FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-29 Thread crsnet.pl

Hello.
I make update yesterday with csup. And i have build new firefox 7 from 
src.

And today i see my flashplayer dont work (under Opera/Firefox).

Opera about:plugins
Opis: Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/libflashplayer.soapplication/futuresplash	FutureSplash 
Player	spl

application/x-shockwave-flash   Shockwave Flash swf,swt,null,flash

Firefox about:plugins
File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183

MIME Type   Description Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash   Shockwave Flash swf
application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl

[cr4sh@x300 ~]$ pkg_info | grep flash
linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.10 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin

[cr4sh@x300 ~]$ pkg_info | grep nsplugi
nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 A compatibility plugin for Mozilla NPAPI plugins

[cr4sh@x300 ~]$ nspluginwrapper -v -i $( find / -name libflashplayer.so 
)
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox-devel/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock-devel/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-mozilla/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-netscape-messenger/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-netscape-navigator/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-nvu/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera-devel/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey-devel/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird-devel/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so
  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin 
/usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10/work/libflashplayer.so

  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Install plugin /usr/home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
  into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

When i try to play youtube movie i get only black rectangle.

I try to pkg_delete  pkg_add -r nspluginwrapper, opera-linuxplugins 
and make linux-f10-flashplugin. But this doesn't work ;/


Regards.
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Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-29 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
2011/9/29, crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl:
  Hello.
  I make update yesterday with csup. And i have build new firefox 7 from
  src.
  And today i see my flashplayer dont work (under Opera/Firefox).

  Opera about:plugins
  Opis: Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/libflashplayer.soapplication/futuresplash
FutureSplash
  Player   spl
  application/x-shockwave-flashShockwave Flash swf,swt,null,flash

  Firefox about:plugins
  File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Version:
  Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183

  MIME TypeDescription Suffixes
  application/x-shockwave-flashShockwave Flash swf
  application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl

  [cr4sh@x300 ~]$ pkg_info | grep flash
  linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.10 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin

  [cr4sh@x300 ~]$ pkg_info | grep nsplugi
  nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 A compatibility plugin for Mozilla NPAPI plugins

  [cr4sh@x300 ~]$ nspluginwrapper -v -i $( find / -name libflashplayer.so
  )
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox-devel/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock-devel/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-netscape-messenger/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-netscape-navigator/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-nvu/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera-devel/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey-devel/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird-devel/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin
  /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10/work/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Install plugin /usr/home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

  When i try to play youtube movie i get only black rectangle.

  I try to pkg_delete  pkg_add -r nspluginwrapper, opera-linuxplugins
  and make linux-f10-flashplugin. But this doesn't work ;/

i had flash player on freebsd 8.2, but the major result is with ports,
try install it, but using port
check handbook.

  Regards.
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Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-29 Thread crsnet.pl
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:22:56 -0500, Edgar Rodolfo 
cybernaut...@gmail.com wrote:

2011/9/29, crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl:

 Hello.
 I make update yesterday with csup. And i have build new firefox 7 
from

 src.
 And today i see my flashplayer dont work (under Opera/Firefox).

 Opera about:plugins
 Opis: Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183

/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/libflashplayer.soapplication/futuresplash
 FutureSplash
 Player spl
 application/x-shockwave-flash  Shockwave Flash swf,swt,null,flash

 Firefox about:plugins
 File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Version:
 Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183

 MIME Type  Description Suffixes
 application/x-shockwave-flash  Shockwave Flash swf
 application/futuresplash   FutureSplash Player spl

 [cr4sh@x300 ~]$ pkg_info | grep flash
 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.10 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin

 [cr4sh@x300 ~]$ pkg_info | grep nsplugi
 nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 A compatibility plugin for Mozilla NPAPI 
plugins


 [cr4sh@x300 ~]$ nspluginwrapper -v -i $( find / -name 
libflashplayer.so

 )
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox-devel/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock-devel/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-netscape-messenger/libflashplayer.so

   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-netscape-navigator/libflashplayer.so

   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-nvu/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera-devel/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey-devel/libflashplayer.so

   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird-devel/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin
 /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10/work/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
 Install plugin /usr/home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/cr4sh/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

 When i try to play youtube movie i get only black rectangle.

