[OT] Idle musings about health care in the US

2009-09-18 Thread walt
[PLTL] - Obama names doctor to clear health care paper swamp Last Updated: 2009-03-20 18:05:48 -0400 (Reuters Health) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama named a Boston doctor and Harvard professor on Friday to lead his $20 billion dollar effort to modernize the disparate and

[Semi-OT] Linus talks about git

2009-06-21 Thread walt
Agree or disagree, he's an interesting speaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Re: [OT] Question about nanosleep

2009-05-04 Thread walt
walt wrote: Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: walt wrote: ...Does DragonFly implement nanosleep, and if not, why not? Yes, it does. There was just a bug in its code for signals. Fixed in 55d25c8782a76b25372313a908dff0a66d6ff342. Yes, the test code works now, thanks! You were foolish enough

Re: [OT] Question about nanosleep

2009-05-03 Thread walt
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: walt wrote: ...Does DragonFly implement nanosleep, and if not, why not? Yes, it does. There was just a bug in its code for signals. Fixed in 55d25c8782a76b25372313a908dff0a66d6ff342. Yes, the test code works now, thanks! You were foolish enough to respond

[OT] Question about nanosleep

2009-05-02 Thread walt
This question began when my gnome desktop on a linux amd64 machine started behaving badly while the same gnome packages on an x86 machine work perfectly. While poking around for clues I noticed that a configure script fails on the amd64 machine but works perfectly on the x86. I'm not sure if

Re: Console screen corruption?

2008-12-17 Thread walt
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, walt wrote: ... sigh The kvm folks just committed a (relatively) huge update from the qemu folks, and I'm running it now. As of this particular moment, today's kvm seems to be behaving much better than yesterday's kvm. Great news. Yesterday's update from qemu

Re: Console screen corruption?

2008-12-15 Thread walt
Sascha Wildner wrote: walt schrieb: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Sascha Wildner wrote: walt schrieb: I've installed dfly using the kvm/qemu emulator and I'm seeing strange corruption of the console screen at times. Hm, you can change to 80x50 with 'vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8.fnt 80x50'. After

Console screen corruption?

2008-12-12 Thread walt
I've installed dfly using the kvm/qemu emulator and I'm seeing strange corruption of the console screen at times. Some lines of text will have every other character blacked out, and some lines display perfectly. Does this sound like some sort of confusion between ascii and utf-8, perhaps?

Re: Console screen corruption?

2008-12-12 Thread walt
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Sascha Wildner wrote: walt schrieb: I've installed dfly using the kvm/qemu emulator and I'm seeing strange corruption of the console screen at times. Does it happen randomly or when you do some specific thing? Did you change the mode using vidcontrol(8) or does

Re: problem in gtk programming

2008-10-18 Thread walt
dark0s Optik wrote: I am triyng to programming with gtk over DragonFly. My sample code is the follows: #includegtk/gtk.h ... The gcc output is: #gcc prova.c -o prova ... Hi Savio, The gtk header files are in /usr/pkg/include because you are using the gtk package from pkgsrc (like most of

Re: Back from nycbsdcon!

2008-10-14 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: ... I hope everyone survived the financial meltdown! There were a few no-shows at the Con due to the mess, it being NYC there were numerous local BSD users working in the financial industries who got messed up pretty badly. Maybe I shouldn't be

Re: DragonFly cannot detect existing FreeBSD partitions during install and cannot detect SanDisk USB flash drive during install

2008-07-30 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hi Matt and Stefan, : :By the way, is there any difference when you install DragonFly on a :notebook PC and a desktop PC? Because when I try to boot my USB :SanDisk on an AMD-64 Athlon machine, it just detects the mount :partition of the USB and successfully boots without

Re: keeping pkgsrc up to date

2008-07-21 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: :What do you use to keep your pkgsrc tree up to date? :Anonymous cvs does work but is pretty slow. :The cvsup mirrors seem to be rather busy. :I used the mercurial repo at :http://hg.scode.org/mirror/pkgsrc :for some time, but it seems to be down now. : : Johannes I

Urgent security patch for BIND9

2008-07-09 Thread walt
AFAICT dragonfly hasn't imported this yet: http://www.isc.org/index.pl

