Re: Top ten interesting broken packages (Volunteers?)

2012-08-29 Thread Chris Turner
Hello On 08/28/12 07:30, Jelle Hermsen wrote: Great, does it also install well? I managed to get racket to bmake build fine, but when I bmake install it throws up errors during the compilation of the documentation. I did get racket-textual to build and install well on df32, and it runs

Re: Top ten interesting broken packages (Volunteers?)

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Turner
On 08/13/12 07:08, Jelle Hermsen wrote: I can take a look at fixing Racket. Should I test on both df64 and df32? Doh - sorry for sleeping on the list - have been switching jobs and my DF time has been languishing - If this hasn't been done I have a patch for racket32 lying around[1] - just

Re: Fwd: df64 pkgsrc 2012Q2 DragonFly 3.0/x86_64 2012-07-24 11:35

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Turner
On 08/07/12 16:16, Justin Sherrill wrote: It was somewhere around 2500, I think, and then the filesystem filled up. It was writing to disk faster than it was pruning, I think, ... no idea about the build setup - so maybe you're doing this already but for my local builds I tend to setup an

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Turner
On 05/08/12 14:17, Pierre Abbat wrote: The problem is that py26-twisted is required for some packages, and it conflicts with py27-twisted, which is apparently required for some packages that it will upgrade later. You might review the python options from iirc lang/python/buildlink3.mk - there

pkg/46340: lang/openjdk7: DragonFlyBSD port

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Turner
FYI I've finally gotten around to submitting a bug r.e. this port / emailing maintainers / tech-pkg@, etc. So.. hopefully the next mail will advise that it has been committed, and everyone can then begin to stare at NoClassDefFound stack traces as they try and configure all of their fave java

Re: sound

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/21/12 03:28, Chris Turner wrote: Note: not everything builds / runs 100% with all features on DragonFly there, so keep this in mind expect to muck around Forgot to mention that this can be a good way to learn about various system specific sound issues and maybe fix a few packages along

Re: scroll wheel doesn't work

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/14/12 06:04, Pierre Abbat wrote: Here's my latest try: I ran man psm and found that there are three operation levels which return different formats. In level 0, the mouse driver does not return scroll wheel information; in level 1, it does. This is probably overkill. Also, moused has an

Re: gpg-agent was Re: system rebooted for no apparent reason

2012-03-11 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/10/12 19:28, Pierre Abbat wrote: I installed pinentry-qt4 and added the lines to the conf files, but I'm not sure what to do about X. The instructions assume that I start KDE by logging into the console and typing startx. I use kdm, and I'd like it to work whether I log into KDE (my

Re: system rebooted for no apparent reason

2012-03-10 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/10/12 07:49, Pierre Abbat wrote: There was no kernel dump. How do I figure out what happened so that I can file a bug report? I'm not good at debugging these kinds of crashes myself - perhaps someone has some tips. However - if your signing setup in any way involves 3.0+ and a gpg-agent

Re: Install DragonFlyBSD on 32 MB RAM

2012-03-06 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/06/12 01:28, Edward M. wrote: On 03/05/2012 10:25 PM, v...@ukr.net wrote: What's the mistake and how can I fix it? try adding it to: /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf Indeed - you probably also want to choose the more specific PKG_OPTIONS.bind98 version as the 'default options' setting

Re: Install DragonFlyBSD on 32 MB RAM

2012-03-06 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/06/12 05:24, v...@ukr.net wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:28:59 -0800 But maybe it is worth fixing this page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/pkgsrc/#index7h3 as well, because that was the place where I learned about the '/etc/mk.conf/ file? Fixed - thanks for the

Re: Install DragonFlyBSD on 48 MB RAM

2012-03-02 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/02/12 10:51, v...@ukr.net wrote: After that my new system booted properly into multi-user mode and now I can connect via SSH to it and more or less do what I want. :) Glad it worked for you! P.S. After the installation I ran 'make pkgsrc-create' like DragonFlyBSD online documentation

Re: XScreensaver Tricks?

