user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-22 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link properly -- or at least it reports it as up (DSL led steady; modem status report shows it as up, rfc 148

package install problem on 9.0

2012-02-07 Thread Gary Aitken
Hi all, I installed 9-RELEASE on an SDD. Hadn't done one since 6.2 so the new install process was... different. Was surprised not to have the x-user type install scenario. Since the handbook install doc says to use sysinstall for ports and packages, I started up sysinstall and told it to i

package install problem on 9.0

2012-02-07 Thread Gary Aitken
Hi all, Apologies if this is a duplicate, first one had the wrong from addr. I installed 9-RELEASE on an SDD. Hadn't done one since 6.2 so the new install process was... different. Was surprised not to have the x-user type install scenario. Since the handbook install doc says to use sysins

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Aitken
I can't speak to the mirror issue, but I had difficulty trying to tweak the defaults in the install on a 128G SSD: When manually configuring the SSD, I tried to leave some extra space at the end of the SSD. Not sure that is necessary or not. In any case, I had a 128GB SSD, reported as 119GB.

ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-18 Thread Gary Aitken
Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd, but this info is over 2 years old and http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/in

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Gary Aitken
#x27;t cause it to exit? On 5/19/2012 8:00 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linu

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Thanks for the pointers and hints, I'm over that hurdle. On 5/19/2012 5:28 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: 3. The Xorg man page notes that should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why doesn't cause it to exit? Th

gimp 2.8?

2012-05-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Can anyone tell me the status of gimp 2.8 for FreeBSD? I just assumed it would be in the ports tree but I don't see it. Thanks, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

hard link identification

2012-05-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Is there any way to tell if something is a hard link, other than ls -i of relevant files and seeing that the inode is the same? or a better way? I was a bit confused when looking at /root/.cshrc and then discovering a .cshrc in / as well. Thanks, Gary ___

openoffice on 9.0

2012-05-22 Thread Gary Aitken
I was trying to pkg_add openoffice and it fails (file not found) when trying to fetch the openoffice.org tarball. 1. I'm assuming that since pkg_add looks for the tarball, it is supposed to exist. Is that a valid assumption? 2. Anyone know why the tarball isn't there? Should I be trying t

portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports

2012-05-22 Thread Gary Aitken
According to the handbook, one can do portsnap fetch portsnap update and the update will work with a previously created ports tree; I presume this includes one created during system install. However, when I attempted this, portsnap complained: /usr/ports was not created by portsnap. You m

Re: openoffice on 9.0 (JDK issues)

2012-05-23 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/22/12 14:45, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: The OpenOffice.org package is a big one and consumes a lot of bandwith. Therefore some may not be available. Try to build OpenOffice.org from ports. It takes time, be patient. ok, attempting that... After copying the jdk-6u3-fcs... files that it compla

Re: openoffice on 9.0 (JDK issues)

2012-05-23 Thread Gary Aitken
Never mind... Not sure how to get around the issue posted, but a portupdate solved the problem -- now building apache-oo instead of oo On 05/23/12 18:06, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/22/12 14:45, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: The OpenOffice.org package is a big one and consumes a lot of bandwith

multiple versions of pcre needed with pkgs and ports

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
I had an old version of ports and installed xorg and gnome2-lite using pkg_add. Then tried to build (make) openoffice-3. The make croaked with some missing java licensing files which were old. So... I updated the ports tree via portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap update Following

automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the build. How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended? I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. In particular, how does one configure a dependent port for the options

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
> I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. Check "man 7 ports". Doh. I'm blind. I've read that at least three times looking at other stuff. Makes sense now. Thanks especially because it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the U. S. :-) g... 5. It looks l

