Re: gmirror / crash dumps

2009-07-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Philip M. Gollucci pgollu...@p6m7g8.comwrote: Hi, Say I've got the following: /dev/mirror/gm0s1bnoneswapsw /dev/mirror/gm0s1a989M390M520M43%/ /dev/mirror/gm0s1g 15G1.7G 12G13%/usr

Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Daniel Underwood
Can anyone suggest a fast graphical web browser? I use Firefox (because every page displays well and I can sync bookmarks), and I also use elinks (when graphics don't matter). I'm looking for some middle ground, a browser that can display most sites well but is faster (or more lightweight) than

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:32:49 -0400 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone suggest a fast graphical web browser? Opera. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgptocbRDDx3X.pgp

Recovering Trashed Filesystems

2009-07-31 Thread Crist J. Clark
I have two file systems in very sad shape that I would like to retrieve some files from. I've net booted the sick box and can access the two bad UFSs. One file system, the root file system, isn't too bad off. However, the usr directory is messed up. I can do, # ls .cshrc boot

freebsd-update question.

2009-07-31 Thread doug
Embarrassingly simple actually. I configured a new server from a 7.0 CD I made a while back, brought the system to 7.1 the regular way and ran freebsd-update. The embarrassing part is I took little note of the fetch output other than 24 files were updated. Can I find out which 24? As always,

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 30 July 2009 23:14:39 PJ wrote: But isn't it strange that it used to be pretty simple to upgrade and update. But recently, I notice that communication between the developers and users (or is it the manual page writers) are getting far away from the realities of user/operational

Re: gmirror / crash dumps

2009-07-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:46:32AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Philip M. Gollucci pgollu...@p6m7g8.comwrote: Hi, Say I've got the following: /dev/mirror/gm0s1bnoneswapsw /dev/mirror/gm0s1a989M390M520M43%/

Where have all the vnodes gone?

2009-07-31 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
With the last few releases, I've noticed a distinct trend toward disappearing vnodes on one of the machines I look after. This machine isn't doing a whole lot. It runs a couple of small web sites, and once an hour it rsync's some files from one NFS mount to another, but the rsync doesn't stay

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:55:53 +0200, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:32:49 -0400 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone suggest a fast graphical web browser? Opera. Traditionally, I would have suggested Opera too, because it has been my favourite

Re: Recovering Trashed Filesystems

2009-07-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:46:50 -0700, Crist J. Clark cristcl...@comcast.net wrote: But if I try look at the files (directories), # ls -l ls: lib: Bad file descriptor ls: usr: Bad file descriptor ls: var: Bad file descriptor Same here - allthough on a much more important place - my

Re: 7.2 RELEASE ? Buggy as hell

2009-07-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:19:14 -0800, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: That is very weird, since most of the community regards the 5.x series as the worst in FreeBSD's history. Until it completely destroyed itself, I had a 5.4-p? running at my home machine without

Re: Recovering Trashed Filesystems

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:46:50PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: I have two file systems in very sad shape that I would like to retrieve some files from. I've net booted the sick box and can access the two bad UFSs. One file system, the root file system, isn't too bad off. However, the usr

gmirror on different disks

2009-07-31 Thread Grzegorz Danecki
Hello everybody! I'm just wondering, I had gmirror with two disks: Master: ad0 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II Master: ad2 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II unfortunately ad0 failed today, leaving me with degraded array and ad0 offline. I did # gmirror forget gm0, then shutdown, ad0 was

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Riegler
Give Midori a try. Of course it's a young project and maybe there are not all of the features of Firefox or Opera, but Midori is lightweight and really fast. It's based on WebKit, so there should be no problem with standard conform websites. Wolfgang

Difficulty in installing ncurses.

2009-07-31 Thread michael green
7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD. I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which expects a terminfo database. I did this: # cd /usr/src/contrib/ncurses [Enter] # ./configure [Enter] The last line of output is config.status: error: cannot

Re: Difficulty in installing ncurses.

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:20:27AM +, michael green wrote: 7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD. I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which expects a terminfo database. You don't have to install it. It is already installed because it is

Re: gmirror on different disks

2009-07-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Grzegorz Danecki g.dane...@gmail.comwrote: Hello everybody! I'm just wondering, I had gmirror with two disks: Master: ad0 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II Master: ad2 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II unfortunately ad0 failed today, leaving me with degraded

Re: UFS2 tuning for heterogeneous 4TB file system

2009-07-31 Thread b. f.
On 7/26/09, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: The file system in question will not have a common file size (which is what, as I understand, bytes per inode should be tuned for). There will be many small files ( 10 KB) and

NFS-client - RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure (7.2)

2009-07-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to get a FreeBSD 7.2-machine (amd64) to talk to a NetApp filer using NFS. Basic network connetivity, i.e. ping, ssh etc. between the two is there, but I can't mount the respective directory from the Netapp. Here's what I get when I try to mount: # mount_nfs -i -T

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Daniel Underwood
Furthermore, there's lots of stuff now bundled with the Opera web browser that I (personally) found no use for, such as a mail client, IRC client, torrent client, and some other stuff that could easily be called bloatware. Yeah, I share your take on Opera. Give Midori a try. Of course it's

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:47:11 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: versions, I saw it getting... hmmm... how do I tell best? It's getting more slower in overall handling, and it often stops working completely (several seconds) I have not noticed such behaviour yet. problem with Firefox.

