot to restore those backups.

If you are making a clone drive to move to another system
then you have to slice and partition the new drive and then
do the piped dump-restores you indicate below.

If you are making a disk to switch to in case of a failure, you
start by making a slice and partitioned drive and do the dump-restores.
But, then you keep it current using rsync.   Note that in this case, you
only do the dump-restore once.  The rsync does all the updating.  
Alternatively you might use some of the mirroring software to make a 
mirror drive that is [almost] always an exact copy.  That is a completely 
different process.

If you are making a disk to move to another machine then you probably
do not want the -u switch on the dump command.That is meant for
making a series of full and change dumps as backups. 

> 
> You can move system from disk to disk on fly with
> Code:
> 
> $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a
> $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target
> $ cd /target
> $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a  | restore -rf -
> 
> you can do the same using sudo
> Code:
> 
> $ sudo echo
> $ sudo dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a  | sudo restore -rf -
> 
> This may be clear to someone; it certainly is not to me.
> As I understand it, newfs will (re)format the slice.
> Ok,  But what is standard out in the above example.  The dump is from
> where to where?
> Could someone clarify all this for me?

The only thing the sudo does is make you root.
If you are already root, you don't need it - as in the first example
you give.   In this particular case, it is probably better to just
be root and run this as root.   That wouldn't always be the case in
every sudo situation.

The dump command as you give it reads the /dev/ad1s1a file system
and sends it to standard out.   That is what the  '-f -'  part of
the command tells it.   The restore command reads from standard in
and restores the data sent to it from the dump via the pipe which
is the '|'.  The pipe takes whatever is in the standard out from
where it is coming and puts it in the standard in where it is going.

> So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L
> option. I am trying to dump the whole system (all the slices)except swap
> to a usb (sata2 500gb disk) and then restore to another computer with
> 7.2 minimal installation.

> Slices ad2s1d,e,f and g dump ok to usb. a does not - errors ("should use
> -L when dumping live filesystems)

So, what are the errors.

> Do you have to newfs each slice before restoring?  But if you are
> restoring on a running 7.2 system, don't you have to restore to another
> disk than the one the system is on?

You have asked two unrelated questions.   First:
No, but it is a convenient way to make sure there is a clean
receiving place.Actually, I don't bother doing the restore.
I just write a dump file and leave it there in case I need to
restore from it later.   So my dump command would look something like:

   dump -0Laf /target/ad1s1adump /dev/ad1s1a

So the file ad1s1adump would contain the dump.  You might add
in some characters that identify the date of the dump in the name
of the file.

Also, you can mount the source filesystem and dump using the
mount name.   So, if /dev/ad1s1a is normally mounted as /work,
then it would work - and be mnemonic to do:

  dump -0Laf /target/workdum

Re: java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-30 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:48:37PM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:10:48PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> > Freenet (http://www.freenetproject.org/) on my FreeBSD/amd64 system
> > complains about an old and vulnerable Java version:
> > 
> >   Your installed version of Java is vulnerable to a severe remote
> >   exploit (remote code execution!). You must upgrade to at least Java
> >   5 update 20 or Java 6 update 15 as soon as possible. Freenet has
> >   disabled any plugins handling XML for the time being, but this
> >   includes searching and chat so you should upgrade ASAP!
> 
> We're almost certainly vulnerable.  The jdk16 port is at Update 3.

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.

> >   See http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html for
> >   details.
> > 
> >   Also, please do not use Thaw or Freetalk. The UPnP plugin is
> >   enabled, it might present a risk if you have bad guys on your LAN,
> >   but without it Freenet will not be able to port forward and will
> >   have severe problems.
> > 
> > I'm running java/jdk16:
> > 
> > phenom# java -version
> > java version "1.6.0_03-p4"
> > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 
> > 1.6.0_03-p4-root_08_sep_2009_17_05-b00)
> > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 
> > 1.6.0_03-p4-root_08_sep_2009_17_05-b00, mixed mode)
> > 
> > On 7.2-STABLE:
> > 
> > phenom# uname -a
> > FreeBSD phenom.cordula.ws 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep  8 
> > 10:43:26 CEST 2009 r...@phenom.cordula.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  
> > amd64
> > 
> > Is that version of Java really vulnerable? If yes, why doesn't
> >   # portaudit -Fda
> > report it as such, and could you please update the java/jdk16 port?
> 
> We need an entry in the VUXML database I guess.
> 
> Updating java/jdk16 is going to be a slow process.  There are lots of
> changes between Update 3 and Update 15.  I've partially merged Update 4,
> but obviously that still leaves many to go...

