Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Igor Robul
Palle Girgensohn wrote: No, but the machine crashes a lot, sometimes a couple of times in a day (oddly mostly on week-ends, and sometimes it can be stable for a week or two). I'm clueless to what's causing it, but suspect that the amd64 stuff is broken, at least for this machine (dual Xeon). I w

Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-24 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:52:59AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: > > > > > > maybe i'll hold off for a little while. it's such a pain having to wait for > everything to build from source. kde takes forever, so you leave the house > but when you come b

pccardd broke after editing /etc/pccard.conf

2005-04-24 Thread Eirik Johnson
I have just installed FreeBSD on my newly acquired (if abysmally old) Toshiba Tecra 520CDT. I compiled a kernel using the old 'card' and 'pcic' modules and the kernel detects my PCMCIA slot hardware. Pccardd ran fine, and detected the ethernet NIC I inserted, but failed to allocate an IRQ for the

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : "kldload random" missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Rob
--- Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:39, Rob wrote: > > Nevertheless, I have tried your advice, but to > > no avail. > > Hmm, try this diff it kldload's random if it's not > present. It's not present on 5.4-Stable, so I have patched it. In /etc/rc.d/sshd I also

Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:52:59AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: > >you're going to keep using new ports/packages then it's recommended > >that you reinstall everything (e.g. with portupgrade) to avoid the > >incompatibilities that can arise if you mix and match 4.x and 5.x > >packages. > > i see, i'

Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-24 Thread Iain Dooley
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:40:19AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:23:05AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: hi all, i keep seeing comments such as "upgrading across major versions is not recommended for mere mortals". so what the hell are '

Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:40:19AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:23:05AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: > > > >>hi all, i keep seeing comments such as "upgrading across major versions > >>is not recommended for mere mortals". so what the hell are '

Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-24 Thread Iain Dooley
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:23:05AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: hi all, i keep seeing comments such as "upgrading across major versions is not recommended for mere mortals". so what the hell are 'mere mortals' such as myself supposed to do when we want to upgrade across major v

Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:23:05AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: > hi all, i keep seeing comments such as "upgrading across major versions is > not recommended for mere mortals". so what the hell are 'mere mortals' such > as myself supposed to do when we want to upgrade across major versions? Use sy

Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-24 Thread Iain Dooley
hi all, i keep seeing comments such as "upgrading across major versions is not recommended for mere mortals". so what the hell are 'mere mortals' such as myself supposed to do when we want to upgrade across major versions? cheers iain ___ freebsd-stable

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : "kldload random" missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:39, Rob wrote: > Nevertheless, I have tried your advice, but to > no avail. Hmm, try this diff it kldload's random if it's not present. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that t

TXCSUM on bge0 breaks bridging

2005-04-24 Thread Damian Gerow
Someone just helped me through a bridging problem I was having, and I thought I'd throw the problem out to the list to see if it's a bug, or at least, for archival purposes. I have a machine that I'm using as a workstation, that I would also like to use to bridge a home LAN. It has two interfaces

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Whether or not its algoritms are correct or the VM and VFS layers >properly support it, modern IDE write caches pretty much make write >orderings a crapshoot. Well.. that can be countered somewhat by using a UPS for servers, or in areas where power is flake

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Scott Long
Matthias Buelow wrote: Scott Long wrote: not always be clean. Softupdates (hopefully) means that it will be consistent and recoverable, but what you're seeing here is normal and Why "hopefully"? Aren't people convinced that it works correctly? mkb. Whether or not its algoritms are correct or th

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Palle Girgensohn
--On söndag, april 24, 2005 08.11.06 -0600 Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi! on a 5.4-prerelease machine (dell 2850 dual cpu, running amd64), I have this in rc.conf: fsck_y_enable="YES" background_fsck="NO" Still, I'm not certain that fsck is really run at startup

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Palle Girgensohn
--On söndag, april 24, 2005 11.25.31 -0700 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:45:47PM +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote: ... BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS SALVAGE? no Running fsck on a mounted filesystem will do this unless you use background fsck, because the filesyste

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:45:47PM +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi! > > on a 5.4-prerelease machine (dell 2850 dual cpu, running amd64), I have > this in rc.conf: > > fsck_y_enable="YES" > background_fsck="NO" > > > Still, I'm not certain that fsck is really run at startup. At least, > ru

