Re: Problem in installing textproc/asciidoc

2013-06-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi,

Thank you.

>> On new 9.1 systems, textproc/asciidoc is being installed as dependency
>> to many other ports.
>>
>> But the make install fails with the error:
>>
>> installing Vim files in //usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles
>   ^
> Two slashes here?

That's a copy from the make install, don't ask me why there are two slashes.

>> cp: /usr/local/ETC/asciidoc.conf.sample: No such file or directory
>  ^^^
>
> Is this correct? In my opinion, the correct path name
> should be /usr/local/etc/, _not_ in caps!

Ditto, but there lies the problem, the sample configuration files get
installed in /usr/local/etc/asciidoc, but then the Makefile tries to
copy the .conf.sample file into .conf and at this stage, it searches
for the files in /usr/local/ETC.

I'll write to the maintener of the post.

Best regards,

Olivier

>
>
>
>> It is consistent on all the machines.
>
> Maybe an error in the port's configuration?
>
>
>
>> I can install the 20 or so files xxx.conf.sample by hand, it's
>> tedious, but it works.
>
> That step should be completed by the "post-install" target
> in /usr/ports/textproc/asciidoc/Makefile. Is there some
> variable, like ${ETCDIR}, set wrongly?
>
>
>
>> But then, any other port that depend on asciidoc will fail to install,
>> saying that asciidoc have not been installed properly.
>
> You could forcedly register the installation of the port that
> you have "manually completed".
>
>
>
>> I could not find any answer an Google, so I ask the question here:
>> what do I do wrong? Or is there something to tweak to make asciidoc
>> install and work normally?
>
> Check if you have anything "suspicious" set in /etc/make.conf
> or in your environment that might override the logic of the
> Makefile. Check the Makefile as well (I've checked 8.6.6's
> on my 8.2 home system).
>
> Just to be sure, make clean and re-checkout the port, then
> try again.
>
>
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Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk

On 06/24/2013 03:20 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

On 24/06/2013 20:28, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE
source branch.  When I try to do an update to it, I see this now:

svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at /usr/scr
svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src

/usr/src is a symlink to another directory in a separate filesystem,
but this historically worked, so I'm guess that is not the problem.

Ideas?



svn upgrade




Hm 

[root] ozzie ~>svn upgrade /usr/src
[root] ozzie ~>svn update /usr/src
svn: E155004: Run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for 
details)
svn: E155004: Working copy '/usr1/src-9-STABLE' locked.
svn: E155004: '/usr1/src-9-STABLE' is already locked.
[root] ozzie ~>svn cleanup /usr/src
[root] ozzie ~>svn update /usr/src
Updating '/usr/src':
svn: E155005: No write-lock in '/usr/src/sys'
svn: E155005: Additional errors:
svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at '/usr/src'.



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Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
>   During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed
> that suggests all is not right.  However, this is a sufficiently
> modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what.
>   It is my understanding that file gets read before the system
> logging facilities are operational, and possibly before things like
> ^S/^Q work on the terminal.
>   Is there a way to store the results of that phase of boot-up?

Being on the 1st virtual terminal in text mode (ttyv0) which
also acts as the console device, press the "Scroll Lock"
key and use the vertical arrow keys and page scrolling keys
to get to the top of the log. It should start with the last
BIOS POST messages (if any), and then continue with the
loader messages, the kernel messages, and the system startup
messages. You can copy them via mouse left/middle to another
tty with an editor for future use. This is what Scroll Lock
is inteded for. :-)

Example:


BIOS 637kB/2094976kB available memory

FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(???@?..???, Sun Aug 21 03:33:08 CEST 2011)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x600ebf data=0x68ab4+0x84a44 syms=[0x4+0x75f50+0x4+0xa
27db]
/boot/kernel/bktr.ko text=0xfe20 data=0xc08+0x10 syms=[0x4+0xd80+0x4+0xcd6]
loading required module 'bktr_mem'
/boot/kernel/bktr_mem.ko text=0x8f4 data=0xe0+0xec syms=[0x4+0x2a0+0x4+0x2b3]
/boot/kernel/drm.ko text=0x10e2c data=0x11cc+0x10 syms=[0x4+0x1c20+0x4+0x22b1]
/boot/modules/nvidia.ko text=0x71c060 data=0x1f7f9c+0x7900 syms=[0x4+0x82510+0x4
+0x59a76]
-
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...

