Can't upgrade past 10.4-STABLE (interrupt storm?)

2018-07-31 Thread Chris H
Hello, I've got an older laptop that I attempted to install 12 on w/o success. Well, it installed. But was unusable. Typing anything at the console frequently doesn't output on the screen w/o tapping one of the arrow keys. But doing that causes other problems. As I can't really use the output. :(

Re: jail related inconsistencies in FreeBSD tools parameters

2018-06-22 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:13:17 +0200 "Miroslav Lachman" <000.f...@quip.cz> said I don't know if it is better to discuss it in jail@ or stable@ list so a do cross-post. FreeBSD has many jail aware utilities but they are inconsistent in taking JID as parameter. For example "sockstat" takes -j

Re: Console is broken after updating to 11.2-RELEASE

2018-06-22 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:42:18 +0900 (JST) "Yasuhiro KIMURA" said From: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Console is broken after updating to 11.2-RELEASE Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 05:03:43 -0600 > UEFI or legacy boot? Is a BMC involved? Legacy boot. And BMC is not involved. Try adding the following to

Re: Odd behaviour on recent boot of 11.1 with timecounters

2018-01-02 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:45:26 + "Gary Palmer" said On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 06:47:38PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 03:49:13PM +, Gary Palmer wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > > On Sun,

Re: D-Link DGE530T issue

2017-11-15 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:00:33 +0300 Mike Black wrote > Hello > > I've got old PCI NIC D-Link DGE530T Rev 11 with SysKonnect chip on it. > Years ago it worked in FreeBSD 8/9 Stable with if_sk driver. > > Now I'm runnig > 11.1-STABLE FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE #1 r323214: Sat Nov 11

Re: console-only freebsd

2017-10-09 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 09:49:40 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote > On Oct 7, 2017 7:21 AM, "tech-lists" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a freebsd 11-stable installation on a (gutless) netbook. What I'd > like is full functionality via the console[1]. One of the things

Re: CAM timeouts at startup

2017-04-10 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:49:59 -0700 "Mahlon E. Smith" wrote > Hi. Got some new machines running 11.0-RELEASE-p8 with a small pile of SSD > in them. > > Getting some strange CAM timeouts at boot, that dramatically delay > startup times. These errors don't happen at all after

Re: if_iwm crashes kernel when loaded from /boot/loader.conf

2017-04-07 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:38:40 + Tommi Pernila wrote > On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 at 16.27, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I noticed a problem when loading if_iwm from /boot/loader.conf kernel > > crashes as it cannot load module firmware dead

Re: how can I make freebsd wait for usb to become active? Or delay mountroot?

2017-02-13 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:00:39 + tech-lists wrote > Hello stable@, > > system: 11-stable r313553 > > In the kernel there is an option for scsi delay. It should be enough to bump the kern.cam.scsi_delay= a couple hundred at a time, until you find the "sweet spot". You

Re: pkg upgrade problem with Perl 5.24

2017-01-13 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:38:59 + Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote > On 2017/01/13 16:31, Chris H wrote: > > As a general rule: > > install from pkg(8) remove with pkg(8) > > install from ports(7), remove with ports(7) > > > > Sorry -- this is

Re: pkg upgrade problem with Perl 5.24

2017-01-13 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:43:41 + Holger Kipp wrote > Dear all, > > I upgraded Perl to 5.24(1.r4_1) (via pkg upgrade). > When I now try to install the latest version from ports (1.r5_1), the system > can’t install the new version because of the older version, but can’t

Re: vt console driver and default vga mode: breaking POLA

2016-09-09 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:59:45 +0200 Borja Marcos wrote > Hi > > I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console > driver has a very important change in behavior, replacing the ancient > “BIOS” text mode with a graphic VGA mode. > > I don’t know how

Re: Looking for libvgl users

2016-06-21 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:33:11 -0400 Ed Maste wrote > Prompted by a recent discussion of the vt(4) console I would like to > send this query to -stable. When posted to -current about 1.5 years > ago it received only one private reply pointing out an example vgl(3) > consumer.

Re: unbound and ntp issuse

2016-06-14 Thread Chris H
I'm playing catchup on my INBOX, so apologies in advance, if this has already been satisfactorily answered... On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:50:18 +0300 Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote > On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 09:33:02AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Slawa Olhovchenkov

Re: fetch(1) always dumps core - openssl issue?

