how to switch the base compiler to gcc 4.4.2

2010-04-04 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: How does one switch the base compiler to gcc 4.4.2 ? Here is some info for my setup: . running DragonFly 2.7-DEVELOPMENT v2.7.0.47.g3f16d (HEAD as of April 4, 2010). . the HEAD was built with CCVER=gcc44 for - buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - installworld -

bootloader does not load up (erratic behaviour)

2010-04-03 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Installed March 29th snapshot of DragonFlyBSD on AMD64 X64_64 box with [x] boot blocks [x] packet mode On repeated reboots, the boot loader does not load up (erratic behaviour) and the following error is seen 'Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot media in selected Boot

meaning of 'no B_DEVMAGIC (bootdev=0)'

2010-04-03 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: While trying to install DragonFlyBSD x86_64 on large partitions eg. single 200G partition, the startup shows the following line no B_DEVMAGIC (bootdev=0) What exactly does this line mean ? -- thanks Saifi.

Re: disklabel64 failed with return code of 1

2010-04-03 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hi: : :Trying to install DragonFlyBSD 29th March snapshot for X86_64 :(on a triple boot system with FreeBSD installed) fails out with :the error disklabel64 failed with return code of 1. : :FreeBSD is installed on the machine on the second

raw partition offset != slice offset

2010-04-02 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: installed DragonFlyBSD 2010/03/29 snapshot on AMD64 x86_64 machine. On reboot the system stops with the following error 'Bad Label' and reboots. On powering the system and booting up DragonFlyBSD LiveCD, the following lines are seen ad4s1 Bad label. raw partition offset != slice

Re: PFS mirroring insted of RAID Improved set up - need comments.

2010-04-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Matthew Dillon wrote: In terms of booting, if that is a worry then buy a $100 SSD and boot from that Matt, any specific SSD's that you recommend or have found to work well with *BSD ? For good measure, please feel free to throw in any caveats as well. --

Re: Working on a security program

2010-04-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Walter wrote: Hi, all. Despite my lack of response (sorry), I've been working on a security program. Right now it uses auth.log to identify failed login attempts via telnet, ftp, and (of course) ssh. I'm planning on hard coding this unless someone tells me I should

two annotated tags to replace v2.5.1

2010-03-29 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: The git repository has two annotated tags v2.6.0 v2.7.0 which replace v2.5.1 . The commit log/email for both the tags is identical. Can the experienced folks share the rationale behind having two annotated tags ? -- thanks Saifi.

disklabel64 failed with return code of 1

2010-03-29 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Trying to install DragonFlyBSD 29th March snapshot for X86_64 (on a triple boot system with FreeBSD installed) fails out with the error disklabel64 failed with return code of 1. FreeBSD is installed on the machine on the second partition sans any boot manager or explicit entry on MBR.

installer crash while configuring interface nfe0

2010-03-29 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Using the March 29, DragonFlyBSD snapshot for x86_64. The installer crashes while trying to configure 'nfe0' interface using DHCP. All the user settings are destroyed Additionally, a restart of the installer, crashes out since port is in use and hence 'couldn't connect to frontend on

page fault while installer exits setup and umounts

2010-03-29 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: A page fault is encountered when the installer exits the setup and umounts. This scenario is encountered with March 29 snapshot of DragonFlyBSD for X86_64. Here are the screen shots: page fault http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz107/saifikhan/dragonfly/installer-umount-pg-fault01.jpg

Re: DragonFlyBSD install issue on quad-core AMD64

2010-03-17 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Saifi Khan wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: DragonFlyBSD 2.4.1 CD image for AMD64 is being used for installation on a quad-core AMD64 Athlon II X4 630 C2 with a single 500GB SATA disk and 4GB DDR3 RAM. The boot loader comes up fine

Re: DragonFly main rsync mirror (chlamydia) DOWN

2010-03-17 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hi, if you operate a DragonFly BSD mirror and if you mirror from chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de, please read this mail closely! chlamydia is dead now, so you have to mirror from another machine. Please rsync from

DragonFlyBSD snapshot images for X86_64/AMD64

2010-03-16 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Is there a site to download the latest DragonFlyBSD snapshot images for X86_64/AMD64 platform ? The one available for AMD64 is 2.4.1, whereas chlamydia hosts only i386 images. -- thanks Saifi.

