Re: nvidia-driver weirdness

2005-12-01 Thread Christopher Illies
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:01:34PM -0800, Remington L wrote: > Spoke to soon, it still crashing... Sorry to hear that. Did you ever try out the Nvidia Linux driver forum? Despite its name it also applies to FreeBSD. You can find a link to it from the Nvidia drivers download page, IIRC. There

Re: Update 5.4 -> 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Odhiambo Washington wrote: It's my suspicion that updating 5.4 to 6.0 via CVSup leaves alot of old libraries in place. Is this anywhere near correct? I updated my system recently thus, using the steps in /usr/src/UPDATING, but now when updating the ports (I am yet to try out portupgrade -a), I s

Re: disk problem

2005-12-01 Thread Ahmet Bulut
Hi, I had same problem while I installed FreeBSD5.4 on my machine. Ata devices may behave erratically, particularly SATA devices. Reported symptoms include command timeouts or missing interrupts. First, Install FreeBSD using safe mode. And than, Disable ACPI and APIC using the ``safe mode'' of th

Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer

2005-12-01 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 06:37 schrieb Peter Clutton: 8< ... funny things... 8< Thanks for your off-topic message... You helped very well to solve a problem. :-( Now everybody knows where the problem is, or not? There are many ftp-sites where IE can

Re: USB DataTraveller works but.

2005-12-01 Thread Rowdy
Rowdy wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: with lot of errors after i umount'ed dos filesystem Nov 29 12:00:35 chylonia kernel: umass1: Phase Error, residue = 0 Nov 29 12:00:35 chylonia kernel: (da4:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x4, scsi status == 0x0 Nov 29 12:00:35 chylo

Re: USB DataTraveller works but.

2005-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Dec 1 21:00:45 khaki kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device Dec 1 21:00:45 khaki kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry Dec 1 21:00:45 khaki kernel: umass0: detached No sign of any errors anywhere :) Rowdy thank you. so nothing is really wrong except FreeBSD tries to sen

problem with firefox 1.5 port at 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I've compiled and install the 1.5 firefox version this morning and I have some trouble starting it, see below the error message . > firefox /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/components/libxremote_client.so: Undefined symbol"_Z20NS_NewGenericModule2P12nsModuleInfoPP9nsIModule"

Re: FreeBSD DVD

2005-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
run "bootonly CD" and write down the messages OK? That would be great, thanks! so here is. i chose master FTP site, and http proxy and of course IP,gateway and DNS (IPv4) at beginning of OS install it shows "Checking access to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/some_directory"; 6 or 7 times with diff

Re: how to enable NCQ?

2005-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I believe the Raptor series is the only SATA version with NCQ. NForce 4 Ultra and certain high end raid controllers support it. a bit not understanding! does NCQ require some special hardware on motherboard?! isn't that just serial ATA? ___ freebsd-q

problem updating mozilla

2005-12-01 Thread Filippo Moretti
When attempting to update mozilla I get the following error nd ===> mozilla-1.7.12_3,2 depends on executable: pkg-config - found ===> mozilla-1.7.12_3,2 depends on shared library: jpeg.9 - found ===> mozilla-1.7.12_3,2 depends on shared library: png.5 - found ===> mozilla-1.7.12_3,2 depen

Re: doubts

2005-12-01 Thread arden
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:26:43 +0100 Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anirban Adhikary schrieb: > > > Hi this is Anirban. I have to write a shell script that will take the tar > > back-up of a directory (named anirban)on a dialy basis > > Hope i will receive the ans soon. > > _

Re: _dhcp user problems

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:42 PM, N. Raghavendra wrote: At 2005-11-30T21:28:40-05:00, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Out of curiosity, to make sure nothing else is non-optimal, what other user accounts were added from 5.4 to 6.0? I cannot recall, did not save anything from 5.4, and never saw anythi

FreeBSD DVD - question 2

2005-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what tools do you use making FreeBSD packages CD? i mean tool that will split all of them to many CD's or DVD's and make all "INDEX" files just right. amd64 packages directory takes about 7.5GB, which are two DVD's. at worst case i may write dual-layer DVD, will fit all of it, but quite expen

Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer

2005-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-01 09:51, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 06:37 schrieb Peter Clutton: > 8< > ... funny things... > 8< > > Thanks for your off-topic message... You helped very well to solve a > problem. :-( > Now everyb

Re: _dhcp user problems

2005-12-01 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2005-12-01T06:04:31-05:00, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > Yes, I did run mergemaster -p prior to building world. Perhaps when > it showed me the diffs and asked me what to do, that is what > prompted me to add the user myself so I knew that all of my custom > users and groups would be saved. I a

Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Clutton
On 12/1/05, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 06:37 schrieb Peter Clutton: > Thanks for your off-topic message... You helped very well to solve a > problem. :-( Well actually I did help solve the problem, because the problem is most likely your client. It

FREE OS

2005-12-01 Thread Marccorn2005
hi FreeBSD, Hi My Names Mr Marc Harry Charles Corn, I am The CEO of _www.skyline2.co.uk_ (http://www.skyline2.co.uk) i am e-mailing you on consern to your free OS um i want to develop an OS aswell are you able to give me instructions on how

Re: how to enable NCQ?

2005-12-01 Thread Björn König
Wojciech Puchar schrieb: a bit not understanding! does NCQ require some special hardware on motherboard?! isn't that just serial ATA? NCQ is part of the SATA II specification and doesn't work with ATA controllers that can only deal with SATA devices of the first generation. Björn __

Re: problem with firefox 1.5 port at 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I've compiled and install the 1.5 firefox version this morning and I have some trouble starting it, see below the error message . > firefox /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/components/libxremote_client.so: Undefined symbol"_Z20NS_NewGenericModule2P12nsMo

Re: FREE OS

2005-12-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi FreeBSD, Hi My Names Mr Marc Harry Charles Corn, I am The CEO of _www.skyline2.co.uk_ (http://www.skyline2.co.uk) i am e-mailing you on consern to your free OS um i want to develop an O

Re: Problem with burning CD-DAs

2005-12-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil schrieb: > > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Fabian Keil schrieb: > >> > >>>Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can rip without problems a CD-DA to a wav-file (cdda2wav). I > played this file in a wav-play

problem booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade

2005-12-01 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
Hi I'm having a problem installing freebsd on an ibm blade the problem I face is that during boot, it always stops in OK prompt with the message "can't load 'kernel'" CD Loder 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocating the loader and the BTX Starti

Re: Upgrading to 60 question.

2005-12-01 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:52, Vizion wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:02, the author RW contributed to the > dialogue on- > > Re: Upgrading to 60 question.: > >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote: > >> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16, the author RW contributed to the >

Re: disk problem

2005-12-01 Thread Yavuz Maslak
Hello I applied your advice. The problem was solved. Thank you very much Also I saw your the site. it is a very good page. - Original Message - From: "Ahmet Bulut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:36 AM Subject: Re: disk problem > Hi, > I had same proble

Re: Update: Setting up VLAN interfaces with Cisco gear... getting traffic on broadcast only...

2005-12-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
Brian J. McGovern wrote: I hate to add to my own issue. I did some more playing and VLANs != 1 seem to work ok (typically in the 100-150 range). However, operating on VLAN 1 still seems to be an issue. VLAN 1 is the default VLAN on Cisco gear. IIRC, all ports are members of VLAN 1 until you

Re: problem booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade

2005-12-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: Hi I'm having a problem installing freebsd on an ibm blade the problem I face is that during boot, it always stops in OK prompt with the message "can't load 'kernel'" [...] can anyone point me out... it seems that when I try type in load /boot/kernel/kernel

Warning: E-mail viruses detected

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Re: Upgrading to 6.0 Nvidia question

2005-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 30 Nov Vizion wrote: > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 18:19, the author Diavolo contributed to the > dialogue on- > Re: Upgrading to 6.0 Nvidia question: > >you can use the "kldstat" command to see whether "nvidia.ko" was loaded. > >if not,add "nvidia_enable=yes" to the loader.conf > > Thank

