Re: What's the prognosis for KDE and XFCE?

2012-12-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, December 30, 2012 13:08:36 John Marino wrote: > On 12/30/2012 12:43, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > I currently have no usable KDE on DFly, and XFCE is installed, but fails > > to > > come up because of some missing library file which I don't know where to > >

Re: What's the prognosis for KDE and XFCE?

2012-12-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, December 30, 2012 18:10:07 peeter wrote: > On x86_64 xfce4 is available as a binary package, and at least on my > Virtualbox it starts fine. What library are you missing? libxcb-aux.so.0; I reported it a few days ago. I'm running on 32-bit. > There's an issue with dbus and/or gconf2 th

dma

2012-12-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
I installed LibreOffice on Ubuntu and looked at the other packages that came up in the search. One of them is dma. Yes, the DragonFly Mail Agent is available in Linux. Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

2012Q4

2013-01-22 Thread Pierre Abbat
2012Q4 is out. I just git pulled and don't see remotes/origin/pkgsrc-2012Q4. Could you add it? How long will it take to build binaries? Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

pkg_rolling-replace stops at git. Now what?

2013-01-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm upgrading my DragonFly box with pkg_rolling-replace. I ran it -nuv, removing or manually upgrading anything it stopped on, until it ran through. Then I ran it -uv, again removing or upgrading anything it stopped on. It stopped on scmgit-docs, which I removed by force. I ran it again. It stop

Re: dragonflybsd.org appears to be down

2013-02-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, February 02, 2013 17:51:27 Justin Sherrill wrote: > A traceroute may show the issue. dragonflybsd.org itself is up; I suspect > the problem is on the way there. I see the site up. Here's my traceroute: 4 24.93.64.6 (24.93.64.6) 35.451ms 21.180ms 13.682ms 5 107.14.19.48 (107.1

ImageMagick fails to build

2013-02-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm doing a rolling-replace on DragonFly, using 2012Q4, and I get this: ===> Installing dependencies for dblatex-0.3.2nb2 == The following variables will affect the build process of this package, dblatex-0.3.2nb2. Their curre

Re: ImageMagick fails to build

2013-02-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:15:43 John Marino wrote: > On 2/10/2013 08:34, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > I'm doing a rolling-replace on DragonFly, using 2012Q4, and I get this: > >CCLD utilities/compare > >CCLD utilities/composite > > > > /us

Re: ImageMagick fails to build

2013-02-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:31:23 Pierre Abbat wrote: > DragonFly darner.ixazon.lan 3.3-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly v3.3.0.672.g46163a- > DEVELOPMENT #0: Fri Nov 30 02:18:02 UTC 2012 > r...@darner.ixazon.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > I just added the line to mk.conf and

python-related packages

2013-02-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
Continuing my rolling-replace, I get this: *** pkg_chk reports the following packages need replacing, but they are not installed: py27-cups py27-dateutil py27-dbus py27-docutils py27-elementtree py27-icalendar py27-pyrex py27-pytz py27-qt4 py27-roman py27-sip py27-vobject *** Please read the erro

Re: Proposal to modify behavior of installworld

2013-02-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 09:46:42 Matthew Dillon wrote: > There are going to be serious issues with build/install behaviors. For > example, I often installkernel several times before actually rebooting, > and sometimes (though not often) I will installworld several times > pri

Re: help with finding precompiled binaries for 32/64bit and vmware player.

2013-02-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, February 21, 2013 17:22:55 Roger Lawhorn wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to dragonfly bsd. Fear not, I am a unix (and microsoft) admin and a > programmer from the 80's. Nowadays I just do unix batch, perl, and xsl. > You don't need to teach me much. > > I am using vmware player 5. 64bi

Delete in /usr/pkgsrc/packages?

2013-02-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
My first disk is 77% full. As I recently did pkg_rolling-replace, I looked for results of it that are taking up space. I have 3.4 GB of packages and 2.5 GB of distfiles. I have distfiles in the list of directories to clean of files that aren't accessed in 30 days. Should I add /usr/pkgsrc/packa

Re: Delete in /usr/pkgsrc/packages?

