Re: periodic, short freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: The fact that swap is in use, together with your description, indicates that your system is overloaded; those transient loads are causing it to periodically demand more working memory than is backed by RAM, so the system goes into a frenzy of swa

random lockups

2006-11-11 Thread Gergely CZUCZY
good morning. I'd like to ask which list should i use to discuss my stability issues on a 6.1-RELEASE-p10. it should be a productive system, but sometimes randomly locks up. we cannot do any network communication with the box this time, nor the console shows anything, it's simply blank. no crash d

Re: random lockups

2006-11-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: good morning. I'd like to ask which list should i use to discuss my stability issues on a 6.1-RELEASE-p10. it should be a productive system, but sometimes randomly locks up. we cannot do any network communication with the box this time, nor the

Re: random lockups

2006-11-11 Thread Gergely CZUCZY
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:11:31AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > > >good morning. > > > >I'd like to ask which list should i use to > >discuss my stability issues on a 6.1-RELEASE-p10. > >it should be a productive system, but sometimes >

Re: Is the vulnerability database up to date?

2006-11-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Josh Carroll wrote: So - what's the point? I mean updating the port to a newer port with the same or newer known vulnerabilities? # portaudit 0 problem(s) in your installed packages found. # pkg_info| grep firefox firefox-2.0_2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla Seems ok

FreeBSD 6.1 Japanese ISO9660/Joliet and locale ja_JP.UTF8 problems

2006-11-11 Thread 文鳥
Hallo everyone, On my FreeBSD 6.1 workstation, I have the following problems when mounting CDs/DVDs containing Japanese file names which were burned on Japanese Windows XP (SJIS, Multi-byte extended Joliet). If I mount them normally ("mount -t iso9660 /cdrom"), file names are garbled (ls shows ??

Re: periodic, short freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 11 November 2006 02:36, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > > Jonathan - what is your swap use? Cause you also experience this kind of > problem... > > Thanks! i have all my apps open that i typeically run, and i have 108K of swap in use (so not even 1 MB). my system is a p4 3.2HT

Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: How do I build the java plugin for Firefox? I have jdk15 installed without the plugin. I tried to rebuild with USE_GECKO=firefox which fails as the Makefile also states: /usr/local/include/firefox/nsDebug.h:207:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition ../../../../src/p

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:42:04AM +, Jan Grant wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Bob Schwartz wrote: > > > > > ... at least as it is desribed in the DELL > > > docs and bios... > > > > Be really careful. The windows boot loader should be able t

pkgdb -F

2006-11-11 Thread Wayne M Barnes
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..realpath: /tmp/a/ports/www/apache2: No such file or directory realpath: /tmp/a/ports/www/apache2: No such file or directory realpath: /tmp/a/ports/www/apache2: No such file or directory realpath: /tmp/a/ports/www/apache2: No such fil

Re: periodic, short freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:40:43AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Saturday 11 November 2006 02:36, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > Jonathan - what is your swap use? Cause you also experience this kind of > > problem... > > > > Thanks! > > i have all my apps open that i typeica

Re: periodic, short freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:36:25AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >The fact that swap is in use, together with your description, > >indicates that your system is overloaded; those transient loads are > >causing it to periodically demand m

Re: random lockups

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:11:31AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > > >good morning. > > > >I'd like to ask which list should i use to > >discuss my stability issues on a 6.1-RELEASE-p10. > >it should be a productive system, but sometimes >

Re: 6.x hangs on AMD64 again

2006-11-11 Thread Chris
If your system is hanging then you need to configure additional debugging to figure out the cause. Read the chapter on kernel debugging the developers handbook; without this information no developer can help you. Kris P.S. In my testing SMP amd64 is quite stable even under exceptionally heavy

Re: 6.x hangs on AMD64 again

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:15:54AM -0800, Chris wrote: > > > >If your system is hanging then you need to configure additional > >debugging to figure out the cause. Read the chapter on kernel > >debugging the developers handbook; without this information no > >developer can help you. > > > >Kris >

Another Hardware Issue

2006-11-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I have another machine which will not boot the first time after a power on. It gives the following messages: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c6303000 syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up on 1 buffers Uptime: 16s

Re: How can I disable the lookback device?

2006-11-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris wrote: > First of all the motivation of this is my tftp problem with the address > 0.0.0.0. Trying to tftp from the same box doesn't reproduce the > problem, whatever is happening gets cleaned up in the loopback device. > So I want to disable

Re: Another Hardware Issue

2006-11-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Hardie wrote: > I have another machine which will not boot the first time after a power > on. It gives the following messages: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c6303000 > > syncing disks...

bpf kernel module

2006-11-11 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
Hello, I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources once a week or even more often. I'm thinking of removing as much as possible devices from the kernel loading them from /boot/loader.conf instead, so I could rebuild and install them without a whole kernel/world rebuild a

Re: pkgdb -F

2006-11-11 Thread miguel_________
I just have made it in this order: cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup14.freebsd.org /path/ports-supfile rehash pkgdb -F that was my worked experience. 2006/11/11, Wayne M Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..realpath: /tmp/a/ports/www/apache2: No s

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources > once a week or even more often. I'm thinking of removing as much as > possible devices from the kernel loading them from /boot/loader.conf > inste

AMD64 + FreeBSD 6.1 + Keyboard troubles

2006-11-11 Thread Coen Watstaatervoor
I've installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dual AMD Opeteron HE server, during the installation the keyboard works fine. But when you plug in the keyboard after a reboot (without the keyboard attached) the keyboard won't work any more. I'm doing the same installation on a Dual Intel Xeon machine and the

emulators/qemu: crashes with "Bad system call: 12"

2006-11-11 Thread martinko
Hello, I'm trying to install Win2K but QEMU is constantly crashing with: Bad system call: 12 The command line I'm using is a variation of the following: qemu -cdrom /opt/win2k.iso -hda /opt/c.img -m 256 -boot d -win2k-hack First I tried to boot directly from CD. Also I used QCOW disk image bu

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Re: emulators/qemu: crashes with "Bad system call: 12"

2006-11-11 Thread martinko
Josh Carroll wrote: >> I'm trying to install Win2K but QEMU is constantly crashing with: >> >> Bad system call: 12 > > According to the qemu man page, there is an option you need when > installing windows 2000. I don't know if it'd cause the bad system > call message, but it's worth a shot. Also, I

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-11 Thread doug
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Pres

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-10-22 - 2006-11-11

2006-11-11 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

question

2006-11-11 Thread Sebastian Herrmann
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signal design questions

2006-11-11 Thread Wenyen, Shih
Hi all, I have some questions. (1) I know how to delivery of a signal to a process. 1. The kernel places a signal context on the user's stack.(user level) 2. The kernel places a signal-handler frame on the user's stack.(kernel level) 3. The user's signal handler returns to

Re: Sendmail Smarthost Auth

2006-11-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Well Giorgos, For starters the advice in that section is wrong for 2 reasons: pwcheck_method: passwd does not work on sasl2 and FreeBSD 6.X You don't want to use sasl1 for many reasons, you want to use sasl2 define(`confDEF_AUTH_INFO', `/etc/mail/auth-info')dnl is deprecated. Fortunately th

Re: signal design questions

2006-11-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 11, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Wenyen, Shih wrote: Hi all, I have some questions. (1) I know how to delivery of a signal to a process. 1. The kernel places a signal context on the user's stack.(user level) 2. The kernel places a signal-handler frame on the user's stack.(kernel