Custom installer woes (can't mount / RW)

2011-08-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I'm trying to create a custom installer for FreeBSD to automatically setup our systems, however I am having a very odd problem. The general idea is that I build a release, then create a chroot in which I install the slab of required ports for our system. I then tar that up and format a USB

Re: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
This the key here: atrtc0: at port 0x70 irq 8 on isa0 Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 Edgar, are you missing a device entry for the RTC? Do you have device.hints in /boot ? GENERIC.hints:hint.atrtc.0.at="isa" GENERIC.hints:hint.atrtc.0.port="0x70" GENERIC.hints:hint.atrtc.0.irq="

RE: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Edgar Martinez
I have a debug kernel built..anything I can do in the meantime? I imagine Pascal will be sleeping right about now. -Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:m...@sentex.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:12 PM To: Edgar Martinez Cc: Adrian Chadd; freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subje

RE: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Edgar Martinez
Latest ALIX firmware? .99h? I'm using the below board... http://pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm -Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:m...@sentex.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:57 PM To: Edgar Martinez Cc: Adrian Chadd; freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No valid time

RE: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Edgar Martinez
(gdb) list *0xc05a9aa4 0xc05a9aa4 is in kdb_enter (/usr/src/sys/kern/subr_kdb.c:421). 416 if (kdb_dbbe != NULL && kdb_active == 0) { 417 if (msg != NULL) 418 printf("KDB: enter: %s\n", msg); 419 kdb_why = why; 420

Re: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 8/31/2011 3:57 PM, Edgar Martinez wrote: > Latest ALIX firmware? .99h? > > I'm using the below board... > > http://pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm Thats pretty well the same board as me, except I dont have the 2 mini-pci slots. Mine comes up as Geode LX: PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h tinyBIOS V1.4a (C)

Re: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 8/31/2011 3:25 PM, Edgar Martinez wrote: > Nope..I rebuilt with both options..and just one at a time.. Strange, My kernel is not so different from GENERIC. I added it to the bottom of http://www.tancsa.com/beta2.html Perhaps its a different Alix box than mine that is causing the issue

RE: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Edgar Martinez
Nope..I rebuilt with both options..and just one at a time.. panic: No usable event timer found! KDB: stack backtrace: X_db_sym_numargs(c0758a2d) at 0xc0471f85 = X_db_sym_numargs+0x135 kdb_backtrace(c2820d38,1,fff,c2820d40,c070257a,...) at 0xc05a9c98 = kdb_backtrace+0x28 panic(c077df08,c078251

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/31/11 20:13, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/31/11 19:48, Chris Brennan wrote: On 8/31/2011 1:43 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby [1] wrote: On 08/30/2011 08:30 PM, Hartmann, O. wr

/cdrom in /etc/fstab

2011-08-31 Thread Ron McDowell
Previous releases had a line in /etc/fstab for /cdrom. Please consider putting it back...it's just one more thing I have to remember to do post-install. -- Ron McDowell San Antonio TX ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: truss

2011-08-31 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote: > It seems to be truss(1) is broken on current > I just tried with a newly build CURRENT, and no problem here. [solskogen@friend ~]$ truss /bin/echo x mmap(0x0,32768,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,-1,0x0) = 34366255104 (0x800637

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Hartmann, O. wrote: > >   On 08/31/11 19:48, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On 8/31/2011 1:43 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > [1] wrote: > > On 08/30/2011 08:30 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > I would be scared > awa

Re: howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-08-31 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/31/11 19:56, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Hartmann, O. wrote: I try to find a suitable reading/howto for how to enable softupdates on UFS2 filesystems. Agreed. Added to http://wiki.freebsd.org/DocsFor9x . Many thanks. As I could see, SU+J is enlist

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: ... > It should be noted on the FreeBSD side of the comparison, whom has > borrowed concepts from FreeBSD, such as the network stack or Gentoo's > Portage system (just to name a few that come to mind.) It's good for historical references

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/31/11 19:48, Chris Brennan wrote: On 8/31/2011 1:43 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby [1] wrote: On 08/30/2011 08:30 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: I would be scared away by such an arrogant looking page! So, refactoring this page is a must.

Re: howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Hartmann, O. wrote: > >   I try to find a suitable reading/howto for how to enable softupdates >   on >   UFS2 filesystems. Agreed. Added to http://wiki.freebsd.org/DocsFor9x . > As I could see, SU+J is enlisted to be enabled by default in 9.0-RELEASE. Yes, it

Re: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 8/31/2011 12:27 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Just to clarify for Edgar, > > His 9.0 build isn't finding any valid timers; hence why the thing > panics upon boot. > > Since I've got a few Alix boards I'd like to use for 11n testing, i'd > like to know how to make this work. > Does anyone know the

Re: 9.0B1 Installer issues

2011-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Ron McDowell wrote: > Recently did a clean install of 9.0B1 into a 900gb VMware image. ... > 3.  A minor nit... no screen image for this one so I hope my explanation > suffices.  From the screen shown in 1 above [and on a disk with some > unallocated space :) ],

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/31/2011 1:43 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > wrote: >> On 08/30/2011 08:30 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: >>> >>> I would be scared >>> away by such an arrogant looking page! >> >> So, refactoring this page is a must. >> 1°) Put it offline? (i.

