Re: Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-01 Thread John Levine
n the back panel for for the ESATA adapter I have to use a riser card and leave the cover off, which looks stupid but looks fine. It's just like any other FreeBSD box do I don't see why it wouldn't run jails perfecty well. R's, John -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers?

2013-09-10 Thread John
hich is the latest version of LSI firmware. > > Is there some new action I have to take to sucessfully boot LSI disks > against the updated kernel? Hi, does it use the mfi driver? Because that has been updated. There was an errata notice about

Re: UUID in fstab.

2013-08-26 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, August 26, 2013 12:06:21 am varanasi sainath wrote: > Thanks John, I have tried as you suggested using a Live CD and yes the > partitions uuid's are present in gptid .. > I found the UUID's in /dev/gptid - how do I determine which uid corresponds > to which par

Re: Kernel Panic - Unix socket communication in kernel module

2013-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
ht away.) If you need to wait for all local filesystems to be mounted, then you will need to have some userland utility poke your module via a sysctl/ioctl/etc. after the filesystems are mounted (you could use a custom rc.d script for this). -- John Baldwin ___

Re: UUID in fstab.

2013-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
uld also try to update your fstab to use /dev/gptid/ directly instead of /dev/XXXpYY and reboot. If it works I believe the /dev/XXXpYY names will now be gone from /dev and the /dev/gptid names present instead. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread John
if this is logic or "religon", but freebsd-update makes me nervous. I'm allergic to automatic anything unless I've written it. The only times I've run generic is when installing a new system, to see what I need and what I don't. Ma

freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread John
Hello list, Is it "safe" to start using 9.2 in the svn repos? I have a line like this in a daily crontab: svn co svn://svn.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 /usr/src Can I change that 9.1 to 9.2 now, or should I wait? I aim to follow 9.2-R with security updates. thanks

Re: virtualbox-ose fails to build on FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253698

2013-08-04 Thread John
On 02/08/2013 16:54, John wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to install virtualbox on a new machine running > FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253698. The ports version is 324162. Is it a > problem with the port or my machine? This was fixed by: commenting everything out of /etc/make.

virtualbox-ose fails to build on FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253698

2013-08-02 Thread John
release/obj/HGSMIGuestR0Lib/HGSMICommon.o.dep -Wp,-MT,/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.2.16/out/freebsd.amd64/release/obj/HGSMIGuestR0Lib/HGSMICommon.o -Wp,-MP -o /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.2.16/out/freebsd.amd64/release/obj/HGSMIGuestR0Lib/HG

TRIM on ZFS mirror

2013-08-02 Thread John Andreasson
Hi. I read that FreeBSD 9.2 will bring TRIM to ZFS. Does anyone know if this works even if the zpool is a mirror? John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: System hangs for several minutes (disk IO related)

2013-07-31 Thread John Johnstone
d Linux and not a particularly notable failure rate. I just did a simple web search for P400 problems and didn't come up with much. I'd be surprised if there's a significant difference between the P400i and the P400. - John J. ___ fr

Re:

2013-07-21 Thread john trimarchi
http://trust-seats.com/cnn.com.today.html?m0d0x8d5m4k6b2k0y5v2o2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

trashed installation ?

2013-07-18 Thread john francis lee
there's no one reading my mails, or else no interest in my problems. Fair enough. What do I expect for free, right? Thanks for the software anyway. -- john francis lee 246/3 Moo 22 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand _

Fwd: WAS : NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset NOW : installation in Vbox repeats endlessly

2013-07-15 Thread john francis lee
and some ports. Original Message Subject: WAS : NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset NOW : installation in Vbox repeats endlessly Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:10:33 +0700 From: john francis lee To: questi...@freebsd.org 2.2.1.2. FreeBSD/amd64 There are two classe

WAS : NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset NOW : installation in Vbox repeats endlessly

2013-07-15 Thread john francis lee
ked up and it was rebooting. It ran the installation again and I watched ... to see it drop out at the 3rd screen with a % of files installed. I'll try and download the 10.0 iso image, since it worked from the memstick. -- john francis lee 246/3 Moo 22 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai

NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset

2013-07-15 Thread john francis lee
-52P mother board with an NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset. Is that OK? Thanks. -- john francis lee 246/3 Moo 22 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Baker Invites freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org to spend holiday in Goa

2013-06-29 Thread John Baker
- This mail is a HTML mail. Not all elements could be shown in plain text mode. - Hi, Still plan where to spend your vacation, where you can relax, enjoy and store the golden memories of your vacation. Visit http://travaholic.in Your ultimate guide. Regards ... John Baker Note : If you are not

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
No 802.1Q features except VLAN tagging are implemented. You could probably implement it w/ ng_patch, but that would also mean you'd lose the feature of the card adding the VLAN tag for you... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I wi

Re: Failed to allocate receive buffer problem

2013-06-25 Thread John Baldwin
e configuration issues? Do you see memory allocation errors in netstat -m? Specifically this line: 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) If so, it may be that the IPoIB layer has an mbuf leak. The rest of netstat - m might be useful here

Re: How to compile ipoib module manually?