 I try to pkg_delete  pkg_add -r nspluginwrapper, 
opera-linuxplugins

 and make linux-f10-flashplugin. But this doesn't work ;/


i had flash player on freebsd 8.2, but the major result is with 
ports,

try install it, but using port
check handbook.
I can try, but that configuration works to yesterday and im now 
confuse.
I see im not alone that flash stop to work after buidling firefox from 
sources (or one of its dependencies).


Regards.


 Regards.
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reverse label lookup for GPT partitions

2011-09-29 Thread Warren Block
'gpart show -l ad4' shows GPT labels on all the ad4 partitions.  Is 
there a reverse lookup, say to find out the GPT label for ad4p4?


Yes, it can be parsed out of 'gpart show -l' output, but anything more 
direct?

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Re: Support for Brother products

2011-09-29 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote:

 I just got a reply back from a representative from Brother
 International. I had inquired about the available of device drivers for
 FreeBSD for their products. They currently fully support Windows, Linux
 and Debian. He informed me himself that he is a *nix user and
 understands my concerns. However, as in any business that intends to
 turn a profit they have to cater to known markets. While supporting
 *BSD is something they have been considering, they felt that there is
 just not enough interest in their products to make it a win-win
 situation. He thanked me for my inquiry and told me that if other
 FreeBSD users would contact him with requests for drivers suitable for
 FreeBSD they would seriously consider it.

 Therefore, if anyone is interested in contacting him, this is the
 e-mail address: berard.mclaugh...@brother.com

 --
 Carmel ✌
 I've been using a Brother monochrome laser, model HL-6050DN for YEARS with
 no complaints.  It is a Postscript printer, which makes it EASY to support
 in CUPS.  All I needed  was a .ppd file, which Brother provided on a CD.


You must be talking about a non-Postscript printer?
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Re: Thunderbird 6.0.2/7.0: Crashing when using with OpenLDAP backend

2011-09-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli

On 09/28/11 14:29, O. Hartmann wrote:

I run in a problem on FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3/10.0-CURRENT using OpenLDAP
(Cyrus SASL2 aktivated) and OpenLDAP backend (most recent client and
server). Thunderbird 6.0.2 and 7.0 coredumps with signal 11. I hadn't
any chance to check whether this also happens on 8.2-STABLE, but I'll
check this as soon as possible, since I run the same OpenLDAP backend
and configuration (also the Cyrus SASL2 libs, most recent from ports).

The boxes in question do have FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3/10.0-CUR compiled with
CLANG and Thunderbird is also compiled with CLANG.


Does anyone else experience these issues?


You mean this?

http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/TB-5-0-crashing-with-nss-ldap-td4575944.html


 bye
av.
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Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:45, Lars Eighner portsu...@larseighner.com wrote:
 On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Kurt Buff wrote:

 All,

 I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree.
 I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error:

 ===    Verifying install for gcrypt.18 in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt
 ===  License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user
 ===  Extracting for libgcrypt-1.5.0
 = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2.
 ===  Refetch for 1 more times files: libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
 ===  License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user
 = libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
 = Attempting to fetch
 http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
 fetch:
 http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2:
 size unknown
 fetch:
 http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2:
 size of remote file is not known
 libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2                               4634  B 5734 kBps
 ===  License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user
 = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2.
 ===  Giving up on fetching files: libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
 Make sure the Makefile and distinfo file
 (/usr/ports/security/libgcrypt/distinfo)
 are up to date.  If you are absolutely sure you want to override this
 check, type make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args].


 Anyone else run into this?