2013-02-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, February 28, 2013 08:40:44 Justin Sherrill wrote: > I haven't tried it myself, but I think you can clean out > /usr/pkgsrc/packages without harm. > > If this is a Hammer volume, a more aggressive history pruning setting may > also help. (I'm assuming the disk is pretty small if 3.4G

Too many filenames compiling kernel

2013-04-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
===> bus ===> bus/cam ===> bus/cam/cam @ -> /usr/src/sys/bus/cam/cam/../../.. echo "#define SCSI_DELAY 15000" > opt_scsi.h rm -f .depend > .depend mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I. -I@ - I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC -I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC/include - I@/../include

Anyone have a guide to SSDs?

2013-04-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm getting ready to buy the box to replace the router. It will have an SSD and an HDD. There's a page explaining how to put swapcache on an SSD, but do I need swapcache? Which filesystems should go on the SSD and which on the HDD? Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely l

Re: Too many filenames compiling kernel

2013-04-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, April 11, 2013 09:21:10 John Marino wrote: > On 4/11/2013 09:05, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > cc1: error: too many filenames given. Type cc1 --help for usage > > If you have the directory "/include" then delete it and everything in > it. This error has appea

New kernel crashes during nightly hammer job

2013-04-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2547 I also have a dump numbered 15, which happened one day after 14, when the computer was running nothing besides the usual and its nightly job. When crash 14 happened, I was doing a dry run of rolling-replace. Should I upload dump 15? Pierre -- The Black

rolling-replace hit a snag on boost

2013-04-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
...updated 9793 targets... /usr/bin/find /usr/obj/pkgsrc/devel/boost- headers/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/include/boost -type f -print | /usr/bin/xargs /usr/sbin/chown root:wheel /usr/bin/find /usr/obj/pkgsrc/devel/boost- headers/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/include/boost -type d -print | /usr/bin/xargs /bi

darner crashed, apparently during hammer

2013-04-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
It was in the middle of compiling some TeX-related package and crashed. I found out when I tried to push a git repo to it. It has this error on the screen: HAMMER: debug: shifted cursor pointing at parent parent 80021cda:28 onode 8002366.5000:0 nnode 800236892000:14 Warning: busy

Re: darner crashed, apparently during hammer

2013-04-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, April 29, 2013 01:29:51 Pierre Abbat wrote: > It was in the middle of compiling some TeX-related package and crashed. I > found out when I tried to push a git repo to it. It has this error on the > screen: > > HAMMER: debug: shifted cursor pointing at parent > paren

Disk corruption

2013-04-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
I think I've figured out what happened. I'll have to replace one of the disks. ad0 is an IDE drive with a 60 GB disk; 53 GB is the root Hammer volume (including /var, /tmp, /usr, and /home), and the rest is /boot, swap, and an unused partition which used to be /crypt. 38 GB of the root volume is

Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, May 02, 2013 21:08:21 Sven Gaerner wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 07:34:14PM +0200, Charles Rapenne wrote: > > Let imagine you have dragonfly installed on a 250 Gb disk, and you > > want to move it to a 500 Gb disk without reinstalling, how could you > > dump your existing disk and g

Re: Disk corruption

2013-05-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, April 29, 2013 22:13:45 Pierre Abbat wrote: > I think I've figured out what happened. I'll have to replace one of the > disks. > > ad0 is an IDE drive with a 60 GB disk; 53 GB is the root Hammer volume > (including /var, /tmp, /usr, and /home), and the re

Re: Disk corruption

2013-05-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
I think I figured out what's happening, though not how it started. The new disk has a hosed file called BA6A74AF4F8A7. The old disk has three files with that name, in two different sizes. Postfix moves files around, putting them in one directory when it's trying to deliver them and in another wh

Re: Package download statistics

2013-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, May 06, 2013 14:13:59 Francois Tigeot wrote: > Now, the _very_ interesting (and unexpected) part is the less than 2% pkgsrc > packages usage. > Maybe it's just that pkgng is so much better, maybe it's that pkgsrc users > prefer to build software from source. Difficult to know. > > In an

Re: Package download statistics

2013-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, May 06, 2013 19:34:05 Francois Tigeot wrote: > And now that there are DragonFly-3.4 pkgsrc packages, do you use them ? They weren't available (as far as I know) when I started upgrading the packages, but I will use them now. I am keeping the old Postfix package in case there is a bug

USB doesn't boot

2013-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
I downloaded the 64-bit USB image and put it on a flash drive and attempted to boot the new computer with it. It says "Default: F1" and is stuck there. If I hit F1, the computer beeps and flashes the flash drive. Same if I hit 1 or enter. If I hit anything else it just beeps. What's wrong? Pier