Looks like *a lot* of work...

Any chance to see progress here before 8.0-RELEASE? It's not a big deal,
but shipping an updated port without that vuln. would be nice.

> Greg Lewis  Email   : gle...@eyesbeyond.com
> Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
> Information Technology  FreeBSD : gle...@freebsd.org

Thanks for the great work supporting JDK natively on FreeBSD,

-cpghost.

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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 30/09/2009 à 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a écrit
> * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote:
> 
> > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone
> > have the patch file for the system.mk ? 
> 
> Please try this:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar
> 
> It builds file in tinderbox, but I haven't tested how it works yet.

I'm happy to see I'm not the only ET (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/)
to like this wm ;-)

Well I've just try you tarbut it's not working.

Finally after 3 h I get a system.mk working. 

I'm sure every normal developper can do better. But for me I've my ion
working ;-)

Regards.

JAS
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##

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## Installation paths
##

# Installation path prefix. Unless you know what you're doing, the default
# of /usr/local is likely the correct choice.
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# setting (for e.g. Lua, when not instructed by pkg-config).
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# paths, this should do it.
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# what you want.
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# The following setting  should  work around that situation.
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# in an UTF-8 locale. (No, you don't need this in UTF-8 locales, and 
# most likely don't even want. It's only there because both Xmb and 
# Xutf8 routines are broken, in different ways.)
#DEFINES += -DCF_DE_USE_XUTF8

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# on SunOS.
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# without even dummy multibyte/widechar and localisation support, you may 
# have to uncomment the following line:
DEFINES += -DCF_NO_LOCALE -DCF_NO_GETTEXT

# On some other systems you may need to explicitly link against libintl.
#EXTRA_LIBS += -lintl
# You may also need to give the location of its headers. The following
# should work on Mac OS X (which needs the above option as well) with
# macports.
#EXTRA_INCLUDES += -I/opt/local/include


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#HAS_SYSTEM_ASPRINTF=1

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Re: Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1

2009-09-30 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
> From: Adam Vande More 
> Subject: Re: Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1
> To: "Leonardo M. Ramé" 
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 11:45 AM
> On Wed, Sep 30,
> 2009 at 9:38 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0-RC1 without
> success. Any hint?
> 
> 
> 
> This is my data:
> 
> 
> 
> uname -a:
> 
> FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906
> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun  7 10:23:49 UTC 2009
>    
> r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  amd64
> 
> 
> 
> freebsd-update:
> 
> 
> 
> [r...@toshiba-leo]# freebsd-update -v debug -r 8.0-RC1
> upgrade
> 
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org
> mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> 
> Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch: 
> http://update5.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl:
> Not Found
> 
> failed.
> 
> Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... fetch: 
> http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl:
> Not Found
> 
> failed.
> 
> Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch: 
> http://update4.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl:
> Not Found
> 
> failed.
> 
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Leonardo M. Ramé
> 
> http://leonardorame.blogspot.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> man freebsd-update
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>  The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install,
> and rollback binary
>  updates to the FreeBSD base system.  Note that
> updates are only available
> 
>  if they are being built for the FreeBSD release
> and architecture being
>  used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team
> only builds updates for
>  releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD
> Release Engineering Team,
> 
>  e.g., FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but
> not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
>  or FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
> 
> You are not running supported version.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Adam Vande More
> 


Thanks Adam, any workaround to upgrade to 8.0?

