firefox: after update - version 23: can not swap tabs

2013-10-14 Thread O. Hartmann
After the last major update of www/firefox to version 23 firefox rejects of moving/swapping the tabs. They are static now. I do not know whether this has to do with the great pixman update, because coincidentally I made bot the pixman update and the update of firefox towards revision 23 slipped

Re: firefox: after update - version 23: can not swap tabs

2013-10-14 Thread O. Hartmann
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:50:48 +0200 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Monday, October 14, 2013 a las 08:54:56AM +0200, O. Hartmann escribió: After the last major update of www/firefox to version 23 firefox rejects of moving/swapping the tabs. They are static now. I do

Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX -- TeXlive

2013-09-14 Thread O. Hartmann
I use for my day to day work teTeX, but I run more and more into several limitations due to the fact, teTeX isn't any more (and regretably) maintained/developed by Th. Esser (that is what I know). Well, TeXlive is now in the ports tree, but I had recently on a server, on which I tried to

trouble with PostgreSQL 9.2 on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT: superuser can not autheticate anymore with md5 password hash set

2013-08-13 Thread O. Hartmann
For the past I ran PostgreSQL 9.2 servers on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT successfully. But by now, out of the blue, login as the database's supervisor pgsql remotely isn't possible any more. The appropriate lines in pg_hba.conf are: local all pgsql md5 hostssl all pgsql 0.0.0.0/0 md5 The funny

Re: trouble with PostgreSQL 9.2 on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT: superuser can not autheticate anymore with md5 password hash set

2013-08-13 Thread O. Hartmann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:55:06 +0300 Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: 13.08.2013 17:30, O. Hartmann wrote: For the past I ran PostgreSQL 9.2 servers on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT successfully. But by now, out of the blue, login as the database's supervisor pgsql remotely isn't possible

Re: trouble with PostgreSQL 9.2 on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT: superuser can not autheticate anymore with md5 password hash set

2013-08-13 Thread O. Hartmann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:22:33 +0200 Terje Elde te...@elde.net wrote: On 13. aug. 2013, at 16:30, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: What is going wrong? Are you unable to connect, or do you get an error message? If you do, what is it? Terje I always get this message: psql

Re: cursor keys not working on console

2013-08-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:18:15 -0400 Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 07:53:04PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: The cursor keys on the consoles in freebsd CURRENT (no X11 virtual consoles, the FreeBSD consoles!) do not work for me. I use tcsh as the main shell

cursor keys not working on console

2013-08-08 Thread O. Hartmann
The cursor keys on the consoles in freebsd CURRENT (no X11 virtual consoles, the FreeBSD consoles!) do not work for me. I use tcsh as the main shell. As set by default in /etc/ttys, the console's terminal type is xterm. Switching to setenv TERM cons25 solves the problem, but the menus in ports

Re: mail/claws-mail: exporting mail filters?

2013-06-11 Thread O. Hartmann
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:11:52 +0200 Herbert J. Skuhra hsku...@eumx.net wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 09:04:12 +0200 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Since I use on several boxes private and in the deprtment the same email accounts, I'd like to export the mail filters I created

mail/claws-mail: exporting mail filters?

2013-06-08 Thread O. Hartmann
I switched from Thunderbird to evolution and have now claws-mail on FreeBSD (Thunderbird coredumps on our OpenLDAP installation since years for now). Since I use on several boxes private and in the deprtment the same email accounts, I'd like to export the mail filters I created and import them

mail/claws-mail: INBOX shows still moved or deleted mails, filtering not working properly

2013-05-28 Thread O. Hartmann
After a struggle with OpenLDAP and Thunderbird (core dumps all over the place when using Thunderbird with OpenLDAP backed users), I moved to Evolution, which is unsatisfying, since calendar function immediately makes Evolution crahs on all tested FreeBSD platforms (9.1-STABLE, 10.0-CURRENT). I

PostgreSQL 9.2: database replication on demand - easy way (Bucardo in ports not available)