Re: Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

2008-06-11 Thread walt
Vincent Stemen wrote: New information: It still does not work, but I appear to be a step closer. I compiled a new kernel without uscanner. Same result as before with or without uscanner.ko loaded... I finally got my canoscan 670 working, but on -current not -release. The kernel uscanner

Re: Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

2008-06-10 Thread walt
Vincent Stemen wrote: We had this scanner working once before with an earlier version of Dragonfly but do not seem to be having any luck now. sane-find-scanner says it found the scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at

Re: Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

2008-06-09 Thread walt
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Vincent Stemen wrote: We had this scanner working once before with an earlier version of Dragonfly but do not seem to be having any luck now. sane-find-scanner says it found the scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan],

Re: How can I start a daemon under DFly?

2008-05-03 Thread walt
thegraze wrote: @ walt: The error message: process 772: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: No such file or directory ls: /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/dbus: No such file or directory The rc script is missing so dbus

Re: How can I start a daemon under DFly?

2008-05-02 Thread walt
thegraze wrote: I have put the dbus=YES in the /etc/rc.conf and then I restarted but the error message is the same: I think you forgot to tell us what the error message says. Any pkgsrc package installs configuration and 'rc' files in /usr/pkg/etc. For dbus, see /usr/pkg/etc/dbus-1 and

Re: Pkgsrc problems [ was: lang/python24 build problems]

2008-03-26 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: ... What we would do is set up an automatic daily sync from NetBSD to our pkgsrc CVS so we would always have the latest, but we would also have the option of committing fixes into our tree to get them off our table... That's a great idea. I would have

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-08 Thread walt
Kris Kennaway wrote: giga-snippage Summary --- As with the dragonfly 1.8 kernel, the dragonfly 1.12 kernel does not scale to a second CPU on the benchmarks performed, and the limited SMP implementation can cause a large performance loss at higher loads. There is sometimes a large performance

[Slightly OT] Booting DragonFly/FreeBSD with grub2

2008-02-21 Thread walt
The alpha-quality grub2 boot loader is now able to boot DragonFly using either the traditional /boot/loader, or the sleek and sexy way of booting the kernel directly, without /boot/loader. I've tested grub2 only on the x86 standard PC so I can't comment on any other architecture -- though I

Re: kernel can't find boot device ad

2008-01-26 Thread walt
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, mustkaru wrote: Hi, I successfully installed Dragonfly on my laptop and compiled a new kernel. However, when booting the new kernel panics: can't find boot device 'ad' (root is on /dev/ad0s1a). There is no 'ad' in the list of devices recognized by kernel. ata0 appears

Re: kernel can't find boot device ad

2008-01-26 Thread walt
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, mustkaru wrote: .. I just wanted to compile the new kernel to slim it down and throw out debugging stuff. I attach the custom kernel config file, perhaps I've missed a driver? Yet, all I've essentially done is comment out debugging and SCSI devices, firewire, RAID,

Re: howto use /usr/include/iconv.h

2008-01-25 Thread walt
Johannes Hofmann wrote: Hello, what is the correct way to use iconv.h from /usr/include instead of /usr/pkg/include ? As soon as I add -I/usr/pkg/include iconv.h is used from there. Even adding -I/usr/include doesn't help. On the other hand I need -I/usr/pkg/include e.g. for jpeglib.h. I

Bluetooth breaks pkgsrc/python

2008-01-22 Thread walt
I just noticed that the python socket module is broken on DEVEL but the broken python gets installed anyway because the error is non-fatal. The broken code is in socketmodule.c and is surrounded by an #ifdef USE_BLUETOOTH. I'm afraid I know nothing about Bluetooth or support for it in DFly, so I

Re: cvsup

2008-01-21 Thread walt
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: .. Oh yes, everybody who EVER tried adding third party software to the repo, or rather kept maintaining it, has been swearing on CVS... Heh. That's ambiguous in colloquial English, which admittedly makes no sense and therefore is difficult to learn. You

Re: drm/dri update

2008-01-09 Thread walt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Hey, I am serving you hot + fresh a new dri/drm port. I'd like everybody to try and use it and to report back on success and problems... ... startx and run glxinfo (available from glx-utils). You should now see: direct rendering:

Re: drm/dri update

2008-01-09 Thread walt
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, walt wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Hey, I am serving you hot + fresh a new dri/drm port. I'd like everybody to try and use it and to report back on success and problems... ... startx and run glxinfo (available from glx-utils