2016-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:28:48 -0800 Xin Li <delp...@delphij.net> wrote > On 3/9/16 19:09, Chris H wrote: > > Greetings, > > I just built/installed world/kernel on a fresh > > STABLE-9 box. Now building ports almost always results > > in fetch(1) dumping core. It app

fetch(1) always dumps core - openssl issue?

2016-03-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I just built/installed world/kernel on a fresh STABLE-9 box. Now building ports almost always results in fetch(1) dumping core. It appears that this happens on ssl enabled hosts. Resulting in fetch dropping to distcache.freebsd.org. I see a lot of noise on the lists regarding openssl

Re: Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 20:50:11 -0500 kpn...@pobox.com wrote > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:54:53PM -0800, Chris H wrote: > > #!/bin/sh - > > /usr/local/bin/startx -- -nolisten tcp > > > > exit > > > > which seems to get the job done, and allow me to be lazy &

Re: Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:59:57 -0500 Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Chris H <bsd-li...@bsdforge.com> wrote: > > > Good catch, by both you, and Brandon. I just tried it. But > > sockstat(1) still reports 6000 being

Re: Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:44:18 -0800 Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Chris H <bsd-li...@bsdforge.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > This is regarding 9-STABLE. All of the 9-STABLE boxes > > that have Xorg installed, and runnin

Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
Hello, This is regarding 9-STABLE. All of the 9-STABLE boxes that have Xorg installed, and running on them, insist on opening TCP port 6000; as reported by sockstat(1) Xorg 1295 1 tcp6 *:6000*:* Xorg 1295 3 tcp4 *:6000*:* I see that the

Re: mergemaster woes at STABLE

2016-01-15 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:38:05 +0100 Michael Grimm wrote > Hi, > > starting a couple of weeks ago, I do see mergemaster complaining after > "mergemaster -iFU": > > stat: ./have: stat: No such file or directory > /usr/sbin/mergemaster: arithmetic expression:

Re: freebsd-update incorrect hashes

2015-12-23 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:22:51 +0100 rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote > Am 2015-12-23 13:25, schrieb Aristedes Maniatis: > > I've had problems with freebsd-update for many years now. It is by far > > the least reliable component of FreeBSD since I started with the > > operating system back at 3.4 in

Re: unknown file

2015-09-26 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:23:43 +0200 Zoran Kolic wrote > Someone knows what "TsxKxSc0ySU" file is? > This shows up in graphical mode, from time to time, today > twice, in user directory. Binary, just over 5 kb. > > Zoran I've never seen a file with that

Re: Buildworld failure on stable

2015-08-26 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:38:46 +0100 Matt Smith f...@xtaz.co.uk wrote On Aug 26 12:27, Matt Smith wrote: On Aug 26 13:10, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: Hardware error or memory exhausted It does appear to be something along those lines. It's not memory exhaustion as it has around 2GB free at the

Re: 8-stable crashing recently in ufsdirhash

2015-08-05 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:30:28 -1000 parv p...@bitter-almonds.com wrote On August 5, 2015 4:10:14 AM HST, Ian L wrote: On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 23:54 -1000, parv wrote: Please CC me as I cannot properly use my laptop, Thinkpad X200 (i386). 8-stable has been crashing a lot since source

Re: Swap Usage

2015-07-29 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:41:33 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote I have several FreeBSD 9.3 systems that are using swap and I can’t figure out what is doing it. The key system has 6GB swap and currently it has over 2GB in use. ps shows only a kernel module [intr] with a W status.

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:50:52 +0100 Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote: ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that failed with 2 different

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Chris H
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:48:06 + Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:40:42PM -0400, Jason Unovitch wrote: ..uh top quoting.. Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []. Fatal double fault: eip = 0xc0b416f5 esp = 0xe2673000 ebp =

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:00:03 + Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote .. FreeBSD kernel grew since 10.1-RELEASE, so this is not unexpected. Not trying to hijack the thread, or anything. But on that note; does FreeBSD keep a graph, or anything that indicates kernel [size] over major versions? I'm

Re: How to track stable on multiple servers?

2015-06-01 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:19:46 +0300 Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov s...@zxy.spb.ru wrote: I have some set of FreeBSD servers in public internet and continue to find optimal way for track -stable branch. Handbook give next metods:

Re: [CFT] Call for testing pkg 1.5.0

2015-04-02 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:03:23 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote Hi all, We just released pkg 1.5.0 beta1 (in ports-mgmt/pkg-devel), .. Please test and report as much bugs as you can! We could be very grateful if regressions tests could be provided along with the bug reports

Re: Significant memory leak in 9.3p10?

