Setting up FreeBSD-server - space for /usr, swap,...?

2004-05-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm about to set up a server under 4.x (later to be converted to 5.x once it becomes stable). Hardware: HP DL360 2xXeon 3GHz CPUs 1GB RAM 2x146GB SCSI-HDs (in RAID1-config) Usage: Generating logs of MTRG-statistics (i.e. gathering data via snmp and producing graphics out of the data)

Stop. in installworld (4.9)

2004-05-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Upon trying to upgrade a 4.9 system to the most recent version I ended up with a Stop. during make installworld. Here's what I did: cvsup ... stable-supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=... (Kernel-config-file below) make installkernel KERNCONF=... reboot to

Re: Stop. in installworld (4.9)

2004-05-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:30:33AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 06 May 2004 09:45 am, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Upon trying to upgrade a 4.9 system to the most recent version I ended up with a Stop. during make installworld. When ever touch gets involved in an installworld

Multiple kernels on one machine?

2003-10-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm currently in the process of upgrading my kernel (5.1). Afaik, every time one installs a new kernel with make installkernel the old /boot/kernel is moved to /boot/kernel.old thus overwriting the old /boot/kernel.old. In order to keep a working kernel: Is it possible to *keep* an old

Upgrading 5.1 to latest - crash upon starting X

2003-10-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Seems like I'm running into a problem upgrading my 5.1 machine to the latest level: The symptoms: When I boot the new kernel everything runs straight up to the moment when I start X-Windows. When starting X as a normal user I end up with a db-prompt (debugger?); when starting X as root

portupgrade -arR fails - port/pkg-system no longer usable

2004-03-22 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Doing a portupgrade -arR rendered my system (esp. the parts that refer to ports/packages) more or less unusable. Here's what I did: System is running 4.9 cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile pkgdb -F portsdb -Uu cd /usr/ports portupgrade -arR After some hours worth of CPU-time I ended with a lot

Re: portupgrade -arR fails - port/pkg-system no longer usable

2004-03-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:05:01PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have had the same problem. Easiest solution is to cd to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and make deinstall clean install Once that completes all is well again. Hi Jon, Thanks much for the hint! It absolutely did the

Kernel build fails in /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da (4.9)

2004-04-19 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After cvsup-ing and building a new system (make buildworld) I tried to compile a new kernel and ended up with /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:32: opt_da.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OeKB040419. *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4 installed and running just fine. I cvsup'd with the ports-supfile, and ran the gnome_upgrade.sh file. Maybe dumb question: Did you upgrade ruby as instructed in

VNCviewer fullscreen under Gnome 2.8 - loosing window decorations

2005-01-11 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm running in a strange problem using VNCviewer (VNC 3.3.7 built from ports) in fullscreen mode: vncviewer uses function key F8 to switch between normal and fullscreen mode. When I drop out of VNC fullscreen-mode using F8 I'm loosing the window decorations of VNCViewer under X. When

Openoffice 1.1 - compile errors even without Java

2005-02-08 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having a hard time getting OO 1.1.4 installed from ports: Using the normal make-way (i.e. with Java support) makes the build die after some hours with the famous errors during Java compilation. So I tried make -DWITHOUT_JAVA Again, make runs for several hours finally bailing out with

portsdb -Uu - Stop.

2005-02-28 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, today I cvsup-ed one of my 5.3 systems by using the same procedure as many times before: cvsup -g -L 2 ./ports-supfile pkgdb -F portsdb -Uu The first two steps (cvsup, pkgdb) went OK without error, but during portsdb -Uu I get an error as follows: # portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index

Re: portsdb -Uu - Stop.

