malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Hi FreeBSD community We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files 1mDESCRIPTION0m The 1mtar 22marchive format collects any number of files,

lxde

2009-12-04 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
hello, I installed the lxde-meta in a new FreeBSD 8.0 i386 machine, but when I start it (via exec startlxde in ~.xinitrc) only a black desktop appears with no panel or menu bars. Right-clicking on the desktop a *very* minimal menu appears (basically containing xterm, firefox and the file

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi, On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. What is the base FreeBSD version? Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files

strange samba issue

2009-12-04 Thread Graeme Dargie
Hi List I have encountered a problem with samba and I cant seem to find a solution to it. I re-installed my 3 BSD servers over the last week and am now running 8.0 amd 64. I`ll use the machine names as it will make it less confusing to explain, Proteus AMD64 3500+ 4GB 3 x 500GB

Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). My current system is alive since 2005, so is full of code, scripts,

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Frank Wissmann
Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). Well, you know that i386 is Intel, do you? It

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Achilleas Mantzios mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). My current

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Robert Huff
Frank Wissmann writes: i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). b) migrate all current data to the new hardware, kernel/system included, and then try to upgrade to

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi, On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. What is the base FreeBSD version? FreeBSD 7.2 Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m

recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i can't get to boot? the situation is described below. (i'm assuming, given the silence on this, that making the system work after the freebsd-update is a lost cause.) On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Mace
Thanks to all for your detailed and informative replies to my questions. I have many new things to try out. I can't speak for anyone else, but long posts don't bother me. I hope we've clarified things for you. Welcome to FreeBSD! Thanks. Its good to be here! -Richard

FreeBSD 8.0 not detecting hot swap drive insertion

2009-12-04 Thread Rob
I'm running a 10 hot-swap SATA disk ZFS pool and recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8. Since I upgraded, freebsd isn't spinning up or recognizing a new drive that is inserted. In freebsd 7.[0,2], I could remove a drive and insert a new one and freebsd would recognize it, spin it up, and create

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 not detecting hot swap drive insertion

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Polyack
Rob wrote: I'm running a 10 hot-swap SATA disk ZFS pool and recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8. Since I upgraded, freebsd isn't spinning up or recognizing a new drive that is inserted. In freebsd 7.[0,2], I could remove a drive and insert a new one and freebsd would recognize it, spin it up,

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 not detecting hot swap drive insertion

2009-12-04 Thread Rob
I don't have any /dev/ada* devices, so I assume I'm using the original ata driver. I haven't done any kernel customization, and am running the distribution's kernel (upgraded with the freebsd-update tool). Does the older driver no longer detect drive insertion? Rob Steve Polyack wrote:

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:02:41 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. What is the base FreeBSD version?

GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).

2009-12-04 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, I have installed my laptop with FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 first (now I'm on 8.0-Release-p1) and in dmesg I got this error message : GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). I have search on the Web about the method to resolv this, but I haven't found anything that helps me.

Wireless network control

2009-12-04 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this. currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any real connections. My home network uses WPA2 encryption so i use the wpa-supplicant to set that up,

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Thanx to all. I will keep the old machine for development/maintenance/support, while bulding/testing/migrating the newest versions of software in the new hardware. Up to now, i got the base system/kernel working ok on the new beast, and currently installing additional distributions. All seem

PF binat rule issue - feature or bug?

2009-12-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
Using 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386 with GENERIC kernel, I've found (the hard way) that if I have a pf.conf rule like nat on $ext_if proto { tcp udp icmp } from $my_subnet \ to any - some.public.ip.num then pfctl will perform the expected expansion of the listed protocols into three separate NAT

Re: Wireless network control

2009-12-04 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this. currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any real connections. My home network uses WPA2 encryption so i use the

SMP and ALTQ_NOPCC

2009-12-04 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, With the improvements in SMP in FreeBSD 8.0, is the ALTQ_NOPCC option still required? In the handbook and other older documentation, it says ALTQ_NOPCC is in fact required on SMP systems because the TSC is unstable. I was wondering if this is still the case after the improvements done with

Setting devfs rules inside jail

2009-12-04 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
Hi, I'm trying to setup CUPS (in a jail) using an old parallel port printer on my server machine. I used ezjail to create a jail and the installed CUPS within it. I've got everything up and running, but i've had to work around some issues. Initially, the CUPS administration website didn't