Re: firefox-1.0.6_5,1 upgrade fails

2005-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > At 09:30 AM 11/30/2005, you wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > At 12:09 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > > > /usr/include/gssapi.h:108: error: conflicts with previous declaration > > > > > `typedef struct gss_buffer_des

Mounting a linux partition under freebsd

2005-12-01 Thread Guillaume R.
Hello I can't mount a linux partition under freebsd with the -t ext3fs option could someone explain me how I could mount a linux partition under freebsd? I got an other question: how could I obtain a human readable output of fdisk to know the content in terms of partition of my disk? Thx -- Powered

Re: Pear compile issue

2005-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"John Pineau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Im getting the following issue installing a number of pear-dependent > ports, (in this instance, Horde). > > My memory setting in my php.ini is set to 20M, yet this does not seem to > care about that. > > This all started right around the time the PH

RE: Pear compile issue

2005-12-01 Thread John Pineau
Yeah, I just found this page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/89049 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:02 AM To: John Pineau Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:

Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry.

2005-12-01 Thread Sean
Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 05:05, the author virgil huston contributed to Way OT, sorry.: Folks, This is one of my more obscure questions and involves scanning not paper but something they used to store books, magazines, and newspapers--before the computer age

Rebuilding a corrupt disklabel

2005-12-01 Thread Doug H
I tried posting this 12 hours ago, but haven't seen it flow through the list... reposting with updates: One of my disks has 3 active partitions: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, NTFS (not-bootable), and FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. I developed problems while installing FreeBSD 6.0. Installation went well, but when I re

Re: Mounting a linux partition under freebsd

2005-12-01 Thread Björn König
Guillaume R. schrieb: I can't mount a linux partition under freebsd with the -t ext3fs option could someone explain me how I could mount a linux partition under freebsd? FreeBSD has limited support for ext2, therefore you can mount it as ext2 filesystem only. You can "convert" the filesystem

Ports: JDK15

2005-12-01 Thread Vampire D
I am having all sorts of problems trying to install JDK15. I put all the files in the distfiles but now when I install: make -D WITHOUT_WEB install clean I get the following after quite a long time of compiling: ../../../src/share/classes/sun/security/jca/ProviderConfig.java:243: warning: non-v

Re: Problem with burning CD-DAs

2005-12-01 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 14:25 schrieb Fabian Keil: > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fabian Keil schrieb: > > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Fabian Keil schrieb: > > >>>Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can rip without problems a CD-DA to a

Re: Problem with burning CD-DAs

2005-12-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 14:25 schrieb Fabian Keil: > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fabian Keil schrieb: > > > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Fabian Keil schrieb: > > > >>>Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pf blocking nfs

2005-12-01 Thread Aaron P. Martinez
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 02:40 +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: > [snip] > > In your original post, there was something about a short packet. I'm > > guessing this might screw things up. You might try adding 'scrub in all' > > before the filtering rules. > > > [smip] > > Be careful with scrub and NFS. From h

Re: Mounting a linux partition under freebsd

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Guillaume R. wrote: Hello I can't mount a linux partition under freebsd with the -t ext3fs option could someone explain me how I could mount a linux partition under freebsd? [605] Thu 01.Dec.2005 10:21:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/scripts] ls /sbin/mount* /sbin/mount* /sbin/mount_msdosfs*

dhclient.conf is being ignored

2005-12-01 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring" dhclient.conf(5). On this dual-homed host, I've created dhclient.conf in it's proper location with the option modifiers I want. However, everytime dhclient negotiates a new lease, I get my ISP's values in resolv.conf(5) a

Re: dhclient.conf is being ignored

2005-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-01 10:48, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring" > dhclient.conf(5). > > On this dual-homed host, I've created dhclient.conf in it's proper > location with the option modifiers I want. However, everytime

Re: Help deriving a corrupted disklabel

2005-12-01 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 09:15 pm, Doug H wrote: > One of my disks has 3 active partitions: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, NTFS > (not-bootable), and FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. > > I developed problems while installing FreeBSD 6.0. Installation > went as well as can be expected using sysinstall (no difficulty >

