Re: DragonFly 3.2.1 released!

2012-11-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, November 03, 2012 00:37:28 Justin Sherrill wrote: The 3.2.1 release of DragonFly is available now. I see there are i386 packages! No KDE though. What does the list of broken packages look like? I'll be in California for a week, so I won't be able to upgrade till the 13th. Pierre

Write failed: Broken pipe (ssh)

2012-11-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
I've seen this having happened, but just saw it happen. I'm working on something and decided to take a break. I had ktimetracker running on darner (DFly box) and showing on caracal (Linux laptop). Its clock icon was present, but not turning. I clicked on the stop button and nothing happened. I

Last login IP address is truncated

2012-11-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2440 I just rebooted my box after upgrading kernel and world, then logged in from the laptop, and got this: Last login: Tue Nov 27 04:01:35 2012 from 2001:470:8:42:4 I searched bugs for ipv6 last login and found the above bug, which was rejected. It mentions

pkgsrc wip

2012-12-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
I've forgotten. How do I update my wip tree? I already have wip, but I'd like to update it and compile kde4. Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

DragonFly on Aleutia

2012-12-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
I succeeded to install DragonFly on Aleutia; the dmesg is attached. Should I try anything else (like sound or X) or should I post it on dragonflybsd.org as working? This Aleutia box is going to run Ubuntu once I finish testing DragonFly on it, but I'm planning to buy more and run DragonFly.

two disks, or disk and SSD?

2012-12-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm thinking of getting an Aleutia X1 (or maybe a model not yet on the site; see http://aleutia.com/x1-small-low-power-server) for my next box. It will be my gateway, which is currently a Linksys router that I have to manually load the IPv6 script on because the flash filesystem doesn't work. I

maybe OT: cpdup on Linux?

2012-12-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
I use cpdup to copy /boot to /boot1 in case I mess up and install a broken kernel. I'd like to do the same on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu Linux, but there's no cpdup package. Is it in some other package, or where should I get it? Pierre -- li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du li ci su'i ze

Re: maybe OT: cpdup on Linux?

2012-12-16 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, December 15, 2012 21:06:30 Matthew Dillon wrote: cpdup is native to DragonFly. /usr/src/bin/cpdup. I expect it would be fairly easy to port to linux though you have to make sure that linux's file offset mode is 64 bits and not 32 bits (different distributions default to

Re: Issues Setting Up IPFW

2012-12-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
This brings up another question. I looked through the man page of ipfw and didn't see any mention of IPv6. How do you firewall IPv6? Pierre -- ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji

libxcb-aux

2012-12-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
I just finished compiling and installing xfce4-desktop, which is not in the binary repository even though it compiled successfully. Then I tried to log in to xfce. I got an error: /usr/pkg/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... If you'd like to keep track of applications in the pkgsrc

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

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.

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 /usr/obj/pkgsrc/graphics/ImageMagick/work/.buildlink

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

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 is

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

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 grow

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 rest is /boot, swap, and an unused

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 any

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?

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 Try dd if=foo.img of=/dev/sdc Thanks

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 someone

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 fd:

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

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

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 malloc disk. The only

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.

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

2013-05-28 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

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: 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 alone

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.

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.

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 any

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. The

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,

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 that have

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 instead of the defaults provided

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

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

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

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

debugging threads

2013-09-17 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:

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 debug multithreaded userland processes. What

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 that

Re: Update on recent SMP contention work

2013-10-18 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 forks

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 up on

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: 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

Re: iwn Intel Centrino 6235

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
ifconfig shows an iwn0 device: iwn0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST 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

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

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 catalogue is

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

Re: trouble switching to dports

2013-12-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 02, 2013 16:48:45 John Marino wrote: Well, there you go. pkg 1.0 is not compatible with pkg 1.1 or 1.2 It's very old. Where did you get it? It came with the 3.4 install. Remove it and either: 1) build from /usr/dports/ports-mgmt/pkg 2) install the bootstrap and let it

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 do I tell what the version is? Is it something I can fix remotely, without rebooting? What should the version

Re: routing is messed up by reassignment of address

2013-12-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, November 30, 2013 23:28:56 Pierre Abbat wrote: 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

Re: newbie question

2013-12-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, December 09, 2013 14:16:41 Roby Sadeli wrote: Sorry for not being clear enough. I am ssh'ing (and I have tried doing the same from console with the same result). The 2nd screenshot is the result I am getting from a tmux session ( http://imgur.com/9415rdM,TjMsUKC#1) Changing the

Re: debugging threads

2013-12-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
I now have the output of the test suite, but I'm not sure what to make of it. Can someone help? I think the relevant file is /usr/obj/dports/devel/gdb/work/gdb-7.6.1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/gdb.log . Executing on host: gcc ./gdb.threads/execl.c -g -lpthreads -lm -o

x86:32 packages?