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/20/12 15:51, Chris Turner wrote: Any ideas? This was due to the crypt(3) changes committed in January which are not forward compatible with new passwords - so if you are running old binaries that are having problems authenticating against new password hashes, this is probably related

Re: Install DragonFlyBSD on 48 MB RAM

2012-02-27 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/27/12 11:10, v...@ukr.net wrote: Now when I try to run 'installer', it shows me a blue screen with a dragonfly, but after a couple of seconds it vanishes and gives me the following message: Perhaps someone can chime in with an installer tip - However, given this is a non standard and

XScreensaver Tricks?

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Turner
Hello - Usually I have xscreensaver installed suid so that it can grab password infos - it is started from an ~/.xinitrc by my normal user - I'm in the process of updating packages and this no longer works (only entering the root password unlocks the screen now) Log messages for xscreensaver

Re: repeated reboots

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Turner
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:47:57AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: Also, when Kmail started, Akonadi complained about not being able to register with dbus. I thus have to write this on the Linux box. How do I fix it? I think this is roughly related to the GConf error you reported earlier that I

Re: Akonadi/dbus was: repeated reboots

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/02/12 05:31, Pierre Abbat wrote: I have 2011Q4 in /usr/pkgsrc, but Q3 in pkgin, and have rebuilt one package. Should I try building dbus in Q4 or wait till the packages come out? Mine is using Q4 (technically -HEAD during the Q4 branch period of a couple of weeks ago) - Further tests

Re: Paper size

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/02/12 14:00, Pierre Abbat wrote: paperconf outputs a4. Since both are set to A4, why do the apps insist on defaulting to Letter? Because it is the 1 true paper size :D j/k even though from the usa I prefer a4 anyhow ... Seriously- the thing about unix printer setups and configuration

Re: OpenJDK 1.7 build notes

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Turner
Update: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:57:54PM -0600, Chris Turner wrote: x64 built through 1.6, however am encountering some build errors on 1.7. These do seem to be build configuration errors, and not e.g. JVM runtime errors, so I suspect they will not be too hard to correct. Got 1.7

Re: ssh -Y doesn't work

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Turner
On 01/16/12 11:21, Pierre Abbat wrote: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. ^ this is the problem Make sure that your DISPLAY is correct on this box, and that X clients can connect to your X server from here before trying ssh. Also always a good idea to

Re: OpenJDK 1.7 build notes

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Turner
On 12/18/11 02:21, Chris Turner wrote: I'll also try to repeat the process on x64 and see where that goes as soon as I get a chance to get a build / test environment setup (probably a few weeks) Update: x64 built through 1.6, however am encountering some build errors on 1.7. These do seem

Re: What is the minimal memory requirement for HAMMER?

2011-12-22 Thread Chris Turner
This value is tunable - an old P4/512Mb box required me to do the below locally, which alleviated the issue (though did impact running memory) See also the description in the LINT config / your current running values based on your warning looks like you'll want to try 4096 or so if your system

Re: dragonfly bsd and vkernels

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Turner
On 12/08/11 03:18, Samuel J. Greear wrote: Vkernels are mostly used for kernel development and testing, but also certainly for isolation. Side note, for reference, at risk of stating obvious - we also still have jails as well. Cheers, - Chris

Re: Problem booting

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Turner
On 11/29/11 03:06, Konrad Neuwirth wrote: The only thing that I could reasonably easily produce is an output of lsusb --verbose from a debian console on that hardware, I'm enclosing the output as a txt file. The stuff that I am particularly interested in is the Raritan interfaces. Of course you

Re: Problem booting

2011-11-26 Thread Chris Turner
On 11/22/11 04:13, Konrad Neuwirth wrote: The keyboard the devices has is well recognized; but after the ums0 probe, nothing happens. Theoretically, there should still be a CD Rom attachment on the device; that is what I'm trying to boot off. Is the ums port the CD device being

Re: my old laptop bios freezes on reboot after dflyBSD installed

2011-11-26 Thread Chris Turner
On 11/22/11 20:42, Edward M. wrote: I'm have an issue with my old laptop and DragonFlyBSD. Does the bios have an option to disable ACPI? This might be worth a shot. You might also muck around with IRQ numbers for the various devices if that is possible. Also - you might want to make sure