Re: dhclient.conf is being ignored

2005-12-01 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, December 1, 2005 11:00, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-12-01 10:48, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring" >> dhclient.conf(5). >> >> On this dual-homed host, I've created dhclient.conf in it's proper >

Re: dhclient.conf is being ignored

2005-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-01 11:24, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, December 1, 2005 11:00, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2005-12-01 10:48, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring" >>> dhclient.conf(5). >>> >>> O

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2005-12-01 Thread Hans Nieser
Ferdinand Haselbacher (jr.) wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:22:17PM -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote: That's great. But as I said, there's nothing I can configure on my switch's side. Anyway, you and I aren't the only ones with the same problem, under the same circonstances. My forcing of the T

RE: dhclient.conf is being ignored

2005-12-01 Thread Brian E. Conklin
> Hello, > > I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring" > dhclient.conf(5). > > On this dual-homed host, I've created dhclient.conf in it's proper > location with the option modifiers I want. However, > everytime dhclient > negotiates a new lease, I get my ISP's values

Can't run scripts no more: "permission denied"

2005-12-01 Thread Blue Raccoon
Hi, I tried to make a simple script to launch sylpheed when mailto: is clicked in firefox: sylpheed --compose "$1" I put that in a plain text file, made it executable.. and nothing happened. From the command line I get "permission denied" when I run it. Even when I set perm to 777. Next I fin

Re: Can't run scripts no more: "permission denied"

2005-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-01 18:59, Blue Raccoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to make a simple script to launch sylpheed when mailto: is > clicked in firefox: > > sylpheed --compose "$1" > > I put that in a plain text file, made it executable.. and nothing > happened. From the command line I get

Re: Can't run scripts no more: "permission denied"

2005-12-01 Thread Björn König
Blue Raccoon schrieb: I tried to make a simple script to launch sylpheed when mailto: is clicked in firefox: sylpheed --compose "$1" I put that in a plain text file, made it executable.. and nothing happened. From the command line I get "permission denied" when I run it. Even when I set perm to

Re: enabling audio cd sound in emu10kx driver

2005-12-01 Thread Porpoise Power
On stardate Mon, 28 Nov 2005, the wise Lowell Gilbert entered: > Unfortunately, there is more than one chipset in different cards that > are called by that name. My dmesg says: pcm0: port 0xee80-0xeebf irq 21 at device 4.0 on pci6 pcm0: Does this mean it has a "SigmaTel" chip? T

Re: www.skyline2.co.uk

2005-12-01 Thread Uncle Deejy-Pooh
>Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 04:57:52 EST >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: FREE OS >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >hi FreeBSD,   >                Hi  My Names Mr Marc Harry Charles Corn, >                I  

Re: Can't run scripts no more: "permission denied"

2005-12-01 Thread Blue Raccoon
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:15:12 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When did those scripts run fine? What did you change since then? First of all I've been stupid. I used # ./ script.name when I should have used # ./script.name Apparently, this is what causes the "permission denie

Re: Can't run scripts no more: "permission denied"

2005-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-01 19:48, Blue Raccoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:15:12 +0200 > Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When did those scripts run fine? What did you change since then? > > First of all I've been stupid. I used > # ./ script.name > when I should have use

Re: FreeBSD DVD - question 2

2005-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:10:25PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > what tools do you use making FreeBSD packages CD? i mean tool that will > split all of them to many CD's or DVD's and make all "INDEX" files just > right. The tools in /usr/src/release/scripts. > amd64 packages directory takes a

Re: Can't run scripts no more: "permission denied"

2005-12-01 Thread Will Maier
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:48:50PM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:15:12 +0200 > But the 'sylpheed' script still would not run: "command not > found". There is only one command in the file (which works fine on > the command line) and a comment: #!/bin/bash I copied the script > f

