Re: XFCE based LiveDVD/IMG

2012-07-28 Thread Tim Darby
is probably hosed Mounting root from ufs:da8s1a no disk named 'da8s1a' setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 Tim On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2012 13:54:11 Tim Darby wrote: Unfortunately, it failed

Re: XFCE based LiveDVD/IMG

2012-07-28 Thread Tim Darby
I haven't tried from CD yet. Tim On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:54:11 +0200, Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.net wrote: Unfortunately, it failed during boot on my Dell Studio 14z laptop (1440), so I think DF just doesn't like

Re: XFCE based LiveDVD/IMG

2012-07-25 Thread Tim Darby
Unfortunately, it failed during boot on my Dell Studio 14z laptop (1440), so I think DF just doesn't like this hardware. I did try booting without ACPI and AHCI, but no luck. Lots of errors, but where it failed each time was at device xpt. I can provide exact error messages, if you want. Tim

Re: XFCE based LiveDVD/IMG

2012-07-23 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks, I will definitely give this a try and let you know how it goes. Tim On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: Hi, I've been working on and off on a better, XFCE based DVD/IMG for some time (hehe, more off than on). The result of my attempts so far

Hammer log message

2012-07-18 Thread Tim Darby
I saw this message in the log: HAMMER debug: shifted cursor pointing at parent parent 81992a0f:13 onode 819961415000:0 nnode 8199609b:50 I suspect this is just informational, but wanted to be sure. Tim

Hammer mirroring question

2012-06-21 Thread Tim Darby
I really like that hammer mirror-stream resumes on its own after you clear space on a destination drive that has filled up, but is there anything in hammer that can be used to alert you to a full slave drive? Tim

Re: Hammer mirroring question

2012-06-21 Thread Tim Darby
Sure, df works fine. I was wondering if there was some status code or something thrown by hammer mirror-stream that would give me a more real time alert. Tim On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Tobias Weingartner weing...@tepid.orgwrote: Does 'df' not work? -Toby. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8

GPT question

2012-05-05 Thread Tim Darby
Shouldn't gpt at a minimum check to see if a device is mounted before creating or destroying a table? I just lost a full 2TB drive's worth of data (backed up, fortunately) because I fat fingered the device name. Why would it ever be a good idea to allow this on a mounted device? Tim

Hammer prune issue

2012-04-30 Thread Tim Darby
When I run hammer prune-everything remotely via SSH, it pretty consistently causes all network connections to that box to die, including my ssh session. Has anyone else seen this? Tim

Re: Hammer prune issue

2012-04-30 Thread Tim Darby
Not totally sure but, during the prune, I can't make any new connections to the box and my SSH session gives up and I have to reconnect when the box is no longer busy. It's a 6 core AMD machine with 8GB of RAM running master, but it's not a new problem. Tim On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:52 PM

Re: Time problem

2012-04-26 Thread Tim Darby
time? - Is this machine's CMOS clock set to UTC? Tim On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed Dragonfly 3.0.2 on an x86_64 box side-by-side with Arch Linux

pkgsrc: multimedia/handbrake

2012-01-31 Thread Tim Darby
gmake[1]: *** [hb.o] Error 1 gmake: *** [libhb/libhb.a] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop. bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/handbrake *** Error code 1 Stop. bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/handbrake Tim

Re: pkgsrc: multimedia/handbrake

2012-01-31 Thread Tim Darby
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:51 AM, John Marino dragonfly...@marino.st wrote: On 1/31/2012 4:48 PM, Tim Darby wrote: The build of handbrake fails as shown below. What do I need to do to get this working? A lot. You need to: bmake clean bmake patch then go into the work directory

Re: How to Correctly map sernos to device names

2011-11-24 Thread Tim Darby
utility to do this, but attached is a perl script I made, based on a perl script someone posted awhile ago, to convert serial numbers to devices. Tim sernotodev Description: Binary data

SATA drive problem

2011-06-29 Thread Tim Darby
, but just wanted to check with the experts first. I haven't had a chance to run a drive diagnostic yet. I did try a repeat of that same mv command and it happened again. The drive is just a month old, FWIW. Tim

Re: screen problem

2011-06-16 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks. I installed it using pkg_radd and was hoping it would just work. I haven't used screen before, so I couldn't rule out the possibility of PEBCAC. If I get a chance, I'll try compiling it to see if that makes a difference. Tim On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Matthias Rampke matth

screen problem

2011-06-15 Thread Tim Darby
I get this in /var/log/messages when I try to run 'screen' in an ssh session on df 2.10.1: kernel: pid 18254 (screen-4.0.3), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I just wanted to let someone know in case this is a bug. I switched to dtach instead, which does what I need. Tim

Buffer strategy message?

