FreeBSD on EC2
I've been experimenting with FreeBSD on EC2, in the hopes that I can move some systems there. I'm pleased with the possibilities, but have a two initial questions: First, the t1.micro instance, which I'm starting with, is supposed to have 10 GB of EBS storage--1GB for the kernel on the boot partition, and 9GB for the rest. But my instance only has 4.8GB on root: $ df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da1s14.8G4.1G332M93%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/da0 1.0G 21M944M 2%/boot/grub Where's the rest? I asked about this in the EC2 forums, and someone said that it's probably unformatted space on a different partition; if so, I could use some advice about adding this to the existing root partition, and I'm also curious why this would be set up like this. 4.8GB isn't enough for me to compile everything I need, even if I put my data on another EBS volume Second, the FreeBSD on EC2 page at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ says that the first instance of 8.2b-RELEASE is for t1.micro instances only, but when I start this instance, I'm given the option of starting it as t1.micro, m1.small, or c1.medium (the high-CPU medium option). In production I'd like to run this as the m1.small or the m1.large instance; I guess there's no large instance possible but is there any problem with using the small? Is there any time frame for the availability of a large instance? I think I'm going to need to use EC2 instead of buying a new physical server, and I'd really rather stick with FreeBSD instead of moving to Debian Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Creating network interface in VM?
I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 in a virtual machine in VirtualBox, running on a Linux (Debian) host. I was able to set up everything quite easily, and originally set up networking over NAT. But after some questions on the VB mailing list about accessing the guest from the host (so I can use the FreeBSD VM as a test server from my host), I decided to set up Host Interface Networking (without bridging, as I only want the VM visible to the host, not the rest of the network). The instructions I was following were pretty straightforward, though they were for a Linux guest: --- auto vbox0 iface vbox0 inet static address 192.168.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 --- is the setup for the Linux host, and the guest is supposed to be the same thing with a different IP address. Using this alone, I was already able to reach the Linux host from my FreeBSD VM. I tried to set this up on the FreeBSD side, but I am unable to even create the vbox0 interface: --- # ifconfig vbox0 create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument --- Googling hasn't been much help. How do I get this done? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating network interface in VM?
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:52:18PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 in a virtual machine in VirtualBox, running on a Linux (Debian) host. [...] I tried to set this up on the FreeBSD side, but I am unable to even create the vbox0 interface: --- # ifconfig vbox0 create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument --- I'm not sure, but I think what you're searching for would be to have VB create a NIC substitute for the FreeBSD guest OS. When you said, you could reach network from out of the FreeBSD VB, a virtual network adapter. Which interface did you use from within FreeBSD? As far as I know, there's no vbox (pseudo)interface driver in FreeBSD, that's why the ifconfig create command returned an error. The guest machine is always going to use the virtual driver provided by virtualbox, which is configured through the virtualbox gui control before you start the machine. I suggest trying to configure that interface, not vbox0. vbox0 is an interface on the host OS. Ah, of course. That makes total sense, sorry I didn't grok this before. One of the virtual network cards worked fine, using the le0 driver, so I set up the le0 driver to use NAT to reach the outside, and then configured VB to use the same kind of virtual network card to run HIF networking, and set up the le1 driver in my FreeBSD machine at the appropriate addresses. Now everything works: I can reach the outside via the le0 driver and I can reach to and from my host with the le1 driver. Thanks! Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrong dependency being installed
I'm running apache22 on a FreeBSD-7.0 system. When I try to install the port www/mod_line_edit, the ports system tries to install apache20 alongside of it, despite the fact that I have apache22 installed already. The Makefile has WITH_APACHE2=YES, but if I change this to WITH_APACHE22, then it tries to install apache13. How can I use the ports system to build this against my installed version of Apache? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wrong dependency being installed
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:18:01PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Monday 07 July 2008 15:07:23 Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm running apache22 on a FreeBSD-7.0 system. When I try to install the port www/mod_line_edit, the ports system tries to install apache20 alongside of it, despite the fact that I have apache22 installed already. The Makefile has WITH_APACHE2=YES, but if I change this to WITH_APACHE22, then it tries to install apache13. How can I use the ports system to build this against my installed version of Apache? APACHE_PORT=www/apache22 /etc/make.conf See /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.apache.mk for details. Thanks, that did the trick. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't log in as root on new 7.0 install
I've recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a new server. I seem to be unable to log in as root in any way, and I'm not sure why. Furthermore I'm now physically separate from the machine, and have been relying on a (non-computer-literate) colleague with access to its console server to try and help. After the initial install I (am pretty sure I) was able to log in as root over ssh. However, after a week when the machine was inaccessible for other reasons, I cannot log in as root, only as a normal user. I thought that I had perhaps mis-remembered the root password, so I directed the colleague to log in in single user mode and reset the root password; she was able to do this, and typed exit to return the system to multi-user mode and herself at a root prompt. However I was still not able to log in as root, either over ssh, or by logging in as a normal user and then typing login root (i.e. it wasn't just something preventing root logins over ssh). I then asked the colleague to add me to the wheel group, which she successfully did; I logged out and back in again, determined that I was indeed in this group, and tried to su - and got a su: Sorry message, with the colleague reporting that a BAD SU [user] to root on /dev/ttyp0 message had appeared. I'm sort of at a loss for what to do or why this is happening, and am quite eager to control my own machineSuggestions welcome. Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't log in as root on new 7.0 install
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:04:21AM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:35 AM 4/14/2008, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I've recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a new server. I seem to be unable to log in as root in any way, and I'm not sure why. Furthermore I'm now physically separate from the machine, and have been relying on a (non-computer-literate) colleague with access to its console server to try and help. After the initial install I (am pretty sure I) was able to log in as root over ssh. However, after a week when the machine was inaccessible for other reasons, I cannot log in as root, only as a normal user. I thought that I had perhaps mis-remembered the root password, so I directed the colleague to log in in single user mode and reset the root password; she was able to do this, and typed exit to return the system to multi-user mode and herself at a root prompt. However I was still not able to log in as root, either over ssh, or by logging in as a normal user and then typing login root (i.e. it wasn't just something preventing root logins over ssh). I then asked the colleague to add me to the wheel group, which she successfully did; I logged out and back in again, determined that I was indeed in this group, and tried to su - and got a su: Sorry message, with the colleague reporting that a BAD SU [user] to root on /dev/ttyp0 message had appeared. I'm sort of at a loss for what to do or why this is happening, and am quite eager to control my own machineSuggestions welcome. Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower I would have your helper log in as root and reboot the server. This will assure it is in multi-user. You should NOT be able to ssh in as root, unless you've opened up that security hole which is not recommended. My helper did successfully log in as root over the console, and rebooted the server. However, all of my above problems are still the case: I cannot log in as root over ssh (OK, you addressed this), or by logging in as a regular user and doing a login root; and I cannot su to root even though I'm in the wheel group. When this is up and running I won't allow root logins at all, but my issue right now is that I'm not at the console and need to actually install things on the machine (sudo, for example...). So aside from being on the console, how _can_ I get this access on the machine? Thanks again. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't log in as root on new 7.0 install
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:01:22PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: Jesse Sheidlower wrote: My helper did successfully log in as root over the console, and rebooted the server. However, all of my above problems are still the case: I cannot log in as root over ssh (OK, you addressed this), or by logging in as a regular user and doing a login root; and I cannot su to root even though I'm in the wheel group. When this is up and running I won't allow root logins at all, but my issue right now is that I'm not at the console and need to actually install things on the machine (sudo, for example...). So aside from being on the console, how _can_ I get this access on the machine? Thanks again. Jesse Sheidlower Are you logging in as a regular user then trying to su to root? If you are, what error are you getting? When you first login type: id and verify you are in the wheel group. I had done this, but I just discovered the problem: I was trying to su to root using the _user's_ password, not the _root_ password. I don't normally use su, I use sudo. But now that I can in fact get to root this way, I'm on my way. Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:13:21PM -0500, Simon Chang wrote: Hi, Not sure whether Dell hardware has any special management features, but on generic server hardware, I always make sure BIOS console redirection is enabled (gives you BIOS access), and that it's set to stop redirecting once the OS boots. If it is one of the newer Dells, there is a feature called Remote Access Server that is built-in and has a special Ethernet port for it (the symbol above the physical port is that of a wrench). Read the documentation, but I believe it will get you BIOS messages, etc. What model of Dell server is it? I think it's the PowerEdge 1950, though oddly it doesn't say on my invoice. In any case, it does have the Remote Access Card, so I'm going to look through the docs on this and see if this is the right way to go. Thanks to everyone who replied on this; will report on how the install goes. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console
