Re: Postfix suddenly stopped working

2006-07-27 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:42:36PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: I never did get to the bottom of it. I rebuilt postfix and all of its dependencies, with no change in behavior. I did not ktrace the process, but gdb told me that it was sticking on an flock - I never did figure out which file

Re: disk diagnostics

2006-07-26 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:06:57AM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote: softupdates? writing meta data with sync will be really slow. No, not *that* slow, not even on K6-2-500 with 256 MB of SDRAM, where I have done it on a production FreeBSD 4.8 web mx box for donkey's years (too small to hold a

Re: struct dirent - difference between getdents(2) manpage and definition in /usr/src/sys/dirent.h

2006-07-26 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:55:00PM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote: I was fooling around a little with getdents (yes, I know that I shouldn't be using getdents!) and found that the getdents manpage happened to say this about struct dirent: Yeah, you shouldn't :-) The data in the buffer is a

Re: live CD question

2006-07-26 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:02:09PM -0400, Haidut wrote: I have a question about creating live CD based on Dragonfly. Is there any way to download the scripts/tools used to enerate the official Dragonfly live CD used for installation? The official live CD is built with the content in

Scheduled downtime and in-progress build for 1.6

2006-07-25 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
Hi all, packages.stura.uni-rostock.de will be unavailable for a few hours to reorganise the local disk space (e.g. make space for more package sets). At the same time, I have a package build running for DragonFly 1.6.0, available later from

Re: Cannot fetch distfiles on a 1.7-preview system

2006-07-20 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:50:18AM +0800, Jiawei Ye wrote: I have upgraded my box from 1.5-preview to 1.7-preview, and pkgsrc tools stopped fetching distfiles. Should be fixed now. Bug in our /bin/sh :-( Joerg

Re: Cannot fetch distfiles on a 1.7-preview system

2006-07-20 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:26:08AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:50:18AM +0800, Jiawei Ye wrote: : I have upgraded my box from 1.5-preview to 1.7-preview, and pkgsrc tools : stopped fetching distfiles. : :Should be fixed now. Bug in our /bin/sh :-( : :Joerg

Re: Does Java work on DragonFly?

2006-07-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:34:09PM +1000, Petr Janda wrote: My system doesnt seem to have that command :S. Geert Hendrickx wrote: Have you tried increasing your datasize resource limit? Do ulimit -d 262144 and try again. limit -d for some other shells. Joerg

Re: Dvd,dvd,dvd...

2006-07-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:03:00PM +1000, Petr Janda wrote: Xine looks horrible(and skins dont work) and xine menus behave very weirdly and slowly, I decided to try gxine, but it freezes on start up. watching dvds in mplayer is unwatchable (skips many many frimes). Ive never had similar

Re: Dvd,dvd,dvd...

2006-07-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:09:21AM +1000, Petr Janda wrote: Mine is set to 0. SO I did sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 and it says: sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.atapi_dma' is read only Why is that? It is a tunable as well, so set it in /boot/loader.conf. atacontrol has shown me that the device was in

Re: A question to all ATI-users

2006-07-12 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:23:34PM +0200, Thomas Schlesinger wrote: often, I have problems with a deranged screen display on xorg (see http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-schlesth/Bildschirmphoto.png). I use the xorg-server 6.9.0nb11 with the ati driver on an ATI mobility X600 graphics chip

Re: Final report on the Shuttle XPC (SN95G5v3) with an AMD X2 dual-core cpu in it, running DragonFly

2005-11-10 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:47:52PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: This is likely due to bugs in the NVidia ethernet driver, in particular the NVNET blackbox object module that Nvidia supplies (for linux) and hasn't handed out the source for. They seem to be making only a

Re: jail and /dev

2005-10-17 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 08:17:54PM +0200, Tomas wrote: Master sees the printer device: ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 845C, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode ..and /dev/ulpt0 exists, but not in jail and also cupsd in jail doesn't give me the list of devices

