Re: Tuning for very little RAM
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 money, so I need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. Aside from all that though, for the academics of it how can I help this situation? The laptop has around 100MB RAM, with 16k free, and has a new install of FreeBSD 8.0. Cheers It's late here so I'm pretty much doing this ad hoc, but I think you should renice the least important apps. Your mail MUA/MTA can be set to very low prio, for instance. If this is an ongoing demo, bring up and leave up OOo and have it set a it higher than your email. wine: don't know. Your broswer should be set very high. gary PS: About three years back I ran a 1998 HP deskyop with less than 512M with full KDE. It was slow is some things, but perfectly adaquate so long as I didn't try everything at once! ___ 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 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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
partly solved: kernel: g_vfs_done error = 5
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 timeout value, but i do not see a setting that could accomplish this, also this would not be the right solution i guess. The only right solution would for the vmware host admin to tune the san settings (or the specific lun) or to spread the load more evenly. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is for the intended recipient(s) only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited. If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system. ___ 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: copying a disk with ignoring errors
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 ffsrecov, now ffs2recov, might be a tool for partially recovering a disk. -- Christoph Mike Tancsa schrieb: At 08:30 PM 1/5/2010, Polytropon wrote: recoverdisk This one worked for me to recover my mum's borked Windows XP HD. It was able to recover enough, that I only needed to find one missing dll. Prior to that, it wouldnt even boot up getting stuck on the failing parts of the disk. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,m...@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike ___ 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
Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? As I recall for that vintage of FreeBSD, it was simply a matter of uncommenting the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf and (re)starting inetd -- there are no rc.subr scripts in a system that old, so to restart inetd, you'ld have to do something like: # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` To start it at all, just run: # /usr/sbin/inetd Enabling it to be automatically started on reboot is pretty much the same as nowadays: just stick inetd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. If you want to provide anonymous FTP, then I believe there were instructions in the ftpd(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ 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 See Chapter 29 section 8: 29.8 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Contributed by Murray Stokely. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-ftp.html It worked for me so I don't thing that you are going to have problems if you follow these instructions. Elias ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:38:17 +, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk 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 appended ftpd -ll to enable extended logging which is often useful when running an FTP server, so you can check things if problems occur. To make this setting take effect, touch /var/log/ftpd.log and !ftpd *.* /var/log/ftpd.log to your /etc/syslog.conf. I'm not sure if all these mechanisms have already been present on 2.0.5, because I'm a FreeBSD user since 4.0. Did 2.0.5 already have sysinstall? I seem to remember that when enabling FTP, a little subtree was created in /var/ftp. But I think it was related to anonymous FTP. If you're not going to use it - I didn't say anything. :-) Enabling it to be automatically started on reboot is pretty much the same as nowadays: just stick inetd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. Hasn't there been ,,ftpd_enable=YES'' in 2.0.5's rc.conf already? Allthough I'm running FTP services, I've never used that setting (inetd is sufficient). If you want to provide anonymous FTP, then I believe there were instructions in the ftpd(8) man page. At least on my (7-S) system it is the case, but there should be similar information in earlier man pages. It describes the stuff sysinstall does, as I mentioned (guessed) before. For security considerations, keep an eye on /etc/ftpusers; the names ftp (stands for anonymous FTP account - if you don't want to provide that service) and of course root should be contained. -- 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: Tuning for very little RAM
In response to Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au: 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, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. Aside from all that though, for the academics of it how can I help this situation? The laptop has around 100MB RAM, with 16k free, and has a new install of FreeBSD 8.0. The most obvious thing to do is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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
ad0s1a expected rawoffset 0, found 63 / after upgrade to FreeBSD-8.0
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 error: stack overflow error: stack overflow . . error: stack overflow .. | can't load 'kernel' (manual boot works but I get this errors:) OK boot GEOM: ad0: partition 1 dose not start on a track boundary ad0s1a expected rawoffset 0, found 63 well as far I asked google there is no good answer to work around that regarding a upgrade from FreeBSD-7.1 to FreeBSD-8.0... actually I get the same error by upgrading to FBSD-7.2 as well by my /boot/defaults/loader.conf is the one coming with FreeBSD-8.0-releng-p1 and is unchanged ! after the error: stack overflow I can boot-s and boot in to the system, but my GELI /swap partition is not found or used but the hidden drive is working after manual boot ?! there is something going on with GEOM... (the disk was new and was formatted while installing FreeBSD-5.4-releng years ago).. since than any FreeBSD-5.x, 6.x, 7.0+7.1 installed from source with out any problems. my /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s1b.bde noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1f /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 hidden drive working well after manual boot ! /dev/ad0s1g.bde my /boot/loader.conf: currdev=disk1s1a module_path=/boot/modules root_disk_unit=0 rootdev=ad0s1a vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad0s1a kernel contains: - options GEOM_PART_BSD # GUID Partition Tables. options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options GEOM_PART_MBR # GUID Partition Tables. options GEOM_BSD# BSD encrypting Filesystem support options GEOM_BDE# BDE encrypting Filesystem support options GEOM_ELI# ELI encrypting Filesystem support options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization options GEOM_MBR# MBR encrypting Filesystem support the funny thing is, that if I put a faulty currdev string in to loader.conf, that I only get a error regarding syntax error for currdev and the normal boot process is starting the right kernel... well with some other errors than but is booting automatically. need help to get FreeBSD-8.0-releng-p1 up and running as normal... ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 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 just curious to see how people made wireless network back in 1990s. It must be quite fun. Again, any comment on wireless networking under FreeBSD will be greatly appreciated! Thank all of you so much! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: 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 PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? As I recall for that vintage of FreeBSD, it was simply a matter of uncommenting the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf and (re)starting inetd -- there are no rc.subr scripts in a system that old, so to restart inetd, you'ld have to do something like: # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` To start it at all, just run: # /usr/sbin/inetd Enabling it to be automatically started on reboot is pretty much the same as nowadays: just stick inetd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. If you want to provide anonymous FTP, then I believe there were instructions in the ftpd(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 just curious to see how people made wireless network back in 1990s. I believe the answer would be No.. The first mention I can find of wireless adapters in the release notes is for 3.3, in late 1998. Robert Huff ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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. And I am just curious to see how people made wireless network back in 1990s. I believe the answer would be No.. The first mention I can find of wireless adapters in the release notes is for 3.3, in late 1998. Wireless networking in the mid-90's would have been a very new thing, at least as a consumer item. It's about then that the very first mobile phones came out -- those were as big a brick and had about an hour's battery life. Much of the computing world was running 10baseT thin-wire ethernet, and although 100baseT Cat5 kit was available, it was pretty expensive. The WWW had only just become popular -- it was around '93 that it started to make the big-time. Most home connectivity was via acoustically coupled modems running at 96Kbaud if you were lucky. 48Kbaud probably more common[*]. Oh, and 8 MB RAM or 1 GB Hard disk was considered quite big... Cheers, Matthew [*] 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. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 related patches you're missing. -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset
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 earlier tools. Xorg -configure will create a very basic xorg.conf. Usually I just copy the Device section out of that and into one of my own configs where all the excess has been removed. Can somebody please send me a sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset (384 MB video RAM) and a PNP Dell LCD monitor which is happiest @ (1440X900 resolution/ 32-bit colour / 60 Hz refresh) in Windows ? The keyboard and mouse are standard USB. First, check the Handbook X11 configuration section to see what it says about hal and dbus. It describes both using them and running without. I assume the default file location remains unchanged : /etc/X11/xorg.conf That works, yes. Here's a slightly-modified copy of the xorg.conf from my netbook, which uses hal and dbus. You'll probably need to change the BusID to match your system. Section ServerLayout Identifier AA1 Manually Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 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 Mode 0660 EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor# [bool] #Option ColorKey# i #Option CacheLines # i #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option DRI # [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces# i #Option PageFlip# [bool] 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 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 SubSection Display Virtual 1440 900 EndSubSection EndSection -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
class.ezpdf.php errors
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@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
keyboard and mouse no longer working
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 the FreeBSD Welcome screen I could press enter to skip the 10 seconds wait time. Then the normal messages rolled over the screen, but I noticed among them: usb1: host controller halted ubub1: IOERROR And saw that the red light of the optical mouse went out... And at the selecting screen to select a Country, I saw the keyboard was not responding. Both keyboard and mouse are USB, the system has no other kind of ports for keyboard or mouse. I tried with other USB ports (there are 4 at the back, 2 at the front) - no help. I reinstalled the original Windows/Ubuntu/FreeBSD disk. Booted in Windows, everyhting OK, booted in Ubuntu everything OK, booted in FreeBSD: now same phenomenon: I can still press Enter at eh FreeBSD Welcome screen but the same messages usb1: host controller halted ubub1: IOERROR appear and I can't use keyboard and mouse anymore. It has worked before... What can be the reason and how to solve this utterly mysterious behaviour ... ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 of an OC3, or a web page loading? (I spent 1996 (I think) doing QA for a company building a remote access product. Got to the point I could name each phase of the modem handshake, and stood a good chance of being able to identify the speed and encryption method.) Robert Huff ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
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 FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! The FreeBSD Handbook has information on using FTP. I haven't followed your whole thread, but is there a good reason you want to use such an old version of FreeBSD? You would be very seriously better off installing the latest version -- especially if you plan to use the system on the internet. There have been many many security fixes since 2.0.5 was around. It should not be difficult to have access to the latest version in Hong Kong. There may even be a mirror site there. jerry Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ 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: Tuning for very little RAM
