Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-07-05 Thread Samuel J. Greear
A DragonFly BSD Paypal account has been established at pay...@dragonflybsd.org, Matthew Dillon will maintain primary ownership of the account. Some pre-existing funds that were earmarked for DragonFly are being moved into this account, which will be used to fund future hardware acquisitions by the

Re: Failure to allocate contiguous memory

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Kyuupi kyuupic...@gmail.com wrote: I have jerky window dragging where repainting is very slow. I believe it is because DRI is not working with my graphics card, in turn because of a failure to allocate contiguous memory. Relevant snippets of dmesg below. Is

Re: upgrade i386 -- x86_64?

2012-03-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM, peeter (must) karu.pr...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Nikolai Lifanov lifa...@mail.lifanov.com wrote: On 3/19/2012 6:54 AM, peeter (must) wrote: Hi all I wonder if there's a way to (cross) compile an x86_64 system on a i386 one,

Re: upgrade i386 -- x86_64?

2012-03-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On a related note, I found a GSoC project to implement a i386 ABI for x86_64 kernel. I wonder what is the status of this? Peeter No students have attempted it. Sam

Re: cross-Compiling DFBSD on an Ubuntu machine.

2012-03-11 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alex Hornung ahorn...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/12 18:14, karim.allah.ah...@gmail.com wrote: I've an Ubuntu machine ( oneiric ), Is it possible to cross-compile DFBSD ? In a nutshell: no, it isn't possible. Cheers, Alex To clarify: the build

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: How hard would it be to port DragonFly to the ARM and run it on a Raspberry Pi? Pierre -- ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji I have never ported an operating system kernel, so this is merely educated speculation

Re: 3.0 release this weekend

2012-02-16 Thread Samuel J. Greear
I don't know if it [KDE] installed completely in 2.10, come to think of it. The KDE versions in pkgsrc are grossly out of date. Users should actually have better luck compiling newer KDE version by hand from the KDE repo's directly, because of work Alex H. did getting DragonFly patches into

Re: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12 on RELEASE_3_0

2012-01-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/src/sys/platform/pc32/i386/genassym.c:1: error: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1

Re: Request for suggestion for setting up a server with 4 HDDs

2011-12-27 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Mirror, slightly dated it seems: http://dragonflyweb.evilprojects.net/ Sam On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Zenny garbytr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the pointer, but again the dragonflybsd site is down (GMT 08:53:45 Decemeber 27, 2011) to access the link Justin pointed to:

Re: What is the minimal memory requirement for HAMMER?

2011-12-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Zenny garbytr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I am trying to experiment with HAMMER with a spare PIII/500Mhz old machine with 256MB of RAM. I installed the RELEASE-2.10 version of DFBSD. But when I try to execute hammer cleanup, it spits out an error that reads:

Re: Is anyone still using gcc 4.1 on master?

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
pcc is not a candidate. Sorry, I disagree, although I understand if you aren't going to be the one to port it. Sam

Re: Is anyone still using gcc 4.1 on master?

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, John Marino dragonfly...@marino.st wrote: On 11/7/2011 8:03 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote: pcc is not a candidate. Sorry, I disagree, although I understand if you aren't going to be the one to port it. Sam I don't understand that sentence.  Are you saying

Re: Is anyone still using gcc 4.1 on master?

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado i...@juanfra.info wrote: On 11/07/2011 10:50 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote: Our C++ dependencies would not be that difficult to overcome and I do not see why the system compiler should necessarily have to support pkgsrc directly

Re: onboard sound

2011-10-31 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Alex Hornung ahorn...@gmail.com wrote: Devices are automatically created by devfs. MAKEDEV is obsolete. If you don't know which sound driver is the one you need, there is a pseudo-driver that depends on all others (sound.ko, iirc). If you load that, and you

FreeNAS Port? (Was: Re: Does something like nanobsd.sh exist or in the making for DF?)

2011-10-28 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty much on spot .. yesterday I was on #dragonflybsd asking it there was any interest on working on a DragonFlyBSD version of FreeNAS ... The first thing someone would want to do is fully implement and get working well

Re: kqueue does not set EV_EOF flag

2011-09-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2011/9/6 Andrey N. Oktyabrski a...@bestmx.ru: Good day. I have some problems between nginx and backends. Nginx can not see when the backend closed connection. The nginx developers said there is a kqueue problem. They wrote test program (attached), which works well under the FreeBSD and

Re: Linux ldconfig segfaults

2011-08-08 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: I just tried to run a Linux program on DragonFly. I got the following: -bash-4.1$ /usr/pkg/emul/linux/bin/bash ELF interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found Abort trap: 6 I then checked the man page and found that I need