Re: drm/dri update

2008-01-08 Thread walt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Hey, I am serving you hot + fresh a new dri/drm port. I'd like everybody to try and use it and to report back on success and problems. I'd like to commit this update before the release. What you need to do: Update to latest HEAD to

Re: drm/dri update

2008-01-07 Thread walt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Hey, I am serving you hot + fresh a new dri/drm port. I'd like everybody to try and use it and to report back on success and problems. I'd like to commit this update before the release. What you need to do: ... You'll need to

Re: drm/dri update

2008-01-07 Thread walt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Johannes Hofmann wrote: walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Hey, I am serving you hot + fresh a new dri/drm port. I'd like everybody to try and use it and to report back on success and problems. I'd like

Re: mounting a ext2fs part and need fsck_ext2fs

2007-12-28 Thread walt
Kevin L. Kane wrote: Im trying to mount a ext2fs partition from dragonfly but I keep getting a error like this: mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad2s1: Invalid argument What command are you using to mount the partition? There wasnt much info about why this happens, I did find a post somewhere that said

Re: HEADS UP ON HEAD - recompile libc_r AND the kernel

2007-12-15 Thread walt
Petr Janda wrote: What about people running libthead_xu ? How is it shaping up? I dont recall last time i had any problems with it. There is a thread now in the 'commits' list saying that libthread_xu is now the default configuration. In HEAD, anyway.

Linking .so libs: when is a missing symbol acceptible?

2007-10-14 Thread walt
I'm still working on pkgsrc/gnash, mainly to educate myself. I've learned a lot in the past two days, but this one is beyond me: The gnash package includes a small utility named gparser, for analyzing shockwave flash movie files (.swf). gparser will build on NetBSD but not on DFly. It fails in

Re: Install JRE

2007-10-13 Thread walt
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Fri, October 12, 2007 10:48 pm, Dmitri Nikulin wrote: On 10/11/07, Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for volunteering to do it. Just checked, and even building the OpenJDK still requires so-called binary plugs which are

Our g++ and wide streams?

2007-10-12 Thread walt
I've almost got pkgsrc/boost-libs working, but I lack some newbie knowlege about c++. The problem boost-libs code has this: #ifndef BOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_WIDE_STREAMS # include cwchar #endif If cwchar gets included the package won't compile -- AFAICT it's because DFly has no support for wide

Re: gnash build fails.

2007-10-12 Thread walt
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Pranav Kumar wrote: On 10/11/07, walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you build your existing boost-libs yourself or did you install a binary package? ldd /usr/pkg/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so.1.33.1 gives : /usr/pkg/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so.1.33.1

libc_r versus libpthread and linker flags

2007-10-11 Thread walt
I think I've found the reason that pkgsrc/boost-libs isn't working properly on DFly, but I don't know how to fix it. Not long ago Matt made /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 a symlink to enable an easy switch between libc_r and libpthread. On my machine I have the symlink pointing to libc_r, which must

Re: libc_r versus libpthread and linker flags

2007-10-11 Thread walt
Kyle Butt wrote: Could it be that the boost-libs configure script is seeing the libpthread.so stub library and wrongly concluding that -pthread is the correct flag? That's seems the likely reason, but I'm not sure. I think with the change, that you need to use -lpthread Yes, that flag is

Re: gnash build fails.

2007-10-10 Thread walt
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Pranav Kumar wrote: On 10/9/07, walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pranav Kumar wrote: I have been trying to build gnash using pkgsrc on the development-head taken two weeks back. I cant make out anything from the error message. Could anyone give me some insight

Re: gnash build fails.

2007-10-09 Thread walt
that you have a problem in your boost-libs package. I tried to build boost-libs and failed, so I can't comment on the gnash problem. What happens if you try to rebuild boost-libs? On 10/9/07, walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pranav Kumar wrote: Hi I am getting following error while building

Tickless system?

2007-10-09 Thread walt
I noticed that the linux kernel config menu introduced an item a few months ago called 'tickless system': This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is busy and when the system is idle. ...further development like full

Re: Tickless system?