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au 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, so I need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. Aside from all that though, for the academics of it how can I help this situation? The laptop has around 100MB RAM, with 16k free, and has a new install of FreeBSD 8.0. You can save a bit of memory by building a custom kernel. First, remove any options you don't need such as INET6, NFS, AUDIT etc. Then, you can replace device ata with more specific drivers, and device mii with specific PHY drivers for your NIC. On a 128MB box I have that's running 8-STABLE my kernel is just 4.1MB. You should also be able to build Xorg so it'll use less memory - for example by not requiring hald but getting it to read the configuration from xorg.conf instead. You can also tell FreeBSD to agressively swap idle processes out by setting vm.swap_idle_enabled to 1. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
mysql not starting on boot
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 server: cannot resolve hostname!: Unknown er ror: 0 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Aborting I use dhcp and ddns in my network, so I'm guessing that mysql is attempting to start before the networking has stabilized. Is there a way to make mysql be the last thing started at boot? I tried adding: # REQUIRE: NETWORKING To the init script, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Is there a tool that will run through all the init scripts and tell you the order of startup? Rob ___ 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
ubub1: device problem (IOERROR), disabling port 2
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 kernel initialization, I see: usb1: host controller halted uhub1: device problem (IOERROR), disabling port 2 and I can't use keyboard and mouse anymore, hence can't install. Swapped the disk again for the original one. Now I have the same problem when booting into FreeBSD, which booted a few weeks ago ... What is going onand how to solve it ? (No options in the BIOS for USB legacy support) ___ 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: mysql not starting on boot
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't start server: cannot resolve hostname!: Unknown er ror: 0 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Aborting I use dhcp and ddns in my network, so I'm guessing that mysql is attempting to start before the networking has stabilized. Is there a way to make mysql be the last thing started at boot? MySQL will be happy if it can work out what the hostname of the machine is. You say you're using ddns? If that means your machines are pushing a hostname up to the DHCP server while they ask it for an IP number, then there should be no problem. You can simply set the hostname in /etc/rc.conf -- it doesn't really matter if the machine thinks its name is one thing, and the IPs on its network interfaces resolve to something else (at least, not for the purposes of running mysql.). The thing you'ld have to look out for are the host part of usernames in grants of permissions to users. I tried adding: # REQUIRE: NETWORKING To the init script, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Is there a tool that will run through all the init scripts and tell you the order of startup? rcorder(8) You might also find it beneficial to use 'SYNCDHCP' instead of plain 'DHCP' in ifconfig_XXY lines in /etc/rc.conf -- this will cause the boot process to block on getting an IP for the interface, rather than the default action of backgrounding that process and trying to start everything else up. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: mysql not starting on boot
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 mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/m ysql 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Can't start server: cannot resolve hostname!: Unknown er ror: 0 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Aborting I use dhcp and ddns in my network, so I'm guessing that mysql is attempting to start before the networking has stabilized. Is there a way to make mysql be the last thing started at boot? MySQL will be happy if it can work out what the hostname of the machine is. You say you're using ddns? If that means your machines are pushing a hostname up to the DHCP server while they ask it for an IP number, then there should be no problem. You can simply set the hostname in /etc/rc.conf -- it doesn't really matter if the machine thinks its name is one thing, and the IPs on its network interfaces resolve to something else (at least, not for the purposes of running mysql.). The thing you'ld have to look out for are the host part of usernames in grants of permissions to users. I have exactly the same problem, but with apache. It seems that the apache try to start before the network. I tried adding: # REQUIRE: NETWORKING To the init script, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Is there a tool that will run through all the init scripts and tell you the order of startup? rcorder(8) You might also find it beneficial to use 'SYNCDHCP' instead of plain 'DHCP' in ifconfig_XXY lines in /etc/rc.conf -- this will cause the boot process to block on getting an IP for the interface, rather than the default action of backgrounding that process and trying to start everything else up. This will be useful for me too. Thank you. ___ 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: mysql not starting on boot
About apache, maybe it's the ServerName option that's missing.
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010, Dário P. fbsd.questions.l...@gmail.com 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 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 server: cannot resolve hostname!:
Unknown er
ror: 0
100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Aborting
I use dhcp and ddns in my network, so I'm guessing that mysql is
attempting to start before the networking has stabilized. Is there a
way to make mysql be the last thing started at boot?
MySQL will be happy if it can work out what the hostname of the machine
is. You say you're using ddns? If that means your machines are pushing
a hostname up to the DHCP server while they ask it for an IP number, then
there should be no problem.
You can simply set the hostname in /etc/rc.conf -- it doesn't really
matter if the machine thinks its name is one thing, and the IPs on its
network interfaces resolve to something else (at least, not for the
purposes of running mysql.). The thing you'ld have to look out for are
the host part of usernames in grants of permissions to users.
I have exactly the same problem, but with apache. It seems that the
apache try to start before the network.
I tried adding:
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING
To the init script, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Is there a
tool that will run through all the init scripts and tell you the order
of startup?
rcorder(8)
You might also find it beneficial to use 'SYNCDHCP' instead of plain 'DHCP'
in ifconfig_XXY lines in /etc/rc.conf -- this will cause the boot process to
block on getting an IP for the interface, rather than the default action of
backgrounding that process and trying to start everything else up.
This will be useful for me too. Thank you.