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/24/12 23:34, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:58 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 3. Do the package builds use the defaults set in the ports tree? If not, how are the options for packages chosen, and how does one determine

ghostscript build problem

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
My build of gnome2-lite failed building ghostscript. Went to ports/ghostscript and did make clean make install and I still get the same error. After make install attempt, work/ghostscript-9.05/epag-3.09 exists and has files with original dates, except ert.c gdevpag.c were freshly create

portupgrade ... doesn't

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
Has to be something stupid: 347 /usr/ports#pkg_version -v | grep updating p5-XML-Twig-3.39< needs updating (port has 3.40) 348 /usr/ports#portupgrade -Rv P5-XML-Twig ---> Session started at: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:03:54 -0600 [Exclude up-to-date packages done] ** None has be

ports build and synchronization issues

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
I've had a number of failures attempting to build things, but on several occasions builds have failed with what looks like may be threading / subprocess synchronization issues. I'm running 9.0-RELEASE on a 4-processor amd64 system w/ 16GB. For example, an attempt to build openoffice-3 failed bu

removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 281 /hd1/var#ls -l total 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 00:55 empty 282 /hd1/var#chflags noschg

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> something I'm not seeing >> >> I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. >> What's the key to removing /var/em

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/25/12 14:38, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > chflags noschg is your friend. Not in this case. If you look at the commands attempted, that was already tried (line 282) Topmost login had to be as root. > On Fri, 25 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> something I'm not seeing &

Re: ports build and synchronization issues

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
This was the result of a conflict with building another port at the same time, and is a known issue. See: http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#Parallelization_in_the_Ports_Collection On 05/25/12 12:16, Gary Aitken wrote: > I've had a number of failures attempting to build things, > but

[ports] why no libXXX after make install of libXXX?

2012-05-26 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm trying to install audacious, which depends on libmowgli. The port fails to build because of a missing library. Shouldn't the build of a library result in the library being placed in /usr/local/lib? cd multimedia/audacious make -v install results in: ... ===> libmcs-0.7.2_1 depends

Re: [ports] why no libXXX after make install of libXXX?

2012-05-26 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/26/12 14:03, Gary Aitken wrote: > I'm trying to install audacious, which depends on libmowgli. > The port fails to build because of a missing library. > Shouldn't the build of a library result in the library being placed in > /usr/local/lib? I notice that /var/

[ports] Need help for port which claims to install but doesn't; package installs ok

2012-05-27 Thread Gary Aitken
First, my apologies for previous posts which hijacked an existing thread. I thought changing the subject line was ok and had forgotten about in-reply-to. So my apologies for a repost; I've gotten no replies and am not sure others actually saw / processed it or just ignored because of the bad etiq

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean

mount refused, no journal

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
I mounted a previous system disk, cleaned everything off it using rm, then stuck a bunch of files on it. Used it for a day or so, including at least one shutdown -r then halted the system to swap a CD. Upon reboot, the system refuses to mount the drive: mount -o rw -t ufs /dev/ada0p2 /hd1 Fai

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
On 5/28/2012 3:08 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test logging in as root (real console login). If you use "su -" or "su root", the effect should be the same. You can always check the success of your operation

Re: mount refused, no journal (solved)

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
Not sure why it happened in the first place, but the failure to re-establish the journal using tunefs was a result of "su root" and not "su - root" On 05/28/12 14:34, Gary Aitken wrote: > I mounted a previous system disk, > cleaned everything off it using rm, > then

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/28/12 15:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 28 14:10:55 2012 >> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:05:45 -0600 >> From: Gary Aitken >> To: Polytropon >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: removing /var/e

Re: kde4 on 8.3 and laptop

2012-05-29 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. > > I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system > will not work as expected. > > when I type kdm (which is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm) > I get the expected login screen (however the

Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise

2012-05-30 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 h

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 suppose

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: Fixed Direct Access SCS

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.

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

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 17:59, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> From 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) >> P

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

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/01/12 10:51, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/31/12 17:59, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> From Gary Aitken : >> >>> I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. >> >>> hp-probe finds it: >> >>> #hp-probe -bnet >>

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

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/01/12 04:01, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > My goal is to get it recognized on one of the two USB3 ports I have. > All I get there is > Jun 1 11:43:45 hal9000 kernel: ugen4.2: at usbus4 > Jun 1 11:43:45 hal9000 kernel: umass0: 0/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus4 > and after 100 seconds: >

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

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 16:16, Polytropon wrote: > Impedance and level mismatch would be the typical reason > for this. But basically, it's not _much_ worse than using > an internal analog connection. Probably ok if you soldered it up so you didn't have the mismatch from crappy high impedance plug-in connec

