kernel panic on SATA drive

I've been having an intermittent problem, wonder if someone on the list has any ideas. First my setup: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE (amd64) quad-core Phenom processor mobo: MSI K9N2G Neo chipset: NVIDIA GeForce 8200, which FreeBSD recognizes as nForce (not sure how that works) I have a 3ware RAID card (RA

X fails to start

I'm still having intermittent troubles with getting the freebsd servers seeing my mail servers for my normal maillist subscription, so if I could be cc'd... I'm struggling to get my head around a reasonably severe problem with Xorg - I'm wondering if anyone else is having the same. I've install

Audio visual for Open Source Convention

Hello this is Kavin Patel from RentSonic. We are a premier tradeshow equipment supplier. We provide computers and audio/visual rentals to exhibitors across the country. Our focus is on providing the best service and equipment at excellent prices. Our experience assures us of the ability to provid

Re: Questions on portmaster

On 7/2/09, Manish Jain wrote: > b. f. wrote: >> Manish Jain wrote: > Regarding the download speeds I was getting with portmaster fetches (0.7 > kBps to 4.0 kBps), I immediately booted into Windows/Cygwin and did a > wget from the same site portmaster was using. The speed I got from wget > was ~ 3

Re: serial modem

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:19:56 -0400, kalin m wrote: > > > But it IS a modem to dial tones and connect to something? > > "Net search"... no idea what that could mean. Serial modems usually > > don't search for nets... > > > > Or am I completely misunderstanding you and you're trying to find a > > c

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? Actually, I'm not a Linux user. But Linux was my first step into using UNIX on a x86 PC. More than 10 years ago, I started with Slackware Linux, and w

Re: serial modem

nevermind... thanks... kalin m wrote: But it IS a modem to dial tones and connect to something? "Net search"... no idea what that could mean. Serial modems usually don't search for nets... Or am I completely misunderstanding you and you're trying to find a command access to a DSL modem t

Re: Questions on portmaster

b. f. wrote: Manish Jain wrote: ...Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? make checksum, yes. Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ? This is not covered in the manpage. It respects IGNOR

Re: serial modem

But it IS a modem to dial tones and connect to something? "Net search"... no idea what that could mean. Serial modems usually don't search for nets... Or am I completely misunderstanding you and you're trying to find a command access to a DSL modem that has a serial line? it's a gsm/sms mo

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

Daniel Underwood writes: > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? I like Debian and ubuntu which is a Debian distribution but that is not to say that other distributions are poorly done. Part of my preference is nothing more than that is what I

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

> And what about TX/RX signal? I don't know where to look for that. :) > Could you put backtrace somewhere? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html Backtrace from crashing with a Belkin ndis: (kgdb) backtrace #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 #1 0xc055bcc3 in b

Re: boot0 / LILO / GRUB: dual boot FreeBSD and Linux

> I'm getting a new desktop through my university which will come > installed with Windows Vista. Obviously, my first action item will be > removing Vista and installing a reasonable OS. Due to the need to be > up-and-running immediately with an OS that I'm comfortable with, I'll > be installing

Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems? amd64 supports both amd and intel 64bit CPU's right now the big limitation for me is you can not have a Nvidia binary graphics driver on amd64 progress has been made on this front in the

Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems

> amd64 Ah-hah. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems? > > I've been here, but my knowledge of hardware terminology is too > limited to confidently draw conclusions: > amd64 -- Glen Barber

FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems

Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems? I've been here, but my knowledge of hardware terminology is too limited to confidently draw conclusions: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? > > I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux > distributions from FreeBSD fans. Debian is the one I can almost tolerate. There's

boot0 / LILO / GRUB: dual boot FreeBSD and Linux

I'm getting a new desktop through my university which will come installed with Windows Vista. Obviously, my first action item will be removing Vista and installing a reasonable OS. Due to the need to be up-and-running immediately with an OS that I'm comfortable with, I'll be installing Linux (pro

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

On Wed 01 Jul 2009 at 16:12:40 PDT Christopher Ryan Halbersma wrote: QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? None, I'm a BSD kindof guy Same here, but my other machine is a Mac (still BSD under the hood).

