Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-06 Thread Wes Morgan
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've got a 7.2 system with four 500GB drives, originally built thusly: > > # zpool history > History for 'storage': > 2008-07-11.23:15:40 zpool create storage raidz ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 > > I just bought four 1.5TB drives, in which I want to

Re: ports/devel/protobuf: Segmentation fault in mmap in some applications

2010-01-06 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 14:14:28 O. Hartmann wrote: > Dear Sirs, > We use a software package for scientific imagery processing from USGS, > ISIS3 (http://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/). The most recent version is > 3.1.21 and since this version, the software intensively uses > libprotobuf.so. >

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:52:53 PST Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:16:51 PST Warren Block wrote: With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it has the same problem it had the last time I tried it: random pixels under

Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, I've got a 7.2 system with four 500GB drives, originally built thusly: # zpool history History for 'storage': 2008-07-11.23:15:40 zpool create storage raidz ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 I just bought four 1.5TB drives, in which I want to use to replace the 500GBs. Also, I've been loosely follow

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-06 Thread Programmer In Training
After testing out the boot disk on my mom's laptop, I have determined there is an error somewhere with my computer. I don't know what it is or where to even begin to look to fix it, but my computer is toast. -- PIT signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 14:16:55 PST Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:52:53 PST Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:16:51 PST Warren Block wrote: With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it has the same problem it had the last time I tried it: random

Re: Can't get wifi working in 8.0, please help.

2010-01-06 Thread alex_p
Hello! Here's my working rc.conf: wlans_ral0="wlan0" create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap mode 11g" ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 ssid btest channel 11" or you can do it by hand: # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ral0 wlanmode hostap # ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xf

OOo stuff [acroread too]

2010-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, I edit a lot of my daughter essays for punct, and to tweak a few things, &c. Normally i check my fixes my having flite read back to me after I have saved her doc files as txt. Since i installed the OOo spellchecker I have found a couple other inter

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 14:16:55 PST Charlie Kester wrote: I just remembered that I had implemented a tip I got somewhere for forcing use of the condensed versions of the DejaVu fonts. For the curious, here's where I got that tip: http://keramida.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/dejavu-condensed-as-defa

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:52:53 PST Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:16:51 PST Warren Block wrote: With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it has the same problem it had the last time I tried it: random pixels under the current row of text, the old cursor isn

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:16:51 PST Warren Block wrote: With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it has the same problem it had the last time I tried it: random pixels under the current row of text, the old cursor isn't erased when you move to a different line. Am I the on

Re: Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-06 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Jan 6, 2010, at 21:37 , krad wrote: > 2010/1/6 Anselm Strauss > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with a ZFS only system and booting from it in VirtualBox. > Thanks to various mails and forum posts from the net I have a working > scenario with booting from a ZFS mirror. However, I can't get the thi

Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Warren Block
With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it has the same problem it had the last time I tried it: random pixels under the current row of text, the old cursor isn't erased when you move to a different line. Am I the only one that sees this? Sample here: http://www.wonkity

Re: Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-06 Thread Sergiy Suprun
Hi. Some time ago I follow instruction from this wiki http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS and I had a problem like yours. After some experiments I build loader from CURRENT, and boot fine from raidz2 zpool. I don't know, may be now this code avialable in 8-STABLE. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 20:25, Ansel

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:21:06AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote: > >In response to Da Rock : > > > >>Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > >> > >>I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it i

Re: Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-06 Thread krad
2010/1/6 Anselm Strauss > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with a ZFS only system and booting from it in VirtualBox. > Thanks to various mails and forum posts from the net I have a working > scenario with booting from a ZFS mirror. However, I can't get the thing to > work with raidz with the exactly sam

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 11:02:49 PST Kaya Saman wrote: [...] I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a voluminous discussion on those to

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:02 +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > [...] > > > > I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it > > into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I > > pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a > > voluminous disc

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a voluminous discussion on those topics. I think we should simply point interested reade

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:52:32 PST Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote: Assuming you have to use X, you'll want to avoid heavyweight desktop environments like KDE or Gnome. I like tiled window managers like musca or dwm myself, but your skeptics will probably want a mo

Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset

2010-01-06 Thread Manish Jain
Hello Warren/Polytropon, Thanks a lot for the information. As Polytropon stated, xorg.conf is generally not needed nowadays. So I just did a startx and things worked out fine. However, this behaviour is more Windowish than Unixish. I would like to remember the -configure option for my own sa

Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-06 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm experimenting with a ZFS only system and booting from it in VirtualBox. Thanks to various mails and forum posts from the net I have a working scenario with booting from a ZFS mirror. However, I can't get the thing to work with raidz with the exactly same setup, except that the pool is n

Re: mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread Rob
To the mysql init script, I added: # REQUIRE: dhclient And to the dhclient init script I added: # REQUIRE: NETWORKING In addition to changing DHCP to SYNCDHCP in rc.conf, mysql now starts up on boot. I would think the dhclient change should be required in the default setup since NETWORKING

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote: Assuming you have to use X, you'll want to avoid heavyweight desktop environments like KDE or Gnome. I like tiled window managers like musca or dwm myself, but your skeptics will probably want a more traditional window manager (aka MS-Windows clone) lik

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:21:06 PST Charlie Kester wrote: For some ideas on which apps to try, look at the apps bundled in some of the Linux distros that target small machines. http://bengross.com/smallunix.html has a good list of these distros. Hmm, I probably should have checked that referenc

