Re: device nodes in usb2 stack
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 23:13:27 Alexander Best wrote: Hans Petter Selasky schrieb am 2009-10-19: On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:08:14 Alexander Best wrote: posted this to freebsd-questions@ a while ago and got no answer. alex Hi, For every USB device there is /dev/usb/XXX . Currently the USB Bluetooth driver does not have any file nodes. Entries appearing in devd.conf might not always be matched due to /dev/XXX creation. In that regard the USB stack fakes ugenX.Y device messages for devd.conf. --HPS i see. will this stay the way it is or are there any plans to also add file nodes for usb dongle devices? There are currently only symbolic links /dev/ugenX.Y --HPS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download
Dear Dan: I don't want to cause people to jump up and down, but one fact I am absolutely certain of!, is the following; Take a hard-drive you can write on, burn a copy of FBSD 7.2 onto a CD, and do the basic install. Then, when the base system is up, run sysinstall and do a Configure followed by Packages. Then go to math and select maxima. Then watch. Gnuplot, a dependency of maxima will fail. And thus without using the -f flag (as part of a PKG_ADD command,) you can not load a recent copy of Maxima on FreeBSD. This is the case not only for 7.2, but it's been true since at least version 6.1 And Gnuplot seems to be missing something called PDFlib -- it may have been redacted by someone who decided that it wasn't supposed to be public, I don't know. But notice I am describing two problems. One, an install of Maxima fails using the package method, because Gnuplot doesn't install, and also, using the ports tree, (see, I'm not talking about a package anymore;) gnuplot fails to install because the PDFlib ports support file can not be found. Oddly, the package install failure, while it names gnuplot, doesn't correctly identify the problem. On several systems on which I've tried to do the maxima install, the error message identifies the problem as an I/O error. Only when I attempt the ports-install does the problem show up correctly, that gnuplot depends on PDFlib, which can not be found. Obviously I run maxima without gnuplot graphics. I just had to learn the work-around, not a big deal... I look at it this way... For me, getting maxima up on FreeBSD has taught me a lot about how FBSD is organized. But really, someone should take the time to make this a solved problem. I can make gnuplot work, but I don't have the authority to change the package content. A similar problem exists with clusterit. Most of the commands work just fine. But the semaphore control, (called guards in clusterit,) don't lock. They simply don't. The program probably works fine in Linux. But myself and a friend, who have about 85 years of programming experience couldn't make it work. We scrapped it and wrote our own tool to do this. I love FreeBSD and I continue to be very impressed with the quality of this OS, not just the core, not just the documentation, not just the applications, simply, it is truly a remarkable 'product'. The people who have contributed to making this work should know that they have really contributed. And I use FBSD heavily -- in fact I and a couple of friends put together a cluster of machines and we never saw any other OS as a good choice. These two problems are all I have; So you see, I'm not unhappy. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Oct 20), Henry Olyer said: I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. What errors are you getting? Portsmon says that gnuplot builds fine on all three branches: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=portname=gnuplot If you have a patch, send a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/article.html -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:53:05 +1000 Warren Liddell (shin...@maydias.com) replied: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? portmanager: to add/update/repair a single port with logging and forcing all of it's dependencies to be rebuilt portmanager x11/gnome2 -l -f -- Jerry |=== ges...@yahoo.com|=== |=== |=== | From 0 to what seems to be the problem officer in 8.3 seconds. Ad for the new VW Corrado ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue portupgrade -Rf portname should do the trick. This has made a huge difference an has indeed helped to get a lot of troublesome ports done. Many tnxs for the help :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
(no subject)
please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i 86 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (no subject)
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:26:45 -0700 (PDT) nicholas addei (uncleka...@yahoo.co.uk) replied: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i Maybe next time you could include a SUBJECT: with your post. Anyway, your post is useless. Exactly what is your problem? Might I suggest that you use script or whatever else you prefer to create a complete log of your failed installation attempt and then either paste it here if it isn't too large, or place a link to it here. You might also consider cleaning out the /usr/ports/distfiles' directory and then running: portsclean -C -L -PP if you have it installed before attempting a new build. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am working with gnu tar checkpoints this morning can cannot seem to
get variables to expand properly when they are passed as part of a
checkpoint action. Following is how I am using gnu tar
DIR=/home/test
WHATTOBACKUP=/home/somedir
/usr/local/gtar-1.22/bin/tar -cf - ${WHATTOBACKUP} \
--checkpoint-action='echo=Checkpoint #%u' --checkpoint-action='exec=/
usr/local/scripts/check_disk_usage.sh ${DIR}'
When I use ${DIR} as a parameter, it is not sent to the
check_disk_usage_script. However, if I replace ${DIR} with /home/
test, everything works fine.
