Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Here's another 2 calendar errors, presumably cpp, that manifest in 12.2-STABLE, that 9.2-RELEASE gets right. Man calendar: Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax (/* ... */) are ignored. --- Input ~/.calendar/calendar friday fish /* * Oct 21 AAA */ fr

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Stefan > Am 28.10.20 um 13:02 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: > > man calendar states: > >"The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard > >the rest of the file if a #ifndef is triggered." > > That is wrong, as proved by te

calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
man calendar states: "The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard the rest of the file if a #ifndef is triggered." That is wrong, as proved by test file: --- // Test data for ~/.calendar/calendar * bla0 #ifdef DEBUG1 * 28bla1 #endif #ifdef DEBUG2 * 28

/sys/modules fail when built by src.conf MODULES_WITH_WORLD="YES"

2019-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi stable@, In 12.0-STABLE .svn_revision 349133 .ctm_status src-12 318 4 /sys/modules/ efirt iflib nvdimm tpm all fail when built by src.conf MODULES_WITH_WORLD="YES" Can someon confirm please ? : cd /sys/modules ; make -i ; make -i In current I reported similar (but just 1 module (sdio), not 4

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thanks Will, You make some good points, but all depend on variant circustances. I prefer to be informed ASAP, to make my own decisons with max info ASAP, Not delayed. I want freebsd.org to Not Delay fix announcements into batches. If other admins want to delay being told told to do upgrades unti

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > > Alternative is to for announcers to do Less work: > > > > Send each announcement when ready. > > > > The problem is not the announcement, the problem is providing > > > the freebsd-update. > > > > If announcements are send when ready, and the freebsd-update is

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Kurt Jaeger > Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 17:38:36 +0200 Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > > PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins." > > > > > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html > > > > > >

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Alan Somers > Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 08:32:26 -0600 Alan Somers wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 8:26 AM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > Hi core@, > > cc hackers@ & stable@ > > > > PR headline : "Fre

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins." > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html > > > > Volunteers who contribute actual fixes are very much appreciated; > > But those styled as 'management' who d

FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi core@, cc hackers@ & stable@ PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins." https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html Volunteers who contribute actual fixes are very much appreciated; But those styled as 'management' who delay announcements

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "N.J. Mann" > Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 18:18:16 +0100 "N.J. Mann" wrote: > Hi, > > > On Friday, May 03, 2019 03:00:05 +1000 Michelle Sullivan > wrote: > >>> I am sorry to hear about your loss of data, but where does the 11kV come > >>> from? > >>> I can u

Re: CFT: FreeBSD Package Base

2019-05-02 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On 2019-04-30 17:03, Miroslav Lachman wrote: David Chisnall wrote on 2019/04/30 10:22: On 29/04/2019 21:12, Joe Maloney wrote: With CFT version you chose to build, and package individual components such as sendmail with a port option.  That does entirely solve the problem of being able to rein

Re: Bug reports.

2019-01-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> This is Shayne I seen your links and would like to be on your mailing list > Im a user of freebsd-stable Hi, Join here https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux Unix, Munich Aachen Kent 1st referendum Stol

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > We could add that once the document is submitted to core > any change to it between submitting and vote by core requires > core to be involved, even if it is simply an ack of a change > has been made to what was submitted. Yes ! Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Comput

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Oct 23, 2018 at 11:33:35PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > I'd also suggest that rl stands in stark contrast to the cs, wb, sn, sm= > c, > > > sf, tl, tx and vr drivers, which nobody has mentioned in this thread, a= > nd > > > which I doubt are in use in

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a number of production servers that only have bge and I don't see that > listed in either category. None of them are running FreeBSD 12 yet as it has > not been released. Also there are some with rl. Those are add-on boards so > they could be changed, but would req

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> I'd also suggest that rl stands in stark contrast to the cs, wb, sn, smc, > sf, tl, tx and vr drivers, which nobody has mentioned in this thread, and > which I doubt are in use in any FreeBSD system of any age today. vr is used by my TV driver laptop: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thanks for the reply warner, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:46 AM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > >>> Please direct replies to freebsd-arch <<< > > > > > > FCP-01010 (https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md) >

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> >>> Please direct replies to freebsd-arch <<< > > FCP-01010 (https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md) > outlines a plan to deprecate most 10/100 Ethernet drivers in FreeBSD 12 > and remove them in FreeBSD 13 to reduce the burden of maintaining and > improving the network stack. W

Can't upgrade past 10.4-STABLE (interrupt storm?)

