Re: xorg gfx card: amd64+xvideo+decent 2d performance

2008-09-20 Thread Nash Nipples
> I've been trying to find anything that fits the > bill. My only > requirements are: > > * That it works with amd64 (on FreeBSD, obviously). > * That it supports Xvideo. > * That it has decent 2D performance. > * That it works with wide screen resolutions (so I > guess basically > modern hardware

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Unga
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Segmentation fault when free > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 2:23 PM > On Fri, 19 Sep

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:31:41 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are probably calling free() multiple times for the same buffer. >> >> Try tracing the malloc and free calls, using the information from >> this messag

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Unga
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. This clearly shows my program is trying to free a > memory that has > > not been allocated. How it could have happened? > > Aha. This looks remarkably like an address in the runtime > stack. It > usually happens when yo

FreeBSD is locking and logging out

2008-09-20 Thread Desmond Chapman
I've had my screen lock a few times and log out automatically once. If it's any help, it's happened while running qemu. _ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msn

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Nash Nipples
> I checked again, up to the this problematic free(), > functions return newly allocated strings properly: > > char *f( ) > { > char *newstr = NULL; > : > newstr = (char *) malloc(p - sp + 1); > if (newstr == NULL) > return NULL; > : > return newstr; > } > > Can a yet not executed wrong

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Nash Nipples
actually what i think someone should really tell you is that maybe you should take a look at the free() manual which is available here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=free&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html or you can try to run `man free` in the console. there i

Suspicious physical memory map from BIOS

2008-09-20 Thread questions
Hi, I have some problem with physical memory being getting reported incorrectly on Freebsd 6.3. I have 4GB of RAM installed but BIOS call actually returns following usable physical memory map - base address = 0, length = 640K base address = 1M, length = 2.5G base address = 4G, length = 5.5G How

Re: Problem report not showing up?

2008-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I submitted a problem report using send-pr a few days ago. send-pr > completed without any errors, but I haven't seen any evidence of my > problem report in the FreeBSD bug list > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi ) or on the

Re: Audio Production

2008-09-20 Thread Timm Wimmers
m cassar schrieb: Does anyone here use freebsd for serious audio/video production work? or know if there is some kind of community? Didn't try it, but http://ardour.org/ looks like what you are looking for. See http://www.freshports.org/audio/ardour/ -- Timm smime.p7s Description: S/MIME C

Re: Segmentation fault when free [SOLVED]

2008-09-20 Thread Unga
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ktrace.out shows: > > malloc_init() > > 0x8103400 = malloc(1024) > > malloc_init() > > malloc_init() > > 0x810b0b0 = malloc(400) > > : > > so many malloc > > : > > so many free > > : > > malloc/free combinations > > : > > free(0

Re: kill -KILL fails to kill process

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Saturday 20 September 2008 08:35:53 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 1. The process hangs in "disk wait" (flag "D" in ps' STAT > >column). This often means there's a hardware problem > >with your disk or controller (or a driver bug), or a > >network problem if you use NFS. > > not this f

Alternative for EasySpeedy

2008-09-20 Thread Marc Schneiders
In the past I had for some time a dedicated server with EasySpeedy in Denmark. In the beginning it worked alright, but later it turned sour. No or flaky network connection. No replies from support. So I quit. But I still would like to have something similar, where you can do whatever you like with

Re: Problem report not showing up?

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Saturday 20 September 2008 14:49:40 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > I submitted a problem report using send-pr a few days ago. send-pr > > completed without any errors, but I haven't seen any evidence of my > > problem report in the FreeBSD bu

Re: Problem report not showing up?

2008-09-20 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Sep 20, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Mel wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2008 14:49:40 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi all, I submitted a problem report using send-pr a few days ago. send-pr completed without any errors, but I haven't seen any evidence of my pro

file recovery

2008-09-20 Thread fighter92
Hello! I'm a newbie on freebsd. I had some installing problems and my other operating system(Windows Vista) doesn't work anymore. The recovery cd does not work in this case and I would not like to reinstall, as it needs HDD format and I wil lose some important data. So here's the situation: I nee

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Friday 19 September 2008 12:17:35 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Mel wrote: > > > > that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to > > > > be the first partition, for the simple reason that everything else

Re: irq19 uhci interrupts taking ~100% of one core?