After Firefox upgrade, browser no longer prints without CUPS

2005-12-01 Thread Joshua Tinnin
What does Firefox use to recognize printers? Every other application recognizes and uses the generic UNIX lpd (with Ghostscript and hpdij), which is what Firefox used before I upgraded it to 1.5. Now it insists on using CUPS or PostScript. I've been Googling for two days and can't figure out ho

overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

2005-12-01 Thread N.J. Thomas
We have a website with moderately high traffic, load balanced among 3 webservers. During peak traffic times however (when the volume is higher than normal), the load shoots up to over a 100, and the site crawls to its knees. We set up a script to take snapshots of top every 20 seconds. Here is wh

geom_stripe and Performance

2005-12-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
When using FBSD 4.x, I used vinum to stripe my /usr across two drives. Performance seemed good but I never used any tools to actually measure it. Now I've upgraded to 5.4 (and will upgrade to 6.0 soon) and disk performance doesn't seem very good. When upgrading to 5.4, I ditched vinum in fav

problem sourcing a file while configuring OpenVPN 2.0 on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Singerman
Hi all, Perhaps I am missing something incredibly stupid here, but I can't source the vars file that is part of the OpeVPN configuration process: # source ./vars export: Command not found. D: Undefined variable. Here is the contents of vars (with the comments removed for the sake of brevity): #

Re: problem sourcing a file while configuring OpenVPN 2.0 on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matt Singerman wrote: Hi all, Perhaps I am missing something incredibly stupid here, but I can't source the vars file that is part of the OpeVPN configuration process: # source ./vars export: Command not found. D: Undefined variable. You are running csh and this script is for sh and deriva

BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-01 Thread Cody Holland
Ok, I know this has come up before but I cannot find any good documentation on BSD vs Linux threads using 5.4 or 6.0. This will basically be for a multi-processor mysql 5 server. What are your recommendations? Thanks, Cody ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: problem sourcing a file while configuring OpenVPN 2.0 on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Singerman
Just as I thought, I'm a dullard. Switched to sh, and all is working find. Thanks. On 12/1/05, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Singerman wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >Perhaps I am missing something incredibly stupid here, but I can't > >source the vars file that is part of the OpeVPN

Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

2005-12-01 Thread N.J. Thomas
* N.J. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-01 14:38:13 -0500]: > We have a website with moderately high traffic, load balanced among 3 > webservers. > > During peak traffic times however (when the volume is higher than > normal), the load shoots up to over a 100, and the site crawls to its > knees

Re: Update 5.4 -> 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:16:51AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >It's my suspicion that updating 5.4 to 6.0 via CVSup leaves alot of old > >libraries in place. Is this anywhere near correct? > > > >I updated my system recently thus, using the steps in > >/usr/src/UPDA

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:14:05PM -0600, Cody Holland wrote: > Ok, I know this has come up before but I cannot find any good > documentation on BSD vs Linux threads using 5.4 or 6.0. This will > basically be for a multi-processor mysql 5 server. What are your > recommendations? What are your qu

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RE: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-01 Thread Cody Holland
Well in the past it was stated that on a MySQL server installed using Linux threads was faster than using the native BSD threads. I'm in the process of building a new MySQL 5 server with FreeBSD 5.4 and was wanting to know if using the Linux threads was still faster. Cody > > On Thu, Dec 01,

calcru: runtime went backwards

2005-12-01 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I running 6-RELEASE as a guest under vmware 5.5 and I'm having problems with the clock going backwards. I'm getting the message (sample): calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pid 13924 (vmware-guestd) calcru: runtime went backwards from 11589627 usec to 115896

Re: Update 5.4 -> 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread RW
On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > It's my suspicion that updating 5.4 to 6.0 via CVSup leaves alot of old > > libraries in place. Is this anywhere near correct? > >... > > Is there an easy way to fix them? >... > Software compiled under 5.x w

