Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only recourse at this point to # cd / # rm -rf . When I get into this kind of bad situation, I usually do something slightly less drastic: # pkg_delete -a # find -d /usr/local -type d -exec rmdir

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-02-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 02/24/2013 03:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:19:57AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 22:31 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Also, John, please consider using malloc(3) instead of heap-allocated buffers like file_buffer[6][] (196608 bytes) and command[]

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-02-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 02/24/2013 05:43 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 13:24 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:19:57AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 22:31 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Also, John, please consider using malloc(3) instead of heap-allocated

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/28/2013 07:34 AM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: On CTM, On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On 01/27/2013 09:24 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2013-Jan-23 15:40:50 +0100, Oliver Brandmueller o...@e-gitt.net wrote

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/28/13 08:17, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: On CTM: On Jan 28, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: - I'm wondering if there is a clean/reliable way to pull an index of the CTM deltas? (This is still very far from the one-liner c[v]sup had become, it would be great to check

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/27/2013 09:24 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: Hi Peter, On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2013-Jan-23 15:40:50 +0100, Oliver Brandmueller o...@e-gitt.net wrote: in ancient times there was cvsup. cvsup was a PITA if you wanted (or needed) to install it via ports, the

Re: csup to svn for 8-stable

2013-01-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/11/2013 04:51 PM, Brian W. wrote: When I tried the first time, it only grabbed a few folders, a second try got me a conflict message. I then just whacked /usr/src and did the svn co again, successfully. Brian And when you want to update, you can just type svn up /usr/src On

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/03/2013 07:20 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: So, why not wait until some more mirrors are available? One other problem people in 'developed' nations do not see exists. If - like me - you are located on a very remote location with a more or less random Internet connection, many servers

Problems with cvs - docs and www

2012-12-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
(Not sure if this is the right mailing list, but here goes.) Last night I did a csup to retrieve the whole cvs repository. I noticed that huge numbers of files in doc and www have been deleted. Is this intentional, or is it the svn to cvs program not working properly? And if it is the latter,

Re: Problems with cvs - docs and www

2012-12-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/2012 11:58 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49:06AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: (Not sure if this is the right mailing list, but here goes.) -doc@ is a better choice. Thanks. I thought of that moments

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 12/31/2012 03:40 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 12/31/12 12:40 PM, Chris H wrote: | I'm sorry, but the exporter scripts were always a stopgap. That's what I was afraid I would hear. Recently, I was informed by SF.NET, that my account would be upgraded, and all the projects I have, which

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I use FreeBSD because it was the first Intel based unix I tried. A friend of mine suggested I try FreeBSD instead of Linux. More recently I have had to start using Linux because FreeBSD doesn't have very good laptop support. (All I ask for is a way to configure the mouse pad so that I can

Re: Restricting users from certain privileges

2012-04-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 04/28/2012 02:50 AM, Zenny wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Daniel Branissda...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi: I could not figure out how to restrict users or other users from certain privileges to execute certain commands in FreeBSD/NanoBSD? What I meant is I want to create a NanoBSD

Re: GENERIC make buildkernel error / fails - posix_fadvise

2012-01-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/12/2012 09:11 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: +1. And it's faster yet when you can run parallel copies of rm on different portions of the directory tree (e.g. xargs, find [..] -exec) as rm is O(n). I have always wondered about that! I thought that the main bottleneck in rm -r might be

Re: Escaping from a jail with root privileges on the host

2011-12-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 12/28/2011 02:58 AM, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: Hello, Today I've managed to escape from a jail by accident and ended up with root access to the host's filesystem. Here's what I did: * Using ezjail for managing my jails * Verified in FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 and 9.0-RC3 * This works only

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 12/23/2011 10:07 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Hey up list, Look, just a rant here. Who in *HELL* thought it would be a cool idea to release no less than FOUR security advisories today ? After receiving the fifth security advisory in a few moments, you will get a Christmas message from

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 12/23/2011 10:56 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: Also, the chroot issue has been public for some time along with sample exploits. Same with BIND which was fixed some time ago. Judgment call, and I think they made the right call at least from my perspective. It is this chroot issue that bothers me.