And here the kernel messages start, and they will be logged in
/var/log/messages anyway.



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Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/06/2013 20:28, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE
> source branch.  When I try to do an update to it, I see this now:
> 
>svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at /usr/scr
>svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src
> 
> /usr/src is a symlink to another directory in a separate filesystem,
> but this historically worked, so I'm guess that is not the problem.
> 
> Ideas?
> 

svn upgrade

Cheers,

Matthew

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Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk

After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE
source branch.  When I try to do an update to it, I see this now:

   svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at /usr/scr
   svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src

/usr/src is a symlink to another directory in a separate filesystem,
but this historically worked, so I'm guess that is not the problem.

Ideas?

--
---
Tim Daneliuk
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Re: Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright

I have tracked down the issue.  Not sure whether this is a PR issue or not...

On 2013-06-06, at 11:18 AM, Polytropon wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:24:52 -0300, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote:
>> 
>> Strangely, it seems that I cannot boot single user, either
>> using "boot -s" from the boot loader, or using the boot menu. 
>> When I get to the point where the root filesystem is mounted,
>> it hangs right after printing the message:
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a
> 
> Have you tried hitting the RETURN key several times? 

   [ ... ]

> It's important to identify if the system is _really_ hanging,
> or if the message "just isn't visible"...

This is indeed the crux of the issue.  While hammering on the RETURN key did 
not produce a prompt, it turns out that there was a prompt...

At some time in the relatively distant past, I had configured this machine to 
allow display to a serial console (long since disconnected) by adding these 
lines to /boot/loader.conf 

boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
comconsole_speed="19200"
console="comconsole,vidconsole"

My notes say "These came from the serial console setup page, and do work for 
vt100", however I did not note exactly which man page they came from, 
unfortunately.  I do not see these lines on syscons(4), sio(4) or dcons(4).

Similar lines are mentioned in the handbook regarding setting up a serial 
console (there is no mention of single-user mode here):
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html



The issue, as it relates to single-user mode, is essentially this:  if the 
system is configured to boot with multi-console options, then when the single 
user prompt is printed, it is only printed on the "second" console (which is 
also the only valid source of keyboard input) -- in this case, the configured 
but unattached serial port.


I'm not sure what the best strategy is here.  Having only one console that is 
accepting input for the single-user shell certainly makes sense.  The question 
is, which of potentially several consoles should it be?

IMO, it would be better/clearer if (for i386/amd64 anyway) the console was the 
one associated with the motherboard-based keyboard and video card.  An argument 
here would be that the [CTRL]-[ALT]-[DEL] sequence is still valid when 
associated with this keyboard, so it does seem odd that other input on that 
device is ignored.

I can see arguments for other setups, also, mostly revolving around the "why 
would you _have_ another console configured if you didn't need it, so the 
configured console must therefore be the important one" -- though the FreeBSD 
user base is certainly willing enough to experiment that I am sure I am not the 
only person who set up multi-console for a "fun" project.

Perhaps the best strategy would be to add a message printed on all consoles (as 
the rest of the boot information is) just before the prompt is printed (singly) 
to let people know that this is happening?  I'm not sure if a way to 100% 
predict the desired console is possible.


Thoughts?  If figure I will put a PR in, so that at least this is tracked, even 
if we don't change anything.  I will reference this thread in the PR, but if 
anyone has input as to what to suggest, I would appreciate it.  At the very 
least, the handbook should get updated to indicate that this may happen.

Andrew.


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Re: auth.notice on syslog server

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:35 AM, SWENNEN Rudi
 wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD-list,
>
> I have the following two freebsd systems/servers: a server and a client. The 
> syslog of the client is send to the server.
> I was wondering why the auth.notice entry on my server is generating a syslog 
> entry (/dev/console) when I change to root on the client:
> Jun 24 12:01:38 SERVER kernel: Jun 24 12:00:32 CLIENT su: rudi to root on 
> /dev/ttyv0
>
> Is there a way to "limit" the auth-facility not to log via syslog if the 
> entry in generated from a remote system?

