Re: authentication errors on 'make fetchindex' in /usr/ports

2020-12-03 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Bob Willcox wrote: I am trying to upgrade a 12.1-stable system installed back in July to 12.2-stable. I downloaded the new ports hierarchy and now when I attempt to run 'make fetchindex' I get these errors: /usr/bin/env fetch -am -o /usr/ports/INDEX-12.bz2 https://www.F

System unresponsive upon panic

2020-09-08 Thread Sean C. Farley
Occasionally, I do something (i.e., attempt to run VirtualBox) that provokes a panic on my workstation. When this happens, the system becomes completely unresponsive where not even a shutdown signal from pressing the power button works. It is probably a kernel panic, but there is no dump and

Slow CD access until primed by readcd (cdrtools)

2016-09-11 Thread Sean C. Farley
I ran into an issue with at least a few CD's where the access to them mounted as cd9660 was very slow. dd of /dev/cd0 was also slow. However, if I run readcd (from cdrtools-devel-3.02a06,1) at least once, which would run at full speed, then any access to the disc whether mounted or not is at

Re: cdrtools /devel and wodim broken

2010-10-26 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/26/10, Jakub Lach wrote: Joerg Schilling-3 wrote: wodim is a dead end from a 6 year old version of cdrecord with the DVD support ripped off and replaced by something broken. But there have been even more bugs added to wodim and it is not under

Re: kernel panic on 8.1-rc1 amd64

2010-06-18 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Thu, June 17, 2010 23:49, Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko wrote: Not much -- this is just panic I had in the same timeframe and solved it by disabling and, consequently rebuilding, Virtual Box kernel modules. I assume you either not loading or did dis

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 & AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Ivan Voras wrote: It looks like I've stumbled upon a bug in vSphere 4 (recent update) with FreeBSD/amd64 8.0/8-stable (but not 7.x) guests on Opteron(s). In this combination, everything works fine until a moderate load is started - a buildworld is enough. About five minute

mkvmerge requires rebuild after recent update

2010-01-05 Thread Sean C. Farley
Following an update of my stable/8 system to r201626, mkvmerge from the multimedia/mkvtoolnix port required a rebuild. The system was that the process would eat all available memory (4GB RAM and 8GB swap) until it was killed. Its size in top was something like--I should have wrote it down--76

Re: UTF-8 problem in 8.0

2010-01-04 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello Sean, Sunday, January 3, 2010, 9:03:01 AM, you wrote: The last commit that I recall (r192561) fixed dashes in front of options (.Fl macro) but not dashes present within a man page. Personally, I just create an alias for man to call 'LANG=C man'

Re: UTF-8 problem in 8.0

2010-01-03 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 15:47:36 -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello, After installing FreeBSD 8.0 I noticed that some characters aren't displayed correctly (it worked fine for 7.2). Mainly the dash character is most noticeable (though it's possible

Re: ataraid's revenge! (Was: Re: A nasty ataraid experience.)

2009-07-23 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Bruce Simpson wrote: 6 months on, ataraid(4) did it again. This time, I was lucky -- I caught in in time, but the damage to the filesystem meant having to use fsdb to NULL out the affected inodes; mounting read-only, tarring, and untarring across the network, after a n

Re: Panic in radeon_get_vblank_counter()

2009-03-16 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:27 +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 23:33 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Robert Noland wrote: If I start rebooting before it is printed, the system locks up. Of

Re: Panic in radeon_get_vblank_counter()

2009-03-13 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:49 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: After upgrading my laptop (Dell 600m) yesterday, I have begun to experience panics on it probably related to the DRM update. Killing the X server by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is a good way to lock the

Panic in radeon_get_vblank_counter()

2009-03-13 Thread Sean C. Farley
After upgrading my laptop (Dell 600m) yesterday, I have begun to experience panics on it probably related to the DRM update. Killing the X server by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is a good way to lock the system. Reboot to get a core dump. Piece of Xorg.log concerning the hardware using the xf86-video

Re: CFT: ath hal src switchover

2009-01-08 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Sam Leffler wrote: I've brought the hal source code back to RELENG_7 but not connected it to the build and/or driver. I want folks to test this before I commit those changes. To do this you must have an up to date RELENG_7 code base and then apply this patch: http://peo

Re: [Fwd: Re: kern/123552: [ath] [panic] kernel panic during network activity on ath0]

2008-11-21 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Sam Leffler wrote: Folks having problems with ath on releng7 should try the attached patch. It fixed the panic when SuperG was activated on the wireless router for me. Thank you! Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@fre

Re: Status of Flash 9 on stable

2008-10-17 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Chagin Dmitry wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Kostik Belousov wrote: Hmm, finaly I noted this thread. There is one more patch in the pipeline for 7 that is needed, as I was told. Testing of that patch seems to

Re: Status of Flash 9 on stable

2008-10-16 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Kostik Belousov wrote: Hmm, finaly I noted this thread. There is one more patch in the pipeline for 7 that is needed, as I was told. Testing of that patch seems to be stalled, so I am interested in the feedback. Possible rejects of the $FreeBSD$ chunks are fine. This patc

Re: Status of Flash 9 on stable

2008-10-16 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Mark Kane wrote: *snip* I also tried nspluginwrapper this time with native Firefox 3 as J.R. said. It doesn't crash like the Linux Firefoxes but hangs the browser for a couple minutes (eventually does recover, but Flash doesn't play) and these appear on the terminal: -