Re: HEADS UP: GENERIC and X86_64_GENERIC now have 'options SMP'

2011-05-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: Have there been any measurements as to performance penalties with 'options SMP' on uniprocessor systems? -- vs Not AFAIK, but quantifying the damage should be a definite prerequisite before eliminating the SMP option

HAMMER/Samba shadow copy module

2011-03-13 Thread Samuel J. Greear
I started on this, but probably won't have time to go any further with it for at least several weeks -- if anyone wanted to pick it up and run with it, it should be pretty self-explanatory. https://github.com/thesjg/samba3_hammer_shadow_copy Best, Sam

Re: Avalon maintainance update

2011-01-11 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Justin C. Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: On Tue, January 11, 2011 6:01 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:     Avalon will be down all of this week for maintainance.  It is getting     a new storage subsystem.  We expect to be able to get it back into a    

Re: Comments on pkgsrc and DragonFly

2011-01-07 Thread Samuel J. Greear
both are excluding DragonFly, since uname -s return DragonFly and OSARCH is usually set to the same value. I can solve this by redefining OSARCH variable and UNAME_s shell variable as DragonFlyBSD, which makes less work to do. But it doesn't seem very clean to me, so I'm not using it. But it

Re: Pango fails for Linux binaries

2011-01-01 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: I tried both bst (a program to develop software for the Parallax Propeller microcontroller) and openoffice and got the same error: -bash-3.2$ /tmp/bst (bst:36461): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded

Google Code-In update

2010-12-22 Thread Samuel J. Greear
An update on our Google Code-In progress, the documentation tasks that are not code-related are still decidedly unpopular. The most popular tasks seem to be those that involve some coding, several fairly complicated projects have been done by students so far. The available tasks: doc: Improve

Re: kdebase-workspace4 error gmake[1]: *** [libs/ksysguard/processcore/CMakeFiles/ksysguardprocesslist_helper.dir/all] Error 2

2010-12-13 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Hasso Tepper ha...@estpak.ee wrote: On 13.12.10 13:18, Siju George wrote: I get this error during bmake update EP' was not declared in this scope /usr/pkgobj/bootstrap/work/pkgsrc/x11/kdebase-workspace4/work/kdebase-

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: Suggestions? quick-fix / hack wise - probably setup some job to run way more often that checks the status makes a determination - or move the job to something like

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: Samuel J. Greear wrote: That said, I think it would be fine to commit one or more optional stopgap measures/scripts to the RC system, for mobile users and etc., as long as it is well documented that they may go

Re: Misleading directory names

2010-09-28 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2010/9/28 Przemysław Pawełczyk pp...@o2.pl: Hi, Listing from http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/ Name         Last modified      Size  Description Parent Directory                  - README       18-May-2010 02:45  1.3K amd64/       24-Aug-2010 23:56    - i386/        27-Sep-2010

Re: Looking for some programming tasks to do

2010-09-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:55 AM, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: I've been learning C++ for about a year now(own about 5 books on it), and I also started doing a couple of projects in the language at work, but I feel I need to use/understand plain C a bit more. Is there any projects on

Re: Weird entry in ISO

2010-09-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2010/9/24 Przemysław Pawełczyk pp...@o2.pl: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:43:26 +0100 Alex Hornung ahorn...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/09/10 13:37, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: I know, and I would expect such answer. No offense please, but for how long yet such attitude will prevail in Unix community?

Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the list just as much as the regular posters. What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or participate in its development by following this list? Technical features, methodologies, something about the

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2010/9/20 Przemysław Pawełczyk pp...@o2.pl: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:33:28 -0600 Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the list just as much as the regular posters. What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-09-01 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 03:01:41AM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: : This 10-second-wait should be fixed with commit 847ff8c. : :Apparently the recent commit (within a week or so) re-introduced this :10-second

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-08-02 Thread Samuel J. Greear
This 10-second-wait should be fixed with commit 847ff8c. While debugging I noticed screen calls close(2) on all descriptors except stdin/err/out every time it forks. Making it use DragonFly's closefrom(2) would be a great optimization that would reduce new window creation times, if anyone

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-08-01 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:32 PM, YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt+d...@les.ath.cx wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:04:00PM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: I've pushed some fixes into master, Commit 0f2e13efc9137bb21562ef4093049fd044651429 should fix the screen issue. I updated the kernel

Bluetooth

2010-07-30 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Is anyone using bluetooth on dragonfly in any capacity? What are you doing with it? Sam

