listing ZFS pool name in fixit mode

2011-08-05 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi guys, I have a 8.2-amd64 machine on which I blew up the boot blocks (isn't booting any more). It's s supermicro server btw and we have a ZFSonRooT setup there. The way I want to go about fixing it is booting into single user mode, mounting all the datasets, undoing the modification I did to t

Re: portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

2011-08-05 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:45:02PM -0400, b. f. wrote: > > o) What can I do to get ports recognize the correct location of the > > xz-libraries? > > As I wrote above, some more information would help. I'm guessing that > you have a port that (unfortunately) uses libtool to perform linking, > and

Re: will have 4th FreeBSD Edition handbook?

2011-08-05 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Alvaro Castillo wrote: Hello world! Yes, The 3rd Edition of FreeBSD's Handbook is more old than Noe's Ark (is for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x versions). The Handbook today has got a lot of changes (I presume with FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE more yet). I'm interesting buy this handbook, bu

Re: gmake[4]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 127 => updating gtk to latest on ports

2011-08-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 04), Antonio Olivares said: >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> > On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >> In an effort to keep up to date, I checked updates that are available >> >> and tr

Re: listing ZFS pool name in fixit mode

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 05), claudiu vasadi said: > I have a 8.2-amd64 machine on which I blew up the boot blocks (isn't > booting any more). It's s supermicro server btw and we have a ZFSonRooT > setup there. > > The way I want to go about fixing it is booting into single user mode, > mounting

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM, zareena crisostomo wrote: > Please help me with my research work..I'm working on Freebsd as my OS. Tnx. > So, please clarify. You want us to do your homework assignment? But how can we? You sent a proprietary format and it's locked, so we can't even cut and paste

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:47:54AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: . . . a bunch of stuff. I had no interest in reading the attached PDF until I saw the message by Alejandro Imass. Now that I've read it, I can only think that if one takes the tasks described in that PDF literally and seriously the

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:47:54 -0400 Alejandro Imass articulated: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM, zareena crisostomo > wrote: > > Please help me with my research work..I'm working on Freebsd as my > > OS. Tnx. > > > So, please clarify. You want us to do your homework assignment? But > how can we?

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:47:54AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > . . . a bunch of stuff. > > I had no interest in reading the attached PDF until I saw the message by > Alejandro Imass.  Now that I've read it, I can only think that if one >

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:47:54 -0400 > Alejandro Imass articulated: > [...] > > For Christ's sake, he posted a simple assignment outline, more than > likely the original one he received and asked for help with it. > Obviously, part of the problem can b

Re: ipmi is broken? (ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range)

2011-08-05 Thread Fravadona
Actually IPMI was working until yesterday (on Linux rhel 5) and stopped working when I installed FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 (same result with FreeBSD 8.2 i386) On Linux : # dmidecode Handle 0x0029, DMI type 38, 16 bytes IPMI Device Information Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style) S

Help with Bind Weirdness & Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm running bind 9.3.5 and have been running some version of Bind for years. The purpose of this server is to resolve for my home LAN and to do regular queries for things outside my LAN. Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed are for Micr

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness & Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed are for Microsoft domains, specifically go.microsoft.com and time.windows.com. For example: What kind of firewall stuff are you doing? I

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:17:13 -0400 Alejandro Imass articulated: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jerry wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:47:54 -0400 > > Alejandro Imass articulated: > > > [...] > > > > > For Christ's sake, he posted a simple assignment outline, more than > > likely the original

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness & Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/5/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed are for Microsoft domains, specifically go.microsoft.com and time.windows.com. For example: What k

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:17:13 -0400 > Alejandro Imass articulated: > >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jerry wrote: >> > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:47:54 -0400 >> > Alejandro Imass articulated: >> > [...] > least the the majority of this community can as

RE: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Gary Gatten
If I find someone with an IQ of 160+ and they ask everyone to play nice, will you? Mine is only 140 something so I don't feel qualified to take this task on myself. It would be nice though if someone took such offense to a post they would simply ignore it or contact OP offline. Seem 50% of th

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: > If I find someone with an IQ of 160+ and they ask everyone to play nice, will > you?  Mine is only 140 something so I don't feel qualified to take this task > on myself.  It would be nice though if someone took such offense to a post > they w

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness & Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:25:13 -0700 Drew Tomlinson articulated: > On 8/5/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson > > wrote: > >> Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some > >> names. The ones I've noticed are for Microsoft dom

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:37:30 -0500 Gary Gatten articulated: > If I find someone with an IQ of 160+ and they ask everyone to play > nice, will you? Mine is only 140 something so I don't feel qualified > to take this task on myself. It would be nice though if someone took > such offense to a post t

RE: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Gary Gatten
If only it were that easy! And excellent example of circular logic / illogic. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:11 PM To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: more information On F

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness & Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/5/2011 10:55 AM, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:25:13 -0700 Drew Tomlinson articulated: On 8/5/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed ar

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:14:56 -0500 Gary Gatten articulated: > If only it were that easy! And excellent example of circular logic / > illogic. > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: > Friday