2007-10-09 Thread walt
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 09/10/2007, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The real issue here is probably cutting down on timer events when a system is idle - almost certainly to improve the efficiency of virtualized systems... It might be useful for power

Re: gnash build fails.

2007-10-08 Thread walt
Pranav Kumar wrote: Hi I am getting following error while building gnash. /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/gnash/work/.buildlink/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so: undefined reference to 'pthread_create'... I've been trying to build boost-libs on DFly with no luck. Did you build it yourself?

Re: Install JRE

2007-10-07 Thread walt
Justin Chan wrote: Hi, i am using dfBSD 1.10.0. I have tried to use the usr/pkgsrc/lang/sun-jre15 ,jre14,jdk14,jdk15...all couldn't work... I'm reading Yuri's patches now, but it'll take me a good while to understand it all. Meanwhile, you can install sun-jre14 and sun-jdk14 if you make some

Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-18 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: Theo made a point of stating that he thought it meant that the BSD license completely trumped the GPL but Theo is no more a lawyer then I am so all I can do is throw up my hands and say 'I don't know'. There is some code in the OpenBSD license designed to

Re: New DragonFly user

2007-08-27 Thread walt
Andre LeClaire wrote: I'm not sure whether users on this list prefer top or bottom posting... I think reading some of Matt's posts will answer that question ;o) I'm not part of the DragonFly team, but I'll bid you welcome to the family anyway!

Re: modular xorg build fails

2007-08-21 Thread walt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble building modular xorg on a new install of DragonFly 1.8.1; modular-xorg-apps and -fonts build okay but modular-xorg-drivers fails when it tries to build modular-xorg-server. This is a recent change. Three patches for the configure script are

Re: Hunting for missing ACPI interrupt

2007-08-19 Thread walt
David Murray wrote: Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone out there can offer any hints for finding a missing interrupt. I've got box here where the front-panel power button has never worked - it doesn't shut the system down... My BIOS has setable options for how the power switch should behave,

Help with confusing C code in loader?

2007-07-29 Thread walt
I'm trying to debug a problem in /boot/loader but I'm stumped by this line in sys/boot/common/module.c: error = (file_formats[i]-l_load)(filename, loadaddr, fp); This seems to refer to a line in common/bootstrap.h: int (* l_load)(char *filename, u_int64_t dest, struct preloaded_file **result);

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-24 Thread walt
walt wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: The kernel image loads normally. If I type 'load green_saver' :the message is: :'don't know how to load module /boot/kernel/green_saver.ko' It doesn't understand the file format. I think FreeBSD changed the output format

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-22 Thread walt
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: The kernel image loads normally. If I type 'load green_saver' :the message is: :'don't know how to load module /boot/kernel/green_saver.ko' It doesn't understand the file format. I think FreeBSD changed the output format for the modules.

Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-19 Thread walt
I've been using the DFly boot loader to boot FBSD-current because our loader will work correctly with extended/logical partitions -- and FBSD wasn't interested in fixing theirs when I pointed them to our loader patches. Well, recently FBSD made some kind of a change which stops our boot loader

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-19 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: .. :Well, recently FBSD made some kind of a change which stops :our boot loader from loading their kernel modules -- I have :no idea what causes the problem. Anyone here know what the :difference might be? I don't know, you need to experiment a bit. See if you can

Re: User-Land PPP vs. Free/Open

2007-06-24 Thread walt
Chris Turner wrote: While trying to investigate the SIO/PPP problems, I came across this: http://osdir.com/ml/os.openbsd.tech/2004-11/msg00085.html... That patch is from 2004. Have you been to the ppp maintainer's website to check for newer code? http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html

[OT] The definition of C

2007-06-23 Thread walt
The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility and power of assembly language with the readability of assembly language.

Re: Gnome: Couldn't load icon... bug

2007-05-01 Thread walt
Simon corecode Schubert wrote: .. I don't exactly recall what gtop is doing, but obviously something with kmem. Our interface changed drastically since 1.8-RELEASE (in case you are using -DEVEL) and it also always changed between releases (although not that much, just ABI, not API)... libgtop

Re: nspluginwrapper

2007-04-01 Thread walt
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: Hi, With a little fiddling I have managed to get nspluginwrapper to work on DragonFly - so far tested with the Flash plugin and acroread7. I can almost make a decent set of patches for pkgsrc for it but there are a couple of oddities I'm not sure how to

OpenBSD IPV6 bug found

2007-04-01 Thread walt
If DF uses any OpenBSD code in IPV6, this may be on-topic, otherwise it's merely entertaining ;o) http://open.itworld.com/4918/070315openbsd/page_1.html One little taste: Core had to go to a certain amount of effort to get OpenBSD developers to acknowledge the seriousness of the flaw...