Re: USB doesn't boot

2013-05-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 15:19:08 Charles Rapenne wrote: > How did you copied the usb image to your usb disk ? dd if=dfly-x86_64-3.4.1_REL.img of=/dev/sdc1 I'm going to try booting another computer, which also has an Atom, or the laptop with the flash drive. If that doesn't work, I still have a 3

Re: USB doesn't boot

2013-05-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 19:46:38 Alex Hornung wrote: > On 07/05/13 18:53, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 15:19:08 Charles Rapenne wrote: > >> How did you copied the usb image to your usb disk ? > > > > dd if=dfly-x86_64-3.4.1_REL.img of=/dev/sdc1

missing stable symlink

2013-05-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
I just got networking up on my new box and ran "pkgin up". It replied "Could not fetch http://mirror- master.dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_64/DragonFly-3.4/stable/All//pkg_summary.gz". I checked with my web browser and found that DragonFly-3.4 exists, but has no "stable" subdirectory. Could som

Can /var be on a separate partition?

2013-05-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm setting up the box that has an SSD and an HDD. Right now everything that's mounted is on the SSD. I made three partitions on the HDD: a backup boot partition, a 75 GB plaintext Hammer volume, and the rest (449 GB) for an encrypted Hammer volume. As this is going to be my router, it must come

Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2013-05-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, May 09, 2013 09:25:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > Machine rebooted after doing a startx. Added hostname to /etc/hosts > and ran startx. Machine rebooted and failed to give login prompt. I > see the following: > > Starting moused: moused: Unable to get status of mouse

Re: Can /var be on a separate partition?

2013-05-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, May 09, 2013 16:06:09 Sven Gaerner wrote: > AFAIR there was a thread on the mailing list with some recommendations how > to configure the PFS when it is placed on an SSD. Reblock and rebalance > should be run less frequent than it is configured by default. I thought there was such a t

firewall setup

2013-05-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm going to set up the new box as my firewall. I need it to do this: *Get an external address through DHCP. *Forward IPv6 packets through a he.net tunnel I have. *Assign IPv6 addresses to the computers on the inside. I don't find the radvd program or package. *Forward IPv4 packets on certain port

booting stopped at malloc disk

2013-05-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
The power blinked and my new box rebooted. The last lines are: real memory = 4276840448 (4078 MB) avail memory = 3929784320 (3747 MB) lapic: divisor index 0, frequency 9354 Hz Initialize MI interrupts FQ scheduler policy version 1.1 loaded wdog: In-kernel automatic watchdog reset enabled kbd1

Re: booting stopped at malloc disk

2013-05-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 21:25:06 Pierre Abbat wrote: > The computer is ignoring the keyboard; when I hit the keys to switch the KVM > to another computer, it takes a minute to do so. If I reboot in single-user > mode (which I've done before successfully), it still stops at mall

Re: booting stopped at malloc disk

2013-05-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 22:58:00 Pierre Abbat wrote: > Further checking: Neither DFly box has an initrd. Both loader.conf files > have the line "dm_target_crypt_load=YES". I added "dm_load=YES" to > loader.conf and rebooted; it still stops at malloc disk. Here i

Re: booting stopped at malloc disk

2013-05-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
I got it to boot and got enough information to file a bug report. http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2557 Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli ku po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

Re: firewall setup

2013-05-22 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, May 10, 2013 14:28:25 Francois Tigeot wrote: > pf(4) does everything you want to do and more. > > There are many tutorials out there; pf.conf(5) should also be a good > starting point. I found home.nuug.no/~peter/pf and got it to do NAT, but am a bit confused how to set up the rest. W

packages for 3.5 were built for 3.3 (and tahoe is up)

2013-05-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
-bash-4.2$ kwrite tahoe.cfg & [1] 91354 -bash-4.2$ /usr/lib/gcc44/libstdc++.so.9: version CXXABI_1.3 required by /usr/pkg/qt4/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 not defined [1]+ Exit 1 kwrite tahoe.cfg (By the way, if you've had trouble running Tahoe on DragonFly, the reason is that iputil

Re: packages for 3.5 were built for 3.3 (and tahoe is up)

2013-05-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 08:44:13 Justin Sherrill wrote: > It was built on 3.3, but not just for 3.3. It should generally work. > Because pkgsrc builds take so long, the build starts before the new > release is tagged - but this was effectively 3.4, and there's no ABI > changes between 3.4 and 3.5

Re: polling opinions: how much QT3/KDE3.5 to preserve in dports this July?