Re: Obfuscating asm code

2005-10-12 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:13:26PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Sure is. Call/ret = it will come here again. Jmps = it will jump there. call *%ebx there roll back two half stack frames (obviously you won't use real ebp frames), jump somewhere else, hop back to where you

pkgsrc status

2005-10-10 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
Hi all, just to keep you current. I have commited most parts of patchset, the remaining changes can be found under http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~joerg/pkgsrc/ As Jeremy already that, I recomment you to stay on the trunk. I'll start a full bulk build soon and continue fixing esp. KDE. Joerg

Re: Stdio and DragonFly changes

2005-09-29 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:15:32PM +, Oliver Fromme wrote: In my opinion, an application which wants to know the size of stdio's buffer is badly designed. The application doesn't want to know the actual size of the buffer, it just wants to know whether any data is inside. This is useful

Re: Samba 3.0.14a and 3.0.20 coredump

2005-09-23 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:47:10PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: I read in the archives that this might be due to propolice. Propolice in Preview should work fine, the bug there has been fixed. Joerg

Re: pkgsrc and /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2005-09-16 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:02:50PM +0300, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: Since it is decided that pkgsrc is the default packaging system for DragonFly, should ldconfig_paths in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should be changed to include /usr/pkg/lib ? I've done this in /etc/rc.conf.local, but should it be

Re: [OT] gcc, ssp, pie, and thunk

2005-09-14 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:31:58PM -0700, walt wrote: Yes, yes, I already have two different gcc's on DFly also. The extra feature that gentoo's 'gcc-config' provides is an app called 'fix_libtool_files' (in perl, IIRC) which runs around looking for those god-forsaken *.la (Libtool Archive)

Re: login.conf and .profile/.cshrc

2005-09-11 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:57:38PM +0200, Erik Wikström wrote: I just bootstrapped pkgsrc and thought that I was smart when I modified /etc/login.conf to add /usr/pkg/bin to $PATH only to spend an hour or two trying to find out why the path wasn't set. Reading a number of man- pages and trying

Re: make release question

2005-09-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:26:31AM +0300, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: But, after a make install_fetchpkgs release I get: Try make installer_release. release(7) should be removed I guess. Any takers? Joerg

Re: /usr/pkg/{bin,sbin} - where in $PATH ?

2005-09-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:12:02AM +0300, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: Hello! Where do you place in your $PATH /usr/pkg/{bin,sbin} ? First? Last?r Do the pkg_* utils from pkgsrc interract safely with the ones from FreeBSD's ports (which I assume are the ones in /usr/sbin/) ? I'll start

Re: pkgsrc on DragonFly status

2005-09-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:09:00PM +0800, Wade wrote: I've done a native install now, and I still can't build X.org - is there a patch I should know about? There's a bug in GCC 3.4 on release, which doesn't allow it to build xorg. Just compile that specific package with gcc2. Joerg

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: As far as recovery after a crash is involved, clearly nothing beats journalling, and i have to say that performancewise, i have the impression that Linux journalled filesystems do *very* well compared to FreeBSD, or at least

Re: pkgsrc on DragonFly status

2005-09-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:16:52PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: I've done a native install now, and I still can't build X.org - is there a patch I should know about? There's a bug in GCC 3.4 on release, which doesn't allow it to build xorg. Just compile

Re: pkgsrc on DragonFly status

2005-09-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:04:19PM -, Andreas Hauser wrote: Which bug would that be ? I have packages built with that compiler. Something in -O2, it's not triggered by ports, which normally uses -O1 after all. Joerg

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:13:52PM -, Andreas Hauser wrote: joerg wrote @ Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:09:39 +0200: Don't compare experimental filesystems with UFS :-) While not having as much testing behind them as UFS, at least on Linux, they aren't experimental filesystems anymore. I was

Re: Linux Emulation in the Future

2005-09-01 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:13:51AM +1000, John Duncan wrote: Even then I would have to find out how to put elf notes for DragonFly in it I suppose. Oh, no. That's an misunderstanding :-) You have to generate *Linux* elf notes, to allow the linux emulator to decide it is needed. Joerg

Re: pkgsrc bulk build results

2005-08-31 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:00:17AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: PackageBreaks Maintainer -- lang/tcl 139 [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's broken with this? I thought I had the necessary patches in my