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2005-04-24 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-04-24 15:33:07 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-04-24 15:33:08 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2005-04-24 15:33:08 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-04-24 15:33:08 - cd /home/tinderbox/RELENG_5/i386/i386 TB --- 2005-04-24 1

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2005-04-24 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-04-24 14:13:04 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-04-24 14:13:04 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2005-04-24 14:13:04 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-04-24 14:13:04 - cd /home/tinderbox/RELENG_5/amd64/amd64 TB --- 2005-04-

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : "kldload random" missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:39, Rob wrote: > > That gets it called here (although I already had > > random.ko loaded so I'm not 100% sure it worked) > > Oh? There's no such 'random_enable' entry in > /etc/defaults/rc.conf on my 5.4-Stable system. > Is this a Current only thing? > Moreover, on my system

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Long wrote: > not always be clean. Softupdates (hopefully) means that it will be > consistent and recoverable, but what you're seeing here is normal and Why "hopefully"? Aren't people convinced that it works correctly? mkb. ___ freebsd-stable@f

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on alpha/alpha

2005-04-24 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-04-24 13:04:11 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-04-24 13:04:11 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for alpha/alpha TB --- 2005-04-24 13:04:11 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-04-24 13:04:11 - cd /home/tinderbox/RELENG_5/alpha/alpha TB --- 2005-04-

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Scott Long
Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi! on a 5.4-prerelease machine (dell 2850 dual cpu, running amd64), I have this in rc.conf: fsck_y_enable="YES" background_fsck="NO" Still, I'm not certain that fsck is really run at startup. Are you expecting a fsck to be run at every startup, regardless of whether the f

Re: Preposterous errno values from kernel

2005-04-24 Thread Robert Backhaus
On 4/23/05, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:34:39AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-Apr-21 22:04:01 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >I'm getting this on a RELENG_5_4 sparc64 system (e4500): > > > > > ># rm -rf * > > >/bin/rm: Unknown error: 7283. >

Re: Meeting Security Requirements with FreeBSD

2005-04-24 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Michael A. Koerber wrote: 1. Currently FreeBSD (or any other BSD) doesn't seem to be on the list of approved OS's for classified processing. I'm trying to obtain at least local approval, but I don't speak the "security language" too well. Any help would be greatly appreci

background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-24 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi! on a 5.4-prerelease machine (dell 2850 dual cpu, running amd64), I have this in rc.conf: fsck_y_enable="YES" background_fsck="NO" Still, I'm not certain that fsck is really run at startup. At least, running fsck on in multiuser reveals information like below, but perhaps that is normal for

Re: getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:21:53 +0200 "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, > common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks > (developer, porter). > > On each nstallation CD I can find various handbook types

getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks (developer, porter). On each nstallation CD I can find various handbook types (PS, PDF, HTML). My intention is having a local webserver at the department keeping t

Re: external DVD-RAM devices

2005-04-24 Thread Michael Lestinsky
Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:03:50AM +0200, Michael Lestinsky wrote: >> Is anyone here sucessfully using some external DVD-Ram capable writer? > ... > > Currently the USB2 code in RELENG_5 seems more stable than the Firewire code. My latest test here see

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : "kldload random" missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Rob
--- Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:16, Rob wrote: > > Either I don't understand this, or it is not > > working > > properly. > > > > I am using 5-Stable, not Current, so the > 'cleanvar' > > is not there. So in /etc/rc.d/sshd I have this > > line: > > > >#

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : "kldload random" missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:16, Rob wrote: > Either I don't understand this, or it is not working > properly. > > I am using 5-Stable, not Current, so the 'cleanvar' > is not there. So in /etc/rc.d/sshd I have this line: > ># REQUIRE: LOGIN random > > I then do: > > /etc/rc.d/random stop > /etc/

Re: NEC uPD 720100 USB 2.0 controller () not working on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386 (2005-04-23)

2005-04-24 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:04:29AM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote: > The NEC uPD 720100 USB 2.0 controller doesn's seem to work. This > controller is on a "Longshine LCS-8033H PCI USB Card" and is a > low cost "standard-USB2-controller" at my local electronics store. I wrote here about two wee