I'm getting a new Dell server delivered to our corporate datacenter. There is a serial console available there. What is the process for installing FreeBSD remotely by logging in to the serial console? I'm assuming that I can get a tech in the datacenter to put a FreeBSD install disc into the CD drive, and take it from there, but I've never used a serial console and don't know what the process is. I'm trying to avoid having to either travel to the datacenter myself, or to get the server shipped to me here for installation and then shipped down to the datacenter. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hardware RAID diagnostics (Dell PERC 6/i)
I'm in the process of getting a new server, and have been planning on a Dell PowerEdge 1950. I see from this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039675.html That the PERC 6/i RAID controller seems to work fine with the mfi(4) driver; I was planning on a 4 x 73GB RAID5 setup, so the problems about addressing 1TB don't seem to apply. My straightforward question is just wondering about how you get diagnostics from this device. My server will be in a remote location, so I'm curious how I would even know if a disk has failed. There wasn't anything about this in the mfi(4) manpage, nor in the RAID section of the Handbook. My current server is in a 2 x 18GB RAID1 setup, but I pretty much plugged it in and it Just Worked, and I never thought about it any more; this time I'd like to know more about how to manage it. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: em0 invalid checksum on new T60
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:36:19AM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I just got my new ThinkPad T60 and have been installing merrily away. So far most things have worked fine, though I still have lots to do and will no doubt have a few more questions. A big one right off the start, though, is that my Ethernet card is not working. On boot I get this: --- em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9 port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xee00-0xee01 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 em0: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid em0: Unable to initialize the hardware device_attach: em0 attach returned 5 --- (Self-reporting here--I did some more searching, and found comments about the need to plug in a working Ethernet cable before booting. I did this, and now it seems to be working fine, even when later rebooting without a cable.) Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
em0 invalid checksum on new T60
I just got my new ThinkPad T60 and have been installing merrily away. So far most things have worked fine, though I still have lots to do and will no doubt have a few more questions. A big one right off the start, though, is that my Ethernet card is not working. On boot I get this: --- em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9 port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xee00-0xee01 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 em0: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid em0: Unable to initialize the hardware device_attach: em0 attach returned 5 --- I Googled for this and saw very few reports of this error; a post from Dan Langille in 2004 suggested adding hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 to /boot/loader.conf, but this had no effect. Any other thoughts? The Atheros card was detected and is working fine, so I have WiFi, but it'll be tough to function without an Ethernet connection. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diagnosing fan problem
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I have a ThinkPad T41p that has had a variety of fan problems for some time. After my most recent repair things seemed to be working fine, but the other day I was compiling some ports and the machine just shut down in the middle; after some experimentation it seemed clear that it was just overheating under load and shutting itself off. (Looking at the temperature sysctl showed that it was getting increasingly hot until it crashed.) How can I monitor what is happening? Are there any ways I can find out from FreeBSD if the fan is even on, or how it thinks it is working? systcl -a | grep fan didn't return anything. There are quite a few programs that can tell you CPU temperature and fan speed, like mbmon and conky, both in /usr/ports/sysutils. You could compare these parameters against data for the fan and cooler in order to ascertain whether anything is wrong with the fan. Unfortunately these don't work, or rather they don't report the fan speed. (In conky, for example, if I add lines to the config file to report the CPU temp, fan speed, and fan state, I only get the CPU temp, with the other lines empty.) Can I control the fan? I don't know. In any case, I would not try to control fan speed if the problem is that the fan is insufficient or out of order. Right; my intention wasn't to control the fan manually for regular use, but rather to try to turn the fan on high so that I can see if there is, in fact, a whooshing sound that would indicate the fan has been turned on high. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, by the way; I acknowledge that there is the acpi_ibm.ko thing under 6.x, and perhaps this would be helpful. However I can't even think about upgrading because compiling almost anything causes the computer to crash from overheating :-/ Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diagnosing fan problem
I have a ThinkPad T41p that has had a variety of fan problems for some time. After my most recent repair things seemed to be working fine, but the other day I was compiling some ports and the machine just shut down in the middle; after some experimentation it seemed clear that it was just overheating under load and shutting itself off. (Looking at the temperature sysctl showed that it was getting increasingly hot until it crashed.) How can I monitor what is happening? Are there any ways I can find out from FreeBSD if the fan is even on, or how it thinks it is working? systcl -a | grep fan didn't return anything. Can I control the fan? I don't want to make yet another warranty call if they're gonna say, It's working fine, it's your OS or something. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox is already running problem on 6.0
When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I do not have a Firefox process running, and restarting the system (which is not something I generally like doing just to get an app to start) has no effect. The only FreeBSD-related message about this that I found talks about deleting lock files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files. There was a Solaris-related discussion of this that advised upgrading, but I'm up to date with Firefox (running 1.5.0.1,1). I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3. Any suggestions? Mozilla runs fine, but I had finally made the shift to Firefox. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound card getting blocked somehow
My soundcard seems to be blocked somehow, and I'm not sure how this happened or what to do about it. I don't believe I did anything specific, but sound simply stopped working; if I start up xmms (for example) I get a console message ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory, and a popup window reading Couldn't open audio: Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly/You have the correct output plugin selected/No other program is blocking the soundcard. I know that the card is configured and the right output plugin is selected (I don't get sound with any other apps either), and I don't have anything else running that uses sound, and in any case lsof shows that nothing is using /dev/dsp. Rebooting fixes it, but it then happens again, with no obvious trigger. In my most recent attempt to fix things I managed to delete /dev/dsp entirely (I get the oss_open message regardless), and don't know how to recreate it. I'm running 6.0-STABLE #3; here's my /dev/sndstat: - $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: Intel ICH3 (82801CA) at io 0x1c00, 0x18c0 irq 11 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/4v channels duplex default) - Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox is already running problem on 6.0
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:15:43AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Jesse Sheidlower wrote: When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. You've probably got a stale lockfile. Search for *lock* As I said in my original message, The only FreeBSD-related message about this that I found talks about deleting lock files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files. I don't have any Mozilla lock files either, for that matter. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox is already running problem on 6.0
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:47:36PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:26:18 -0500 Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said in my original message, The only FreeBSD-related message about this that I found talks about deleting lock files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files. I don't have any Mozilla lock files either, for that matter. It would help if you could show us how you know, rather than simply stating that you know. Did you run the find command looking for lock files? If yes, please copy/paste the exact command you used. Also, have you run a ps ax | grep firefox, looking for rogue firefox processes that didn't quit properly? To respond to this and the two related messages, I know because I both manually descended into ~/.mozilla and looked at every directory therein; did a locate (with a fresh database); and ran: $ find .mozilla -print | grep -i lock $ Also, $ ps -aux | grep fire $ And $ lsof | grep fire bash 59914 jester cwd VDIR 0,84512 1530891 /usr/home/jester/.mozilla/firefox bash 90239 jester cwd VDIR 0,84512 1530891 /usr/home/jester/.mozilla/firefox $ I confess to not knowing exactly what the last means; I don't have any terminals open at ~/.mozilla/firefox, and if those first numbers are PIDs they don't correspond to any running processes. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox is already running problem on 6.0
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:49:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Jesse Sheidlower writes: $ lsof | grep fire bash 59914 jester cwd VDIR 0,84512 1530891 /usr/home/jester/.mozilla/firefox bash 90239 jester cwd VDIR 0,84512 1530891 /usr/home/jester/.mozilla/firefox $ I confess to not knowing exactly what the last means; I don't have any terminals open at ~/.mozilla/firefox, and if those first numbers are PIDs they don't correspond to any running processes. So what happens if root does: $ kill -KILL 59914 90239 Then two shell windows, that had previously been in that directory, vanish, and lsof | grep fire shows nothing. However, it doesn't change my inability to launch Firefox, I'm afraid. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox is already running problem on 6.0
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:45:10AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: As I said in my original message, The only FreeBSD-related message about this that I found talks about deleting lock files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files. I don't have any Mozilla lock files either, for that matter. Jesse Sheidlower How about http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use OK, I went through most of the things in that list, and finally creating a new profile was the only thing that fixed it. But it is fixed! Thank you very much. I did look through Mozilla sites but didn't manage to find this document. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Adjusting volume with GUI app for USB audio?