Re: Wireless network control

2009-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:05:47PM +, Ricardo Jesus wrote: Sean Cavanaugh wrote: I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this. currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any

Re: Last login message

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Schaefer
On 04.12.2009 00:16, Nerius Landys wrote: I was wondering what controls this, meaning if I get an IP or a hostname, and why it's being truncated. don't know about the truncating, but this behavior of displaying the last login time and host is handled by pam_lastlog(8). i guess the FQHN is just

8.0 zfs install

2009-12-04 Thread William Taylor
Does the installer in 8.0 support zfs? If not whats the easiest way to get a full zfs install done? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i can't get to boot? the situation is described below. If they were indeed mirrored then try a FreeBSD live distro boot CD and boot into that then just mount one of the disk

Re: 8.0 zfs install

2009-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
William Taylor wrote: Does the installer in 8.0 support zfs? No. If not whats the easiest way to get a full zfs install done? http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS and links referenced from that page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7

Re: 8.0 zfs install

2009-12-04 Thread pete wright
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM, William Taylor willi...@corp.sonic.net wrote: Does the installer in 8.0 support zfs? If not whats the easiest way to get a full zfs install done? This is probably the best place to start, in general the FreeBSD handbook is the best place to start looking for

Re: recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net wrote: On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i can't get to boot? the situation is described below. If they were indeed mirrored then try a FreeBSD live distro

Is there the equivalent of a Windows fast format for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Steele
I suspect I know the answer to this question but I'll ask it anyway. We're dealing with some very large disks (11TB raid array) and a newfs operation takes a significant time. Is there any way to get a volume formatted faster than the typical newfs does?

Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD

2009-12-04 Thread Al Plant
James Phillips wrote: Hello, After making two coasters with a graphical CD burning program using Ubuntu, I decided to try using FreeBSD: I want to start backing up to DVD anyway. After some searching I learned I missed some details in the handbook on the first and second reads such as:

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: Hi FreeBSD community We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files 1mDESCRIPTION0m

Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
I had a working Xorg config, and everything was fine. Then my monitors crapped out. I got new ones and installed them. No I have no mouse and no keyboard in Xorg. I've tried disabling hald and dbus and manually configuring them. That doesn't work either. What sort of troubleshooting steps do

Re: recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Modulok
You might try freesbie. It's not a fixit shell, it's a full FreeBSD on a live CD. I've had better luck with it in the past than the fixit shell. Worth a shot. -Modulok- On 12/4/09, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net wrote: On Fri, 04 Dec

Re: Is there the equivalent of a Windows fast format for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: I suspect I know the answer to this question but I'll ask it anyway. We're dealing with some very large disks (11TB raid array) and a newfs operation takes a significant time. Is there any way to get a volume formatted

FreeBSD 8 portinstall gnome2 failure

2009-12-04 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello, BSD friends, After installing FreeBSD 8 (successful), I was unable to install gnome2. (from ports) Error was : I0 Error: [Errno 28] No space left on device. gmake [2] : *** [Gtk-2.0.gir] Error 1 I did found out, I had to empty .cache in root dir about 5/6 times though. When the install

ep(4) after upgrade to 8.0

2009-12-04 Thread Robert Maerzke
I updated one of my old servers to freebsd 8.0. After the upgrade my Etherlink III card will not allow connections into or out of the server. If I run tcpdump for a few seconds then everything works. I ran CVSUP twice to update to RELENG_8_0 and followed the source update procedure 3 times.

Re: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Colin Albert
Paul Schmehl wrote: I had a working Xorg config, and everything was fine. Then my monitors crapped out. I got new ones and installed them. No I have no mouse and no keyboard in Xorg. I've tried disabling hald and dbus and manually configuring them. That doesn't work either. What sort of

Samba3 - error during compile

2009-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Upon compiling samba3 (/usr/ports/net/samba3) from source I ran into the following error: -- Cut here -- . . . Compiling passdb/machine_sid.c Compiling locking/locking.c locking/locking.c: In function 'unparse_share_modes':

Use of COMPAT Kernel Options

2009-12-04 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, I'm working on editing the kernel configuration file for a custom kernel. The system will be running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1. I'm wondering about the use of the COMPAT options in the kernel config. COMPAT_43 COMPAT_43TTY COMPAT_FREEBSD[4-7] I'm not aware of any software I use which