2013-12-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm going to rebuild kernel and world on darner and switch to dports. I looked at http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/dports/. ABI 3.8 has 64-bit packages, but no 32-bit. Should I use 3.6 instead, or will there be 32-bit packages? Pierre -- gau do li'i co'e kei do

dma hangs on boot

2014-01-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
Zyxomma has sendmail redirected to dma. One day I had to reboot it. I shelled into its IP address and typed reboot. It dropped the connection and beeped. A while later, I tried to log in again. No connection. A few days later I decided to investigate. (Zyxomma was my router, but it's doing

Re: dma hangs on boot

2014-01-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, January 07, 2014 21:01:01 Justin Sherrill wrote: Previous problem I had where it froze at that step were a lack of network connection, or DNS, though that usually was just a slowdown, not a stop. Dunno if that holds here. I've seen it have two problems: 1. It was setting

switching old 32-bit box to dports

2014-01-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm trying to switch darner to dports. I made dports-create, no problem. Then I tried to make pkg-bootstrap. I got this: # make pkg-bootstrap /tmp/pkgboot.tar.xz 100% of 1403 kB 474 kBps ABI=`uname -P` /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static install -y pkg Updating repository

Re: switching old 32-bit box to dports

2014-01-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, January 13, 2014 22:23:01 Justin Sherrill wrote: It's trying to download a prebuilt binary of pkg for i386/DragonFly 3.7. There isn't one - Marino built packages for 3.6/i386, and has not been building them for 3.7+. There's a fellow that volunteered to work on i386 dports, but I

darner's root timezone changed

2014-01-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
Darner's periodic output has been coming around 5:00 EST instead of shortly after midnight, which is 5:00 UTC. Here's a listing of the snapshot directory (minus the symlink arrows, which make it wider than the screen): -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11 Apr 28 2013 .dedup.period lrwxr-xr-x 1 root

crash of unknown cause

2014-02-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
Could someone take a look at this? Zyxomma crashed when it was four hours away from me, and I don't know what caused it, except that it was probably caused by passing packets. It wasn't doing anything else, except occasional cron jobs, and it's been here a few days not passing packets and

Re: crash of unknown cause

2014-02-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 22:47:21 Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: Hi, Have you enabled RED or RIO in the altq configuration? I saw a problem in the related code. If that's a kernel config, no. I'm using the generic configuration. I do, though, have this line in pf.conf: altq on $int_if cbq

Re: crash of unknown cause

2014-02-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, February 06, 2014 21:35:20 Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: Fix has been pushed to the latest master, please test. How do I test this? Zyxomma is not functioning as a router now. To set it up as a router, I'd have to travel four hours to my friend's house where leopard is. When I first set

RAID or mirror-stream?

2014-03-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm planning to start an ISP. Do you think it's better to use RAID 5 or hammer mirror-stream to prevent data loss? The motherboards can handle up to six drives. Pierre -- li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

Re: Skype

2014-03-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, March 24, 2014 22:25:53 John Marino wrote: We don't have skype in dports. For FreeBSD it requires linux emulation currently we are not putting packages that require linux emulation in dports (our emulation is i386-only). So the answer is, no, it is not possible to run skype on a

Re: installed but no network

2014-04-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, April 04, 2014 13:00:26 Ludo Beckers wrote: I added it to the end of rc.conf (btw emZERO, correct?) and then did ping avalon.dragonflybsd.org and got Host name lookup failure. Try ping 4.2.2.2 and ping6 2001:470:1:43b:1::72 (the former is some easy- to-remember address, the latter

Re: running reliable services

2014-04-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, April 05, 2014 17:24:33 Matthew Dillon wrote: My recommendation for a backup scheme is to have a dedicated on-site backup box and an off-site backup box. Use a daily cpdup or rdist from the various machines to the local on-site backup box, and then mirror-stream from the on-site

postfix SASL is not compiled in

2014-04-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
Apr 20 13:50:25 darner postfix/smtp[10622]: warning: smtp_sasl_auth_enable is true, but SASL support is not compiled in Apr 20 13:50:25 darner postfix/smtp[10622]: warning: TLS has been selected, but TLS support is not compiled in I'm on a Hughes satellite connection, and the Hughes mailserver

Re: Finding the space used by a PFS including snapshots

2014-04-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, April 28, 2014 12:30:19 tuxi...@quantumachine.net wrote: On 2014-04-28 07:00, Siju George wrote: Hi, Is there any way to find the space used by a PFS including snapshots Thanks Siju Siju, Unfortunately there isn't a way that I know of to do this. I guess you'd

Re: after make installworld got kernel panic

2014-06-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, June 06, 2014 16:37:57 Edward M wrote: Dang it, I think i blow it of getting the core.txt file. After I typed reset the system hang, i press the reset button(probably was a mistake) Now it says: DragonFly boot

Re: installkernel succeeds, installworld fails

2014-06-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
From what version? Like 3.4? If so, check the updating notes. you may be in trouble if you didn't follow the instructions on how to upgrade from 3.4 to 3.6. From 3.7.1 to master. My mail server is down, and I don't know if this will work. If it doesn't appear on the list, please forward to