Re: Unable to boot Dragonfly GUI on virtual machine

2011-11-13 Thread Chris Turner
On 11/09/11 15:00, Sanath Kumar wrote: PS: I would love to install DFLY on my laptop, but the X Server won't start because my laptop has a non-standard NVIdia hybrid gfx card. So, I am trying to install it in the VM. Not sure how nonstandard you mean, but usally the 'nv' driver works

Re: partition invalid or corrupt (solved)

2011-11-13 Thread Chris Turner
On 11/13/11 01:38, william opensource4you wrote: In fact Grub sounds to not be able to mount the UFS of Dragonfly ;-(. So, I must ask Grub to forward the control to an another bootloader. Wonder if grub only understands 32bit disklabels? hmm.

Re: Streamline pkgsrc issues: DragonFly developer gained NetBSD commit privilege

2011-09-20 Thread Chris Turner
On 09/12/11 05:17, John Marino wrote: I think the dfly-pkg-people idea was probably okay in theory, but it doesn't sound like it's been too successful so far. Personally I think this is symptomatic of the fact that our overall df-to-pkgsrc bug reporting / fixing process could be much more

Re: Seeing processors induvidually on an SMP system dmesg

2011-08-24 Thread Chris Turner
On 08/23/11 07:32, Siju George wrote: Is this normal? Shouldn't the cores be listed separately? You have to use 'top -M' to see the per-cpu usage percentage instead of the overall average. Individual processes should still be listed as running on individual CPU's in the process display

Re: PPTP VPN

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Turner
On 08/19/11 18:00, Pierre Abbat wrote: I've looked all over the Web and tried things and nothing worked right. And I still don't understand what's going on. What does pppd do, and what does pptp do? Why are they separate? There is a package ssh-ip-tunnel-1.0nb1 = Simple VPN system using pppd

Re: PPTP VPN

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Turner
On 08/20/11 05:53, Chris Turner wrote: As the pptp package is the client only one, this is the one you'll need to use - the freebsddiary post is a bit confusing because it defines the pptp configuration file as ppp.conf - however, whatever the file is called it needs to be called using the pptp

Re: rebuilding pkg_install fails

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Turner
On 08/11/11 16:52, Pierre Abbat wrote: If the maintainers fix the bugs, will the fixes get into the git branch so that I can get KDE, even if I have to compile it? If the bugfixes don't make it into the stable quarterly you are using you can always do something like: mv

Re: hal and udev

2011-07-24 Thread Chris Turner
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:21:58AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: Disclaimer: not a gnome dev / only familiar at high level - It is correct that Dragonfly uses udev instead of the deprecated hal. As I take it - hal is a gnome related hardware layer so e.g. gnome applications can do things like

Re: Running OpenGrok on DragonFly

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Turner
On 07/23/11 04:32, Francois Tigeot wrote: My motivation for making the JDK 1.6 work on DragonFly was to run OpenGrok. This is a great document - could you add a 'howto' to the 'howto' section here: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/documentation/ and maybe a separate page for just the java

Re: Unable to login with PPPoE (2.10-RELEASE x86)

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Turner
failed: errno: No such process I think that this is about the problem, but Im pretty unsure how to interpret that. cheers Georg Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2011, 10:05 + schrieb Chris Turner: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Georg Bege wrote: The funny thing is, addresses do get

Re: Unable to login with PPPoE (2.10-RELEASE x86)

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Turner
On 07/08/11 11:15, Georg Bege wrote: Hi I've to say that I've got it to work finally! I was playing with it yesterday evening, and suddenly it work - Im unsure if it was a typo or whatever - really dont get it. But its okay now! Nice! I forgot to warn about the 'dreaded ppp.conf

Re: desktop or server

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Turner
On 07/07/11 09:45, Georg Bege wrote: Personally I'd say you could use it for both, but what you've to keep in mind are proprietary graphic card drivers (as nvidia). to be clear - these cards almost always work in console and for X in 2D mode with the xorg 'nv' driver. 3D support is not

Re: Unable to login with PPPoE (2.10-RELEASE x86)

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Turner
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Georg Bege wrote: The funny thing is, addresses do get resolved (if I dont have any default) I dont get anything (no dns/resolving). But ping doesnt get through nor any kind of connection. Do I have this correct: - without the route assignment, dns