(Forwarded from freebsd-multimedia, where no one replied. Is that list meant only for hard-core development work, or am I asking badly? I can provide any system details necessary.) - Forwarded message from Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] - After assorted work, I've gotten USB audio to work on my computers (FreeBSD 6.0 and 5.4); I select the USB speakers with sysctl hw.snd.unit=1 to get the pcm1 device. I find that _some_ graphical volume-control utilities don't work with the USB speakers. These include the GNOME volume-control applet, the volume slider in xmms, and the GNOME volume control application (not the applet). However, some _do_ work, including the volume control in gmplayer and the volume control in Rhythmbox. Furthermore, the commandline mixer(8) works fine--with the speakers plugged in and selected, mixer reports on bass, treble, and speaker volume, and I can adjust the volume with mixer speaker 60 or whatever. However (again), adjusting the output source in those apps that allow it has no effect--in the GNOME volume-control applet, for example, I only have the device choice of OSS Mixer, and whether I select Volume, PCM, Speaker, or anything else, this just won't control the speaker volume. Any suggestions? It's not the end of the world to use mixer(8) but it's often inconvenient. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower - End forwarded message - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't build mplayer-skins: checksum missing error
I'm trying to build mplayer-skins as part of an upgrade of GNOME. I am unable to get around a weird error with a supposedly missing checksum in mplayer. After I choose my options (the default skin only), I get: === Options unchanged === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for mplayer-skins-1.1.2_1 = No MD5 checksum recorded for mplayer/. = No suitable checksum found for mplayer/. *** Error code 1 In multimedia/mplayer/distinfo I do have what appears to be MD5 and SHA256 checksums. I have cvsupped my ports tree, distcleaned both the mplayer and the mplayer-skins ports, and removed and rebuilt mplayer, all with no effect. What else can I try? And, if there answer is nothing, is there anything I can do so that I can get on with the rest of my GNOME upgrade and come back to this later? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build mplayer-skins: checksum missing error
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:15:46PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to build mplayer-skins as part of an upgrade of GNOME. I am unable to get around a weird error with a supposedly missing checksum in mplayer. After I choose my options (the default skin only), I get: === Options unchanged === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for mplayer-skins-1.1.2_1 = No MD5 checksum recorded for mplayer/. = No suitable checksum found for mplayer/. *** Error code 1 In multimedia/mplayer/distinfo I do have what appears to be MD5 and SHA256 checksums. I have cvsupped my ports tree, distcleaned both the mplayer and the mplayer-skins ports, and removed and rebuilt mplayer, all with no effect. What else can I try? You could try make -DNO_CHECKSUM install. Probably not a bad idea anyway, for this particular port. I did try this, and it didn't work. I also do not have GREP_OPTIONS defined, as another poster asked. I ended up just installing the package, which worked, though it required a download of 12MB worth of stuff I don't use. I wish it were possible to just ship mplayer with the default skin only, and leave the others in the mplayer-skins port; I always have problems with this port and I never use anything but the default. But that's another issue. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard lockup with USB speakers after an hour
I'm trying to diagnose and fix a problem I'm having with my USB audio. After some difficulty getting things set up, I had managed to understand what I needed to do to get everything working. Now, when I listen to USB speakers, everything will work fine for an hour or so, and then I'll get a freeze so total that I can only fix it by pulling the power cord and battery out of my laptop. There doesn't seem to be anything specific that triggers this (it's not caused by adjusting the volume, or switching back to a different output device, it just happens in the middle of audio being played). There's nothing logged in /var/log/messages. What can I do to further diagnose this, and fix it? I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on an IBM ThinkPad X23; the speakers attach at pcm1. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
automake19: texinfo error during build
I'm trying to upgrade my automake from 1.8.5_2 to 1.9.6 (in
order to install Subversion, which seems to require
this). During the build, I get a screenful of errors like
./automake19.texi:8788: Unknown command `tie'.
./automake19.texi:8788: Misplaced {.
./automake19.texi:8788: Misplaced }.
./automake19.texi:9090: Unknown command `tie'.
[...]
before dying with
---
makeinfo: Removing output file `./automake19.info' due to errors; use --force
to preserve.
*** Error code 2
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/automake19/work/automake-1.9.6/doc.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/automake19/work/automake-1.9.6.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/automake19.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade39976.0
make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
! devel/automake19 (automake-1.8.5_2) (texinfo error)
---
I think my dependencies are up to date. Oh, this is on 4.X. I
didn't see anything relevant from Googling. What do I need to
fix to get this in order?
Thanks.
Jesse Sheidlower
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Re: FireFox not starting in 6.0
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:33:36PM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: i finally am getting started with 6.0, after a lot of time of installation. Most things are going well but the wierdest problem: i cant get FireFox to start! It built fine, no errors, but it just doesnt start. There arent really anymore details i can give. It doesnt matter if I click the FF icon in Gnome, or type 'firefox' on the commandline. (There's no output from doing that: $ firefox $ The same thing happens with mozilla. Apparently you have to run it as root, and then it works fine--is anyone else seeing this behavior? The /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox script etc. has execute perms for any user. What's the tweak that needs to be done so that a normal user can run it? I didn't see anything in the package message. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Playing through USB speakers in 6.0
Last week I sent the following message: On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:55:44PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 on a laptop, and am interested in plugging in USB speakers. Is this possible, and if so, what do I have to do? There wasn't anything in the Handbook, and most things I saw from searching the lists had to do with recording audio to a USB device. Since then I upgraded to 6.0, and took the chance of buying a pair of USB speakers, which do not work. My USB works, and the speakers are drawing a current when plugged in, but I do not get any music through them. (Audio in general works fine; I can get sound of out the built-in speakers or through headphones and so forth, but I want to use USB speakers to avoid batteries or a separate power cord.) I've googled further but still not found anything helpful. Is there anything I can do to get these to work? Thanks for any suggestions. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FireFox not starting in 6.0
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:03:09PM +0100, Werther Pirani wrote: Jesse Sheidlower wrote: i cant get FireFox to start! It built fine, no errors, but it just doesnt start. (There's no output from doing that: $ firefox The same thing happens with mozilla. Apparently you have to run it as root, and then it works fine--is anyone else seeing this behavior? Just out of curiosity: are the permissions on ~/.mozilla okay? It's weird but, for some reason, I had mine changed from 700 to 600 and experienced exactly the same behaviour. How odd--yes, it wasn't exactly the permissions but the ownership was root instead of the ordinary user. When I chowned it to myself both programs work fine. Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder why more people aren't experiencing this. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade
I recently took my IBM ThinkPad X23, which had been running 4.11, and did a fresh install (backup files, wipe disk, install from scratch) to 6.0. Most things have gone smoothly, though there are still a few things to iron out. My biggest problem is that I can't seem to get DHCP to work with my wireless card. I have an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card that's always worked fine; I'm about to replace it with something else for 802.11g with a new WAP. There seem to be minor differences in how the card goes in; under 4.11 I would get various beeps when I plugged it in and after it associated, but now it's silent. And I had to remember to load WEP in my kernel. But I can seem to get things started by issuing the command ifconfig wi0 ssid jesterWAP wepmode on wepkey 0x[DELETED] which does seem to successfully reach my WAP: # ifconfig wi0 wi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::202:[DELETED] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ether 00:02:[DELETED] media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: associated ssid jesterWAP channel 6 bssid 00:[DELETED] stationname FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100 bintval 100 I can't seem to get a DHCP lease, however: # dhclient wi0 DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. (Under 4.11, I didn't get any verbose output from dhcpclient.) I can get a DHCP lease with fxp0, my Ethernet card; also, some Macs in the house have no problem getting leases through the WAP. (The DHCP server is in a separate router, not in the WAP.) Is there something that's changed under 6.0, or is there just something I'm forgetting to do? I do plan to get a new card, but I want to get this working too. Thanks. I thought this was more appropriate here than on -mobile. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB audio in 4.11?