Re: Use of COMPAT Kernel Options

2009-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:39:59PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm working on editing the kernel configuration file for a custom kernel. The system will be running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1. I'm wondering about the use of the COMPAT options in the kernel config. COMPAT_43 Well,

RE: Is there the equivalent of a Windows fast format for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Steele
Okay, thanks for the reply. I know where I need to go from here... -Original Message- From: Maxim Khitrov [mailto:mkhit...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:23 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there the equivalent of a Windows fast format

Re: Use of COMPAT Kernel Options

2009-12-04 Thread Gardner Bell
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: From: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Subject: Re: Use of COMPAT Kernel Options To: APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 9:52 PM On Fri, Dec 04, 2009

Re: Use of COMPAT Kernel Options

2009-12-04 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Gardner Bell gbel...@rogers.com wrote: --- On Fri, 12/4/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: From: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Subject: Re: Use of COMPAT Kernel Options To: APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:07:41 +0100 Frank Wissmann frank.wissman...@web.de wrote: Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new

Where's Snapshots and pub.allbsd.org

2009-12-04 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, Anybody on the FreeBSD list know what has happened to the snapshots that have not been available on FreeBSD.org since last Sept.? Also what happened to pub.allbsd.org snapshots? Are there new URL's for current and daily snapshots to test? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone:

Re: PF binat rule issue - feature or bug?

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:41:20AM -0600, Greg Barniskis wrote: Using 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386 with GENERIC kernel, I've found (the hard way) that if I have a pf.conf rule like nat on $ext_if proto { tcp udp icmp } from $my_subnet \ to any - some.public.ip.num then pfctl will perform the

Re: Use of COMPAT Kernel Options

2009-12-04 Thread Gardner Bell
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com wrote: From: APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Use of COMPAT Kernel Options To: Gardner Bell gbel...@rogers.com Cc: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl, FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday,

RE: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Colin Albert Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 3:29 PM Cc: 'Free BSD Questions list' Subject: Re: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard Have you tried adding

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:27:48PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I heard somewhere that you can mount a dump as an ISO9660 filesystem, but I cannot find any Google answers on this subject. I took my dump in the following fashion: dump -0Lan -C 16 -f - /usr | gzip -2 |

Re: Last login message

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:16:54PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: When I ssh to my FreeBSD machine, I get something like this: Last login: Thu Dec 3 15:12:40 2009 from 11.22.33.44 Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California.

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-04 Thread Nerius Landys
Your dump is just a regular file sitting on a hard drive with a file system that's already mounted. If you created an on-disk ISO image of that file, you'd have to mount the file system of that ISO image to read the file. If you burned the ISO image to a CD, you'd mount the CD's file system

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:50:43PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: Either way, the file remains just a file, and is read using restore(8). [snip] All I really want to do is take my dump file and see the files inside it, and do things with those files such as copy or md5sum (not edit). And I

x86info port complains cpuid driver not present

2009-12-04 Thread Steven Friedrich
WARNING: Detected SMP, but unable to access cpuid driver. Used Uniprocessor CPU routines. Results inaccurate. I then installed port cpuid-3.3_5, but it still complains. I saw that x86info needs devcpu and devcpu-data. When I tried to install devcpu, it said it was already in the base system.

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-04 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:09:22 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Good. Except that in FreeBSD land you are talking about a slice table. To carry things forward consistently, the partition table is within a slice and describes FreeBSD partitions a..h (and more now I

Re: binary upgrade 6.1 - 7.2/8.0

2009-12-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:01:04PM +, Robin Becker wrote: Is it feasible to upgrade a system from 6.1 to 7.2 or 8.0-RC1 and if yes what sequence of upgrades should I actually carry out ie is it feasible to do 6.1-6.2 and then 6.2 - 7.2 or should it be done in small steps? I didn't see

RE: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Michael L. Squires
I had to add the following when moving from Xorg 6 to 7 since moused no longer manages the mouse - hald and dbus do: In /etc/rc.conf # X11 7.4 #moused_enable=YES moused_enable=NO hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES which turns on hald and dbus. Mike Squires

