How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. How do I do that? I suppose the whole ports tree has to go back since x.org drags in a bunch of stuff without doing anything itself. I'm on 8.3 amd64. PS: the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU switch does not exist anymore because nouveau doesn't exist anymore. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitch false in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting OptionDontVTSwitch false in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? Of course not or - of. Maybe it belongs to section ServerLayout, I'm not sure, it changes quite often which options are supported and where they have to be placed. :-) And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitchfalse in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? Of course not or - of. Maybe it belongs to section ServerLayout, I'm not sure, it changes quite often which options are supported and where they have to be placed. :-) Doesn't seem to help, and also it appears from my researches that is not assignable, but like make options, if it present it is true but there is no way to make it false. And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade does not really provide much help for meta ports, but I took a flier and rolled xorg-server back to 1.7.5,1 and this sort of worked (mapped tty changing to shift-Fx - not my first choice, but makes life possible. portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitchfalse in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? Of course not or - of. Maybe it belongs to section ServerLayout, I'm not sure, it changes quite often which options are supported and where they have to be placed. :-) And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope: Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] BusID PCI:0:1:0 Driver = xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_4 vgapci0@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x03 card=0x2aca103c chip=0x98021002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' device = 'AMD Radeon HD 6310 GraphicsATI' class = display subclass = VGA Not sure what else might be of interest. 9.0 works pretty well so once every couple of weeks rebooting is a small price as 9.0 and Xorg xorg-7.5.1 supports the NIC and video. On 8.2 no either net and the Vesa driver rendered this system pretty useless FreeBSD-wise on 8.x. ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get an older version of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in both directions). portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (Maybe you need to be more specific as x11 is only a metaport.) That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints. The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. It is definitely a problem for (at least some of) those with Intel chips, but at least for me the VESA driver did not fix the tty switching problem. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope: Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] BusID PCI:0:1:0 Driver = xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_4 vgapci0@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x03 card=0x2aca103c chip=0x98021002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' device = 'AMD Radeon HD 6310 GraphicsATI' class = display subclass = VGA Not sure what else might be of interest. 9.0 works pretty well so once every couple of weeks rebooting is a small price as 9.0 and Xorg xorg-7.5.1 supports the NIC and video. On 8.2 no either net and the Vesa driver rendered this system pretty useless FreeBSD-wise on 8.x. Mine has xorg-7.5.2 and WITH_XORG_NEW=yes in /etc/make.conf. ___ 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
mksnap_ffs rollback?
Hi, Is it possible in FreeBSD to rollback a snapshot that is done with mksnap_ffs or with mount -o snapshot? It seems that there is no way of doing that in FreeBSD am i right ? --- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.EnderUNIX.ORG Software Development Team @ Turkey http://www.Faruk.NET For Public key: http://www.enderunix.org/ofsen/ofsen.asc First Turkish Qmail book is out! Go check it. Duydunuz mu! Turkiye'nin ilk Qmail kitabi cikti. http://www.acikakademi.com/catalog/qmail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mksnap_ffs rollback?
In the last episode (Sep 15), Omer Faruk Sen said: Is it possible in FreeBSD to rollback a snapshot that is done with mksnap_ffs or with mount -o snapshot? It seems that there is no way of doing that in FreeBSD am i right ? Correct. The best you can do is dd or dumprestore the snapshot to a new disk. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rollback
I have a machine that is running freebsd 5.1, I need to go back to 4.10 because a software manufacturer that I have to do business with only supports that release right now. Is there an easy way install 4.10 over 5.1? thanks, Jerry --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.740 / Virus Database: 494 - Release Date: 8/16/2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rollback
Jerome Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a machine that is running freebsd 5.1, I need to go back to 4.10 because a software manufacturer that I have to do business with only supports that release right now. Is there an easy way install 4.10 over 5.1? Probably back up, do a fresh install, and restore your files. Even if your partitions are UFS1 (4.x doesn't understand UFS2), it's probably easiest to start clean. Also note that 4.10 was released *after* 5.1 (by nearly a year). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/
Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel backup? For location of old kernel, see http://www.schlacter.net (towards the end) gl from Kjell Also, if anyone has a link on the rollback procedure on a FreeBSD kernel (4.6) that would be greatly appreciated also. My searches on FreeBSD.org and google haven't turned up much. Mostly mysql documents which I find a little hard to believe that mysql has that much higher ranking pages then the FreeBSD site. At any rate, please if you can, help... while I write 1,000 times on the chalkboard I will not attempt an upgrade on the server when I don't have it sitting in front of me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/
Ben Turner wrote: Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel backup? I may be off here, but mine always end up as kernel.old and kernel.GENERIC, both in / Also, if anyone has a link on the rollback procedure on a FreeBSD kernel (4.6) that would be greatly appreciated also. My searches on FreeBSD.org and google haven't turned up much. Mostly mysql documents which I find a little hard to believe that mysql has that much higher ranking pages then the FreeBSD site. that's understandable: rollback is a database operation and is likely to generate lots of pages, for reasons not dissimilar to yours. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Howe's Law: Everyone has a scheme that will not work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/
Ben Turner wrote: Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel backup? I got an email offlist that suggested a 5.0 system would have its kernels in /boot: it might be worth trying that. I'm not running -current, so I can't confirm. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/
Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel backup? Also, if anyone has a link on the rollback procedure on a FreeBSD kernel (4.6) that would be greatly appreciated also. My searches on FreeBSD.org and google haven't turned up much. Mostly mysql documents which I find a little hard to believe that mysql has that much higher ranking pages then the FreeBSD site. At any rate, please if you can, help... while I write 1,000 times on the chalkboard I will not attempt an upgrade on the server when I don't have it sitting in front of me. Thanks, Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