Re: Fwd: DragonFlyBSD snapshot images for X86_64/AMD64

2010-03-16 Thread Saifi Khan
build is currently broken due a m4 problem. I will try to workaround this until the PR filed in NBSD bug tracked is considered. Cheers, Antonio Huete 2010/3/16 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org: Hi: Is there a site to download the latest DragonFlyBSD snapshot images for X86_64

DragonFlyBSD 2.4.1 install issue on quad-core AMD64

2010-03-16 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: DragonFlyBSD 2.4.1 CD image for AMD64 is being used for installation on a quad-core AMD64 Athlon II X4 630 C2 with a single 500GB SATA disk and 4GB DDR3 RAM. The boot loader comes up fine and in selecting either of the two options, ie. boot with ACPI disabled or otherwise, the same error

Re: DragonFlyBSD install issue on quad-core AMD64

2010-03-16 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: DragonFlyBSD 2.4.1 CD image for AMD64 is being used for installation on a quad-core AMD64 Athlon II X4 630 C2 with a single 500GB SATA disk and 4GB DDR3 RAM. The boot loader comes up fine and in selecting either of the two options, ie. boot

install to USB disk

2010-03-14 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Here is the usecase i'm trying to explore during the installation. I power cycle the laptop and select ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM device. the BTX loader and the DragonFlyBSD installer starts. . DragonFlyBSD CD in the CD-tray . 160GB USB disk attached to laptop . Main laptop disk not touched.

boot from USB disk

2010-03-13 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: DragonFlyBSD was installed on a SATA disk which was part of the system. After installation the system booted up fine. The system was shutdown and the SATA disk was removed and placed in a USB disk enclosure. Now the system was powered on and 'boot from USB boot disk' was selected. The

Re: custom boot menu

2010-03-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Sascha Wildner wrote: Am 08.03.2010 14:57, schrieb Saifi Khan: Since the boot manager displays information on the basis of partition ID, DragonFlyBSD is shown as FreeBSD ! In DragonFly's boot0? It must be really old then, since I changed it to DF/FBSD back in 2005

Re: intr2 at 40001/40000 hz, livelocked limit engaged.

2010-03-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hi: : :nfe0: watchdog timeout - lost interrupt recovered : :The network access from this machine or to this machine is at :best sporadic and SSH clients timeout. : :The box has a NVIDIA nForce 405 Nvidia (n...@pci0:0:7:0). : :Is there any

intr2 at 40001/40000 hz, livelocked limit engaged.

2010-03-03 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: On an AMD64X2 box running 2.5.1-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly v2.5.1.927.gb527c-DEVELOPMENT based on X86_64_GENERIC with options APIC_IO SMP On running any of the commands, # ping 10.10.10.1 or # /etc/rc.d/sshd start The following errors are seen intr2 at 17174/2 hz, livelock removed intr2

custom boot menu

2010-02-23 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: i've set up a quad boot system with BSD's installed in the following order FreeBSD DragonFlyBSD OpenBSD NetBSD At boot time, the current display is shown as . FreeBSD . FreeBSD . BSD . BSD i'd like to create a custom boot menu, which shows their respective names. Any suggestions or

Re: X86_64-VKERNEL

2009-12-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Jordan Gordeev wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Jordan Gordeev wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Any pointers / observations about running VKERNEL on X86_64 ? There's no support for vkernel on 64-bit kernels. I've got unfinished work to add support

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-27 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Here is wishing all of our DragonFlyBSD community a happy Thanksgiving day with their friends and families ! Special thanks to the DragonFlyBSD core team and Matt for making the vision of DragonFlyBSD project a reality. best regards Saifi.

Re: linuxulator update

2009-11-27 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Alex Hornung wrote: Hi, With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 [1] for more details). JRE/JDK on FreeBSD donot seem to have linuxulator dependency.

some git usage related queries

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Here are some git usage related newbie queries. 1. i read a notification about a new commit eg. pkgsrc commit http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrc.git/commit/4ceab3c0055ed6bdacff399294ff8ef253b99468 Since i maintain a local git repo for pkgsrc, i'd like to know the diff

Re: Makefile upgrade: target for x86_64

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: If you're performing the `approved method of upgrading your system', you're still running old kernel, which should return amd64. I've just upgraded my amd64 machine as described at the end of

Re: tcsh-6 compilation error with gcc44 (buildworld)