Re: keyboard and mouse no longer working

2010-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, n dhert wrote: On a dual-boot PC (windows, ubuntu) I added a FreeBSD 7.2-amd64 partition. No problem. Then I removed the SATA disk, and replaced it with a larger SATA disk. With GParted I removed everything on that newer disk, and started installing FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from a

Re: mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread Matt
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Dário P. wrote: > Qua, 2010-01-06 às 18:03 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro escreveu: >> About apache, maybe it's the ServerName option that's missing. > > I don't think so, because I have it on httpd.conf. > > # > # ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote: In response to Da Rock : Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skep

Re: mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread P.
Qua, 2010-01-06 às 18:03 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro escreveu: > About apache, maybe it's the ServerName option that's missing. I don't think so, because I have it on httpd.conf. # # ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself. # This can often be determined automatic

Re: mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
About apache, maybe it's the ServerName option that's missing. On Wednesday, January 6, 2010, Dário P. wrote: > Qua, 2010-01-06 às 16:16 +, Matthew Seaman escreveu: >> Rob wrote: >> > Since I upgraded to FreBSD 8.0, I'm noticing that mysql isn't starting >> > on boot anymore.  It starts fine

Re: mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread P.
Qua, 2010-01-06 às 16:16 +, Matthew Seaman escreveu: > Rob wrote: > > Since I upgraded to FreBSD 8.0, I'm noticing that mysql isn't starting > > on boot anymore. It starts fine once the system has booted, and looking > > at the mysql log I see: > > > > 100105 17:46:56 mysqld_safe Starting m

Re: mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Rob wrote: Since I upgraded to FreBSD 8.0, I'm noticing that mysql isn't starting on boot anymore. It starts fine once the system has booted, and looking at the mysql log I see: 100105 17:46:56 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/m ysql 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Can

ubub1: device problem (IOERROR), disabling port 2

2010-01-06 Thread n dhert
On a Dell Optiplex210L (no PS/2 connectors) I installed Freebsd 7.2 a few weeks ago. All OK. Then swapped the disk for a empty larger one, wanted to install freebsd from the 7.2-RELEASE-amd643.dvd1.iso (as I did before). In BIOS, and at FreeFSD Welcome screen keyboard still works, but later during

mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread Rob
Since I upgraded to FreBSD 8.0, I'm noticing that mysql isn't starting on boot anymore. It starts fine once the system has booted, and looking at the mysql log I see: 100105 17:46:56 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/m ysql 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Can't start ser

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:20:53PM +0800, Paul Shi wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server > machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 > but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on Fr

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: > [*] The Beeb was still using that modem-handshaking sound clip as > an aural clue that the subject of an item was 'computers' even up > to a year or so ago. Which may be anachronistic, but is both audibly and conceptually distinct. Quickly - what's the sound

keyboard and mouse no longer working

2010-01-06 Thread n dhert
On a dual-boot PC (windows, ubuntu) I added a FreeBSD 7.2-amd64 partition. No problem. Then I removed the SATA disk, and replaced it with a larger SATA disk. With GParted I removed everything on that newer disk, and started installing FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from a DVD. The installation started, and a t

class.ezpdf.php errors

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Macdonald
I just noticed that some dynamic pdfs are coming out with the content all misaligned, the same happens on the demo page If anyone uses Cezpdf on latest php can they please test and see if it still works? many thanks Paul. ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset

2010-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, manish jain wrote: I just installed FreeBSD-8.0-i386 on my office system. I can't find anything like the xf86cfg/xf86config tools for configuring X that used to come with FreeBSD earlier. The only utility I could find is xorg-edit, but this is nowhere as user-friendly as the

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Jon Radel
Paul Shi wrote: Dear Matthew and Everyone, Thank you so much for your response. I think I will just create a user named ftp to enable anonymous access since security is not our major concern so far. I should hope that security will never be your concern, given how many years of security relat

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Huff wrote: Hello: The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? Because I cannot find any reference it. I am wondering if anyone in this mailing list has a answer to this question

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Huff
Hello: > The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the > first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for > wireless networking devices? Because I cannot find any reference > it. I am wondering if anyone in this mailing list has a answer to > this question. And I am

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Shi
Dear Matthew and Everyone, Thank you so much for your response. I think I will just create a user named ftp to enable anonymous access since security is not our major concern so far. The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support

ad0s1a expected rawoffset 0, found 63 / after upgrade to FreeBSD-8.0

2010-01-06 Thread Hanno Krusken
after upgrading FreeBSD-7.1-releng-p9 to Freebsd-8.0-releng-p1 from source, I get a boot ERROR ! build world and the lot went OK, 1st boot and installworld as well, after "mergemaster" process and the following reboot I get this boot message and get stuck: LOADING /boot/defaults/loader.conf err

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Da Rock : > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I > need email, inter

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:38:17 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > As I recall for that vintage of FreeBSD, it was simply a matter of > uncommenting > the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf [...] Which would be something like ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/ftpd ftpd -ll Note that I've

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Wednesday 06 of January 2010 12:20:53 Paul Shi wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server > machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is > 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on Fre

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul Shi wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PP

Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Shi
Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does a

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-06 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Thanks to all. recoverdisk was the one, indeed. phk was the original author. And that was the one that already helped me once. Maybe I could have searched the archives also and would have been able to find that previous message a couple of years ago. I also found by searching archives, that

partly solved: kernel: g_vfs_done error = 5

2010-01-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
It turns out that when the vmware host san is being heavily (importing vm's, multiple back-up jobs) used this error pops up in the freebsd guest. It is (just) a timeout error, but still this should not happen. I have been looking at the sysctl variables for vfs if it is possible to increase the tim

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:03:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no