2011-04-30 Thread Tim Darby
I see this message on halt/reboot occasionally. Is it something I need to worry about? Synching disks... done No strategy for buffer at 0xffe056aabf00 : 0xffe0840876a8: type VBAD, sysrefs 1, writecount 0, holdcnt 0, Uptime: 12h9m53s the operating system has halted \ Tim

Re: PCI parallel port card

2011-04-02 Thread Tim Darby
motherboard doesn't have a built-in port? Can I solve this by using a USB to parallel port converter? Tim On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.net wrote: I installed an I/O Future PP210 two parallel port PCI card and it's not being recognized (DF 2.9.1 master). I get

Re: PCI parallel port card

2011-04-02 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks, Justin, I think this probably will work. I'll try it if I can't find a way to direct connect the printer. Tim On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.comwrote: On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.net wrote: After playing

PCI parallel port card

2011-03-21 Thread Tim Darby
X2' class = simple comms subclass = parallel port Tim

Hammer recover question

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Darby
of data! The bad news is that it's taking an incredible amount of time. So far it's been running 24 hours. Is that to be expected? The bad disk had approximately 50GB on it, as reported by the df utility, but I don't know how much of that is snapshots. Tim

Re: Hammer recover question

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks, guys. Yes, I can see how it would slow down on the bad spots. I'm just happy it's working as well as it is and I'll try to be patient. Any way you can add a progress bar to this thing? :-) Tim On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Justin C. Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote

Re: Random x86-64 seg-fault finally fixed

2010-12-22 Thread Tim Darby
Here's hoping everyone has an MPSAFE New Year! And I'm hoping one of these 48-core monsters shows up under my Christmas tree. Tim On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: The random utility seg-fault (usually cc1) on x86-64 appears to have

Re: Encrypted root questions

2010-12-19 Thread Tim Darby
error. I tried editing the rc script to change kill $UDEVD_PID to kill -9 and those messages went away. So what would cause udevd to not respond to SIGTERM? Tim On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.nett%2bdf...@timdarby.net wrote: Chris: agreed, email is not the best

Re: Encrypted root questions

2010-12-18 Thread Tim Darby
: - What are all these policies it keeps nagging about and should I care? - Why does umount of /tmp fail? Is that a problem? - What does the seg-fault line mean? Thanks, Tim Configuring LVM volumes Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Activated Volume Groups: Mounting new

Re: Encrypted root questions

2010-12-13 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks! Yes, I'm using master because I need it for the SATA ports on my motherboard. I'd be willing to put up some documentation for this stuff, but I don't want to snatch the google code-in opportunity away from some deserving person. ;-) Tim On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Alex Hornung

Encrypted root questions

2010-12-12 Thread Tim Darby
the way by adding the line: dm_target_crypt_load=YES I'm also interested in encrypted swap. Is there anything tricky about setting that up? Thanks, Tim

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-29 Thread Tim Darby
I think I've always added myself to wheel too and just recently stopped doing that, so I can't say if printing as an unprivileged user ever worked in the past. Thanks again for the fix. Tim On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Joe Talbott jose...@cstone.net wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:35

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-25 Thread Tim Darby
- there will be no further reports - Just to satisfy my own curiosity about the code: how does lpr.c eventually get to unp_connect()? I followed it as far as connect() in startdaemon.c and then lost the trail. Thanks, Tim On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Joe Talbott jose...@cstone.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-24 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks, Joe. I'll try this later when I'm at the machine's location. Doesn't sound like a smart thing to try remotely. ;-) Tim On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Joe Talbott jose...@cstone.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:57:06PM -0700, Tim Darby wrote: Here's the output: ~ ls -ld