Problems with cvs from cvs-repository

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I see that a lot of RELENG_9 tags have been created in the last day or so. So I thought I would get the sources in the following manner: I downloaded the complete cvs repository using cvsup. Then I ran the commands env CVSROOT=/whereever-it-is/cvs cvs co -rRELENG_9 src and nothing happened

Re: Problems with cvs from cvs-repository

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 09/24/2011 03:08 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I see that a lot of RELENG_9 tags have been created in the last day or so. So I thought I would get the sources in the following manner: I downloaded the complete cvs repository using cvsup. Then I ran the commands env CVSROOT=/whereever

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jason Hsu wrote: I've been trying to switch from Linux to BSD for my everyday computing (email, word processing, spreadsheets, etc.), but I couldn't get things to work properly. I've been so spoiled by the quickness and user-friendliness of antiX/Swift Linux and Puppy Linux for so long. I

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Michal Varga wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 10:51 -0700, Matthew Fleming wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Michal Vargavarga.mic...@gmail.com wrote: Here too. How is desktop support on FreeBSD lacking? I realize a desktop means many things to many people, but the

Change in behavior to stat(1)

2011-02-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I had a little script that would remove broken links. I used to do it like this: if ! stat -L $link /dev/null; then rm $link; fi But recently (some time in February according to the CVS records) stat was changed so that stat -L would use lstat(2) if the link is broken. So I had to change

Re: Change in behavior to stat(1)

2011-02-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Possibly you could use the example from the find(1) man page: find -L /usr/ports/packages -type l -exec rm -- {} + Delete all broken symbolic links in /usr/ports/packages. (Note that the + on the end is not a typo, see the man page) Brilliant! Since

Re: ALPS GlidePoint not detected on dell inspiron

2011-01-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
David DEMELIER wrote: Hello, A friend has a DELL Inspiron 1525 with an ALPS GlidePoint touchpad. We have added hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 in his /boot/loader.conf but it still detected as a standard ps2 mouse. Looking at sys/dev/atkbdc/psm.c : 461 { MOUSE_MODEL_GLIDEPOINT, /*

Re: samba recplacement

2010-02-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sat, February 6, 2010 23:44, Eric wrote: On 2/5/2010 9:22 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: hail, I've installed a recent 8-stable with gnome installed. I needed samba and noticed I have samba4-devel installed. but I can't manage to make it a simple file server as I need. so

Re: samba recplacement

2010-02-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sun, February 7, 2010 00:43, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sat, February 6, 2010 23:44, Eric wrote: On 2/5/2010 9:22 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: hail, I've installed a recent 8-stable with gnome installed. I needed samba and noticed I have

Re: samba recplacement

2010-02-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sun, February 7, 2010 01:02, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sun, February 7, 2010 00:43, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Sat, February 6, 2010 23:44, Eric wrote: On 2/5/2010 9:22 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: hail

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-10:01.bind

2010-01-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: I. Background BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. The named(8) daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server. DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) provides data integrity, origin authentication and authenticated denial of

Re: Signing Request

2009-09-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:40 -0400, J. Hellenthal wrote: If you do not need to pgp/gpg sign email message to the lists please don't. I know I probably don't have your pgp public key and a lot more users probably do not either. Please use your best

Re: Burning DVD with files4GB from console

2008-12-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Bartosz Stec wrote: My backup script split filesystem dumps to files with size of 4,37 GB (4 588 544 kB). It's just an optimal size to fill out DVDs. At this moment I have to burn them from windows via smb-link becuase I didn't

Calling malloc from a signal handler

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I notice that if you use malloc from within a signal handler on FreeBSD-6.x, that you can potentially trigger a recursive call error. But this seems to have changed in FreeBSD-7.x. Is it now permissible to call malloc from within a signal handler in FreeBSD-7.x? If so, should the man page

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in reinstalling FreeBSD and testing

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are available at http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ Thanks. I hadn't tried them. But they didn't work. (I used the Sept 4 patch on CURRENT.) I could provide more diagnostics if anyone wants

Re: list spam

2008-03-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mike Lempriere wrote: I've had it with the list spam -- is the any possibility of moderating this list, or changing it to must-be-subscriber-to-post? I have the opposite experience. I am amazed at how little spam this list gets. So far today, only one piece of spam - from the ports list.