 The source file is being truncated because fetch loses its connection for
 one reason or another.  Many servers now cut you off if you are at dial-up
 speeds because net fairness means broadband users always go to the front
 of the line.

 You can make a shell script to fetch the file and keep running it until you
 finally get the whole file a piece at a time or you can try ftp.  When you
 have the whole source file (check it against distinfo) place it in
 /usr/ports/distfiles. Things should go fine.

 Checksum mismatch nearly always means a truncated file.  I cannot ever
 remember seeing it otherwise.  Do not override it with NO_CHECKSUM.  That
 will be useless with a truncated file and worse than useless if a security
 port really has been tampered with.

Interesting. I found out what the problem is, but haven't figured out
how to work around it.

As a test, I put the URL
(http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2)
into a web browser, and found that it's being blocked by our web
filter, because the site is marked as also serving adult content. The
supposed tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles is the response from the web
filter, so it's junk.

After repeated fetches, that is the only site my machine is using to
grab the tarball. How to I tell the machine to vary its download sites
(if indeed there are alternatives?)

In the Makefile I see the line

 MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG}

which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't
know anything beyond that.


Thanks,

Kurt
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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote:
 Since I've installed OS v8.2 (STABLE of late August), mplayer
 has developed an annoying habit: It accidentally resets its
 volume settings.
 
 I have the following configuration: The vol (master) channel
 of the mixer is controlled by the volume keys on the top right
 of my keyboard (Sun Type 7 USB) by issuing mixer vol +5,
 mixer vol -5 and mixer vol 0 respectively. Worked for
 many years.
 
 When I use the keys 9 and 0 in mplayer, they _should_ modify
 the volume of the pcm channel - at least they did this in
 the previous mplayer 0.9something version I've been using many
 years on on OS v7.
 
 They do - as it seems - now too, but: when I move within
 the movie clip, they reset to some 50% value.
 
 Example: I set the volume slider to this value:
 
   [|||---]
 
 Now I press the left or right arrow key, or the space bar
 twice, then the volume gets up to the 50% value:
 
   [--]
 
 This is ANNOYING.
 
 Does anyone know a solution for this?

try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.

cheers.
alex

 
 I'm using mplayer-1.0.r20110329_3 compiled from ports.
 
 Audio driver is:
   pcm0: HDA VIA VT1708_8 PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default
   pcm1: HDA VIA VT1708_8 PCM #1 Analog (rec)
   pcm2: HDA VIA VT1708_8 PCM #2 Digital (play)
 
 Strangest thing: I can see values change in the output of
 the mixer command when changing the vol volume, but
 not if I change the volume from inside mplayer.
 
 
 
 NB: The _difference_ between pcm and vol is known to me.
 I _intendedly_ use different setting mechanisms, i. e. vol
 defines the maximum output level transmitted to the amplifier,
 and pcm can be used to change the volume within the range
 from zero up that preset master value. I know that it's
 possible to have the 9/0 keys change the vol (master)
 channel, but that's not intended - nor does it seem to be
 a solution here.
 
 
 
 
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Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 29 September 2011 09:21:14 Kurt Buff wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:45, Lars Eighner portsu...@larseighner.com 
wrote:
  On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Kurt Buff wrote:
  All,
  
  I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree.
  I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error:
  
  ===Verifying install for gcrypt.18 in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt
  ===  License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user
  ===  Extracting for libgcrypt-1.5.0
  = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2.
  ===  Refetch for 1 more times files: libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
  ===  License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user
  = libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in
  /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch
  http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
  fetch:
  http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2:
  size unknown
  fetch:
  http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2:
  size of remote file is not known
  libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2   4634  B 5734 kBps
  ===  License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user
  = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2.
  ===  Giving up on fetching files: libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
  Make sure the Makefile and distinfo file
  (/usr/ports/security/libgcrypt/distinfo)
  are up to date.  If you are absolutely sure you want to override this
  check, type make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args].
  