Yes, on the host that sends the logs.
E.g.,

auth.*,authpriv.*:  /var/log/auth
console.*,cron.*,daemon.*,kern.*,mail.*,ntp.*,security.*,syslog.*,user.*,local.*:
@loghost
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Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Robert Huff

Bernt Hansson writes:

>  Try "start freebsd with verbose logging" then check dmesg.

Doesn't that only apply to stuff generated by the hardware
enumeration/drivar attach phase?



Robert Huff




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Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Bernt Hansson

On 2013-06-24 15:23, Robert Huff wrote:


During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed
that suggests all is not right.  However, this is a sufficiently
modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what.
It is my understanding that file gets read before the system
logging facilities are operational, and possibly before things like
^S/^Q work on the terminal.
Is there a way to store the results of that phase of boot-up?


Have you checked dmsg?

Try "start freebsd with verbose logging" then check dmesg.
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Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike.
On 6/24/2013 at 4:05 PM Arthur Chance wrote:

|On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote:
|>
|>  During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed
|> that suggests all is not right.  However, this is a sufficiently
|> modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what.
|>  It is my understanding that file gets read before the system
|> logging facilities are operational, and possibly before things like
|> ^S/^Q work on the terminal.
|>  Is there a way to store the results of that phase of boot-up?
 =



This has worked well for me, logging the early boot process that
usually scrolls by on the screen. I use it on 8.3 and 9.1.

I was surprised that it managed to log console stuff that occurred
before syslogd was loaded...


from syslog.conf

# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to 
#   /var/log/console.log
# touch /var/log/console.log and chmod it to mode 600 
#   before it will work
console.info/var/log/console.log


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Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Chance

On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote:


During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed
that suggests all is not right.  However, this is a sufficiently
modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what.
It is my understanding that file gets read before the system
logging facilities are operational, and possibly before things like
^S/^Q work on the terminal.
Is there a way to store the results of that phase of boot-up?


Does ScrollLock and repeated PageUp get you back far enough?


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Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 -0400
Robert Huff  wrote:

> 
>   During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed
> that suggests all is not right.  However, this is a sufficiently
> modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what.
>   It is my understanding that file gets read before the system
> logging facilities are operational, and possibly before things like
> ^S/^Q work on the terminal.
>   Is there a way to store the results of that phase of boot-up?
> 
>   Respectfully,
> 
> 
>   Robert Huff
> 
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I am sure there is a 'right' way to do it, but I had success reading a 
transitory
BIOS message by photographing the screen with a 2-second exposure, in a fairly 
dark
room. This will only work for white-on-black text, of course.
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Re: Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?

2013-06-24 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Joseph Mingrone  wrote:
> -Edwin Hale  writes:
>> Therefore, my question is ultimately:-
>> Is there any 17"64-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with 
>> wireless connectivity to an external hotspot?
>

You may wish to consider running PC-BSD.
It seems there has been work to support RTL8188CE, but I'm not sure
it's available in 9.1. Buying a supported wireless card on ebay will
cost about 10 to 20 dollars US, and replacing it takes 5 to 15
minutes. Some of the laptops have a list of 'allowed' hardware burned
into the BIOS, which may cause an issue booting with a different
wireless card, but it's probably not the situation on your L755.


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logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Robert Huff

During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed
that suggests all is not right.  However, this is a sufficiently
modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what.
It is my understanding that file gets read before the system
logging facilities are operational, and possibly before things like
^S/^Q work on the terminal.
Is there a way to store the results of that phase of boot-up?

Respectfully,


Robert Huff

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auth.notice on syslog server

2013-06-24 Thread SWENNEN Rudi
Hello FreeBSD-list,

I have the following two freebsd systems/servers: a server and a client. The 
syslog of the client is send to the server. 
I was wondering why the auth.notice entry on my server is generating a syslog 
entry (/dev/console) when I change to root on the client: 
Jun 24 12:01:38 SERVER kernel: Jun 24 12:00:32 CLIENT su: rudi to root on 
/dev/ttyv0

Is there a way to "limit" the auth-facility not to log via syslog if the entry 
in generated from a remote system?