I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 on a laptop, and am interested in plugging in USB speakers. Is this possible, and if so, what do I have to do? There wasn't anything in the Handbook, and most things I saw from searching the lists had to do with recording audio to a USB device. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scripting the lock-screen function in xscreensaver?
I'm running xscreensaver as part of Gnome, and would like to be able to control it in a way I can't figure out. Most panel icons can right-click to a properties window that gives, among other things, the command that will be executed by clicking on that icon. The lock icon does not have this; the properties window just controls the aspects of the display, the timing of the blanking, etc. I'd like to change the action of this icon so that, before locking the screen, it executes (for example) ssh-add -D to clear all of my ssh-agent's identities. Similarly, I'd like to know the command for locking so that I can put it elsewhere; for example, into an rc.suspend file, so that if I close my laptop's cover it will automatically lock the screen. This at least I would have expected to find in the man page, but perhaps I missed it. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless problems after upgrade to 4.10
I'm running FreeBSD on an IBM ThinkPad X23. For wireless access, I've been using an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card that's been working fine for two years or so. I just got around to upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10, and in the process something seems to have gotten screwed up with my wireless networking. I've made buildworld and made kernel, but not installworld or mergemaster yet. On boot, I get something like this from ifconfig: --- wi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether [editorially deleted] media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: associated ssid linksys 1: stationname FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 --- When I run dhclient, I get an IP address from my Linksys router, but am unable to reach anything outside. I can successfully ping the router, but trying to hit any outside address, by name or IP, just hangs indefinitely. My usual array of troubleshooting tips--killing the dhclient process, deleting the dhclient.leases file, flushing the routing table--has no effect. Rolling back the kernel fixes this up. There wasn't anything about this in UPDATING. I can get on perfectly well by plugging in an Ethernet cable to the same router. Any suggestions? Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing Subversion
I'm trying to install Subversion on a computer running FreeBSD 4.9, with a fully updated Ports tree. There seems to be some kind of apr-related problem, though it's not clear why. When I first ran portinstall, it installed apr itself, and everything ran smoothly with that install, but when it returned to Subversion I got --- === Returning to build of subversion-1.0.8 === Configuring for subversion-1.0.8 You select to use`devel/apr' for apr library. It seems that `devel/apr' is not properly installed. *** Error code 1 --- I checked, and apr does seem to be installed (with the package apparently called apr-nothr-gdbm-db4-1.0.0), but trying to re-run the Subversion install dies in the same way. What's going on? The only thing in UPDATING is talking about installing Subversion with Apache2, which I am not doing; I couldn't find anything relevant on the mailing lists. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Subversion
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:04:33PM -0400, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: I'm trying to install Subversion on a computer running FreeBSD 4.9, with a fully updated Ports tree. There seems to be some kind of apr-related problem, though it's not clear why. Check in the freebsd-ports mailing list archive. There's a few days old thread regarding this including a patch to update your version to subversion 1.1.0. I would just do a cvsup to see if Subversion has been updated or not. If not, use the patch. Ah. Thanks very much; I didn't look at freebsd-ports. You're right, it's much discussed, but not yet updated, and the patch worked fine. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Your Name wrote: In the last few weeks ive started getting a number of crashes using either Mozilla or Firefox. im using the newest version of each from Ports, on FreeBSD 4.9. Sorry for the me too post, but since people are reporting different results: I have two main computers, one running 4.10 and one running 5.2-CURRENT, but with otherwise similar setups. GNOME in both cases. The CURRENT machine is fine; I'm pretty sure I've never had a crash in several months of operation. The 4.10 machine is similar to the OP's report: I get relatively frequent but unpredictable crashes on complex Web pages, with both Mozilla and Firefox. It's annoying, and I'd love to know causes and solutions! Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conflict with p5-podlators
In the past few days, it seems that the p5-podlators port has been changed in a way that it doesn't install because it conflicts with perl-5.8.5--you get one of those Can't be installed because both are installed in the same place messages. It doesn't make much sense that a bunch of basic Perl modules would conflict with Perl itself, and now I can't install or upgrade any of the many dependencies of p5-podlators. Anyone know what's up with this? Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libXRes.so.0 and xorg updating
Inspired by all the talk of upgrading to the xorg libraries, I tried to do this this afternoon. Most things seem to be working OK, but I seem to be hung up in one spot. When I restarted X after the update, I got a bunch of errors about Gnome panel apps, and the panel does not appear. I tried to portupgrade -f gnomepanel, and this eventually dies with a /usr/bin/ld: warning: libXRes.so.0, needed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libwnck-1.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) error. I tried portinstalling libXres, but this (and its dependencies) conflicts with xorg-libraries, so I pulled it again. I have run pkgdb, so gnomepanel should be looking at xorg-libraries. Any ideas of where to go from here? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libXRes.so.0 and xorg updating
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:59:58PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: Inspired by all the talk of upgrading to the xorg libraries, I tried to do this this afternoon. Most things seem to be working OK, but I seem to be hung up in one spot. When I restarted X after the update, I got a bunch of errors about Gnome panel apps, and the panel does not appear. I tried to portupgrade -f gnomepanel, and this eventually dies with a /usr/bin/ld: warning: libXRes.so.0, needed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libwnck-1.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) error. I'm sorry for asking this question without first trying to portupgrade libwnck, which did the trick immediately. Luckily I seem to have caught this before anyone responded... Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with xscreensaver-gnome port
I recently tried to update my xscreensaver-gnome port from 4.15_2 to 4.16. After the usual amount of churning, it died with the following error: --- In file included from phosphor.c:34: /usr/local/include/util.h:95: error: syntax error before '/' token In file included from phosphor.c:34: /usr/local/include/util.h:21:1: unterminated #ifndef phosphor.c:33:1: unterminated #ifdef phosphor.c:29:1: unterminated #ifdef gmake[1]: *** [phosphor.o] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome/work/xscreensaver-4.16/hacks' gmake: *** [all] Error 5 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome. --- Then I got a notice about the upgrade dying with a C++ error, which for some reason I didn't save. Any ideas? I couldn't find anything in a quick search, and it's holding up the builds of other Gnome ports. I'm using FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT, but I'd think that an error like this is one that would be likely to show up pretty readily. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB via module instead of kernel?