Any suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jay
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Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion
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[...] Following is how I am using gnu tar
DIR=/home/test
WHATTOBACKUP=/home/somedir
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--checkpoint-action='echo=Checkpoint #%u'
--checkpoint-action='exec=/usr/local/scripts/check_disk_usage.sh ${DIR}'
Try this:
/usr/local/gtar-1.22/bin/tar -cf - ${WHATTOBACKUP} \
--checkpoint-action='echo=Checkpoint #%u' \
--checkpoint-action=exec=/usr/local/scripts/check_disk_usage.sh ${DIR}
The use of single quotes prohibits the expansion of environment
variables. Use double qoutes instead.
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Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion
Jay Hall wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am working with gnu tar checkpoints this morning can cannot seem to
get variables to expand properly when they are passed as part of a
checkpoint action. Following is how I am using gnu tar
DIR=/home/test
WHATTOBACKUP=/home/somedir
/usr/local/gtar-1.22/bin/tar -cf - ${WHATTOBACKUP} \
--checkpoint-action='echo=Checkpoint #%u'
--checkpoint-action='exec=/usr/local/scripts/check_disk_usage.sh ${DIR}'
When I use ${DIR} as a parameter, it is not sent to the
check_disk_usage_script. However, if I replace ${DIR} with /home/test,
everything works fine.
Any suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
That's fairly basic shell syntax. Use double quotes on any string where
you want variable interpolation.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Question about FreeBSD syscall usage
Yan, Yeqing wrote: Hi: I'm from Intel China. Our project use FreeBSD 7.0 and I have some questions about the FreeBSD syscall. I don't know how to use these syscall below. Is there having some doc or example about how to use these syscall? kse_exit kse_wakeup kse_create kse_thr_interrupt kse_release kse_switchin mac_syscall thr_create thr_suspend thr_kill2 Thank you very much! Best Regards Yan, Yeqing Hello Yeqing, You might want to write to hack...@freebsd.org ... ... some of those guys *wrote* these syscalls. However, since it's a question, I'll take a stab at it. Have you read: $man kse $man 3 mac $man libthr ? Also, see www.freebsd.org/kse/ However, I think that KSE was used in 5.x and 6.x and then dropped in favor of a 1:1 threading model when 7.0 was released (I'm sure some hacker@ can correct this information if I'm wrong). I hope this is helpful to you. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion
On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: That's fairly basic shell syntax. Use double quotes on any string where you want variable interpolation. Cheers, Matthew I will try that again and let you know what happens. Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (no subject)
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:26:45AM -0700, nicholas addei wrote: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. You will get more help if you first, use a meaningful subject line on your post and then if you put some useful information in the post - such as just what you tried and what happened along with what messages that were displayed. jerry :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i 86 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Looking for troubleshooting tips.