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 08/29/2011 10:58 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >> >>  If that page would be updated at least monthly giving fair comparison >> with other os'es it could serve a big pros list for preferring FreeBSD >> over other systems. > > I do

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 08/30/2011 08:30 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: >> >> I would be scared >> away by such an arrogant looking page! > > So, refactoring this page is a must. > 1°) Put it offline? (i.e with a "At work" placeholder) > 2°) Process a feature

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Martin Sugioarto wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:34:54 -0400 > schrieb Chris Brennan : ... > You should compare what you can *DO* better with FreeBSD. And one thing > that comes instantly into my mind is the FreeBSD port collection (for > my part). I've tried var

howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-08-31 Thread Hartmann, O.
I try to find a suitable reading/howto for how to enable softupdates on UFS2 filesystems. As I could see, SU+J is enlisted to be enabled by default in 9.0-RELEASE. What is the status quo of that? I've several active systems running UFS2 on their system disks while data/home/mass

No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-08-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
Just to clarify for Edgar, His 9.0 build isn't finding any valid timers; hence why the thing panics upon boot. Since I've got a few Alix boards I'd like to use for 11n testing, i'd like to know how to make this work. Does anyone know the relevant magic to see which timers are available, and force

Re: possible mountroot regression

2011-08-31 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 27/08/2011 18:16 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: > Maybe a good approach is to change to ".onfail retry" > and extend the root mount prompt with a reboot command, > so that the user/operator is does not have to worry > about typos *and* don't have to trigger a panic just > so that he/she ca

9.0B1 Installer issues

2011-08-31 Thread Ron McDowell
Recently did a clean install of 9.0B1 into a 900gb VMware image. 1. The mount path shown on the screen gets truncated if it's longer than 8 characters. See /usr/ports on the image at http://www.fuzzwad.org/FreeBSD-9.0B1/fbsdinstall1.png It does mount correctly but it'd be more useful to see

9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX

2011-08-31 Thread Edgar Martinez
GDB: no debug ports present KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered t

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/31/2011 8:07 AM, Martin Sugioarto wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:34:54 -0400 > schrieb Chris Brennan : > >> the object is to show people *WHY* FreeBSD is a sound (and valid) >> choice against the competition, we can't just claim we're better >> because we know we are, we have to provide a co

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Johann Kois
On Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:15:33 Hartmann, O. wrote: > Or they need some hints already written by others like this: > http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Health-Check-FreeBSD-The-unknown-gian > t-920248.html > > I'm not sure whether this is linked on the project's webpage, I > didn't find i

truss

2011-08-31 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
It seems to be truss(1) is broken on current :~> truss /bin/echo x x truss: can not get etype: No such process FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0 r224884M i386 from ktrace of turss 3162 trussCALL __sysctl(0xbfbfea00,0x4,0xbfbfe9e0,0xbfbfea10,0,0) 3162 trussSCTL "kern.proc.sv_name.3163" 3162

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/31/11 14:07, Martin Sugioarto wrote: Am Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:34:54 -0400 schrieb Chris Brennan: the object is to show people *WHY* FreeBSD is a sound (and valid) choice against the competition, we can't just claim we're better because we know we are, we have to provide a convincing argumen

Re: x11/nvidia-driver / Compilation has failed

2011-08-31 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:59:48PM +0200, Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2011/8/29 ken : > >  Could I test your patch for nvidia-driver, too? > >  I cannot find your patch in this mail. > > I took the patch in : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026515.html > > And it work

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Martin Sugioarto
Am Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:34:54 -0400 schrieb Chris Brennan : > the object is to show people *WHY* FreeBSD is a sound (and valid) > choice against the competition, we can't just claim we're better > because we know we are, we have to provide a convincing argument that > is true and honest fact. Hi C

multimedia/gnome-mplayer doesn't compile

2011-08-31 Thread Piotr Kubaj
I use 9.0-BETA1 on my two PCs (amd64). On both of them, I can't upgrade gnome-mplayer to 1.0.0_2, after recent bump. My default compiler on both PCs is clang (version 20110717), but the same error happens when using the default GCC. The error message is: gui.c:475:58: error: too many arguments to

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Ambrose
I heard of that news, but I didn't realize that web site was managed by John Birrell. Now, DTrace is not feature-complete and stable, I don't think it is suitable to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/dtrace.html, but to http://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace, and people can easily update it 2011/8/31 C

Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

2011-08-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
Guys (; Girls; small fuzzy creatures); We can talk about this forever, or someone can go over the existing 32 bit CUDA stuff in a 32 bit Linuxolator, get it all going, document it, and post it or all to use. Which do you think is going to be more productive? Adrian _

Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

2011-08-31 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/30/11 23:26, K. Macy wrote: But the lack of response and non-shown interests shows a undeobtly signal that freeBSD seems to be dead for the HPC community and this could be also an indication for the lack of CUDA support by nVidia, Why performing efforts if no one cares? A great chance seems

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/31/11 08:59, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 31/08/2011 08:46 Adrian Chadd said the following: My 2c: * remove the page for now; * someone finds someone with proven marketing skills; * enlist their help in marketing, PR, etc, and update the website with relevant details; * the rest of us develope

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 31/08/2011 08:46 Adrian Chadd said the following: > My 2c: > > * remove the page for now; > * someone finds someone with proven marketing skills; > * enlist their help in marketing, PR, etc, and update the website with > relevant details; > > * the rest of us developers/users should go back to