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-23 Thread Tim Darby
was then upgraded via source to 2.8 and this is the first time I've used it to print. If I can find a spare machine, I'll try a fresh install. Would a vkernel make a good test? Thanks, Tim On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Garance A Drosihn dro...@rpi.edu wrote: On 11/22/10 9:41 PM, Tim Darby

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Darby
My /var/spool is a hammer pfs, as created by the installer defaults. This feels like it has to be a permissions problem somewhere, but I haven't had any luck finding it yet. Tim On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.orgwrote: Tim Darby wrote: Anyone have

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Darby
Here's the output: srwxrwx--- 1 root wheel 0 Nov 21 23:14 /var/run/printer uid=1001(tim) gid=1001(tim) groups=1001(tim) and this is the error I'm seeing: /usr/bin/lpr -PHPLaser /home/tim/test lpr: Unable to connect to /var/run/printer: Permission denied lpr: Check to see if the master 'lpd

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-21 Thread Tim Darby
Yep, lpr looks right: -r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 26588 Nov 21 12:56 /usr/bin/lpr and I haven't put nosuid or nosgid on my filesystems. It's very puzzling. Tim On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: Hmm. apollo:/usr/src/sys/vfs/hammer ls

Re: Native jdk15 build

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks, I'd like to try this. Tim On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Francois Tigeot ftig...@wolfpond.orgwrote: Hi all! I have just succeeded in building a native jdk: $ /usr/pkg/java/jdk-1.5.0/bin/java -version java version 1.5.0_16-p9 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition

Re: Linuxulator question, boot loader oddity

2010-11-07 Thread Tim Darby
I'm willing to go with that explanation, lacking a better one. ;-) However, in vi I would have had to accidentally type the sequence g~~, which doesn't seem likely. Tim On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Justin C. Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: On Sun, November 7, 2010 8:45 am, Tim

Re: Intel CPU question

2010-10-12 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks everyone, looks like it's AMD for me. Tim On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:09:51AM +0200, Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote: : : I recently bought a Phenom X6 1055T in a Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H : motherboard

Intel CPU question

2010-10-11 Thread Tim Darby
Does DragonFly support Core I7 or is AMD a safer choice? I'm ready to build a high end multi-core box and was wondering what my options are. Known-to-work motherboard suggestions would also be greatly appreciated. :-) Thanks, Tim

Linuxulator question

2010-09-25 Thread Tim Darby
What's the status of the Linuxulator? I saw that Alex put a lot of work into it, so is it basically done and just needs testers? Thanks, Tim

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-21 Thread Tim Darby
a lot just following the mailing lists. Are you going to throw a party when the BGL is completely gone? I'll bring the beer. :-) Tim On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the list just

MPSAFE work

2010-08-25 Thread Tim Darby
I'm noticing a lot of MPSAFE work in this dev cycle. Does this mean I'll see the end of the BGL in my lifetime? :-) Tim

Hammer inode warnings

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Darby
I'm guessing this behavior is OK but just wanted to be sure. I was playing around with the undo utility and tried: ocotillo# undo -i /data2/* Warning: fake transaction id 0x000100018040 Warning: fake transaction id 0x000100136040 /data2/tim: ITERATE ENTIRE HISTORY

Re: SiI 3124 support

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Darby
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :How good is the Silicon Image 3124 chipset support in the sili(4) driver? :Has it been well tested? : :Thanks, :Tim I don't have a 3124 board or a machine with PCI-X slots to test with. I believe

Re: SiI 3124 support

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Darby
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :Cool, it just works. I tried it today using a Rosewill RC-217 4-port SATA :PCI card. I was able to create a Hammer volume and copy files to it. : Attached is the dmesg: : :Thanks, :Tim Heh

Re: SiI 3124 support

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Darby
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :Cool, it just works. I tried it today using a Rosewill RC-217 4-port SATA :PCI card. I was able to create a Hammer volume and copy files to it. : Attached is the dmesg: : :Thanks, :Tim Heh

Re: SiI 3124 support

2010-01-25 Thread Tim Darby
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :How good is the Silicon Image 3124 chipset support in the sili(4) driver? :Has it been well tested? : :Thanks, :Tim    I don't have a 3124 board or a machine with PCI-X slots to test with.    I believe