2013-02-16 Thread O. Hartmann
Dear Sirs. I send my question to this list in the hope someone has the same problems and already found a solution. I will start explaining the background and my difficulties with recent solutions. We/I have a FreeBSD 10 box running a PostgreSQL 9.2 server containing literature references via

databases/postgresql: simple mirroring of a database or a whole server

2013-01-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello list. First, please set me CC, i do not subscribe this list. I'd like to ask for a mirroring solution of an important databse on my installations across at least three boxes. The setup is as follows. Operating system is FreeBSD 10.0/amd and 9.1-STABLE/amd64. A top of the OS there is on

Re: databases/postgresql: simple mirroring of a database or a whole server

2013-01-15 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/15/13 13:14, Amitabh Kant wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.dewrote: Hello list. First, please set me CC, i do not subscribe this list. I'd like to ask for a mirroring solution of an important databse on my installations across at least

FreeBSD: GIT instaed of SVN?

2013-01-02 Thread O. Hartmann
When it comes to keeping sources, most developer and most large dislocated and non-centralized projects prefer GIT over Subversion. FreeBSD has moved from the ancient CVS to Subversion not long ago and I was wondering why freeBSD would have done this, since Subversion lacks in so many aspects of

PPPOED: reading data of line quality from the A/DSL modem

2012-12-27 Thread O. Hartmann
When using modern SoGo A/DSL routers, most devices do have fancy GUIs and information screens about the settings of the device and especially the line quality, like SNR, dampening et cetera. In my private office, I've setup a FreeBSD server acting like a gateway/router, replacing my oldish

Multiple SSID with WiFi adapter and hostapd?

2012-11-12 Thread O. Hartmann
I have a question for short (since I failed, possibly due to configuration inabilities of myself): is it possible to have multiple SSID on the very same WiFi hardware adapter (TP-Link Atheros based type)? Idea is, to have pseudo device wlan0 assigned to a SSID for the internal use and another SSID

Re: HELP! core dumps: install, mtree, et cetera all of the sudden after portmaster security/cyrus-sasl2

2012-08-18 Thread O. Hartmann
Am 08/16/12 21:44, schrieb Garrett Cooper: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: I ran into a very delicate and nasty situation. ... On both FBSD 10 boxes, the installation of the port security/cyrus-sasl2 got corrupted by install and/or mtree

HELP! core dumps: install, mtree, et cetera all of the sudden after portmaster security/cyrus-sasl2

2012-08-16 Thread O. Hartmann
I ran into a very delicate and nasty situation. On several boxes, FreeBSD 9.1-PRE and FreeBSD 10-CURRENT (build of CURRENT sources from yesterday, r239295 Wed August 15 17:04:51 CEST 2012 amd64, I had to recompile all requirements of port Apache22, since after the port update it core dumped. On

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 06/22/12 08:22, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Friday 22 June 2012 08:01:38 O. Hartmann wrote: I have a USB drive/stick, Lexar USB Flash drive as reported by FreeBSD shown below. When first used, I was able to put approx. 30 GB of data on it - it was visible to FreeBSD 9 and 10 as expected

USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-22 Thread O. Hartmann
I have a USB drive/stick, Lexar USB Flash drive as reported by FreeBSD shown below. When first used, I was able to put approx. 30 GB of data on it - it was visible to FreeBSD 9 and 10 as expected. A Linux system at the lab was also capable of recognizing it. After that, I tried to operate on the

FreeBSD 10/9: Lexar 64GB JumpDrive USB 2.0 isn't recognized anymore!

2012-06-12 Thread O. Hartmann
I have a Lexar 64GB USB 2.0 JumpDrive which worked in its pristine or virgine state very well. I used it yesterday, brand new, to fill it up with data. Some 30GB data got stored, I shut down the system (FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64) and this morning, I put the USB drive out of the USB port (computer

Re: CURRENT: buildworld fails

2012-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/19/12 22:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:55 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Since approx. a week for now, I can not build FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 anymore! This happens to be on ALL(!) FreeBSD 10 boxes around here I maintain. ... b) build

CURRENT: buildworld fails

2012-05-19 Thread O. Hartmann
Since approx. a week for now, I can not build FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 anymore! This happens to be on ALL(!) FreeBSD 10 boxes around here I maintain. Build is usually performed with CLANG, but also legacy gcc 4.2.1 build do fail. The error is always the same, as documented below. I allow to

Re: OpenLDAP 2.4.31 on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 broken!