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:34:13PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm new to this kernel-module thing, so I hope this isn't a silly question. I'm using FreeBSD 5.2 on a laptop running ACPI, and like many others have had suspend/resume problems with the USB dying on resume. I saw a suggestion somewhere that you could remove USB support from the kernel, and add it in via a .ko file at boot time; this way, you could have an rc.suspend and rc.resume that unloads/loads the USB module appropriately and perhaps avoid the problems. I'm not entirely sure how to do this. First, I note that the device usb line in the kernel configuration file has a Required note in it, and I'm nervous about removing something that says Required. Second, while I have a usb.ko file under /boot/kernel/, if I type kldload usb, I get a can't load usb: File exists message, but if I try kldunload usb, I get can't find file usb: No such file or directory. I might have expected a different message if usb is loaded as part of the kernel. If I want to enable it at boot, do I just add usb_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf ? So to summarize, I guess my questions are: 1) Can I comment out device usb from my kernel config and then rebuild the kernel, without causing some big problem? Responding to myself, the answer is no; removing device usb from the kernel config causes errors at make, so I had to go back. I still can't seem to load or unload usb as a module. Any suggestions welcome. Jesse Sheidlower 2) To load at boot, do I just add usb_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf ? 3) Will doing what I described help with the USB problems on suspend/resume? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB via module instead of kernel?
I'm new to this kernel-module thing, so I hope this isn't a silly question. I'm using FreeBSD 5.2 on a laptop running ACPI, and like many others have had suspend/resume problems with the USB dying on resume. I saw a suggestion somewhere that you could remove USB support from the kernel, and add it in via a .ko file at boot time; this way, you could have an rc.suspend and rc.resume that unloads/loads the USB module appropriately and perhaps avoid the problems. I'm not entirely sure how to do this. First, I note that the device usb line in the kernel configuration file has a Required note in it, and I'm nervous about removing something that says Required. Second, while I have a usb.ko file under /boot/kernel/, if I type kldload usb, I get a can't load usb: File exists message, but if I try kldunload usb, I get can't find file usb: No such file or directory. I might have expected a different message if usb is loaded as part of the kernel. If I want to enable it at boot, do I just add usb_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf ? So to summarize, I guess my questions are: 1) Can I comment out device usb from my kernel config and then rebuild the kernel, without causing some big problem? 2) To load at boot, do I just add usb_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf ? 3) Will doing what I described help with the USB problems on suspend/resume? Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.6 released!
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:40:56PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 00:13, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm running XFree86 4.4, which I installed from binaries on the XFree86 site. This is working fine for me, except that I often have to skip portinstall and use make install from the relevant directory, because of all the dependencies on 4.3 versions of things. (Using -O to force never seems to work; it'll build but then hang on the Uninstalling the old version stage.) [...] Is there any way I can upgrade to GNOME 2.6, or do I have to wait until XFree86 4.4 makes it into Ports, whenever that is? You'll have to do it manually, but you're most likely going to run into problems. One thought might be to install the ports version of X, then upgrade GNOME, then reinstall XF86 4.4. Thanks! A variant of that did the trick, namely to delete the 4.4 install, portinstall the Server-snap version, do the GNOME update, and realize that my needed driver is provided in 4.3.99, and I'm good to go. I am, however, having a problem with the login session. When I try to log in, I instantly get an error message with Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds; I can use the Failsafe GNOME session without a problem, and .xsession-errors tells me that /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.3 not found I do have libutil.so.4 installed; is there some different package I need that provides 3? I did reinstall gnomesession, but the result was the same. Thanks! I googled for this but no one else seems to have reported the problem. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.6 released!
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:49:06PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 19:36, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I am, however, having a problem with the login session. When I try to log in, I instantly get an error message with Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds; I can use the Failsafe GNOME session without a problem, and .xsession-errors tells me that /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.3 not found I do have libutil.so.4 installed; is there some different package I need that provides 3? I did reinstall gnomesession, but the result was the same. Looks like you installed an out-of-date package. You'll have to use ldd to find the binary linked to libutil.so.3, use pkg_info -W to find out which port installs it, then rebuild that port. Thanks. In the meantime I had discovered that it was sessreg causing the problem, but sessreg wasn't associated with any of my installed packages (it must have come from my previous binary install of 4.4, which I thought I had deleted). Reinstalling XFree86-4-Server-snap did not help, so I poked around a little more, installed XFree86-4-clients (which I had previously got along without), and now I seem to be all set. I hope this doesn't create problems in the future, but since for now my package database is happy and X works, so I guess it's OK. Thank you for your help. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.6 released!
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:00:48AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: The FreeBSD GNOME Team is delighted to announce the release of the GNOME 2.6 Desktop and Developer suites for FreeBSD. Accompanying this release are the usual meta-port bumps for the GNOME Fifth Toe, Power Tools, Hacker Tools, and Office. Congratulations! And thanks for all the work. I'm running XFree86 4.4, which I installed from binaries on the XFree86 site. This is working fine for me, except that I often have to skip portinstall and use make install from the relevant directory, because of all the dependencies on 4.3 versions of things. (Using -O to force never seems to work; it'll build but then hang on the Uninstalling the old version stage.) Needless to say, running the gnome_upgrade.sh script fails all over the place on these dependency issues. And I see the strong warning against upgrading in other manners. Is there any way I can upgrade to GNOME 2.6, or do I have to wait until XFree86 4.4 makes it into Ports, whenever that is? Thanks again. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading Perl within 5.2
I'm sure this is a silly question, but. I know about use.perl and so forth for the 4.x series. Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1, and the active Perl port is /usr/ports/lang/perl, which is v. 5.6.1. I'd like to upgrade to 5.8.2, which is in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 and thus I can't just do portupgrade perl. Exactly what do I have to do to accomplish this? portinstall perl5.8 doesn't work (No such installed package nor such port...), nor does portinstall perl-5.8.2_2 (which is said to be the package name in the README file). The PORTNAME given in the 5.8 Makefile is just perl. I assume I could just do a make install from the perl5.8 directory, but how do I do it with portupgrade? And then how do I get rid of the 5.6 version and rebuild things with 5.8? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X config problems on T41p
I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a ThinkPad T41p. I'm using XFree86 4.4.0, installed from the binaries on the XFree site (the video card, an ATI Radeon FireGL T2, was apparently not supported with the radeon driver shipped with 4.3). Initially, X was working fine, with no config file at all, yet I've run into problems trying to use a config file. I generated one with XFree86 -configure, but this set the driver to ati, instead of to radeon which seems from its docs to be the one supporting my card. In any case, whether with the driver as ati or as radeon, the trackpoint doesn't function at all, nor does the touchpad (which I disabled in the BIOS anyway, as some Web pages said this was necessary to use the third button and I don't like the touchpad anyway). Everything else seems to be OK but I can't get anywhere without any pointer. The InputDevice section maps the Device as /dev/sysmouse, which I thought is correct; there's no /dev/mouse. The several Web pages about FreeBSD on a T40 or T41 don't say anything helpful; this doesn't seem to be a problem for these users (the T41 guy did say that no config file was needed, but my problem is I _want_ to use one to set other details). Thanks for any suggestions. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dev issues (was: Re: X config problems on T41p)