Re: Scheduler in Various Docs

2008-01-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jason C. Wells wrote: The comments regarding SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD are inconsistent with information found in the email archives. LINT says ULE is experimental. The handbook doesn't mention ULE at all. The archives say ULE is the new recommended scheduler. If ULE is in fact the

Re: Scheduler in Various Docs

2008-01-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 07:40:07PM +0100, TooMany Secrets wrote: On 1/20/08, Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason C. Wells wrote: The comments regarding SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD are inconsistent with information found in the email archives. LINT says

Re: To 6.3 or to 7.0 that is the question?

2008-01-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Steven Hartland wrote: With the announcement of 6.3 and with 7.0 looking like it wont be far behind I'd interested to hear what people thought of the relative benefits of each where? I know 7 has had a lot of work done on locking and ULE but are there any other reasons to go for that instead

FreeBSD 7.0 freezes with nvidia card

2007-12-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a Dell D800 Latitude laptop. If I use FreeBSD 7.0, and xorg with the nv driver, when I exit X, sometimes it simply freezes. I tried it with the vesa driver. and the problem didn't seem to happen, but the vesa driver is unable to get the 1680x1050 resolution of my monitor. I sent a

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 freezes with nvidia card

2007-12-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
David Booth wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have a Dell D800 Latitude laptop. If I use FreeBSD 7.0, and xorg with the nv driver, when I exit X, sometimes it simply freezes. I tried it with the vesa driver. and the problem didn't seem to happen

Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID

2007-11-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Honza Holakovsky wrote: Well, didn't know that, /bin/kill -9 wdfs_PID works, great Thanks a lot, after your advice I read an article about csh built-in commands, never heard of it from any fbsd handbook... I am completely baffled why this worked. Why would /bin/kill

Re: Is it O.K. to use the 7.0 ports tree on 6.3 ?

2007-11-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Pete French wrote: I have a set of machines running 7.0 and a set running 6.3 which I would like to use the same ports on. I was under the impression that there was only one ports tree, so is it safe to simply untar the ports.tgz file from 7.0 on the 6.3 machines, rename INDEX-7 to INDEX-6 and

FBSD-7-B2 Freeze

2007-11-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am experiencing fairly consistent system freezes which seem to coincide with using the ndis driver and nvidia driver at the same time. I had worst problems using the nvidia binary driver, but I did also experience a freeze one time with the xorg nv driver, which I am now using. Sometimes

Trouble running Mathematica

2007-11-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
When I run Mathematica 5.2 on FreeBSD RELENG_7 I get the following message: /usr/local/mma52/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/MathKernel: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librt.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid It worked fine on RELENG_6. Furthermore Mathematica 5.0 seems to work

Re: Trouble running Mathematica

2007-11-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Lothar Braun wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: When I run Mathematica 5.2 on FreeBSD RELENG_7 I get the following message: /usr/local/mma52/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/MathKernel: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librt.so

Re: Trouble running Mathematica

2007-11-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:10:45PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2007 16:16:40 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: When I run Mathematica 5.2 on FreeBSD RELENG_7 I get the following message: /usr/local/mma52/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/MathKernel: error while

Re: Missing libstdc++.so.6 for openoffice in stable

2007-10-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Brian Josefsen wrote: Hello all I installed the openoffice package ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.3.0/i386/FreeBSD6/OOo_2.3.0_FreeBSD62Intel_install_da.tbz yesterday, now when i try to execute openoffice.org-2.3.0 it complaints about libstdc++.so.6 is missing. As

Re: named.conf restored to hint zone for the root by default

2007-08-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jo Rhett wrote: On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:12 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: I would appreciate it if the personal attacks ceased. There was no personal attack there. I never called him names or made any remark about his lifestyle or anything else. I did say that he isn't paying attention

Re: Bug in less version 406.