2012-05-06 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/06/12 01:55, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2012-05-05 17:54, Hartmann, O. wrote: Since Friday, I have on all of our FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes massive trouble with net/openldap24-server (SASL enabled, so it is openldap-sasl-server). Last time OpenLDAP worked was Thursday last week,

Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session

2012-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Administering Linux Suse boxes makes it opf need to login onto those boxes and use the well designed kiddy-cloaking scripting environment, called YAST/YAST2. The problem I face now is that I can not use DEL key to delete characters or even use the ALT key to enforce actions like ALT-e or ALT-d

Re: Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session

2012-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/12/12 15:21, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Administering Linux Suse boxes makes it opf need to login onto those boxes and use the well designed kiddy-cloaking scripting environment, called YAST/YAST2. The problem I face now

print/cups: CUPS-1.5.0 IPP protocoll issues - no printing possible on IPP capable network printers

2012-02-07 Thread O. Hartmann
We use a bunch of HP and Xerox printers across our network, all capable of being accessed via network over IPP protocoall (so they claim). Printing worked for me flawless on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE, 9.0-CURRENT, now 9.0-STABLE on all boxes in question. Since updating cups to revision 1.5.0 (this is

Re: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/AMD64 (CLANG): lang/gcc46 fails to build

2011-12-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/07/11 07:11, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:56:31AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: config.status: creating ada/Makefile config.status: creating auto-host.h config.status: executing default commands gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc46/work/build' gmake[1

FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/AMD64 (CLANG): lang/gcc46 fails to build

2011-12-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. On FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 I run into the error shown below when updating the installation of the gcc46 compiler suite. The OS has been compiled via CLANG, binutils 2.22 are installed and has been installed either with the UNAME_r settings and WITH_FBSD10_FIX set in /etc/make.conf. I

port astro/stellarium: /usr/ports/astro/stellarium/work/stellarium-0.11.1/plugins/AngleMeasure/src/AngleMeasure.hpp, : File name too long,*** Error code 1

2011-11-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, since a couple of days for now I have on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64, clang compiled, the following error updating or reinstalling or installing the port astro/stellarium: === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === License GPLv2 accepted by the user === Found saved

multimedia/vlc: no graphical interface on FreeBSD 9 and 10

2011-11-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Since a while, vlc on my FreeBSD 10 and FreeBSD 9 boxes do not show a graphical interface anymore. Compiling multimedia/vlc works, either with the legacy gcc or clang. But either way I compile vlc, the result is always the same: no GUI. Instead, I receive the below show message: VLC media player

Scientific toolchaing for planetary geo-imaginery: USGS ISIS3

2011-11-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Does someone do science with FreeBSD and coincidently reading this mailing list and (another) coincidently do planetary science and wish to process satellite images via the opensource software toolchain ISIS3 from USGS? Regards Oliver signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

/sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS

2011-11-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Sorry for the boring question, but is the default configuration file /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS anywhere include in a regular configuration file for the kernel while building the kernel? I looked for include statements in GENERIC, but didn't find one. I use custom kernel config files and adapt most

Re: /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS

2011-11-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Am 11/08/11 14:12, schrieb Niclas Zeising: On 11/08/11 12:36, O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry for the boring question, but is the default configuration file /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS anywhere include in a regular configuration file for the kernel while building the kernel? I looked for include

multimedia/vlc: suddenly no graphical interface

2011-11-07 Thread O. Hartmann
On all of my used FreeBSD 9.0-RCX and FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT boxes (all amd64 and CLANG compiled), I do not have a graphical user interface in VLC anymore. Instead, calling vlc most recent 1.1.11), I get this error: VLC media player 1.1.11 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to

FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64: Weirdness with LOCALE settings: ghostswitching in csh?

2011-11-03 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I realised something weird in FreeBSD 10.-CURRENT/amd64 (CLANG compiled), build as from today (buildworld). Working the whole day coding some pyhton scripts and committing the code to my subversion server (most recent subversion from the ports collection, the server is a FreeBSD

The future of FreeBSD at Yahoo!