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:51:23PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a ThinkPad T41p. I'm using XFree86 4.4.0, installed from the binaries on the XFree site (the video card, an ATI Radeon FireGL T2, was apparently not supported with the radeon driver shipped with 4.3). Initially, X was working fine, with no config file at all, yet I've run into problems trying to use a config file. I generated one with XFree86 -configure, but this set the driver to ati, instead of to radeon which seems from its docs to be the one supporting my card. In any case, whether with the driver as ati or as radeon, the trackpoint doesn't function at all, nor does the touchpad (which I disabled in the BIOS anyway, as some Web pages said this was necessary to use the third button and I don't like the touchpad anyway). Everything else seems to be OK but I can't get anywhere without any pointer. The InputDevice section maps the Device as /dev/sysmouse, which I thought is correct; there's no /dev/mouse. Following up to myself: I looked at the X logs when I booted with no config file, and learned that it probed the trackpoint as /dev/psm0, so when I stuck this into the InputDevice section for Device, it worked fine. Yay! However, I now have a problem with my usb mouse, which I'm sure is the result of my ignorance of how the /dev system works. I plug in a usb mouse, and I get a kernel message identifying it as ums0, 3 buttons and Z dir (so clearly it knows it's a mouse and some USB thing is working). At the same time, it reports moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: no such file or directory. What do I need to get this working, and will I need to add this to the X config file as well? I do find it a little odd in that in my other FreeBSD laptop (4.9), I use /dev/mouse in my X config, and both the trackpoint, and any USB mouse I plug in, work fine with no effort on my part. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet. It's been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the XFree86 site. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job to port it and deal with dependencies? Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:03:19PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet. It's been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the XFree86 site. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job to port it and deal with dependencies? The latter. Hmm. This is distressing, as I've discovered since posting my original message not long ago that my video card (ATI Mobility FireGL T2) is not supported in 4.3, but is supported in 4.4. How grim a job is it going to be to handle the X setup manually, and how badly will I get screwed every time I try to install a new X-based app? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up X for external monitor(s)
I have XFree86 4.3 running on an IBM ThinkPad X23 laptop; the screen has a maximum resolution of 1024x768. If I plug in an external monitor with a larger screen, and then hit F7 to get the monitor on, it will still show up as 1024x768, just larger. What sections do I need to set up in my XF86Config-4 file to enable different resolutions for an external monitor? I'm not clear on the differences between Section Monitor and the Section Screen (where resolutions appear to be set). And specifically, how do I then switch from monitor to monitor, so that I'm using a particular one for the external monitor, with bigger resolution, and a different one for the laptop screen, with a smaller resolution (i.e. something like hit F7)? What if I had the possibility of several different external monitors, with different resolutions? I'm using Gnome2 if that matters, on FreeBSD 4.8. The computer uses the ATI Radeon Mobility card. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SANE setup with 4.8 and Canon LiDE30
I'm trying to get my FreeBSD 4.8 system working with a Canon LiDE30 scanner, using SANE. I've installed everything required, and read the man pages, but still can't seem to get off the ground. Running sane-find-scanner only works as root, even with chmod 666 /dev/ugen0* . It returns: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x220e) at libusb:dev/usb0:dev/ugen0 However, scanimage -L doesn't find anything, as root or not. Following some manpage suggestions, I tried specifying the vendor and product ids in the config file for the plustek backend, but this had no effect. Any suggestions for what to try next? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla: changing IP w/o restarting
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:01:35AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote: If this is related to the problem that made mozilla hang for a few seconds on some lookups (ISTR it being related to missing records), it has been fixed a while ago (at least in firebird). The OP didn't specify the mozilla version he's using I'm using Mozilla 1.5. I haven't had any problems with short hangs, FWIW. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla: changing IP w/o restarting
This may be offtopic, but my FreeBSD laptop is the only one I can test this on, so apologies if it is OT. I use Mozilla on my 4.8 laptop. Whenever I switch IP addresses, which is frequent, as I use my computer both in the office and at home (and on trips, etc.), Mozilla becomes unable to resolve any sites it hasn't previously hit. I just get an endless, Resolving host www.nytimes.com note in the corner. The only way around this is to quit and restart the browser. Frankly, this is a pain in the ass, as I usually have six or more tabs open at once, each containing something I need, and I don't want to re-open everything every time I move the computer. Is there any way around this? I didn't see anything obvious in the Mozilla docs. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mapping keys to various functions...
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:08:41PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello all, I can't find the program someone listed in here about 6 months ago about a program for X that tells you the key code when you press a key on the keyboard. I have a laptop that I would like to map extra buttons to, like volume up/down, and those funky email,search,internet buttons, etc. man xev Best, Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Screensaver issue
I recently spent some time with portupgrade, fixing a bunch of messed-up dependencies and ensuring that my GNOME was fully updated to 2.4. When I was done, most things were pretty much the same, but now my screen turns off after about five minutes or so. This is not apparently related to xscreensaver, which is set not to go on until 30 minutes pass. Are there other screensavers that might be running, or some other explanation for the screen turning off after such a short time? Any mouse movement or keyboard touch turns it on again. I'm running 4.8-STABLE on an IBM ThinkPad X series, if it matters. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading self-installed X with Ports version?
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:16:50PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:00:34AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I recently tried to upgrade X by installing it from Ports, and thought I had succeeded, as pkg_info and so forth are reporting that XFree86-4.3.0,1 is installed. However, I'm still running 4.2, as executing XFree86 -version informs me. First the D'Oh! question: you did restart the X server after installing the upgrade didn't you? Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Esc will kill your current X server, and depending on your setup, may cause another server instance to start up automatically. Or it may need you to run startx(1) again. Yes, I did; that was an early first worry. In fact I rebooted the machine entirely. XFree86 -version will tell you the version of the XFree86-Server port. The straight XFree86-4.3.0,1 port doesn't actually install very much itself: % pkg_info -L XFree86-4.3.0,1 Information for XFree86-4.3.0,1: Files: as it only exists to cause the other required XFree86 ports to be installed as dependencies of it: % pkg_info -r XFree86-4.3.0,1 Information for XFree86-4.3.0,1: Depends on: Dependency: expat-1.95.6_1 Dependency: png-1.2.5_2 Dependency: pkgconfig-0.15.0 Dependency: imake-4.3.0_1 Dependency: freetype2-2.1.4_1 Dependency: fontconfig-2.2.90_3 Dependency: XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 Dependency: XFree86-Server-4.3.0_10 Dependency: Xft-2.1.2 Dependency: XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-documents-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3 Dependency: wrapper-1.0_3 Dependency: XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_2 Essentially you need imake and all of the ports with XFree86 in their names to be at version 4.3.0 or better. portupgrade(1) will ease the pain of doing that remarkably. Right; but that's what I've already done, hence the confusion. I do have most of these to a current version: monopoly/etc/X11 $ pkg_info -r XFree86-4.3.0,1 Information for XFree86-4.3.0,1: Depends on: Dependency: expat-1.95.5 Dependency: png-1.2.5_2 Dependency: pkgconfig-0.15.0 Dependency: imake-4.3.0_1 Dependency: freetype2-2.1.4_1 Dependency: fontconfig-2.2.0 Dependency: XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5 Dependency: Xft-2.1_8 Dependency: wrapper-1.0_3 Dependency: XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 Dependency: XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3 and running portupgrade(1) doesn't do much, as it apparently thinks I'm all set: monopoly/etc/X11 # portupgrade XFree86 monopoly/etc/X11 # Yet I'm still running 4.2. This is why I'm confused :-/. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Basic printing setup
I've never gotten around to setting up printing from my FreeBSD machine--the discussion in the Handbook is rather frightening--and now that I've decided I should probably give it a try, I find that the Handbook doesn't even let me get started. I have two situations for this computer (a laptop running FreeBSD-4.8). I have a home network that has an older (non-Ethernetted) HP LaserJet 6MP; this is attached to the network via an AsanteTalk AppleTalk- Ethernet bridge. The Macs on the network (OSX and 8.6) can all see the printer. What do I need to do to print to this printer from my FreeBSD machine when it's on the network? In the second case, I just have a desktop printer-- some HP color thing, the 990 I think--that only has a USB connection. The Handbook doesn't mention USB printing at all. In both cases I'm not looking to do anything fancy, none of this user-accounting or header-pages stuff. I just want to be able to send jobs to the printer and have them come out. I guess I'd also be curious how to select one or the other, or more if they were added to the network. Thanks for any pointers on how to accomplish this. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh problems after unrelated changes
