FreeBSD-questions

2006-04-15 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, For whatever reason, I am not receiving my usual emails from this mailing list to my Gmail account. I checked my account settings on both ends and neither has changed and both look correct. Then, I emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have not heard a reply back. Has any other

ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos
Hello everyone, Allow me to preface my problem by saying that I am very ignorant when it comes to networking. I do apologize if this is trivial. In any event, I enabled the client ifpw firewall located in /etc/ rc.firewall. This appears to work well for my needs... except for one

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Thank you for your very prompt reply. I tried your suggestion and it didn't work. I do not know why. Is the location where I place this in the client profile important? I have also tried the person's actual IP address as well as the IP address of the router (just in case it is not doing

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Not just that, but it doesn't appear to be logging the events, even after I added net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1 net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit=5 to /etc/sysctl.conf and firewall_logging=YES into /etc/rc.conf, i see no updates to /var/log/security after the ssh attempt failed. What am I doing wrong

Re: aureal-kmod woes

2006-03-15 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Mar 15, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:56:24 -0500 Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am running a 6-STABLE machine that I updated several days ago. When the aureal-kmod port is shut down, it tells me about a memory leak

aureal-kmod woes

2006-03-14 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, I am running a 6-STABLE machine that I updated several days ago. When the aureal-kmod port is shut down, it tells me about a memory leak (see below). Being paranoid, I removed aureal-kmod from my system, reinstalled the OS, and then installed aureal-kmod and the problem

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 JDK issue

2006-02-09 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I know there has been a lot of activity on the mailing lists these days regarding JDK and OOo. From what I could gather, most of it is regarding keeping it working after the update of JDK14. In any event, I was installing OOo-2.0 for the first time, and the build failed. The

bison and bison2 conflict

2006-02-07 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello, Basically, I want to have bison and bison2 coexist peacefully on the same machine. I installed math/opendx and it requires bison. Then, I try to install editors/openoffice.org-2.0 and it requires bison2. I get the message: === bison-2.1_1 conflicts with installed package(s):

Aureal Kernel Sound Drivers

2006-01-29 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I am the not-quite-proud owner of a Dell system that comes with an aureal sound card inside of it. In any event, I found the aureal-kmod kernel module and have gotten it to work on my machine (following directions on http://www.matey.org/au88x0/). In the process of doing this

linux_base-8 fetch # of ports errors

2006-01-22 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, Several hours ago, I tried to upgrade linux_base-8 on my 6.0-STABLE box and it ran into many fetch problems, which can be seen below. Prior to this upgrading, I upgraded xorg without problems and after the failed troubleshooting, I had the machine install Firefox and it

Re: Help! Hard disk problems

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos
On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It puts me directly

Re: Help! Hard disk problems

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos
On Jan 2, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many messages displaying information

Help! Hard disk problems

2006-01-01 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck manually. When I

Re: moused hanging

2005-12-13 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anthony Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone, For an unknown reason, my mouse lately has been hanging. It has hung with X11 running and without X11 running. To fix it, I get to a prompt (usually via Ctrl+Alt+F1 as it

Upgrading xorg-server

2005-12-04 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos
Hello everyone, Today, I tried updating xorg-server and it failed. Here is the primary error message: make: don't know how to make /diskad3/portsBuild/Usr/ports/x11- servers/xorg-server/work/xc/extras/Mesa/src/mesa/glapi/glapi.h. Stop *** Error code 2 I tried updating it via portupgrade

Re: _dhcp user problems

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:42 PM, N. Raghavendra wrote: At 2005-11-30T21:28:40-05:00, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Out of curiosity, to make sure nothing else is non-optimal, what other user accounts were added from 5.4 to 6.0? I cannot recall, did not save anything from 5.4, and never saw

Re: _dhcp user problems

2005-11-30 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello and thank you for your reply. I tried the following and here is where it got me: ast# pwd_mkdb -u _dhcp /etc/master.passwd ast# pwd_mkdb -u _dhcp /etc/passwd pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry

Re: _dhcp user problems

2005-11-28 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, During the upgrade to 6.0, I may have created the user _dhcp incorrectly. I was made aware of the problem when I noticed the message during boot: Setting hostname: ast.home.iq. rl0