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

2012-06-02 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/02/12 02:29, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > seems you like to incredibly complicated things. No, but it does seem like I did, hopefully unnecessarily... Thanks. > /usr/ports/print/hplip (make config and disable GUI trash) is enough. ... > printing works fine with this lpr filter > > #!/bin/sh >

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

2012-06-03 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/02/12 18:35, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:08:55 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> I've deinstalled cups and its dependencies and rebuilt only hpijs. > > You could have kept it installed (maybe some ports will want > it as a dependency), just disable i

umount device busy

2012-06-03 Thread Gary Aitken
Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find the answers to... I mounted a usb drive mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex Then, as nearly as I can remember... I then poked around a bit using the xfce4 browser. I tried to mkdir from the mount point as a normal

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-03 Thread Gary Aitken
on't have anything pointing at that drive. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1. What does the "No such file or directory" mean from mkdir? >> It's a relative dir name, and I'm sitting at a valid dir.On 06/03/12 09:24, >> Polytropon wrote: > On

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/03/12 20:59, Kaya Saman wrote: > this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 > things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. > >> Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS >> server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB d

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote: > Good idea. However, you can do efficient backups of "Windows" > data by using the "ntfsprogs" tools. This makes sure they can > even be read under non-"Windows" systems. I'll look into that. >>> if you are using xfce4, then you have most likely got gamin >

bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
According the the handbook, one should do the following to set up a new disk: 1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1 2 fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk 3 bsdlabel -B -w da1s1 auto #Label it. 4 bsdlabel -e da1s1 # Edit the bsdlabel just created and add any partitions. 5 mkdir -p /1 6 ne

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote: > gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for > new files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window > manager, which updates the user's desktop. The open makes the device in-use, > preventing an unmoun

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/04/12 02:28, Lars Eighner wrote: >>> This almost always means someone (i.e. you) is sitting in the directory. >>> If you tried this while su'ed and the un-su'ed you were still in the >>> directory /mnt/goflex, you'd get this message. This may also happen if >>> someone (i.e. you) is in the d

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/04/12 08:42, Polytropon wrote: >> In step #4, bsdlabel gives you a label with zeros for fsize, bsize, bps/cpg >> Is it necessary to fill these in, or is there a way to get some >> reasonable defaults? >> "newfs -N" will give you numbers for bsize and fsize, but what about bps/cpg? >> >> What

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/04/12 13:40, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:15:33 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> Can you tell me where any of this is documented? >> I can't find squat about gamin. >> no man page and no docs in the /usr/local tree > > Welcome to the realm of

Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
> I updated to xfce4.10 using amd64 packages and everything seems to work, > except for some reason "startxfce4" is missing but i can get it to > start fine by putting "exec xfce4-session" in my .xinitrc.. anyone else > experience this issue? %which startxfce4 /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 insta

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/04/12 14:26, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> According the the handbook, one should do the following to set up a new disk: >> >> 1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1 >> 2 fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk >>

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/04/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: > >>> What part of the Handbook? I would suggest using gpart(8), it makes GPT >>> partitions easy, and nasty old MBR partitions aren't any worse than with >>> fdisk/bsdlabel

mount failure

2012-06-06 Thread Gary Aitken
Running under X with xfce, just did this: gpart show -l da0 gpart delete -i 1 da0 gpart destroy da0 gpart create -s GPT da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da0 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 gpart add -t freebsd-

dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-07 Thread Gary Aitken
When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated there was no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now trying to build a backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate /var and /tmp. I had originally set the nodump flag on /tmp and /var, so my snapshot is em

prune ports tree?

2012-06-08 Thread Gary Aitken
Is it possible to specify that parts of the ports tree should never be used? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd

ran out of inodes on /var, recommended value?