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Peter Avalos wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:49:50PM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: On a AMD64X2 system running DragonFly v2.5.1.187.gc1543-DEV i'm trying to 'buildworld' with 'gcc44' as # CCVER=gcc44 make buildworld buildworld is not warning-free

Re: tcsh-6 compilation error with gcc44 (buildworld)

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Sascha Wildner wrote: Peter Avalos schrieb: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:49:50PM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: On a AMD64X2 system running DragonFly v2.5.1.187.gc1543-DEV i'm trying to 'buildworld' with 'gcc44' as # CCVER=gcc44 make buildworld

Re: some git usage related queries

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Peter Avalos wrote: On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:12:24PM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: Here are some git usage related newbie queries. Try the manual pages or git help too. Peter and Stathis thank you for the kind help. While studying the recent commits

Cannot unmount namecache|process references

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: After completing a installation using the 2.4.1 LiveCD, the system was rebooted. The screen fills up with 'cannot umount: X namecache|process references Please see the photo here http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz107/saifikhan/dragonfly/DSC00100.jpg Seen on both x86_64 box and x86 box.

Re: some git usage related queries

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Peter Avalos wrote: On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:17:58AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: While studying the recent commits related to mandoc(1), there are two very similar commits: 1. Sascha's mandoc(1) commits (Nov 7) 54 files changed, 1349 insertions(+), 730

Re: some git usage related queries

2009-11-08 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Peter Avalos wrote: On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:17:58AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: While studying the recent commits related to mandoc(1), there are two very similar commits: 1. Sascha's mandoc(1) commits (Nov 7) 54 files changed, 1349 insertions(+), 730

Re: git: Revert rename amd64 architecture to x86_64

2009-11-07 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Jordan Gordeev wrote: commit 3f3709c349e3585274c0e23e09a87f8f75c8ce7d Author: Jordan Gordeev jgord...@dir.bg Date: Sat Nov 7 09:30:29 2009 +0200 Revert rename amd64 architecture to x86_64 This reverts commit c1543a890188d397acca9fe7f76bcd982481a763.

tcsh-6 compilation error with gcc44 (buildworld)

2009-11-07 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: On a AMD64X2 system running DragonFly v2.5.1.187.gc1543-DEV i'm trying to 'buildworld' with 'gcc44' as # CCVER=gcc44 make buildworld ... ... === bin/csh grep '[FV]_' /usr/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh-6/ed.defns.c | grep '^#define' ed.defns.h grep 'ERR_'

Re: [Fwd: pkgbox64 pkgsrc DragonFly 2.5.1/x86_64 2009-11-05 02:50]

2009-11-05 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: A new set of pkgsrc packages for 2.5/64-bit 2009Q3 DragonFly have been built. It's coming from pkgbox64 behind Matt's connection, so the actual packages are probably still uploading to avalon, but the build report is here and the logs are

Re: [Fwd: pkgbox64 pkgsrc DragonFly 2.5.1/x86_64 2009-11-05 02:50]

2009-11-05 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: In DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 release, the build triplet for target system is 'amd64-pc-dragonflybsd'. However, the build.log for gcc44-4 (pkgsrc report above) shows the target system as 'x86_64-unknown-dragonflybsd2.5.1' Usually

ACPI version to set in BIOS

2009-11-05 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: The BIOS setup utility (v02.58 American Megatrends) provides multiple ACPI versions . ACPI v1.0 . ACPI v2.0 . ACPI v3.0 Currently i've configured ACPI v1.0 while running DragonFly BSD HEAD, but i'd like to know what is the recommended version to setup in BIOS while running DragonFly ?

Re: Analysis on make parallelism for buildworld

2009-11-05 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Please review and let me know if there is any tweak/correction that you deem necessary. Hey! that is interesting. Could you run it with 5 jobs as well so that we can see whether how much difference this makes

disklabel or disklabel64 for vkernel on AMD64

2009-11-05 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: On my AMD64X2 box, i've buildworld+buildkernel with SMP enabled and want to setup vkernel. Referring to the vkernel setup here http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/user/vKernelSetup/ Should disklabel or disklabel64 be used for vkernel image on AMD64 ? thanks Saifi.