I use Freebsd as the base for my network monitoring sensors. These machines run a netflow probe, act as a netflow collector and spool full content data from a snort process FIFO that is bound to a span port. During peak hours this can be 100MB saturated, its connected to a GB intel NIC on the box (there is a separate uplink). In the background numerous little scripts run to produce summary data. The basic template for these systems has been the same for the past 4 years and things have worked great. Recently, one of these machines started to become a little laggy and I can't seem to identify the issue. This system has always seen a lot of packet loss, I expect this though as it is a busy site but this has never affected its performance. Can an overloaded NIC cause serious performance issues like those I am seeing? This is a recent top: last pid: 98870; load averages: 1.54, 1.41, 1.31 up 1+01:57:10 11:50:24 142 processes: 2 running, 139 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 30.9% user, 0.0% nice, 15.0% system, 1.7% interrupt, 52.4% idle Mem: 450M Active, 328M Inact, 168M Wired, 33M Cache, 110M Buf, 3700K Free Swap: 2048M Total, 5112K Used, 2043M Free 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 To be honest, I don't know which counters are important. Is there anything specific I should be concentrating on to determine the cause? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Looking for troubleshooting tips.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Paul Halliday paul.halli...@gmail.comwrote: I use Freebsd as the base for my network monitoring sensors. These machines run a netflow probe, act as a netflow collector and spool full content data from a snort process FIFO that is bound to a span port. During peak hours this can be 100MB saturated, its connected to a GB intel NIC on the box (there is a separate uplink). In the background numerous little scripts run to produce summary data. The basic template for these systems has been the same for the past 4 years and things have worked great. Recently, one of these machines started to become a little laggy and I can't seem to identify the issue. This system has always seen a lot of packet loss, I expect this though as it is a busy site but this has never affected its performance. Can an overloaded NIC cause serious performance issues like those I am seeing? This is a recent top: last pid: 98870; load averages: 1.54, 1.41, 1.31 up 1+01:57:10 11:50:24 142 processes: 2 running, 139 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 30.9% user, 0.0% nice, 15.0% system, 1.7% interrupt, 52.4% idle Mem: 450M Active, 328M Inact, 168M Wired, 33M Cache, 110M Buf, 3700K Free Swap: 2048M Total, 5112K Used, 2043M Free 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 To be honest, I don't know which counters are important. Is there anything specific I should be concentrating on to determine the cause? Thanks. The top stats indicate a moderate load, nothing to worry about there. I think you'll need to focus on network specific troubleshooting and you'll need to provide more info than what you've given to start with that. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Warren Liddell wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Depending on what you mean by dependency, either portupgrade -rf pkg or portupgrade -Rf pkg -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. Gnuplot builds and runs just fine here. I've been using it continuosly since 5.3-RELEASE, on both i386 and amd64 with the following options: # Options for gnuplot-4.2.4 _OPTIONS_READ=gnuplot-4.2.4 WITH_GD=true WITH_GRIDBOX=true WITH_PDF=true WITHOUT_PLOT=true WITHOUT_TETEX=true WITH_THINSPLINES=true WITHOUT_WX=true Is your ports tree up to date? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpDoaUHCW0aq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (no subject) Gnome
nicholas addei schrieb: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i 86 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Normaly you do pkg_add -r gnome But know i get an error back. pkg_add -nr gnome Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz' by URL With cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 make install will it work, but some hours/ days need to install. An old 1GHz System need 3 days for KDE 3 ;). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html greetings ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (no subject) Gnome
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:27 +0200 Lokadamus Lokadamus lokada...@gmx.de replied: nicholas addei schrieb: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i 86 Normaly you do pkg_add -r gnome But know i get an error back. pkg_add -nr gnome Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz' by URL With cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 make install will it work, but some hours/ days need to install. An old 1GHz System need 3 days for KDE 3 ;). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html Running as root: pkg_add -nr gnome2 It works here. Is your ports tree up-to-date? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | The sudden sight of me causes panic in the streets. They have yet to learn - only the savage fears what he does not understand. The Silver Surfer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
Warren Liddell wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. Once you have portsnap installed you can subsequently use: portsnap fetch update. Manolis Kiagias has suggested this to several of us on the list and it works for me. Good luck. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download