2008-09-20 Thread kg5nm
I think this is a SATA driver problem on amd64 builds. I have the same problem (3 usable cores due to this!). I'm too am running a custom kernel but this was also happening on GENERIC. If you temporarily disable all USB drivers, you should see the SATA ATAPI driver pop up on 'vmstat -i' instead

Re: Audio Production

2008-09-20 Thread m cassar
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Timm Wimmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > m cassar schrieb: > >> Does anyone here use freebsd for serious audio/video production work? or >> know if there is some kind of community? >> > > Didn't try it, but http://ardour.org/ looks like what you are looking for. >

Re: epiphany stalls on dbus-launch?

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Thursday 18 September 2008 13:54:54 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I've built ports/www/epiphany on FBSD-6.3-stable on Alpha. > > On launch epiphany never opens the graphical window. > > ps shows: > > > > 67097 p5 I 0:01

Re: Multiple installation of one ports

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 16:55:46 FreeBSD wrote: > John Nielsen a écrit : > > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:26:35 pm FreeBSD wrote: > >> I've been asked by a customer to install Drupal on one server to manage > >> a new site. No problem yet. But, he also asked if it would be possible > >> t

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Friday 19 September 2008 02:52:43 Grant Peel wrote: > Hi H, and Matt, and all, > > I had instigated all.log, and here is what happened at 04:08 EDT this > morning...any clues you see here? > > ... > Sep 18 04:04:08 defiant named[601]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving > 'examplewhole.com/NS/

Uplading file via Lighttpd - system hangs

2008-09-20 Thread Yury Michurin
Hello, When trying uploading a file to a PHP script over lighttpd, the system just hangs. no output to the console, no panic, just hangs. I can still enter username/password to the login prompt from the keyboard, but then nothing happens. top that was running just freezes and stop refreshing. If

Re: Problem report not showing up?

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Saturday 20 September 2008 16:57:15 Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > Better yet, check your /var/log/maillog first. Once submitted you > > will get an > > autoreply, with the ID it's been assigned to. Send-pr's that don't > > show up, > > usually reside in /usr/bin/mailq. > > Good call -- there it i

Bobbito, Shortee Blitz, Spin Doctor @ On The Real this Friday & more!

2008-09-20 Thread The Doctor's Orders
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ipv6

2008-09-20 Thread beni
Hi, I have a question about IPv6. I installed /net/freenet6 and edited the /usr/local/etc/gw6c.conf file with the login and password given by Go6.net. I added freenet6_enable="YES", ipv6_enable="YES" and ipv6_network_interfaces="vr0 tun0" to my /etc/rc.conf. An ifconfig shows this : bsdaddict# i

Re: Alternative for EasySpeedy

2008-09-20 Thread Craig Butler
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 16:21 +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: > In the past I had for some time a dedicated server with EasySpeedy in > Denmark. In the beginning it worked alright, but later it turned sour. No > or flaky network connection. No replies from support. So I quit. But I > still would like

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-20 Thread Sebastian
Oliver Fromme wrote: Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to confirm my understanding of current status on this NIC. It > seems, based on some searching, the current Realtek driver in FreeBSD > doesn't support the 8111C, and that although the vendor-supplied driver > _may_ work

Re: Audio Production

2008-09-20 Thread Nash Nipples
> > m cassar schrieb: > > > >> Does anyone here use freebsd for serious > audio/video production work? or > >> know if there is some kind of community? > >> > > > > Didn't try it, but http://ardour.org/ looks like > what you are looking for. > > See http://www.freshports.org/audio/ardour/ > > > >

segmentation fault 11

2008-09-20 Thread Desmond Chapman
I saw a reference that linux.ko and kqemu.ko can start a segmentation fault 11. My memory is set to 2G in the loader file and physical is 1.77G. Would this cause the problem? _ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at

Incorrect commandline history with bash

2008-09-20 Thread manish jain
Hi, I just migrated from Linux and I am now using FreeBSD 6.3. My keyboard layout is US-ISO and my TERM is con25. I am using bash#3 as my login shell. (I installed the bash package from the distribution media, not from /usr/ports). The problem is that bash does not remember my commands correctly.