  
  Anyone else run into this?
  
  The source file is being truncated because fetch loses its connection for
  one reason or another.  Many servers now cut you off if you are at
  dial-up speeds because net fairness means broadband users always go to
  the front of the line.
  
  You can make a shell script to fetch the file and keep running it until
  you finally get the whole file a piece at a time or you can try ftp.
   When you have the whole source file (check it against distinfo) place
  it in /usr/ports/distfiles. Things should go fine.
  
  Checksum mismatch nearly always means a truncated file.  I cannot ever
  remember seeing it otherwise.  Do not override it with NO_CHECKSUM.  That
  will be useless with a truncated file and worse than useless if a
  security port really has been tampered with.
 
 Interesting. I found out what the problem is, but haven't figured out
 how to work around it.
 
 As a test, I put the URL
 (http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2)
 into a web browser, and found that it's being blocked by our web
 filter, because the site is marked as also serving adult content. The
 supposed tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles is the response from the web
 filter, so it's junk.
 
 After repeated fetches, that is the only site my machine is using to
 grab the tarball. How to I tell the machine to vary its download sites
 (if indeed there are alternatives?)
 
 In the Makefile I see the line
 
  MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG}
 
 which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't
 know anything beyond that.


It's also mirrored on the freebsd servers. Grab it from:

ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2

Put the file in /usr/ports/distfiles

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Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:

 In the Makefile I see the line

 MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG}

 which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't
 know anything beyond that.


Maybe RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES would help?

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Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:

 In the Makefile I see the line

     MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG}

 which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't
 know anything beyond that.


 Maybe RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES would help?

Scurries off to web to start reading...

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Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Lars Eighner

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Kurt Buff wrote:


The source file is being truncated because fetch loses its connection for
one reason or another.  Many servers now cut you off if you are at dial-up
speeds because net fairness means broadband users always go to the front
of the line.

You can make a shell script to fetch the file and keep running it until you
finally get the whole file a piece at a time or you can try ftp.  When you
have the whole source file (check it against distinfo) place it in
/usr/ports/distfiles. Things should go fine.

Checksum mismatch nearly always means a truncated file.  I cannot ever
remember seeing it otherwise.  Do not override it with NO_CHECKSUM.  That
will be useless with a truncated file and worse than useless if a security
port really has been tampered with.


Interesting. I found out what the problem is, but haven't figured out
how to work around it.

As a test, I put the URL
(http://gnupg.org.favoritelinks.net/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2)
into a web browser, and found that it's being blocked by our web
filter, because the site is marked as also serving adult content.


This is absurd unless there is an extremely low bar for adult content such
as mention of evolution.  It's a wonder you can receive email from me.


The supposed tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles is the response from the web
filter, so it's junk.

After repeated fetches, that is the only site my machine is using to
grab the tarball. How to I tell the machine to vary its download sites
(if indeed there are alternatives?)

In the Makefile I see the line

MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG}


find the GNUPG master sites in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk.  Search on GNUPG
to find the list of pertinent sites.

You can move to a empty work directory.  Create a shell script to fetch the
file.

I use git.sh
__
#!/bin/sh

fetch -raR URL of file
__


The url of the file is the master site with the subdirectory filled in
according the Makefile of the port and the file name (find the exact right
one in distinfo of the port.  Give your script executable permissions and
run it.

If it seems to work, check sha265 and length of file against distinfo for
the port.  If you have repeated problems with one site, just substitute the
next site in you script.

When you have all of the right file, move it to /usr/ports/distfiles.




which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't
know anything beyond that.


Thanks,

Kurt
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dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

2011-09-29 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi, Freebsd-questions.

# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a  2G206M1.6G11%/
devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
/dev/ad4s1e3.9G 13M3.6G 0%/tmp
/dev/ad4s1f 40G 25G 12G67%/usr
/dev/ad4s1d 31G3.6G 24G13%/var
procfs 4.0k4.0k  0B   100%/proc
/dev/ad2s1f 39G 25G 10G71%/mnt
devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/var/named/dev


as you can see /dev/ad4s1f is 40G and /dev/ad2s1f is 39G
but on ad4s1f only 25G used.

How can I dump /dev/ad4s1f and restore it on /dev/ad2s1f?

These commands:
#mount /dev/ad2s1f /mnt
#cd /mnt
#dump -0Lf - /usr | restore -rf -
does not help, because of ad2s1f does not have space to restore
'end of ' /dev/ad4s1f.

May help any?

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Install failure: Unable to find device node

2011-09-29 Thread va08bsdf-bfores...@yahoo.com


Please check the following link:  
http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=6373

I am attempting to install FreeBSD from DVD 
(FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.xz)

Installing on a Dell PE-2950 with six 300Gb Hds installed via Perc5i Serial 
Attached SCSI. The controller has mirrored drives 0  1 creating virtual device 
mfid0.

I can boot the install CD and go through the process of install prep but once I 
answer the last question to begin the install I get the following error: 
Unable to find device node for /dev/mfid0s1b...


More details are in the forum on DaemonForums where I first asked.  

Please reply directly AND in the forum because I am not actually a member of 
this list.  Thanks!

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Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

2011-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36:38PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote:

 Hi, Freebsd-questions.
 
 # df -h
 Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 /dev/ad4s1a  2G206M1.6G11%/
 devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
 /dev/ad4s1e3.9G 13M3.6G 0%/tmp
 /dev/ad4s1f 40G 25G 12G67%/usr
 /dev/ad4s1d 31G3.6G 24G13%/var
 procfs 4.0k4.0k  0B   100%/proc
 /dev/ad2s1f 39G 25G 10G71%/mnt
 devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/var/named/dev
 
 
 as you can see /dev/ad4s1f is 40G and /dev/ad2s1f is 39G
 but on ad4s1f only 25G used.
 
 How can I dump /dev/ad4s1f and restore it on /dev/ad2s1f?
 
 These commands:
 #mount /dev/ad2s1f /mnt
 #cd /mnt
 #dump -0Lf - /usr | restore -rf -
 does not help, because of ad2s1f does not have space to restore
 'end of ' /dev/ad4s1f.
 
 May help any?

Well, you are going to have difficulty putting 50 GB on a 39 GB partition.
   (25GB + 25GB = 50GB).
It won't work.

You could try compressing the dump, but dump files do not tend
to compress well and even if you got a 50% compression, you would
still be really close to overfill.

Probably you need to go to the store and get a nice big USB drive
and slice and partition it in to a bunch of 50 GB partitions and
pipe your dump to a restore in those partitions on that drive.
You can round-robin your backups to those USB partitions.

My backup to a USB hard drive just saved me the beginning of
this week when the old machine died of heat prostration.

jerry


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About suidperl in FreeBSD

2011-09-29 Thread Alberto Mijares
Hi,

I'm using 8.2-RELEASE

I need suidperl for openwebmail. I include

ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true

in /etc/make.conf and compile with

make -DENABLE_SUIDPERLTRUE install clean

Even so there is no /usr/bin/suidperl anywhere. Any advise? I'm
missing something?

Thanks


Alberto Mijares
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Re: Thunderbird 6.0.2/7.0: Crashing when using with OpenLDAP backend

2011-09-29 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 09/29/11 18:31, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
 On 09/28/11 14:29, O. Hartmann wrote:
 I run in a problem on FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3/10.0-CURRENT using OpenLDAP
 (Cyrus SASL2 aktivated) and OpenLDAP backend (most recent client and
 server). Thunderbird 6.0.2 and 7.0 coredumps with signal 11. I hadn't
 any chance to check whether this also happens on 8.2-STABLE, but I'll
 check this as soon as possible, since I run the same OpenLDAP backend
 and configuration (also the Cyrus SASL2 libs, most recent from ports).