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Re: mysql not starting on boot
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 automatically, but we recommend you specify # it explicitly to prevent problems during startup. # # If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here. # ServerName www.ptbox.org:80 Can it be something wrong with VirtualHost's ? ___ 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: Tuning for very little RAM
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote: In response to Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au: 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, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. Aside from all that though, for the academics of it how can I help this situation? The laptop has around 100MB RAM, with 16k free, and has a new install of FreeBSD 8.0. The most obvious thing to do is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) The other most obvious thing to do is to look at the apps you're running and see if there are more lightweight alternatives. If I had to run a machine like that, I'd probably want to avoid X Windows altogther and go console-only. But it sounds like your skeptics won't let you do that. 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) like xfce or openbox. When you say internet (with plugins) I think you mean Firefox. If this isn't a hard and fast requirement, take a look at some of the more lightweight browsers like Midori, Kazehakase or Arora. (I'd recommend even more lightweight alternatives like surf or elinks, but I don't think your skeptics will approve.) Same for OpenOffice. There are alternatives to each of the apps in the OpenOffice suite that might not have all the same bells and whistles, but will run in much less RAM. 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. ___ 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: mysql not starting on boot
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Dário P. fbsd.questions.l...@gmail.com 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 to identify itself. # This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify # it explicitly to prevent problems during startup. # # If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here. # ServerName www.ptbox.org:80 Can it be something wrong with VirtualHost's ? The only name-resolution errors I've seen with Apache startup that resemble this situation have been related to the use of the mod_unique_id.so module. That one will fail if name resolution isn't available at startup time. ___ 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: keyboard and mouse no longer working
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 DVD. The installation started, and a the FreeBSD Welcome screen I could press enter to skip the 10 seconds wait time. Then the normal messages rolled over the screen, but I noticed among them: usb1: host controller halted ubub1: IOERROR If you have an external hub, try connecting keyboard and mouse directly to the computer. If there's a Legacy USB Support or similar option in the BIOS, disable it. Or you could try booting with the keyboard disconnected, then connect it after FreeBSD has started. -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: Tuning for very little RAM
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 reference more thoroughly before using it here. It's not as helpful for these purposes as I thought. Instead, I recommend googling for lightweight linux apps. It's a frequently-discussed topic, and the people involved seem to love making lists. Most of the apps mentioned are in the FreeBSD portstree, so don't be put off by the fact that the discussion is usually confined to Linux. ___ 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: Tuning for very little RAM
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) like xfce or openbox. Hey, xfce is not like Windows, it's fast. If you want really light and Windows-like, icewm. Although last time I tried it, desktop icons--the lifeblood of the typical Windows user--required external programs (idesk) and were a hassle. When you say internet (with plugins) I think you mean Firefox. If this isn't a hard and fast requirement, take a look at some of the more lightweight browsers like Midori, Kazehakase or Arora. (I'd recommend even more lightweight alternatives like surf or elinks, but I don't think your skeptics will approve.) AdblockPlus and FlashBlock are near requirements for browsing, particularly for slow machines. Maybe they'll work with non-Firefox gecko browsers. Same for OpenOffice. There are alternatives to each of the apps in the OpenOffice suite that might not have all the same bells and whistles, but will run in much less RAM. gnumeric is nice for a spreadsheet. May not be particularly lightweight, but lighter than OO. -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: mysql not starting on boot
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 should be up before attempting to grab a dhcp IP, or am I misunderstanding here? Either way, the above seems to have solved my problem. Thanks! Rob Matthew Seaman wrote: 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't start server: cannot resolve hostname!: Unknown er ror: 0 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Aborting I use dhcp and ddns in my network, so I'm guessing that mysql is attempting to start before the networking has stabilized. Is there a way to make mysql be the last thing started at boot? MySQL will be happy if it can work out what the hostname of the machine is. You say you're using ddns? If that means your machines are pushing a hostname up to the DHCP server while they ask it for an IP number, then there should be no problem. You can simply set the hostname in /etc/rc.conf -- it doesn't really matter if the machine thinks its name is one thing, and the IPs on its network interfaces resolve to something else (at least, not for the purposes of running mysql.). The thing you'ld have to look out for are the host part of usernames in grants of permissions to users. I tried adding: # REQUIRE: NETWORKING To the init script, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Is there a tool that will run through all the init scripts and tell you the order of startup? rcorder(8) You might also find it beneficial to use 'SYNCDHCP' instead of plain 'DHCP' in ifconfig_XXY lines in /etc/rc.conf -- this will cause the boot process to block on getting an IP for the interface, rather than the default action of backgrounding that process and trying to start everything else up. Cheers, Matthew ___ 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
Booting from ZFS raidz