Re: SORBS listing

2011-06-30 Thread Chris Turner
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:30:08PM -1000, Peter Avalos wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:15:32PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: SORBS delisted crater, so hopefully that should help if anyone's using it. Cheers - That's what I get for being lazy and not hooking up

SORBS listing

2011-06-24 Thread Chris Turner
Was reading my 'lack of' mail - looks like somehow crater got blacklisted on SORBS - maybe someone signed up with a bad address? also saw a similar issue with freebsd lists so my tinfoil hat theory is to blame a nefarious GNUsurper with a vengance against 'non free' software - that, or their

Re: HEADS DOWN: via padlock possibly broken on master

2011-06-18 Thread Chris Turner
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 01:29:21AM +0100, Alex Hornung wrote: I added support to make use of Via's on-chip RNG, but someone needs to test it to confirm that it works as expected; I don't have a VIA CPU for testing. As someone recently bit by a similar type of issue ( rum(4) not being up-ported

Re: usb wifi stick

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Turner
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:28:44AM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:26:34 +0200, Andrew Boehringer andrewboehringer...@hotmail.com wrote: Currently, we don't have a working USB wifi driver, unfortunately. What happened to rum(4) , for example? I do see it is in tree

Re: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit NIC support

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Turner
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:52:15PM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: You probably need to change dev/netif/igb instead of em and ig_hal. You could simply add the PCI ids to igb and see whether it works or not. The plot thickens - based on a whole lot of suppositions, b/c it would take hours

Re: md5 sums and hammerfs encryption

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Turner
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:47:19AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: Also, if root is not encrypted but some other partition is, can the init script time out and continue booting without the encrypted partition? For rebooting remotely this would be useful. Though I have not experimented with

Re: ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=809594688

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Turner
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:54:26AM +0530, Siju George wrote: Also How do I map ad8 etc to their sernos? The answer i got from this list earlier was to ls /dev/ and /dev/serno and match according to the order found there Looks like you're on the right track - but not quite there - the

Re: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit NIC support

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Turner
Hello - On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:10:10PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Thaks for your reply :-) Which files should I edit for this? I took a look at this w/r/t the FreeBSD / openbsd drivers to try and provide some hints, and it looks like this is a 'non trivial' case - that is to say, there

Re: Mounting DVD disk in virtual kernel

2011-04-17 Thread Chris Turner
On 04/17/11 06:18, vasily postnicov wrote: $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/vcd0 /mnt -t udf perhaps?

Re: SO_NOSIGPIPE

2011-03-13 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/12/11 08:55, Sascha Wildner wrote: Same goes for NetBSD and OpenBSD. Someone obviously confuses FreeBSD with BSD there. But hey, that's still better than confusing portable with should compile on all Linux distros. :) What - so you're not running the latest *BSD 'distro? I for one am

Re: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit NIC support

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Turner
On 03/03/11 22:47, Siju George wrote: OpenBSD detects it as em0 but dragonfly does not detect it :-( Is there any thing I need to do like kernel configurations etc? Or should I wait till the driver is ported? knowing nothing about the driver itself - a quick check of our manual vs their manual

Re: Home stretch on new network - if_bridge looking better

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/25/11 01:33, Matthew Dillon wrote: Most informative cheers!

Re: Home stretch on new network - if_bridge looking better

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/24/11 11:50, Matthew Dillon wrote: http://apollo-vc.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/bridge1.txt http://apollo-vc.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/bridge2.txt So - reading over this - is it correct that the setup is roughly like: - assign a local interface (lan0) to a network - add this

Re: Dragonfly network changes

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/18/11 00:53, Francois Tigeot wrote: Do they offer IPv6 ? man gif(4) MUHUAHAHAHAA - C

Re: Dragonfly network changes

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/18/11 03:59, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: So please, next time wrote your jokes correctly. man mdoc(7)

Re: Dragonfly network changes

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/18/11 11:09, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: FTFY Within each index entry, the title of the writeup to which it refers is followed by the appropriate section number in parentheses. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/manintro.txt UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL K. Thompson D. M.

