Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Björn König
> I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is > this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to > save some space? Yes, you can do this safely. Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-15 Thread Björn König
Jamie Bowden schrieb: On 9/9/06, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, -STABLE is what you should run if you want stable code, right? No. STABLE means STABLE API. If you want stable code you run releases. Between releases stable can become unstable. T

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-14 Thread Björn König
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) schrieb: On 12 September 2006, at 02:06, Björn König wrote: Karl Denninger schrieb: This is not cool folks. I think you misunderstood what -STABLE means. (Or maybe I do?) -STABLE is still a development branch without guarantee of a stable and working

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-14 Thread Björn König
Vivek Khera schrieb: On Sep 12, 2006, at 6:23 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: -STABLE is still a development branch without guarantee of a stable and working operating system. Hahahahaha... That's ironic... No, just misinterpretation of which attribute of the system to which th

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-12 Thread Björn König
Karl Denninger schrieb: This is not cool folks. I think you misunderstood what -STABLE means. (Or maybe I do?) -STABLE is still a development branch without guarantee of a stable and working operating system. -STABLE guarantees that interfaces remain stable. If you want reliability then jum

Re: unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore

2006-06-12 Thread Björn König
Peter Jeremy schrieb: On Sat, 2006-Jun-10 19:40:41 +0200, Bjrn Knig wrote: I did a mistake: I unplugged my digital camera accidentally before I unmounted the filesystem. *doh* This happens very often, because I'm very scatterbrained. =) Your best solution may be to use mtools (ports/emulato

unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore

2006-06-10 Thread Björn König
Hello, I did a mistake: I unplugged my digital camera accidentally before I unmounted the filesystem. *doh* This happens very often, because I'm very scatterbrained. =) The kernel will panic and all filesystems remain unclean in any case now. I know that this is a well know issue and in past

Re: 6.1 RELEASE compiling problems:

2006-05-15 Thread Björn König
Kaiwai Gardiner schrieb: Hi, I am experiencing problems compiling FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE; the following link has the relevant information: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=97240 The file does exist in the src/contrib/gcc directory, but it seems that the compiler/installer isn't picking

Re: Can't compile without COMPAT_43 on i386

2006-05-09 Thread Björn König
Mike Jakubik schrieb: I can compile an amd64 kernel just fine without the option COMPAT_43, but not i386. Why is this? /usr/src/sys/modules/linux/../../i386/linux/linux_sysvec.c:36:2: #error "Unable to compile Linux-emulator due to missing COMPAT_43 option!" mkdep: compile failed I don't wan

Re: 6.1-R/amd64: PXE boot can't handle .gz mfsroot?

2006-05-09 Thread Björn König
Dmitry Morozovsky schrieb: BK> cat /tftpdroot/boot/loader.conf none Then loader.conf of your NFS root. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PR

Re: 6.1-R/amd64: PXE boot can't handle .gz mfsroot?

2006-05-09 Thread Björn König
Dmitry Morozovsky schrieb: Colleagues, ${SUBJ} says almost all. PXEboot leads to Can't work out which disk we are booting from. error. Ungzipping /boot/mfsroot.gz helps Hello Dmitry, I can't report any problems regarding this with 6.0-RELEASE. Can you show me find /tftproot -type f

Re: loader_color="YES"

2006-02-28 Thread Björn König
Nikolas Britton schrieb: On 2/28/06, Pete Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: loader_logo does not appear in /boot/defaults/loader.conf, at least not in 6.0-RELEASE-p4. Is that an oversight? Their are lots of undocumented feature in FreeBSD. loader_color="YES" AFAIK It was never document in 5.x

Re: Kernel build failure

2006-02-24 Thread Björn König
Robert Uzzi schrieb: Can someone shed some light on the following error? rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS CC=cc make -f ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile MAKESRCPATH=../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/CUSTOM-SMP cc -

Re: Linksys WPC54g v4, NDIS, & Kernel Panics

2006-01-31 Thread Björn König
Bill Paul schrieb: People, I'm getting tired of always having to ask for this basic information. The more I have to ask, the more annoyed I get, and the less inclined I am to help anyone. The shit you don't think is important? It's important. So spill it already. Take it easy. Just refer to h

Re: Source upgrade for 6-STABLE gets: "ERROR: Source upgrades from versions prior to 5.3 not supported."

2006-01-19 Thread Björn König
David Wolfskill schrieb: This caught me a bit by surprise. This was on my laptop: localhost(6.0-S)[2] uname -a FreeBSD localhost 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #56: Wed Jan 18 07:47:29 PST 200 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/common/S3/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP_30W i386 localhost(6.0-S)[3] As you see,

Re: pw groupdel misbehavior?

2005-12-08 Thread Björn König
Hello, Right now I submitted a problem report with a suggestion for a patch concerning this. It has the internal identification `bin/90114'. Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable T

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 stable and Apache 2.0

2005-10-17 Thread Björn König
Quirino Santilli wrote: ...and is this directive valid both for the ports and the package system? It works only for ports. This behaviour is documented in the introducing comments of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 stable and Apache 2.0

2005-10-17 Thread Björn König
Hello Quirino, add the line APACHE_PORT=www/apache13-modssl or APACHE_PORT=www/apache20 or whatever you like to /etc/make.conf and every port that depends on Apache will require the specified port. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: who has experience about updating freebsd from 4.11 to 5.x

2005-09-05 Thread Björn König
Hello, Read also http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html Best Regards Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.3-RELEASE (amd64) on LSILogic 1030 / mpt controller.