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 now raidz instead of mirror and there is one more disk. I feel sure I have all the stuff with partitioning, boot loader installation, etc. right. I tested this with version 8.0-RELEASE on 64bit. Now, before I go into detailed explaining, is raidz really supported? I always get the following error after it says FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable ZFS: can't read MOS object directory (repeats a lot) Can't find root filesystem - giving up can't load 'kernel' I think the MOS message comes from zfs_mount_root() in /usr/src/sys/boot/zfs/zfsimpl.c. I asume that is the point when /boot/loader has been loaded and now wants to load the kernel into memory. After that error I'm in the loader prompt. When I try to load any file I always get the same error as above. Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Anselm___ 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: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset
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 sake. Thanks again to you and Polytropon. Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com Warren Block wrote: 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 earlier tools. Xorg -configure will create a very basic xorg.conf. Usually I just copy the Device section out of that and into one of my own configs where all the excess has been removed. Can somebody please send me a sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset (384 MB video RAM) and a PNP Dell LCD monitor which is happiest @ (1440X900 resolution/ 32-bit colour / 60 Hz refresh) in Windows ? The keyboard and mouse are standard USB. First, check the Handbook X11 configuration section to see what it says about hal and dbus. It describes both using them and running without. I assume the default file location remains unchanged : /etc/X11/xorg.conf That works, yes. Here's a slightly-modified copy of the xorg.conf from my netbook, which uses hal and dbus. You'll probably need to change the BusID to match your system. Section ServerLayout Identifier AA1 Manually Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 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 Mode 0660 EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel# [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option ColorKey # i #Option CacheLines # i #Option Dac6Bit# [bool] #Option DRI# [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces # i #Option PageFlip # [bool] 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 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 SubSection Display Virtual 1440 900 EndSubSection EndSection -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: Tuning for very little RAM
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 more traditional window manager (aka MS-Windows clone) like xfce or openbox. Hey, xfce is not like Windows, it's fast. LOL If you want really light and Windows-like, icewm. Although last time I tried it, desktop icons--the lifeblood of the typical Windows user--required external programs (idesk) and were a hassle. 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 readers in that direction and let them make up their own minds. When you say internet (with plugins) I think you mean Firefox. If this isn't a hard and fast requirement, take a look at some of the more lightweight browsers like Midori, Kazehakase or Arora. (I'd recommend even more lightweight alternatives like surf or elinks, but I don't think your skeptics will approve.) AdblockPlus and FlashBlock are near requirements for browsing, particularly for slow machines. Maybe they'll work with non-Firefox gecko browsers. Good point. Something anyone considering these Firefox alternatives should investigate. Same for OpenOffice. There are alternatives to each of the apps in the OpenOffice suite that might not have all the same bells and whistles, but will run in much less RAM. gnumeric is nice for a spreadsheet. May not be particularly lightweight, but lighter than OO. Same with Abiword for a word processor. But again, we probably shouldn't get too deep into the discussion of various apps. ___ 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: Tuning for very little RAM
[...] 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 readers in that direction and let them make up their own minds. [...] I am currently using a PIV 2.4GHz with 480MB RAM with fluxbox! This works really well, I have firefox and opera browsers installed and will look at getting my favorite Seamonkey installed too sometime but isn't a priority as this machine doubles as a DNS, NTP, NFS, and Radio streaming server :-) And I only have a 35GB HD too which is peanuts considering that in my full-blown network in my other house I have round 3.2TB... So far am only using 80-90MB RAM when X is turned off! With X on it's round ~125MB that's with running Xterm, Firefox, and Rhythmbox or even Mplayer. In my opinion it's always best to test and try out a few WM's to see which one fits the bill best, after that it's easy! Regards, Kaya ___ 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: Tuning for very little RAM
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 discussion on those topics. I think we should simply point interested readers in that direction and let them make up their own minds. [...] I am currently using a PIV 2.4GHz with 480MB RAM with fluxbox! This works really well, I have firefox and opera browsers installed and will look at getting my favorite Seamonkey installed too sometime but isn't a priority as this machine doubles as a DNS, NTP, NFS, and Radio streaming server :-) And I only have a 35GB HD too which is peanuts considering that in my full-blown network in my other house I have round 3.2TB... So far am only using 80-90MB RAM when X is turned off! With X on it's round ~125MB that's with running Xterm, Firefox, and Rhythmbox or even Mplayer. In my opinion it's always best to test and try out a few WM's to see which one fits the bill best, after that it's easy! I'm running icewm - desktop icons are not a priority atm, but I will use idesk later. I think sysctl options will help, as well as reducing my consoles. I'll keep everyone posted and see what happens. Thanks for the pointers guys. ___ 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: Tuning for very little RAM
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 topics. I think we should simply point interested readers in that direction and let them make up their own minds. [...] I am currently using a PIV 2.4GHz with 480MB RAM with fluxbox! Well, I'm currently using a P3 866MHz with 512MB RAM with musca! And it works very well too. ;-) Anyway, like I said, let's not get too carried away with this line of thought. This thread is about tuning for very little RAM. Choosing lightweight apps is only one of the things needed to tackle that problem. ___ 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: Booting from ZFS raidz