I'm running FreeBSD 4.8. I recently did some assorted work on my system, upgrading a disk drive and rebuilding (not updating) my kernel. Now, I can't seem to ssh from my normal user account. When I try, I get the error: monopoly~ $ ssh somedomain.com ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Host key verification failed. monopoly~ $ I'm not trying to use any kind of graphical connection method, I just want the usual login. I've tried unsetting $DISPLAY, and re-installing OpenSSH from Ports, both with no effect. In the process of playing around I accidentally deleted my .ssh/known_hosts file, but this also has had no effect. I never had an ssh_config file in the first place. Oddly, I _can_ ssh normally when sudo'd to root, but I can't see any obvious reason--I don't have an ssh_config file as root, etc. Thanks for any suggestions. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading HD difficulties
I have been trying for some time to upgrade the HD in my FreeBSD 4.8 laptop, attempting many different things but all with no success. I don't have a separate enclosure for it, and it being a laptop I can only put in one drive at a time. My basic plan has been to back up the current HD to another computer, install the new HD, boot from the Mini CD, use the Fixit shell on the CD to mount the new HD, mount the other computer over NFS, and transfer everything into the newly mounted directory. Originally I tried with dump, but I kept getting loads of errors, so I switched to tar. I made one tarfile of /usr (which is relatively large), and one of everything else. For example: # mount_nfs 192.168.1.2:/OtherComputerHD /mnt2 # newfs /dev/ad0s1 # mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt # cd /mnt # tar xf /mnt2/original.tar # tar xf /mnt2/original-usr.tar (I actually had to install mount and tar onto the NFS filesystem and run them from there; I'm not showing that here.) I then rebooted, from the new HD this time, rather than the CD, and things started to work OK. But eventually I ran into filesystem problems--sync problems, or other things, and I had to run fsck -y manually to fix them. But though this did clean the filesystem, the stuff that was there wasn't what I had untar'd into place--it seemed to be a bare minimun copy of the OS. This has repeated more than once. I obviously don't know what I'm doing, but would be very grateful for any suggestions for how to get this new HD in. I want it to be exactly the same as the existing one, but with more room; I'm not trying to do anything fancy or switch anything around. Especially by this point I'm willing to do anything to get things working again, as I really need my computer back! Thanks for any ideas. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems
I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended). I've tried to look over the docs, and search through here, but am still stumped for what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm also not clear on why these systems don't interoperate, or, rather, why an entry in /etc/printcap generated from apsfilter doesn't show up in CUPS. It would be nice if you could use these together. First, I was able to configure printing on a local USB printer with each system, though apsfilter has a vastly greater number of drivers available. Is there a way to get CUPS to read these drivers, or to separately install ones that it can handle? I'm not able to get either one to work with a networked printer. With CUPS, I can get it to the point where I can print a test page, by choosing the device AppSocket/HP Jet Direct (though it's not a Jet Direct printer, just a regular TCP/IP interface) and using a device URI of socket://1.2.3.4:9100/ , but I can't get anything else to print on this printer. I wasn't able to get it to print even a test page by using any lpd combination I could come up with. With apsfilter, I can't get it set up at all; anything I try gives lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found when I try to do a test page. Assuming I ever do manage to get this configured, is there a way to choose printers from within apps? In Mozilla, even with several (dummy) printers entered, the only option for Printer is PostScript/Default, and from, say, Emacs, there's just the various print options. Do I have to choose this from the command line outside of the apps? Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:05:50AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended). I've tried to look over the docs, and search through here, but am still stumped for what I'm supposed to be doing. [...] This may sound like a dumb question, but did you start the printing service 'lpd'? The default installation of FreeBSD does not start this service. It is not a dumb question, as I normally do forget such things, but in this case, yes, lpd is running. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Basic printer setup (repost)
I sent this yesterday, but it seems not to have gone through--apologies if it's a duplicate. I've never gotten around to setting up printing from my FreeBSD machine--the discussion in the Handbook is rather frightening--and now that I've decided I should probably give it a try, I find that the Handbook doesn't even let me get started. I have two situations for this computer (a laptop running FreeBSD-4.8). I have a home network that has an older (non-Ethernetted) HP LaserJet 6MP; this is attached to the network via an AsanteTalk AppleTalk- Ethernet bridge. The Macs on the network (OSX and 8.6) can all see the printer. What do I need to do to print to this printer from my FreeBSD machine when it's on the network? In the second case, I just have a desktop printer-- some HP Deskjet color thing, the 990 I think--that only has a USB connection. The Handbook doesn't mention USB printing at all. In both cases I'm not looking to do anything fancy, none of this user-accounting or header-pages stuff. I just want to be able to send jobs to the printer and have them come out. I guess I'd also be curious how to select one or the other, or more if they were added to the network. Thanks for any pointers on how to accomplish this. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Basic printer setup (repost)
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:23:52AM +, Lee Harr wrote: I just want to be able to send jobs to the printer and have them come out. cd /usr/ports/print/apsfilter/ make make install cd /usr/local/share/apsfilter/ ./SETUP Thanks. In the meantime, I had started to play around with CUPS, which I got working for my local USB printer pretty readily, but I couldn't get to handle an AppleTalk printer. So I gave apsfilter a try, and having problems here too-- I managed to nuke my CUPS setup, and printing a test page died with nbp_lookup: Protocol not supported, even though netatalk is installed on the system. So I'm giving up now and will try again in the morning. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading sshd?
At 07:24 PM 9/16/03 +0300, you wrote:
Hi all,
Refering to the latest sshd vurnability
(http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/1327248.shtml?tid=126tid=172) I
was thinking of upgradeing my sshd as well. So I cvsup'ed my system (FBSD
4.8) and there seems to be a updated file for sshd. But how do I upgrade
sshd safly since when I type 'pkg_info |grep ssh' it return no packages. I
guess sshd is included somehow by the default install (??) but how can I
now upgrade it? I was thinking of portupgrade, but it needs a package to
upgrade...
There's a FreeBSD Security Advisory out that gives explicit details
on how to implement a fix for OpenSSH running as part of the core
system:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03%3A12.openssh.asc
There seems to be a typo in one line; in the section on restarting sshd
(. /etc/rc.conf ${sshd_program:-/usr/bin/sshd} ${sshd_flags})
^
should I think be sbin.
Jesse Sheidlower
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Upgrading self-installed X with Ports version?
A year and a half ago I installed FreeBSD on a laptop. I've entirely forgotten the details, but I had to install XFree86 from scratch because I needed a version that was newer than whatever was in Ports at the time. (The chip is an ATI Mobility Radeon; I installed XFree86 4.2.) I recently tried to upgrade X by installing it from Ports, and thought I had succeeded, as pkg_info and so forth are reporting that XFree86-4.3.0,1 is installed. However, I'm still running 4.2, as executing XFree86 -version informs me. I suppose this is a really stupid question, but what do I need to do to get the newer, Ports version of XFree86 to be the version run on the system? And is there anything I should be doing to get it configured properly after the change is made? Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading self-installed X with Ports version?
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:44:45PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:00:34AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I suppose this is a really stupid question, but what do I need to do to get the newer, Ports version of XFree86 to be the version run on the system? And is there anything I should be doing to get it configured properly after the change is made? It's possible that the start script for XFree86 that the port installs, is installed in a directory further down in the PATH variable. This means that when you call startx, you're starting the older version, which in turn calls the older version of X. I considered this, but the current (i.e., wrong) version is as far down as it could possibly be: XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE-p1 i386 [ELF] Module Loader present monopoly/etc/X11 # which XFree86 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 monopoly/etc/X11 # echo $PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jester/bin Where should the port be installing its version? Your best bet is to remove the port entirely, remove the existing X server and re-install the port. This way you'll only have one version of X on the box. Probably another stupid question, but how much do I have to remove to remove the existing X server? I'm happy to delete the server files, but don't want to accidentally wipe out other things that I'll still want. Thank you. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading self-installed X with Ports version?