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:36:19PM -0600, Cody Holland wrote: > Well in the past it was stated that on a MySQL server installed using > Linux threads was faster than using the native BSD threads. I'm in the > process of building a new MySQL 5 server with FreeBSD 5.4 and was > wanting to know if us

gcc in freebsd to compile linux software

2005-12-01 Thread Javier Matos
Hi, I need to compile a program to run it in a linux box. I know that freebsd has linux compatibility with binary files. Can I compile using freebsd gcc a binary file that can run under linux and try if it works with freebsd binary linux emulation?? If it is possible... what kind of options need

Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

2005-12-01 Thread Freminlins
Can you provide the output of nfsstat -c 1 on the web servers (and nfsstat -s 1 on the nfs server if they are running FreeBSD)? Run them for a minute when you are getting bad performance. Please also quantify "moderately high traffic". What is this in Mbit/s? Also, it may be helpful to know a litt

Firefox build error in 5.X

2005-12-01 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings, I am trying to build firefox 1.5 on 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD, but I get the following compile time issue. I looked on the web and thought that updating the nspr port would fix the ussue, but it didn't. Could someone tell give me a clue as to what I can do to get firefox to compile? Please ema

make buildworld run twice as fast

2005-12-01 Thread Jose Borquez
I recently rebuilt my FreeBSD system from sources and it took around 2 hours on an old PIII 800MHz pc to run "make buildworld". If I include the -j option to run multiple processes as once such as "make -j2 buildworld" does that mean it would finish in half the time? Does anyone have any thoug

Re: gcc in freebsd to compile linux software

2005-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:06:16PM +0100, Javier Matos wrote: > Hi, I need to compile a program to run it in a linux box. > I know that freebsd has linux compatibility with binary files. > > Can I compile using freebsd gcc a binary file that can run under linux and > try if it works with freebsd

Re: make buildworld run twice as fast

2005-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:19:41PM -0800, Jose Borquez wrote: > I recently rebuilt my FreeBSD system from sources and it took around 2 > hours on an old PIII 800MHz pc to run "make buildworld". If I include > the -j option to run multiple processes as once such as "make -j2 > buildworld" does t

irq load when servicing ethernet

2005-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is it normal on AMD64 machine to have 10-15% CPU time spent in "interrupt" by sending file at 7MB/s by ftp to other machine? fxp0: port 0xec00-0xec3f mem 0xfbfff000-0xfbff,0xfbfc-0xfbfdfff f irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci2 nothing else uses irq 17 systat shows 3000 ints/s, with 1.8GHz

deamon, priority

2005-12-01 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, How can I set priority to start deamons when freebsd boots? mysql is starting first than jabberd and it write this log message. Thu Dec 1 17:22:03 2005 [error] mysql: connection to database failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Thanks... Efren B

Re: Questions about make arguments for ports

2005-12-01 Thread RW
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:00, Ashley Moran wrote: > Hello, > > When upgrading a machine from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 I came across the problem > of how to re-compile all the ports to use FreeBSD 6 libraries so I can > ditch the compat5x port. Actually you can ditch it anyway, all of the library

newbie

2005-12-01 Thread Douglass, Erik
After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have it installed, and it is quite overwhelming. If anyone has any recommendations/tips or books for acquainting one's self with FreeBSD with no *nix experience I

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Clutton
On 12/2/05, Cody Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well in the past it was stated that on a MySQL server installed using > Linux threads was faster than using the native BSD threads. I'm in the > process of building a new MySQL 5 server with FreeBSD 5.4 and was > wanting to know if using the Li

RE: newbie

2005-12-01 Thread Brian E. Conklin
As someone from similar circumstances a few years ago, I found FreeBSD Unleashed by Michael Urban and published by SAMS quite valuable. Brian E. Conklin, MCP+I, MCSE Director of Information Services Mason General Hospital http://www.masongeneral.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: newbie

2005-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Douglass, Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I > have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have > it installed, and it is quite overwhelming. If anyone has any > recommendations/tips or books for acquain

Re: newbie

2005-12-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:54:46PM -0600, Douglass, Erik wrote: > After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I > have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have > it installed, and it is quite overwhelming. If anyone has any > recommendations/tips or