2012-06-09 Thread Gary Aitken
I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size 512M. Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. Can anyone recommend an appropriate size for the newfs -i value? 1024? less? Thanks, Gary __

ports: make config-recursive doesn't really

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have installed from ports. I don't want to have to keep checking on it and filling out the appropriate check boxes for options. I naively assumed: for port in $ports do cd /usr/port/$port make config-recursive c

fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when running X? At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the kernel has to grab it before it gets passed on to X. _

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/10/12 10:47, Gary Aitken wrote: > What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when > running X? > At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now > it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the ke

[solved] Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Gary Aitken
ah... Thanks both Warren and Lars >>> What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when >>> running X? >>> At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and >>> now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something in the >>> kernel has to grab

mysqld startup issue

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Aitken
I've done the following after having a running system with a running mysql on it: moved user accounts, although no logical move: /usr/home/foo was => /hd1/foo now /usr/home => /hd1/home and /hd1/foo is now /hd1/home/foo repartitioned the SSD and restored the system from a dump taken prior to

[solved] Re: mysqld startup issue

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Aitken
Ugh. Operator error. I assumed from the docs there had to be a my.cnf file someplace, if only to serve as the system default; and that the my.cnf file was directing everything else. It turns out there doesn't have to be one anywhere. My thought process was hijacked by the errors produced from th

Re: mysqld startup issue

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/11/12 13:48, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Unfortunately, mysqld won't start: >> > [ sneck ] > >> 120611 10:55:52 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run >> mysql_upgrade to create it. > Have you tried doing what the error message _tells_ you to do ? nope, and yup nope, because t

USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-13 Thread Gary Aitken
I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd and saf

print woes

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Aitken
got my hp officejet 8500 connected to network working a while ago but now I notice the following: 1. Using gv, pdf files in portrait orientation print fine. pdf files in landscape orientation cause the printer to wake up but nothing prints. No errors in the log. Same behavior using lp or lpr

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/15/12 03:23, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first >> plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a >> usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat >> up on and it ma

Re: print woes

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/15/12 17:12, Gary Aitken wrote: > got my hp officejet 8500 connected to network working a while ago but now I > notice the following: > > 1. Using gv, pdf files in portrait orientation print fine. pdf files in > landscape orientation cause the printer to wake up but noth

Re: dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-16 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/16/12 10:19, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated there >> was no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now trying to >> build a backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate /var and /tmp. >> >> I had originally se

firefox build problem

2013-07-29 Thread Gary Aitken
just did a ports update, haven't done one for a few months. portmaster -w www/firefox craps out with: In file included from /usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla-release/gfx/2d/Blur.cp p:7: In file included from ../../dist/include/mozilla/gfx/Blur.h:12: ../../dist/include/mozilla/CheckedInt.h:179:3

x11-toolkits/open-motif build issue

2013-08-03 Thread Gary Aitken
Hi all, I'm running a newly upgraded 9.1. Did a portmaster -a to rebuild what I had up to a point, then tried building x11-toolkits/open-motif, as it is the component which failed when trying to build editors/openoffice-3. Seeing the same error I was seeing under 9.0. I suspect this is something

how to make mkinstalldirs

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
Can anyone give me some hints on how to manually (or automagically) create mkinstalldirs for a port? ports/graphics/ufraw fails to build due to install: /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/gettext/mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory It's not supposed to be needed if automake is >= 1.9, but automake

Re: how to make mkinstalldirs

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 13:25, Eduardo Morras wrote: > On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 12:24:46 -0600 > Gary Aitken wrote: > >> Can anyone give me some hints on how to manually (or automagically) create >> mkinstalldirs for a port? >> >> ports/graphics/ufraw fails to build due to >

hardware monitor

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
Can anyone suggest a hardware monitor app in the ports tree? I've got an amd64 which may have a temperature issue, but I can't see it to tell... Thanks, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
d process to keep it down. If I do that, I avoid the abrupt shutdown. Needless to say, this makes unattended operation a non-starter... Does anyone else have a similar setup they can provide me some related experience on? Thanks, Gary On 08/04/13 15:15, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 04 Aug 2013

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: > Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a > build is going on. > > I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an > ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. > > The system "w

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 18:30, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 05/08/2013 00:29, Gary Aitken wrote: >> On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang >>> fast when a build is going on. >>> >>> I'm runnin

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 21:39, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 05/08/2013 03:01, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> 50C isn't crazy. >> Actually, the 50C figure is just where it shoots to for starters. >> Mfg specs say 62C max, so I stall the process when it gets around >> 59 a

firefox audio / youtube crashes?