2013-05-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, May 31, 2013 15:21:54 John Marino wrote: > We've got three options: > 1) Follow suit and purge all these QT3 and KDE 3.5 ports. This is a lot > of ports. > 2) "Lock in" the core KDE 3.5 ports (everything pulled in by KDE3.5 meta > package) but let the other ports go. > 3) "Lock in" ever

Re: packages for 3.5 were built for 3.3 (and tahoe is up)

2013-05-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
I rebuilt the qt-libs package and still can't run a KDE program on darner. I have two DragonFly boxes, one with working KDE and one with broken KDE. How do I tell what the ABI version is, so that I can troubleshoot it? Pierre -- sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

Re: polling opinions: how much QT3/KDE3.5 to preserve in dports this July?

2013-06-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, June 02, 2013 13:39:10 Francois Tigeot wrote: > I meant /usr/local/kde4/bin has to be added to the default PATH. > > Having to type the complete path for binaries is an issue in my book; > regular applications don't need it. Pkgsrc doesn't do this. KDE4 binaries are in /usr/pkg/bin jus

Re: Package download statistics

2013-06-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, June 02, 2013 14:32:44 John Marino wrote: > The bigger question, of course, is *why* pkgsrc users are likely to > build from source? Could it be that they had lots of issues with that > in the past? Who wouldn't want something fast and quick if it were > trustworthy? The "indication"

Re: polling opinions: how much QT3/KDE3.5 to preserve in dports this July?

2013-06-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, June 03, 2013 09:57:58 Petr Janda wrote: > K3B, KDevelop3, Kaffeine should be kept. I stopped using KDevelop when I tried to upgrade my existing projects to the new version of KDevelop and they didn't work anymore. I now use CMake with Kate as the editor. CMake can be used just as wel

Re: Package download statistics

2013-06-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, June 03, 2013 07:48:07 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Is there an audience of pkgsrc users that use pkgin? I do. Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.

Re: polling opinions: how much QT3/KDE3.5 to preserve in dports this July?

2013-06-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, June 03, 2013 11:15:54 Freddie Cash wrote: > If you are not logged into KDE4, then you need to specify the full path to > the binaries. But, if you aren't logged into KDE4 (nor running any KDE4 > apps), then you're probably at the console ... where running KDE4 apps > would be kind of p

immutable flag in world backup

2013-06-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
I've been getting "can't delete" errors from trying to delete the world backup, which is in /usr/obj, which is a directory I delete old files from. The reason is that some programs, such as init, are not writable by root. So I tried to chmod them and found that they have the immutable flag set.

Tunnel setup: what happens when my IPv4 address changes?

2013-06-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
I came home and found the power off. It came back on a short while later, and I spent about two hours fixing the mess. I intended to reboot zyxomma (my new firewall) to see if I got its configuration right. After much fiddling, I got it to come up right when rebooted. Here are the relevant line

alt-ctrl-F1 doesn't work

2013-06-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
This is on zyxomma again. I tried alt-ctrl-F1, alt-ctrl-F2, etc. and nothing happened. Any idea why? It works on darner. Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.

Re: alt-ctrl-F1 doesn't work

2013-06-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 09:49:58 Max Herrgard wrote: > Hm, same keyboard? Could it be you have one of those keyboards with an Fn > key? Where the F-keys have a second Fn funtionality and you forgot to turn > it off? > > Or some window manager key bindings? > > Does Alt-F1, Alt-F2 work to switch

Re: Hammer fileystem disk full problem

2013-06-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, June 13, 2013 17:32:46 Tim Darby wrote: > I have a hammer disk with two PFSes, a slave and master. The slave caused > the disk to fill up and df -h now shows -89MB. I've deleted all snapshots > and run prune-everything and I seem to be out of options for clearing > space. Is there a

router doesn't work if rebooted while network is down

2013-06-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
Last night the power blinked for a second, which took the cable signal down. I restarted the router. The cable signal is now up, and I have an external address, but I can't ping out from my other boxes. I ran "pfctl -s rules" and saw this wrong line: block drop in inet from 192.168.100.10 to an

Re: alt-ctrl-F1 doesn't work

2013-06-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 09:49:58 Max Herrgard wrote: > Does Alt-F1, Alt-F2 work to switch consoles in text mode? I shut down kdm and tried. I can switch consoles in text mode. I guess it's something in xorg.conf, but didn't find anything by looking at it. Pierre -- When a barnacle settles dow

Re: router doesn't work if rebooted while network is down

2013-06-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:55:01 Matthew Dillon wrote: > What is happening is that the cable modem is serving a non-routable > IP address to your computer when the cable modem does not have > connectivity, instead of the routable address it would normally serve > out. > > Th

How do I make a new disk bootable?