Leonardo.



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Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-30 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - 
From: "Adam Vande More" 

To: "Grant Peel" 
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage



On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Grant Peel  wrote:


Hi all,

For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a 
storage

enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of $'s.

The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting
about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home
directories.

I am still looking for feedback regarding what level of hardware ( how 
much

RAM , cpu bus speed etc) people might be using for a similar setup.

The end idea is to lead FreeBSD on the storage system, create one huge
/home directory, export it via NFS and share that on all the Web 
machines.


It might be worth noting that the Web machines host a full array of
software, i.e. Mail, Web, MySQL, PHP etc.

Does anyone use a similar setup? What kind of I/O bottlenecks are 
created?




Your questions cannot be answer specifically because they do not contain
enough info.  Here is what I chose to do in a similar but smaller enviro.

1.  This a good place for virtualization.  FreeBSD jails are the most
efficient form that I'm aware of including XEN.  Jails have limitations 
XEN

doesn't however.
2.  High load DB's shouldn't be virtualized.
3.  EZjails port helps alot!
4.  Machine specs would depend on system load, you've given no indication
other than apps.
5.  You should preplan backup and failover setup.  Heartbeat, CARP, rdiff,
and other utilities should help here.





Any feedback would be welcome.

-Grant





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Hi Adam,

Thanks for the reply.

Whatever software flavour I settle on (I am trending towards FreeNAS at this 
point), I will be be running a RAID 5 array with a specific share dedicated 
to backups. Indeed, I already have a robust backup schemem in place. So no 
worries about loosing data per #5 on your list.


Per #4 on your list, I am not sure if you are asking about the NAS machine, 
or the clients. The CLients are all Dell machines (R200's, PE860's and 
PE#750's). They are all Pent 4 and Xenon machines, currently using 100MB 
ethernet. (LAN AND WAN). All of them are connected to my central switch via 
a LAN vlan, and a wan vlan. The ethernet switch is also a dell 48 port 
Managed 100MB switch, with two GB ports. The current Internet traffic is 
about 2 Megabits sustained. The hard drive lights on each server are 
blinking about once per second, a little more solid when FTP activity is 
high. As far as the NAS machine specs go, I have not decided on anything 
yet, and am looking for input on this, any takers?


I have also just came up with another question:

All of the 200 domains on each server have thier own Real Unix user 
(obviously). Once the NAS is setup, (using NFS), how do the permissions on 
the NAS machine play out? i.e. when user 'hisname' logs into a server via 
ftp, and uploads a file to his home directory (which is on the NAS), will 
the file permissions be the same, and will 'hisname' own the file exactly 
the same as if he were writing to the local (server) disk? In the NAS 
exports do I have to map every user to the NFS or can I just maproot?


TIA,

-Grant






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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote:

> I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone
> have the patch file for the system.mk ? 

Please try this:

http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar

It builds file in tinderbox, but I haven't tested how it works yet.

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Re: Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0-RC1 without success. Any hint?
>
> This is my data:
>
> uname -a:
> FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906 FreeBSD
> 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun  7 10:23:49 UTC 2009
> r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> freebsd-update:
>
> [r...@toshiba-leo]# freebsd-update -v debug -r 8.0-RC1 upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update5.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update4.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
>
>
> Leonardo M. Ramé
> http://leonardorame.blogspot.com
>
>
> man freebsd-update

DESCRIPTION
 The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary
 updates to the FreeBSD base system.  Note that updates are only
available
 if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture being
 used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for
 releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering
Team,
 e.g., FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD
6.2-STABLE
 or FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.

You are not running supported version.


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Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1

2009-09-30 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0-RC1 without success. Any hint?

This is my data:

uname -a: 
FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906 FreeBSD 
7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun  7 10:23:49 UTC 2009 
r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

freebsd-update:

[r...@toshiba-leo]# freebsd-update -v debug -r 8.0-RC1 upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch: 
http://update5.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
failed.
Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... fetch: 
http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
failed.
Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch: 
http://update4.FreeBSD.org/7.2-STABLE-200906/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.



Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com



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Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-30 Thread LoH


The reality is that Oracle is meant to be a very expensive solution 
for companies that don't know what to do. This makes Red Hat etc an 
ideal contender for this situation as it promises full enterprise 
support.
Whether it is the truth or if its even a good solution is completely 
irreverent to these 2 tech companies because at the end of the day 
they are just trying to make money and please the stock holders.





Huh? Last I remember reading, Oracle hasn't put a native version 
together for FreeBSD because running it through the linuxlator works 
well enough to justify not spending engineering resources on it.

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Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-30 Thread Robin Becker

Adam Vande More wrote:
.
>>
>
> This has been answered already but you should be aware that when using
> gmirror, your back disk should either be the same model or bigger as hard
> drive capacities differ between manufacturers.  As in Seagate 250GB ~= WD
> 250GB.  So this is not an uncommon problem.
>
>
yes this is a fairly old WD

original was

Device Model: WDC WD1600JS-22MHB0
Firmware Version: 02.01C03
User Capacity: 160,041,885,696 bytes


they replaced with

Device Model: WDC WD1600JS-75NCB2
Firmware Version: 10.02E03
User Capacity: 160,000,000,000 bytes

which looks quite strange as it looks like something got lopped off somehow. I 
didn't think bad blocking/sectoring was done any more. Anyhow they've removed 
this disk and are considering options (at least I hope they are).

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Re: geom not clearing metadata labels

2009-09-30 Thread Ross

R> I've got a geom based file system that is running under 2 geom
R> modules: multipath and journal.

Solved the problem, so here's some notes for the archive:

- the answers were hiding throughout in the freebsd-geom mailing list
archives, I just forgot to look there initially.

- this was a single data disk that was improperly partitioned/sliced
in the beginning, therefore the metadata information was being picked
up twice and auto creating the journal device under each device.

- if the journal is being picked up multiple times (ie slice +
partition), then remove one of the formatting options (via dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/x bs=512 count=32) so only 1 journal is
picked up.  Then do "gjournal clear /dev/x" to properly remove the
metadata.

- hardcode the gjournal labels for situations like this, as it'll
stop it being autoloaded under multiple devices.

- gjournal hardcoded provider labels are up to 15 characters long, so
long device names can be a pain (like "multipath/0s1a" is too
long).

Probably a few other notes that I've forgotten, but that'll get you on
the right path.

R.


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kdebase4 installation

2009-09-30 Thread Alain G. Fabry
I'm having problem with kdebase4 installation. Below is error code, what do I 
need to do to get this fixed?

Last portsnap + did 'make disclean', but still get this error.

[ 42%] Generating konsoleadaptor.moc
Scanning dependencies of target konsoleprivate
[ 42%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/konsoleprivate_automoc.o
[ 42%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/BlockArray.o
[ 43%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/BookmarkHandler.o
[ 43%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/ColorScheme.o
[ 43%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/Emulation.o
[ 43%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/Filter.o
[ 44%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/History.o
[ 44%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/HistorySizeDialog.o
[ 44%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/IncrementalSearchBar.o
[ 44%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/KeyboardTranslator.o
[ 45%] Building CXX object 
apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/ProcessInfo.o
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp: In 
member function 'virtual bool FreeBSDProcessInfo::readCurrentDir(int)':
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:751:
 error: 'kinfo_getfile' was not declared in this scope
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:756:
 error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct kinfo_file'
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:748:
 error: forward declaration of 'struct kinfo_file'
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:756:
 error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct kinfo_file'
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:748:
 error: forward declaration of 'struct kinfo_file'
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:756:
 error: 'KF_FD_TYPE_CWD' was not declared in this scope
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:757:
 error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct kinfo_file'
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:748:
 error: forward declaration of 'struct kinfo_file'
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:757:
 error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct kinfo_file'
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/work/kdebase-4.3.1/apps/konsole/src/ProcessInfo.cpp:748:
 error: forward declaration of 'struct kinfo_file'
*** Error code 1
1 error
*** Error code 2
1 error
*** Error code 2
1 error
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4.




