Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:19:39 +0100, Xavier wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > Hi Polytropon, > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:55:23 +0100, Xavier wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > > > > > > Hi Fabian, > > > > > > > Xavier

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:40:26 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I now run the command with what options ever, don't remember, but it's > compiling and every few hours I have to answer n/y to delete a file, but > there aren't stops regarding to the configuration. I assume there is a -d or -D (delete

Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? $ su - Password: root@freebsd:/root # mcedit Error "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] root@freebsd:/root # gedit (gedit:17410): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: root@free

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:23:22 +0100, David Lazaro Saz wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to find an answer to this question without success. > > Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines > instead of line drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did? I assume this has to do with a

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:35:16 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The last command I run was > root@freebsd:/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster # portmaster --no-confirm -y > -G `cat ~/installed-port-list` > > From time to time I manually had to answer yes, when I was asked if a file > should be deleted

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart > Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? > > $ su - > Password: > root@freebsd:/root # mcedit > > Error > "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] Seems to be a pro

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # cd /root # mv .mc .mc.orig # mcedit $ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 $ su root -c "mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013" $ mcedit Error "user/home/rocketmouse" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] That should start the editor

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > # cd /root > > # mv .mc .mc.orig > > # mcedit > > $ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 > $ su root -c "mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013" > $ mcedit > > Error > "user/ho

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Since I only run "mcedit" without a file, the error message is grotesque and btw. $ ls -l /usr/home total 2 drwxr-xr-x 26 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1536 Jan 20 13:07 rocketmouse $ ls -l /home lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 19:19 /home -> usr/home Thank you for the hints. I take the issue

Re: Problems with diskless/nfs

2013-01-20 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I'm trying to set up a diskless workstation, but I fail. The boot process stops at "Can't find kernel" then the OK prompt appear. In the log I have this: mountd[1200]: mount request denied from 10.0.0.6 for /news/spool/ad16/x86 pxeboot

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 19, 2013, at 8:23 PM, David Lazaro Saz wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to find an answer to this question without success. > > Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines instead of line > drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did? > A different theory… It should

Re: Problems with diskless/nfs

2013-01-20 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:12 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > I'm trying to set up a diskless workstation, but I fail. > > The boot process stops at "Can't find kernel" then the OK prompt appear. > > In the log I have this: > > mountd[1200]: mount request denied from 10.0.0.6 for /news/

What is the timeout of TCP in freeBSD?

2013-01-20 Thread Karthik Reddy
I was doing a experiment on FreeBSD for testing TCP timeout and RTO. OS is being run from two different VMware versions 4.0 and 5.0. Present Scenario: VMware Player 4.0 I'll start a telnet session to a non-existing system in the network. When I look at the tcpdump the RTO starts at every 3 seconds

Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-20 Thread Bob Willcox
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:19:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 07:25:09AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 > >> Bob Willcox wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a way to repair a GPT pa

Re: svn-export Re: svn bdb checkout?

2013-01-20 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2013/01/18 23:50:17 + Xyne => To Warren Block : X> On 2013-01-17 21:32 -0700 X> Warren Block wrote: X> X> >A working version in any language would be great. A better version in X> >Python would be nice, too, but it's the working part that's important. X> X> There's a difference bet

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart > Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? > > $ su - > Password: > root@freebsd:/root # mcedit > > Error > "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ] https://www.midn

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:12 +0100, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too? $ su - Password: root@freebsd:/root # mcedit Error "/root" is

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread David Lazaro Saz
On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > Of interest I would think is the output of: > > dialog --version > echo $TERM > > and whether (if possible) sysinstall produces similar results (what release > are you running?) I'm still running 8.3 in production. I've noticed this while pla

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 04:03:31PM +0100, David Lazaro Saz wrote: > > On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > > Of interest I would think is the output of: > > > > dialog --version > > echo $TERM > > > > and whether (if possible) sysinstall produces similar results (what release >

ext3 file system

2013-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) is it possible to mount Linux ext3 file systems with fstab by label? Before I run mount -a /mnt/dump had the same permissions, owner and group as /mnt/archlinux has got. Is it possible to keep this? Both are Linux ext3 fs. Mounting without a label does work. root@freebsd:/usr/home/roc