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Daniel Underwood
I would use Opera as an alternative to Firefox. If I can find a way to sync bookmarks across Opera browsers, I'll give it a try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Daniel Underwood
I would use Opera as an alternative to Firefox.  If I can find a way to sync bookmarks across Opera browsers, I'll give it a try. I didn't realize Opera has built-in synchronization. That's pretty nice. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Not recognizing raid controller Adaptec AIC7901

2009-07-31 Thread enid vx
Hi all, I'm having some problems installing FreeBSD 6.3 on my machine equipped with : Single channel Adaptec® AIC-7901 controller for Ultra320 SCSI Host RAID 0, 1, 10 support I have 4 disks which are configured in 2 Raid1, the problem is when I try to install FreeBSd from the installer cd, it

Re: Not recognizing raid controller Adaptec AIC7901

2009-07-31 Thread Jason
You may want to try using the Adaptec drivers from Adaptec, and not the native freebsd drivers. Edit /boot/loader.conf, and that may be it. I've found great success with them. -jgh On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:39:56PM +0200, enid vx thus spake: Hi all, I'm having some problems installing

amd64 and sysinstall weirdness

2009-07-31 Thread Len Conrad
Dell PE 1950 FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 boot from disc01 into sysinstall, do our regular setup, reboot, and df shows only / and /devfs. f stab has /usr and /var missing. so we go into sysinstall, slices are correct: Disk name: mfid0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote: What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot sector screwed up? I forgot to mention that

Windows 2008 + AD + PF + bridge = problems?

2009-07-31 Thread markham roan
Has anyone used Windows 2008 and active directory with a bridging, NATing firewall between the domain controller and the 2008 machine? We're in a situation where we're trying to join a domain with a 2008 machine, and no matter what we do to the firewall, joining stalls and fails. DC: Windows

Re: amd64 and sysinstall weirdness

2009-07-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: Dell PE 1950 FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 boot from disc01 into sysinstall, do our regular setup, reboot, and df shows only / and /devfs. f stab has /usr and /var missing. so we go into sysinstall, slices are correct:

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:36:23PM -0400, PJ wrote: Thanks for replying Roland, I've been struggling with upgrading 7.0 to 7.2... it has taken a lot of my time and I am still not happy. snip Anyway... back to the messed up 7.1 installation. I ran livefs 7.1 and chose option 6 (I think; it was

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote: What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot sector screwed up? I forgot to mention that

Re: Windows 2008 + AD + PF + bridge = problems?

2009-07-31 Thread Reko Turja
Has anyone used Windows 2008 and active directory with a bridging, NATing firewall between the domain controller and the 2008 machine? We're in a situation where we're trying to join a domain with a 2008 machine, and no matter what we do to the firewall, joining stalls and fails. Haven't used

Re: Windows 2008 + AD + PF + bridge = problems?

2009-07-31 Thread markham roan
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Reko Turja reko.tu...@liukuma.net wrote: Has anyone used Windows 2008 and active directory with a bridging, NATing firewall between the domain controller and the 2008 machine? We're in a situation where we're trying to join a domain with a 2008 machine, and no

Document iso compression suggestion

2009-07-31 Thread Nathen
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct email address to use for this suggestion but anyway, I thought you would like to know I managed to compress the iso '7.2-RELEASE-amd64-docs.iso' at 294MB down to just 21.2MB by using 7-zip's ultra compression method - this could help you to conserve

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:36:23PM -0400, PJ wrote: Thanks for replying Roland, I've been struggling with upgrading 7.0 to 7.2... it has taken a lot of my time and I am still not happy. snip Anyway... back to the messed up 7.1 installation. I ran livefs 7.1

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:12:21PM -0400, PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote: What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the

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Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Basically, the news is not good. The directories files are not what I had to begin with. ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied. Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across something like that. What do

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:12:21PM -0400, PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote: What can be

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:04:22 +0200, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:47:11 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: versions, I saw it getting... hmmm... how do I tell best? It's getting more slower in overall handling, and it often stops working completely

Re: Windows 2008 + AD + PF + bridge = problems?

2009-07-31 Thread Reko Turja
Do you happen to have contact information for this team? Sadly no, I just reported the perceived bug via Vista beta bug reporting - can't remember if that was from the OS itself or from the web, and got pretty fast reply and tech savvy responder from there. -Reko

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Basically, the news is not good. The directories files are not what I had to begin with. ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied. Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Basically, the news is not good. The directories files are not what I had to begin with. ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied. Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:15:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:04:22 +0200, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net wrote: I never get the argument about 'bloatware' when it comes to Opera. Only for newer versions. I found the older versions a bit easier to configure, especially

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:10:49AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Perfect, yes! Midori is precisely what I need! Many thanks. I use Midori as a backup browser sometimes, but be aware that it's pretty buggy, and interface design could use a little help. -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:36 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:15:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Firefox even seems to lack a key to quit the program. :-) That's easy. Just press Ctrl+Q and it'll close Firefox immediately. Negative for

AP#1 on Phy#1 : The reason on my system

2009-07-31 Thread Manish Jain
Hi, A long time back, I had reported getting AP#1 on Phy#1 error messages and boot failure on my amd64 system. After many tests, I am convinced the problem occurs only if a USB mouse is plugged in at boot-time. A few days back, I finally got a USB-to-PS2 converter and hooked my mouse into

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread Gardner Bell
Gardner Bell --- On Fri, 7/31/09, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: From: PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file system To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:44 PM PJ wrote: Roland

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:10:07PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:36 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: That's easy. Just press Ctrl+Q and it'll close Firefox immediately. Negative for firefox-2.0.0.12,1 (on my desktop system) - no Ctrl+Q. :-) I don't