2005-02-28 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:54:05PM +0300, Alexey Karguine wrote: You may do: cd /usr/ports make fetchindex to fetch index-file. You not must generate this file yourself and wasting your time and CPU-resourses. Hi Alexey, Thanks for the hint - it did the trick. However I still

pkgdb -F - fetching INDEX-5.bz2 every time

2005-03-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a rather interesting/anoying problem wrt. running pkgdb -F after cvsup-ping my ports-tree: pkgdb fetches INDEX-5.bz2 on every run! (for a sample output see below) Moreover in my /usr/ports I only have INDEX-5 and INDEX.db, but no INDEX file. In addition pkgdb complains about a

Re: portsdb -Uu - Stop.

2005-03-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:35:28PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: # portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.6 : /usr/ports/print/acroread5 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete === print/apsfilter failed *** Error code 1 1 error

Re: Question about cvsup

2005-03-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:15:05PM -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to FreeBSD and trying to use CVSup after someone suggested it to me on comp.unix.misc.bsd.freebsd. My supfile : *default tag=. *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db

Compaq/HP Evo d310 - register dump upon booting Install-CD

2005-03-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm facing a rather severe problem installing 5.4 (or 5.4-Beta): Hardware: Compaq/HP Evo d310 latest available BIOS 3.18 HD: 40GB Problem: When booting from a FreeBSD-Installation CD (either disc1, bootonly - doesn't really matter) the system immediately crashes when it comes to the

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) under FreeBSD?

2004-08-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Central management of our servers runs under HP SIM (HP Systems Insight Manager), formerly known as CIM (Compaq Insight Manager). HP on its website says it's supported for Windoze, HP-UX and Linux. Has anybody out there got this software running under FreeBSD (possibly using Linux

SNMP MIBs for HP Proliant?

2004-08-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, For a HP Compaq Proliant DL360 I'm looking for the SNMP-MIBs that cover the following items: o) Disk-IO o) Disk-usage (capacity used) o) Memory usage o) Compaq/HP Smartarray (Compaq Smart Array 5i), esp. disk failure etc. o) CPU Usage (two Xeons running SMP (hyperthreading to 4 virtual CPUs)

Kernel build failed in /usr/src/sys/modules/i2c/controllers/viapm

2005-11-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
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USB 2.0 DAT-Drive - no USB 2.0 speed under FreeBSD?

2005-11-15 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a DAT72 (DDS-5) external tape drive (HP C7438A) that connects via USB (!). However I can't get it to work as USB2.0 drive under FreeBSD (5.4) :-( When starting the drive here's what I get in /var/log/messages: Nov 13 20:06:10 tasty kernel: umass0: Hewlett Packard DAT72 USB Tape,

Asus P3B-F MoBo - Invalid partition table (5.x, 6.x)

2006-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I ran into an interesting problem installing FreeBSD on the following hardware: MoBo: Asus P3B-F, latest BIOS CPU: PIII, 500MHz HD: Maxtor 90871U2 (9GB) = primary IDE master CD: Sony CDU 4811 = secondary IDE master 256MB RAM Boot Sequence: Floppy, CD, HD FreeBSD is to be installed

portupgrade xorg-* - mouse-wheel stops working under X

2006-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Some days ago I portupgraded my system including some of the xorg- ports like xorg-clients, xorg-server etc. Since that upgrade the mouse wheel doesn't work any more under X-win The problem definitely came with the upgrade. I've used the mouse wheel for months without problems and didn't

Re: portupgrade xorg-* - mouse-wheel stops working under X

2006-02-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:11:44AM -0500, George Fazio wrote: I had the same issue. My mouse wheel stopped working, and imwheel started using it for my broswer back/forward (instead of the buttons it's suppose to use). I was able to get the mouse wheel working again by editing my xorg.conf

Acoustic management for ATA Harddisks?

2006-02-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Is there a way to turn on acoustic management for ATA harddisks? atactl tells me the disk is capable of automatic acoustic management: # atacontrol cap 0 0 ATA channel 0, Master, device ad0: Protocol ATA/ATAPI revision 6 device model HDS722516VLAT80 . . . Feature

Accessing partitions using FIXIT/Live-System-CDROM?

