Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH

2009-10-22 Thread Antony Mawer
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > hi everyone, > > together with hugh mahon (the author of ee) i've been trying to fix a nasty > bug in ee. for some reason ee exits (not crashes) and leaves the console > corrupted when receiving SIGWINCH (`killall -SIGWINCH ee` should exit a

Re: Common interface for sensors/health monitoring

2009-08-23 Thread Antony Mawer
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Marc Balmer wrote: > Am 23.08.2009 um 18:24 schrieb Alexander Leidinger: >> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:13:42 +0200 Marc Balmer wrote: >>> Am 23.08.2009 um 17:08 schrieb Alexander Leidinger: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:02:32 +0200 "Aurélien Méré" wrote: >>

Re: panic: lockmgr on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64

2008-09-25 Thread Antony Mawer
Jeff Wheelhouse wrote: Also, if you have a good test case, it might be worth grabbing a box w/o gmirror that can generate a crashdump and reproduce it there. Not an option for us right now; spare 8-core boxes are hard to come by. We're looking for a USB hard drive or something we can dump to

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-02 Thread Antony Mawer
Curtis Penner wrote: Let us take this further. ... When you do a system install it is like jumping back to the 80's. The front-end is like something from the DOS days. You have to be tech savvy to know what you want to do. ... I am looking forward to a time when installing BSD is point and

Re: vkernel & GSoC, some questions

2008-03-18 Thread Antony Mawer
Jordan Gordeev wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: We use vkernel's for development and debugging. ... One interesting side-effect of having a vkernel so easily accessible is that it opens up kernel development to normal programmers. More DragonFly developers have been dipping their fi

Re: Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it?

2007-12-17 Thread Antony Mawer
On 18/12/2007 5:09 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:07:02AM -0800, Yuri wrote: I had USB camera connected and recognized as umass0 and mounted as /mnt/camera on /dev/da0s1. Camera was disconnected while it was still mounted. This triggers known and extremely painful to fix b

Re: Getting nonstandard serial baud rates w/FTDI

2007-10-24 Thread Antony Mawer
On 25/10/2007 8:59 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:53:06AM -0700, Brooks Talley wrote: Hi, everyone. I'm pulling my hair out in great chunks. I need to get Python 2.5, using pyserial 2.2, to open a FTDI-based usb to serial port at 25 baud. The FTDI chip definitely supp

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-18 Thread Antony Mawer
On 18/07/2007 5:44 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Antony Mawer wrote: On 18/07/2007 10:46 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I appreciate that most people won't have this problem, but it has bitten me. After you have made and installed a port, but don't clean it, and then made a bunc

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-17 Thread Antony Mawer
On 18/07/2007 10:46 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I appreciate that most people won't have this problem, but it has bitten me. After you have made and installed a port, but don't clean it, and then made a bunch of other ports, if you go back to the original port and then do "make packag

Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

2007-02-08 Thread Antony Mawer
On 8/02/2007 9:02 AM, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Kip Macy wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote: I know what I'd like: a utility in the base system for binary upgrading of packages. More flexible logic in how the '-r' option is handled would be nice (being able to fetch all packag

Re: PCI express support?

2006-08-20 Thread Antony Mawer
On 21/08/2006 3:09 AM, David Gilbert wrote: I got a PCI express version of the Intel gigabit adaptor to try. Heh. Comes with a big-ass heatsink on the card. I found that a bit amusing. But it doesn't probe up. Is this because PCI Express is not supported (1x in this case --- the little slot),

libutil properties_read() bug: patch for review

2005-11-23 Thread Antony Mawer
Hi, I recently hit upon a bug in sysinstall, getting an "Invalid realloc size of 0" error that caused sysinstall to terminate. I eventually tracked it down to a bug in the properties_read() function of libutil, which occurs only when reading a properties file of 4096 bytes or greater. This is

Bonsai-style interface (cvs change history) for FreeBSD CVS?

2005-10-10 Thread Antony Mawer
Hi, I thought this might be the most appropriate place to raise this - I was wondering whether or not there was any chance of a Bonsai (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonsai/) interface to the FreeBSD CVS repository. I was going to have a look at doing this locally and trying to hook it into