 The boxes in question do have FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3/10.0-CUR compiled with
 CLANG and Thunderbird is also compiled with CLANG.


 Does anyone else experience these issues?

 You mean this?
 http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/TB-5-0-crashing-with-nss-ldap-td4575944.html


  bye
 av.

I think, the gdb output looked like yours. I have to check this when I'm
back in the bureau/lab. But I
remember that tha las line of the gdb-output before the backtrace
refered to libldap60.so.

Regards,
Oliver Hartmann
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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:49 +, Alexander Best wrote:
 On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote:
  This is ANNOYING.
  
  Does anyone know a solution for this?
 
 try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.

Many thanks! This restored the default behaviour!
I have it set in /etc/sysctl.conf now.

And: No, I _won't_ ask why this kind of stuff is required
to restore default behaviour and established functionalities
after minor upgrades, because it would certainly make me
a grumpy old man. :-)





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Re: About suidperl in FreeBSD

2011-09-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com writes:

 I need suidperl for openwebmail. I include

 ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true

 in /etc/make.conf and compile with

 make -DENABLE_SUIDPERLTRUE install clean

 Even so there is no /usr/bin/suidperl anywhere. Any advise? I'm
 missing something?

The things you've tried don't make any sense to me; where did you get
such weird advice?

I'd say to get rid of the things you added, then 
 # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.12
(or the directory for which ever other perl you want), then
 # make config
(so you can select the SUIDPERL option), then
 # make clean install clean

I would also suggest that you take a look at the ports section in the
FreeBSD Handbook, and then the manual page.

Good luck!
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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:58:29 +0200
Polytropon articulated:

 On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:49 +, Alexander Best wrote:
  On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote:
   This is ANNOYING.
   
   Does anyone know a solution for this?
  
  try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.
 
 Many thanks! This restored the default behaviour!
 I have it set in /etc/sysctl.conf now.
 
 And: No, I _won't_ ask why this kind of stuff is required
 to restore default behaviour and established functionalities
 after minor upgrades, because it would certainly make me
 a grumpy old man. :-)

I am still trying to figure out why I need to modify it and add:
hw.snd.default_unit=4 just to get sound to work on a card that works
perfectly under Windows sans modification. I have actually graduated
to the point where I develop ajada
{http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ajada} when I
contemplate modifying the hardware on my systems. I have evolved to a
point way past grumpy.

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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:17:50 -0400, Jerry wrote:
 On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:58:29 +0200
 Polytropon articulated:
 
  On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:49 +, Alexander Best wrote:
   On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote:
This is ANNOYING.

Does anyone know a solution for this?
   
   try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.
  
  Many thanks! This restored the default behaviour!
  I have it set in /etc/sysctl.conf now.
  
  And: No, I _won't_ ask why this kind of stuff is required
  to restore default behaviour and established functionalities
  after minor upgrades, because it would certainly make me
  a grumpy old man. :-)
 
 I am still trying to figure out why I need to modify it and add:
 hw.snd.default_unit=4 just to get sound to work on a card that works
 perfectly under Windows sans modification.

No need to introduce Windows here to claim that something
is wrong. As I said in my original question, this functionality
_has been working_ for many years as expected on _various_
sound cards that I've used (CMI chipset based as well as
today's typical HDA stuff). Due to audio level considerations,
especially when I have to do some audio processing, the
ability to differentiate all the many channels of the mixer
is a good help. But when something suddenly breaks, you
wonder _why_ this has been changed.

I'm sure there are other things that stopped working because
of new features and who knows what - _I_ do _not_ know. :-)



 I have actually graduated
 to the point where I develop ajada
 {http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ajada} when I
 contemplate modifying the hardware on my systems. I have evolved to a
 point way past grumpy.