Re: Abnormal termination of greeter

2010-07-29 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: I did a full upgrade today, then tried to log in and got Abnormal termination of greeter. I rebooted and got the same error. kdm is still running. I logged in at the console and ran startx; it said kde4: not found and threw

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:32 PM, YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt+d...@les.ath.cx wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:04:00PM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: I've pushed some fixes into master, Commit 0f2e13efc9137bb21562ef4093049fd044651429 should fix the screen issue. I updated the kernel

Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:44 PM, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: What evidence do you have of newcomers being more than often turned away by having to use archaic tools? I visit a couple of Linux forums, and while the word DragonFly surely seems to have picked up some usage in the recent

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-26 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: I know where this bug is and am working on a fix. dhclient I am fairly certain is the same issue only in the pipe code instead of the FIFO code (where the screen problem is). I will follow up here when I have a patch

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
, 2010 at 09:16:56AM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: This only seems to happen on recent master with screen installed from a package. I was unable to reproduce with screen compiled from pkgsrc. Sorry, I realized I've been using the development version of GNU screen for virtical split

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:30 AM, YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt+d...@les.ath.cx wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 06:18:52PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:     Sam's select/poll infrastructure removal project is now in HEAD.  This     project reimplements the kernel's select() and poll() system calls using

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On 7/20/2010 3:18, Matthew Dillon wrote:     Sam's select/poll infrastructure removal project is now in HEAD.  This     project reimplements the kernel's select() and poll() system calls using     per-thread kqueues and

Re: HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:26 AM, YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt+d...@les.ath.cx wrote: Anyway, I'm giving your latest commit a try to see if it's related. Unfortunately, 21ae0f4c doesn't seem to fix my problem. This only seems to happen on recent master with screen installed from a package. I was

Re: HEADS UP: dm, lvm, cryptsetup and initrd on master

2010-07-11 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Alex ahorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, as you know I've been working on getting dm and lvm into DragonFly. I've just committed my work so far which includes the following:  - dm kernel

Re: dragonfly installation into virtualbox

2010-06-12 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Justin C. Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: On Sat, June 12, 2010 3:36 am, dark0s Optik wrote: I tried to launch dragonfly x86 2.6.3 installation into virtualbox 3.2, but it crash. The output is: Debugger(panic): stopped at     0xc0537b3c      movb  

Re: DragonFly 64-bit stability

2010-06-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Justin C. Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: On Thu, June 10, 2010 4:32 pm, Francois Tigeot wrote: Installing applications from pkgsrc went well. Unfortunately, running Postgres is a different matter: # /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/pgsql start Starting pgsql.

Re: HEADS UP: BIND Removal. Short instructions for migration to pkgsrc-BIND

2010-05-06 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Jan Lentfer jan.lent...@web.de wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2010 06:04:19 -0500 (CDT), Jeremy C. Reed r...@reedmedia.net wrote: Were the kqueue issues in DragonFly itself looked at/fixed? Afaik it is a bug in BIND and Samuel send a report to ISC. Jan I received a

Re: HEADS UP: BIND Removal. Short instructions for migration to pkgsrc-BIND

2010-04-22 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Jeremy C. Reed r...@reedmedia.net wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Jan Lentfer wrote: After playing around with this back and forth for a while I think I found the problem. Well, not actually the problem but a bypass to the BIND crashes. When building any version

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Jan Lentfer jan.lent...@web.de wrote: Justin C. Sherrill schrieb: You could probably try this with two separate virtual machines - 1 2.4 and 1 2.6.  Hint hint. Don't even need 2 VMs, 2 repositories one with 2.4 and one with 2.6 would be sufficient because

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
The source(s) for the client and build tools for freebsd-update are available. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/ Sam Sascha was kind enough to point out that Matthias has already ported

Re: amd64 - invitation to test

2009-08-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Simon 'corecode' Schubertcorec...@fs.ei.tum.de wrote: Jordan Gordeev wrote: Now, that GSoC is over, I have some spare time to say thanks. I'd like to thank all the people who have tested the amd64 port, namely Matthew Dillon and Antonio Huete Jimenez. Thanks

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-06 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Samuel J. Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Hi, : :Posted this to kernel@ by accident, please reply here instead :) : :I just wanted to know if there's any interest for the devs to add

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-06 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Samuel J. Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Hi, : :Posted this to kernel@ by accident, please reply here instead :) : :I just wanted to know if there's any interest for the devs to add

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-05 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Hi, : :Posted this to kernel@ by accident, please reply here instead :) : :I just wanted to know if there's any interest for the devs to add :something like p7zip to the base install; even if it's a simple fork :that