hanging process

2011-05-01 Thread claudiu vasadi
me problem while running portmaster via ssh after my initial session dropped. It seems there is a hanging process but I cannot find it. Any help is appreciated. -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Buildworld Benchmarks

2011-05-17 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi Devin, Have a look at ccache, it might help (if you do not clean the cache every time a buildworld is done). As a comparison, my Intel i7 (8 core) CPU, finished the buildworld (-j16) in ~19 minutes (if I remember correctly). Cheers. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: opera 11.11 and flash

2011-05-23 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi Paul, Have a look at section 6.2.3.2 from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html, it works. If you still have problems, you can report back. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Where's my disk?

2011-06-04 Thread claudiu vasadi
Try booting into single user mode and then: # mount -u / # tunefs -L root /dev/ad6s1a # reboot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-

listing ZFS pool name in fixit mode

2011-08-05 Thread claudiu vasadi
ied "zpool list" but it was no good. -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, I installed FreeBSD8.2 amd64 the other day on a 98GB RAM machine with 24 CPU's (a supermicro 2U server). Due to this alone, I doubt that the bootloader is limited in any way by the amount of RAM the machine has. However, I experienced the same behavior on several "small" machines (normal PC's

Re: ISC dhcp server

2011-10-18 Thread claudiu vasadi
Then again, one can alway use "dhcpd -t" to test the configuration file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: CARP related trivial question

2011-11-01 Thread claudiu vasadi
What;s the reason for not being able to load the module ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-27 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, So basically you need the following: 1) Set the baud rate and the com interface in BIOS (ex: com1 and baud rate 19200) 2) /boot/loader.conf: ipmi_load="YES" 3) reboot 4) - use "dmesg | grep uart" and you will something like this: uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x1

OT: looking for a datacenter in France and Italy that offers FreeBSD

2011-11-30 Thread claudiu vasadi
Any feedback is welcome. -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread claudiu vasadi
n/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > you google-ing vs you google-ing pro/cons ? -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: TAB not jumping to OK in options screen

2012-01-23 Thread claudiu vasadi
t needs fixing. -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread claudiu vasadi
to run a script) or UFS (built-in). -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread claudiu vasadi
PS: would like to see option "2" in PC-BSD too (maybe I'm just melancholic to have a non-GUI installer :) ) -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-24 Thread claudiu vasadi
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Stas Verberkt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:24:20PM +0100, claudiu vasadi wrote: > > >From my point of view, I would like to see 2 major things in bsdinstall: > > > > 1) ZFS support > > 2) an option, to use GUI or text mode inst

ipsec with dynamic IP

2010-09-29 Thread claudiu vasadi
same situation, how did you come to solve it ? Also, is there a way to make the gif interface persistent over reboots ? I couldn;t find any so again, a script comes to mind. -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

ipsec vpn - gif_if connection problem

2010-10-15 Thread claudiu vasadi
same with the internal_IP. From this, I am thinking there is a problem with the routing table but tbh, I cannot see it. If this would not be the case however, I would assume the firewall is blocking something (but the firewall is disabled). What am I missing here ?

jail_list not working

2010-02-06 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello folks, I need you help about this issue. If I write more than 1 jail inside the "jail_list" in rc.conf, neither of the jails are started. my system is a vmware workstation machine, with guest os freebsd 8.0-release. nothing is changed in the OS. here is the rc.conf: hostname="freebsd2" if

IBM TSM server

2009-06-07 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello again. About a week ago I cryed on your shoulders but since no one is answering I am crying again. This time with more accurate data. My sistem is a P4 2.66 Mhz (sk 478) Intel P4 processor with 1 GB DDR1 ram, mobo Asus p4p800-x with 2 HDD's. One of them (ad2 ) is a Samsing SpinPoint of 80G

Re: IBM TSM server

2009-06-07 Thread claudiu vasadi
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: ad6: detached >> Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1d[READ(offset=86540058624, >> length=16384)]error = 6 >> Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1e[READ(offset

Re: IBM TSM server

2009-06-07 Thread claudiu vasadi
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > claudiu vasadi wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar < >> woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> >> >> Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: ad6: detached

Re: IBM TSM server

2009-06-08 Thread claudiu vasadi
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > the type fdisk /dev/da1 and then compare the sectors values with what dmesg > says > > fdisk /dev/ad2 : *** Working on device /dev/ad2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinder

ifconfig -alias - removed wrong ip ?