Re: installed Postfix, no periodic message

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/15/11 22:24, Pierre Abbat wrote: I installed Postfix, which provides a Sendmail compatibility program at /usr/pkg/sbin/sendmail. The Sendmail binary was at /usr/sbin/sendmail. The periodic jobs just ran, but I don't get the usual emails. How come? Do I have to add /usr/pkg/sbin to the path

Re: installed Postfix, no periodic message

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Turner
On 02/16/11 21:29, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Whatever notes you make, please work them into the new handbook: for reference / posterity - most all is the same - Lots of documentation etc on my todo list this is definitely part - have been doing some heavy local-infrastructure rework for the

Re: rcrun reload

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I modified a script so that it takes the reload argument, which the program supports, and then tried to use it: ... How come rcrun reload doesn't work? looks like rcrun itself doesn't support reload - usage: rcrun

Re: Comments on pkgsrc and DragonFly

2011-01-08 Thread Chris Turner
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:39:54PM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote: So at most, BSD forks can only be used seriously as strong servers. That's how I'm using dfly. FUD! Most of the things that don't work tend to be either: - obscure corners of 'thick' desktop environments (e.g. what do

Re: Comments on pkgsrc and DragonFly

2011-01-08 Thread Chris Turner
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:03:58PM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote: While porting programs to DragonFly, I had these issues (which are not bugs): Excellent thread - have you considered maybe making a 'porting software' page on the wiki? Thinking in general we could use a much more focused

Re: Comments on pkgsrc and DragonFly

2011-01-08 Thread Chris Turner
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 03:11:57AM -0500, Chris Turner wrote: Excellent thread - yes - I realize this totally contradicts with my last post. I would like everything to just work - point is that will never happen unless ppl take the plunge and fix the bugs so - like camping - take whats

Re: bug in Python wxWidgets

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm running 2010Q2 on DFly. He suggested that I file a bug report, but I'm not sure whether the bug is in DFly or in pkgsrc. The versions are python26-2.6.5nb1 and py26-wxWidgets-2.8.10.1nb3. (The Linux box has Python 2.5.) The machine I have available for testing this

Re: Can't connect to ssh

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Turner
Francisco Reyes wrote: It is already set to bridged. Will look into VMware then if there isn't a built-in firewall or anything like it. Did the 'host' OS networking change? There are issues trying to bridge VM ethernet cards across wifi host adapters as wifi is not-exactly ethernet. What has

Re: lsof fails to configure

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm trying to install lsof so that arm can watch connections on my Tor relay. ... How can I fix it? Sounds like it hasn't been ported yet - (anyone with news to the contrary?) typically this entails: bmake patch scratch around in work/ until build works ... where

Re: Random x86-64 seg-fault finally fixed

2010-12-25 Thread Chris Turner
Matthew Dillon wrote: Partitioning is already desireable for the current 48-core monster and I'd like to have some sort of DragonFly host guest solution that runs at full performance on the bare HW without virtualization. How would this be different than jail(8)? not

Re: Encrypted root questions

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Turner
Tim Darby wrote: 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. well more my point was that DF stuff should be centralized on project infrastructure -

Re: Tor and Polipo

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I'd like to start browsing the onion web. I set up a Tor node, which was pretty easy. I installed the Tor package, made a few changes to the torrc, forwarded a port, and was up and running. Firefox installed Torbutton by just clicking on a link. The missing part is Polipo.

Re: large ncpus / memory support going in, HEADS UP - master may have some instability

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Turner
Matthew Dillon wrote: As part of the 48-core support some significant scheduler changes have gone into master, so again HEADS UP there may be some instability. How do these scheduler changes relate to say, userland preemption or things of that nature (thinking soft-realtime,

Re: Encrypted root questions

2010-12-13 Thread Chris Turner
Alex Hornung wrote: For whatever it's worth, I've added a task to google code-in a few weeks ago to document all this dm stuff, both cryptsetup and lvm, basically. A bit OT but shouldn't this stuff go in bugs / the wiki and then be referenced to any google code-in or foo barbaz-quux to

Re: less at end of file

2010-12-12 Thread Chris Turner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: less is not more. man uses more by default. you can: export PAGER=less or setenv PAGER less to change the man(1) behavior, btw.