Re: Help with undefined library symbol?

2007-02-24 Thread walt
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:57 +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: walt wrote: The same code in FreeBSD produces a defined symbol instead, but I don't see what make the difference. The code is surrounded by ifdefs which I eventually deleted out of pure desperation, but it made

Re: xmms plugin question

2007-02-24 Thread walt
Huub wrote: Hi, Running DFBSD 1.9, I just built xmms. Though it does work, I missed the CD Audio player plugin. After some searching I found I missed libcdaudio, so I built that too and put it in /usr/pkg/lib/xmms/Input. However, xmms still doesn't show CD Audio player in the Input plugin

Re: 1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk

2007-02-24 Thread walt
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: .. fdisk -BI da6 (system disk is da4) but then I get that message that drive is not configured. :-/ I get same result if I use disklabel to dedicate drive Random ideas: do you actually have a /dev/da6? Does dmesg show a da6 during boot? I have no experience

Re: xmms plugin question

2007-02-23 Thread walt
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Huub wrote: Hi, Running DFBSD 1.9, I just built xmms. Though it does work, I missed the CD Audio player plugin. After some searching I found I missed libcdaudio, so I built that too and put it in /usr/pkg/lib/xmms/Input. However, xmms still doesn't show CD Audio player

Help with undefined library symbol?

2007-02-23 Thread walt
While trying to install xmms and/or its new cousin audacious, I run into an undefined symbol while trying to load the CD plugin. The code compiles without error. This is from cdaudio.h and cdaudio.c in audio/xmms and also in wip/audacious-plugins int read_audio_data(int fd, int pos, int num,

Re: KDE and OpenSSL = Broken

2007-02-22 Thread walt
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Kimura Fuyuki wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: 3. who's bad? a. pkgsrc b. kdelibs c. libltdl d. rtld f. kernel a,b,c seems to be ok? i'm pretty sure it is in b or a. the warning messages are kind of

Re: KDE and OpenSSL = Broken

2007-02-22 Thread walt
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Kimura Fuyuki wrote: I still suspect lower layer. Why does the following last command result in error? It's just ok on NetBSD. test program: http://www.hadaly.org/fuyuki/dltest.c VERY nice. Thanks! I've just committed a fix.

Re: RealPlayerGold?

2007-02-21 Thread walt
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Huub wrote: Hi, I run DFBSD 1.9. In pkgsrc/multimedia I find RealPlayerGold, but make install clean stops in error. How do I build it? First download the rpm from real.com? and then? Hm. I just installed with no problems. What error do you see?

Re: RealPlayerGold?

2007-02-21 Thread walt
Huub wrote: For pkgsrc you must use bmake instead of make. Uhhmmmthank you..but after successfully installing: $ /usr/pkg/bin/realplayergold /usr/pkg/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: X fails after upgrade to 1.9

2007-02-20 Thread walt
Huub wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from 1.6 to 1.9 and now X fails to run: xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy Mouse0: Cannot open input device PreInit failed for input device Mouse0 No core pointer However, when I move my mouse, I do see the X-mousecursor move.

Re: Native jdk build - success

2007-02-20 Thread walt
Bill Hacker wrote: Francois Tigeot wrote: Hi, Today, I finally succeeded in building a native version of wip/jdk14. The big difference with my previous attempts was the DragonFly version: 1.4.5-RELEASE So, we have: 1.4.5 = success 1.6.2 = failure 1.8.0 = failure One annoying problem

Re: Gcc-ada errata?

2007-02-19 Thread walt
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Bill Hacker wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:34:37 +0800 From: Bill Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: dragonfly.users Subject: Gcc-ada errata? Anyone seen this (DFLY 1.8 REL, Celeron 1 GHz, 512MB SDRAM, IBM/Hitachi PATA 20GB HDD): = # cd

Re: Gcc-ada errata?