2007-08-02 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
David Wolfskill wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:14:37PM -0500, Ted Hatfield wrote: Can someone verify this bug for me please and suggest a fix. Error description: Using less -E or more to display a file that is less than a full page, while then displaying a nonexistent file causes a

thread error in pthread [was Re: [Bsd-sharp-list] Problem with x11-toolkits/gnome-sharp20 port]

2007-07-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 21:25 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: .Email deleted as it is irrelevant Please include the FreeBSD version when reporting a problem. :) This is a -CURRENT issue only due to libthr. A fix is here but has not been committed

Re: updating xorg-libraries 7.2 to 7.2.1

2007-05-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Josh Paetzel wrote: Shaun Branden wrote: xorg 7.2 was installed on this system from scratch, ie no ports to start with. For right now if you want portupgrade to do anything with xorg you need to export XORG_UPGRADE

Re: updating xorg-libraries 7.2 to 7.2.1

2007-05-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: Shaun Branden wrote: xorg 7.2 was installed on this system from scratch, ie no ports to start with. sh /usr/ports

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Scott Long wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Sean Bryant wrote: Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, whereas, the newer ati cards have no support

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Kip Macy writes: | Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and | goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 | support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI | because of the problems I

ncurses

2007-01-17 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
In the cvs repository, there has appeared src/lib/ncurses, which seems to be a copy of lib/libncurses. Is this meant to be? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Joe Holden wrote: Ma wrote: I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is added in your rc.conf? -- Ma Jie Hi, I used the rc.conf values as set out in rc,conf(5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep crash

RELENG_6 panic

2006-12-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I thought I would add another panic report. This seemed to coincide with an upgrade I made today. So if it is a software problem it happened between Nov 21 and Dec 5. It happened on two computers that I upgraded, so I suspect its not a hardware problem. One of the computers had crash dumps

Panic

2006-07-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I just had a kernel panic. This happened seconds after I started a reboot using alt-ctl-del, at about the time just after it it said it was writing the entropy file. Here is the kernel config file, the results of the dump, and dmesg. Do you want anything else? I hope this info helps.

Re: MySQL and default memory limits (mysqld: Out of memory)

2006-07-09 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mike Jakubik wrote: Mathieu Arnold wrote: +-Le 09/07/2006 14:25 -0700, Darren Pilgrim a dit : | Mathieu Arnold wrote: | [kern.maxdsiz is not] a sysctl, it's a tunable thing, which don't | appear in sysctl. | | Gotta love namespace collisions. Well, in fact, most of the tunables do have a read

Re: Still getting 'calcru: runtime went backwards'

2006-07-07 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mike Jakubik wrote: John Baldwin wrote: That is partly because when you run top it queries the resource usage of the various processes via fill_kinfo_proc(). When you don't run top, no one is asking for the resource usage numbers, so the kernel doesn't waste time calculating them.

dmesg seg faults

2006-02-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
My video card spits out rather weird messages to the kernel message buffer. This is only an annoyance, except it causes dmesg to seg fault. I have some very simple possible fixes at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93841 It is nothing crucial but it would be nice if a fix was

Re: freeBSD 5.5 Prerelease ( 5.4 stable )

2006-02-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jon Holstrom wrote: any one know the date to get 5.4 stable ? i am not able to find the date to CVsup 5.4 stable as 5.5 is vary slow is to buggy You might try stable-6.x, which in my opinion is really fine. My sense is that it actually runs a little faster than 5.x. - Original

Re: Problem with memory stick

2006-02-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Giorgos Kapetanakis wrote: On Sat, February 4, 2006 3:45 am, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have a Crucial 1GB USB 2.0 Gizmo memory stick. It does work, but not without its problems. When I insert it into the USB port, the kernel spits out a large number of bad looking messages - I'll

Problem with memory stick

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a Crucial 1GB USB 2.0 Gizmo memory stick. It does work, but not without its problems. When I insert it into the USB port, the kernel spits out a large number of bad looking messages - I'll copy them below. /dev/da0 is created, but no /dev/da0s1 is created. If I then do mount_msdos

Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd)

2006-01-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mike O'Brien wrote: I sent this to freebsd-x11 and didn't hear a peep back, so I'm widening the net. I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, cvsupped as of last night. I upgraded the ports collection to X.org 6.9 at the same time. Under the X that ships with 6-RELEASE, in the ISO image, and

Re: compat 5x libraries missnig after restart

2005-12-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:25:39 -0600 Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Add the following to /etc/rc.conf.local: compat5x_enable=yes And it would probably help if you watched the messages printed to the console as the system boots

Re: compat 5x libraries missnig after restart

2005-12-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Doug Barton wrote: Add the following to /etc/rc.conf.local: compat5x_enable=yes And it would probably help if you watched the messages printed to the console as the system boots. And you should also have read the message that came when you installed the port - you know, the one that

