Re: fstab problem

2012-01-14 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-01-14 11:00, per...@pluto.rain.com skrev: Bernt Hansson wrote: This is an old machine (1997), not sure it will boot from usb. I'll check. If it can boot from floppy, Plop will boot it from USB. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html Thank you. I'll have a look at it. __

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:45:20 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Mar 21 06:15:01 UTC 2010 > r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > Whenever a program tries to make a directory on this slice it > gets this error It's

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:00:12 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi wrote: > To repeat some advice from one of my Computer Science professors, many years > ago, whenever I asked 'how does it work' questions: "Try it and find out." I bet my professor can beat up your professor. :-) Mine used to say several ti

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:22:36 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > The mkdir() function can be found (for UFS2) in the > file /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_vnops.c at > line (sources of 8.2-STABLE i386 here). If > you examine what mkdir() does, you'll see that > the "too many links" is true when LINK_M

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/01/2012 05:25, Tobi wrote: > Thanks!!! > It works fine with this: > > if header :contains ["List-ID"] "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" { > fileinto "INBOX.Mailinglisten.FreeBSD.freebsd-questions"; > stop; > } You'll find that whenever someone replies to one of your messages on the li

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: How many subdirectories are there? ls | wc -l 32765 Could you, for example, try removing one and then creating a new one (assumption: success), followed by another try to create one (assumption: fail)? That is a nono I'll have to pop in another disk

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:12:48 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: > > How many subdirectories are there? > > ls | wc -l > 32765 Seems that you have reached LINK_MAX of 32767 (according to /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h). The difference of 2, I assume, is one for . a

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 19:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/01/2012 05:25, Tobi wrote: Thanks!!! It works fine with this: if header :contains ["List-ID"] "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" { fileinto "INBOX.Mailinglisten.FreeBSD.freebsd-questions"; stop; } You'll find that whenever someone replies t

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 > Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100 > From: Polytropon > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx); > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:00:12 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > To r

Re: no hyperthreading in FreeBSD 9?

2012-01-14 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, the wise Mark Blackman wrote: On 13 Jan 2012, at 16:30, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from 8-STABLE to 9-STABLE on my dual Xeon (nocona). Now I have in my boot messages: ... root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does not exist. ro

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 13-1-2012 15:00, Polytropon schreef: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:03 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE. I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with "freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE fetch" If so, I do like to hear the cave

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Robert Bonomi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx); On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:00:12 -0600 (CST), Rob

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > My system is running ZFS on root now, so I would very much like to > hear if the binary upgrade through freebsd-update works well for such > a system (w/ zfs on root). I don't want to get stuck with a system > that won't boot again because some

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 14-1-2012 12:37, Mike Clarke schreef: On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: My system is running ZFS on root now, so I would very much like to hear if the binary upgrade through freebsd-update works well for such a system (w/ zfs on root). I don't want to get stuck with a syste

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 > >> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100 > >> From: Polytropon > >> To: Robert Bonomi > >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> S

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Robert Huff
Bernt Hansson writes: > 2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: > > How many subdirectories are there? > > ls | wc -l > 32765 ... plus "." and ".." = 32767. Suggestion: I don't know the content, or the core, but is there a way to use a further level of sub-directories? E.g.

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:44:04 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > On 01/14/12 19:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 14/01/2012 05:25, Tobi wrote: > >> Thanks!!! > >> It works fine with this: > >> > >> if header :contains ["List-ID"] "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" { > >> fileinto "INBOX.Mailinglisten.FreeBSD

graphics tablets

2012-01-14 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I like to buy a Wacom Bamboo Capture graphics tablet (USB or serial if I will find it. I have FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE and I use GIMP and Inkscape on KDE 4.7.3. Does anyone has expirience with a Bamboo Capture, please? Thanks in advance. Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa __

Where to send bugs?

2012-01-14 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi, Freebsd-questions. What is better: 1. Send PR to freebsd-current 2. Send PR via site or I must to send to both? -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:08:51 + RW articulated: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:44:04 +1000 > Da Rock wrote: > > > On 01/14/12 19:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 14/01/2012 05:25, Tobi wrote: > > >> Thanks!!! > > >> It works fine with this: > > >> > > >> if header :contains ["List-ID"] "freebsd-qu

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:17:40 -0500 Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:08:51 + > RW articulated: > > The problem occurs when you don't get the in-list copy, either > > because the list doesn't send copies to addresses in Cc/To, or > > because some mail systems (gmail) treat the delayed in-l

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I had not heard of this project before. Sounds very nice if it works. > Manging BE's is one of the main things I miss in the FreeBSD ZFS > support. Coming from (open)Solaris this was quite a disappointment. > BE's rock! Yes, it's working fine