Re: ext3 file system

2013-01-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: is it possible to mount Linux ext3 file systems with fstab by label? Before I run mount -a /mnt/dump had the same permissions, owner and group as /mnt/archlinux has got. Is it possible to keep this? Both are Linux ext3 fs. Mounting without a label does

Re: ext3 file system

2013-01-20 Thread Carl Johnson
"Ralf Mardorf" writes: > Hi :) > > is it possible to mount Linux ext3 file systems with fstab by label? > Before I run mount -a /mnt/dump had the same permissions, owner and > group as /mnt/archlinux has got. Is it possible to keep this? Both are > Linux ext3 fs. Mounting without a label does wo

help with SVN needed {slightly off-topic}

2013-01-20 Thread Gary Kline
(hm, well, other than to say that im installing 9.1 on my uni-CPU laptop, this is =really= OT.) okay, here's what I need help with and some of the whys and wherefors, etc: much to my surprise, my little speech application for the impaired is gaining recog

Re: What is the timeout of TCP in freeBSD?

2013-01-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Karthik Reddy <22karthikre...@gmail.com>wrote: > I was doing a experiment on FreeBSD for testing TCP timeout and RTO. OS is > being run from two different VMware versions 4.0 and 5.0. > > Present Scenario: VMware Player 4.0 > I'll start a telnet session to a non-ex

LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Modulok
List, I installed ``latex`` from packages. That part worked. When using latex however, it gives me an error:: "LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found." Where do I get this file? Obviously I'm missing some package of extras or something. Google reveals linux users solving this problem by ins

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread David Lazaro Saz
On Jan 20, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > TERM is one thing, the driver is another. > > Since the "xterm" terminal description supports line-drawing characters, it > sounds as if the underlying problem is in the console driver. You are right. The problem is in how teken(3) handles th

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:20:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Since I only run "mcedit" without a file, the error message is grotesque > and btw. Exactly - it is, and probably misleading as it implies that mcedit is trying to access something that doesn't even exist, even with a maximum of imaginati

Re: LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:35:31 -0700, Modulok wrote: > List, > > I installed ``latex`` from packages. That part worked. When using latex > however, it gives me an error:: > > "LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found." > > Where do I get this file? Obviously I'm missing some package of extras o

Re: What is the timeout of TCP in freeBSD?

2013-01-20 Thread Karthik Reddy
When I change the kern.hz to 50, the timeout is happening at 76sec. Could you please elaborate on kern.hz and how does it effect timing. On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Karthik Reddy > <22karthikre...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I was doing

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-20 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 1/16/13 1:14 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 01/16/13 03:00, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Looks like gcc47 checks the printf format string (-Wformat) Disable this check or convert your time_t. Yes, I know gcc47 checks the format string. But, time_t is of type int32, from a typedef statement.

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-20 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > Yes, this means that the only reliable way to printf a time_t is > to use a cast. That has been true for at least a decade. It may > be true that you happened to avoid this issue before, but the only > *RELIABLE* platform-independent wa

Re: LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Modulok
> In your LaTeX source file, you have \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} > somewhere, and you're using UTF-8 characters for whatever reason. > > You need to install the port "latex-ucs" (in the "print" category) > to make this work. I assume there's also a package for this. Hmmm. LaTeX is called by sphi

Re: LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:17:22 -0700, Modulok wrote: > > In your LaTeX source file, you have \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} > > somewhere, and you're using UTF-8 characters for whatever reason. > > > > You need to install the port "latex-ucs" (in the "print" category) > > to make this work. I assume th

Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-20 Thread Hrisikesh sahu
Hi All, I followed this following link to upgrade from 8.2 RELEASE to 9.1 RELEASE. *http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html* After Code: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install Now the freebsd-update(8) utility can fetch bits belo