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 13

2009-12-04 Thread James Phillips
Sorry about that (accidentally quoted most the Digest (issue 12) in a reply). Need to start using a real email client :( -james. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

Re: freebsd 6.4 can't load kernel after upgrade

2009-12-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:04:55AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: oscar Seo wrote: I'm a beginner in freebsd. my machine consists of freebsd-6.4 + i386 bootstrap loader,+ windowmaker after upgrade freebsd-6.4 using sysinstall then reboot the system, I got an error message as follows

tty problem after upgrade to 8.0

2009-12-04 Thread Jay Hall
Ladies and Gentlemen, I completed the upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0 this afternoon and have an error plaguing me that I cannot solve. When the system is booted, I am receiving the following error. Dec 5 20:43:30 getty[902]: open /dev/ttyd0: No such file or directory However, when I run ps -ax |

RE: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 4, 2009 8:10:08 PM -0600 Michael L. Squires mi...@siralan.org wrote: I had to add the following when moving from Xorg 6 to 7 since moused no longer manages the mouse - hald and dbus do: In /etc/rc.conf # X11 7.4 # moused_enable=YES moused_enable=NO hald_enable=YES

Re: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: As I mentioned in a previous post, I have tried it both with and without hald and dbus. Nothing works. moused_enable=NO is already set in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so setting it in /etc/rc.conf won't change anything.

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-04 Thread Nerius Landys
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:50:43PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: Either way, the file remains just a file, and is read using restore(8). [snip] All I really want to do is take my dump file and see the files inside it, and do things with those files such as copy or md5sum (not edit).  And

Upgrade problem 6.1 - 6.4

2009-12-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
I wanted to upgrade to 8.0 to take advantage of the USB code. I've run in to a compile problem going grom 6.1 to 6.2.0. I've copied sys/dev/twa from 7.0 in to the source of 6.2. Without this source it will not boot. # uname -a FreeBSD Server1.lan 6.1-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p20 #0: Wed

Re: Upgrade problem 6.1 - 6.4

2009-12-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Alex de Kruijff free...@akruijff.dds.nlwrote: I wanted to upgrade to 8.0 to take advantage of the USB code. I've run in to a compile problem going grom 6.1 to 6.2.0. I've copied sys/dev/twa from 7.0 in to the source of 6.2. Without this source it will not

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: Hi FreeBSD community We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files

Re: Last login message

2009-12-04 Thread Nerius Landys
OK, I did some digging. Setting sshd_flags=-u 32 actually didn't change anything (and of course restarting sshd). I did have a look at this file though: /var/log/lastlog And I noticed that the truncated hostname is stored in that file. You can do a man lastlog or man utmp and it will indeed

Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD

2009-12-04 Thread James Phillips
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: From: Al Plant n...@hdk5.net Subject: Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD To: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Friday, December 4, 2009, 12:26 PM James Phillips wrote: SNIP! I

port math/mpfr update failure www.mpfr.org site seems to be down

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Mende
Hi List; portupgrade mpfr --- Upgrading 'mpfr-2.4.1_1' to 'mpfr-2.4.2' (math/mpfr) --- Building '/usr/ports/math/mpfr' === Cleaning for mpfr-2.4.2 === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/mpfr. = Attempting to

Re: Upgrade problem 6.1 - 6.4

2009-12-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:56:19PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Alex de Kruijff free...@akruijff.dds.nlwrote: I wanted to upgrade to 8.0 to take advantage of the USB code. I've run in to a compile problem going grom 6.1 to 6.2.0. I've copied sys/dev/twa

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Powell
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a patch exist? Uhmm, this may sound a little strange, but why not use the one included as part

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a patch exist? Uhmm, this may sound a little strange, but

which filrs/directories must be chowned bind?

2009-12-04 Thread Gary Kline
I've just finished getting % nslookup 10.47.0.230 to respond, so at least my test configuration is finally right ... or on the right track. I am not certain that I ever had things chowned bind:bind; even before my '07 meltdown. Now it's time to

Re: tty problem after upgrade to 8.0

2009-12-04 Thread Fbsd1
Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I completed the upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0 this afternoon and have an error plaguing me that I cannot solve. When the system is booted, I am receiving the following error. Dec 5 20:43:30 getty[902]: open /dev/ttyd0: No such file or directory However,

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 05), Sagara Wijetunga said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m--

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a patch exist?