2007-02-19 Thread walt
Bill Hacker wrote: . Joy! gcc 4.0 and later should be OK as-is? Well, corecode has imported just the bare-nekkid gcc/g++ parts, not the fancy stuff like ada. But -- maybe the native ada-4.1.2 code will compile without a bootstrap ada compiler, dunno. === From the DFLY 1.8 release

Re: obtaining kernel src with cvsup

2007-02-07 Thread walt
John Mire wrote: how do I get the kernel src through cvsup? here's my diaryfile: Thu Feb 1 02:50:54 CST 2007 =inital install from iso-image =setup the pkgsrc tree as per the Handbook: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/pkgsrc-sourcetree-using.html Welcome! The

Re: Upgrading bootblocks

2007-02-06 Thread walt
Petr Janda wrote: disklabel: Warning, old bootblocks detected, install new bootblocks reinstall the disklabel when i do disklabel /dev/ad1s1 Does 'disklabel -r' change anything?

Re: Using gcc41 for pkgsrc?

2007-01-21 Thread walt
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Steve Mynott wrote: On 1/21/07, Justin C. Sherrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, January 20, 2007 9:53 pm, walt wrote: I think gcc41 is ready for prime time (except for the kernel) so I hope to prod you gurus into whatever action it takes to get DragonFly

Using gcc41 for pkgsrc?

2007-01-20 Thread walt
Confession: I have an axe to grind :o) I think gcc41 is ready for prime time (except for the kernel) so I hope to prod you gurus into whatever action it takes to get DragonFly ready for building packages with gcc41. Today's puzzle: a post from Huub in another thread made me try to build

Help interpreting a linker error? (c++)

2007-01-17 Thread walt
I just updated my -CURRENT machine, so lots of things have changed, and I normally have trouble debugging linker errors anyway :o( My problem is with pkgsrc/sysutils/fam: Listener.o(.text+0x80): In function `Listener::Listener(bool, bool, unsigned long, unsigned long)': : undefined reference to

Re: Help interpreting a linker error? (c++)

2007-01-17 Thread walt
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On 1/18/07, walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is with pkgsrc/sysutils/fam: Listener.o(.text+0x80): In function `Listener::Listener(bool, bool, unsigned long, unsigned long)': : undefined reference to `socket(int, int, int)' Sorry

Re: ... services specified in rc.conf not starting automatically ...

2007-01-07 Thread walt
Joe wrote: Good morning, I am really puzzled by this problem and any suggestions would be much appreciated. It seems that not all of the services I've set to be started, specified in the /etc/rc.conf file, are started... This is just my quick guess -- I haven't read your debugging output

Re: problem finding dynamic library

2007-01-04 Thread walt
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: j s wrote: Good morning, I'm trying to resolve the following error on a Dfly 1.7.0 system: imapd: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.2: \ Shared object libstdc++.so.7 not found, required by libfam.so.0 how did you get there? seems you

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-03 Thread walt
Timothy wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 12:11, Matthew Dillon wrote: Well, my biggest issue for this release is that all the packages that compiled and ran on 1.6 also compile and run now... ...I'll do a compile of kde and gnome, that should wring it out pretty good. Yes! And

Re: A question on enabling sound...

2007-01-02 Thread walt
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Huub wrote: That should be all you need to do, if that's your sound chipset and it's supported. Check /var/log/dmesg for error messages. According to the mainboard data, the chip = VIA VT8235. BIOS says: vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3059. dmesg | grep 0x3059: pci0:

Re: A question on enabling sound...

2007-01-02 Thread walt
Gergo Szakal wrote: On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:43:58 +0100 Huub v.niekerk at hccnet.nl wrote: foo_load=YES should go to /boot/loader.conf not to rc.conf. A good advice would be to try to load the kld with kldload by hand and see if it gets detected, but before loading the module please stop

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread walt
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Mon, January 1, 2007 10:07 am, Huub wrote: Try starting from a terminal as normal user and check the output. I did that and found nothing odd compared with the root. Can you tell me what specific output should be there with what

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread walt
Huub wrote: I've been having trouble with both firefox1 and 2, as someone else also posted recently. The problem I see is that firefox will start, run for about five seconds, and the quit with no output of any kind. Deleting ~/.mozilla/firefox doesn't help, although it does get re-created