Fully agree. Nice terminology, by the way. :-)

The disability to to keep using my perfectly working SCSI
because I cannot put the controller into my new system
_is_ such thing, even though there is no relation to the
system or the installed applications. Using USB scanners
just seems to be much more trouble than just attaching a
SCSI scanner and start using it (without any configuration);
this is also a good example of what can cause AJADA.



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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
 try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.

Question,

On one of my home machines, I have mixer pcm  vol set to 100% :

[olivares@tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$ mixer
Mixer vol  is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm  is currently set to 100:100
Mixer line is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic  is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec  is currently set to  81:81
Mixer igainis currently set to   0:0
Mixer ogainis currently set to  50:50
Mixer monitor  is currently set to  75:75
Recording source: mic

in /boot/device.hints

hint.pcm.0.vol=100
hint.pcm.1.vol=100
hint.pcm.2.vol=100

But when I play with mplayer, the pcm setting is at 48%

I then increase the sound level by using the (*) key to increase it
and the (/) key to lower it.  I had reason to believe that once I
would set up the sound using /boot/device.hints, it would be (set in
stone) forever, but on starting up the system, mplayer puts it back at
48%.

Will the systcl hw.snd.vpc autoreset=0 command cure this illness as well?

If it does, do I add it to /boot/device.hints?  and it is a done deal!
or no deal! :(

I have always wanted to ask but was not sure it it was freebsd or
mplayer's configuration.

Regards,

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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:33:45 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
  try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.
 
 Question,
 
 On one of my home machines, I have mixer pcm  vol set to 100% :
 
 [olivares@tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$ mixer
 Mixer vol  is currently set to 100:100
 Mixer pcm  is currently set to 100:100
 Mixer line is currently set to  75:75
 Mixer mic  is currently set to   0:0
 Mixer rec  is currently set to  81:81
 Mixer igainis currently set to   0:0
 Mixer ogainis currently set to  50:50
 Mixer monitor  is currently set to  75:75
 Recording source: mic

I've also tried:

First I set the mixer settings to the ones you have, at
least the relevant ones:

% mixer vol 100
% mixer pcm 100

From the last time, I had set mplayer's volume to zero.
Starting mplayer, no sound could be heared - as expected,
even as mixer displayed 100 for pcm and vol.

See my conclusion: It seems that mplayer handles volume
setting _separated_ from mixer's vol and pcm.



 in /boot/device.hints
 
 hint.pcm.0.vol=100
 hint.pcm.1.vol=100
 hint.pcm.2.vol=100

Nice, didn't know about those yet.

Basically, FreeBSD's shutdown saves _current_ mixer settings,
and the startup restores them. So if you leave settings at
100, they should be kept there.



 But when I play with mplayer, the pcm setting is at 48%

Seems to equal my 50% assumption.



 I then increase the sound level by using the (*) key to increase it
 and the (/) key to lower it.  I had reason to believe that once I
 would set up the sound using /boot/device.hints, it would be (set in
 stone) forever, but on starting up the system, mplayer puts it back at
 48%.

As it has done before here.

I've tried your test with * and /, as well as 9 and 0, and
I don't see any changes in the mixer output. However, when
I use the volume keys (that control the mixer command) a
setting change can be seen.

So I assume... mplayer does have some kind of internal audio
level setting? As I said: no change in pcm or vol when
changing volume inside mplayer in the default configuration,
as it was my initial conclusion.

NB: I know that mplayer's keys can be set to change vol
instead of pcm, but that does not seem to be the default
setting!



 Will the systcl hw.snd.vpc autoreset=0 command cure this illness as well?

Try it - it seems to be correct, at least from my few testing.



 If it does, do I add it to /boot/device.hints?  and it is a done deal!
 or no deal! :(

I've added it to /etc/sysctl.conf.



 I have always wanted to ask but was not sure it it was freebsd or
 mplayer's configuration.

In ultraworst case, freebsd-question@ is the right list to ask. :-)



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