Re: Xorg configuration

2009-11-04 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Pierre Abbat wrote: I used Xorg -configure. I've seen another way of configuring X, which starts the server, displays a dialog box asking if it's visible, and then exits the server if I don't push a button. Is that program available? Perhaps you are referring to SAX2

remote branches

2009-11-04 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Subsequent to a fresh DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 installation on AMD64 X2 box, i did the following steps to pull in the source code as i did not want to use the Makefile. # cd /usr # mkdir src # cd src # git init # git remote add origin git://git.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git # git pull origin

intr 2 at 40001/40000 hz, livelock limit engaged

2009-11-04 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Compiled a custom kernel on AMD64 X2 with the following modifications to the AMD64_GENERIC config. options SMP options APIC and application of the patch http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~beket/mq-mpsafe.diff The following lines are seen, with network traffic degraded to 95% packet loss. In

Re: SMP users needed to test patch

2009-11-04 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote: Hello everyone! I'd like to mark mq*() syscall as MPSAFE, but before that I need someone to test them in an SMP capable machine running SMP kernel. I only have UP machines around. So, if anyone is able and kind enough, here are some directions

Re: SMP users needed to test patch

2009-11-04 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote: 2009/11/4 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org: On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote: Hello everyone! I'd like to mark mq*() syscall as MPSAFE, but before that I need someone to test them in an SMP capable machine running SMP kernel

Re: SMP users needed to test patch

2009-11-04 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote: Did you by any chance try without my patch and SMP/APIC set in your kernel configuration file ? Commented out the following option and 'recompiled' the kernel. ### options APIC_IO Did not see any of the 'livelock' notifications. So, i

mandoc + re-using POSIX specs

2009-11-03 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: While there is a discussion happening (on another thread) in the context of usage of mandoc, is it a good idea to review the 'possibility of re-using POSIX specs for manual pages' ? the original thread is here, http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/docs/2004-01/index.html i've read the

DragonFlyBSD make

2009-11-02 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Couple of newbie queries about DragonFlyBSD make: Is DragonFlyBSD make a derivative of pmake ? While using DragonFlyBSD make utility on a source tree (without -j option) with a .depend file, is a single shell executed for all dependency commands or is a shell executed per command ?

Re: DragonFlyBSD make

2009-11-02 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hi: : :Couple of newbie queries about DragonFlyBSD make: : :Is DragonFlyBSD make a derivative of pmake ? Not that I know of. From outside the BSD world our make is bsdmake. Matt, thank you for your reply. Please see this link

Re: Xorg configuration (2)

2009-11-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Pierre Abbat wrote: I tried to get X up after installing the updated drivers. I now have a xorg.conf.new file, but when I try to start X, I get a blank screen with no cursor. Ctrl-alt-bs exits, as it should. How do I fix it? It was working before I did the software

Re: DragonFly ppl (+ Apartment) at CCC Congress 2009

2009-11-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hi, as you might know a lot of DragonFly users and developers meet annually at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress [1]. The Congress is in Berlin, Germany starting form Dec, 27 to Dec, 30. How was the meetup last year ie. 2008 ? Are there

Re: Network maintainance on dragonflybsd.org

2009-11-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Matthew Dillon wrote: There is going to be some serious restructuring of my subnet some time in the next two weeks. Theoretically I'll be drilled through my cable modem while my DSL is down ... and from the IRC log 08:51 dillon dragonfly network may

Re: Xorg configuration

2009-11-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Bill Hacker wrote: Not sure it is germane but 'something' in xorg went at least temporarily pear-shaped on the latest FreeBSD step-ups (7.1 - 7.2 as well as 8 RC1) and one other *BSD w/r Intel VGA driver vs VESA autoselection and loading. Symptom was an i9XX that was

Re: Xorg configuration

2009-11-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: I'm seeing the same thing, though I'm trying this with the vesa driver. I tried with prebuilt binaries and from source, and removed glx/dri. X happily starts up, but I only get a black screen. No errors in the log. I'm out of ideas

Re: Xorg configuration

2009-11-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Pierre Abbat wrote: I used X -config xorg.conf.new and it came up blank. Should I post the conf or the log file? Here they are. Can you please review 'DefaultDepth' and 'Modes' in the 'Screen' section ? eg. Section Screen Identifier Screen0

Re: Editorial guidelines ?

