compile error - bus error

2005-11-02 Thread Jayton Garnett
Hello, Just to confirm my suspicions, while compiling apache 2.0.55 on a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.4 with fresh cvsup'd ports tree I got an error, the error stated : Bus error. This is a hardware fault is it not? or is it some other error? It had been compiling for a fair few minutes before t

Re: 6-stable and mount_autofs

2005-11-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:06:59PM -0800, Sean McNeil wrote: > Was this pulled from the release? Was autofs support suppose to go in > (and was actually built at one point), then removed from 6-stable? An incomplete autofs was briefly in the tree and then removed. -- Brooks -- Any statement of

6-stable and mount_autofs

2005-11-02 Thread Sean McNeil
This is very confusing: I have a mount_autofs man page that is installed. I do not know when it was placed in there, but it has a date of Nov 9, 2004 on /usr/share/man/man8/mount_autofs.8.gz. The history, however, says "The mount_autofs utility first appeared in FreeBSD 6.0." which is not true.

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
On 03/11/2005, at 9:09 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Ken Menzel wrote: ... If I include GENERIC can I comment out the following? #cpuI486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU Well, it's your (copy of) the file; I suppose you can do whatever you wan

Problems with HP dx5150/ATI Xpress 200 chipset

2005-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Williams
I have recently purchased a number HP DX5150 SFF desktops with idea of using them as basic infrastructure servers (e.g. DNS, DHCP, and firewall). I prefer to use -stable versions of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Following are the specs on the boxes: HP dx5150 AMD Sempron 3000+ ATI Radeon Xpress 200 ch

Re: Fw: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Philippe PEGON
Ken Menzel wrote: options INVARIANT_SUPPORT nooptions WITNESS nooptions WITNESS_SKIP_SPIN If I include GENERIC can I comment out the following? #cpuI486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU Does this make any difference? I have always done this out of habit. would it become in

Re: Fw: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread David Wolfskill
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Ken Menzel wrote: > ... > If I include GENERIC can I comment out the following? > #cpuI486_CPU > #cpuI586_CPU Well, it's your (copy of) the file; I suppose you can do whatever you want to with it. :-) > Does this make any differ

Fw: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Ken Menzel
options INVARIANT_SUPPORT nooptions WITNESS nooptions WITNESS_SKIP_SPIN If I include GENERIC can I comment out the following? #cpuI486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU Does this make any difference? I have always done this out of habit. would it become nocpu I486_CPU ? Or

Re: FreeBSD binary upgrade / gmirror

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas Quinot
* rihad, 2005-10-08 : > Now I want to do a binary upgrade to FreeBSD 5.4, but the new > sysinstall's disklabel editor only recognizes the IDE disks and does not > consider the GEOM mirror (mentioned in /etc/fstab, btw). How do I go > about this? Thanks. Did you try "gmirror load" from a sysins

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 2, 2005, at 2:43 AM, Rob wrote: My point is then to follow this strategy also for X: instead of a DEFAULTS file, have a /etc/rc.d/xdm script, which starts X and loads the modules io/mem if needed. but these devices are also needed for things like netstat. you pretty much need to lo

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Rob wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: You missed the part where I said that the error is commonly reported by people who have chosen not to build modules. The DEFAULTS construction is put in place to help 'novices' not to do stupid things (as removing io/mem). However, doe

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Rob
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > You missed the part where I said that the error is > commonly reported by people who have chosen not to > build modules. The DEFAULTS construction is put in place to help 'novices' not to do stupid things (as removing io/mem). However, does 'building a kernel without mod

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:43:29 -0800 (PST) Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is then to follow this strategy also for X: > instead of a DEFAULTS file, have a /etc/rc.d/xdm > script, which starts X and loads the modules io/mem > if needed. Not everybody uses xdm, some use the KDE vers

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:43:29PM -0800, Rob wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > You've clearly never spent much time on the FreeBSD > > support forums, where every few days someone posts > > for help > > > > 1) with an error caused by removing one of those > > "Do not remove this!" lines, and

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Cristiano Deana
2005/11/1, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The future direction is that FreeBSD will continue to be friendly to > novice users while still affording power users the control that they > seek. Scott, that's right. but: we can have our personal way to shoot in the foot, we can use big, BIG, advic