2010/1/6 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com 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 now raidz instead of mirror and there is one more disk. I feel sure I have all the stuff with partitioning, boot loader installation, etc. right. I tested this with version 8.0-RELEASE on 64bit. Now, before I go into detailed explaining, is raidz really supported? I always get the following error after it says FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable ZFS: can't read MOS object directory (repeats a lot) Can't find root filesystem - giving up can't load 'kernel' I think the MOS message comes from zfs_mount_root() in /usr/src/sys/boot/zfs/zfsimpl.c. I asume that is the point when /boot/loader has been loaded and now wants to load the kernel into memory. After that error I'm in the loader prompt. When I try to load any file I always get the same error as above. Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Anselm___ 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 Opensolaris doesnt support booting off raidz yet so id be surprised if you managed to, as i doubt all the relevent code is in the loader, and robust enough yet. I have seen a few hacks mentioned in places that might get it to work, bit these are unsupported and might flake out at any time. Also why do you need a raidz for the os? It implys you might be mixing data on the pool as well. This isnt best practice, and you are best off having a separate pool for os and data. If you have 3+ drives, gpt it into 3 or 4 chunks dependent on whether you want swap on a zvol. Have and x way mirror for the os and then the last and biggest gpt slice use for your raidz data. Better still have the os and data on separate spindles ___ 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: Tuning for very little RAM
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 freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au: 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, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. Aside from all that though, for the academics of it how can I help this situation? The laptop has around 100MB RAM, with 16k free, and has a new install of FreeBSD 8.0. The most obvious thing to do is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) The other most obvious thing to do is to look at the apps you're running and see if there are more lightweight alternatives. If I had to run a machine like that, I'd probably want to avoid X Windows altogther and go console-only. But it sounds like your skeptics won't let you do that. 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) like xfce or openbox. Or even lighter weight, CTWM, which is just a step up from twm When you say internet (with plugins) I think you mean Firefox. If this isn't a hard and fast requirement, take a look at some of the more lightweight browsers like Midori, Kazehakase or Arora. (I'd recommend even more lightweight alternatives like surf or elinks, but I don't think your skeptics will approve.) Same for OpenOffice. There are alternatives to each of the apps in the OpenOffice suite that might not have all the same bells and whistles, but will run in much less RAM. AbiWord is a great word-processor if that would serve Da Rock's needs. For very kwik browsing I use links -G [[the graphical incarnation of the otherwise text]] links. Every bell and whistle is 'just a tad more'; but then so many tads add up to tons; so it takes some forethought before piling on the apps. Da Rock, did you mis-type that you only have 16k free? 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. Good one! gary ___ 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 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ 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: Booting from ZFS raidz
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, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: 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 now raidz instead of mirror and there is one more disk. I feel sure I have all the stuff with partitioning, boot loader installation, etc. right. I tested this with version 8.0-RELEASE on 64bit. Now, before I go into detailed explaining, is raidz really supported? I always get the following error after it says FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable ZFS: can't read MOS object directory (repeats a lot) Can't find root filesystem - giving up can't load 'kernel' I think the MOS message comes from zfs_mount_root() in /usr/src/sys/boot/zfs/zfsimpl.c. I asume that is the point when /boot/loader has been loaded and now wants to load the kernel into memory. After that error I'm in the loader prompt. When I try to load any file I always get the same error as above. Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Anselm___ 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
Abiword window corruption
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.com/~wblock/abiword/abiword.jpg -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: Booting from ZFS raidz
On Jan 6, 2010, at 21:37 , krad wrote: 2010/1/6 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com 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 now raidz instead of mirror and there is one more disk. I feel sure I have all the stuff with partitioning, boot loader installation, etc. right. I tested this with version 8.0-RELEASE on 64bit. Now, before I go into detailed explaining, is raidz really supported? I always get the following error after it says FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable ZFS: can't read MOS object directory (repeats a lot) Can't find root filesystem - giving up can't load 'kernel' I think the MOS message comes from zfs_mount_root() in /usr/src/sys/boot/zfs/zfsimpl.c. I asume that is the point when /boot/loader has been loaded and now wants to load the kernel into memory. After that error I'm in the loader prompt. When I try to load any file I always get the same error as above. Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Anselm___ 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 Opensolaris doesnt support booting off raidz yet so id be surprised if you managed to, as i doubt all the relevent code is in the loader, and robust enough yet. I have seen a few hacks mentioned in places that might get it to work, bit these are unsupported and might flake out at any time. Also why do you need a raidz for the os? It implys you might be mixing data on the pool as well. This isnt best practice, and you are best off having a separate pool for os and data. If you have 3+ drives, gpt it into 3 or 4 chunks dependent on whether you want swap on a zvol. Have and x way mirror for the os and then the last and biggest gpt slice use for your raidz data. Better still have the os and data on separate spindles I was just out for maximum flexibility and easiness. Having just one pool gives you the most possibilities in resizing data sets. Using partitions always imposes some hard limits that are sometimes different to overcome when you want to re-layout you filesystems. I like the idea of ZFS that the boundaries between filesystems (or data sets) are just quotas and reservations, instead of low-level address borders as with partitions. But then again, as you mentioned, one might want to make multiple pools for best performance. At least I want to have the system data on a redundant volume, but you are right I could just make a separate mirror for that. By the way, I also tested to boot from a degraded mirror, which worked perfectly well. You just have to make sure that the boot loader stages are installed on all drives. Thanks, Anselm ___ 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: Abiword window corruption