In the last episode (Oct 21), Henry Olyer said: Take a hard-drive you can write on, burn a copy of FBSD 7.2 onto a CD, and do the basic install. Then, when the base system is up, run sysinstall and do a Configure followed by Packages. Then go to math and select maxima. Then watch. Gnuplot, a dependency of maxima will fail. And thus without using the -f flag (as part of a PKG_ADD command,) you can not load a recent copy of Maxima on FreeBSD. This is the case not only for 7.2, but it's been true since at least version 6.1 And Gnuplot seems to be missing something called PDFlib -- it may have been redacted by someone who decided that it wasn't supposed to be public, I don't know. But notice I am describing two problems. One, an install of Maxima fails using the package method, because Gnuplot doesn't install, and also, using the ports tree, (see, I'm not talking about a package anymore;) gnuplot fails to install because the PDFlib ports support file can not be found. I haven't had any problems building gnuplot or pdflib from source (and I haven't seen any complaints on the ports list either). You'll need to provide your error messages before we can help you with that. As for the maxima package install problem, gnuplot depends on pdflib, which is an optional component. pdflib has licensing restrictions that prevent a binary package from being created. There are a couple hundred ports like this, where they will build fine from ports but you aren't allowed to ship the binary. The gnuplot port should probably turn the pdflib option off when building packages for distribution (similar to how the audio/grip or audio/sox ports handle their dependency on audio/lame). If you build the pdflib port yourself, or build the gnuplot port and turn off the PDF option, then you'll be able to install the maxima package. It won't try and install things that are already on the system. Oddly, the package install failure, while it names gnuplot, doesn't correctly identify the problem. On several systems on which I've tried to do the maxima install, the error message identifies the problem as an I/O error. Only when I attempt the ports-install does the problem show up correctly, that gnuplot depends on PDFlib, which can not be found. Obviously I run maxima without gnuplot graphics. I just had to learn the work-around, not a big deal... I look at it this way... For me, getting maxima up on FreeBSD has taught me a lot about how FBSD is organized. But really, someone should take the time to make this a solved problem. I can make gnuplot work, but I don't have the authority to change the package content. A similar problem exists with clusterit. Most of the commands work just fine. But the semaphore control, (called guards in clusterit,) don't lock. They simply don't. The program probably works fine in Linux. But myself and a friend, who have about 85 years of programming experience couldn't make it work. We scrapped it and wrote our own tool to do this. If you can provide more detail, file a PR or post to the freebsd-ports mailing list and see if anyone else has seen the problem. I love FreeBSD and I continue to be very impressed with the quality of this OS, not just the core, not just the documentation, not just the applications, simply, it is truly a remarkable 'product'. The people who have contributed to making this work should know that they have really contributed. And I use FBSD heavily -- in fact I and a couple of friends put together a cluster of machines and we never saw any other OS as a good choice. These two problems are all I have; So you see, I'm not unhappy. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
undo make deinstall
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Re: (no subject) Gnome
I had the same problem. An arrogant person at the freebsd forum said I had a lack of resolving, but I didn't know what he was talking about. Someone said to edit /etc/rc.conf but that didn't help because it was a read only file. I reinstalled freebsd all over again and that time it worked. You may need to try that. However I haven't yet been able to get it running, and I have the popuplar problem of mouse and keyboard not working with xorg. It's pretty discouraging. So all I can suggest is installing the operating system again. Steve --- El mié, 21/10/09, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com escribió: De: Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Asunto: Re: (no subject) Gnome Para: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fecha: miércoles, 21 de octubre, 2009 01:17 On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:27 +0200 Lokadamus Lokadamus lokada...@gmx.de replied: nicholas addei schrieb: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i 86 Normaly you do pkg_add -r gnome But know i get an error back. pkg_add -nr gnome Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz' by URL With cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 make install will it work, but some hours/ days need to install. An old 1GHz System need 3 days for KDE 3 ;). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html Running as root: pkg_add -nr gnome2 It works here. Is your ports tree up-to-date? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | The sudden sight of me causes panic in the streets. They have yet to learn - only the savage fears what he does not understand. The Silver Surfer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: undo make deinstall
On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: undo make deinstall
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... It is, for the moment, a hypothetical question -- based on an experience a year or so ago. I'd like to avoid having the same problem again (deinstalling and reinstalling something, then finding the reinstall didn't work) without having an idea how to undo the damage of deinstalling something that actually worked. So . . . assume for argument's sake that I haven't gone out of my way to create a package in advance, for a sort of worst case scenario. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpqf91rBRXFN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: undo make deinstall
In the last episode (Oct 21), Chad Perrin said: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... It is, for the moment, a hypothetical question -- based on an experience a year or so ago. I'd like to avoid having the same problem again (deinstalling and reinstalling something, then finding the reinstall didn't work) without having an idea how to undo the damage of deinstalling something that actually worked. So . . . assume for argument's sake that I haven't gone out of my way to create a package in advance, for a sort of worst case scenario. pkg_create -b portupgrade uses this when upgrading, so it can roll back failed installs. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Al Plant wrote: I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. portsnap updates the ports tree. AFAIK, it will not help with updating ports that have already been installed. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: undo make deinstall