2009-10-27 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Tue, October 20, 2009 9:39 am, Saifi Khan wrote: . why does local.css have min-width: 726px; instead of the standard width: 100%; ? This is min-width, not width, which is why it's not 100%. It keeps the layout from being jumbled

Re: make, bmake and gmake

2009-10-27 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Is there a difference between 'make' and 'bmake' on DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 ? make is our make utility which belongs to our base. It's the very same make utility that is used to build world and kernel

Re: dhclient dependency on bpf ?

2009-10-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Offcourse, i enabled 'bpf' and i'm keen to know what is the reason for 'bpf' dependency ? Please see http://ftp.isc.org/www/dhcp/doc/References.html#anchor3 Search for Berkeley Packet Filter and BPF

Re: dhclient dependency on bpf ?

2009-10-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Alex wrote: probably because it needs to get packets that are directed to broadcast and not your machine. Just take a look at the source code. Sincerely, Alex Hornung Alex Hornung, thank you for the suggestion. i looked at the code at sbin/dhclient and found the

make, bmake and gmake

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Is there a difference between 'make' and 'bmake' on DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 ? i noticed that /usr/pkgsrc/ builds require 'bmake' eg. to compile /usr/pkgsrc/devel/gmake while 'make' crashes out with many errors. Additionally, /usr/src/test/amd64/ system tests require 'gmake'. A quick check of

Re: make, bmake and gmake

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote: 2009/10/21 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org: Hi: Is there a difference between 'make' and 'bmake' on DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 ? make is our make utility which belongs to our base. It's the very same make utility that is used to build

Re: [Fwd: pkgbox64 pkgsrc DragonFly 2.5.1/x86_64 2009-10-16 21:12]

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Binary package build for DragonFly 2.5.x on amd64 has completed, with a greater-than-I-expected number of packages building. Total number of packages: 8969 Successfully built: 7475 Failed to build: 359

how to apply patches on a system that doesnot have functional network device ?

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Here is a situation that i'm facing on a Compaq C301TU laptop. The NIC card (Realtek) does not work due to driver issue. The WLAN card (Broadcom) does not work due to driver issue. Currently, i review the possible patch visually on an identical laptop (running FreeBSD-8) and then type out

qemu-system-x86_.core: not in executable format: File format not recognized

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: On a AMD64 X2 box running DragonFly BSD i'm trying to setup test/amd64, amd64x2# uname -a DragonFly amd64x2 2.4.1-RELEASE DragonFly v2.4.1-RELEASE #7: Wed Sep 30 18:16:27 PDT 2009 r...@pkgbox64.dragonflybsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src-misc/sys/AMD64_GENERIC amd64 After building 'make scratch' for

Re: USB WLAN/USB Ethernet device

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Michael Neumann wrote: 2009/10/21 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org i'm leaning towards USB-Ethernet and was wondering if there is a USB-Ethernet device that is known to work fine with DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 ? I have an USB WLAN device supported by the ural

Re: Realtek NIC issue

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org wrote: i've a laptop with identical hardware, running FreeBSD 8-CURRENT-200906 (ie. this one, used to write this mail) and the following lines are seen in the driver code

ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: On Compaq C301TU laptop, the following lines get dumped on screen everytime there is a change in the power state (on-off, off-on). system power profile changed to 'economy' ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] 20090521 evregion-531 ACPI Error

USB-serial setup

2009-10-21 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: A USB-serial adapter has been connected to my Compaq C301TU laptop. the other end connects to my AMD64 X2 box. Both the systems are running DragonFly BSD 2.4.1. On the laptop, the USB-serial device is detected as ugen0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, class 0/0, rev

Re: Editorial guidelines ?

2009-10-20 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Mon, October 19, 2009 12:15 pm, Saifi Khan wrote: Some of the queries i had/have are as follows: To sum up: GIFs OK, don't bother with the rest. Why would you need iframes? 2. Content related Technical content written from

Re: Editorial guidelines ?

2009-10-20 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Niklas Rosencrantz wrote: Are binaries the only allowed attachments? After tried attaching text file output from pciconf, uname, df, from laptops eg uname -a uname.txt textfiles disapproved since they're not binaries. Enabling text files attchments improves for reasons

Re: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ is hacked??

2009-10-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, lhmwzy wrote: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ DragonFly BSD No i don't think so ! if i understand correctly (iiuc) then it's a wiki and somebody may have spammed the front page. In the IRC log, it appears that corecode|polachok observed this and fixed the front page.

Re: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ is hacked??