Re: Firefox, Namoroka, Iceweasel

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Turner
Ed Berger wrote: If you go into /usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox and do bmake show-options you'll see the trademark related mozilla-branding options that need to be explicitly set in mk.conf to build it as firefox. Alternately there are lots of user-agent modifying plugins for Firefox that should do

Re: Printer Daemon (Update)

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Turner
Tim Darby wrote: Anyone have any insights into this? What FS type is your /var/spool ? I seem to recall some kind of tmpfs permissions issues of late.. cheers

Re: vlc assertion: z-z_Magic == ZALLOC_SLAB_MAGIC in _slabfree

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Turner
Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: Do you happen to have the core dump? (It should be a file like vlc.core or something) in the directory where you ran VLC. also - as far as functionality goes in the meantime, many of these multimedia apps have selectable output plugins - you might have better luck

Re: MC not starting

2010-11-05 Thread Chris Turner
Paul Onyschuk wrote: I give up after fighting with pkgsrc for 2 hours. pkgsrc does a pretty good job of replacing the environment with a 'clean' one - so I'm not sure if the evnironment stuff would take effect - you can e.g. 'bmake -d A ...' to get more information than you could ever want

WRKOBJDIR (was Re: Hammer filesystem)

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Turner
Matthew Dillon wrote: I agree that it should be setup that way on default installs. I don't know why NetBSD defaults to wanting to put the work directories right smack in the middle of a pkgsrc source tree. personally I'm agnostic here - I'll have a custom build setup either way -

Re: git: nrelease - gui - Change window manager, cpdup additional directories

2010-10-28 Thread Chris Turner
Tron wrote: package available. But if die hard devotees of efficiency over glitz want Xfce - I am easy. don't you mean But if die hard devotees of glitz over efficiency want Xfce :)

SCons Pkgsrc

2010-10-24 Thread Chris Turner
Kludging around in my local tree - Anyone with knowledge of SCons - or perhaps scons+pkgsrc - have any ideas why the below might be required? otherwise it expands to cc ... -W a l l ... other flags appeared ok - hence ellipsed in any event - it fixes the csound build on my Q1 branch haven't

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-22 Thread Chris Turner
Torbjorn Granlund wrote: It would be neater to have /usr/Makefile identify make and write a message: .INIT: @if [ `basename $(MAKE)` != bmake ]; then echo Use bmake stupid; exit 1;fi problem with this is that we *use* make.. for the system build. although - maybe it does make

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm installing it with pkgin, and I get this message: NOTE: Unfortunately, JACK wants to use a linux /proc filesystem... It's a DFly binary; does it know to look in the emulated /proc? ha - I think I didn't see this because I just built everything in /usr/pkgsrc/audio to

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: It's a DFly binary; does it know to look in the emulated /proc? to directly answer your question - no idea! but its doing something! :) - Chris

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Chris Turner wrote: There's some interesting stuff going on in OpenBSD w/r/t midi - Based on a check of the NetBSD manual (and not the source) - it appears that NetBSD has grown a divergent (w/r/t OpenBSD) midi(4) as well..

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: What's jackd? Jack is a sound server / time transport sync patching setup designed mainly for audio production / music / etc - originally designed for linux but has since been made portable: http://jackaudio.org/ It's nearly-OT but there's quite a bit about multimedia

Re: Is Citrix client working on dfly?

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Turner
Tomas Bodzar wrote: However it was still not running so I dived in to the script and found that there is test for OS. This test is made by 'uname -s' and case for BSD systems is ...*BSD), but DragonflyBSD shows DragonFly. So I modified it directly in script and after that installation went

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Turner
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 anacron, etc although, in a laptop situation - you might want to manage this manually -

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I open a sound file in Wavesurfer and attempt to play it and get silence. It used to work months ago. I try to play a MIDI file in Timidity and it says Couldn't open output device. XMMS still works, as does catting to /dev/dsp. Any idea what's wrong? I'm not sure what the

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Turner
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 away if a better solution is developed or derived. not to flamebait or something -

Re: MP BIOS bug on qemu from pkgsrc-2010Q2 on i386? - no linux boots

2010-10-14 Thread Chris Turner
Siju George wrote: MP BIOS bug: 8354 not connected to IO-APIC this sounds like more of a linux question so probably better to check around in linux areas if I'm wrong - but you might try adding 'noapic' or maybe it's 'apic=off' to the 'kernel=' line in the bootloader - should be 'e' in most