Hi-- On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... It is, for the moment, a hypothetical question -- based on an experience a year or so ago. I'd like to avoid having the same problem again (deinstalling and reinstalling something, then finding the reinstall didn't work) without having an idea how to undo the damage of deinstalling something that actually worked. So . . . assume for argument's sake that I haven't gone out of my way to create a package in advance, for a sort of worst case scenario. As Dan mentioned, portupgrade creates a package before deleting the installed files, so it can rollback to the older version if the install of the update fails. And, of course, if you care about a system, then you would already be taking backups that you could restore from if you needed to... Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is this card supported: Broadcom BCM94312MCGSG
I have a netbook which I would like to install FreeBSD on. I am going to order a new harddrive. But will this Broadcom card be supported or I also need to get another miniPCI replacement card? This page: http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-9-hardware-upgrades/4785-mini-9-compatible-network-cards.html says that it's supported on Ubuntu. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (no subject) Gnome
Steven Seipel schrieb: I had the same problem. An arrogant person at the freebsd forum said I had a lack of resolving, but I didn't know what he was talking about. Someone said to edit /etc/rc.conf but that didn't help because it was a read only file. I reinstalled freebsd all over again and that time it worked. You may need to try that. However I haven't yet been able to get it running, and I have the popuplar problem of mouse and keyboard not working with xorg. It's pretty discouraging. So all I can suggest is installing the operating system again. Steve I know what is mean. I had a problem last year, where i can't install something. Later i see that our dns server was down and ping ebay.com wasn't resolved. After dns server was back all works fine. One other problem can be active or passive ftp. Last week i want install mailscanner (FreeBSD 8.0 RC1), but nothing with ftp was download. I look for a solution, but environment for ftp passive was set. So i looked at our firewall and see that active ftp was use instead of passive. I give all ports over 1024 free for it and it works. Sorry for my bad english :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?
Hi, could a resource leak or bug in pf(4) crash a RELENG_7 router (as of Oct 6th)? I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of pf-related bug similar to this on OpenBSD: http://www.mail-archive.com/m...@openbsd.org/msg58042.html More precisely, when I fire up rtorrent-devel on some *other* machine (not the router!), everything runs fine at first. It could also run very fine for many days. BUT should I start a torrent with a large number of seeders which could saturate my link for an extended period of time, the soekris router would suddenly freeze... but not immediately: more like a few hours (3 to 6) or so of relatively heavy traffic. Only a hard reboot of the router would help. Please note that rtorrent is NOT running on the router, only its traffic is being redirected through the router. So I'm suspecting some bug / resource leak in pf that would bring the kernel down somehow. What kind of resources should I monitor (and how)? Maybe that could bring some clues? Oh, before anybody asks: I have no crashdumps, the router freezes totally without panicking. And it doesn't recover automatically even after many hours. Any ideas? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (no subject) Gnome
Jerry schrieb: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:27 +0200 Lokadamus Lokadamus lokada...@gmx.de replied: nicholas addei schrieb: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i 86 Normaly you do pkg_add -r gnome But know i get an error back. pkg_add -nr gnome Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz' by URL With cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 make install will it work, but some hours/ days need to install. An old 1GHz System need 3 days for KDE 3 ;). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html Running as root: pkg_add -nr gnome2 It works here. Is your ports tree up-to-date? Ah, i see my mistake. I use only pkg_add -r gnome, not gnome2 ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (no subject) Gnome
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:10:53 + (GMT), Steven Seipel sseipel...@yahoo.es wrote: I had the same problem. An arrogant person at the freebsd forum said I had a lack of resolving, but I didn't know what he was talking about. That's not a good way to promote FreeBSD, but be sure that this list is full of friendly people willing to help you, as long as you are able to - specify your problem as precise as possible - give commands you tried - give error messages that can help identifying the problem. Someone said to edit /etc/rc.conf but that didn't help because it was a read only file. Obviously, you've tried to edit /etc/rc.conf without being root. This file is writable to root only because it contains the system's configuration, so it's quite important and doesn't allow anybody to alter it. I reinstalled freebsd all over again and that time it worked. What did you do differently this time? You may need to try that. However I haven't yet been able to get it running, and I have the popuplar problem of mouse and keyboard not working with xorg. It's pretty discouraging. Yes, I really know that... :-) For Gnome, have a look at the handbook's section: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html You'll find many informations here. And for X, refer to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html where the problems of modern X are discussed. Keep in mind that you have to answer an important qustion first: Do I need HAL and DBUS? This might be the situation when you want to run Gnome with automount features. So all I can suggest is installing the operating system again. Sorry, that's completely stupid. FreeBSD isn't Windows, you do not need to have to install the OS over and over again, just because you encounter trouble installing, running or configuring additional software (which Gnome is); remember that FreeBSD is not a Linux distribution, it maintains its own base operating system, and as far as I see, there's no problem with it on your system. Please, don't make things more complicated than they are, and don't waste your time with such nonsense. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: undo make deinstall