2.4 install minor issues

2009-09-20 Thread Tim Darby
, newfs_hammer, or mount_hammer? Tim

mail/mailx question

2009-05-24 Thread Tim Darby
I was trying to write a mail script and couldn't find a way to set the from field to an arbitrary address.  Is there a way to do this with the base mail client?  I ended up installing mutt to solve the problem. Tim

Re: Disk question

2009-05-17 Thread Tim Darby
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: Tim Darby wrote: I have a machine that was running Windows XP until I recently installed 2.2.2 on it. This was mainly for the purpose of trying out Hammer. It contains a 40GB drive, which I made the boot drive

Disk question

2009-05-15 Thread Tim Darby
. Does that make any sense? Tim Copyright (c) 2003-2009 The DragonFly Project. Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. DragonFly 2.2.2-RELEASE #0

Crash in 2.2.2

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Darby
note the error message on the screen. I never had a crash under 2.0. I realize this report is pretty useless. If the machine does this again, what should I do at the debug prompt to collect more info? Tim

Re: 3ware raid card driver

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Darby
Matthew Dillon wrote: :I'm thinking of building a DF 1.8.1 machine with a 3ware 9650SE card and :was wondering if this card is going to work and what, if any, driver :limitations there are. : :Thanks, :Tim I'm not sure about that particular model. We do have drivers for the 7000/8000

Re: Installer question

2006-03-13 Thread Tim Darby
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Sun, March 12, 2006 9:46 am, Tim Darby wrote: I've been looking at the DF installer this weekend and was wondering what is the easiest way to create an unattended install of the OS? Ideally, I'd like to be able to boot a CD and return some time later

Installer question

2006-03-12 Thread Tim Darby
I've been looking at the DF installer this weekend and was wondering what is the easiest way to create an unattended install of the OS? Ideally, I'd like to be able to boot a CD and return some time later to a completely installed and configured base system. Tim

Re: Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

2006-02-10 Thread Tim Darby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:22:27PM -0700, Tim Darby wrote: Thanks for the suggestions! I installed qmail totally manually, since I didn't see a DFly package for it. There is no binary package because it can't be build without patching and therefore the package

Re: Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

2006-01-14 Thread Tim Darby
Amitai Schlair wrote: Tim Darby wrote: Thanks, I got sidetracked with another project and just now getting back to Qmail on DFly. It appears that root, which is what this runs under, already has those directories in its path, so I don't think that's the issue. I'm not very up on RC scripts

Re: Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Darby
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Tim Darby wrote: I got Qmail up and running today on 1.4 and it looks good. Coming from OpenBSD and having never done anything with FreeBSD or DragonFly before, it took me quite a while to figure out where everything was, but I did it. I have to give a hearty

Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

2006-01-08 Thread Tim Darby
' Good work on 1.4 btw! Tim

Re: Final 1.4 engineering, official release will be on Saturday

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Darby
the issues can be listed. -Matt Woohoo! Thanks Matt, I now know what I'll be busy with this weekend. My plan for the new year is to build a couple of QMail servers using DragonFly. There shouldn't be any issues with that, right? Tim

Cardbus notes

2006-01-01 Thread Tim Darby
Just a couple of observations fwiw - after installing 1.4 RC2, I noticed that it threw what looked like a boot error with my Xircom card, but then found it OK: Product version: 5.0 Product name: IBM | 10/100 EtherJet CardBus | IBMC-10/100 | 1.04 | Manufacturer ID: a400130181 Functions:

Re: Xircom cardbus NIC not working

2005-12-28 Thread Tim Darby
It worked, thanks! Tim Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: This is a dc(4) card. Please try: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/if_dc_xircom.diff Best Regards, sephe On 12/26/05, Tim Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all and Merry Christmas! I've been watching the DF lists for awhile now

Re: Xircom cardbus NIC not working

2005-12-26 Thread Tim Darby
Thanks! I'll give it a try and let you know. Tim Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: This is a dc(4) card. Please try: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/if_dc_xircom.diff Best Regards, sephe

Re: DP performance

2005-12-04 Thread Tim
not provided any technical details. Tim

Re: DP performance

2005-12-01 Thread Tim
Google Matt Dillon (not the actor) and do some research before shooting your mouth off on HIS mailing list. Try adding the keywords Best Internet if you are search engine challenged. Tim