portupgrade print/cups-client (cups-client-1.3.10_4) fails

2009-11-28 Thread n dhert
In my nightly portupgrade I got, while upgrading print/cups-client : ... Compiling bannertops.c... cc -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -fPIC -Os -g -fstack-protector -I.. -D_CUPS_SOURCE -I/ usr/local/include -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEF ILE64_SOURCE -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTR

Re: how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, November 28, 2009 a las 12:15:11PM -0800, Gary Kline escribió: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:58:09PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Saturday, November 28, 2009 a las 11:26:55AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias > > escribió: > > > > > Now that you got it installed, you may use pkg_

HighPoint RR 2640 support in 8.0-RELEASE?

2009-11-28 Thread Steven Schlansker
Hello everyone, I recently upgraded to 8, and purchased a HighPoint RocketRAID 2640 card. Sadly I had remembered incorrectly that this was supported by either the hptrr or hptiop driver, and instead it seems to only be supported by a binary driver from HighPoint. However, the latest release of t

What does this message mean?

2009-11-28 Thread Brett Glass
Just installed mpd5 to experiment with it, and got the following error message on the next boot: WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() What does this mean? Does it signal a serious problem? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-question

RE: Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Steele
I had tried that. It doesn't work: # ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I want the ad10 to appear last... -Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keram...@ceid.upatras.gr] Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-quest

Re: evoultion missing its top graphics [on menu-bar]

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Samstag, den 28.11.2009, 15:01 -0800 schrieb Gary Kline: > Folks, I t think I asked here a couple years ago when the > same thing happened; I didn't think it would happen again. > > Evo works fairly well--is there a way I can make it my default > GUI mailer?-- I hope so.

Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:47:03PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > > Greetings again. I used freebsd-update to upgrade a system from 7.1 > to 7.2. The main upgrade went fine, but upgrading the ports had huge > problems. It could not find most (but not all) of the packages to > upgrade. A typical part

Re: Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For > example, if I do this: > > ls /dev/ad* | sort > > I get something like this: > > /dev/ad10 > /dev/ad4 > /dev/ad6 > /dev/ad8 Just use `sort -n': ls -d1 /dev/ad* |

Re: What port to use for python / https?

2009-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:26:45 +, Frank Shute wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:49:57PM +0900, Ben Bullock wrote: >> >> I am trying to install Mercurial on FreeBSD in order to install Go >> (programming language). I am running into a problem with Mercurial >> which looks like this: >> >> $ hg

problem with Olympus USB camera on 8.0 RELEASE

2009-11-28 Thread Mike Clarke
The camera in question is an Olympus C-2040Z, I've had no problems using it with 6.4. I tried rev. 7 some time ago but plugging the camera in always caused a panic and crash so I stayed with 6.4. Now that 8.0 is out I'd like to move on and the good news is that with 8.0 I can connect the camera

evoultion missing its top graphics [on menu-bar]

2009-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, I t think I asked here a couple years ago when the same thing happened; I didn't think it would happen again. Evo works fairly well--is there a way I can make it my default GUI mailer?-- I hope so. Anyway, in recent months it fails to display the ic

Re: Mail not working [SOLVED]

2009-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I can't believe it. After all this time hacking away, I solved my issue rather easily. I made sure sendmail was turned off, then deinstalled/reinstalled postfix-current from ports. I had to tweak some directives in mailer.conf and main.cf based on a couple of posts I

Re: Mail not working [SOLVED]

2009-11-28 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:56:57 -0500, Dimitri Yioulos wrote > Greetz to all. > > I've never been able to get a mail server working on my FreeBSD installation. > > While I recently upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE, it hasn't worked since my initisl > 7.0-RELEASE installation. This is not a major server,

Re: Syinstall binary upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0

2009-11-28 Thread S4mmael
Yes, there is something like COMPAT7X option in 8.0 GENERIC kernel. 2009/11/28 David Jackson : > I would like to upgrade a 7.1 FreeBSD system to 8.0 FreeBSD using > sysinstalls binary upgrade feature. I would mainly for now would like to > upgrade the core OS and X and so on, but I still have some