2004-10-29 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After wiping out my system :-(, i.e. the root-partition and parts of /usr I'd like to rescue any data that might be left on the machine, like /home, /var etc. So I booted with the Live-CDROM (#2) and went to the Fixit Menu item. However I can't mount any paritions beside the original

Re: Accessing partitions using FIXIT/Live-System-CDROM?

2004-10-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:34:59PM -0400, jason wrote: Search the current archives for a new feature with atacontrol, I think its in this program. It will scan a disk and recover any data it can. Sounds like what you need. Hi Jason, Thanks much for the hint! Unfortunately my data is on

SMP with hyperthreading CPU (5.3)?

2004-10-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a 3GHz P4 system with hyperthreading enabled in the BIOS. For this system I've built a SMP-kernel (kernel config-file SMP that comes with 5.3). However SMP doesn't seem to be enabled - at least I don't seen the usual messages like CPU ... launched that's common with SMP

Re: SMP with hyperthreading CPU (5.3)?

2004-11-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:43:09PM -0700, Luke wrote: I haven't updated my system since August, but back then the apic device was also required. 5.3 may be different. This is the relevant section from my 5.2-CURRENT hyperthreading kernel from last August. # To make an SMP kernel, the

/home on a separate slice on cloned system

2005-08-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm currently in the process of cloning FreeBSD-installations. Machines are (almost) identical - only HD-sizes are different. So I installed the master-system as follows: I set up two slices on the HD. The first slice contains /, swap, /var, /tmp, and /usr; the second slice only contains

Re: /home on a separate slice on cloned system

2005-08-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Where exactly is the /home directory you want to mount on your slave machine? If it's located on your 'master' machine, you can use NFS to share the directory and just create a reference in fstab to the location of the NFS mounted drive on your 'slave' machine. Hi Garrett, Sorry for

Re: /home on a separate slice on cloned system

2005-08-11 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Oh, that's simple then. Just run mkfs_ufs (or something like that) /dev/hda2d (that is if the slice exists... run sysinstall and modify where necessary to add the slice). Then on your next reboot everything should work just fine if you formatted the slice. Otherwise if you already have

Booting with ACPI enabled by default? (5.3)

2004-11-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've installed two system from scratch with 5.3 in the past few days. One system by default comes up with ACPI enabled, the other with ACPI disabled. Close watch has revealed that the boot-menu (the one that gives you chose among ACPI yes/no, single-user-mode etc.) has it's default to

Re: Booting with ACPI enabled by default? (5.3)

2004-11-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:33:40PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Can we have a dmesg -a on the box with ACPI disabled? Sure - I'm including it below. Please note, that the box *does* come up with ACPI enabled when I manually choose the menu item on the boot menu (beastie.4th) that says boot with acpi

Snapshot filesystem - kernel: WARNING: Expected rawoffset...

2004-11-19 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've discovered that during creation of a snapshot-filesystem I get an error message written to my log that says: Nov 19 17:36:25 io kernel: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 32 To be specific, this happens every time when I run mdconfig for the root partition. I've used the following

Machine refuses to boot with ACPI enabled by default

2004-11-22 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a strange problem wrt. ACPI on one of my boxes under FreeBSD 5.3: The box comes up with ACPI *disabled* by default. Only by manually selecting the menu option that says Boot with ACPI enabled can I make the box run ACPI which is kinda annoying when e.g. I remotely reboot the box -

Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run that portupgrade under script...) Couldn't find an option to pkg_info, pkgdb

Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... Any other ideas? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

7.1 - with x.org 7.4?

