Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-05-31 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt the system was

Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm having trouble getting an audio cd to make any (pleasant) noise (9.0 release). The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works ok -- playing from a file works. cdcontrol eject (works) cdcontrol info (displays reasonable TOC) cdcontrol play (returns to prompt but I

Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-05-31 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I've been

Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-05-31 Thread Joe Gain
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com

Re: mercurial (hg) transaction abort!

2012-05-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:40:00PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:08:07PM +0200, uki wrote: Did you try to hg clone -U and than update? Mozilla repo is quite big, and that _might_ be the reason, splitting the work in 2 parts will help if that was the cause.

Re: mercurial (hg) transaction abort!

2012-05-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:47:06AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:40:00PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:08:07PM +0200, uki wrote: Did you try to hg clone -U and than update? Mozilla repo is quite big, and that _might_ be the

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org. The message you got about

fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread dmitry
Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local, read-only) Launched with these parameters and this is what gives ftp # fsck

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:19:33 +0400, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local,

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works ok -- playing from a file works. You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How actually is one supposed to mount audio CDs? They're _audio_ CD format, no ISO-9660 file system on

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/31/2012 12:19 PM, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local, read-only) Could you copy

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs=YES (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:19:33 +0400, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp

FreeBSD9 fails to install on HP Proliant (crash)

2012-05-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD9 (64bit) on a HP Proliant server (ProLiant DL385 G1). Installation is done via remote-management (iLO) basically by mounting the Installation-ISO. However a couple of seconds after booting the box crashes. Here's what I tried already: o) Re-download the

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:56:02 pm Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been

Re: Hardware compatability question

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, it's not really about the machines but more the hardware. FreeBSD is quite diverse in what it can run on so best bet check the HCL's off the www.freebsd.org website as that would give you the best idea! Otherwise just install and see what works and doesn't. FreeBSD is pretty comprehensive

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network or something because I don't believe it can write through

Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Oscar Hodgson
The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better place to be asking this question ... We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays with ZFS. In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
If this is any consellation I run a 36TB cluster using a self built server with a Promise DAS (VessJBOD 1840) using ZFS at home! to support my OpenSource projects and personal files. As for OS take your pick: NexentaStor, FreeBSD, Solaris 11 All capable, of course Solaris has latest version of

How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
hello, world\n so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5: ST1000LM 024 HN-M101MBB Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:11:11 am Mark Felder wrote: So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Oscar Hodgson
That helps. Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so much, and the Oracle single-tier support model simply isn't affordable for

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Oscar Hodgson oscar.hodg...@gmail.com wrote: That helps.  Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment.  We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put Solaris in front of students.  Oracle,

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Victor Sudakov
Warren Block wrote: I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs=YES (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really need to? Is anything

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against Linux + fuse ZFS. On 31 May 2012, at 18:05, Oscar Hodgson oscar.hodg...@gmail.com wrote: That helps. Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. We had a great relationship

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against Linux + fuse ZFS. Yes I agree; as far as I understand ZFS in Linux is still in testing and in any case not part of the Linux kernel which means

Re: editors/libreoffice:internal build errors: ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice/work/libreoffice-core-3.5.2.2/vcl/prj

2012-05-31 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:12:17 +0200 Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: HO I found myself incapable of rebuilding/updating editors/libreoffice HO on ALL FreeBSD 9-STABLE and FreeBSD 10-CURRENT (amd64) platforms HO with the very same error message as shown below. I ran into the

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
I'm doing this with HP heads, LSI SAS adapters, and http://www.dataonstorage.com/ JBODs. Note: the DataOn JBODs are very, very hard to get right now because these are really rebadged LSI devices and LSI sold this division to NetApp, who promptly shut it down to prevent people like us from

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Oscar Hodgson wrote: The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better place to be asking this question ... We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays with ZFS.

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 31 May 2012, at 17:57, Jens Schweikhardt schwe...@schweikhardt.net wrote: hello, world\n so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works ok -- playing from a file works. You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How actually is one supposed to mount audio CDs? They're _audio_

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Oscar Hodgson wrote: That helps. Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so much, and the Oracle

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Kaya Saman wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Oscar Hodgson oscar.hodg...@gmail.com wrote: That helps.  Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment.  We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5:ST1000LM 024 HN-M101MBB

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 12:26:21 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works ok -- playing from a file works. You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Oscar Hodgson
The thought never crossed my mind. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against Linux + fuse ZFS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 12:56, Polytropon wrote: This functionality is not present on modern boards anymore. Also note it's not digital. It's analog. GND plus two channels. Audio transmission using the 40/80 pin (P)ATA cable would have been digital. Thanks for the correction, I thought I knew that.

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5:ST1000LM 024 HN-M101MBB

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:43:27 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/31/12 12:56, Polytropon wrote: Still, there _is_ a way of a workaround which is so ugly and partially stupid that I fear to mention it. You need a cable, 2 x 3.5mm stereo jack, which you connect from the front connector of

HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. hp-probe finds it: #hp-probe -bnet HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 ... Device URI Model Name

Re: Corrections to: unable to upgrade to mysql55-server

2012-05-31 Thread Gene
On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:18:25 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote On 30/05/2012 17:57, Gene wrote: I've been trying to install the port databases/mysql55-server, updating from the older 5.4 version. mysql55-client installed just fine. However, when I make the '-server' port I get the errors

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 31, 2012 11:24:41 AM -0700, Dennis Glatting is alleged to have said: 2) Under heavy I/O my systems freeze for a few seconds. I haven't looked into why but they are completely unresponsive. Note I am also using compressed volumes (gzip), which puts a substantual load on the kernel.

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
From Gary Aitken a...@dreamchaser.org : I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. hp-probe finds it: #hp-probe -bnet HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 ... Device URI Model

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 19:27 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of May 31, 2012 11:24:41 AM -0700, Dennis Glatting is alleged to have said: 2) Under heavy I/O my systems freeze for a few seconds. I haven't looked into why but they are completely unresponsive. Note I am also using compressed

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Warren Block wrote: I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs=YES (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5: ST1000LM 024 HN-M101MBB Fixed

MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I built FrfeeBSD 9 with WITHOUT_CLANG=Yes When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. If I define this in make.conf, I get an error that the user may not set this. If I use 'make MK_CLANG_IS_CC=no' the port compiles. How do I fix this?

Re: (no subject)

2012-05-31 Thread Eitan Adler
On 29 May 2012 20:06, phnxcs_...@lycos.com wrote:    Hello,   I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability   concerns.  Below are the machines I use and would like to know which   version of FreeBSD will work best with each.  The computer s are used   at home and away,

Re: editors/libreoffice:internal build errors: ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice/work/libreoffice-core-3.5.2.2/vcl/prj

2012-05-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-05-31 19:35, Jens Jahnke skrev: Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:12:17 +0200 Hartmann, O.ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: HO I found myself incapable of rebuilding/updating editors/libreoffice HO on ALL FreeBSD 9-STABLE and FreeBSD 10-CURRENT (amd64) platforms HO with the very same