2013-08-07 Thread Gary Aitken
I think I should know this but I don't, and a search didn't turn up anything recent. It's my understanding firefox 22 with html5 should allow playing youtube videos without the flash plugin. But when I try to watch a youtube video, firefox crashes. I had this working on firefox 17 under 9.0 but

Re: can't build virtualbox-ose

2013-08-08 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/08/13 05:22, felix wrote: > hi,all when i build the port, it shows the following messages. > ===> Installing for gnutls-2.12.23_1 > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ===> Checking if security/gnutls already installed > ===> gnutls-2.12.23_1 is already installed > You may wish to ``

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-14 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: > Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a > build is going on. > > I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an > ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. > > The system "w

Re: Mouse Trails?

2013-08-18 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/17/13 19:08, cpghost wrote: > On 08/17/13 18:14, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:31:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Good ole Xeyes... ;-) But beware, xeyes crashes X server right now! Using > > xeyes-1.1.1 > xorg-server-1.7.7_8,1 > > on > FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #0 r253323 Sat J

ipfw confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm having some weird ipfw behavior, or it seems weird to me, and am looking for an explaination and then a way out. ipfw list ... 21109 allow tcp from any to 12.32.44.142 dst-port 53 in via tun0 setup keep-state 21129 allow tcp from any to 12.32.36.65 dst-port 53 in via tun0 setup keep-state ...

Re: ipfw confusion

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/19/13 11:53, OpenSlate ChalkDust wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I'm having some weird ipfw behavior, or it seems weird to me, and am >> looking >> for an explaination and then a way out. >> >> ipfw list >>

Re: ipfw confusion

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Aitken
ate One of the requests which is being refused is a zone transfer request from a secondary which is a tcp request. Others are probably udp. > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I'm having some weird ipfw behavior, or it seems weird to me, and am >> looking

Re: ipfw confusion

2013-08-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> On 08/19/13 00:36, Jason Cox wrote: >>> Are you sure that your DNS requests are over TCP? DNS primarily uses UDP >> to >>> serve requests. TCP is used when the response data size exceeds 512 bytes >>>

hugin?

2013-08-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Is anyone using the current port of hugin successfully on 9.1? I've never used it before but an attempt to start it crashes: $ hugin /usr/local/share/hugin/data/plugins/top_five.py CAT:Control Points NAM:keep 5 CPs per image pair /usr/local/share/hugin/data/plugins/woa.py CAT:Control Poin

Re: hugin?

2013-08-23 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/23/13 07:10, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> Is anyone using the current port of hugin successfully on 9.1? I've >> never used it before but an attempt to start it crashes: >> >> $ hugin /usr/local/share/hugin/d

how to find where a port came from and rebuild with debug symbols

2013-08-24 Thread Gary Aitken
If I have a core file that implicates a library: #0 0x00080525cab0 in wxWindow::DoSetSize () from /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0 and #16 0x0008056bf720 in wxAuiManager::Update () from /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0 and I want to find out which port these came from

trouble building lsof?

2013-09-01 Thread Gary Aitken
portsnap and update just done, UPDATING shows nothing, /etc/make.conf contains WITH_PKGNG=yes #cd /usr/ports #portmaster sysutils/lsof ... ===>>> All dependencies are up to date ===> Cleaning for lsof-4.88.d,8 ===> lsof-4.88.d,8 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found ===> Fetching a

Re: trouble building lsof?

2013-09-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/01/13 20:34, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 1 September 2013 22:32, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 1 September 2013 20:36, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> portsnap and update just done, >>> UPDATING shows nothing, >>> /etc/make.conf contains >>> WITH_PK

initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is it possible, or do I have to find a windoze system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. >> I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. >> Is it possible, or do I have to find

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 16:26, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:13:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >>>> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pag

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 17:52, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I >> need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is >> it possible, or do I have to find a wi

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 20:58, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> On 09/12/13 17:52, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> >>>> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I >

lprof startup issue, QAssistantClient not found

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
After installing (and reinstalling) devel/lprof, I keep getting the error: "The QAssistantClient executable was not found. Make sure that assistant(.exe)is located either in your PATH or in the $QTDIR/bin directory. Help will not be availble until this is corrected." I have both devel/q

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