2011-10-25 Thread O. Hartmann
The press in Germania is full of some statements, that Google is about to overtake Yahoo!. As far as I know, Yahoo! is one of the more popular and bigger, if not the biggest and last stronghold of a FreeBSD driven infrastructure. Despite the fact that even Google funded lots of coding for

Dell Poweredge 1950 III (PE_SC3): replacement SAS controller to acceess drives = 3TB

2011-10-13 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello out there. We run a Dell PowerEdge 950 III (PE_SC3) Server with FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE. This Server is equipted with a SAS controller, residing, as far as I could observe, on a PCIe slot. Its kernel message is: mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter port 0xec00-0xecff mem

Thunderbird 6.0.2/7.0: Crashing when using with OpenLDAP backend

2011-09-28 Thread O. Hartmann
I run in a problem on FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3/10.0-CURRENT using OpenLDAP (Cyrus SASL2 aktivated) and OpenLDAP backend (most recent client and server). Thunderbird 6.0.2 and 7.0 coredumps with signal 11. I hadn't any chance to check whether this also happens on 8.2-STABLE, but I'll check this as

Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE tend to freeze

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical

devel/anjuta: creating project does not offer project's dialog.

2011-07-01 Thread O. Hartmann
Using Anjuta as my potentially IDE, I realize a weird behaviour since my last try years ago. Anjuta was supposed to show a dialog about when creating a new project. Documentation explicitely mention this. But in my case (a newly installed anjuta), selecting a C-project, GTK+, then ends up in

devel/subversion: svn: Couldn't perform atomic initialization svn: database schema has changed

2011-07-01 Thread O. Hartmann
Since yesterday I receive on any try on a commit this error message from my subversion server: svn: Couldn't perform atomic initialization svn: database schema has changed svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file: Searching for this error (which appeared after portsupdate via

Re: devel/anjuta: creating project does not offer project's dialog.

2011-07-01 Thread O. Hartmann
On 07/01/11 09:35, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: 01.07.2011, 11:06, O. Hartmann And, for those actively developing, is there a good alternative to Anjuta (no KDevelop, since I do not like KDE and do not have KDE). Thanks, Oliver Depending on what you need you can try: Geany Vim Eclipse Qt

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-30 Thread O. Hartmann
On 06/29/11 15:57, Joshua Boyd wrote: 2011/6/29 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de mailto:ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? Hi Oliver, Neither, unfortunately. The 1068E based

Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread O. Hartmann
On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported as 2TB disk only. The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition.

Dell PowerEdge 1950 with LSI SAS1068E/aka DeLL SAS-6 HBA: howto update firmware with FreeBSD?

2011-06-29 Thread O. Hartmann
We run a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Server which is equipted with a LSI Logic LSISAS1068E SAS HBA, branded as a Dell SAS-6 HBA (MPT). The firmware is dated to 2007 and is not capable of handling hard disks larger than 2 TB. We got now a 3 TB SATA harddrive (WD WD30EZRX) which doesn't get recognized

Re: kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/23/11 00:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: On May 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: Building kernel and modules with CLANG (did not try with gcc) results in corrupted system with following error message. Operating system is most recent svn update of FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64: URL: svn

Re: kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/23/11 00:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: On May 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: Building kernel and modules with CLANG (did not try with gcc) results in corrupted system with following error message. Operating system is most recent svn update of FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64: URL: svn

Re: kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/23/11 00:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: On May 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: Building kernel and modules with CLANG (did not try with gcc) results in corrupted system with following error message. Operating system is most recent svn update of FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64: URL: svn

Re: kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/23/11 10:36, O. Hartmann wrote: On 05/23/11 00:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: On May 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: Building kernel and modules with CLANG (did not try with gcc) results in corrupted system with following error message. Operating system is most recent svn update

Re: kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/23/11 14:52, Ivan Klymenko wrote: В Mon, 23 May 2011 10:03:42 +0200 O. Hartmannohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de пишет: On 05/23/11 00:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: On May 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: Building kernel and modules with CLANG (did not try with gcc) results