Thanks in advance

Alain
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Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Grant Peel  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a storage
> enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of $'s.
>
> The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting
> about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home
> directories.
>
> I am still looking for feedback regarding what level of hardware ( how much
> RAM , cpu bus speed etc) people might be using for a similar setup.
>
> The end idea is to lead FreeBSD on the storage system, create one huge
> /home directory, export it via NFS and share that on all the Web machines.
>
> It might be worth noting that the Web machines host a full array of
> software, i.e. Mail, Web, MySQL, PHP etc.
>
> Does anyone use a similar setup? What kind of I/O bottlenecks are created?
>

Your questions cannot be answer specifically because they do not contain
enough info.  Here is what I chose to do in a similar but smaller enviro.

1.  This a good place for virtualization.  FreeBSD jails are the most
efficient form that I'm aware of including XEN.  Jails have limitations XEN
doesn't however.
2.  High load DB's shouldn't be virtualized.
3.  EZjails port helps alot!
4.  Machine specs would depend on system load, you've given no indication
other than apps.
5.  You should preplan backup and failover setup.  Heartbeat, CARP, rdiff,
and other utilities should help here.



>
> Any feedback would be welcome.
>
> -Grant
>
>


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Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Robin Becker  wrote:

> .
>
>>
>> a simple
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adX bs=1M count=1
>>
>> would fix that if nothing else
>>
>> if there's was no existing label, there is nothing to do except gmirror
>> man
>> instructions.  Gmirror is block level mirroring which why no other steps
>> are
>> needed.
>>
>>  well now I really need advice, the data centre guy successfully inserted
> another disk in the right place and it appears to be the same model.
> However, smartctl -a /dev/ad4 seems to show a number of errors and many of
> the indicators are prefail or old_age.
>
> In addition the disk doesn't have exactly the same length so when I tried
> to insert gmirror complains that it is too small.
>
> What are my options?
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>

This has been answered already but you should be aware that when using
gmirror, your back disk should either be the same model or bigger as hard
drive capacities differ between manufacturers.  As in Seagate 250GB ~= WD
250GB.  So this is not an uncommon problem.


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Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-30 Thread krad
2009/9/30 Robin Becker 

> .
>
>>
>> a simple
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adX bs=1M count=1
>>
>> would fix that if nothing else
>>
>> if there's was no existing label, there is nothing to do except gmirror
>> man
>> instructions.  Gmirror is block level mirroring which why no other steps
>> are
>> needed.
>>
>>  well now I really need advice, the data centre guy successfully inserted
> another disk in the right place and it appears to be the same model.
> However, smartctl -a /dev/ad4 seems to show a number of errors and many of
> the indicators are prefail or old_age.
>
> In addition the disk doesn't have exactly the same length so when I tried
> to insert gmirror complains that it is too small.
>
> What are my options?
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1st thing sure up what you have.

create another mirror, partition, newfs it up and rsync the the contents of
the active drive over to it.

Keep the rsync every 10 minutes or so depeneding on how much data you have
and what impact it has on system resources

You then have two options

boot off the new drive, destroy the gmirror on the old drive and add it to
the new mirror on the old drive


or

buy another new drive, Make sure its bigger this time. Add it to the box and
add it the the old gmirror

you can then leave the 1st new drive in there potentially and have it as a
hot back
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Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote:

> I'm trying to compile 
> 
>   http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html
> 
> on my FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and didn't success
> 
> I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone
> have the patch file for the system.mk ? 
> 
> Long time ago ion ports was kick off from the ports system because the will
> of the developper (please don't troll). I just saw the license just change
> maybe now it's possible to put again ion in the ports system ? 
> 
> I would like to help for the ports but as you can see I unable to build for
> myself.

I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently.