Using lagg(4) for wired and wireless networks

2012-01-14 Thread Alex
Hi there. A portion of the documentation for link aggregation is confusing me. In example 32-3 the user is required to match the HW address of iwn0 with that of bge0. Why is this necessary? In example 32-2 this is not done. How come? -- Alex ___ freebsd

ipv6 in FreeBSD 9

2012-01-14 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, In 8.2 ipv6 was enabled by adding ipv6_enable="YES" in rc.conf, and all worked fine. In FreeBSD 9 that changed to ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES". But now there are still some error messages at boot time, and ipv6 doesn't seem to work correctly: ... root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $ipv6_firew

Re: ipv6 in FreeBSD 9

2012-01-14 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 06:07:01PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > In 8.2 ipv6 was enabled by adding ipv6_enable="YES" in rc.conf, and all > worked fine. In FreeBSD 9 that changed to > ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES". But now there are still some error > messages at boot time, and i

Re: ipv6 in FreeBSD 9

2012-01-14 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, the wise Yuri Pankov wrote: In 8.2 ipv6 was enabled by adding ipv6_enable="YES" in rc.conf, and all worked fine. In FreeBSD 9 that changed to ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES". But now there are still some error messages at boot time, and ipv6 doesn't seem to work correctly

Re: Where to send bugs?

2012-01-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 14/01/2012 15:02, Коньков Евгений wrote: > Hi, Freebsd-questions. > > What is better: > 1. Send PR to freebsd-current > 2. Send PR via site > > or I must to send to both? > Normally I ask on the relevant mailing list first in case its simple enough to get it resolved that way and to raise a litt

Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Beard
Woke up to a screenful of error messages about failed mysql backups and found that for some reason, mysql was refusing to run at all. The issue was not just a missing mysql.sock but an inability to create one. I could do it by hand or at least create a file with the same name and permissions but

Re: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Beard
On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > The meaning seems obvious enough; mysqld was unable to bind to the socket, > which is what perror() meant with "Permission denied": Really? I read this: > 120114 9:39:04 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on > socke

Re: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock

2012-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Paul Beard wrote: > I would be interested in knowing how those permissions got changed. Someone or something running as root changed them. > I rebooted the system early on in the process as I kept seeing messages like > this: > 120114 9:39:04 [ERROR] Can't start se

Re: 3.6.13 firefox fonts are blurred on my 8.2 freebsd

2012-01-14 Thread akshay sreeramoju
hi chuck, thanks for the tip that fixed it. http://tinypic.com/r/rlcdjd/5 i was launching my vnc server with depth 8 "/usr/local/bin/vncserver :1 -depth 8 -geometry 1340x650",I changed that to "/usr/local/bin/vncserver :1 -depth 24 -geometry 1340x650". Best Regards Akshay On Thu, Jan 12, 2012

9.0 buildworld problems

2012-01-14 Thread Dean E. Weimer
I am trying to build a test system to verify everything works on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, I started with a standard install on a VMware virtual machine. I used portsnap fetch extract to install the ports tree, copied the /etc/make.conf and /etc/src.conf from my existing 8.2 system onto the new tes

Re: 9.0 buildworld problems

2012-01-14 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/14/2012 3:02 PM, Dean E. Weimer wrote: I am trying to build a test system to verify everything works on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, I started with a standard install on a VMware virtual machine. I used portsnap fetch extract to install the ports tree, copied the /etc/make.conf and /etc/src.conf fro

Probable Hardware Failure

2012-01-14 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a pretty old desktop that has been around quite awhile. It has started periodic crashes. No log messages. However, the core status files all show "double fault". I am confident this is a hardware issue, but is there any easy way to determine if its power or memory related? Those are

Re: 9.0 buildworld problems

2012-01-14 Thread Boris
Best is: - to empty your make.conf - make cleanworld - make cleandir and restart your buildword attempt. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Dean E. Weimer wrote: > I am trying to build a test system to verify everything works on FreeBSD > 9.0-RELEASE, I started with a standard install on a VMwa

database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock]

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Beard
On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Anyway, doesn't the mysql port want to keep the socket under > /var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock or some such, to avoid issues with /tmp? Turns out some applications won't work if you move the socket if they are configured to access localhost. Seem

Re: Probable Hardware Failure

2012-01-14 Thread _
Memory is a rather broad term. If by memory you mean RAM, you could replace your current RAM with another chip, supposing you have one around. An interesting read on "Double Fault" is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_fault According to it, that would rather point to a software than a hardwar

Re: Probable Hardware Failure

2012-01-14 Thread Doug Hardie
On 14 January 2012, at 18:11, _ wrote: > Memory is a rather broad term. If by memory you mean RAM, you could replace > your current RAM with another chip, supposing you have one around. > > An interesting read on "Double Fault" is: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_fault > > According