Re: deamon, priority

2005-12-01 Thread Hans Nieser
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How can I set priority to start deamons when freebsd boots? mysql is starting first than jabberd and it write this log message. Thu Dec 1 17:22:03 2005 [error] mysql: connection to database failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Re: problem updating mozilla

2005-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Filippo Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When attempting to update mozilla I get the following error > > nd > ===> mozilla-1.7.12_3,2 depends on executable: pkg-config - found > ===> mozilla-1.7.12_3,2 depends on shared library: jpeg.9 - found > ===> mozilla-1.7.12_3,2 depends on share

Re: After Firefox upgrade, browser no longer prints without CUPS

2005-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does Firefox use to recognize printers? Every other application > recognizes and uses the generic UNIX lpd (with Ghostscript and hpdij), > which is what Firefox used before I upgraded it to 1.5. Now it insists > on using CUPS or PostScript. I've

Kopete missing file. (clientiface_stub.h)

2005-12-01 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
hi all. i try to install latest version of kopete on my system. (Freebsd5.4) first update kdenetwork package. then download source of kopete. and #./configure but when #make i got the error below : . . . connectionmanager.cpp:7:30: clientiface_stub.h: No such file or directory connectionmanager.cp

DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade

2005-12-01 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I recently took my IBM ThinkPad X23, which had been running 4.11, and did a fresh install (backup files, wipe disk, install from scratch) to 6.0. Most things have gone smoothly, though there are still a few things to iron out. My biggest problem is that I can't seem to get DHCP to work with my wi

Re: newbie

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Clutton
On 12/2/05, Douglass, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I > have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have > it installed, and it is quite overwhelming. If anyone has any > recommendations/tips or books for

Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

2005-12-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
N.J. Thomas wrote: We have a website with moderately high traffic, load balanced among 3 webservers. During peak traffic times however (when the volume is higher than normal), the load shoots up to over a 100, and the site crawls to its knees. We set up a script to take snapshots of top every 2

Re: newbie

2005-12-01 Thread Bob Johnson
On 12/1/05, Douglass, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I > have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have > it installed, and it is quite overwhelming. If anyone has any > recommendations/tips or books for

Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

2005-12-01 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-02 11:06:49 +1100]: > What's your MaxClients set to? It was set to 256, we actually lowered it to 180. > Please define your values for "lot of traffic". Running wc -l on the daily Apache access logs, I get: ~1.8million hits per day > What CPU? RA

bumping MAXPHYS - success

2005-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
bumped to 1024*1024=1MB in /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h and recompiled kernel. all test performed on filesystem on which right newfs options were used so FFS were able to use it. effects: single process - almost no gain, bonnie++ showed about 5% worse speeds on linear read and linear write, abou

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2005-12-01 Thread Dottie Costa
I recently subscribed to the free 7-day trial offer and found that my bank account has been charged $39.00 already. How can this be reversed on my bank account as it is in error as I just signed up today? Please let me know. Thank you, Dottie Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my OLD email. Plea

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards

2005-12-01 Thread Bob Johnson
On 12/1/05, J. W. Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I running 6-RELEASE as a guest under vmware 5.5 and I'm having > problems with the clock going backwards. I'm getting the message (sample): > > calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pid > 13924 > (vmware-

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards

2005-12-01 Thread Bob Johnson
On 12/1/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sysctl kern.MUMBLE.timecounter=TSC > > except I don't know what "MUMBLE" is in 6.0. > > sysctl -a | grep timecounter > > should reveal it, though. And if it is already "TSC", try "i8254", > I've seen both recommended. There are probably

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Vince
For 6 Linux threads from my benchmarking and from what I have seen some peoples posts gives poor performance compared to libthr or libpthread I am using more of libthr over libpthread in 6.0 and have been benchmarking best results. Try this in /etc/libmap.conf [mysqld] libpthread.so.2 l

Re: List archive search broken?

2005-12-01 Thread W. D.
At 23:06 11/28/2005, Micah wrote: >Hey All, > >I just went to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ , >typed in VNC into the Search box (left Match, Format, Sort By as All, >Short, and Score), and got a page of results. When I try to move on to >any other results page, I get an

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