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Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote:


On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:01 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block  
wrote:

So usually I back up /, /var, and /usr to files
on a USB disk or sshfs.  Then I switch to the new target system, booting
it with a FreeBSD disk and doing a minimal install.  That makes sure the
MBR is installed, gives me a chance to set all the filesystem sizes, and
newfses them.


Similar here. In most cases, the FreeBSD live system is completely
sufficient: run sysinstall, slice, boot loader, partitions, drop
to shell; mount USB stick, restore from files located there.


Then I restore from the dump files created earlier, over the running
system.  First /usr, then /var, then /.  On reboot, it's a clone.


This means you bring up the minimal (installed) system first, then
do the restore? Why not do it right after the basic steps of
preparation right from the install CD?


Probably mostly inertia, but I also like that it makes certain 
everything has been done to make a complete bootable system.  Seems like 
when I do it manually, CRS syndrome kicks in and I forget a step which 
ends up taking more time.


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ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all

I'm trying to compile 

http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html

on my FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and didn't success

I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone
have the patch file for the system.mk ? 

Long time ago ion ports was kick off from the ports system because the will
of the developper (please don't troll). I just saw the license just change
maybe now it's possible to put again ion in the ports system ? 

I would like to help for the ports but as you can see I unable to build for
myself.

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anonymous ftp user only from specific subnet / ips

2009-09-30 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi list,

I've ftp server, where I want to deny anonymous
logins from the outer net, but allow logins of anonymous
users from inner net. Normal system users would have
ftp access to theirs home directories from both networks.

I am using vsftpd, I wanted to configure tcp wrappers, but it does not
solve my problem.

thank you
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Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-30 Thread Robin Becker

.


a simple

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adX bs=1M count=1

would fix that if nothing else

if there's was no existing label, there is nothing to do except gmirror man
instructions.  Gmirror is block level mirroring which why no other steps are
needed.

well now I really need advice, the data centre guy successfully inserted another 
disk in the right place and it appears to be the same model. However, smartctl 
-a /dev/ad4 seems to show a number of errors and many of the indicators are 
prefail or old_age.


In addition the disk doesn't have exactly the same length so when I tried to 
insert gmirror complains that it is too small.


What are my options?
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Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ  wrote:
> Polytropon wrote:
>> Assuming nobody uses tape drives anymore, you need to specify
>> another file, which is the standard output in this case, which
>> may not be obvious, but it is if we reorder the command line:
>>
>> # dump -0 -L - a -u -f - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -r -f -

> 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f
> and g slices or is it partitions?

No, dump will backup a single partition (or filesystem) specified by the
options you pass, i.e.:

*   Dump only the ad0s1a partition to standard output:

dump -0 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1a

*   Dump only the ad0s1d partition to standard output:

dump -0 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1d

You will have to run multiple `dump' instances to backup more than one
partition.  For example, a short script that I run daily to save dumps
at level 2 for all my laptop's UFS filesystems includes code that is
equivalent to the following set of commands:

TODAY=$( date -u '+%Y-%m-%d' )

dump -2 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1a > kobe.2.${TODAY}.ad0s1a
dump -2 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1d > kobe.2.${TODAY}.ad0s1d
dump -2 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1e > kobe.2.${TODAY}.ad0s1e
dump -2 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s3d > kobe.2.${TODAY}.ad0s3d

Each partition is dumped to a separate output file, so I can restore
them separately.

>>> I am trying to dump the whole system (all the slices)except swap
>>> to a usb (sata2 500gb disk) and then restore to another computer with
>>> 7.2 minimal installation.
>>
>> I think that's not possible because dump operates on file system
>> level, which means on partitions, not on slices.
>
> I've been very confused with the slices/partitions.  I meant above, to
> dump the whole slice - but I guess that it has to be done with the
> partitions.

You cannot dump a full slice (what other operating systems call a "BIOS
partition") in a single dump run.  Use multiple dump commands like the
ones shown above.