_dhcp user problems

2005-11-27 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, During the upgrade to 6.0, I may have created the user _dhcp incorrectly. I was made aware of the problem when I noticed the message during boot: Setting hostname: ast.home.iq. rl0: link state changed to DOWN rl0: no link rl0: link state changed to UP got link no such user:

Updating from 5.4-STABLE to 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-05 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, I am preparing my system for syncing with 6.0-STABLE and updating it from 5.4-STABLE. In preparation, on the 6.0-RELEASE Announcement page, it lists that some of the changes since 5.4 include: Significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access

Re: Updating from 5.4-STABLE to 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-05 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Nov 5, 2005, at 9:46 AM, RW wrote: On Saturday 05 November 2005 13:48, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: will updating from 5.4 to 6.0 give me these changes or will I have to reformat the drives with the updated UFS2? This was asked and answer yesterday - only 11 threads ago. I apologize

wrkdirprefix default?

2005-10-29 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello. Sometime back, I posted a message mentioning that I planned on installing OpenOffice once it reached 2.0 status on my FreeBSD machine using a nonstandard wrkdirprefix path (original email is shown via the below link).

make flag to build on a separate disk

2005-09-11 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, Once OpenOffice.org 2.0 is released, I plan on building it from Ports on my machine (currently 5.4-STABLE... will be 6.0-STABLE after 6.0's release). There may be one problem, though, which is my /usr/ partition only has about 2.4 GB free space available. If memory serves, OOo

portsdb question

2005-09-03 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, Is it normal for portsdb -uU to require 2 hours to complete (Pentium III // 450 MHz // FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE from 07/27 and KERNEL = GENERIC with very, very slight modifications primarily for architecture and Mplayer)? I found out about this because many have recommended using

py24-numeric upgrade woes

2005-07-23 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, I CVSup'd my tree and did a portupgrade -arR and noticed that py24-numeric failed to update. To make a long story short, it unpacks Numeric into /usr/ports/math/py-numeric/work/Numeric-23.8, where the Makefile (or something) expects the first letter in Numeric to be lowercase

py24-numeric upgrade woes

2005-07-23 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, I CVSup'd my tree and did a portupgrade -arR and noticed that py24-numeric failed to update. To make a long story short, it unpacks Numeric into /usr/ports/math/py-numeric/work/Numeric-23.8, where the Makefile (or something) expects the first letter in Numeric to be lowercase

py24-numeric upgrade woes

2005-07-23 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, I CVSup'd my tree and did a portupgrade -arR and noticed that py24-numeric failed to update. To make a long story short, it unpacks Numeric into /usr/ports/math/py-numeric/work/Numeric-23.8, where the Makefile (or something) expects the first letter in Numeric to be lowercase

py24-numeric upgrade woes

2005-07-23 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, I CVSup'd my tree and did a portupgrade -arR and noticed that py24-numeric failed to update. To make a long story short, it unpacks Numeric into /usr/ports/math/py-numeric/work/Numeric-23.8, where the Makefile (or something) expects the first letter in Numeric to be lowercase

Re: py24-numeric upgrade woes

2005-07-23 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
I have no idea why this was sent 3 times to the list. Sorry for the email clog. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-07-05 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jul 5, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Igor Robul wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: As my xorg.conf looks just about identical, does anyone on the list have a nvidia RIVA TNT where their OpenGL works through the nv driver? If so, I would like to figure out what makes it work for you

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-07-04 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jul 3, 2005, at 2:22 PM, markzero wrote: (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in (WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy (WW) drivers. Please visit (WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more (WW) information. The

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-07-04 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jul 3, 2005, at 11:24 PM, markzero wrote: On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:53:43PM -0400, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: glxgears works for you with the nv driver? I cannot get it to work for me (I have a RIVA TNT as opposed to your RIVA TNT 2). Could you post your xorg.conf? I have the line Load

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-06-30 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 30, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: markzero wrote: Oh the joys of binary drivers. I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that I suddenly no longer have X. The playful and exciting words dance across my colourless and tormented screen: (WW) The NVIDIA

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-06-30 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 30, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: markzero wrote: Oh the joys of binary drivers. I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that I suddenly no longer have X. The playful and exciting words dance across my colourless and tormented screen: (WW) The NVIDIA