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness & Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:25:13 -0500, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Any ideas on how to get Bind logging going? Here's how we do it. named.conf: logging { channel "my_syslog" { syslog daemon; severity info; //print-time yes; //

Re: listing ZFS pool name in fixit mode

2011-08-05 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, The problem was that I forgot to load the tws kernel module (for the 3ware raid controler). After I manually loaded the module, all was fine. Thx for the reply :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness & Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:30:39 -0700 Drew Tomlinson articulated: > Thank you Jerry. In my case, the FreeBSD boxes are hard wired so I > don't think this will be a problem. I use the wireless for two > Windows laptops, a Lexmark printer, and a Motorola Droid X. > > My specific issues with the E30

Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Christian Barthel
Hello, I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big mistake. And there are also rumors that Gnome will be Linux only. Maybe, we

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Christian Barthel on Friday, 05 August 2011: > > Are there any other window manager worth looking? > > What is your window manager? > xmonad. Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully customizable via configuration files written in Haskell. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Ca

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
For me fluxbox is the way to go, since it is very light, has good key binding configuration and can be configured very easily. The only thing that I miss is the true transparency feature of Compiz, which can be quite useful sometimes, for example to quickly compare plots. Xfce is next on my list, s

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Al Plant
Christian Barthel wrote: Hello, I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big mistake. And there are also rumors that Gnome w

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/5/2011 3:12 PM, Christian Barthel wrote: > Hello, > > I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It > seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. > > As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big > mistake. And th

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > xmonad. Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully > customizable via configuration files written in Haskell. Another vote for xmonad. You may be startled at first to come up instantly to an empty screen, but you likely

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Christian Barthel
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:43:46PM -0500, Alex Stangl wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > xmonad. Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully > > customizable via configuration files written in Haskell. > > Another vote for xmonad. You may be st

TIOCGSERIAL?

2011-08-05 Thread Paweł Michalicki
Hi First, apologies if this is the wrong group to ask my question. I looked through all the group titles and this one looked suitable. The question is related to programming under FreeBSD. I have a certain device which can be hooked to a PC via RS232 connection. Since my PC does not have a true C

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 05/08/2011 01:58, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Roland Smith wrote: There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor. The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer directly. ljet4 is the PCL5 driver, and anything with PCL6 is supposed

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alex Stangl wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: >> xmonad.  Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully >> customizable via configuration files written in Haskell. > > Another vote for xmonad. You may be startled at fi

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:17:13PM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jerry wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:47:54 -0400 > > Alejandro Imass articulated: > > > > All he did was ask for some assistance; not for someone to do the actual > > assignment. Perhaps he could

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Block
und a PostScript file # WB 20110805 # send PJL header to switch to PostScript /usr/bin/printf "\033%%-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT\n" # send the PostScript file /bin/cat # end of job /usr/bin/printf "\033%%-12345X" ___ freebsd-ques

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:37:30PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > > If I find someone with an IQ of 160+ and they ask everyone to play > nice, will you? Mine is only 140 something so I don't feel qualified > to take this task on myself. It would be nice though if someone took > such offense to a pos

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Fish Kungfu
scrotwm is my main wm, but I also like fluxbox. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alex Stangl wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > >> xmonad. Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully > >> c

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Rod Person
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:12:14 +0200 Christian Barthel wrote: > I sniffed into AfterStep, fvwm2 and fluxbox (I don't want to use KDE). I > think, fluxbox is a nice wm and for my future, it will be the default wm > for me. It's also very fast and easy to configure. > > Are there any other window man

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 05 August 2011 19:47:17 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:37:30PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > > If I find someone with an IQ of 160+ and they ask everyone to play > > nice, will you? Mine is only 140 something so I don't feel qualified > > to take this task on myself. It w

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:12:14PM +0200, Christian Barthel wrote: > > I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It > seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. As I recall, he made the switch from KDE to GNOME because of KDE 4 being a stea

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Ivan Frosty
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:12:14PM +0200, Christian Barthel wrote: >> >> I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It >> seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. > > As I recall, he made

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 11:07:39PM +0200, Christian Barthel wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:43:46PM -0500, Alex Stangl wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > xmonad. Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully > > > customizable via configur

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:08:25PM -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:12:14 +0200 > Christian Barthel wrote: > > I sniffed into AfterStep, fvwm2 and fluxbox (I don't want to use KDE). I > > think, fluxbox is a nice wm and for my future, it will be the default wm > > for me. It's also

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:27:05PM -0700, Ivan Frosty wrote: > > fvwm2 anytime. I suppose that's an option, but it's kinda bloated for my tastes. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgptoyCWFY7xm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Dmitri Brengauz
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:08:25PM -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:12:14 +0200 > > Christian Barthel wrote: > > > I sniffed into AfterStep, fvwm2 and fluxbox (I don't want to use KDE). > I > > > think, fluxbox is a nice wm a

top(1) loses process user time count when threads end

2011-08-05 Thread Yuri
I have the process that first runs in 3 threads but later two active threads exit. top(1) shows this moment this way (1 sec intervals): 30833 yuri3 760 4729M 4225M nanslp 4 0:32 88.62% app 30833 yuri3 760 4729M 4225M nanslp 6 0:34 90.92% app 30833 yuri