Re: CDRW Stopped Working Moving to 6.x

2007-09-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:35:24AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at the dmesg(1) from the last boot, # fgrep cd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: CDROM CRD-8400B/1.06 at ata1-master UDMA33 Makes me think the system is not recognizing the

Multi BSD boot loader

2007-09-18 Thread Joshua Isom
I've brought back to life a P3 I got at a school auction years back to use for testing software under various operating systems(presently all bsd) on i386. My main server is FreeBSD/amd64. The P3 has a 10 gig hard drive I'm not intending to upgrade(unless I buy an sata hard drive and find

RE: SMTP Error from my server?

2007-09-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jay Chandler Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:49 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP Error from my server? This idea works fine for normal email addresses, but fails miserably

tunnel ipsec whith racoon2-20070720a

2007-09-18 Thread ckd ckd
hi, i'm looking for some experience using racoon2 to create tunnel IPSEC between 2 freebsd 6.2 gateways. i followed the procedure described in freebsd handbook, but whne i start iked, i get the follow message : iked: [INTERNAL ERR]: isakmþ.c:521:isakmp_øþen_address(): bind(10.0.2.254[500]):

linux-firefox+flash=crash

2007-09-18 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all i wanted to put linux-firefox because i read somewhere it can use the flash plugin. so i got the the linux-firefox on. the thing downloaded and installed the plugin through the browser plugin interface. now every time i go to youtube (or any other flash site) the browser crashes

Re: Problem with FreeBSD and external storage

2007-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Miguel Angelo wrote: Hi, I'm trying to put external disks(storage) in my FreeBSD server, but, i only can't see the disks that was allocated. I think that is necessary sometype of confugurations, because the hba was installed and all procedures necessary too. For information.

Re: Service providers using Quagga

2007-09-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 14 September 2007 23:33, Steve Bertrand wrote: Again, thanks to everyone who posted back to me, and if anyone has anything else to add, or any more known large sites as examples, by all means, please keep them coming! I think you might get better answers, if you ask [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rare / random hangs with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4

2007-09-18 Thread Gert Lynge
Hi Running a FreeBSD 6.2 with mainly MySQL, Apache and PHP (kept up to date with manual freebsd-update / portupgrade). The hardware is SuperMicro SuperServer 5015MT+ with 2GB of ECC RAM and a Intel Core 2 Quad 6700. Running a BIOS assisted soft mirror with SATA disks... After aprox 2 weeks the

6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-18 Thread Martin McCormick
As a computer user who happens to be blind, I have always wanted to use the headless installation method to build FreeBSD systems. After FreeBSD version 5, things seemed to go a bit wrong and I am trying to figure out whether it is me not doing something right or if there is a bug.

Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you do to get it back?? I'd go one of these ways: - rm -rf /usr/local ... - rebuild all the packages I need in a chroot, then pkg_add them Good luck!

Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you do to get it back?? The literal getting it back involves a lot of typing, or some non-tivial script work. Figuring out what to get back ... look in /usr/ports/distfiles. While

Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread nikolaj . thygesen
Hi list, Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you do to get it back?? I started out trying to recreate the xorg port (make install), but being a meta port and only checking for the existance of certain files it doesn't rebuild much. Doing my experiments I have even

Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:25:18AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all i wanted to put linux-firefox because i read somewhere it can use the flash plugin. so i got the the linux-firefox on. the thing downloaded and installed the plugin through the browser plugin interface. now every time i

IPFW entries in /var/log/messages

2007-09-18 Thread Mächler Philippe
Hi, Can anybody shed some light into my ipfw and /var/log/messages problem? Since a few weeks/months we have the following entries in the /var/log/messages logfile. A few information about the system itself: It' a i386 6.2-RELEASE-p4 installation with a custom smp kernel (SCHED_4BSD) and a

RE: linux-firefox+flash=crash

2007-09-18 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Well, I have tried both plugins 7 and 9, they both seem to be giving me difficulties, I try installing from ports/packages, but still the same issues. Installation for version 7 seems a pain hence I have to crease symbolic links to browser_plugins in order for firefox to pick them up. I am not

Re: IPFW entries in /var/log/messages

2007-09-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:05, Mächler Philippe wrote: Since a few weeks/months we have the following entries in the /var/log/messages logfile. [] [/var/log/messages] Sep 18 10:23:03 ns2 kernel: .11:2438 out via bge0 Sep 18 10:31:35 ns2 kernel: Sep 18 10:58:05 ns2 kernel: 80 Sep 18

Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 14:01:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you do to get it back?? Depending how fast your disk and cpu is: cd /usr/ports find . -name pkg-plist -print|xargs egrep -H '^(s?bin|lib)' |while read MATCH; do

Re: Multi BSD boot loader

2007-09-18 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
On 9/18/07, Joshua Isom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've brought back to life a P3 I got at a school auction years back to use for testing software under various operating systems(presently all bsd) on i386. My main server is FreeBSD/amd64. The P3 has a 10 gig hard drive I'm not intending to

Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:36:00 Lisandro Grullon wrote: Well, I have tried both plugins 7 and 9, they both seem to be giving me difficulties, I try installing from ports/packages, but still the same issues. So far, swfdec (graphics/swfdec and the plugin www/swfdec-plugin) is the only

RE: IPFW entries in /var/log/messages

2007-09-18 Thread Mächler Philippe
Hi Nikos Thanks for your reply. On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:05, Mächler Philippe wrote: Since a few weeks/months we have the following entries in the /var/log/messages logfile. [] [/var/log/messages] Sep 18 10:23:03 ns2 kernel: .11:2438 out via bge0 Sep 18 10:31:35 ns2 kernel:

Re: mixer levels on boot

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Monday 17 September 2007 22:21:54 Rob wrote: Harry Doyle wrote: however whenever i reboot the machine the mixer command always shows the default level of 90 which clips pretty hard. My 6.2 system saves and restores the mixer settings across boots. Apparently in the file

Re: IPFW entries in /var/log/messages

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:38:13 Mächler Philippe wrote: Hi Nikos Thanks for your reply. On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:05, Mächler Philippe wrote: Since a few weeks/months we have the following entries in the /var/log/messages logfile. [] [/var/log/messages] Sep

Re: How to add rule with pfctl...

2007-09-18 Thread Agus
2007/9/18, Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:30:03PM -0300, Agus wrote: Agus wrote: 2007/9/15, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 15 September 2007 23:18:17 Agus wrote: I am trying to figure out how to add a firewall rule

RE: IPFW entries in /var/log/messages

2007-09-18 Thread Mächler Philippe
Hello Mel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mel Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 5:00 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW entries in /var/log/messages On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:38:13 Mächler Philippe

RE: linux-firefox+flash=crash

2007-09-18 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Thank you Mel, I guess is tie to start looking into a different direction hence Macromedia do not want to open the code for us, I will give swfdec a try and see if the lag time is good enough for me to play animate pages. Thanks again for your input. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you do to get it back?? I'd go one of these ways: - rm -rf

Query: SAS Multi-pathing support on 6.2

2007-09-18 Thread V . SriSaiGanesh
Hello, Does FreeBSD 6.2 supports SAS multi-pathing. Does FreeBSD has port for linux device mapper tool Thanks and Regards, sai -- -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as

Re: MySQL config [WAS: ]uilding a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-18 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: my.cnf innodb_thread_concurrency = 8 You want '0' or performance will suck. There's a basic architectural flaw in how mysql handles non-zero concurrency values here (innodb accesses are serialized by a global mutex that protects a counter to check if it should try

Re: MySQL config [WAS: ]uilding a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-18 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Kris Kennaway wrote: libthr has been around (and performing better than libkse) since the 5.x days and has been recommended for use since 6.0. Yeah I knew it had been around -- missed the recommend part. sysctl kern.timecounter.choice kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) ACPI-fast(1000)

slow nautilus with mls

2007-09-18 Thread Mathias Picker
I'm in the process of testing mls on -stable. I just set up one user with mls/5:4, did a setfmac -R mls/5:4 /home/mlsuser and voila, nautilus takes 10 seconds for startup and 3 seconds for displaying any directory (up from 1-2 secs startup 0.5 sec for switching dirs without mls). Deinstalling

Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread Rob
RW wrote: Or do both, so you can build at your convenience, and have a full set of packages ready when you delete /usr/local/. You probably want to keep a copy of /usr/local/etc and possibly some others under local/. That's where all your config files live. -Rob

Re: IPFW entries in /var/log/messages

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 17:30:43 Mächler Philippe wrote: Hello Mel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mel Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 5:00 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW entries in

Does FreeBSD support UTF-8 locale well?

2007-09-18 Thread ronggui
I try to use zh_CN.UTF-8 as locales, but the FAT3 data can not display correctly. When I use zh_CN.EUC as locale, things get better, but not all the Chinese characters display correctly. In terms of UTF-8 support, Linux seems better than FreeBSD. How do you guys think? Thanks. -- Ronggui Huang

Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

2007-09-18 Thread Eric Ekong
Seems there is a new driver in ports as of yesterday for nvidia. Anyone tried it as of yet? Eric * Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070912 17:43]: Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:43:42 +0200 From: Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X

Re: How to add rule with pfctl...

2007-09-18 Thread Agus
2007/9/18, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/9/18, Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:30:03PM -0300, Agus wrote: Agus wrote: 2007/9/15, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Saturday 15 September 2007 23:18:17 Agus wrote: I am

Re: MySQL config [WAS: ]uilding a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: my.cnf innodb_thread_concurrency = 8 You want '0' or performance will suck. There's a basic architectural flaw in how mysql handles non-zero concurrency values here (innodb accesses are serialized by a global mutex that protects a counter to

Re: MySQL config [WAS: ]uilding a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Is it worth having the port remove that recommendation from the /usr/local/share/mysql/*.cnf files ? It probably is worth it, yeah. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Fwd: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

2007-09-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 18, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup To: Eric Ekong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just tried it and: 1. It is just a ABI upgrade so it doesn't get rejected by 7.3 (same version as

mbuf usage

2007-09-18 Thread Preethi Natarajan
Hello, Am not sure if this is the right place for this question. If not, please let me know. I am trying to track mbuf used by TCP reassembly buffer. Should I be using the values from vm.zone sysctl variable? If yes, how? Thanks, -- Preethi ___

php failing

2007-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uname -a localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE#0: Thu Aug 30 13:20:27 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VIL i386 I have been using apache, PHP and mysql for years with no problems. I just suffered a computer crash and my backup failed, so I had to reinstall. However, now I have

Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?