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

> of all the Linux distros I have tried, the least confusing is Gentoo > Gentoo portage is "kinda" like FreeBSD ports Yes, I'd like to give Gentoo a try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? > > I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux > distributions from FreeBSD fans. Although I am hesitant to contribute to what will most

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? > > I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux > distributions from FreeBSD fans. of all the Linux distros I have tried, the least confus

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? None, I'm a BSD kindof guy :). Although Damn Small Linux and Tiny Core are nice ideas. I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. Indeed why? -- Using

Re: Questions on portmaster

Manish Jain wrote: >...Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? make checksum, yes. >Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which >are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ? This is not >covered in the manpage. It respects IGNORE (it checks fo

Re: load kernel from different media

Em Qua, 2009-07-01 às 22:40 +0100, Chris Whitehouse escreveu: Yes you can. put your kernel (the one that works) on a DVD/CD assume that your rootfs on the HD is on ad0s1a, /usr is on /dev/ad0s1e with all the /boot directory. than boot from dvd/CD with the HD on the machine too. on the startup, h

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. Why? -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Cloning to different disks.

>> Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB >> available. >> >> I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed >> that I need. >> >> I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being >> that they all have various Disk sizes an

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >> On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: >>> I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. >>> It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and >>> other values, but it won't a

Re: scripting tip needed

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:02:48 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Using an interactive language like Python you can actually *test* the >> code as you are writing it. This is a major win most of the time. > > could you explain what you mean? You can and you have to test a code on > any languag

Oracle, php and a Fog of Confusion oci_connect

I have a fragment of php code which connects to an external Oracle data base. It looks mostly like: We have had php5 installed on the system in question for a couple of years and just successfully installed linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus. The info from php says it underst

load kernel from different media

Hi all, I cannot boot my motherboard with the default kernel on 7.2-RELEASE (or any other iso's I have tried). It panics if device sbp is in the kernel. So far I've got things working by putting the hard disk in another machine, installed the OS and rebuilt a kernel without sbp, then returned

Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

hi there, i've been getting this warning for ages now: (process:7757): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. and really like to get rid of it. i searched google but couldn't find a real solution. my locale settings are: LANG=C LC_CTYPE=de_DE.I

Re: Cloning to different disks.

Grant Peel wrote: > Thanks Sir! > > > What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. > > Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of > SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. > > Can I assume the the da driver will handle all these OK...ie. should > not see any fstab prob

Re: scripting tip needed

Using an interactive language like Python you can actually *test* the code as you are writing it. This is a major win most of the time. could you explain what you mean? You can and you have to test a code on any language be it bash, ksh python or C

Re: scripting tip needed

$ echo ${MACHINE_DISK0[$y]} $ echo ${MACHINE_DISK$z[$y]} ksh: ${MACHINE_DISK$z[$y]}: bad substitution Thanks in advance for any tip install bash :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: gmirror per partition. Was: Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

It's better to use gmirror per partition. Like this? # gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2 gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted. isn't that partition accessed by other process or mounted? ___ freebsd-question

Re: FreeBSD on Cobalt RaQ 4

As i figured out, there is a ROM on it with a mini-Linux, that will look for an ext2/ext3 filesystem and for an /vmlinux.bz2 on /boot. Then it boots from there. This is really strange and seems to rule out FreeBSD completely. Looks like you'll have to rewrite /boot/loader sources to 1) access d

Re: Cloning to different disks.

What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. bsdlabel -B disk (or disks1 and fdisk -B disk if you use MBR partitions at all). Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. this is no difference Can I assume the the da

Re: Cloning to different disks.

Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being that they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces (i.e.

Re: Cloning to different disks.