Re: kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/23/11 18:10, Garrett Cooper wrote: On May 23, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: mps-debug.diff Shouldn't DEBUG_FLAGS be the proper usage in this particular case? -Garrett ___ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 05/23/11 23:55, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 05/23/11 18:10, Garrett Cooper wrote: On May 23, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: mps-debug.diff Shouldn't DEBUG_FLAGS be the proper usage

kernel: install: mps.ko.symbols: No such file or directory

2011-05-22 Thread O. Hartmann
Building kernel and modules with CLANG (did not try with gcc) results in corrupted system with following error message. Operating system is most recent svn update of FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64: URL: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head Repository Root: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Repository UUID:

editors/libreoffice: can not compile, crash on FreeBSD 9.0-CUR/amd64

2011-05-18 Thread O. Hartmann
On all of my FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes LibreOffice 3.3.X crashes after starting and dumping core with signal 8. The boxes are all FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64, the most recent version. The ports are up to date, I also tried to recompile every necessary port without success. On all FreeBSD

error building kernel: nfs_clvfsops.o: In function `nfs_mount':, nfs_clvfsops.c:(.text+0x1638): undefined reference to `nfs_diskless_valid'

2011-04-26 Thread O. Hartmann
Since today's source (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 (source is: Revision: 221060) update I get the follwoing error while building the kernel (options NFSD/options NFSCL instead of options NFSSERVER/options NFSCLIENT): cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -march=native -std=c99

Re: Heads up: was Re: error building kernel: nfs_clvfsops.o: In function `nfs_mount':, nfs_clvfsops.c:(.text+0x1638): undefined reference to `nfs_diskless_valid'

2011-04-26 Thread O. Hartmann
On 04/26/11 15:54, Rick Macklem wrote: Since today's source (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 (source is: Revision: 221060) update I get the follwoing error while building the kernel (options NFSD/options NFSCL instead of options NFSSERVER/options NFSCLIENT): cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe

XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0

2011-03-26 Thread O. Hartmann
Updating ports and source of my FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 host, equipted with a AMD/ATi HD4830 graphics board driven by X11 xf86-video-ati driver (which has been recently update as far as I saw), resulted this morning in an 'un-login-able' box. I see the xdm-login requester, but after

Re: User authentication on Linux with FreeBSD OpenLDAP backend fails: pam_ldap: error trying to bind as user/Failed password for

2011-03-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/18/11 17:02, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 18), O. Hartmann said: I try to use a FreeBSD OpenLDAP (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/amd64, most recent OpenLDAP/openldap-sasl-server-2.4.24) as an authentication backend for an UBUNTU 10.10 server (using openldap 2.4.23). Most

Re: Freebsd Firefox problems

2011-03-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/19/11 16:37, Sander Janssen wrote: I have finally managed to solve this issue. Upgrading to 8.2 didn't solve anything. But after I installed ccache I decided to recompile all my installed ports in the hope that it solved my problems. After recompiling all my ports (1000 ports, including

Re: User authentication on Linux with FreeBSD OpenLDAP backend fails: pam_ldap: error trying to bind as user/Failed password for

2011-03-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/18/11 17:02, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 18), O. Hartmann said: I try to use a FreeBSD OpenLDAP (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/amd64, most recent OpenLDAP/openldap-sasl-server-2.4.24) as an authentication backend for an UBUNTU 10.10 server (using openldap 2.4.23). Most

User authentication on Linux with FreeBSD OpenLDAP backend fails: pam_ldap: error trying to bind as user/Failed password for

2011-03-18 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I try to use a FreeBSD OpenLDAP (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/amd64, most recent OpenLDAP/openldap-sasl-server-2.4.24) as an authentication backend for an UBUNTU 10.10 server (using openldap 2.4.23). Most of the installation on the Ubuntu server has been successfully done (I'm not familiar with

Re: User authentication on Linux with FreeBSD OpenLDAP backend fails: pam_ldap: error trying to bind as user/Failed password for

2011-03-18 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/18/11 17:02, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 18), O. Hartmann said: I try to use a FreeBSD OpenLDAP (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/amd64, most recent OpenLDAP/openldap-sasl-server-2.4.24) as an authentication backend for an UBUNTU 10.10 server (using openldap 2.4.23). Most

FreeBSD CURRENT custom ISO install image: howto?

2011-03-16 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm desperately looking for howto creating my own FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 custom installation DVD. Google delivers a lot of outdated stuff and I wasn't able to find some hints in the handbook, so maybe one here can help. I've already all sources via 'svn' (no CVS) on the local box. The

Re: FreeBSD CURRENT custom ISO install image: howto?