2009-10-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, lhmwzy wrote: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ DragonFly BSD Thanks for the notice! No i don't think so ! if i understand correctly (iiuc) then it's a wiki and somebody may have

Re: DragonFly 2.4.1 Released!

2009-10-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Niklas Rosencrantz wrote: 2009/10/9 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Erik Wikstr?m wrote: My proposal is that instead of releasing the code as X.Y.0 first make a X.Y.0 RC (Release Candidate). While the RC might not see as much usage

Re: how to add v2.4.1 tag to .git/ dir

2009-10-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Thanks Peter for your reply. : :What is the purpose of the .git/ directory in /usr/src at the :time the user installs DragonFlyBSD from the DVD ? It should provide a preloaded git repo which you can then just do a 'git fetch' to bring

Re: Editorial guidelines ?

2009-10-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Sat, October 17, 2009 9:43 pm, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: Can somebody more experienced, point to me the editorial guidelines for editing articles on http://dragonflybsd.org/ ? 1. editing existing articles 2. prior to submitting

Acer Aspire One D150 ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp

2009-10-18 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Downloaded LATEST-i386-master.img and then wrote it to USB pen drive using the command # dd if=LATEST-i386-master.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1m The Acer Aspire One D150 Netbook (currently running Gentoo) was booted from the USB pen drive. Hardware specs of the netbook device are at

Dell Latitude D620 boot, hangs at isa_probe_children : probing PnP devices

2009-10-18 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Booting a Dell Latitude D620 with LATEST-i386-master.img from a USB pen drive boots up fine with the selection screen and it runs till it reaches the following line ... isa_probe_children : probing PnP devices ... The boot process seems to then hang at this point. Th system specs are:

Re: Acer Aspire One D150 ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp (SOLVED)

2009-10-18 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Alexander Polakov wrote: 2009/10/18, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org: The DragonFlyBSD installer screen was presented and on selecting Try 7. Escape to loader prompt, then load ehci boot Any suggestions on how i can bring up this device ? Thank you

Re: Realtek NIC issue

2009-10-17 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org wrote: Hi all: Installed DragonFlyBSD 2.3.2.750.g517f2e-DEVELOPMENT (Sep 2 snapshot) on my Compaq 301TU laptop. The Realtek NIC card does not seem to be working

Re: how to add v2.4.1 tag to .git/ dir

2009-10-17 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Peter Avalos wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:30:02AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: On installing DragonFly 2.4.1 from the DVD, there is a .git/ directory that is created in /usr/src. Running the command 'git tag' does not show 'v2.4.1' v2.0.1 v2.1.1

Editorial guidelines ?

2009-10-17 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Can somebody more experienced, point to me the editorial guidelines for editing articles on http://dragonflybsd.org/ ? 1. editing existing articles 2. prior to submitting the article, how to get it reviewed Thanks in advance. thanks Saifi.

how to add v2.4.1 tag to .git/ dir

2009-10-14 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: On installing DragonFly 2.4.1 from the DVD, there is a .git/ directory that is created in /usr/src. Running the command 'git tag' does not show 'v2.4.1' v2.0.1 v2.1.1 v2.2.0 v2.2.1 v2.3.0 v2.3.1 v2.4.0 how do i add 'v2.4.1' tag to .git/ so that i can later do a 'git pull' ? or is the

Re: you must buildworld before you buildkernel. why ?

2009-10-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Robert Luciani wrote: # make buildkernel KERNCONF=SYNERGY You must buildworld before buildkernel. If you wish to build a kernel using native tools, config it manually or use the nativekernel target if you are in a rush *** Error code 1 The answer is staring you

Re: you must buildworld before you buildkernel. why ?

2009-10-13 Thread Saifi Khan
, is that the same source (in /usr/src) is used for building both world and userland. See build(7) for more information (man 7 build). Best regards, Daniel Bond. On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: i'm trying to compile a custom kernel on my AMD64 X2 box

Re: pkgsrc builds for 2009Q3/i386 started

2009-10-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Sun, October 11, 2009 1:34 pm, Saifi Khan wrote: If one is working with a daily snapshot version, what is the recommended way to pull in binary packages eg. editor, debugger, irc client etc ? or is it like, lets say i'm using

Re: dfly2.4.1 nativekernel build error: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12

2009-10-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:46:15PM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: -- Kernel build for SYNERGY started on Mon Oct 12 21:26:19 IST 2009

Re: NetBSD's veriexec port

2009-10-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote: Hello everyone! Veriexec (from verify executable) is an in-kernel, file system agnostic, signatures-based, file integrity subsystem for NetBSD[1]. I was wondering if people are or would be interested in it. If there is enough interest, I could

you must buildworld before you buildkernel. why ?