2013-06-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
Darner has three disks: ad0 is the old IDE disk, ad4 is the SATA disk which has everything that was on ad0, and ad6 is the other SATA disk. It uses ad0 only for booting; I'd like to get rid of it. So I typed: # boot0cfg -B /dev/ad4 (actually the /dev/serno equivalent), turned it off, disconnected

Re: alt-ctrl-F1 doesn't work

2013-06-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, June 14, 2013 17:01:00 Joachim de Groot wrote: > Option "DontVTSwitch" "boolean" > This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Fn sequence (where Fn refers to > one of the numbered function keys). That sequence is normally used to > switch to another "virtual terminal" on operating systems t

Re: Tunnel setup: what happens when my IPv4 address changes?

2013-06-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 22:56:24 Chris Turner wrote: > On 6/10/13 10:54 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > How do I write this line so that it works even if I get a > > different address? > > You might want to use the /etc/start_if.ifname and > /etc/stop_if.ifname mechanism i

version not defined

2013-06-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
I try to run kwrite and I get this: /usr/lib/gcc44/libstdc++.so.9: version CXXABI_1.3 required by /usr/pkg/qt4/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 not defined How do I find what version is defined? I've asked this before and got no answer. Pierre -- gau do li'i co'e kei do

Re: version not defined

2013-06-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, June 24, 2013 10:56:11 John Marino wrote: > Since I don't know who built your packages and what compiler was used, I > can't give you much advice other than stick with gcc 4.7 for everything > on pkgsrc. If I run ldd on libQtNetwork, it loads the gcc 4.7 version of libstdc++. But if I

Re: version not defined

2013-06-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, June 24, 2013 12:45:39 John Marino wrote: > You're not going to like the answer but basically it's "rebuild them > yourself" and put "DRAGONFLY_CCVER?=gcc47" in the /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf > file before you do that. > > It's possible that gcc47 is already the default since 3.4 but honestly

Socket ipv6-only option

2013-07-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm writing a program that sends UDP packets to another instance of the program. It now sends a test packet to all results of a resolver query. I run it on darner (DragonFly) and caracal (Linux) and tell them to send packets to each other. I see two differences between the two OSes: *On darner,

IPv6 and IPv4 firewall rules

2013-07-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/HowToPF6and4 I have a script that turns the IPv6 tunnel on and off, and I've tested it at the command line, but not by rebooting yet. Once I've rebooted the box and found that it works, I'll post it. Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .i

Re: Encrypting the home partition in DragonFlyBSD

2013-07-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, July 08, 2013 09:21:34 Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Could some one please tell me if it is possible to encrypt /home partition > and how to do it? I have two DragonFly boxes, both with a /crypt partition. To set it up: 1. Make a partition. 2. Use cryptsetup to set up encryption on the

Re: Laptops in which DragonFly supports WiFi

2013-07-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, July 08, 2013 09:23:04 Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Could some one please tell me laptops which have WiFi support for > DragonFlyBSD. I'd also like to know about Wifi. Zyxomma (not a laptop) has a wireless card of some sort, but I don't know what kind. Pierre -- loi mintu se ckaji d

Re: Blade migration update

2013-08-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, August 08, 2013 19:19:49 Matthew Dillon wrote: > We've migrated leaf, crater, pkgbox32, and pkgbox64 to the blades. Where could I get blade servers? If I were starting a small ISP, would they be good computers to get? Pierre -- ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji

robust file systems

2013-08-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/iron-sosp05.pdf Compares ext3, Reiser, and NTFS. How does Hammer compare with them? Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

Re: dragonflybsd router

2013-08-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, August 26, 2013 17:45:43 Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: > When multiple routing table is done, I will post to users@. I am planning a small ISP and thinking of using DragonFly for the gateways (there will be two, so that I can switch them quickly when I need to reboot one). I'm planning to h