2011-03-16 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/16/11 19:10, Al Plant wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: I'm desperately looking for howto creating my own FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 custom installation DVD. Google delivers a lot of outdated stuff and I wasn't able to find some hints in the handbook, so maybe one here can help. I've already all

Dell iDRAC JViewer and FreeBSD 9.0: not working, help!

2011-03-15 Thread O. Hartmann
We use a Dell rack system with a JAVA based virtual console facility, iDRAC6, which works well when used via Windows 7 or some Linux boxes. On FreeBSD 9.0/amd64 (most recent) with JAVA diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_13 Java Development Kit 1.6.0_07.02 openjdk6-b22_2 Oracle's Java 6 virtual machine

Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

2011-03-11 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/11/11 16:44, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote: On 03/11/11 01:13, Polytropon wrote: Maybe you're experiencing a caching problem? I would guess that as you stated there is a temporary file, this should not happen (in relation to Firefox) there should at least

Re: xorg-driver/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0: Worse performance since last update

2011-03-11 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/08/11 19:32, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:16:05PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Since the last update of Xorg stuff, including the xf86-video-ati-6.14.0, the video performance of all of our AMD/ATi-driven boxes went worse. The bad performance also occur

Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

2011-03-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/08/11 16:51, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote: I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing

Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

2011-03-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/11/11 01:13, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:38:19 +0100, O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 03/08/11 16:51, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote: I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf from protals

xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

2011-03-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing is impossible. I hit the print button, a popup shows up with the configured CUPS

Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

2011-03-08 Thread O. Hartmann
How to 'configure' this? Firefox3 allows only selecting applications via 'Preferences' Menu. Trying to configure xpdf manually via aboutconfig results in can-not-find-application-tag, means: tehre is nothing to look at. On 03/08/11 09:49, Kristofer M White wrote: Does configuring firefox to

Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

2011-03-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/08/11 11:43, Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2011-03-08 09:38, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing

Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

2011-03-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/08/11 16:51, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote: I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing

xorg-driver/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0: Worse performance since last update

2011-03-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Since the last update of Xorg stuff, including the xf86-video-ati-6.14.0, the video performance of all of our AMD/ATi-driven boxes went worse. The bad performance also occur with the recommendations made in ports/UPDATING for driver radeon. Without those recommendated adding of options even

GRASS: 6.4.0: where is the postgresql (pg) driver?

2011-03-07 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I desperately try to connect to a PostgreSQL DB server using GRASS (6.4.0 as from the recent ports). The documentation of GRASS, even the most recent one, reports using the 'driver=pg' option. Having already set up a database in PostgreSQL (server 9.0.4), the admin user properly

Re: GRASS: 6.4.0: where is the postgresql (pg) driver?

2011-03-07 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/07/11 16:26, wen heping wrote: 2011/3/7 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello. I desperately try to connect to a PostgreSQL DB server using GRASS (6.4.0 as from the recent ports). The documentation of GRASS, even the most recent one, reports using the 'driver=pg' option. Having

LibreOffice 3.3.0: incapable of opening M$ Office Excel sheets which could be opened by OO 3.2.1

2011-02-09 Thread O. Hartmann
I got a serious problem: LibeOffice 3.3.0 rejects opening Microsoft Office Excel created spreadsheets with an 'internal import error'. Is there anything to be aware of or is this a real bug? Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

port reinstall does not update /var/db/pkg (libreoffice)

2011-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Libreoffice undergoes a lot of chenges these days, so updating the port from siurce takes more than four hours on my boxes. On one of the, running FreeBSD 9.0-CUR/amd64, portmaster fails to update to libreoffice-3.3.0_3, process quits with random strange errors. Doing the job from

top: where to find process state descriptions (i.e. STATE usem)?