Re: updating packages

2006-12-29 Thread walt
Huub wrote: Beware though that it can leave some of your packages non-working. If I'm not confusing this with something else what bmake upgrade does is to deinstall all packages and then reinstall the new versions. Should the build of the first package fail then it will abort and you'll be

Re: parser error on building gdm.xml

2006-12-27 Thread walt
Huub wrote: Huub wrote: Hi, While building gnome/gdm.xml, it looks like stalled on this: uk/gdm.xml:2358: parser error : Entity 'mdash' not defined parapercnt;r mdash; випÑÑк (ве OS)/para ^ uk/gdm.xml:2360: parser error : Entity

Re: stale work directory error

2006-12-26 Thread walt
Huub wrote: Hi, I'm building gnome on DFBSD 1.6 and get this error: ERROR: [depends.mk] A package matching ``glib2=2.12.3'' should ERROR: be installed, but one cannot be found. Perhaps there is a ERROR: stale work directory for ../../devel/glib2? ... The one time I saw a similar

Re: stale work directory error

2006-12-26 Thread walt
Huub wrote: The one time I saw a similar error message, it turned out to be correct: there was a 'work' directory left over from a previous (failed) build attempt. Removing the old 'work' directory fixed the problem. Thank you, but after removal it continues with this error: work -

Re: compiling kernel / booting from usb

2006-12-23 Thread walt
Haidut wrote: I've had no trouble installing Dfly directly on a 512MB USB memory stick just as I would on a normal HDD and it booted fine. Excellent work. I think a feat like that should be explained in the DragonFly wiki. I know I would like to try it :o) I'm curious about things like: did

Re: using swap on a separate slice

2006-12-20 Thread walt
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Ja'far Railton wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:23:28AM -0800, walt wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:45:22AM +0300, Ja'far Railton wrote: I would like to make use of a swap slice left over from a Linux install (in order to free up

Re: using swap on a separate slice

2006-12-19 Thread walt
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:45:22AM +0300, Ja'far Railton wrote: I would like to make use of a swap slice left over from a Linux install (in order to free up the current DFly swap partition for other use). It is therefore an extended partion. I have googled this but

Re: pkg_rolling-replace problem

2006-12-19 Thread walt
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Petr Janda wrote: I installed this package after reading the updating how to by Jeremy Reed, but I get this error on every package it tries to update: ... I see that the package was updated after you posted this, so update your pkgsrc and try again. I just tried it and

Re: using swap on a separate slice

2006-12-19 Thread walt
Ja'far Railton wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:23:28AM -0800, walt wrote: If the existing swap partition in linux was e.g. /dev/hda7, then in DragonFly you would do this: # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV ad0s7 Thanks for the replies. Well, I tried MAKEDEV with ad0s4 (and other permutations

Re: pkg_rolling-replace problem

2006-12-19 Thread walt
Petr Janda wrote: Isnt it supposed to halt after a failed package? ... Petr, could I ask you (even humbly beg you) in this season of holiday joy and generosity, for a special Christmas present, just for greedy little-old-me? :o) Could I ask you (please?) to post your replies below the body of

Re: A c++ puzzle for you gurus

2006-12-18 Thread walt
Peter Avalos wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:48:38AM -0800, walt wrote: .. My bonehead compiler question is: how did we get from 'from syncres.cc' to 'mtasker.cc' with no intermediate steps? ...mtasker.hh which includes mtasker.cc. ... The source of my confusion becomes clear! I don't

Re: A c++ puzzle for you gurus

2006-12-14 Thread walt
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:34:04AM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: the problem here basically is an incomprehensible error message which translates to: no declaration for swapcontext()!!1 Wrong. thanks for your

A c++ puzzle for you gurus

2006-12-13 Thread walt
In response to a post by Petr, I decided to take a stab at fixing pkgsrc/wip/powerdns-recursor. I was able to fix a few obvious #ifdefs, but I'm still getting this c++ error (which doesn't happen in NetBSD): c++ -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -Wall -O3 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include

Re: make buildworld crash, unwind.h

2006-12-07 Thread walt
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Thu, December 7, 2006 3:39 pm, Peter Avalos wrote: When is cvsup appropriate vs. cvs? Using cvsup is what we have documented. It appears that he is using cvsup to get the repo, and usung cvs to update his src/ tree. Should we be describing that in

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