2009-09-01 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello guys, I have a 7.2-stable Freebsd running on a 2.66 Ghz 478 socket mobo with 1 GB DDR1 ram. I added another ip on my rl0 interface, brought it up, everything was fine (until i screwed it up :( ). I wanted then to remove the alias IP but i wrote a wrong command (ifconfig rl0 -alias) and sin

system reboot because of hdd

2009-05-29 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello ppl. Straight to business. FreeBSD 7.1-stable 2 hdd. 1 is ad2 and the other is ad6. ad2 is the BSD hdd, and ad6 is just for data (movies, music, etc). ad2 is a 80GB Samsung P-ata133 and ad6 is a WD 250GB S-ata2. While running a process that was trying to create a 25GB file on a 30 GB par

Re: system reboot because of hdd

2009-05-30 Thread claudiu vasadi
ups, sorry. I forgot. I have 1GB ram, 1x module of DDR1 400 MHz (pc3200) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.

2010-07-18 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, my system: FreeBSD [xxx] 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 [email]r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 my problem: - # sta

Re: startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.

2010-07-20 Thread claudiu vasadi
hello fellas, can no one give me any ideas ? I reinstalled libthr.so.3 in the meantime but with no effect. > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
hello guys, is there a way to do "make rmconfig" for all ports at once ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
one solution I just created would be: for i in `find /usr/ports/ -type directory -print`; do `cd $i && make rmconfig`;done but I am wondering if there is a "official way". man portsclean did not give me any options to do it. Another thing would be to make rmconfig in all dir's that are required

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi Greg, Thanks for the "rmconfig-recursive". I did not know about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
in the meantime I wrote the following quick script: #!/bin/sh # Create a list of all dir's find /usr/ports/ -depth 2 -type directory -print > ports_structure # for each discovered dir, cd into it and do rmconfig file=ports_structure while read dr1 do cd $dr1;make rmconfig done<$file very

/usr/lib/libpthread.so: undefined reference to `__pselect'

2010-07-23 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, Lately, most compile from ports end up with the following: /usr/lib/libpthread.so: undefined reference to `__pselect' followed by the port exit error. Ex for jdk: gcc -g -c -o launcher.o launcher.c -m32 -march=i586 -I/usr/ports/java/jdk16/work/hotspot/src/os/bsd/launcher -I

Re: [kde-freebsd] libiodbc build failure @ "configure" cmd

2010-07-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
for others who may have the same issue -> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10316 you need to replace your "base". PS: after you replace your "base" distribution and reboot, you will notice the system will not load and you will have to issue "boot GENERIC" at the "boot>" prompt. The wor

how does freebsd know which kernel to boot ?

2010-07-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
hello ppl, I was wondering about the following: After I do "make build|install kernel" and reboot, the new kernel is automatically booted but the old one is still on the disk. Therefore, how does FreeBSD know which one to boot ? I'm guessing it's writing this info somewhere but I do not know wh

cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs - machine stalls at halt or reboot

2010-07-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I have a vmware FreeBSD guest with 8 CPU's and 2GB RAM. I am a bit puzzled of the behaviour the system has when I issue "reboot" and/or "halt -p now". It shows "cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs" and stalls for ~2 minutes. I have a custom SMP kernel and at the moment I was unable to

Re: cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs - machine stalls at halt or reboot

2010-07-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Rob, In the meantime I installed a "real" freebsd on my work T400 and I am experiencing the same thing. I believe that at this point I can rule out a vmware problem. PS: I also tried hard rebooting after I consider the sync done and I did not experience any weird behavior. Still is it intend

apps update from ports

2010-07-26 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the "if it works, don't touch it" strategy ? I'm guessing "portupgrade" is your preferred way of doing this hence, do you also choose -P or -PP ?

isc-dhcp leasing wrong IP's

2010-07-28 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello guys, I have a F-BSD 8.0 box running isc-dhcp with the following simple config: authoritative; option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 86400; ddns-update-style none; subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { rang

Fwd: isc-dhcp leasing wrong IP's

2010-07-28 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi Rob, No. It did not. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

8.1 jail - traceroute not working (allow_raw_sockets: 1)

2010-08-02 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, my system is a 8.0 release with 1 jail. I have set "security.jail.allow_raw_sockets: 1" and I can do ping but traceroute is still spitting our errors: dns# traceroute yahoo.com traceroute: Warning: yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using 72.30.2.43 traceroute: findsaddr: write: No

rescan com ports

2010-08-04 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello guys, my system: 8.0-release i386 my question: Is there a way to manually rescan the com devices ? reason: yesterday I added a USR external modem on one com port and the system did not detect it until a reboot. Is this normal ? btw, is there a way to manually detect newly added hardware ? s

gigabit LAN switching to 100Mb lan

2010-08-06 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I have a 8.0-release system with 1 gigabit LAN and 1x 100Mb lan card. They are working fine until I add a second gigabit lancard. After I insert the second one, the first gigabit lan card drops to 100Mb. If I remove the second one, the first one goes back to gigabit. The network atta