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
like nfs_server_enable=YES rpcbind_enable=YES Then on the slow machine I simply type mount /usr/src mount /usr/obj -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Dan Charrois wrote: It actually may be a comfort, since perhaps HTT is related to the culprit. Since the last crash, about a month ago, I disabled HTT, both in the kernel as well in the BIOS. So as far as I know, it's completely been disabled (and the boot messages and top only show 2

Jerky keyboard and mouse

2005-11-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 to stable-6 of today on my Dell Latitude D800 Laptop, and suddenly the response of the touchpad mouse and keyboard was bery bad. In particular, when I type about 1 in 10 key presses simply do not register. I ended up going back to the Nov 4

kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards

2005-11-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
This is on a recent FreeBSD-6.0 stable SMP machine. As root, run top -s0. Then, at the same time run this program: #include pthread.h #define D (110) void *thread(void *n) { int i; double array[D]; for (i=0;iD;i++) array[i] = i; } int main() { void *i; pthread_t tid; while (1) {

three button mouse issues

2005-11-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
My laptop has two mice - the touchpad and a usb mouse. I would like the touchpad moused to run with the -3 flag and the usb moused to run without -3. But I can only get neither or both to run with -3 by the appropriate settings in /etc/rc.conf. Any ideas? (Apart from manually killing and

Re: Atheros (ath0) no RX traffic

2005-11-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Richard Arends wrote: Hello, Today I upgraded my laptop from 5-STABLE to 6-STABLE. After the upgrade, my wireless is not working anymore. You are doing better than me. I try this: ifconfig ath0 wepkey 12345 and get ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument (Actually maybe that is happening to

Re: Atheros (ath0) no RX traffic

2005-11-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Николай Мирин wrote: If you do not build kernel modules there are several things to include in 6.0 kernel when you migrate from 5.4. The reason for the error in your case is probably missing wlan_wep device. #5.4 device wlan# 802.11 support device ath device

Re: kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards

2005-11-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: Try this, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/book.html#CALCRU-NEGATIVE Thank you. I must admit that I missed this. Unfortunately all the suggestions in this FAQ seem to be out of date - none of the suggested sysctls or kernel config options seem to apply

Well done with FreeBSD 6.0

2005-11-05 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I just upgraded from FreeBSD-5.4 to FreeBSD-6.0 stable. It really went very smoothly. Well done to all concerned. A few things that could make it a little easier: 1. I have a habit of doing the mergemaster stuff in a slightly different order. Any chance of updating pwd_mkdb and cap_mkdb

DMA errors

2005-11-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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Problem with thernet card and dhclient

2005-09-07 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
My computer running a very recent FreeBSD release 5 is connected to the internet with 3Com 3c980C Fast Etherlink XL to a cable modem connected to Mediacom. I connect with the command dhclient xl0. The problem I have is that every so often the mediacom connection goes down, and when it comes

Re: Xorg monopolizes CPU after switching away with KVM

2005-08-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Darren David wrote: Hi all- So I've just encountered a new issue ( for me ) with Xorg, and i'm having a heck of a time tracking down the source and/or the actual nature of the issue. When i switch to another computer using my KVM, Xorg immediately begins to monopolize the CPU, heading up to

Re: Problems with PCI-express video card

2005-07-08 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have a nvidia PCI-express 6600 video card on an Intel SE7525GP2 motherboard. I am running a fairly recent version of RELENG_5. I am having great difficulty getting the video card to work. On an older version of Xorg it would try to use the vesa driver

How to set polling for printer upon startup

2005-07-08 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
My printer doesn't work very well unless I type lpcontrol -p What is the correct way to make this happen when the computer first boots up - is there some setting in device.hints or something I can put in the kernel config so that it defaults to this? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen Montgomery

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Steven Hartland wrote: Have a read /usr/src/UPDATING it explains. It should be in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I don't see it there myself. I got bitten by the same problem. The other guy who gave ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc provided the right

releng 5 panic (again)

2005-05-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Please help me! I know that I am getting few responses to my emails - I am guessing that my situation is difficult. If you could offer any ideas how to help with further diagnostics. I am regularly getting panics with instruction pointer equal to 0xc0611c69. I am not able to get any dumps

