Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

> I'm searching for monkeys or intruders ... Brief power outage, perhaps? Some BIOS have a selection of what to do when power is restored from an outage, typical choices being to start up, remain off, or return to the state before power was lost. Others may offer only the first two, or be hardwir

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

El día Tuesday, February 03, 2009 a las 12:36:08AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: > > I'm searching for monkeys or intruders ... > > Brief power outage, perhaps? Some BIOS have a selection of what to > do when power is restored from an outage, typical choices being to > start up, remain

policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

when building ports/sysutils/policykit on FBSD 7.1-stable i386 I get: Making all in man gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9/d oc/man' /usr/local/bin/xsltproc -nonet http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/curren t/manpages/docbook.xsl polkit-auth.xml I

Re: apt of freebsd

Or you can try Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) to get the best(?) of both worlds - FreeBSD kernel and GNU userland (aka use apt to install deb packages). -- Nino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: short-changed on SD card?

According to Brad Mettee on Mon, 02/02/09 at 15:55: > > Does an XP machine also detect it as 960MB? If not, can you put more than > 960M on it and verify that it's all intact? Yes, Windows XP sees it as a 960MB FAT16 "drive". And when formatting it under Windows XP it never gave me the option

Re: short-changed on SD card?

According to Warren Block on Mon, 02/02/09 at 15:29: > > newfs_msdos(8) Learned something new there. Thanks! > It's generally not useful to slice/partition a small SD card. Without a > slice table, the whole device is just one slice. Agreed. I just want a big chuck of storage (in this case

Re: short-changed on SD card?

According to Tim Judd on Mon, 02/02/09 at 18:13: > > Nobody's blamed the SD/CF reader. > > I call dibs to blame the SD/CF reader. Isolate the problem to find the > culprit... > > Check the USB reader -- I'm curious to see if that fixes the problem. This is a FANTASTIC suggestion - never occur

Re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

*Snipping for those who don't want to have an inbox full of my text, and out of being polite* Thanks very much! I've been thinking about setting up another FreeBSD machine so I can test both CVS and FreeBSD-update without mixing the two together which from what I hear is a bad idea, and I thin

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, February 03, 2009 a las 12:36:08AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: I'm searching for monkeys or intruders ... Brief power outage, perhaps? Some BIOS have a selection of what to do when power is restored from an outage, typical choices being to st

Re: intel 64-bit version?

I'm using the amd64 version of FreeBSD for an HP Pavillion using an Intel Core 2 Quad processor (Q6600). So far it's doing fine with the processor. There are some driver problems, for instance no sound. However, as I'm using this machine as a compute server, I'm ignoring those limitations.

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

El día Tuesday, February 03, 2009 a las 08:32:31AM -0500, Jon Radel escribió: > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > >El día Tuesday, February 03, 2009 a las 12:36:08AM -0800, > >per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: > > > >>>I'm searching for monkeys or intruders ... > >>Brief power outage, perhaps? Some BIOS

Re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:30:14 +0200 "DA Forsyth" wrote: > use RELEASE for a production server, STABLE on a desktop or test > machine. IMHO I'd say follow what it says in the handbook and use a release unless you have a good reason to use stable, such as support for a particular piece of hardwa

Re: short-changed on SD card?

According to Mike Jeays on Mon, 02/02/09 at 19:38: > > I think I would try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1M > without the count option, and see how many blocks it writes. You at least > start with a clean slate, and can run fdisk and newfs, if you want a BSD-only > device. Make sure you write

Re: apt of freebsd

prad wrote: > On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:23:50 +0100 > Ivan Voras wrote: > >> It's probably used for the "Linux emulation" in FreeBSD, you can't use >> it with FreeBSD native packages. >> > so what does this mean? > if you have linux emulation, you can install .debs from the debian > repository? Yes

Re: apt of freebsd

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:14:30AM +0100, n j wrote: > Or you can try Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > (http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) to get the best(?) of both > worlds - FreeBSD kernel and GNU userland (aka use apt to install deb > packages). Some (like me) might dispute the characterization o

Re: short-changed on SD card?

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 07:37:05AM -0500, William Bulley wrote: > According to Mike Jeays on Mon, 02/02/09 at 19:38: > > > > I think I would try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1M > > without the count option, and see how many blocks it writes. You at least > > start with a clean slate, and can

Re: zfs root partition boot?