2005-08-11 Thread Björn König
Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: And 6.0-BETA2 works fine. Did someone forget to merge some fixes for mpt from RELENG_5 to RELENG_5_4? [...] It might be a candidate for an errata notice. Those fixes won't go without saying into a previously released branch. Björn ___

Re: VIA vt6202 controller not recognised by FreeBSD 5.4-Release (ehci)

2005-08-11 Thread Björn König
Mark Sergeant wrote: Output from pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7:2 class=0x0c0320 card=0x12340925 chip=0x31041106 rev=0x51 hdr=0x00 vendor= 'VIA Technologies Inc' device= 'VT6202 USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller' class= serial bus subclass= USB The same card

Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6

2005-08-07 Thread Björn König
om FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade 6.0-CURRENT will need to update to FreeBSD 5.3 or newer first, then to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT." Björn -- Björn König ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) student at the Technische Universität Berlin http://bkoen

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-27 Thread Björn König
Martin wrote: But I'm impressed by the RELENG_6 results. I think I'm going to upgrade my system instantly. Yes, the results are slightly better, even the support of amd64 appears to be much better, but I would be careful; it's easy to overrate benchmark results. There is a lot that you can d

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-26 Thread Björn König
You might want to have a look at my private benchmarks too: http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/dateien/etc/benchmark.html Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: xf86enableIO error 28Feb 2005 Snapshots for FreeBSD available

2005-06-29 Thread Björn König
-«:terror:»- wrote: How could I fix this error? Thanks Start here http://www.google.com/search?q=xf86enableIO+FreeBSD Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send a

"Fatal trap 12" while debugging a 4.11 kernel with remote gdb

2005-06-28 Thread Björn König
Hello, I'm trying to debug a FreeBSD 4.11 kernel that has been compiled with makeoptions DEBUG=-g options DDB The remote machine is running FreeBSD 5.4 and I'm using devel/gdb6. I have no problems as long as I escape to the debugger after the kernel was loaded, but I like to trace

Re: recent RELENG_5 error

2005-03-17 Thread Björn König
Tell the kind of your machine and the content of your make.conf, i.e. CFLAGS if there are any and so on. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

RE: Extended msdos partition

2005-02-26 Thread Björn König
Jan Sebosik wrote: > I`ve klkload-ed msdosfs module, tried disklabel on /dev/ad0s2 > (which damaged my partition table), but it still something > about that it cannot mount partition (yeh, mount point e.g. > /mnt/c exists :-\ ). Is freebsd so different against Linux, or NetBSD? What is the er

Re: SATA RAID Support

2005-02-24 Thread Björn König
Scott Long schrieb: Are you talking about the AHCI standard, or something else? Can you provide a reference, please? I meant in particular ADMA from http://www.t13.org/project/d1510r1-Host-Adapter.pdf See also http://www.pacificdigital.com/talon/whitepaper.pdf I'm not sure if I mix something up ri

Re: SATA RAID Support

2005-02-24 Thread Björn König
Holtor schrieb: Does the latest 5.x-STABLE support the Pacific Digital Talon ZL4-150 SATA RAID Card (U-30245)? After checking the hardware release notes I'm not sure. Any ideas? There is no hint that there is a FreeBSD driver implementing the public ATA host adapter standard. Therefore I think th

Re: Save the Demon!

2005-02-09 Thread Björn König
David Magda wrote: It's "daemon", not "demon". :) It's a question whether you are British or American or understand it as a proper name. ;-) Regards Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-st

Re: Linking problems with gcc 3.4.2 and glibc on 5.3-stable

2005-01-26 Thread Björn König
Chris schrieb: there is also a bug which prevents compiling of ezbounce and psybnc, I wonder how much testing went into the new gcc compiler or was it just bundled into the release, considering this is the reccommended release for production server's now this is a bad oversight, I think the gcc sho

Re: correct value for LANG variable

2005-01-22 Thread Björn König
Michael Nottebrock schrieb: Use tr [:lower:] [:upper:] instead. I was wondering about a third-party script which always worked for years with Solaris. I just didn't realized that this issue concerns a difference between SysV and BSD. I tried to set another LANG string and it worked, but now I see t

Re: correct value for LANG variable

2005-01-22 Thread Björn König
Tim Robbins wrote: For better or worse, this is not the correct way to perform case conversion in non-ASCII locales on FreeBSD 5 and later. See the COMPATIBILITY section of the tr(1) manpage for more information. Thanks a lot for this hint. I will pay more attention to this section. Regards Björn _

correct value for LANG variable

2005-01-22 Thread Björn König
I am a bit confused. Neither de_DE.ISO-8859-1 nor de_DE.ISO8859-1 work properly in all cases. > setenv LANG de_DE.ISO8859-1 > echo abcdef uvwxyz | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' ABCDEF ÚWXYÝ] > setenv LANG de_DE.ISO-8859-1 > echo abcdef uvwxyz | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' ABCDEF UVWXYZ > perl perl: warning: Setting lo

Re: [5.3-STABLE] netstat doesn't show tcp sockets

2004-12-20 Thread Björn König
It works fine for me. My world and kernel were compiled with "CPUTYPE?=p3" and "CFLAGS= -O -pipe". FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 11 18:24:44 CET 2004 Björn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To u

Re: standard-supfile = stable-supfile with 5.3 ?

2004-11-09 Thread Björn König
Rob wrote: both have *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 although the first one claims to download CURRENT. And, eh, why is the filename "standard-supfile" and why not the more obvious "current-supfile" ? It only claims, but it doesn't bring you -CURRENT. That's the reason why it should not be re