Re: Skype

2010-08-11 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi Alex, In that case you can "make maintainer" and write an e-mail to that person. Of course, you can even lend a hand or take-over the port maintenance if the current maintainer has no time for it. Contributors are always welcomed. Another option would be to get the source from the skype websit

Re: Qlogic FC controller

2010-08-12 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, If you check http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html you will see that both are supported by the isp(4) driver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Qlogic FC controller

2010-08-12 Thread claudiu vasadi
Arek, man isp shows: Qlogic 2422 Qlogic 2422 Optical Fibre Channel PCI cards (4 Gigabit) Qlogic 2432 Qlogic 2432 Optical Fibre Channel PCIe cards (4 Gigabit) and the hw list shows the same. What exactly are you trying to say here ? _

Re: hald freebsd8.0

2010-08-16 Thread claudiu vasadi
from the top of my head maybe gamin can replace hald ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

box reboot after hdd write error

2010-08-17 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, My system is a 8.0-RELEASE with 6 hdd's. 2 days ago I had some power failures and 2 disks were affected. These 2 hdd;s are connected to "atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd007,0xd100-0xd103,0xd200-0xd207,0xd300-0xd303,0xd400-0xd40f mem 0xfa4a-0xfa4a01ff irq 12 at device 4.0 on pci2" s-ata

Fwd: box reboot after hdd write error

2010-08-18 Thread claudiu vasadi
How often is it rebooting? Only after the write failure. If I do read from the disks, everything is fine > If it's just data disks you could unplug them to see if the machine still > reboots. That would let you know for sure if they really are the problem or > if it's something else. I could

Re: IO fluctuation

2010-08-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello Steffen, How did you setup your drives in ZFS ? stripe ? what bsd version do you have and what platform ? Do you see this big fluctuation when copying some big file like say and iso or movie ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

mountpoint not existent, droping to single user mode

2010-08-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I have a 8.0 i386 vmware machine for the sake of testing the following behavior: What happened when a "secondary" hdd cannot be mounted at boot ? From experience I know the OS drops to single user mode, which I find incredibly stupid because a "non-OS" hdd should not stop the OS fro

Re: mountpoint not existent, droping to single user mode

2010-08-22 Thread claudiu vasadi
ok, so I will make a secondary mount script that would check and mount any "non-OS-related" mp's. This would include setting all "non-OS" mp's to "noauto" in fstab and creating a secondary script to read fstab, check if all is in order and finally mount, or exit in error. This way, the OS sticks t

Re: mountpoint not existent, droping to single user mode

2010-08-22 Thread claudiu vasadi
I will write a rc.d script. It seems like the correct way to go. Manual mount is out of the question :) I will e-mail my end "product" ps: I know it's a dir and not a folder ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: chunk 'ad1s4 ; ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue

2010-08-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
you can make a hdd image and then play safely with the hdd. if things go bag, you can just restore the image ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

cups - error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libcups.so.2: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2010-08-28 Thread claudiu vasadi
BSD file. If anyone can pass my their "libcups.so.2" to try I would appreciate it (linux and/or BSD version - if one) . Any ideas and/or thought are highly welcomed -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

jail devfs.rules not loaded at boot

2010-08-30 Thread claudiu vasadi
oblem: At boot, the devfs.rules rules are not loaded and if I drop into the jail and do a ls in /etc, I can see everything the host machine has. However, if I manually restart the jails, the devfs rules are loaded. I tried putting the rules in /etc/defaults/devfs.rules too (and removed them f

Re: two ata-related problems

2010-09-03 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, For point no. "1" you can check if the drive is supported @ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html. Sorry, no idea about point no. "2" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: i386 to amd64 migration

2010-09-03 Thread claudiu vasadi
AFAIK,basically no x86 -> x86 and x64 -> x64 Non-basically ... yes but it's a real pain in the @$$ and you will definitely run in all kinds of trouble. ip you have KVM access, just put a x64 DVD inside and do a clean install (it will keep your sanity intact)

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread claudiu vasadi
I have SiI 3512 SATA150 controller and it works ok ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread claudiu vasadi
Bruce, Can you elaborate on that pls ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread claudiu vasadi
perhaps, but I reached speeds of up to 51MB constant write with it. what s-ata1 controller would you recommend in this case ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-16 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello, First things first, does cups see your printer ? Do you use "lpradmin" or the web-interface for adding the printer ? Second, did you try using http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/ for the driver ? Third, can you post error logs ? ___ freebsd-questions@freeb