2015-03-26 Thread Chris H
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:03:45 -0700 Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com wrote On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:46 PM, J David j.david.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:52 PM, J David j.david.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Konstantin Belousov

Re: Significant memory leak in 9.3p10?

2015-03-26 Thread Chris H
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:28:15 -0400 J David j.david.li...@gmail.com wrote On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: As Kevin already noted; stopping firefox, and starting it again, seems the only solution. The machines in questions are servers, they do not run

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-12 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:08:21 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisionrevision=221780 I'd venture to guess the script will work fine on older installs

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-11 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:09:31 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote On 03/11/15 02:12, Chris H wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:15:22 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote On 03/08/15 22:15, Chris H wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-11 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:34:30 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote On 03/11/15 02:12, Chris H wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:15:22 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote On 03/08/15 22:15, Chris H wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:05:40 +0100 Peter Olsson list-freebsd-sta...@jyborn.se wrote This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and then mergemaster: # Install the new file if it differs only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD)

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:15:22 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote On 03/08/15 22:15, Chris H wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote On 03/07/15 01:55, Chris H wrote: On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:08:38 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:58:07 -0700 Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:05:40 +0100 Peter Olsson list-freebsd-sta...@jyborn.se wrote This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and then mergemaster

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:17:18 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Peter Olsson list-freebsd-sta...@jyborn.se wrote: This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and then

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:29:12 + Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk wrote Indeed. Having read UPDATING prior to the attempted upgrade, I followed the advise to add 'compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18' to sysctl.conf(5). And rebooted. If you rebooted then it should have been set - and you

Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
I performed av svn update for both src (r279796), and ports (r380829) last night. building/installing world/kernel, went as one would hope. Upgrading ports was a different story. Given this box has an nVidia card. I usually start by upgrading emulators/linux_base; which according to UPDATING;

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:45:11 -0400 Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote On 03/09/2015 20:44, Chris H wrote: I performed av svn update for both src (r279796), and ports (r380829) last night. building/installing world/kernel, went as one would hope. Upgrading ports was a different

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
to be the *actual* solution, was to use sysctl(8). Applying it directly fixed it. :-) Maybe update UPDATING? ;-) --Chris Cheers, Freddie On Mar 9, 2015 6:07 PM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:51:06 + Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote On Mon, Mar 09

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:51:06 + Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:44:55PM -0700, Chris H wrote: I performed av svn update for both src (r279796), and ports (r380829) last night. building/installing world/kernel, went as one would hope. Upgrading ports

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:11:10 + Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Chris H wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:51:06 + Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:44:55PM -0700, Chris H wrote: I performed av svn

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-08 Thread Chris H
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote On 03/07/15 01:55, Chris H wrote: On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:08:38 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote I've got MSI X99 motherboard and am using it with UEFI installation of 10.1 (BIOS mode doesn't work

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-06 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:08:38 +0100 Piotr Kubaj pku...@riseup.net wrote I've got MSI X99 motherboard and am using it with UEFI installation of 10.1 (BIOS mode doesn't work with FreeBSD). At first, sound worked properly (even in KDE), but now it doesn't. I'm not sure what happened, since

Who hacked the FreeBSD website?

2013-10-08 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I was performing a ports search, and noticed that all the links providing more information about each port goes to the FreeBSD 404 page. For example, autotrace-0.31.1_23; The link to it is: http://www.freebsd.org/home/indexbuild/tindex/ports/graphics/autotrace the Long description link

Re: No, the FreeBSD website was not hacked.... (Re: Who hacked the FreeBSD website?)

2013-10-08 Thread Chris H
Please don't use subject lines like that for broken links... Sorry. I was sure that the ports page was rendered as an automated process. Making it unlikely that such a dramatic change in pathing would be highly unlikely, if not impossible. On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:00:14AM -0700, Chris H

Re: 9.2-PRE: switch off that stupid Nakatomi Socrates

2013-09-28 Thread Chris H
On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:06 PM, David Demelier wrote: On 21.09.2013 12:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 21/09/2013 11:31, O. Hartmann wrote: I'd like to switch off this silly Nakatomi Socrates message which reminds me on Linux and their childish naming schemes. It is only cosmetics, but it

ports/gimp mostly broken - ports/182069: [PATCH] devel/py-gobject: Fix GFlags messages