2008-12-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Does anybody out there know if FreeBSD 7.1 will come out with X.org 7.4 (or still 7.3)? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

7.1 RC1 - problems with Intel Pro/1000 NIC (em0)?

2008-12-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing FreeBSD 7.1 RC1 from the DVD-image I found that the PC in question has no LAN connectivity upon reboot. The PC has an Intel GE builtin NIC showing up as Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6 in dmesg. For the problem: Though IP-Adress, default-GW etc. are correctly set

X11 - radeon or radeonhd? (ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT)

2009-01-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a PC (Dell) that came with a Radeon HD 2400 XT (RV610 chipset). Afaik there isn't 3D support yet with this card, so my primary goal is to get it working as far as 2D and speed is concerned (I don't want to go for vesa if at all possible) Which driver should I use for this card -

Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, For a system set up from scratch (7.1) I'm about to set up printing. Printer: Minolta C351 (basically a networked PS-Printer also capable of color) My requirements: Print from mutt (mail), print text files, print PS-files with the ability to print duplex and 2-up both in color and b/w.

Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing a new system with 7.1 from scratch, upgrading kernel/system as well as ports to the current version I configured X-win (X -configure) and finally fired up gnome. First of all, Gnome takes a LOT of time to get up - it takes almost 5 minutes (!) till I get the icons for

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:59:33PM -0500, Jason Lenthe wrote: By all means, give CUPS a try though. Thanks to you all for your hints/suggestions - I'll try to get up CUPS with a possible fallback to print/apsfilter. -ewald ___

Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:56:13AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: The obvious question is: Have you got hald running? Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: gnome_enable=YES Hi, Didn't know that I need 'gnome_enable=YES' in my /etc/rc.conf. At least the handbook doesn't mention it, so

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:37:53PM +0100, icemaca wrote: this i386 version has cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Basically you can comment all but I686_CPU since the others are for earlier x86 architectures. -ewald

sysutils/gnome-power-manager fails to compile

2009-01-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During upgrading gnome, done exactly as described in /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20090110), during the phase of portupgrade -aOW the build process stops in sysutils/gnome-power-manager: . . . gmake[2]: Leaving directory

portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During an upgrade of my ports involving x11 portupgrade dies (FreeBSD 7.1, AMD64) Here's what I did: After cvsup, make fetchindex, I did a pkgdb -F and then portupgrade -rf libxcb as per UPDATING of 20090123. Next I did a pkgdb -F again, which complained about obsoleted packages while at

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on sees one. I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC kernel has SMP

Re: portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:37:24PM +0300, o...@adlogic.ru wrote: Ewald, also look at /usr/ports/UPDATING , 20090123 Hi Oleg, Thanks for the hint. Do you mean portupgrade -rf libxcb? I did that before running portupgrade -arR so I assume the problem I'm having is caused by something

X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-01-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Today I upgraded my system (ports) so I got x.org 7.4 installed. Given the various entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING about the recent updates for xorg I wonder what the correct settings/combinations are for my installation: I've got hald running as per /etc/rc.conf with hald_enable=YES as well

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-02-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: Me too. I started a thread a few days ago titled Restarting new Xorg freezes system. My symptoms are the same as yours. I'm not running hald at all. I'm not using full-blown gnome, just windowmaker. I'm using the radeon driver on

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-02-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:31:28PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've got hald running as per /etc/rc.conf with hald_enable=YES as well as moused (moused_enable=YES in rc.conf). what??? where's hald_enable=YES documented? There's nothing about this in X, dbus, or hald manual pages.

CUPS - no german Umlaut characters

2009-02-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After successfully setting up CUPS I found out a problem wrt printing german Umlaut characters: Whenever I try to print a file with umlaut characters the file is only printed up to not not including the first umlaut characters. This happens for example when I take a text file with umlaut

Re: CUPS, initial PATH environment

2009-02-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using the command line interface... I

Re: CUPS - no german Umlaut characters

2009-02-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:01:03PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Try some sort of filter like print/enscript: # enscript your_file should get your Umlaut's. Thanks much for the hint! I installed a2ps-a4 - workes nicely - and prints Umlauts :-) Kind regards, -ewald

xorg-fbserver / xorg-server fails upgrade

2009-02-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, While upgrading a machine during upgrade of /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver/work/xorg-server-1.5.3 the build process fails with the errors given below. Any ideas what can be wrong here and how to overcome this problem? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: FreeBSD 7.1,