Re: Linux Emulation Docs

2010-10-13 Thread Chris Turner
Siju George wrote: I got flash working. Sites like youtube google videos work. Though I haven't compiled in the pcm module for sound good news - this means the doc is reproducable yay. will make updates tomorrow. are you on 2.6 or development? you don't get flash streaming video. refresh

Re: Linux Emulation Docs

2010-10-11 Thread Chris Turner
Siju George wrote: If some one can point me to docs on Linux emulation setup it would be great! http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToFirefoxandFlashplayer/linuxemu.html is not working. Hello - See the discussion thread on the docs@ list from 9/2010 entitled Flash-related docs on

Re: firefox instability may be fixed now in HEAD

2010-10-06 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I think that when I last upgraded all my packages, it was to Q1. For me, a package upgrade is a big event, because I don't have much free time, and I have to see if the upgrade broke anything (I frequently find that I have to symlink libraries, because the upgrade doesn't

Re: firefox instability may be fixed now in HEAD

2010-10-06 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I have a 36 GB disk (actually 38 GB but 2 GB is swap), usually 45-55% full. 4.4 GB is in /home. Do I have enough room to try this? Hard to say - you'll need enough space to store: 1) base system (~300-500MB) 2) pkgtools (not sure) 3) any packages (so FF + dependencies, or

Re: USB image

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Turner
Tron wrote: Yes, I can boot from cd but would like to try for the big image (if it was available). aah.. silly me - thought it was.. there is a 2.4 version if you're interested in that So if I understand you correctly, once the big image (with x, GUI, etc) would become available, I would:

Re: USB image

2010-09-30 Thread Chris Turner
Tron wrote: USB. (It is an old 700MHz Celeron with a BIOS that cannot be upgraded or easily patched because the mobo is oem ie: unknown...) you should be able to boot from cd, no? this machine is *far* faster than my old trusty 'bigred' - a spray-painted 266mhz amd k6-II haven't booted that

Re: USB image

2010-09-30 Thread Chris Turner
Chris Turner wrote: basically, plug 2 machines into a LAN (if you have a hub or can borrow one), boot up one select it to be a network installer, switch / crossover cable / etc should work fine too for sure - just referring to least-common-denominator

Re: ns-flash on df

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Turner
Chris Turner wrote: to anyone interested I've posted some updated flash9 docs on the docs@ list- if the current perception is that it isn't working (which was my thought) - it is, for me at least. please note - not so stable. has caused a couple X lockups or - maybe that's interactions w/ my

ns-flash on df

2010-09-28 Thread Chris Turner
sorry to cross post for anyone subscribed to both to anyone interested I've posted some updated flash9 docs on the docs@ list- if the current perception is that it isn't working (which was my thought) - it is, for me at least. cheers

Re: pkgsrc package builds for 2.8

2010-09-23 Thread Chris Turner
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: The next release of pkgsrc, 2010Q3, is due out Oct. 1st. DragonFly 2.8 is going to be out soon after. I stopped the automatic builds of pkgsrc in the various places I'm building it, as I don't think there's going to be any changes to really catch at this point.

Re: about dma.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Chris Turner
Matthias Schmidt wrote: No, dma replaces sendmail/postfix (in parts). Sending through sendmail means that your MUA uses the local installed MTA (here dma) and not a remote smarthost. This is a known phrase. for reference as in: # /usr/sbin/sendmail -t EOF To: u...@host From: m...@here

Re: How to start CUPS?

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I also see that GROFF_PAPER_SIZE is set to letter. Wouldn't it make more sense to set it to A4, which is the most common paper size in the world? BAH! Next think you know you'll want 4 holes instead of 3! /USA :)

Re: OpenOffice

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Turner
Alex Hornung wrote: For whatever it's worth, I recently (~2 weeks ago) installed openoffice from /usr/pkgsrc (openoffice3-bin, iirc) and it worked just fine. What pkgsrc branch did you install from? Are you using the regular linux compat env? I'm still on Q1 - am getting the below Will be

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