2018-07-31 Thread Chris H
Hello, I've got an older laptop that I attempted to install 12 on w/o success. Well, it installed. But was unusable. Typing anything at the console frequently doesn't output on the screen w/o tapping one of the arrow keys. But doing that causes other problems. As I can't really use the output. :(

Re: jail related inconsistencies in FreeBSD tools parameters

2018-06-22 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:13:17 +0200 "Miroslav Lachman" <000.f...@quip.cz> said I don't know if it is better to discuss it in jail@ or stable@ list so a do cross-post. FreeBSD has many jail aware utilities but they are inconsistent in taking JID as parameter. For example "sockstat" takes -j J

Re: Console is broken after updating to 11.2-RELEASE

2018-06-22 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:56:35 +0900 (JST) "Yasuhiro KIMURA" said From: "Chris H" Subject: Re: Console is broken after updating to 11.2-RELEASE Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 06:13:39 -0700 > Try adding the following to your loader.conf(5) file > (/boot/loader.conf):

Re: Console is broken after updating to 11.2-RELEASE

2018-06-22 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:42:18 +0900 (JST) "Yasuhiro KIMURA" said From: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Console is broken after updating to 11.2-RELEASE Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 05:03:43 -0600 > UEFI or legacy boot? Is a BMC involved? Legacy boot. And BMC is not involved. Try adding the following to

Re: FreeBSD 11.2-RC1 Now Available

2018-06-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
George Mitchell wrote: > > On 06/01/18 21:31, Glen Barber wrote: > > [...] > > If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing= > > > system, use the "stable/11" branch. > > [...] > > So what's releng/11.2, chopped liver? -- George "Chopped liver

Re: memory leak in Init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Eugene Grosbein > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 23:48:42 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 03.03.2018 23:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >> 03.03.2018 23:11, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> > >>>

Re: memory leak in Init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 03.03.2018 23:11, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Oops! I got Subject & body wrong s/inetd/init/ ! > > > > Was:memory leak in inetd 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ? > > Should be: memory leak in init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision

memory leak in Init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Oops! I got Subject & body wrong s/inetd/init/ ! Was:memory leak in inetd 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ? Should be: memory leak in init 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ? Hi sta...@freebsd.org I think I have found a memory leak with init on 10.3-STABLE (server runs in a VM); server

memory leak in inetd 10.3-STABLE .svn_revision 304147 ?

2018-03-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi sta...@freebsd.org I think I have found a memory leak with inetd on 10.3-STABLE (server runs in a VM); server ran out of swap. top Mem: 34M Active, 791M Inact, 387M Wired, 200K Cache, 212M Buf, 759M Free Swap: 614M Total, 605M Used, 8744K Free, 98% Inuse uptime

Re: Odd behaviour on recent boot of 11.1 with timecounters

2018-01-02 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:45:26 + "Gary Palmer" said On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 06:47:38PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 03:49:13PM +, Gary Palmer wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 02:17:0

Re: D-Link DGE530T issue

2017-11-15 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:00:33 +0300 Mike Black wrote > Hello > > I've got old PCI NIC D-Link DGE530T Rev 11 with SysKonnect chip on it. > Years ago it worked in FreeBSD 8/9 Stable with if_sk driver. > > Now I'm runnig > 11.1-STABLE FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE #1 r323214: Sat Nov 11 19:06:20 MSK 2017 >

Re: console-only freebsd

2017-10-09 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 09:49:40 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote > On Oct 7, 2017 7:21 AM, "tech-lists" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a freebsd 11-stable installation on a (gutless) netbook. What I'd > like is full functionality via the console[1]. One of the things it needs > is some graphics capability but

Re: CAM timeouts at startup

2017-04-10 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:49:59 -0700 "Mahlon E. Smith" wrote > Hi. Got some new machines running 11.0-RELEASE-p8 with a small pile of SSD > in them. > > Getting some strange CAM timeouts at boot, that dramatically delay > startup times. These errors don't happen at all after boot, everything > s

Re: if_iwm crashes kernel when loaded from /boot/loader.conf

2017-04-07 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:38:40 + Tommi Pernila wrote > On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 at 16.27, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I noticed a problem when loading if_iwm from /boot/loader.conf kernel > > crashes as it cannot load module firmware dead loop occurs. Adding > > iwm8000Cfw before if_iw

Re: how can I make freebsd wait for usb to become active? Or delay mountroot?