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 only one that sees this? Sample here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/abiword/abiword.jpg I just reinstalled it too. ;-) I don't see any stray pixels like you're seeing. One thing I notice is that your cursor is a lot thicker than the one I'm seeing. If Abiword is expecting you to have a thinner cursor, that might be why it doesn't erase the extra pixels when you move it. I also see several differences in the appearance of your toolbar buttons and other UI elements. What window manager are you using, and what theme? ___ 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: Abiword window corruption
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't erased when you move to a different line. Am I the only one that sees this? Sample here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/abiword/abiword.jpg I just reinstalled it too. ;-) I don't see any stray pixels like you're seeing. One thing I notice is that your cursor is a lot thicker than the one I'm seeing. If Abiword is expecting you to have a thinner cursor, that might be why it doesn't erase the extra pixels when you move it. I also see several differences in the appearance of your toolbar buttons and other UI elements. What window manager are you using, and what theme? I just remembered that I had implemented a tip I got somewhere for forcing use of the condensed versions of the DejaVu fonts. Try saving the attached file in home directory as .fonts.config and see if it makes any difference when you restart X and abiword. ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig match target=pattern test name=family qual=any stringDejaVu Sans/string /test edit mode=assign name=family stringDejaVu Sans Condensed/string /edit /match match target=pattern test name=family qual=any stringDejaVu Serif/string /test edit mode=assign name=family stringDejaVu Serif Condensed/string /edit /match /fontconfig ___ 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: Abiword window corruption
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-default/ ___ 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
OOo stuff [acroread too]
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 interesting plugins or extensions. One is a text-to-speech plugin. I can't be sure if it is truly OS independent or if the Linux version would work on the FBSD version. Anybody know? There were at least a few other plugin thing that might be worth a go... . I've used acroread for years, especially when they are long and dreary essays. Does the speech part of this reader work, and if so, what is the magic? I keep getting lost in click-land! thanks for any clues, guys, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ 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: Can't get wifi working in 8.0, please help.
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 0xff00 ssid btest channel 11 On 5 янв, 05:31, Eric Webster ericwebsterm...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded from bsd 6.4 to bsd8.0release ( new install ) and I am having issues getting mywifitowork. Before the upgrade it worked perfectly in 6.4. I am a bit confused as I have read different things about this. The handbookhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html#NE... under basic settings says check to see if your device supports host based ap mode by doing ifconfig wlan0 list caps # ifconfig wlan0 list caps drivercaps=2985cd01STA,IBSS,HOSTAP,AHDEMO,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,MBSS,WPA1,WPA2,WDS,BGSCAN Then it says the wireless device can now be put into AP mode by doing: ifconfig wlan0 ssid freebsdap mode 11g mediaopt hostap inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Which returns: ifconfig: inet: bad value I read some place that you need to put inet before ssid so I tried it with the following: # ifconfig wlan0 inet 10.0.0.1/24 ssid gangsta wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap Which returns: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured If I try to configure it like it was in 6.4 I get another error: ifconfig wlan0 ssid gangsta channel 8 wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Which returns: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured I know wep is not secure, I am just trying to get it working. At start of the guide it tells you to configure the following in /boot/loader.conf which I did. /boot/loader.conf if_ral_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_scan_ap_load=YES wlan_scan_sta_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_Tkip_load=YES When I run kldstat I see the if_ral is loaded. I don't know if its supposed to show the other modules. kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 9 0xc040 b22548 kernel 2 1 0xc0f23000 13e4c if_ral.ko 3 1 0xc357b000 35000 ipl.ko Here is rc.conf check_quotas=NO gateway_enable=YES hostname=router.foo.bar ibcs2_enable=NO ifconfig_sk0=DHCP ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 wlans_ral0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=inet 10.0.0.1/24 ssid gangsta wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey apasswordhere mode 11g mediaopt hostap ipfilter_enable=YES ipfilter_rules=/etc/ipf.rules ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Ds ipnat_enable=YES ipnat_rules=/etc/ipnat.rules Here is ifconfig -a xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:60:97:7f:3e:6c inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active sk0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU ether 00:0c:41:e4:7e:83 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xf800 broadcast 255.255.255.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active ral0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:14:bf:78:a2:a7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated plip0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3RXCSUM,TXCSUM inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:14:bf:78:a2:a7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid gangsta channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) country US authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS bintval 0 netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default x.x.x.x UGS 0 35 sk0 x.x.x.x/21 link#2 U 0 0 sk0 x.x.x.x link#2 UHS 0 0 lo0 127.0.0.1 link#5 UH 0 32 lo0 192.168.0.0/24 link#1 U 1 568 xl0 192.168.0.1 link#1 UHS 0 0 lo0 Many thanks in advance!! Eric ___freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org mailing listhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___
Re: Abiword window corruption