2009-10-12 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: i'm trying to compile a custom kernel on my AMD64 X2 box, and in encouter the notification shown below. # make buildkernel KERNCONF=SYNERGY You must buildworld before buildkernel. If you wish to build a kernel using native tools, config it manually or use the nativekernel target if you are

dfly2.4.1 nativekernel build error: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12

2009-10-12 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: i'm trying to do a 'nativekernel' build of DragonFlyBSD 2.4.1 on AMD64 X2 system and the build error is /usr/src/sys/platform/pc32/i386/genassym.c:1: error: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12 The complete build log till the error is below, Script started on Mon Oct 12

Re: pkgsrc builds for 2009Q3/i386 started

2009-10-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I have pkgsrc bulk builds for pkgsrc-2009Q3 started on avalon and df.v12.su, which should result in binary packages for 2.4 and 2.5 (on i386) showing up in the appropriate directories on http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages in about a week.

dfly-gui DVD mount issue : incorrect superblock

2009-10-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: i downloaded the dfly-gui-2.4.1_REL DVD and burnt a DVD using growisofs on my FreeBSD system. On booting up on Compaq C301TU laptop, the DVD is not mounted and the system falls to the FreeBSD boot prompt. So, i downloaded the 2.4.1 CD and burnt a CD. this one loads up absolutely fine and i

how install only the base system from the DVD

2009-10-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Is there a way to install only the base system from the DVD ? By base system i mean . kernel . userland shell . basic tools and . source code to support 'make buildworld'. Currently, using the CD, it is impossible to 'make buildworld' in case the NIC card is not detected. Any

Re: mercurial not responding

2009-10-10 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Niklas Rosencrantz wrote: I always vote hg and can respond or mirror it via 2 fixed virtual always on, then svn then git or launchpad and mutiny toward the Linus dictatorship. tried 3 (fortunaty, tum, hg clone -r HEAD http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/hg/dragonfly-src src abort:

installer crashes while configuring DHCP interface on AMD64 / nfe0

2009-10-09 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: The DragonflyBSD installer crashes while configuring DHCP interface on AMD64 X2 box with nfe0 interface. Here is the stack trace, -- Script started on Fri Oct 9 16:45:02 2009 # gdb dfuibe_installer.core `whereis -q dfuibe_installer` dfuibe_installer.core gdb 6.7.1 This GDB was configured

Re: DragonFly 2.4.1 Released!

2009-10-09 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Erik Wikstr?m wrote: My proposal is that instead of releasing the code as X.Y.0 first make a X.Y.0 RC (Release Candidate). While the RC might not see as much usage you make a valid point. Now for the same users, it may be a good idea to make the tag more search friendly as

Re: Ruby 1.9 -whats happening here?

2009-10-07 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi guys, I may have had perhaps a wishful thinking that pkgsrc contains Ruby 1.9, which I found that it doesnt. So i went and compiled it from source manually. Compile went ok but when I try to install the rmagick gem, I get this

Realtek NIC issue

2009-09-08 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Installed DragonFlyBSD 2.3.2.750.g517f2e-DEVELOPMENT (Sep 2 snapshot) on my Compaq 301TU laptop. The Realtek NIC card does not seem to be working, although the following lines are seen in dmesg output rl0: Realtek 8139 10/100BaseTX port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xd010-0xd01000ff irq 11 at

namei.h query

2009-09-01 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Here is a newbie query regarding the code in namei.h In DragonflyBSD, sys/sys/namei.h struct componentname { ... ... long cn_consume; /* chars to consume in lookup */ ... }; and in FreeBSD RELENG_4, sys/sys/namei.h struct componentname { ... ... char *cn_pnbuf; /* pathname

DragonflyBSD partition ID ?

2009-08-27 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Does anybody know what is the partition ID to be specified for DragonflyBSD ? i've been using the entire disk for DragonflyBSD and this just stumped me as i tried to help another friend setup DragonflyBSD on a 40GB partition. The Linux fdisk does not seem to any entry for DragonflyBSD

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