Re: DragonFly now has IPV6 routed

2013-09-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 11:50:07 Matthew Dillon wrote: > The DragonFly machines now have native IPV6 addresses in addition to > their IPV4 addresses. I would encourage people with native IPV6 to > test functionality! All primary machines should have working > records

darner sometimes freezes during periodic job

2013-09-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
Darner froze a few minutes ago and I had to reboot it with the power button. It did the same thing several nights ago. I was not running top, but I think it was running hammer. It runs version 3.5.0.25. Zyxomma doesn't do this; it runs version 3.4.1. I don't get a dump file, a kernel panic, or a

Re: Opinions on SMF

2013-09-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 08:18:13 Petr Janda wrote: > Just how often does anyone admin need to write/change the start scripts? Not very often, but it does happen. I wrote one called /etc/rc.d/henet which starts a Hurricane Electric tunnel so that I have IPv6 addresses. Pierre -- gau do li

scmgit is renamed

2013-09-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
The scmgit package in pkgsrc is now called git. This program, of course, is necessary for updating the kernel and world source. Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

Re: NFSv4 and RAID 6 questions

2013-09-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
Resending because it didn't come through the first time. On Friday, September 13, 2013 21:09:39 Justin Sherrill wrote: > NFSv4 is not supported. I think LVM on DragonFly only does RAID 0? I > haven't done it, so I'm not sure... but I'd recommend hardware RAID in any > case. Areca or LSI devices

dns resolving error (boost)

2013-09-16 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm writing a program that implements a network protocol I'm designing. It contains the following lines of code: conf>>otherend; ip::udp::resolver::query query(otherend,"2375",ip::udp::resolver::query::v4_mapped| ip::udp::resolver::query::all_matching); ip::udp::resolver::iterator iter=res

debugging threads

2013-09-16 Thread Pierre Abbat
This is the same program as in my previous email. It has a main thread which starts two threads. I run gdb on it. On caracal it says: (gdb) break initnetwork Breakpoint 1 at 0x429950: file /home/phma/src/ampelos/network.cpp, line 25. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/phma/build/ampelos/dbg/ampelo

Re: debugging threads

2013-09-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, September 21, 2013 08:30:35 Alex Hornung wrote: > Our gdb doesn't support our thread implementation (libthread_xu), so you > can't debug multithreaded userland processes. What other operating systems use libthread_xu? Is there any way to fix this? Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli ku p

Re: debugging threads

2013-09-22 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, September 22, 2013 08:37:15 John Marino wrote: > On 9/22/2013 05:47, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Saturday, September 21, 2013 08:30:35 Alex Hornung wrote: > >> Our gdb doesn't support our thread implementation (libthread_xu), so you > >> can't d

Any new packages?

2013-09-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
I just checked http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/i386/DragonFly-3.5/ and there's still only 2013Q1. Has anyone built 2013Q2? Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.

Re: Any new packages?

2013-09-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 20:50:16 Justin Sherrill wrote: > No, no pkgsrc binaries have been built. Someone else can jump in to do so > if they want, but it won't be me. The next release will be with dports. Why are we switching to dports? Pierre -- loi mintu se ckaji danlu cu jmaji

Re: pkgsrc frozen, next release will officially be dports only

2013-10-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:40:01 John Marino wrote: > I think it would be swell (tip hat to Superman '78) to keep DragonFly > well supported by pkgsrc. I believe that the recent changes in head > will break many packages, many of which are probably common > dependencies. The main change tha

Re: Update on recent SMP contention work

2013-10-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 23:34:44 Matthew Dillon wrote: > The jist of this work is that there is no longer virtually any > contention for most process-related activities, including heavy use > of fork and fork/exec in 'make', '/bin/sh', and other utilities. > Anything which fo

How to get wireless working?