Re: black-friday ads --> ASUS-EEE's

2009-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:02:50PM -0500, PJ wrote: > ill...@gmail.com wrote: > > 2009/11/26 Gary Kline : > > > >> ??? ??? ??? ???Folks, > >> > >> ??? ??? ??? ???IF any/everone would keep an eye out for national Black > >> FRiday > >> ??? ??? ??? ???adds that offer a 9-10" ASUS-EEE, I'd appreci

Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-11-28 Thread Yuri
S4mmael wrote: webfont works well. You can also install ttf fonts from windows.Or use Ubuntu). webfonts is installed on my system and doesn't work in ff, as I mentioned before. My question is "why ff shows Cyrillic so poorly, as opposed opera on the same system", and you didn't answer it.

Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-11-28 Thread S4mmael
webfont works well. You can also install ttf fonts from windows.Or use Ubuntu). 2009/11/28 Yuri : > Boris Samorodov wrote: >> >> Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf. >> I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always >> gave me good results. >> > > I

Re: how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:58:09PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Saturday, November 28, 2009 a las 11:26:55AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias > escribió: > > > Now that you got it installed, you may use pkg_create: > > > > pkg_create -Rb openoffice.org-3.1.1 > > > > (You can get the exact packag

Syinstall binary upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0

2009-11-28 Thread David Jackson
I would like to upgrade a 7.1 FreeBSD system to 8.0 FreeBSD using sysinstalls binary upgrade feature. I would mainly for now would like to upgrade the core OS and X and so on, but I still have some 7.1 binaries that will still be on the system. Is there binary compatability with 7.1 binaries on

Re: What port to use for python / https?

2009-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:49:57PM +0900, Ben Bullock wrote: > > I am trying to install Mercurial on FreeBSD in order to install Go > (programming language). I am running into a problem with Mercurial > which looks like this: > > $ hg pull > abort: could not import module thread! > Exception Attri

ANNOUNCE: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Custom XFCE build available

2009-11-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, After the successful release of 8.0, I am pleased to announce that I have updated my little project here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com to provide an XFCE DVD based on the new release. Here are the direct download links: http://freebs

Mail not working

2009-11-28 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
Greetz to all. I've never been able to get a mail server working on my FreeBSD installation. While I recently upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE, it hasn't worked since my initisl 7.0-RELEASE installation. This is not a major server, so I haven't fussed with it up to now. But, I would like to finally fi

8.0-RELEASE and "dangerously dedicated" disks

2009-11-28 Thread Peggy Wilkins
Can someone elaborate on what exactly this statement in the 8.0 detailed release notes means? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#FS > 2.2.5 File Systems > > “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported. > > Important: Such disks will need t

Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Steele
Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For example, if I do this: ls /dev/ad* | sort I get something like this: /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I can add -g, but it doesn't help: ls /dev/ad* | sort -g /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I need to skip the de

Re: zfs on 8.0-RELEASE

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Victor Lyapunov wrote: I wanted to ask a simple question, is ZFS now ready to be used on production systems? From Thursday's announcement: - ZFS no longer in experimental status ...so I would guess the answer is 'yes'. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochr

zfs on 8.0-RELEASE

2009-11-28 Thread Victor Lyapunov
Hi everybody, First of all, I would like to congratulate all of you and thank all the developers and contributors, and the core team as the widely expected 8.0-RELEASE has become available recently. I wanted to ask a simple question, is ZFS now ready to be used on production systems? Best regards,

Re: Removing installed packages

2009-11-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:16:58 -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > In trying to upgrade CUPS on a new 7.2 installation (CUPS was installed > via sysinstall) the upgrade choked, and then I saw in UPDATING that > print/cups has been split into multiple ports, and that in order to > upgrade you must first re

Removing installed packages

2009-11-28 Thread Rem P Roberti
In trying to upgrade CUPS on a new 7.2 installation (CUPS was installed via sysinstall) the upgrade choked, and then I saw in UPDATING that print/cups has been split into multiple ports, and that in order to upgrade you must first remove the installed version. What is the best way to do that? Sho

Re: amd64: building lib32 with ccache ?