2017-02-13 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:00:39 + tech-lists wrote > Hello stable@, > > system: 11-stable r313553 > > In the kernel there is an option for scsi delay. It should be enough to bump the kern.cam.scsi_delay= a couple hundred at a time, until you find the "sweet spot". You might also try the autobo

Re: pkg upgrade problem with Perl 5.24

2017-01-13 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:38:59 + Matthew Seaman wrote > On 2017/01/13 16:31, Chris H wrote: > > As a general rule: > > install from pkg(8) remove with pkg(8) > > install from ports(7), remove with ports(7) > > > > Sorry -- this is completely bogus. Not ent

Re: pkg upgrade problem with Perl 5.24

2017-01-13 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:43:41 + Holger Kipp wrote > Dear all, > > I upgraded Perl to 5.24(1.r4_1) (via pkg upgrade). > When I now try to install the latest version from ports (1.r5_1), the system > can’t install the new version because of the older version, but can’t > deinstall(*) the older

Re: bsnmpd going crazy on 10-STABLE

2016-10-24 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:05:52 -0500 "Zane C. B-H." wrote: > Commenting out the line below seems to have fixed it on the system in question... begemotSnmpdModulePath."hostres" = "/usr/lib/snmp_hostres.so" Not sure why it is not beha

bsnmpd going crazy on 10-STABLE

2016-10-24 Thread Zane C. B-H.
Restarted a machine and post restart I began seeing the stuff below when watch it via truss. It just keeps looping over and over doing stuff like that while eating up lots of CPU time. I've checked the configs between both machines and they are both the same. I've tried updating usr.sbin/bsnmpd an

bsnmpd going crazy on 10-STABLE

2016-10-24 Thread Zane C. B-H.
Restarted a machine and post restart I began seeing the stuff below when watch it via truss. It just keeps looping over and over doing stuff like that while eating up lots of CPU time. I've checked the configs between both machines and they are both the same. I've tried updating usr.sbin/bsnmpd an

Re: omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable

2016-09-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > > Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200 > > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > Hi stable@ people > > In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started > > cd /usr/src ; make buildwo

Re: vt console driver and default vga mode: breaking POLA

2016-09-09 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:59:45 +0200 Borja Marcos wrote > Hi > > I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console > driver has a very important change in behavior, replacing the ancient > “BIOS” text mode with a graphic VGA mode. > > I don’t know how many people relies on

Re: omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable

2016-09-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi stable@ people > In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started > cd /usr/src ; make buildworld, > then realis

omitting make installkernel in an upgarde between 2 x 10-stable

2016-09-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi stable@ people In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started cd /usr/src ; make buildworld, then realised per https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html I will not be able to make installkernel ; reboot preceeding make installworld Am

Re: Looking for libvgl users

2016-06-21 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:33:11 -0400 Ed Maste wrote > Prompted by a recent discussion of the vt(4) console I would like to > send this query to -stable. When posted to -current about 1.5 years > ago it received only one private reply pointing out an example vgl(3) > consumer. Please see the origina

Re: unbound and ntp issuse

2016-06-14 Thread Chris H
I'm playing catchup on my INBOX, so apologies in advance, if this has already been satisfactorily answered... On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:50:18 +0300 Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote > On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 09:33:02AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Slawa Olhovchenkov writes: > > > > > On Fri, Jun 03,

Re: fetch(1) always dumps core - openssl issue?

2016-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:28:48 -0800 Xin Li wrote > On 3/9/16 19:09, Chris H wrote: > > Greetings, > > I just built/installed world/kernel on a fresh > > STABLE-9 box. Now building ports almost always results > > in fetch(1) dumping core. It appears that this happe

fetch(1) always dumps core - openssl issue?