Thanks Sir! What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. Can I assume the the da driver will handle all these OK...ie. should not see any fstab problems? -Grant - Origin

Re: Cloning to different disks.

Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. > > Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB > available. > > I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I > need. > > I am now want

Cloning to different disks.

Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines

Re: scripting tip needed

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:40:00 +0100, Alexandre Vieira wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having a little problem. > > For exambe in ksh: > > $ z=0 > $ y=1 > $ x= > $ eval `echo MACHINE_DISK$z[$y]`=$x > $ echo ${MACHINE_DISK0[1]} > > > My problem is getting back the value of the variable using varia

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom GNOME-based FreeBSD iso released

Em Qua, 2009-07-01 às 13:51 -0400, Trey Sizemore escreveu: > On Tue Jun 30, 2009 09:45AM, Tim Judd wrote: > > On 6/30/09, Andrew Gould wrote: > > > 2009/6/30 Manolis Kiagias : > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > >> Hash: SHA1 > > >> > > >> Hey all, > > >> > > >> Continuing the effort in

Re: Google Earth on FreeBSD 7.0

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:45:52 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: LD_LIBRARY_PATH has that path in its entry. Is there something I am missing. If google earth program is a Linux program, have you installed and started the Linux ABI? Maybe the needed library will be required to be located in the /usr

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: >> I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. >> It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and >> other values, but it won't associate with the access point or >>

FreeBSD on Cobalt RaQ 4

Hi! I got a new toy here, a RaQ 4. As this thing has no real BIOS, it was even hard to get a custom Linux distro installed. For long time it was not even possible to use it with a Linux 2.6 kernel. This is resolved in the meantime, so I'm running Gentoo with an unmodified 2.6 at the moment. Howev

scripting tip needed

Hi folks, I'm having a little problem. For exambe in ksh: $ z=0 $ y=1 $ x= $ eval `echo MACHINE_DISK$z[$y]`=$x $ echo ${MACHINE_DISK0[1]} My problem is getting back the value of the variable using variables to refer to the variable name (confusing). I.e $MACHINE_DISK$z[$y] . Using ${}

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom GNOME-based FreeBSD iso released

On Tue Jun 30, 2009 09:45AM, Tim Judd wrote: > On 6/30/09, Andrew Gould wrote: > > 2009/6/30 Manolis Kiagias : > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Hey all, > >> > >> Continuing the effort in producing custom FreeBSD builds, I am pleased > >> to announce a GNOME-based

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: > I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. > It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and > other values, but it won't associate with the access point or > establish a useful connection. Does it get any scan result

Wireless NICs on 7.2

I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and other values, but it won't associate with the access point or establish a useful connection. I've tried compiling ndis drivers for both the Linksys and a Belki

Re: Questions on portmaster

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:32:47AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When > there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child > processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? The fetch

Re: strange ee behaviour

thanks for the help. i submitted a PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136223). cheers. alex Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: > On 7/1/09, Alexander Best wrote: > > oh. i see. is this hard to fix? maybe a problem report would be > > useful? > Not hard. Please report problem to fr

Re: Questions on portmaster

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:14:10AM -0400, mfv wrote: > On Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:02:47 Manish Jain wrote: > excluded. Nevertheless, I use portmaster daily and am very pleased with it. > > With thanks to Doug Barton. portmaster rules, excellent tool, Doug is a star! -- Anton Shterenlikht Ro

Re: Questions on portmaster

On Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:02:47 Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When > there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child > processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? I ask > this because th

Re: Portaudit strange behavior.

On Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:02:47 Arek Czereszewski wrote: > Hi, > > On all my servers I have portaudit version 0.5.13 > If I try update audit database (by hand or from periodic script) > I have: > > # portaudit -Fd > auditfile.tbz 100% of 53 kB 39 kBps > portau

Re: Failing to show 'Password:' prompt

Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> This morning my server was unresponsive both from ssh and through >> http. The only thing that is different on this system on a 1st of >> month, is a dump job that runs through periodic (on a mostly inactive >> system). >> >> Visiting the console

Re: strange ee behaviour

On 7/1/09, Alexander Best wrote: > oh. i see. is this hard to fix? maybe a problem report would be useful? Not hard. Please report problem to freebsd developers because everything points it is FreeBSD problem. > > cheers. > > Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: >> On 7/1/09, Paul B. Mahol wrot

gmirror per partition. Was: Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:41:13AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > dev_taste(DEV,mirror/gm0) > > g_part_taste(PART,mirror/gm0) > > > > GEOM: mirror/gm0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. > > GEOM: mirror/gm0: using the prim

Re: Google Earth on FreeBSD 7.0

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:45:52 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: > LD_LIBRARY_PATH has that path in its entry. Is there something I am missing. If google earth program is a Linux program, have you installed and started the Linux ABI? Maybe the needed library will be required to be located in the /usr/compa

Re: strange ee behaviour

oh. i see. is this hard to fix? maybe a problem report would be useful? cheers. Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: > On 7/1/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > > On 7/1/09, Alexander Best wrote: > >> i'm running xorg-7.4.2 and x11-wm/awesome on HEAD (r195173). when > >> i run > >> ee > >> in > >> the

Google Earth on FreeBSD 7.0

Hi, I have installed Google Earth via ports but cannot get it to run. If i run it from console, i get this: > googleearth ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > I have searched for the library it

Re: Failing to show 'Password:' prompt

Manolis Kiagias wrote: This morning my server was unresponsive both from ssh and through http. The only thing that is different on this system on a 1st of month, is a dump job that runs through periodic (on a mostly inactive system). Visiting the console, I discovered the system was still up a

Re: Failing to show 'Password:' prompt

On 7/1/09, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > This morning my server was unresponsive both from ssh and through http. > The only thing that is different on this system on a 1st of month, is a > dump job that runs through periodic (on a mostly inactive system). > > Visiting the console, I discovered the syst

Re: strange ee behaviour

On 7/1/09, Alexander Best wrote: > oh sorry. i thought this was ee related because there've been some recent > changes in the ee src. if it's awesome's fault i'll try to replace the > installed version from ports with a svn snapshot. maybe the problem's been > fixed already. This is really ee bug

Re: strange ee behaviour

On 7/1/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 7/1/09, Alexander Best wrote: >> i'm running xorg-7.4.2 and x11-wm/awesome on HEAD (r195173). when i run >> ee >> in >> the debugger and open another xterm the debugger says "Program exited >> normally.". so it's not a program crash i guess. >> >> Paul B. Maho

Re: strange ee behaviour

oh sorry. i thought this was ee related because there've been some recent changes in the ee src. if it's awesome's fault i'll try to replace the installed version from ports with a svn snapshot. maybe the problem's been fixed already. cheers. Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: > On 7/1/09, Alex

RE: s...@home

-Original Message- From: Paul B. Mahol [mailto:one...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 June 2009 23:49 To: Stefan Miklosovic Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: s...@home On 6/30/09, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > hi all, > > I would like to install s...@home client to my machine, > There ar

Re: strange ee behaviour

On 7/1/09, Alexander Best wrote: > i'm running xorg-7.4.2 and x11-wm/awesome on HEAD (r195173). when i run ee > in > the debugger and open another xterm the debugger says "Program exited > normally.". so it's not a program crash i guess. > > Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: >> On 6/30/09, Alex

Re: Portaudit strange behavior.

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 08:02:47 Arek Czereszewski wrote: > Hi, > > On all my servers I have portaudit version 0.5.13 > If I try update audit database (by hand or from periodic script) > I have: > > # portaudit -Fd > auditfile.tbz 100% of 53 kB 39 kBps > portau

Failing to show 'Password:' prompt

This morning my server was unresponsive both from ssh and through http. The only thing that is different on this system on a 1st of month, is a dump job that runs through periodic (on a mostly inactive system). Visiting the console, I discovered the system was still up and displaying login pro