2013-06-05 Thread John Baldwin
IB module is missing in /sys/modules. > > 1. Where can I find it? > > 2. How can I compile ipoib support? You will have to create one. You should be able to use the existing module Makefiles as a guide. -- John Baldwin ___

Re: How to switch Datgram/Connected mtu modes?

2013-05-29 Thread John Baldwin
ctories at FreeBSD. Wat shall I do? Have you tried looking for dev.ib.0 sysctls? It looks like the OFED bits in FreeBSD map Linux sysfs entries to sysctl nodes, but I don't have a box with IB handy to see what it looks like at runtime. -- John Baldwin ___

Thunderbird 17.0.6 build failure FreeBSD 9.1-p3 amd64

2013-05-23 Thread John
orts/mail/thunderbird. *** [build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20130523-67949-3bp8cw-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=thunderbird-17.0.5 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=17.0.5 make ** Fix the problem and try ag

Re: Tell me how to increase the virtual disk with ZFS?

2013-05-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alexander Yerenkow wrote this message on Sat, May 11, 2013 at 18:13 +0300: > zpools or increase/decrease UFS partitions. growfs(8) NAME growfs -- grow size of an existing ufs file system HISTORY The growfs utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4. -- John-Mark Gur

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-09 Thread John Levine
skip config steps) and when you're done, the packages have all been updated and fixed. Doing a general port verifier is a pain because the scripts called from make install can run arbitrary programs. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: chromium won't build on FreeBSD 9.1 ports rev 315799

2013-04-17 Thread John
rce but not in the ports. Source is up to 26.mumble -- John ___ 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"

chromium won't build on FreeBSD 9.1 ports rev 315799

2013-04-17 Thread John
Hello list, In my daily vulnerability report, I'm seeing this: Affected package: chromium-25.0.1364.160 Type of problem: chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities. Reference: http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/bdd48858-9656-11e2-a9a8-00262d5ed8ee.html Latest ports

Portsnap gets ports that claim to be out of date

2013-03-29 Thread John Levine
When I do portsnap update and try building stuff, I get errors like this: "Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5: warning: You are using a ports file that originated from CVS!! "Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6: warning: The FreeBSD project has switched from CVS to SubVersion. "Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 7: warning: This C

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread John Levine
> >I though the EDT had daylight saving time built in. It does. Any chance your computer's clock got reset an hour slow? My 8.3 and 9.1 systems handled the daylight switch just like they were supposed to. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Intern

Strange delays in ZFS scrub or resilver

2013-02-23 Thread John Levine
27;ve done a scrub, it does the same thing, work, pause, work, pause. R's, John ___ 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"

Re: building custom kernel on -current: unknown option "COMPAT_LINUX"

2013-02-14 Thread John Baldwin
. The > modules seems to build fine without having to > fiddle about with kernel config jiggerypokey. COMPAT_LINUX will work on amd64 eventually and will be used for 64-bit Linux binaries (COMPAT_LINUX32 is to run Linux/i386 binaries on FreeBSD/amd64). -- John Baldwin _

Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread John Levine
>I get this message [: 10.0.10.21: bad number on this code > >[ "${saved_ip}" -eq "${used_ip}" ] && echo "good match" > >Both variables have valid ip addresses in them. >Why does it think the variable content is a number and not text? >What am I doing wrong? My guess would be that you didn't r

Re: which version of FBSD should i install?

2013-01-08 Thread John Levine
> I want the Gnome Desktop, espeak, and gvim. If there is a CD > or DVD with 9.x, can somebody give me a URL? The usual place: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html I'm typing this on a Thinkpad X200, which works well under 9.0. ___

strange network problem with multiple interfaces

2013-01-05 Thread John
hi, I just installed stock FreeBSD 9.0 on a PowerEdge server with two network cards: bce0 is directly connected to isp's gateway bce1~3 are connected to the inside port of a router configured as 192.168.1.0/24 network with 192.168.1.1 as gateway If the ENTIRE content of /etc/rc.conf is: hostna

Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-18 Thread John Hein
Tim Daneliuk wrote at 17:48 -0600 on Dec 5, 2012: > On 12/05/2012 05:44 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> I am working with an institution that today provides limited privilege > >> escalation > >> on their servers via very specific sudo rules.

Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

2012-12-12 Thread John Levine
adjustments. I find that for nearly everything else, chromium works better than firefox, but for PACER, only Firefox supports RECAP. You do use RECAP, I hope. R's, John PS: On my FBSD 9.0, acroread8 works OK, much slower than evince but in some cases it renders the PDF better, and often tra

Re: SMS application

2012-12-06 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >Can anyone recommend a good SMS application that works on FreeBSD? I >have used several different ones on MS Windows; however, I cannot find >one that works on FreeBSD. There doesn't appear to be a fully >functional one in the ports system either, although I might have misse

Re: svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-04 Thread John
On 03/12/2012 07:42, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, John wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: >> >> svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src >> > > > That

svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-02 Thread John
Hello list, At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src Is this sufficient and correct to follow 9.1-RELEASE when it eventually comes out? Right now, building world from that checkout gives 9.1-RC3. thanks -- freebsd at growve

Freebsd iSCSI client ?

2012-10-29 Thread John Levine
ot use NFS, since the remote disks have mysql databases, and mysql and NFS are not friends. An alternative is to mount the iSCSI under vmware, so zfs sees them as normal disks. Anyone tried that? TIA, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Fetched Ports index falling out of date

2012-10-16 Thread John Marshall
10.bz2 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/x-bzip Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "219974981" Last-Modified: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:40:03 GMT Content-Length: 1658256 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:12:08 GMT Server: httpd/1.4.x LaHonda -- John Marshall signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread John Levine
rtmaster, which runs through all the ports first and does the config dialogs before starting the rebuild. There are stil a few places it can get stuck, but many fewer than portupgrade. Portmaster is worth a look just out of amazement. It is a 4,000 line shell scr

Re: iso image question

2012-08-26 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >I have a CD that was burned (but not labeled so well). Is is possible to tell >if >this is an i386 or amd64 image? Sure. Mount it, do a "file" on some of the programs in /bin and see whether they're i386 or

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread John Hein
Andy Wodfer wrote at 12:59 +0200 on Aug 22, 2012: > Hi, > I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the > periodic LOCATE script runs every week. > > What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it > and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /us

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John Levine
7;t help. We're back to the theory that there's something in PHP 5.4.5 that builds OK on 9.0 but not on 8.x. R's, John ___ 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"

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
Are you running pecl-APC? If so, what version? There's a major issue with the latest. Hmmn, that might have been it. I backed down to 5.3, but when I have a chance I'll try 5.4 again without APC. R's, John

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
re, they're not validating updated ports against 8.3 any more. R's, John ___ 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"

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
that the packages for 8.x have gone away on the distribution server, so I expect they're not regression testing 8.x any more Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mai

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
I've done all the usual voodoo repair: I have rebuilt apache, php, and all the php modules from source, and rebooted, and it didn't help. Did you also rebuilt lang/php5-extensions for the modules you need? Uh, yes, I said that I did. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary P

Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John Levine
amiliar? Any suggestions beyond what I've already done? R's, John ___ 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"

Re: Firefox 14.0.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-12 Thread John Levine
tion >nsNSSErrors.cpp. The end of the build log is copied below. > >I don't have the logs handy, but Thunderbird fails the same way. Any >suggestions? > >R's, >John > > >c++ -o nsNSSErrors.o -c -I../../../../dist/stl_wrappers >-I../../../../dist/system_wr

Firefox 13.0.1.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-12 Thread John Levine
I'm reasonably sure I have the png and sqlite3 libraries built as needed, but the build still barfs when compiling the SSL function nsNSSErrors.cpp. The end of the build log is copied below. I don't have the logs handy, but Thunderbird fails the same way. Any suggestions? R's

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-04 Thread John Levine
thin patent law to apply for a patent. The patent office has never been very good at examining software patents, and I have made a lot of money helping companies document the prior art not cited in patents that are being asserted against them. R's, John

No network connectivity to system

2012-08-01 Thread John Salomon
ls me nothing. No console messages. I'm missing something utterly fundamentally idiotically harebrained and I have no clue what it could be - I'd be endlessly grateful for any tips or ideas on what to try (beyond an exorcist). Thanks! -John -- John M

Re: Firefox 14 build broken due to wrong libpng

2012-07-30 Thread John Levine
with APNG turned on (make && make deinstall && make install clean) The png errors went away but it still failed. The last few lines of the log are below. This is 8.3 on amd64, ports are as far as I know fully up to date. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetra

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread John Levine
>What sort of errors did you encounter while building the package using >the ports? The first problem is that it now demands clang-devel, which conflicts with chromium which still wants regular clang. Any idea how likely it is that chromium will build if I tell it to use clang-devel? R&#

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread John Levine
>Is there any such a tool (as fsck for FAT32) available for freeBSD? If so, >where would I find it? There's fsck_msdosfs, part of the base system. Regular fsck should call it automatically if you run it on a FAT filesystem. R's, John ___

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread John Levine
PHP and pcre. In fact, PHP5 won't work with old versions of pcre, but the PHP port maintainer refuses to put in version dependency info, because he thinks that every port should be up to date all the time. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-23 Thread John Levine
>> snafu on my part freebsd 8.3 also uses zfs pool version 28:-) > >No, 8.3 uses version 15. It's been quite stable for me. Sorry, I misread my notes, 8.2 uses v 15, 8.3 uses v 28. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-23 Thread John Levine
> snafu on my part freebsd 8.3 also uses zfs pool version 28:-) No, 8.3 uses version 15. It's been quite stable for me. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Building libreoffice on 8.3 x86-64, not

2012-06-22 Thread John Levine
option to use GCC. Any suggestions? I have 500 megabytes of build logs if anyone wants to look at them. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Free space in ZFS

2012-06-15 Thread John Levine
0615 1825 206 161811%/backup2/20120615 Now the total is 1.82Tb. Huh? The backup filesystems are compressed, but surely they're showing me the actual size, not the uncompressed size. Or are they? R's, John ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
0 > irq14: ata0 34 0 > irq18: em0 mpt0 1189748491218 > cpu0: timer 2174263198400 > Total 3364012124619 > > > I'm doing my best to ge

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:56:02 pm Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? > > > > We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU > VMs. Also, Dane F

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
(all consistent with your hang). (And that is from your Ctrl-Alt-Esc) Do you only have one CPU in this VM? If not, do you know which threads the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Kernel Panic any help?

2012-05-25 Thread John Levine
>panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch Something's fairly badly screwed up on your disk. My advice would be to boot from a CD or USB key and run fsck to try to repair it. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Evolution 2.32.3 && printing

2012-05-23 Thread John Hein
Polytropon wrote at 11:45 +0200 on May 23, 2012: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 10:20:18 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I run Evolution 2.32.3 in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT in my office because I have > > to use a MS Exchange server with OWA only; > > > > When I want to print something (Ctr

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 10:51:16 PM +0100 Mike Clarke wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: > >> Would this work for you?  From the manpage: >> >>      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always >> compiled instead of bei

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 9:33:59 PM +0100 Mike Clarke wrote: > > I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most > of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port > instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable > GIMP plugin support

Re: pcre library linking issues

2012-04-19 Thread John Levine
there, go get it from your distribution media. R's, John ___ 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"

RE: FTP oddness, over SSH session.

2012-04-13 Thread John McDonnell
> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dave B > FYI, you have to create an entry in FileZilla's Site Manager, for it > to invoke SFTP, the "Quickconnect" feature just uses plain vanilla FTP. > > Best Regards. > > Dave Baxter.

Re: Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread John Levine
ple to solve problems by composing existing tools rather than by adding ever more options to every program. R's, John PS: I realize that over the decades we have strayed somewhat from this ideal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: IPv6 default-route - gone

2012-04-03 Thread John
On 03/04/2012 18:40, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > After installing a new machine under FreeBSD9 I discovered that the > IPv6-configuration I had in place with FreeBSD8 does no longer work. > > Here's what I've got in /etc/rc.conf: > ipv6_enable="YES" > ipv6_ifconfig_em0="2001:76c:2218:2009::11/

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread John
On 07/03/2012 18:56, David Jackson wrote: > You have just now declared complete indifference to and alienated about 99% > of the potential user base and their needs, those who could care less about > compiling source and messing with compiler options. You're forgetting that one size does *not* fit

Re: make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread John
On 04/03/2012 04:36, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > Hmm, I would think that merely removing the offending file > and copying the correct one from /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include/ > would suffice. I dunno, I don't think so. Why would it not be installed in the downgrade process? Also, the filenames are

odd SDcard behaviour in freebsd-9.0-R

2012-02-27 Thread John
Hi list, I recently upgraded from 8.2-R to 9.0-R via freebsd-update and noticed different behaviour when I plug in my Nikon D50 via the usb port. I'm using the generic kernel while I try to sort this. It is the same in all but identity. 8.2 behaviour used to create a device /dev/da(x)s1 depending