Re: Stuck in geli

2008-08-06 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:45:16AM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: Rarely, a geli partition I have freezes a process in bufwait state. It occurs after an ATA timeout message: Aug 5 03:47:13 thor kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left

Stuck in geli

2008-08-05 Thread Sean C. Farley
Rarely, a geli partition I have freezes a process in bufwait state. It occurs after an ATA timeout message: Aug 5 03:47:13 thor kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=219028637 The geli partition resides on an Intel MatrixRAID RAID1 mirror using the ICH9R chipset (Asus P

Re: apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

2008-06-12 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I myself haven't ever run into extension ordering issues like those described (and we've done hosting for years), but I don't doubt those who have experienced such. I am currently experiencing this :( In t

Re: DVD-RW doesn't write

2008-06-10 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: *snip* The drive is able to mount and read cds/dvds fine, but on trying to use burncd it says: acd0: FAILURE - READ_TRACK_INFO ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 Any further attempts produce the above message with no delay to read from the drive, rese

Re: Environment clearing broken in 7.0

2008-06-10 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:27 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: I think clearing environment using: environ[0] = NULL; has been kind of a semi-standard for a while now. At least Dovecot and Postfix clears their

Re: Environment clearing broken in 7.0

2008-06-09 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: I think clearing environment using: environ[0] = NULL; has been kind of a semi-standard for a while now. At least Dovecot and Postfix clears their environment this way. But this no longer works in FreeBSD 7.0 (putenv(), environ[0]=NULL, putenv() -> ever

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'd recommend staying away from Realtek NICs. Pick up an Intel Pro/1000 GT or PT. Realtek has a well-known history of issues. Just a note about the Intel Pro/1000 GT: it is on-sale[1] at NewEgg with free shipping. I just bought my third one to re

Re: 7.0 - slow/unstable Internet access via Linux router

2008-02-29 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Dmitry Antipov wrote: Hello, recently I've installed 7.0 and now I'm observing strange thing with my Internet connection. Access to some sites may be VERY slow or doesn't work at all with different kinds of timeout messages or without messages at all (but other sites works

Re: AMD64 vs i386, ifstat and bsnmp

2008-02-13 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:40 PM 2/13/2008, Sean C. Farley wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Hugo Silva wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: Couple of little things I noticed with a new RELENG_7 AMD64 box (as of yesterday) ifstat from the ports cannot seem to find interfaces for some

Re: AMD64 vs i386, ifstat and bsnmp

2008-02-13 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Hugo Silva wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: Couple of little things I noticed with a new RELENG_7 AMD64 box (as of yesterday) ifstat from the ports cannot seem to find interfaces for some reason ? It works fine on i386 *snip* Try this patch. The type to the fourth argument

Re: Bug in less version 406.

2007-08-04 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2007, Sean C. Farley wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: *snip* There's also another regression in less: it doesn't automatically repaint the screen anymore when you resize the terminal. I have alread

Re: Bug in less version 406.

2007-08-03 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: *snip* There's also another regression in less: it doesn't automatically repaint the screen anymore when you resize the terminal. I have already reported that regression to Mark Nudelman. He is looking into an appropriate fix since this regression w

Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing

2007-07-23 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: My original intention was just to say that openntpd works just out of the box, while ntpd doesn't. And since openntpd works fine for me, I am not really interested in resolving this. Anyway since so many of you seem to be, here is

Re: buildworld RELENG_6 - Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/kdump

2007-06-26 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:28:34PM +0400, Andrew Muhametshin wrote: What reason of a mistake? ===> usr.bin/kdump (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=athlon-tbird -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../ktrace -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../.. -c /u

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD. I can not even read a single sector from such

Re: gif problems in -STABLE

2006-12-30 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Dimitry Andric wrote: Hi, I just updated one of my machines from RELENG_6 as of 2006-11-03, to RELENG_6 as of 2006-12-29. This caused the IPv6 tunnel which this box uses, which had been doing fine for months, to suddenly stop working. Reverting to my 2006-11-03 kernel res

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Bill Moran wrote: A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the shutdown screen. A shutdown -p does the same. Other ACPIish stuff seems to work as advertised. (i.e. hitting the power button cleanly shuts down the OS) I'm posting this to stable@,

Re: Is there any good reason for get*by*_r()?

2006-09-27 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: get*by*_r() are deprecated on most platforms and there use is highly non-portable, lots of different API's. My understanding was that FreeBSD has copied the Linux version of the API. Why are we adding compatability for deprecat

Re: Strange spaces in ls -kls output, and dd(1) trouble

2006-09-25 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: Oh by the way, "dd conv=sparse" doesn't seem to work for me; it doesn't create a sparse file: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1000 conv=sparse 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 512000 bytes transferred in 0.070895 secs (7221952 bytes/sec) $

Re: /etc/rc.d/moused ignores moused_enable="NO"

2006-07-28 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Just out of curiosity I'd like to know why and how the moused rc script ignores the moused_enable="NO" setting. Do you also have moused_nondefault_enable set to "NO"? This is assuming you have a USB mouse. Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: burncd blank and format problems

2006-07-15 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, B Briggs wrote: Sorry to have to bring this up again, seems like it was an issue 4 years ago, but I don't know if it's really resolved. If I do: #burncd -f /dev/acd0 blank then burncd will sleep forever. (I have to Ctrl-C for it to exit) It doesn't really hang, but please