Thanks for the response.

Kr,

Rudi 
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Re: Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?

2013-06-24 Thread Joseph Mingrone
-Edwin Hale  writes:
> Therefore, my question is ultimately:-
> Is there any 17"64-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with 
> wireless connectivity to an external hotspot?

There are many.  I've had good luck with Lenovos.  I'm writing this from
a friend's T530 and I own an X220, but neither have a 17" screen.

A first step is to search the archives of the mobile, acpi and questions
mailing lists.  There are also some helpful threads on the forums and
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/.

Once you have a system specd out, verify that the video and wireless
cards are supported.  Searching for something like "FreeBSD Centrino
Advanced-N 6205" should do it.

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Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-24 Thread Warren Block

On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:



On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block  wrote:


On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:


I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR.  All went fine till I tried to 
reboot the system.  It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from 
ufs:/dev/ada0p2.  That won't work.


The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab.  Have the 
entries there been changed?


That was the problem.  The system used GPT before and I can't believe I forgot 
to update fstab.  That was a really dumb mistake.


Not really, the only reason it occurred to me was because I've forgotten 
to do it many, many times.


As Polytropon points out, labels can help avoid the problem.  In this 
case, it would have had to be a UFS label on the filesystem:


http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html
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Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?

2013-06-24 Thread -Edwin Hale
I have been looking for ages for a simple system on which to do the following:-

a. Unix-Based.
b. Do Programming in C. (I like gedit if possible).
c. Xfce as GUI.
d. Production Work:-

1. OpenOffice (not LibreOffice).
2. The GIMP.
3. Inkscape.
4. Something with CAD and 3-D Rendering.
5. Film and Sound Editing.
6. Databases: PostgreSL, MySQL, and db2.e. 
7. Internet Work, including uploads to my website with FTP, my web host using 
the latest version of Apache.

f. Good Graphics and Media.
g. Good wireless connectivity through an external hotspot - currently using 
Sprint (not the best or the worst) 3G (more reliable than 4G) OverdrivePro but 
may upgrade when something better appears.

If I did not have to travel a good deal, I should be content with a desktop 
computer, but cannot escape from laptops.

I have tried many versions of Linux and some of the offshoots of FreeBSD, and 
only FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD seem close to what I think is best. FreeBSD wins 
because DragonflyBSD is just too esoteric at the moment.

After over a month of effort, I freely confess that installing FreeBSD 9.1 is 
beyond my capability. I have a Toshiba Satellite L755 with 32-bit  Intel® Core™ 
i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 Processor at the moment, and this is nowhere 
mentioned on any list of FreeBSD-capable laptops that I can find. Indeed, after 
ruthlessly searching the web and talking to dozens of people, none of whom have 
any close experience with FreeBSD, it seems that there are very few laptops 
which are capable of trouble-free installation of FreeBSD. In the case of my 
Toshiba Satellite L755, I believe that the wireless driver is not friendly to 
the idea. As I currently use Ubuntu 12.10 (native - wiped it in attempted to 
instal FreeBSD 9.1, and then re-installed after failure of said installation of 
FreeBSD), I ran the following command and received:-

$ lspci | grep Network
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 
802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

And, running

$ iwconfig

produces

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"OverdriveProA1F"  
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point: 84:DB:2F:35:9A:1F   
  Bit Rate=18 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
  Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-40 dBm  
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:8   Missed beacon:0

lono wireless extensions.

eth0  no wireless extensions.

And this:-

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family 
DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core 
Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series 
Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 
USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 6 (rev b4)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 7 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 
USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC 
Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 
6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus 
Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 
802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast 
Ethernet (rev c1)

Well, the installation of FreeBSD floundered at the configuration stage of the 
GUI, and then stopped at the command line when the ports could not be installed 
because of lack of connectivity.

Oh, well - no need to waste time discussing this because my present computer is 
not good enough in other respects for what I should like to do.

Therefore, my question is ultimately:-

Is there any 17"64-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with 
wireless connectivity to an external hotspot?

Many thanks.





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