Re: Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine

2012-02-21 Thread John Levine
ting _something_ that sort-of vaguely acts >like an SMTP server. Why not read the manual and find out? Click the Support tab on Brother's web site and you can find lots and lots of documentation for that printer. R's, John ___ freebsd-question

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread John Levine
>Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use? Pine is dead, replaced by alpine. The FreeBSD port has a config option to support maildirs. I've used it, it works. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Printing directly to IP address

2012-02-14 Thread John Levine
for vast numbers of printers, particularly when you also install hplip. R's, John -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ___

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread John Levine
# for external SATA siis_load="YES" I also have three USB disks configured as a ZFS RAID which I use for backups. It works OK, but I wouldn't want to depend on it from day to day. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread John Levine
use them. R's, John ___ 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"

failure - write_dma issue

2012-01-06 Thread John Almberg
quite reliable since I started using them 4 or 5 years ago, so I don't have much experience debugging them. Can anyone give me a hint about what might be wrong (I assume with the HD), and how/if it might be fixable? TIA: John “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry

Re: df with ZFS vs. zpool list

2011-12-15 Thread John Levine
. > NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM > storage ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada1ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada2ONLINE 0 0 0 >

Re: What's wrong with this code?

2011-12-12 Thread John R. Levine
how about a tiny .so that includes -only- that routine, and a 3-line or so main() that links against -that- .so? not a bad idea. Mentioning O/S release level, and CPU architecture would be a good idea :) Oh sorry, FreeBSD 8.2 release, AMD64 R's,

What's wrong with this code?

2011-12-12 Thread John Levine
so, and it said this, which sure looks like the system time() function to me: U time@@FBSD_1.0 Setting a breakpoint in gdb gets a complaint about trying to set a breakpoint in /lib/libc.so.7. Any ideas what the problem was? R's, John ___

re0: PHY read failed

2011-11-17 Thread John Kotrla
this message is appearing hundreds of times. I don't use the device, so its more of a neatness thing but it also makes it difficult to use logs when this error pops up every single second. It doesn't begin at boot, usually after a few hours. But if I do plug it into my router instead of using

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Re: How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-12 Thread John Levine
Look in /usr/src/usr.sbin/wpa. Oh, duh. I used to know that. Tnx. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-12 Thread John R. Levine
Doesn't this work for you? cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/wpa make install Well, yes, now that you mention it. Sigh. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mai

Re: How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-11 Thread John R. Levine
This is part of FreeBSD's user land; i.e. you should checkout the full sources /usr/src from SVN and build world; Surely there is some way to rebuild just part of the tree. I know there used to be. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet f

How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-11 Thread John Levine
pa tarball, which didn't work. Any suggestions how one rebuilds this? If it matters, I'm using 8.2 RELEASE. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread John Levine
>>I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad >>lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long >>enough that I don't want to wait. > >I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john. $ lpr foo

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread John Levine
ghostscript and the ghostscript command options are wired into the CUPS code and were more hassle to change than I wanted to do. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
, but reconstructing the former state would be a challenge. So, uh, I guess we chalk it up to bit rot. "Never mind." I have a couple of other ports that fail in similar ways, but I think I'll wiggle a few more moving parts before reporting the problem. Regards, John Levine, jo.

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
s you saw in that log until I deleted the files from the ncurses port. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ___ fr

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
, since there's an optional ncurses library that doesn't define the termcap functions. Do we fix it, or wave our hands and claim it's someone else's fault? Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the

Re: Install FreeBSD using Windows desktop and PXE

2011-10-24 Thread John Kotrla
On 10/24/11 04:29, Eir Nym wrote: -- Eir Nym On 24 October 2011 13:23, Eir Nym wrote: ✪ On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:10, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/10/2011 02:18, Eir Nym wrote: I want to install FreeBSD to my second box and I have only Windows 7 x64 desktop without CD drives. 1. I have ac

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John R. Levine
ional termcap library in the system. Probably its installation documentation tells what's needed. If you look at the build log I posted, it's failing because it's trying to link in the system termcap library and failing because ncurses doesn't provide it. Regards, Jo

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John Levine
ther or not the termcap routines are provided isn't configurable. >However, emacs could be confused since they're implemented on top >of terminfo. It sounds to me like the right thing to do is to fix emacs' configuration so it always uses the base system ncurses whether or

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John R. Levine
On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote: checking for tparm in -lncurses... no but that's not correct. libncurses should certainly contain that symbol. I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine. As -lncurses is part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm... do you have libncurses

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John R. Levine
On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote: checking for tparm in -lncurses... no but that's not correct. libncurses should certainly contain that symbol. I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine. As -lncurses is part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm... do you have libncurses

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