2011-02-07 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Try to find docs about the process states shown in top, but I can't find any hint for explanations what the abbrev. do mean. I have a problem with a scientific program using OpenMP showing STATE 'usem' in top. Problem: the small program is much slower on a dual or four core CPU using

Re: editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11

2011-02-04 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/03/11 14:12, Robert Huff wrote: Alexandre writes: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Pavlo Greenbergsir_...@onet.com.uawrote: [SNIP] But I'm agree with you, OOo's behavior after the last update is abnormal. Why not give a try to LibreOffice, that is in ports :

Re: editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11

2011-02-03 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/02/11 10:25, Anonymous wrote: O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de writes: Hello. I just upgraded openoffice-3.2.1 to openoffice-org-3.3.0 and found myself in a serious issue. Opening openoffice works only sporadically, in most cases I get the error: XDM authorization key matches an

Re: editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11

2011-02-03 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/03/11 11:51, Alexandre wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Pavlo Greenberg sir_...@onet.com.ua mailto:sir_...@onet.com.ua wrote: [SNIP] But I'm agree with you, OOo's behavior after the last update is abnormal. Why not give a try to LibreOffice, that is in ports :Â

editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11

2011-02-02 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I just upgraded openoffice-3.2.1 to openoffice-org-3.3.0 and found myself in a serious issue. Opening openoffice works only sporadically, in most cases I get the error: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!/usr/local/openoffice.org-3.3.0/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin

FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread O. Hartmann
I've got a problem. For performance reasons I use two 1TB harddrives as a single pool, and as far as I know, ZFS on recent FreeBSD 9/amd64 treats suchs pools 'striped'. Well, I can measure a performance gain in writing and reading. Well, for backup, I use an additional 2TB disk, ZFS,

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/26/11 21:47, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelsondnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing the capacity of the pool itself. Sure, you're going to lose the contents of the large 2TB drive,

Re: CURRENT: Issue with ZFS and 2TB WD HDD (WDC WD20EURS-63Z9B1 80.00A80)

2010-12-01 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/29/10 19:32, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Attached to the system are three WD harddrives with ZFS as filesystem on GPT partitioning scheme. Please send the output of camcontrol devlist and zpool status on FreeBSD-8.1. Then export the pool in FreeBSD-8.1, boot

subversion authentication via SASL2 using a OpenLDAP backend

2010-11-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I just try to authenticate users of our subversion repository via sasl2 against a running OpenLDAP backend (all services running on FreeBSD 8.2-PRE/8.1 and 7.3). After setting up a config file /usr/local/etc/sasl2/svn.conf containing the following: pwcheck_method: auxprop

CURRENT: Issue with ZFS and 2TB WD HDD (WDC WD20EURS-63Z9B1 80.00A80)

2010-11-29 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm running a newly setup FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 SMP box. The former OS was FreeBSD 8.1-PRE/amd64. Attached to the system are three WD harddrives with ZFS as filesystem on GPT partitioning scheme. Two 1TB HDD are spanning a volume with 2 TB capacity which is quite fast due to parallel

Re: CURRENT: Issue with ZFS and 2TB WD HDD (WDC WD20EURS-63Z9B1 80.00A80)

2010-11-29 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/29/10 17:41, Leonidas Tsampros wrote: O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de writes: I'm running a newly setup FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 SMP box. The former OS was FreeBSD 8.1-PRE/amd64. Attached to the system are three WD harddrives with ZFS as filesystem on GPT partitioning scheme. Two

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-18 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/18/10 03:12, Rob Farmer wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:58, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Thanks. I got it. But it seems that my first porting task run into some difficulties for the advanced porters, since there is no autotool environment. By the way, the global

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-18 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/18/10 13:52, Rob Farmer wrote: 2010/11/18 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Well, in this case, it would really be a 'nice to have', maybe this is worth a PR? Try asking on the ports@ list. I'm not sure what the criteria is for something being listed there - if something isn't

porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source folder, so I need to tell the top level Makefile of the port to use a specific build

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/17/10 22:01, Rob Farmer wrote: 2010/11/17 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello. I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source

Re: USGS ISIS 3.2.1: build failure on FBSD 8.1/9.0 due to oudated xerxec-c2 ?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/09/10 22:06, O. Hartmann wrote: On 11/09/10 21:52, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:34:48 +0100 O. Hartmannohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Hello. Tried to build the newest ISIS 3.2.1 software package for planetary survey science, but fail. I always get the following

FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux facility to ensure having the software and tools I

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/10/10 19:07, App Deb wrote: 2010/11/10 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/10/10 20:15, C. Bergström wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux compatibilty. So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. There are some other, very serious questions. AMD calims that they made the specs of their 3D

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