2007-09-18 Thread Brent Jones
Good morning - After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your ports? Cheers, Brent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?

2007-09-18 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Brent Jones wrote: Good morning - After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your ports? If you have all the compat*x libraries installed you might not need to. But if you don't, things will use the old libraries and not the new ones in 7. I would suggest you do. --

Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:41:08AM -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Thank you Mel, I guess is tie to start looking into a different direction hence Macromedia do not want to open the code for us, I will give swfdec a try and see if the lag time is good enough for me to play animate pages.

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-18 Thread Martin McCormick
I posted the original message about the 6.2 headless installs. I tried again on an IBM Netfinity server with SCSI drives today and here is the last screen of boot messages from the CDROM burned from the 6.2 ISO image: sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may

Re: Does FreeBSD support UTF-8 locale well?

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:41:45AM +0800, ronggui wrote: I try to use zh_CN.UTF-8 as locales, but the FAT3 data can not display correctly. When I use zh_CN.EUC as locale, things get better, but not all the Chinese characters display correctly. In terms of UTF-8 support, Linux seems better

Re: Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:24:47 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Brent Jones wrote: Good morning - After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your ports? If you have all the compat*x libraries installed you might not need to. But if you don't, things will use the

Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:32:51 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: I haven't seen a single bit of flash in months on any of my desktops. Would youtube make me more productive? Possibly, but I have to doubt it... I'm sure this is message is classified as productive. -- Mel

Re: php failing

2007-09-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uname -a localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE#0: Thu Aug 30 13:20:27 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VIL i386 I have been using apache, PHP and mysql for years with no problems. I just suffered a computer crash and my backup failed, so I had to

Portsnap and Internet2 (for lack of a better term)

2007-09-18 Thread Brent Jones
Good morning - Are there any portsnap mirrors that are hosted on research/education sites that are connected to Internet2 (or its various names)? Portsnap.freebsd.org, and the mirrors 1 though 4 all seem to be on standard commodity Internet sites. (Trying to avoid bandwidth charges). Many CVSUP

BTX panic and crash when USB disk is present (6.2-RELEASE)

2007-09-18 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP I just purchased a nice outboard USB 2.0 drive and, well, I'd like to leave that drive plugged in while I reboot my machine. However, when I do so, BTX panics and spews all over the

Re: mixer levels on boot

2007-09-18 Thread Harry Doyle
hi guys, i've tried a couple suggestions, but nothing is working for me. here is a few things from the console that might be helpful. no xwindows on this machine, it's just a base freebsd network install with only the necessary packages installed to do the audio stuff it needs to do. radio#

End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-18 Thread Charles Bacon
I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next

Re: mixer levels on boot

2007-09-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 23:18:23 Harry Doyle wrote: when i issue /etc/rc.d/mixer stop then reboot, the mixer shows set to 7:7, but then it still clips like it does on 90. then i set mixer to 7 and it says setting mixer fro 90 to 7. i am thinking that /etc/rc.d/mixer gets invoked

Re: mixer levels on boot

2007-09-18 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:18:23 -0300 Harry Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, i've tried a couple suggestions, but nothing is working for me. here is a few things from the console that might be helpful. no xwindows on this machine, it's just a base freebsd network install with only the

Test

2007-09-18 Thread EaRSHoT
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Re: Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Brent Jones wrote: Good morning - After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your ports? Yes (as with any major release upgrade). Old binaries will continue to work, but if you ever plan to compile a new port you will have to rebuild your existing ports first, because

graphviz: stuck with Undefined symbol problem

2007-09-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Running doxygen from a makefile I get a lot of messages like the following ones: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gd.so.4: Undefined symbol gd_alternate_fontlist Problems running dot: exit code=1, command='dot', arguments='xxx__incl.dot -Tpng -o xxx__incl.png'

hardware reality check - server

2007-09-18 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... some input about this hardware on fbsd 6.2 would be appreciated. just would like to know if anybody has tried successfully something like this before: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 Processor

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-18 Thread Jay Chandler
kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... some input about this hardware on fbsd 6.2 would be appreciated. just would like to know if anybody has tried successfully something like this before: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core

Your Message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-18 Thread Order Desk
Your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been received. Please keep in mind that the average order is processed in three days if all of the necessary information is in place. The average shipping time for domestic ground service is three to five days. The average shipping time for international

Re: Test

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, EaRSHoT wrote: tets Read The Friendly Handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL begin quote Note: If you wish to test your ability to send to FreeBSD lists, send a test message to freebsd-test. Please do not

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-18 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you