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 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.com/~wblock/abiword/abiword.jpg I just reinstalled it too. ;-) I don't see any stray pixels like you're seeing. One thing I notice is that your cursor is a lot thicker than the one I'm seeing. If Abiword is expecting you to have a thinner cursor, that might be why it doesn't erase the extra pixels when you move it. I also see several differences in the appearance of your toolbar buttons and other UI elements. What window manager are you using, and what theme? I just remembered that I had implemented a tip I got somewhere for forcing use of the condensed versions of the DejaVu fonts. Try saving the attached file in home directory as .fonts.config and see if it makes any difference when you restart X and abiword. On second thought, this is probably a red herring. If the stray pixels don't go away when you use a different font or change the point size, this tweak of the DejaVu font has nothing to do with it. Sorry for the misdirection! I was focused on identifying what might be different between your system and mine, and a little too narrowly on the font used in your example. Have you asked about this problem on the freebsd-gnome mailing list? ___ 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: Failed to Load Kernel
snip 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
Replacing disks in a ZFS pool
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 following some of the GPT threads, and I like the idea of using this type of label instead of the disk names themselves. How should I proceed? I'm assuming something like this: - add the new 1.5TB drives into the existing, running system - GPT label them - use 'zpool replace' to replace one drive at a time, allowing the pool to rebuild after each drive is replaced - once all four drives are complete, shut down the system, remove the four original drives, and connect the four new ones where the old ones were My understanding is, is that once the new labels are in place, I don't have to worry about the fact that the device name has been changed (eg ad8 to ad4), the system doesn't care anymore about that. Is this correct? Any other advice/tips that those experienced can share with me? Steve ___ 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: Abiword window corruption
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 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.com/~wblock/abiword/abiword.jpg I just reinstalled it too. ;-) I don't see any stray pixels like you're seeing. One thing I notice is that your cursor is a lot thicker than the one I'm seeing. If Abiword is expecting you to have a thinner cursor, that might be why it doesn't erase the extra pixels when you move it. I also see several differences in the appearance of your toolbar buttons and other UI elements. What window manager are you using, and what theme? That's xfce4.6 with the Default-4.4 theme and Gnome icons. I just remembered that I had implemented a tip I got somewhere for forcing use of the condensed versions of the DejaVu fonts. Try saving the attached file in home directory as .fonts.config and see if it makes any difference when you restart X and abiword. It should be .fonts.conf, I think, but it didn't change anything either way. -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: ports/devel/protobuf: Segmentation fault in mmap in some applications
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.
While we can use ISIS 3.1.20 very well under FreeBSD 8.0/amd64, it is
impossible to use the software with version no. 3.1.21, which seems to
have some issues wih libprotobuf.so. Every client out of this ISIS3
package crashes with a segmentation fault and as far as I can judge the
situation, there is a problem with libprotobuf.so, against which all
clients out of ISIS 3.1.21 are linked.
Perhaps the ISIS package was developed using a different (older?) version of
Google's protocol buffers. Compiling protobuf from source is quite easy on
FreeBSD. You can find the source here:
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list
I would start by trying version 2.1.0 and 2.2.0a.
I searched for help on the ISIS3-support forum and realised that some
Apple OS X guys have had similar problems, but those threads where
closed immediately or got relative senseless response.
In our case, we compile every necessary library and prerequisite
software package (mostly Qt4 libs) from ports. This works great with
some tweaks for FreeBSD in make/config.freebsd (which I derived from
some linux and/or OS X config files).
Now I'm floating like a dead man i the water. Below I provide q gdb
output of the qview-client (the same is with all other clients, like
photrim etc. for those familiar with the software package).
A backtrace ('bt' at the gdb prompt) might contain more useful information.
Additionaly, I provide a truss-output, that stops at mmap issues.
Well, if someone could provide me with some advance debugging hints I
would appreaciate them. I'm pretty sure he problem is located within the
libprotobuf library or the way it is treated, but this is a guess of a
non-developer.
Thanks very much in advance.
Please reply also to this email address, since I'm not subscriber of the
list I post to.
Oliver
- Pieter
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Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool
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 use to replace the 500GBs. Also, I've been loosely following some of the GPT threads, and I like the idea of using this type of label instead of the disk names themselves. I personally haven't run into any bad problems using the full device, but I suppose it could be a problem. (Side note - geom should learn how to parse zfs labels so it could create something like /dev/zfs/uuid for device nodes instead of using other trickery) How should I proceed? I'm assuming something like this: - add the new 1.5TB drives into the existing, running system - GPT label them - use 'zpool replace' to replace one drive at a time, allowing the pool to rebuild after each drive is replaced - once all four drives are complete, shut down the system, remove the four original drives, and connect the four new ones where the old ones were If you have enough ports to bring all eight drives online at once, I would recommend using 'zfs send' rather than the replacement. That way you'll get something like a burn-in on your new drives, and I believe it will probably be faster than the replacement process. Even on an active system, you can use a couple of incremental snapshots and reduce the downtime to a bare minimum. My understanding is, is that once the new labels are in place, I don't have to worry about the fact that the device name has been changed (eg ad8 to ad4), the system doesn't care anymore about that. Is this correct? Any other advice/tips that those experienced can share with me? Steve ___ 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