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:04:38PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? I also use > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/script > > to create mirror i

NFS, how to find out which files are used

I have an NFS fileserver and would like to figure out which files are being read/written to. Is there something to find that out? Something similar to samba's 'smbstatus' command. Sandra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On 2009.02.03 10:24:55, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:57:45AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > when building ports/sysutils/policykit on FBSD 7.1-stable i386 I get: > > > > Making all in man > > gmake[3]: Entering directory > > `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/Poli

Re: zfs root partition boot?

Although ZFS is probably more mature than you are making it sound here, it is true that gmirror is becoming very reliable and servicable. ever used gmirror? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: NFS, how to find out which files are used

In the last episode (Feb 03), Sandra Kachelmann said: > I have an NFS fileserver and would like to figure out which files are > being read/written to. Is there something to find that out? Something > similar to samba's 'smbstatus' command. The best you can do currently is run tcpdump/wireshark and

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:57:45AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > when building ports/sysutils/policykit on FBSD 7.1-stable i386 I get: > > Making all in man > gmake[3]: Entering directory > `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9/d > oc/man' > /usr/local/bin/xsltproc -nonet > http

Re: virtualbox networking setup

I'm new to the group, and I'm new to setting up VirtualBox guest hosts. right now I have a Debian linux box, and I setup Virtual box. I installed FreeBSD on it, but I can't seem to get the networking to work. FreeBSD choses the wrong networkadapter by default. Modify the networkadapter to PCn

Re: X.org-update -> screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

Hi, > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: >>> >>> Me too. >>> I started a thread a few days ago titled "Restarting new Xorg freezes >>> system". >>> My symptoms are the same as yours. >>> I'm not running hald at all. >

Force use of 'gpg2'

I have both 'gpg' and 'gpg2' installed. I only want/need the 'gpg2' version. I created a link that that forces the use of 'gpg2' irregardless of which version is called. The problem is that occasionally, when updating the ports, the link is over written and 'gpg' is reinstalled. I don't believe I

re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

Message: 4 Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:37:14 -0500 From: Akenner Subject: Patching / Updating / Upgrading To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello all, > So if anyone could lend a little but in typing out what they use for > updates and how they go about it, I'd appreciate it. I've already > gotten

Re: Force use of 'gpg2'

2009/2/3 Jerry : > I have both 'gpg' and 'gpg2' installed. I only want/need the 'gpg2' > version. I created a link that that forces the use of 'gpg2' > irregardless of which version is called. The problem is that > occasionally, when updating the ports, the link is over written and > 'gpg' is reins

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:49:29 Jason Morgan wrote: > On 2009.02.03 10:24:55, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:57:45AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > when building ports/sysutils/policykit on FBSD 7.1-stable i386 I get: > > > > > > Making all in man > > > gmake[

NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

Hi there, I'm facing an odd problem with an NFSv2 mount. I'm using userland nfsd from a Buffalo TeraStation Pro v1 NAS, running PPC Linux 2.4.20. r...@leviathan:~# uname -a Linux LEVIATHAN 2.4.20_mvl31-ppc_terastation #3 Tue Jul 18 09:29:11 JST 2006 ppc GNU/Linux I am sharing the followi

Re: Force use of 'gpg2'

On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Jerry wrote: > I have both 'gpg' and 'gpg2' installed. I only want/need the 'gpg2' > version. I created a link that that forces the use of 'gpg2' > irregardless of which version is called. The problem is that > occasionally, when updating the ports, the link is over wr

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

Hi there, I may have found a clue on this in case anyone's interested: the FreeBSD box runs on an Intel Atom 230 64-bit CPU I did more digging and found this: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html "An audit is needed to make sure that all reported fields are 64-bit clean. There

Scheduling behavior when using idprio

I recently noticed something odd. Whenever I have a cpu-bound process (say, piping a lot of data through "gzip -9c") that's been given an idle priority using "idprio 31 -", I notice that my system's overall interactive responsiveness feels peppier. Apps seems to respond faster, screens redraw fast

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On 2009.02.03 14:48:24 +, David Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:21:23AM -0900, Mel wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:49:29 Jason Morgan wrote: > > > > > > I am having the same problem (I posted a related question to the > > > list last night). Anything dealing with XML and doc

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:36:19PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > On 2009.02.03 14:48:24 +, David Kelly wrote: > > > > I think "portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser" got me over the hurdle. There was > > a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and > > reinstall and things were a

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:48:24PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:21:23AM -0900, Mel wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:49:29 Jason Morgan wrote: > > > > > > I am having the same problem (I posted a related question to the > > > list last night). Anything dealing with

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

In the last episode (Feb 03), John Morgan Salomon said: > On 3 Feb 2009, at 19:21, John Morgan Salomon wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm facing an odd problem with an NFSv2 mount. I'm using userland > > nfsd from a Buffalo TeraStation Pro v1 NAS, running PPC Linux 2.4.20. > > > > r...@leviathan:

Re: NFS, how to find out which files are used

2009/2/3 Dan Nelson > In the last episode (Feb 03), Sandra Kachelmann said: > > I have an NFS fileserver and would like to figure out which files are > > being read/written to. Is there something to find that out? Something > > similar to samba's 'smbstatus' command. > > The best you can do curre

Re: Screen problem on booting

Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or so in every line of text.