2013-09-20 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I sent a PR for troubles I was having with ports/gimp, and other programs (ports) that depend on lang/python (Python-2.7), after an upgrade. In my quest to find a resolution to this problem, I stumbled on to this PR (patch): ports/182069: [PATCH] devel/py-gobject: Fix GFlags messages (

Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the manner in which base ports must be managed have resulted in more than a fair amount of grief. the migration from cv(sup) -- subversion required re-working long standing, carefully crafted management procedures to be

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. I can't comment on the perl changes directly, but I can assure you that if you use port-mgmt/pkg (pkgng) and build your ports into packages via ports-mgmt/poudriere you will have zero upgrade problems -- a simple pkg upgrade will handle

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Patrick, and thank you for the reply. Le Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT), Chris H bsd-li...@1command.com a écrit : Greetings, I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the manner in which base ports must be managed have resulted in more than a fair

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you kindly for your extremely thoughtful, and informative reply. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013, at 11:07, Chris H wrote: While that all sounds dreamy. I don't think setting something like that up on a *half* up(graded|dated) server, should even be considered. Much less even

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Stephen, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. 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

Does the image on isc.portsnap.freebsd.org have a virus?

2013-07-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I know this sounds crazy, and apologies if I am. But I have 2 RELENG_8 servers; 1 amd64, and 1 i386. about 3 wks ago, I migrated from cv(sup) updating, to svn on the amd64 box. After removing cv(sup) related folders, and the ports folder, I used: portsnap fetch After the fetch

Re: Does the image on isc.portsnap.freebsd.org have a virus?

2013-07-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings, and thank you for your response. On 31/07/2013 15:44, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I know this sounds crazy, and apologies if I am. But I have 2 RELENG_8 servers; 1 amd64, and 1 i386. about 3 wks ago, I migrated from cv(sup) updating, to svn on the amd64 box. After removing cv

Re: Does the image on isc.portsnap.freebsd.org have a virus?

2013-07-31 Thread Chris H
On 01/08/2013 00:28, Chris H wrote: In the first instance, /usr/ports was removed (before initiating portsnap). But before the second attempt, I performed a mkdir /usr/ports. But in the end, the results were the same; portsnap fetch fetched the image, verified the image, extracted

Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

2013-07-30 Thread Chris H
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013, at 8:32, Daniel Kalchev wrote: This is very much an situation like replacing gcc with clang/llvm. However, in the case of BIND we have no licensing problems, stability problems, performance problems etc --- just concerns that BIND generates many SAs -- which might be

Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

2013-07-30 Thread Chris H
On 30.07.2013, at 19:49, Peter Maxwell pe...@allicient.co.uk wrote: I personally prefer qmail over sendmail but I wouldn't suggest qmail should be in base for the reason that sendmail is the de facto standard on *nix shaped systems. One can argue that BIND is the de facto standard on *nix

Re: Trouble building release with docs

2013-07-21 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am trying to do a full (customised) release of 9.1 but I am having trouble building the docs. If I use NODOC it builds fine, but without that I get.. [andenes 7:04] /usr/src/release #/usr/bin/time make release BUILDNAME=$BUILDNAME make

Re: What are the ideal ranges for kern.ipc.shm*?

2013-07-12 Thread Chris H
Greetings Alberto, and thank you for the reply. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Chris H bsd-li...@1command.com wrote: Greetings, Over the years using the xfce4 desktop, I would occasionally receive SHM ERROR messages. As they never interfered (so's I could notice), I always put off

What are the ideal ranges for kern.ipc.shm*?

2013-07-11 Thread Chris H
Greetings, Over the years using the xfce4 desktop, I would occasionally receive SHM ERROR messages. As they never interfered (so's I could notice), I always put off attempting to track the cause down. However, now having performed a fairly major upgrade (~1yr since last), The error appears to

perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings, As my upgrade also required the change to subversion, it's been quite a challenge. I've nearly sorted out all the loose ends. But have a real issue with the path change for Perl. Yes, I've read UPDATING. For the most part, I upgraded all the ports via portmaster(8). But apparently

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings Fabian, and thank you for your reply. Hello Chris On 09.07.2013 11:18, Chris H wrote: How do I best sort this all out. I _really_ miss the perl_after_upgrade script, that used to accompany this process. I also had some challenges with this perl upgrade, but I used portupgrade

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you for your reply. Is there a reason you're avoiding poudriere/pkg ? It's simple to setup and extremely reliable. Your headaches go away because all of your package upgrades get built in a jail and you don't have a half-broken system while waiting for portmaster to

Where's the docs for FreeBSD maintenance with Subversion?