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:49:47PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Hmmm... I don't see the XFree86-Server port there. You may have an X Server installed, but because the system doesn't recognise it as part of an installed port, it isn't attempting to upgrade it. You can always force the port to reinstall: # portinstall -fN x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server Although the ports system is very good at ensuring all of the dependencies of a package are met, it does that by checking that key executables or shared libraries or whatever are installed, rather than checking the database of installed ports. Also, when you run pkgdb(1), it's possible to tell the package database to forget about a dependency. This, although it seems like a golden opportunity for foot-shooting, is actually a clever move that allows you to mix together 3rd party software installed by hand with software installed from the ports system. Although there's very little reason nowadays to go outside ports. Thanks! This worked perfectly. Now I just have to fix my lousy config files Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start gnome?
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:58:51AM -0700, Ronnie Clark wrote: I just loaded Gnome 2.2.2 from ports. Does anyone know the command to put into .xinitrc to run gnome2? I tried the following: exec gnome exec gnome2 They do not work. To run it from the command line, gdm. To run at boot, as the docs say: - Do _NOT_ use /etc/ttys to start gdm at boot time. This will result in gdm hanging or restarting constantly. Instead, copy the included gdm.sh.sample script to gdm.sh, and restart. This script is found, by default, in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d. HTH. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla display issues, esp. with hover
I recently updated my Mozilla install, and since then have been having assorted display problems. These don't affect a similar install on Linux, so I'm imagining they're FreeBSD-related; if not, sorry for this OT post. In particular it seems that sites having particular links where there's some hover value in the CSS display strangely: when the page first loads, these links are displayed in some plain text, then when I run the mouse over them (without clicking, and this is for non- JavaScript pages) the links turn to their hover value during mouseover, and then return to some other value-- but not the plain value--after mouseover. The typical effect is that links will display in black, then during mouseover they'll turn into, say, blue with underlines, and then after mouseover they'll return to non-underlined blue, which is what they should have been in the first place. Also, moving up and down using the scrollbar can have an impact on how these are rendered. I've noticed similar (?) problems where text is displayed in black when it should be in some color/weight variant, but I haven't noticed a pattern that will allow me to discuss it further. Any ideas about this? I'm using Mozilla 1.4 for GTK-2, installed from Ports, on FreeBSD 4.8. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: xterm setup
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:51:21AM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I recently upgraded my desktop to Gnome2, and of the various things that are causing me grief, the biggest is what's happened to my xterm windows. Now, after the change, it does three things differently and annoyingly: (1) it defaults to black/colored text on a white background; (2) it doesn't have a scrollbar of any sort; and (3) there's no menubar with basic File/Edit etc. options. Sounds like the gnome terminal or eterm. The standard xterm doesn't give you a menubar. Thanks for this and to others who replied. I've been so confused by this that I dropped by the office to take a look at my Linux (RH 7.3) box, only to discover that yes, I had been running gnome-terminal there. I've looked at the various options and decided that eterm looks best and is easiest to get to the way I want, so I'm going with that for now. Thanks for the various suggestions. Best, Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: xterm setup
I recently upgraded my desktop to Gnome2, and of the various things that are causing me grief, the biggest is what's happened to my xterm windows. Now, after the change, it does three things differently and annoyingly: (1) it defaults to black/colored text on a white background; (2) it doesn't have a scrollbar of any sort; and (3) there's no menubar with basic File/Edit etc. options. I can somewhat get around (1) by launching it with xterm -r, although while this does display white/colored on black, it also makes other menus (e.g. those launched with ctrl-[mouse buttons]) look incomplete. But (2) is the worst; I really need to have scrollbars with this. I see that there's a toggleable option to Enable Scrollbar that I get to with ctrl-Mouse2, but this isn't a regular scrollbar that I can click up and down on, with a moveable thumb, etc., as I used to have before the upgrade and as the gnome-terminal has now. I'd be very grateful for a solution to this. Is there a mailing list for Gnome questions? I couldn't easily find one on the Gnome site, and I have various questions not specific to FreeBSD. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: xterm setup
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:24:41AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 31), Jesse Sheidlower said: I recently upgraded my desktop to Gnome2, and of the various things that are causing me grief, the biggest is what's happened to my xterm windows. Now, after the change, it does three things differently and annoyingly: (1) it defaults to black/colored text on a white background; (2) it doesn't have a scrollbar of any sort; and (3) there's no menubar with basic File/Edit etc. options. I can somewhat get around (1) by launching it with xterm -r, although while this does display white/colored on black, it also makes other menus (e.g. those launched with ctrl-[mouse buttons]) look incomplete. But (2) is the worst; I really need to have scrollbars with this. I see that there's a toggleable option to Enable Scrollbar that I get to with ctrl-Mouse2, but this isn't a regular scrollbar that I can click up and down on, with a moveable thumb, etc., as I used to have before the upgrade and as the gnome-terminal has now. You must not have been using xterm before, then, since I don't believe you can have any scrollbar other than the standard X-style (RMB scrolls up, LMB scrolls down) bar, and it does not come with a menubar either. Hmm. I certainly thought I was using xterm, as I recall setting up the icon to launch xterm, and my .bashrc is setting TERM to xterm-color rather than gnome-terminal or anything else. And I'm rather sure that I have the exact same setup on my Linux box, which is in the office and thus unavailable for me to look at right now. It's also the case that the font displaying with xterm now looks totally familiar, and the one displaying with gnome-terminal is totally unfamiliar and ugly. Is it possible that the functional scrollbars, etc., were an addition of the window manager, and if so is there any way to replicate it now? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem building Gnome2
Sorry to repost this under a different subject line, and also since it sems there's been a lot of Gnome2 discussion lately, but I'm having trouble building Gnome2 from Ports. I keep getting stuck on the build of scrollkeeper, at a line: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lgiconv I believe I'm fully up to date with relevant ports; it seems that lgiconv is related to the libiconv port but I have the newest version of this. Any suggestions for what to do to get this built? I had to delete all of Gnome1 to get started, and it's proving difficult to get much work done with no desktop Thanks! Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build
I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: === Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.1 not found I see from some other archived messages that this has something to do with gettext, so I tried deinstalling and reinstalling this, but no joy. I do have libintl.so and libintl.so.4, both under /usr/local/lib. The archived messages also didn't allow me to figure out what I need to do to get through this. So, what do I need to do to get through this? Would be grateful for any help, esp. since I had do remove Gnome1 to prep for this build and am thus without any GUI desktop at the moment. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:05:08PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:12, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: === Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.1 not found [...] This is a problem with gmake. Rebuild it, and you should be fine. Thank you! That worked perfectly. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libIDL problem during Gnome2 build
Oops, another problem during my attempted Gnome2 build, and this one is even less clear to me. During the build of libIDL, I get the following error: === Bulding for libIDL-0.8.2 bison -y -d -v 2/dev/null ./parser.y gmake:: *** [stamp-parser] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Any thoughts about what to do about this? Thank you. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libIDL problem during Gnome2 build
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: Oops, another problem during my attempted Gnome2 build, and this one is even less clear to me. During the build of libIDL, I get the following error: === Bulding for libIDL-0.8.2 bison -y -d -v 2/dev/null ./parser.y gmake:: *** [stamp-parser] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Any thoughts about what to do about this? Never mind. I was using an out-of-date version of bison; upgrading fixed that problem. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lgiconv and scrollkeeper
In the process of installing Gnome2, I've run into a problem with a missing library, and unlike the usual case of my just not looking hard enough, I'm really stuck this time. When I try to build scrollkeeper, I get stopped at: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lgiconv and then an array of errors reported by gmake. I'm using libiconv 1.9.1_1, which seems to be the most current, and for the hell of it I also installed iconv 2.0_3. According to the archives of this and the ports list, this has come up before, but there wasn't any obvious solution--in one case it just seemed that lgiconv had been in an earlier version of libiconv, and then been deleted, but that had been some time ago and if this had been the problem I would have expected scrollkeeper to have been fixed itself. I've made an effort to get all potentially related ports updated to their most recent version, but it hasn't had any effect. I'd be quite grateful if someone could tell me what I'm missing. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