2009-11-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:57:17 +0100 Frank Staals wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Yesterday I wanted to update my system currently running 8.0-RC1 > amd64 to the latest 8-STABLE release. However buildworld failed. I > found out the problem seems to pop up when trying to build the lib32 > libraries. If

Re: black-friday ads --> ASUS-EEE's

2009-11-28 Thread PJ
ill...@gmail.com wrote: > 2009/11/26 Gary Kline : > >> � � � �Folks, >> >> � � � �IF any/everone would keep an eye out for national Black FRiday >> � � � �adds that offer a 9-10" ASUS-EEE, I'd appreciate it. � (I've been >> � � � �poking around for much of today, but zip.) �The stores that are >

What port to use for python / https?

2009-11-28 Thread Ben Bullock
I am trying to install Mercurial on FreeBSD in order to install Go (programming language). I am running into a problem with Mercurial which looks like this: $ hg pull abort: could not import module thread! Exception AttributeError: "'httpsrepository' object has no attribute 'urlopener'" in > ignor

Tunning 8.0 for multiple VMs (VBox)

2009-11-28 Thread Mario Lobo
Hi to all; I have a system where I will be running 5 VBox VMs (3 W2K3, 1 XP & 1 Linux) for a lab simulation (work obligations). I have already ran the 5 VMs with a regular load on each and everything went fine. I think VBox is truly a great VM Manager, and it runs better (smoother and faster) i

Tunning 8.0 for multiple VMs (VBox)

2009-11-28 Thread Mario Lobo
Hi to all; I have a system where I will be running 5 VBox VMs (3 W2K3, 1 XP & 1 Linux) for a lab simulation (work obligations). I have already ran the 5 VMs with a regular load on each and everything went fine. I think VBox is truly a great VM Manager, and it runs better (smoother and faster) i

Re: how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, November 28, 2009 a las 11:26:55AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Now that you got it installed, you may use pkg_create: > > pkg_create -Rb openoffice.org-3.1.1 > > (You can get the exact package name using pkg_info -Ix openoffice) > The -R flag will also build all dependen

USB device read and write

2009-11-28 Thread Olivier GARNIER
Hi, I'm trying to read/write on usb weather station. I've got a C soft which find it on /dev/uhid0 But i do not know how to read/write on it. It make 5 years i've not used C developpement. I've read handbook and what i can find about USB / UHID and communication ... But i still don't know how

Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?

2009-11-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > [ -current CC dropped ] > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: >> I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on a >> barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now >> done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitio

Re: how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:26:55AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in > > /usr/ports/packages? > > > > I thought I had something in /etc/make.conf, but nope. My > > build of OOo [311] recently finished

amd64: building lib32 with ccache ?

2009-11-28 Thread Frank Staals
Hey everyone, Yesterday I wanted to update my system currently running 8.0-RC1 amd64 to the latest 8-STABLE release. However buildworld failed. I found out the problem seems to pop up when trying to build the lib32 libraries. If I build lib32 without ccache everything on itself everything seem

Re: how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gary Kline wrote: > How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in > /usr/ports/packages? > > I thought I had something in /etc/make.conf, but nope. My > build of OOo [311] recently finished on my new to-be server. > Since both the new Dell and this ol

Re: how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:05:47 -0800, Gary Kline a écrit : > How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in > /usr/ports/packages? ... > # make install package clean? Or what? make package You can also create a package from an already installed port with pkg_creat

how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in /usr/ports/packages? I thought I had something in /etc/make.conf, but nope. My build of OOo [311] recently finished on my new to-be server. Since both the new Dell and this older Dell are runni