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:31:03PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: And, of course, if you care about a system, then you would already be taking backups that you could restore from if you needed to... Of course, but I would hope there's an easier way to handle things than restoring the whole system from backup. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgprgG8ORXnlX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: undo make deinstall
In the last episode (Oct 21), Chad Perrin said: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:31:03PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: And, of course, if you care about a system, then you would already be taking backups that you could restore from if you needed to... Of course, but I would hope there's an easier way to handle things than restoring the whole system from backup. If you do have backups, you could restore /var/db/pkg/mypackage/+CONTENTS, then restore the files listed in that file. A bit more complicated than a full restore, but maybe quicker (depending on your backup system) and requiring less space. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT), Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org said: T is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed T width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and T pads each field in the file with a suitable amount of space? http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align/ Align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align columns in string-separated tables of input text. You can direct how the columns are separated on input and rejoined in the aligned output. It's great. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Markets are self-correcting. That's why I trust markets more than governments. Governments usually aren't self-correcting until too late. --Interview with Walter Wriston as reported in Wired 4.10 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is this card supported: Broadcom BCM94312MCGSG
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Yuri wrote: I have a netbook which I would like to install FreeBSD on. I am going to order a new harddrive. But will this Broadcom card be supported or I also need to get another miniPCI replacement card? This page: http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-9-hardware-upgrades/4785-mini-9-compatible-network-cards.html says that it's supported on Ubuntu. A Broadcom BCM94312MCG (no SG suffix) mini-PCIe doesn't work here on FreeBSD 8. There are no native drivers, and NDIS drivers never recognized the card. Replaced with an Atheros AR5007 (AR5BXB63). -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 20), Tom Worster said: is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field in the file with a suitable about of space? The rs command should do what you want, if you can figure out the correct commandline options. It's not easy, though... thanks dan. i spent a happy while reading the rs man page over and over, trying every every combination of flag. afaict, rs wants to make all the columns the same width. that doesn't work for me. a typical data file i want to review might have 6 columns, 5 of which are limited width and fairly narrow while the other other varies from one character to needing a widescreen 27 display. so the other feature i need is truncation of the rare extra-long values in that last column. if i knew perl... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-TSV-files-with-columns-aligned-tp25979622p26002056.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned
Karl Vogel-3 wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT), Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org said: T is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed T width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and T pads each field in the file with a suitable amount of space? http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align/ Align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align columns in string-separated tables of input text. You can direct how the columns are separated on input and rejoined in the aligned output. It's great. h, that was close! if only it had a way to truncate fields in a column that has a few really long strings in it. thanks for pointing me to it. i'll see if i can't figure out the script and how to modify it to add this trick. (perl for beginners.) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-TSV-files-with-columns-aligned-tp25979622p26002100.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned
In an earlier message, I wrote: K Align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align K columns in string-separated tables of input text. On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:58:25 -0700 (PDT), Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org said: T if only it had a way to truncate fields in a column that has a few T really long strings in it. thanks for pointing me to it. i'll see if i T can't figure out the script and how to modify it to add this trick. It would be lots easier to write a smaller script which finds and chops the columns you like, and pipe the output to align. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.--Mark Russell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