Stop during upgrade of textproc/linux-expat

2009-04-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, While upgrading my ports I ran into a problem during the upgrade of textproc/linux-expat. After the usual cvsup, make fetchindex, pkgdb -F I started portupgrade -arR which resulted in a Stop because of a syntax error - for details see below. Has anybode else had this problem? What can I do

Re: Stop during upgrade of textproc/linux-expat

2009-04-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:04:38PM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote: linux_expat depends on running linuxulator (USE_LDCONFIG=YES in Makefile) so kldload linux :) Hi Dmitry, Thanks much for the hint! I tried kldload linux then restarting the build process and it went through :-) Something

Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, This question is not purely about FreeBSD itself, but about getting Symantec Netbackup (formerly Veritas) running under FreeBSD. First of all FreeBSD is supported directly; there's a native commandline client for FreeBSD that supports 7.0. I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 (fresh kernel/system as per

Re: Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:08:50AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: This would lead me to think you need the port misc/compat5x installed. I havent any experience of netbackup though. I agree with this statement, since it's clearly listed as it was compiled FOR FreeBSD 5.3 The compatXy

Re: Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:15:50PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Fair point, I had a bit more of a think, I'd now guess that it looks like a 32/64 bit problem, its a 32bit binary on a 64 bit system and its /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 complaining not /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1 whch is odd. do you

Re: Migration to 7.1 ?

2009-04-07 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Does the LAGG driver works well with broadcomm giga ethernet chips ? ( I plan to use LACP to a Cisco switch ) Try asking at freebsd-net@ Hi, I've been running with the lagg-driver for quite some time now on several blade-systems using broadcom chips in a failover configuration - no

samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed

2009-12-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, For quite some time now I'm trying to get samba 3.x installed on my FreeBSD 7.2 System. The symptoms in short: o) 3.0 - doesn't compile o) 3.2, 3.3 - can't be installed because of installation dependencies to samba4-devel-4.0.0.a8_2, talloc-1.3.1 and tdb-1.1.5. System: FreeBSD test.at

Re: samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed

2010-01-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:22:08AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Do you need mapi? You can build gnome without it. Otherwise, you'll need to install 3.x to a non-standard prefix, or use 4.0. Hi, Thanks much for the hints. In the meantime I was (almost) settled with going for 4.0alpha, but

fetchmail - problems with ssl since upgrade to 6.3.16

2010-04-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Recently during portupgrades fetchmail also got upgraded to 6.3.16. Since then I'm experiencing problems when trying to fetch mails from a pop server via ssl. Here's the error message I'm getting: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: anonymized fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: anomymized fetchmail:

Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-22 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:27:11AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Try a re-scan of the devices from the options menu. If that doesn't help, try connecting to an ISO image in iLO instead of an optical device. Hi Doug, This is exactly what I did in the first playe, i.e. mounting an ISO-Image as

nmap - error during compile

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During a regular upgrade of my installed ports I ran into a problem wrt nmap: -- Cut here -- === Building for nmap-5.21_1 Makefile:341: makefile.dep: No such file or directory c++ -MM -I/usr/include/lua -I/usr/local/include/lua51

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I understand. Just curious: Why can the machine boot off

Admin-tools for BIND DNS?