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:21:23AM -0900, Mel wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:49:29 Jason Morgan wrote: > > > > I am having the same problem (I posted a related question to the > > list last night). Anything dealing with XML and docbook is failing > > to build. I have managed to install a f

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

I was starting to suspect that it might be something along these lines. NFSv3 hasn't been possible so far because the Terastation hacked firmware on this particular platform (TS Pro v1) doesn't seem to play nice with kernel-level nfs (userland nfs only has packages for v2, and I've been to

Re: Force use of 'gpg2'

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:03:01 + Chris Rees wrote: [snip] >Try putting the link in somewhere that gets searched before >/usr/local/bin, like /bin or (better) /usr/bin. Then try rehash && >which gpg I am using 'bash' so I don't think 'rehash' is going to do anything, although I could be mistake

Re: intel 64-bit version?

At Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:40:16 +0100, Andreas Rudisch wrote: > You can use 7.1-RELEASE-i386 (32bit) or 7.1-RELEASE-amd64 (64bit) > depending on whether or not you are going to run 64 bit software or > want to use more than 4GB of RAM. i would also recommend to use fbsd amd64 if you plan to use zfs. e

Re: Force use of 'gpg2'

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 10:28:33 Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:03:01 + > Chris Rees wrote: > > [snip] > > >Try putting the link in somewhere that gets searched before > >/usr/local/bin, like /bin or (better) /usr/bin. Then try rehash && > >which gpg > > I am using 'bash' so I don't

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:41:19PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:48:24PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > > > I think "portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser" got me over the hurdle. There > > was a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build > > and reinstall

nomachine on Freebsd 7.0-release 64-bit & in a jail

It appears that the both the FreeNX port and the binary nomachine nxserver ports are both broken and fail to compile. I'm still trying to get nxserver 3 "free forever" edition to work. So far I've made some mods to it's install scripts but I'm bumping up against a strange licensing error (there is

Re: Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

Hi, Thanks a million for your help. Many thanks to Bartosz, too! Just to be sure I understood how to deactivate hald, I ran (as root) the command chmod -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald which should prevent it from running in the future, then, for this session pkill hald That should do it, right?

Re: Control IRQ assignment?

In the last episode (Feb 03), patrick said: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jan 27), patrick said: > >> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 on a new Dell Inspiron 530s. I'm having an > >> issue where the same IRQ is being assigned for multiple devices, and I > >>

CMake error compiling kdepimlibs4

I have been trying to compile KDE4.2 on AMD64 7.1-STABLE machine, but atm this is 1 of the errors thats stopping it from working. CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:128 (macro_write_basic_cmake_version_file): Unknown CMake command "macro_write_basic

Image size manipulation

I am looking for a port that would take an image file (preferably and image format) and convert it to JPEG at a specified pixel size. I couldn't find anything in the ports that appears to provide this capability. If needed I would settle for requiring JPEG input format. ___

Re: Image size manipulation

Doug Hardie wrote: > I am looking for a port that would take an image file (preferably and > image format) and convert it to JPEG at a specified pixel size. I > couldn't find anything in the ports that appears to provide this > capability. If needed I would settle for requiring JPEG input format.

Re: Image size manipulation

On Feb 3, 2009, at 22:16, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: I am looking for a port that would take an image file (preferably and image format) and convert it to JPEG at a specified pixel size. I couldn't find anything in the ports that appears to provide this capability. If needed I

Changing network devices looses internet traffic

Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE an due to my old modem//router being on its way out to the graveyard in worakability, i have had to swap over to another, but having to use a USB connection instead of my onboard network card. Problem i have is telling my machine to stop looking for traffic on re0

Re: Screen problem on booting

On 2/3/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > > > Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 > > > > > > > > Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the > >

Re: Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console

Hello Tim I did what in the handbook under article 26.6.5.2. is described but not shure how I can write a new boot block to the disk. Here is what I think is correct: Output from df and bsdlabel mfid0s1: # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mfid0s1a989M