Re: gnome_upgrade.sh Firefox

2005-06-18 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
that did not work with gnome_upgrade.sh. It built with my standard make.conf below without any problems. Does anyone have any idea why gnome_upgrade.sh would choke on Firefox? On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, A few days ago, I noticed that some Gnome-related

Re: gnome_upgrade.sh Firefox

2005-06-17 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Bjrn Knig wrote: Hello Anthony, I suggest to try it without optimizations first. I had problems with many ports using -march=pentium3 or even -mtune=pentium3. Bjrn Hello all, I tried 2 separate cases... one with optimizing for i686 and one for no cputype

gnome_upgrade.sh Firefox

2005-06-16 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, A few days ago, I noticed that some Gnome-related items were ready to be updated (I CVSup'd the Ports tree) (such as gnomehier), so I thought why not use gnome_upgrade.sh and update everything. It did without any problems. It finished this morning. After finishing, I updated

Re: gnome_upgrade.sh Firefox

2005-06-16 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Bjrn Knig wrote: Hello Anthony, I suggest to try it without optimizations first. I had problems with many ports using -march=pentium3 or even -mtune=pentium3. Bjrn Hello, Thank you for the reply. Out of curiosity, if I were to optimize for i686 as opposed

Re: Very slow printing on 5.4 with cups anh HP LaserJet 4L

2005-06-15 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with very slow printing after replacing 4.1 instalation with new 5.4 instalation (clean install, not upgrade). The printer is HP 4L, and i use it with up to date CUPS (all packages + gimp-print). With both CUPS ang gimp-print drivers and default port

Re: 'Interrupt storm' results non-stopable noise

2005-06-13 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Kostas Blekos wrote: Hi, In some cases, when two audio events coincide (usually in gaim), I get the following message: Interrupt storm detected on irq9: pcm0 uhci2; throttling interrupt source and then there is a continuous noise that I can not stop in anyway. Does anybody knows how to

Abiword, Gnumeric, and LyX printing woes

2005-06-08 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I am not able to print from Abiword or Gnumeric (now that I think about it, I cannot print from LyX either... but that gives me no error messages and, thusly, is hard to fix). I can print fine from, say Firefox, or with the lpr command (on a PS file which is how I print items in

Re: Abiword, Gnumeric, and LyX printing woes

2005-06-08 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, I am not able to print from Abiword or Gnumeric (now that I think about it, I cannot print from LyX either... but that gives me no error messages and, thusly, is hard to fix). I can print fine from, say Firefox, or with the lpr command (on a PS file

RE: Abiword, Gnumeric, and LyX printing woes

2005-06-08 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Sorry again, but I just realized I forgot to mention one other thing... when I tell AbiWord to print, those errors pop up, and the printer feeds paper through and doesn't print anything, i.e. it prints a blank page. I did find some others with that similar problem.

Re: Stray IRQ 7 on 5.4-STABLE

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
that from 5.3-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE, the system becomes more receptive to the stray irqs? Hope this helps, Vinicius Thanks again for your help. I look forward to a possibly reply. Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, I am encountering the following message on my root window: Jun 6 14:18:53

Re: Gnumeric warnings

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:03 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 00:39 -0400, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, I wanted to start out by saying thank you to everyone who has given me help and has contributed to making this a good OS and community. Down to business... I

Re: Stray IRQ 7 on 5.4-STABLE

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
: Hi, You can find some information about it on http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-May/ 005828.html Hope this helps, Vinicius Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, I am encountering the following message on my root window: Jun 6 14:18:53 ast kernel: stray irq7 Jun 6 14

Re: Stray IRQ 7 on 5.4-STABLE

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 7, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, I am encountering the following message on my root window: Jun 6 14:18:53 ast kernel: stray irq7 Jun 6 14:43:42 ast kernel: stray irq7 Jun 6 18:18:47 ast kernel: stray irq7 Jun 6

Re: Stray IRQ 7 on 5.4-STABLE

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:23 AM, fbsd_user wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.ht ml#STRAY-IRQ I do apologize to everyone on this list for not thoroughly checking the FAQ. 5.22. What does stray IRQ mean? Stray IRQs are indications of hardware IRQ