2013-11-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
I have a box with an antenna; it's serving as my gateway. pciconf -lv shows these devices: em0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x202c8086 chip=0x10d38086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82574L Gigabit Network Connection' class = network subcl

Re: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-11-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:09:48 Lanir W. wrote: > Hi, > > I've been attempting to use an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 on a > DragonFlyBSD box. I tried under 3.4 and 3.6 but I don't seem able to bring > up the interface. I tried module loading as you can see in the dmesg below > but that

Re: "mini roadmap" for userland for 3.7-dev branch

2013-11-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, November 21, 2013 17:23:13 Daniel Ramos wrote: > As a list lurker keen to contribute to dfly, this road map is definitely > valuable. Thanks for putting it together John. > > I'd propose > > * update iwn driver to support latest chip sets > > As something I'd like to look at (came u

Re: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-11-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
I have the box with me now; I'm going to try to see whether it works, once I fix a network setting. This will probably be on Sunday, since I still have to make one trip back to return the cable modem. Please reply only via the list, unless you have a gmail address (more precisely, you use a mai

routing is messed up by reassignment of address

2013-11-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
A couple of days ago my connection went down for unknown reasons. I picked up the satellite modem, of which one light was dark; it rebooted itself and I got a new range of addresses on both IPv4 and IPv6. I was able to ssh into zyxomma, but I could not ping anything outside this room on 4 or 6.

make buildkernel fails: too many files

2013-11-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm trying to make the kernel and I get this: ===> bus --- _SUBDIR_depend_cam --- ===> bus/cam ===> bus/cam/cam --- @ --- @ -> /usr/src/sys/bus/cam/cam/../../.. --- opt_scsi.h --- echo "#define SCSI_DELAY 15000" > opt_scsi.h --- .depend --- rm -f .depend > .depend mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc

Re: make buildkernel fails: too many files

2013-12-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, December 01, 2013 16:55:37 Romick wrote: > Clean up /include ? > > rm -rf /include/* That worked. There was a file /include/WebCore/libdummy.prl . I also got a response from François Tigeot, who has an IPv6 server. Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

Re: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-12-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
I just rebooted the new kernel and got this: # kldload if_iwn kldload: can't load if_iwn: Exec format error Attempting to kldload something else, once I found one that isn't already in the kernel (namely wpifw), succeeded. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer

trouble switching to dports

2013-12-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
I killed kdm, which was failing to start, and moved /usr/pkg to /usr/pkgold. Then I tried to install a package. # pkg install nano Updating repository catalogue Repository catalogue is up-to-date, no need to fetch fresh copy Unable to open remote database "repo". Try running 'pkg update' first. #

Re: trouble switching to dports

2013-12-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, December 01, 2013 22:50:56 Justin Sherrill wrote: > You should also rename /var/db/pkg - both pkgsrc and dports use the same > name. Did that. Same error. > Did you try running 'pkg update' as it suggests? I did. It does this: # pkg update Updating repository catalogue Repository cata

Re: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 02, 2013 08:19:12 Sascha Wildner wrote: > The console or dmesg will show what the real error is when this one > occurs. Can you check? rt remote free rt_cpuid 0, mycpuid 1 Trace beginning at frame 0xffe0a461d668 ?H?? 6??H??o2??H??X() at ?H?? 6??H??o2??H??X+0x99 0xff

Re: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
ifconfig shows an iwn0 device: iwn0: flags=8802 mtu 2290 ether 00:db:df:2f:0d:5f media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier I see there's an /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant script that reads an /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file, but the file does

Re: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 02, 2013 07:58:00 Joe Talbott wrote: > If I'm not mistaken that error means there is a problem with your firmware > file. Check that you have the correct version. How? I know nothing about firmware files. I'm in the middle of building git (and other stuff) as explained on ht

Re: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 02, 2013 15:34:01 John Marino wrote: > Why are you not able to install binary dports packages? > Release 3.4, Release 3.6, and 3.7-dev packages have all been recently > updated, and are well used. > > You're the only person saying it doesn't work. What gives? Look at the erro

Re: trouble switching to dports was: iwn & Intel Centrino 6235

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 02, 2013 15:40:40 Joris Giovannangeli wrote: > Not the only one, I've got an issue since I upgraded to 3.7-dev. pkg > search returns nothing. I put 3.8 ABI version in pkg.conf, I check the > mirror, and I've even deleted the db files and have run pkg update, w/o > success. Did

Re: trouble switching to dports

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 02, 2013 15:51:17 John Marino wrote: > I'm not following. You're saying the iwm error and dports error is the > same thing? > > If not, I don't know what "the error I got" is and you'll need to tell > me again. # pkg install git Updating repository catalogue Repository catalog

Re: trouble switching to dports

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 02, 2013 16:13:17 John Marino wrote: > It doesn't matter when you switch kernel or world. You can just upgrade > or wipe out /usr/local + /var/db/pkg and start again followed by "pkg clean" The question about when he switched was for Joris. I renamed /var/db/pkg. Wiping out /

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