2011-04-21 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm looking for graphical tools easing configuration of a bind DNS-server. Ideally this tool should be capable of editing IPv6-related records like too. Is there anything available out there for FreeBSD (I already checked the ports collection, but couldn't find anything). Thanks much

portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

2011-08-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, On my 8.2-System (amd64, kernel system updated two days ago) I run into a nasty problem updating my ports: Ports that depend on liblzma fail to build with the following error: /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la: No such file or directory AFAIK, the xz-libraries are not part of the base system;

Re: portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

2011-08-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi Matthew, Unfortunately this doesn't work as expected: # pkg_info -Rx xz Information for xz-5.0.3: # so it seems like nothing depens on xz. Next, I did a fresh cvsup for the ports-tree followed by a pkgdb -L; then again pkg_info -Rx xz - again nothing seems to depend on xz. So I tried

Re: portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

2011-08-05 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:45:02PM -0400, b. f. wrote: o) What can I do to get ports recognize the correct location of the xz-libraries? As I wrote above, some more information would help. I'm guessing that you have a port that (unfortunately) uses libtool to perform linking, and has an

Chelsio T320 10GE-Adapter - things to consider for FreeBSD 7.2?

2009-07-15 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'd like to install a Chelsio T320 10GE Adapter in one of our systems running 7.2 (AMD64). As far as I've read FreeBSD comes with the drivers for this beast (cxgb(4))already. Can the corresponding interface be configured with ifconfig just like any other interface? Anything special to

HP Proliant DL580 G5 - installation freezes (7.2)

2009-07-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having troubles installing 7.2 (AMD64) on a HP Proliant DL580 G5: The system boots from the Install-DVD then, while probing the hardware, it suddenly freezes. The last thing I see on the console is VGA: . Has anybody else had this problem? Any cure against this? Thanks much in

Re: Chelsio T320 10GE-Adapter - things to consider for FreeBSD 7.2?

2009-07-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:08:14PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: I think you'll find most of your answers here: man cxgb I have no idea on the stability of the driver though. Hi, Thanks for the hint. I know the cxgb-driver is already included in FreeBSD - I was just curious about

Re: HP Proliant DL580 G5 - installation freezes (7.2)

2009-07-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:17:51PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I'm having troubles installing 7.2 (AMD64) on a HP Proliant DL580 G5: The system boots from the Install-DVD then, while probing the hardware, it suddenly freezes. The last thing I see on the console is VGA

jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the complete gnome2 environment plus e.g. firefox, gimp, openoffice. What's really bad however is

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: Ooops! My apologies - it seems that an earlier version of UPDATING did indeed say to pkg_delete. Ewald, I'm sorry for sounding so patronising - I feel like a total fool now. Hi Dan, Now I understand - in my UPDATING that comes

NFS-client - RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure (7.2)

2009-07-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to get a FreeBSD 7.2-machine (amd64) to talk to a NetApp filer using NFS. Basic network connetivity, i.e. ping, ssh etc. between the two is there, but I can't mount the respective directory from the Netapp. Here's what I get when I try to mount: # mount_nfs -i -T

NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD - NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a FreeBSD 7.2 box (HP C-class Blade - AMD dual core Opteron (x64), 4GB RAM, Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706) that should be connected to a NetApp 3170 filer via NFS. Out of the box, with nothing tuned (no special parameters for mount_nfs, no kernel tuning), performance is very

Install freezes (FreeBSD9) on ProLiant BL465c G1

2012-01-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD9 (64bit) onto a HP ProLiant BL465c G1 (Blade-System): The boot process (booting from CD) runs up to the point where it says usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus3: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus3:

Tracking down kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded

2005-05-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, For some time one of my machines in plaged be becoming completely unresponsive after different amounts of time (several hours up to several days). Symptoms: Machine is PINGable, but no access over the network is possible (neither ssh-login nor http-access). /var/log/messages: May 11

Re: Tracking down kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded

2005-05-19 Thread Ewald Jenisch
I would suggest keeping an eye on kern.ipc.pipekva and trying to correlate any changes to the activity on the system at the time. I've already set this up - and it slowly (over days) is creeping up, e.g. May 12 18:00:58 CEST 2005: kern.ipc.pipekva: 114688 May 19 19:23:29 CEST 2005:

Installing on multiple machines

2005-05-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'd like to install 5.4 on several machines. The hardware is similar, but not exactly equal (different size HDs, different amount of memory). Is there any way to install 5.4 on different machines with the same options, i.e. same set of packages, same settings (e.g. keyboard) etc. without

make buildkernel - error: 'IOSIZE_MAX' undeclared

2012-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Today I tried to build a new system/kernel for one of my boxes running FreeBSD9. make buildworld went ok, however during make buildkernel I got this: -- Cut here -- /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_uio.c: In function 'uiomove_faultflag':

IPv6 default-route - gone

2012-04-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing a new machine under FreeBSD9 I discovered that the IPv6-configuration I had in place with FreeBSD8 does no longer work. Here's what I've got in /etc/rc.conf: ipv6_enable=YES ipv6_ifconfig_em0=2001:76c:2218:2009::11/64 ipv6_defaultrouter=2001:76c:2218:2009::1 The interface

Chromium - fails to compile

2012-05-30 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, On one of my systems (FreeBSD 9.0 AMD64; kernel/system current as of today; all ports up to date) chromium (ports/www/chromium) fails to compile. Here's what I get: third_party/skia/src/opts/SkBitmapProcState_opts_SSSE3.cpp: In function 'void

FreeBSD9 fails to install on HP Proliant (crash)

2012-05-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD9 (64bit) on a HP Proliant server (ProLiant DL385 G1). Installation is done via remote-management (iLO) basically by mounting the Installation-ISO. However a couple of seconds after booting the box crashes. Here's what I tried already: o) Re-download the

isc-dhcpd - logging client transactions

2012-06-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've set up isc-dhcpd (/usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp42-server). The daemon runs, hands out IP-addresses however logging doesn't seem to work. Here's what I've got in the respective config-files: /etc/rc.conf: # dhcpd dhcpd_enable=YES dhcpd_conf=/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf dhcpd_ifaces=em0

HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported

2007-02-05 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 (AMD64-version) on a HP C-Class Blade system with the following specs: Proliant BL465c 2x AMD Opteron 2.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 2x146 GB HDs in Raid1-config. During installation the NICs are not recognized. After reboot I get an error message in /var/log/messages

syslog from Cisco - FreeBSD not working

2007-02-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm running into a problem configuring my syslogd in order to accept messages from Routers (Cisco). Here's what I did in my syslog.conf: local7.*/var/log/cisco-syslog Fields are separated by tabs of course In /etc/rc.conf I've got the following: syslogd_flags=-a

syslog behaving differently with -d (was: syslog from Cisco - FreeBSD not working)

2007-02-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:00:09PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I'm running into a problem configuring my syslogd in order to accept messages from Routers (Cisco). Here's what I did in my syslog.conf: local7.*/var/log/cisco-syslog Hi, A couple of hours after my

syslog from Cisco - FreeBSD - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, First of all thanks much to all who responded so quickly to my question about setting up syslogging in order to accept messages from Cisco (remote) boxes. I could finally get that thing going. Here's what I did - maybe this is of help to others running into similar problems: 1) In order

Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported

2007-02-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Actually tag would be *default release=cvs tag=., see [2] for details. But shouldn't matter if you go the ISO^H^H^Heasy ;) way. [1] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200702/ [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Hi Christoph, Thanks much

Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported

2007-02-07 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:10:34PM +0100, Christoph Schug wrote: Maybe you can give it a try and check whether a current FreeBSD 7 works right and report back the result to the list. Just tried the current FreeBSD 7 snapshot (7.0-CURRENT-200702-amd64-disc1.iso) but unfortunately the box

Renaming log files while archiving - newsyslog?

2007-02-12 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I want to set up automatic archiving of logfiles and thought about using the standard newsyslog for it. My problem though is that during archiving the logs should be renamed to something like basename.YY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS so the archived files should contain the date/time when they have been

Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-15 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from

Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-15 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:02AM +0100, cpghost wrote: He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... Hi, Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I've already tried the following: cd /usr/src # make release

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