Re: installkernel succeeds, installworld fails

2014-06-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
Then I don't have any idea. There was issue with 3.6 = 3.8 that I know of. I'd probably just rm -rf /usr/obj and rebuild world again, then install it. (Did you use quickworld before, by any chance?) I did not do quickworld. /usr/obj contains world_backup, is it safe to remove that or

installkernel succeeds, installworld fails

2014-06-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
Then I don't have any idea. There was issue with 3.6 = 3.8 that I know of. I'd probably just rm -rf /usr/obj and rebuild world again, then install it. (Did you use quickworld before, by any chance?) I did not do quickworld. /usr/obj contains world_backup, is it safe to remove that or

Re: installkernel succeeds, installworld fails

2014-06-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
And you are doing just 'make installworld' without setting any further variables or writing 'make install world' accidentally? Can you put up a full log of the failing installworld somewhere? It's in leaf.dragonflybsd.org:/home/phma/installworld.err . Pierre

Re: installkernel succeeds, installworld fails

2014-06-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
The power blinked. Darner is now running an inconsistent world. How can I fix it? Can I put the old world back? Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

recently updated kernel crashes during hammer

2014-07-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
Every day for the past several days, darner has been crashing. Here's the top of top: load averages: 0.28, 0.37, 0.20; up 0+23:43:49 06:11:47 32 processes: 1 running, 1 idle, 31 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 65.8% system, 2.1% interrupt, 32.1% idle Memory:

Re: recently updated kernel crashes during hammer

2014-07-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, July 04, 2014 06:46:13 Pierre Abbat wrote: Every day for the past several days, darner has been crashing. Further investigating, I looked at the /tmp/periodic* files and found that it is crashing while reblocking /usr/obj/. Running hammer -v reblock /usr/obj results in a crash

Re: recently updated kernel crashes during hammer

2014-07-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, July 05, 2014 23:22:03 Pierre Abbat wrote: Further investigating, I looked at the /tmp/periodic* files and found that it is crashing while reblocking /usr/obj/. Running hammer -v reblock /usr/obj results in a crash in about ten seconds. Booting the old kernel makes no difference

two crashes

2014-11-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
I've had other things going on and haven't had time to worry about my DragonFly box zyxomma. It crashed twice, the first time just sitting there with the suspect disk from darner mounted, the second while I was in KDE trying to run a program from the alt-F2 prompt. The uname is: DragonFly

Re: two crashes

2014-11-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, November 07, 2014 10:15:59 Matthew Dillon wrote: I'm fairly sure that the token release bug has been fixed since 3.6/3.7. I suggest taking the time to fully upgrade the system (which will also mean fully upgrading the installed packages once you've rebooted into an upgraded

Re: two crashes

2014-11-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, November 07, 2014 11:27:26 Zachary Crownover wrote: From my experience, the odd numbers are the current/testing versions, so with 4.0RC being RELEASE, I'd say 4.1. Where do I change it? It's inside a variable called ABI. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel

Re: two crashes

2014-11-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, November 07, 2014 11:41:33 Zachary Crownover wrote: cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf I changed it to 4.1 and got the same error. I changed it to 4.0 and got this: Updating repository catalogue digests.txz 100% 1838KB 612.7KB/s 1.1MB/s 00:03

trying to upgrade

2014-11-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm upgrading the packages. First it downloaded a bunch of packages but didn't upgrade anything. Then I ran pkg upgrade again and it fetched some more packages and said the following: Checking integrity... done (19 conflicting) pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: cannot install package

format of fortune.dat files

2014-11-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
I have two files of sayings which I use in my sig in email. For two days my laptop (which runs Linux) was in the shop getting its memory tested, so I used my DragonFly box to read and write email. (It did not work very well. Kmail spent hours fetching email headers from my IMAP server; if I

Re: Filesystem question

2014-12-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, December 21, 2014 06:18:02 nans_na...@yahoo.de wrote: Many thanks your for your replies. I already read the man-page but i don't understand it at all and i didn't found the command hammer prune-everything on dragonflybsd.org documentation. See the man page for hammer. It's long.

Tahoe LAFS

2014-12-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
There was a Tahoe package in pkgsrc. What's involved in putting Tahoe in dports? Pierre -- The gostak pelled at the fostin lutt for darfs for her martle plave. The darfs had smibbed, the lutt was thale, and the pilter had nothing snave.

trying to get xdmcp to work

2014-12-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
Zyxomma runs DragonFly. Caracal runs Linux. I'm trying to get a Xephyr or Xnest window on caracal to run a session on zyxomma. Both have kdm. kdm.log on zyxomma ends with: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC- COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

OT: can someone help me with an open-source CAD program?

2015-02-16 Thread Pierre Abbat
I've been working on a surveying CAD program for several years and it's nearing the point where I'd like others to hack on it. I need help with the file format, import and export, and GUI. It runs on DragonFly (my build system is hosed, but I just ran it on leaf) and Linux. If you can help, or

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