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: 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

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: Final 1.4 engineering, official release will be on Saturday

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Darby
Matthew Dillon wrote: I am finishing up the release engineering today and will roll an ISO for overnight distribution to our mirrors this evening, along with the necessary web pages and such. I am going to give our mirrors a day to get the ISO's before I make the web pages live

Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

2006-01-08 Thread Tim Darby
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 thanks to the people who put the DragonFly

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

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?

2006-02-10 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

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: 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

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

Crash in 2.2.2

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Darby
I have a machine that is a pf firewall, dns, ntp, and dhcp server (nothing else running), which was running 2.0. Last week, I did a fresh install of 2.2.2 on it. Yesterday, it crashed to the debugger prompt with an uptime of approximately 4 days. Unfortunately, the person who rebooted it didn't

Disk question

2009-05-15 Thread Tim Darby
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 and installed with Hammer. The other 2 drives are a 300GB Samsung IDE and a 200GB Western Digital IDE,

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

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

2.4 install minor issues

2009-09-20 Thread Tim Darby
2.4 looks great! The devfs stuff is very cool. I just had a couple of minor things: - On both machines I've installed, a Dimension 4500 and an Inspiron 8000, the hit any key to reboot after a halt doesn't cause a reboot - On a Studio 14z, I can't get either the CD or the DVD to boot using a

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 the

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.

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

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

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-21 Thread Tim Darby
I got interested in DragonFly early on because of the stated goals. It was exciting to see a BSD project that was really trying to advance the kernel. I started replacing more and more of my machines with DF until I had only one holdout, an OpenBSD machine for pf, and then that one got replaced

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

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

Re: Intel CPU question

2010-10-12 Thread Tim Darby
, and besides ACPI, everything I've used _seems_ to work : fine. I haven't done much testing yet though. : For example, I have NOT tested the audio card or run Xorg on it :) : : 2010/10/11 Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.net t%2bdf...@timdarby.net: : Does DragonFly support Core I7 or is AMD a safer choice

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: 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: 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: 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
. Thanks, Tim On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Joe Talbott jose...@cstone.net wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:50:18PM -0700, Tim Darby wrote: 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

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)

2010-11-24 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)

2010-11-25 Thread Tim Darby
at 09:57:06PM -0700, Tim Darby wrote: Here's the output: ~ ls -ld /var/run drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Nov 21 23:14 /var/run ~ ls -ld /var drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Aug 21 22:44 /var I agree; this is really bizarre-o. One other data point, fwiw: This machine, I'm pretty sure

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-29 Thread Tim Darby
:23AM -0700, Tim Darby wrote: Success, thanks! Just a few comments: Great. I committed the patch. - When I look at the commit history, it appears that the part you changed has been like that all the way back to the beginning of the project? I don't know if this issue has been here all

Encrypted root questions

2010-12-12 Thread Tim Darby
I'm trying to set up an encrypted root filesystem with disk A containing /boot and swap and disk B containing the encrypted root. Having never done this before, I figured I'd use /share/examples/rconfig/encrypted_root.sh as a guide. However, I ran into a couple of snags, so maybe someone can

Re: Encrypted root questions

2010-12-13 Thread Tim Darby
/2010 06:24, Tim Darby wrote: I'm trying to set up an encrypted root filesystem with disk A containing /boot and swap and disk B containing the encrypted root. Having never done this before, I figured I'd use /share/examples/rconfig/encrypted_root.sh as a guide. However, I ran into a couple

Re: Encrypted root questions

2010-12-18 Thread Tim Darby
Chris: agreed, email is not the best way to document things. I've experienced that same frustration trying to track down some important detail that only ever appeared in an email thread. That said, I have a few more questions. :) I now have encrypted root and encrypted swap set up (thanks,

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: 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

Hammer recover question

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Darby
I have a very old server that I was pretty sure was going to fail sometime soon, so I prudently started building a new one. Unfortunately, I wasn't quite fast enough and the boot drive failed this week. When it tries to mount root, it issues the usual successful hammer startup messages and then

Re: Hammer recover question

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Darby
: On Sun, February 20, 2011 4:28 pm, Tim Darby wrote: The good news is that it's recovering a ton 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

PCI parallel port card

2011-03-21 Thread Tim Darby
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 this in dmesg: pci4: simple comms, parallel port (vendor 0x9710, dev 0x9865) at device 6.0 irq 7 pci4: simple comms, parallel port (vendor 0x9710, dev 0x9865) at device 6.2 irq 5

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

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

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

Re: screen problem

2011-06-16 Thread Tim Darby
...@rampke.de wrote: On Montag, 13. Juni 2011 at 22:21, Tim Darby wrote: kernel: pid 18254 (screen-4.0.3), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I remember seeing that too. I don't exactly know what made it go away, probably recompiling the package (and possibly some library it depends

SATA drive problem

2011-06-29 Thread Tim Darby
I tried to move a big folder from one SATA drive to another and the machine stopped responding to the point that it lost network connectivity (DF 2.10.1). After reboot, I found the following errors: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: offset: 6631784448, size: 4096 kernel: swap_pager:

Re: How to Correctly map sernos to device names

2011-11-24 Thread Tim Darby
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to correctly map /dev/serno to device names. Currently the devices I have are given below What is M00B3EK2306. Is it cd0? How does one know? Thanks --SIju I'm not aware of an included

pkgsrc: multimedia/handbrake

2012-01-31 Thread Tim Darby
The build of handbrake fails as shown below. What do I need to do to get this working? = Bootstrap dependency digest=20010302: found digest-20080510 === Building for handbrake-0.9.3nb8 cd /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/handbrake/work/HandBrake-0.9.3 gmake gmake: svnversion: Command not found echo

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: Time problem

2012-04-26 Thread Tim Darby
I thought this was a bug too and filed my own bug report on it, until it dawned on me that the intent of the installer is to set the system to UTC time instead of local time. In order to make this friendlier to new users, I suggest two questions in the installer: - Do you want UTC time or local

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
, Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.net wrote: 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

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 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
:57 AM, Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.net wrote: 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

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

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 is

Re: XFCE based LiveDVD/IMG

2012-07-25 Thread Tim Darby
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Tim Darby t+df...@timdarby.net wrote: 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

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