2013-07-04 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I've _finally_ managed to get a break in my work schedule that coincides with a period where pointyhat isn't barfing on my ARCH. So I was able to (cv)sup src ports. Update the kernel successfully, and (after hours of work), managed to upgrade ports. But as (cv)sup was discontinued

Re: Where's the docs for FreeBSD maintenance with Subversion?

2013-07-04 Thread Chris H
In message b8cefc405bcd2f7248f4c260a9148296.authentica...@ultimatedns.net, Chris H (bsd-li...@1command.com) wrote: Greetings, I've _finally_ managed to get a break in my work schedule that coincides with a period where pointyhat isn't barfing on my ARCH. So I was able to (cv)sup

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-27 Thread Chris H
In article 5e20544e3580a75759c3858f31894dc9.authentica...@ultimatedns.net, bsd-li...@lcommand.com writes: I haven't upgraded my tree(s) for awhile. My last attempt to rebuild after an updating src ports, resulted in nearly installing the entire ports tree, which is why I've waited so long.

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-27 Thread Chris H
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote: Okay, look up the last time you installed or upgraded a port: % ls -ltr /var/db/pkg The last one is the most recently modified. Update your ports tree, follow all the steps that apply to your

portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-26 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I haven't upgraded my tree(s) for awhile. My last attempt to rebuild after an updating src ports, resulted in nearly installing the entire ports tree, which is why I've waited so long. Try as I might, I've had great difficulty finding something that will _only_ upgrade what I

re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-26 Thread Chris H
Am 26.06.2013 18:42, schrieb Chris H: Greetings, I haven't upgraded my tree(s) for awhile. My last attempt to rebuild after an updating src ports, resulted in nearly installing the entire ports tree, which is why I've waited so long. Try as I might, I've had great difficulty finding

re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-26 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote: But it installed (pulled in) far more than those dependencies actually required. It may bring in build dependencies, but should be no different than manually installing ports. I believe, due to the fact that it doesn't appear to honor the original

t_delta 16.0106d62009e53600 too long -- Should I be concerned?

2013-02-11 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I received the following last night: Feb 10 23:31:20 udns kernel: t_delta 16.0106d62009e53600 too long Feb 10 23:31:36 udns kernel: t_delta 15.fefb2d70ffb0bf00 too short While I'm _guessing_ disk, I'm not sure from where it originates. Should I be concerned? Thank you for all your

Re: So I whip out a FTDI-based multiport Serial USB Adapter....

2013-02-05 Thread Chris H
On 2/4/2013 9:33 PM, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/4/2013 9:02 PM, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/4/2013 4:32 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Feb 4, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 16:31 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On

Re: So I whip out a FTDI-based multiport Serial USB Adapter.... [SB QUAR: Tue Feb 5 10:15:47 2013]

2013-02-05 Thread Chris H
On 2/5/2013 10:15 AM, Chris H wrote: On 2/4/2013 9:33 PM, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/4/2013 9:02 PM, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/4/2013 4:32 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: These multiport things have been around for a long time. Someone at ISC recommended them when we were looking

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Chris H
Greetings Peter, and thank you _very_ much for the thoughtful, and very informative reply -- _greatly_ appreciated. On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: On 31 December 2012 15:40, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Are there _any_ CVS servers/trunks/tree's left

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-01 Thread Chris H
On 1 January 2013 15:17, Alfred Perlstein bri...@mu.org wrote: On 1/1/13 6:55 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 1 January 2013 02:54, Derek Kulinski tak...@takeda.tk wrote: That said I would totally understand you being upset if FreeBSD would decide to switch to git, since despite its benefits that

Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings, The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me to post this question: 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. Last night I did a csup to

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings Chris, and thank you for your reply. On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings, The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me to post this question: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49:06AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: (Not sure

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings Eitan, and thank you for your reply. On 31 December 2012 15:40, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Sigh... IM(NS)HO; SVN is an inferior RCS created so Windows users wouldn't feel left out. SVN has a number of features which makes development much easier. What did you find easier

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings Chris, and thank you for your reply. On 31 Dec 2012 20:40, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings Chris, and thank you for your reply. On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings, The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings Alfred, and thank you for the response. 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: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings Kevin, and thank you for the reply. On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings Chris, and thank you for your reply. On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings, The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts

Re: MFC: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/mail etc/mtree etc/rc.d share/man/man4 usr.sbin usr.sbin/auditdistd (fwd)) (fwd)