Re: pam_skey question... revisited

2005-08-31 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:48:03PM +0200, reezer wrote: Jonathon McKitrick wrote: The problem is, I got the latest preview 2 days ago, built and installed, and commented out the pam_skey lines in /etc/pam.conf. I'm still getting the message about the .so file not being found. I have

Re: pam_skey question... revisited

2005-08-31 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:38:35AM -0700, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: I think that if /etc/pam.d/ exists it overrides /etc/pam.conf (or this seems to be hanging in my memory from previous PAM work). If it's true, this is worth noting as well. PAM works on a first come, first serve base for each

Re: pkgsrc on DragonFly status

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:44:34AM +0800, Wade wrote: Is xorg expected to build right now? It failed for me a couple of days ago under vmware.. (the compilation stage). Which environment? I built it two days ago fine on post-HEAD. If you can, drop the output of bmake somewhere or mail me the

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:07:24PM +, Charles Allen wrote: I must admit I'm a bit shocked at the binary packages only talk. The point of this discussion is NOT binary-only. It is about defining the requirements for a package management system. You can do normal source builds, but it can mean

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:39:05AM +0200, Raphael Marmier wrote: While strictly copying MacOSX is not an option, our dream package management system should allow us to install an application and all its dependencies in its own directory, possibly with its own config space. This would be

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:29:43PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: If anything, it should be thought further (and some are already pressing in that direction, notably Xen and VMware ESX): self contained single purpose OS instances. A nice hype, but IMO a nightmare for administration. One

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-17 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:26:21PM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote: One of the only reason why I am still holding onto pkgsrc is because it has (atleast) some support for views or shall I say isolated installations of same package but different version; apart from that pkgsrc has no overall

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports

2005-08-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:59:35AM -0700, Chris Pressey wrote: - package install/deinstall can execute arbitrary commands This issue exists for every packaging system out there, simply because it is necessary for proper operation. - bsd.port.mk and friends are almost unreadable/unmaintainable

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports

2005-08-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:25:04PM -, Andreas Hauser wrote: From time to time one will svk sync to import the FreeBSD changes. The conflicts will not be to many because our changes will mostly be in files/. That way we keep a well maintained big ports tree that we can commit to as much

Re: Debugging pkgsrc on DragonFly

2005-08-14 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 06:49:14AM -0700, walt wrote: I've been using pkgsrc on DF for several months, but this is the first time I've seen this kind of error, and I'm baffled. You are missing the bmake bugfix. Check http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~joerg/pkgsrc/bmake.diff Don't forget to rerun

Re: attempted upgrade killed vinum

2005-08-11 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:36:41AM -0500, Jake Maciejewski wrote: I attempted to upgrade my dual PII fileserver from 1.2.0-RELEASE. I wasn't paying attention to my supfile and ended up downloading HEAD. Everything built fine and I installed the kernel. Even if I start in single-user mode, the

Re: [OT] x86 assembler question

2005-08-10 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:00:20PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: We're moving away from dongles, but I have to find something else to use instead. It's an expensive package we have to protect, but I think dongles are out of the question for this round. Round 1 had them, round 2 will not.

Re: HEADS UP ON -DEVELOPMENT

2005-08-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:42:52PM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote: What about time related fields, are they currently 64-bits wide? Nope and quite frankly, I hope that IA32 is dead when this becomes a problem. When we add support for other 32bit platforms, we can think about making them 64bit, but I

Re: HEADS UP: Custom config and HEAD

2005-08-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:19:13PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Ok, the config changes were not done the right way. They don't handle the situation when someone is compiling up a new kernel with an older system. I am going to back-out the changes to the 'config' program and

Re: cvsupfile targets

2005-08-01 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:31:29PM +0200, Erik Wikström wrote: *default release=cvs tag=DragonFly_RELEASE_1_2_Slip There's one important difference between _1_2_Slip and _1_2. The former is the latest versioned release state, the latter is the latest state of the release branch. Given that it

HEADS UP: Custom config and HEAD

2005-08-01 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
Hi all, I want to warn you that I'll soon commit the stat(2) changes and if you have a custom kernel config, you really want to have COMPAT_DF12, otherwise the kernel won't even make it through a reboot. Joerg

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