Stray IRQ 7 on 5.4-STABLE

2005-06-06 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I am encountering the following message on my root window: Jun 6 14:18:53 ast kernel: stray irq7 Jun 6 14:43:42 ast kernel: stray irq7 Jun 6 18:18:47 ast kernel: stray irq7 Jun 6 19:29:47 ast kernel: stray irq7 I have noticed these stray irq messages periodically, but cannot isolate

Re: Maxima 5.9.1 problems

2005-06-04 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Jun 3, 2005, at 6:17 AM, Craig Kleski wrote: On Friday 03 June 2005 11:46 am, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, I am experiencing some problems with Maxima, namely with the plotting and with some of the self tests. For the former, it only creates the plots in an external Gnuplot

Gnumeric warnings

2005-06-04 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I wanted to start out by saying thank you to everyone who has given me help and has contributed to making this a good OS and community. Down to business... I just installed Gnumeric from Ports and when I invoke it, it appears to work fine, but I do see warnings printed (see below).

Maxima 5.9.1 problems

2005-06-03 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I am experiencing some problems with Maxima, namely with the plotting and with some of the self tests. For the former, it only creates the plots in an external Gnuplot window, even if I go to [Options] / [Plot Windows] / [Embedded]. I am primarily familiar with embedded plots and

portupgrade make options

2005-06-01 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, After issuing many make options to mplayer when installing, I noticed today that it can be updated. If I were to do a portupgrade -arR, would it remember the various options? I am sure this is a common question, but I could not find a resolute solution after reading the

FreeBSD's MPlayer not using GTK2

2005-05-30 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello and thank you for your assistance. I am in the process of building MPlayer right now and I used the following statement: make WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes WITH_GTK2=yes WITH_DVD_DEVICE=/dev/acd1 WITH_CDROM_DEVICE=/dev/acd0 and while watching it build, I am noticing that it is using GTK1,

Kernel Optimizations Regarding SSE

2005-05-29 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I am, as we converse, rebuilding world to 5-STABLE (from 5.4-STABLE 3 weeks ago). This is the first time that I am building a custom kernel and it only deviates from GENERIC in that I only have cpu I686_CPU (without the I586 and I486 that were there from GENERIC) and

Re: Starting applications automaticaly

2005-04-16 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
As far as the xhost command goes, have you tried putting a at the end, i.e. xhost +, su, xbattbar That backgrounds the job, which should allow you to close the xterm from which it sprang (I could be wrong as I'm a newbie as well). On Apr 16, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Brian Kinsey wrote: I am using

Scanning in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, niash, and a busy signal

2005-04-15 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, My HP ScanJet 3300C will not scan due to being busy. I followed the steps of the FreeBSD manual and will show its output below in the event that it may help. I should note that the configuration is as follows: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE // GENERIC KERNEL Pentium III, 450 MHz If I had to

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
, Glyn Millington wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source 1. Back up /boot/device.hints 2. In device hints add a line hint.ppc.0.flags=0x20 Flags=0x20 means disabling IRQ and use polling instead. If you add 0x08

Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
: On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:34 pm, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Thank you for your reply, When I installed CUPS (make make install), it defaulted to ghostscript-gnu-7.07_12. After that, I installed Gimp-print. To get the printer working, I used the web-based admin system (http://localhost:631) and chose the 600/600c series printer drivers

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
the quality to 300x300 grayscale promoted the same problem with the dmesg message: Interrupt storm detected on irq5: lpt0; throttling interrupt source On Apr 10, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:34 pm, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer

Re: Setting up network

2005-03-31 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, While we are on the topic, after the hostname and domain have been setup from the initial installation, how can they be changed? I went through the FreeBSD manual and some Google searching and did not come up with anything that made any sense. I assume there are files to be edited,

Xorg warning initial installation modifications

2005-03-25 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all and thank you for your help. I have FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with the Minimal pre-configure install and I have installed X.org 6.8.2. Anyways, I notice when I do a startx, that I get the following output: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name iqast.hsd1.ga.comcast.net:0 in remove command X

xfce4 networking

2005-03-20 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, ### ## Synopsis: ### I just installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE doing the prepackaged User+X11 option, I updated everything (minus the RELEASE Security updates) with portupgrade, and then I installed xfce4 (cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 ; make install clean).