2012-12-18 Thread Chris H
On 12/18/12 16:18, Robert Watson wrote: Dear all: Just an FYI that the new distributed audit daemon has been MFC'd to 9-STABLE. Thanks. As noted in UPDATING, you will need to run mergemaster -p before using installkernel or installworld targets in order to add the new auditdistd

Re: MFC: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/mail etc/mtree etc/rc.d share/man/man4 usr.sbin usr.sbin/auditdistd (fwd)) (fwd)

2012-12-18 Thread Chris H
On 12/18/12 18:44, Chris H wrote: On 12/18/12 16:18, Robert Watson wrote: Dear all: Just an FYI that the new distributed audit daemon has been MFC'd to 9 20121201: With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now depended on during installworld

Re: buildkernel error ...

2012-12-17 Thread Chris H
On 12/17/2012 1:35 AM, Chris H wrote: hi all, I run FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1: Sun Apr 15 21:08:51 UTC 2012 amd64 yesterday I have cvsup-ed src and was trying to buildkernel bellow is error I receive: --- [ cut

Re: buildkernel error ...

2012-12-17 Thread Chris H
On 12/17/2012 1:35 AM, Chris H wrote: hi all, I run FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1: Sun Apr 15 21:08:51 UTC 2012 amd64 yesterday I have cvsup-ed src and was trying to buildkernel bellow is error I receive: --- [ cut

Re: How do I circumvent the use of clang during build?

2012-12-17 Thread Chris H
Greetings Beeblebrox, and thank you for your reply. have a look at /etc/src.conf and $ man src.cof you can set many buildworld options there. Good advise! Thanks. --Chris -- View this message in context:

Re: How do I circumvent the use of clang during build?

2012-12-17 Thread Chris H
Greetings, and thank you for your reply. Wouldn't this be a case where man src.conf on his system actually wouldn't tell the OP what he wanted, as clang was not available as option in 8? Of course the online version of that man page from RELENG_9* would. Indeed, and _boy_ was I surprised,

Re: buildkernel error ...

2012-12-17 Thread Chris H
On 2012-12-17 (Monday) 17:02:06 Chris H wrote: On 12/17/2012 1:35 AM, Chris H wrote: hi all, I run FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1: Sun Apr 15 21:08:51 UTC 2012 amd64 yesterday I have cvsup-ed src and was trying to buildkernel bellow is error I receive: --- [ cut

Installworld failure on RELENG_9

2012-12-16 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I've used BSD exclusively since the early 80's, and this is my first experience with a build(world|kernel) || install(world|kernel) fail. That said, after installing from a 9.0 CD syncing src ports, I began the process of building and installing a custom kernel, and building

Re: Installworld failure on RELENG_9

2012-12-16 Thread Chris H
Greetings Gary, and thank you for your reply. On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 03:07:46PM -0800, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I've used BSD exclusively since the early 80's, and this is my first experience with a build(world|kernel) || install(world|kernel) fail. That said, after installing from a 9.0

How do I circumvent the use of clang during build?

2012-12-16 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I recently made a failed attempt to move from RELENG_8 to RELENG_9. I've been on BSD since the early 80's, and with the exception of a couple of failed kernels (my fault), I've never had one failure with the build(world|kernel) || install(world|kernel). The only notable difference I

Re: How do I circumvent the use of clang during build?

2012-12-16 Thread Chris H
Greetings, and thank you for the response. On 16 December 2012 21:17, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: As I understand it, gcc is still the default on 9 For the build, but clang is still built. is it possible to build(world|kernel) install(world|kernel) without the clang

Re: buildkernel error ...

2012-12-16 Thread Chris H
hi all, I run FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1: Sun Apr 15 21:08:51 UTC 2012 amd64 yesterday I have cvsup-ed src and was trying to buildkernel bellow is error I receive: --- [ cut ] - ... cc -c -O2

What's the most effective way to restart net children?

2012-12-03 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I've always maintained at least a /24 since the early 80's. I'm now evaluating a new ISP, and am not ready to commit. Until then I'll be forced to use DHCP. My problem is that they are really mercenary about their lease(s) -- ~24hrs! So, given that I am treating the assigned IP(s) as

Re: What's the most effective way to restart net children?

2012-12-03 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 08:05 -0800, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I've always maintained at least a /24 since the early 80's. I'm now evaluating a new ISP, and am not ready to commit. Until then I'll be forced to use DHCP. My problem is that they are really mercenary about their lease(s

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