Re: releng 5 panic (again)

2005-05-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:03 PM 25/05/2005, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I will try any reasonable test you guys have for me. Right now I am switching off HTT to see if that is the issue. This is a dual Xeon system. The SCHED_4BSD doesnt do anything with HTT and in fact might hurt

panic on RELENG_5

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a dual Xeon with HTT enabled. Many months ago I had frequent problems with panics, which since dissappeared, until very recently. Now after dong a very recent upgrade of RELENG_5, the problem is back again. For whatever reason, I could not get savecore to work with my twe raid 0 had

Re: panic on RELENG_5

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Kris Kennaway wrote: Something is still wrong, because no source code references are listed here (i.e. this is what you'd get if you ran gdb on kernel, not kernel.dump). I think that it was because I did the config -g after the fact. Now I get something like this. I hope that this is

ep/X11 problems

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 on which I have put FreeBSD Release 5.4. The 3Com Megahertz 574B pccard ethernet card works well with the ep driver, except that after I run X11, it simply stops working. I am guessing that it is an interupt conflict. I have tried everything I can think of so that

Re: ep/X11 problems

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 on which I have put FreeBSD Release 5.4. The 3Com Megahertz 574B pccard ethernet card works well with the ep driver, except that after I run X11, it simply stops working. I am guessing that it is an interupt conflict. I have tried

Problems with PCI-express video card

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a nvidia PCI-express 6600 video card on an Intel SE7525GP2 motherboard. I am running a fairly recent version of RELENG_5. I am having great difficulty getting the video card to work. On an older version of Xorg it would try to use the vesa driver. It did put up some video, but it was

Re: Panic - cannot get a dump

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
this indicates something more sinister. I have put in another IDE disk whose only purpose is to be the disk to dump to. Hopefully I will be able to catch a good dump on that. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

Panic - cannot get a dump

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
(This is a follow up to earlier messages I sent to freebsd-smp because then I thought it was an smp issue - now I am not so sure.) I have been experiencing some panics on my dual processor Xeon system. It can take up to a few days for a panic to happen, and it seems to happen under heavy

Re: 5.2 - 5.3 without single mode?

2004-11-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dima [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Is it possible to cvsup from 5.2 to 5.3 without booting in single mode? : I have a remote machine and want update it, but it is no console access, : only SSH. : You don't actually need to reboot in

Beastie

2004-11-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
It is with a little intrepidation that I ask this question, because I sense that what I am about to ask might push some buttons, or perhaps bring back some unpleasant memories of those who have asked what I am going to ask in a less tactful manner. I find that the beastie that appears at boot

Re: Beastie

2004-11-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jon Noack wrote: Throw 'beastie_disable=YES' into /boot/loader.conf. Jon Thanks guys - I really appreciate you having done this. Stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

/dev/fd/3

2004-10-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a program that needs to write to file descriptor 3 via /dev/fd/3. But FreeBSD-5.3 doesn't let me do that, since only fd/0-2 exist. How do I do this? man fd didn't help me. Stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: /dev/fd/3

2004-10-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have a program that needs to write to file descriptor 3 via /dev/fd/3. But FreeBSD-5.3 doesn't let me do that, since only fd/0-2 exist. How do I do this? man fd didn't help me. You can mount fdescfs on top of /dev

Error in make buildworld

2002-01-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
, and the replacement drive is exceedingly fast. So maybe this computer is too fast for -j4 to work. As computers get faster and faster, maybe more and more people will have this problem. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: linux-base 6.2 vs linux-base 7

2001-11-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
sure you run a very recent version of FreeBSD stable - there is a problem in linux emulation in older versions. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body

Re: mergemaster goes postal

2001-09-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
for the past few days. This has been asked several times in the last week or two. You'll either need to change the MAKEDEV script or change your CPUTYPE. What does CPUTYPE have to do with a shell script? I think the bug is in sh. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Printer problems

2001-06-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
(using lptcontrol). Is this a known bug with the lpt drivers? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: XFree86-4.1.0_4 still broken?

2001-06-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
build correctly if you wanted libglut. So if you had Mesa3 build from the times when you had XFree86-4.0.1, and then you installed XFree86-4.1, then your build of gnome might work, while mine wouldn't. I've stuck script(1-- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu

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