>>> Slices ad2s1d,e,f and g dump ok to usb. a does not - errors ("should use
>>> -L when dumping live filesystems)
>
> and when I do dump -0Laf  /dev /ad1s1a  /dev/da0s1a
> the errors are
> "write error 10 blocks into volume 1
> do you want to restart:"

This is not a correct invocation of dump.  You can't pass multiple
partitions in one instance of dump, like /dev, /ad1s1a and /dev/da0s1a.

If the order of dump options confuses you, reorder them the same way
Polytropon did, so that the `-f OUTPUT' option stands out a bit more:

dump -0 -a -L -f - /ad1s1a

A break-down of these options is now easier to understand:

* This will save a level 0 dump (the -0 option) of partition
  /ad1s1a.

* The dump will not be split into multiple tape `archives' (the -a
  option).

* Before trying to save the current state of the input partition,
  dump will create a `snapshot' so that a consistent state of all
  files in the partition will be saved in the dumped archive (the -L
  option).

* The backup archive will be sent to standard output (the '-'
  argument of the -f option).

The special '-' value for the output file of the -f option may be a bit
confusing, but it is useful if you are going to immediately pipe dump's
output to the restore(8) program.  Otherwise, if you are just going to
save the dump archive to another disk, you could have used:

dump -0 -a -L -f dumpfile /ad1s1a

The dump utility would then save a dump archive to `dumpfile' instead of
writing everything to its standard output.

>> To illustrate a dump and restore process that involves several
>> partitions, just let me add this example:
>>
>> Stage 1: Initialize slice and partitions
>> # fdisk -I -B ad1
>> # bsdlabel -w -B ad1s1
>> # bsdlabel -e ad1s1
>> a: 512M * 4.2BSD 0 0 0
>> b: 1024M * swap
>> c: * * unused <--- don't change
>> e: 2G * 4.2BSD 0 0 0
>> f: 2G * 4.2BSD 0 0 0
>> g: 10G * 4.2BSD 0 0 0
>> h: * * 4.2BSD 0 0 0
>> ^KX (means: save & exit)
>> # newfs /dev/ad1s1a
>> # newfs -U /dev/ad1s1e
>> # newfs -U /dev/ad1s1f
>> # newfs -U /dev/ad1s1g
>> # newfs -U /dev/ad1s1h
>>
>> Stage 2: Go into SUM and prepare the source partitions
>
> why into SUM? I'm really the only user and I usually stay as root
> if SUM, shouldn't the # below be $?

Because when you are running in multi-user mode there may be services
and other background processes changing the files of the source
partitions while you are dumping them.

By going into single-user mode, you ensure that there is only one active
process in your system: the root shell you are using to back & restore
the files.

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Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread herbert langhans
I had similar troubles with hal. 

The easiest solutions is to get rid of hal. Deinstall it. The xorg-package you 
can compile without hal (use make configure and uncheck hal) and it will work.

Cheers
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 03:59:23PM -0700, chr...@uvic.ca wrote:
> I have several related problems with hald on 7.2 i386. First, on one
> machine (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2), hald will not start at startup, nor by
> executing the startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start. It doesn't
> exit with any error code: it simply produces no output at all, and ps -ax
> | grep hal shows that it didn't start. Incidentally, the dbus and cupsd
> scripts in the same directory also do nothing.
> 
> On the other machine, however (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE), hald doesn't *build*.
> It errors out with:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so: undefined reference to `strn...@fbsd_1.1'
> gmake[4]: *** [hald] Error 1
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald'
> gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald'
> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/hal.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/hal.
> 
> This machine was a new install from the 7.2 i386 CD, so to save time I
> used packages that had already been built on the first machine. All of
> these packages were built within a day of each other, from a previously
> updated ports tree with all previously installed packages removed.
> 
> Xorg and hald and dbus and everything related installed just fine, and
> Xorg works, except that the mouse doesn't work, which I suspect is caused
> by hald not working. On this machine, the hald that was compiled on the
> first machine won't start, this time giving an error:
> 
> r...@nimue /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> # ./hald start
> Starting hald.
>   
>   r...@nimue
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> # /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.1 required by
> /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so.2 not found
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
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