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-20 Thread Sebastian
Da Rock wrote: I have used the compiled driver on 6.3 with success- but then I've used the driver linked in a post to drivers list. 7.0 is a no go. I tried to compile the current OEM Realtek driver under (v176) on fbsd 6.3, but couldn't get it to build. My foo is a little thin here. :) Woul

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-20 Thread perryh
> ... I thought I'd try copying the driver from 7.1. The module > (if_re.ko) appears to load successfully at boot time, however > the NIC is still not shown in dmesg and unavailable as re0. > I admit I don't know if this should even work (7.1-compiled > module on 6.3 kernel) ... That would indeed

Re: geli authentication algo and newfs weirdness

2008-09-20 Thread Vinny
Wojciech Puchar wrote: the/root{156}~# geli init -a hmac/sha256 /dev/da1 Enter new passphrase: Reenter new passphrase: the/root{157}~# the/root{157}~# geli attach da1 Enter passphrase: check what is default (and possibly minimum) sector size for hmac/sha256 fragment size of UFS can't be less _

brain-fault: core dump.

2008-09-20 Thread Gary Kline
A few days ago I dl'd the OOo-2.4.1 and now need some clues how to install the tarball. I tried #pkg_add -rv [OOo-tarball] it failed. ...So is there some quick fix? tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.or

Re: brain-fault: core dump.

2008-09-20 Thread Nash Nipples
> A few days ago I dl'd the OOo-2.4.1 and now need some > clues how to > install the tarball. I tried > > #pkg_add -rv [OOo-tarball] > > it failed. ...So is there some quick fix? > > tia, > > gary > http://view.samurajdata.se/ http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#howto

upgrade packges

2008-09-20 Thread gahn
Hi all: I am trying upgrading some packages and having problems. for example: home# pkg_delete mysql-client-5.0.67 pkg_delete: package 'mysql-client-5.0.67' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: apache-2.2.9_5 php5-5.2.6_2 cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1 postfix-2.5.4,1 subversion-1

Re: upgrade packges

2008-09-20 Thread Sahil Tandon
gahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > > I am trying upgrading some packages and having problems. for example: > > home# pkg_delete mysql-client-5.0.67 > pkg_delete: package 'mysql-client-5.0.67' is required by these other packages > and may not be deinstalled: > apache-2.2.9_5 > php5-5.2.6

Re: upgrade packges

2008-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
gahn wrote: Hi all: I am trying upgrading some packages and having problems. for example: home# pkg_delete mysql-client-5.0.67 pkg_delete: package 'mysql-client-5.0.67' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: apache-2.2.9_5 php5-5.2.6_2 cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1 postfix-2.5.4,

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-20 Thread Sebastian
Sebastian wrote: Da Rock wrote: I have used the compiled driver on 6.3 with success- but then I've used the driver linked in a post to drivers list. 7.0 is a no go. I tried to compile the current OEM Realtek driver under (v176) on fbsd 6.3, but couldn't get it to build. My foo is a little th

Re: Segmentation fault when free [SOLVED]

2008-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:04:03 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> : free(0xbfbfc9c9) >>> >>> 1. This clearly shows my program is trying to free a memory that >>> has not been allocated. How it could have happened? >> >> Aha.

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-08-31 - 2008-09-20

2008-09-20 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

Upgrading

2008-09-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am preparing to upgrade all servers from FBSD 6.2 to 6.3 in preperation for 6.4, and some day 7.x One thing I have always found a little confusing is what tag to specify in the supfile. If a machine is running 6.2, and I want to upgrade to the latest production release, would I u

Re: ipv6

2008-09-20 Thread David Horn
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:35 AM, beni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about IPv6. > I installed /net/freenet6 and edited the /usr/local/etc/gw6c.conf file with > the login and password given by Go6.net. > I added freenet6_enable="YES", ipv6_enable="YES" and > ipv6_network_in

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Saturday 20 September 2008 13:46:23 Nash Nipples wrote: > can someone please explain to me what happens to the allocated memory > called within a function assigned to its local pointer after this function > ends Ok - let's see if I get this right: - the allocated memory - called within a func

Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-20 Thread Vinny
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm wondering if soft-updates on UFS2 should be enabled on a geli provided disk, da1.eli, for example. That is, same as without geli. geli device behaves like normal disk/partition, just it's encrypted. Wojciech, Thanks for your answer. I was wondering what the cu

Custom Kernel Problem

2008-09-20 Thread Michael Gass
Installed FreeBsd 7.0 a few weeks ago in a Pentium III with just 128 M of memory. Recently compiled a custom kernel. It seems to work ok, but dmesg gives the following at the end: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a pid 438 (kldstat), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) pid 547 (klds

Re: Upgrading

2008-09-20 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am preparing to upgrade all servers from FBSD 6.2 to 6.3 in preperation > for 6.4, and some day 7.x > > One thing I have always found a little confusing is what tag to specify in > the supfile. > > If a machine i