2016-03-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I just built/installed world/kernel on a fresh STABLE-9 box. Now building ports almost always results in fetch(1) dumping core. It appears that this happens on ssl enabled hosts. Resulting in fetch dropping to distcache.freebsd.org. I see a lot of noise on the lists regarding openssl iss

Re: Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 20:50:11 -0500 kpn...@pobox.com wrote > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:54:53PM -0800, Chris H wrote: > > #!/bin/sh - > > /usr/local/bin/startx -- -nolisten tcp > > > > exit > > > > which seems to get the job done, and allow me to be lazy &

Re: Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:59:57 -0500 Brandon Allbery wrote > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Chris H wrote: > > > Good catch, by both you, and Brandon. I just tried it. But > > sockstat(1) still reports 6000 being open. Closing the X > > server, and session, reveal tha

Re: Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:44:18 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Chris H wrote: > > > Hello, > > This is regarding 9-STABLE. All of the 9-STABLE boxes > > that have Xorg installed, and running on them, insist on > > opening TCP port 6

Why must X open TCP by default?

2016-03-02 Thread Chris H
Hello, This is regarding 9-STABLE. All of the 9-STABLE boxes that have Xorg installed, and running on them, insist on opening TCP port 6000; as reported by sockstat(1) Xorg 1295 1 tcp6 *:6000*:* Xorg 1295 3 tcp4 *:6000*:* I see that the (curren

Re: Auto-mounting USB NTFS formatted devices on FreeBSD 10.2 and HEAD

2016-01-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kevin Oberman wrote: > Since the removal of NTFS support, it is unclear how to get USB drives > formatted as NTFS (or ExFAT) to automatically mount. Prior to FreeBSD 10 it > was possible to replace /sbin/mount_ntfs with a script that would generate > appropriate options and exec /usr/local/sbin/ntf

Re: mergemaster woes at STABLE

2016-01-15 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:38:05 +0100 Michael Grimm wrote > Hi, > > starting a couple of weeks ago, I do see mergemaster complaining after > "mergemaster -iFU": > > stat: ./have: stat: No such file or directory > /usr/sbin/mergemaster: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: " ~18 & > 40

Re: freebsd-update incorrect hashes

2015-12-23 Thread Chris H
/search?q=cache:OwcOVJamJOoJ:https://www > .astaro.org/gateway-products/web-protection-web-filtering-application-visibil > ity-control/55213-http-pipelining-broken-after-upgrade-utm-9-3-a.html+&cd=1&h > l=de&ct=clnk&gl=ch > > IMO, there should be an option to use wg

Re: unknown file

2015-09-26 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:23:43 +0200 Zoran Kolic wrote > Someone knows what "TsxKxSc0ySU" file is? > This shows up in graphical mode, from time to time, today > twice, in user directory. Binary, just over 5 kb. > > Zoran I've never seen a file with that name, but it looks l

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Tomoaki AOKI wrote: > According to "Real Hardware Gotchas" section in [1], FAT32 fs creation > of FreeBSD seems to have some problems. > > Try formatting by the hardware you're going to transfer files from > FreeBSD, if available. Once formatted by other OS, read/write/delete > files in FAT32 form

Re: Buildworld failure on stable

2015-08-26 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:38:46 +0100 Matt Smith wrote > On Aug 26 12:27, Matt Smith wrote: > >On Aug 26 13:10, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > Hardware error or memory exhausted > >>> > >>>It does appear to be something along those lines. It's not memory > >>>exhaustion as it has around 2GB free at

Re: 8-stable crashing recently in ufsdirhash

2015-08-05 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:30:28 -1000 parv wrote > On August 5, 2015 4:10:14 AM HST, Ian L > wrote: > >On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 23:54 -1000, parv wrote: > >> Please CC me as I cannot properly use my laptop, Thinkpad X200 > >(i386). > >> > >> 8-stable has been crashing a lot since source update of Jul

Re: Swap Usage

2015-07-29 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:41:33 -0700 Doug Hardie wrote > I have several FreeBSD 9.3 systems that are using swap and I can’t figure > out what is doing it. The key system has 6GB swap and currently it has over > 2GB in use. ps shows only a kernel module [intr] with a W status. Obviously > that is

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:50:52 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote > On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote: > > ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my > > problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that > > failed with 2 different approaches. > > > > I

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:00:03 + Glen Barber wrote .. > FreeBSD kernel grew since 10.1-RELEASE, so this is not unexpected. Not trying to hijack the thread, or anything. But on that note; does FreeBSD keep a graph, or anything that indicates kernel [size] over major versions? I'm sure I'm not th

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Chris H
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:48:06 + Glen Barber wrote > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:40:42PM -0400, Jason Unovitch wrote: > > >> ..uh top quoting.. > > >> > > >> Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []. > > >> > > >> Fatal double fault: > > >> eip = 0xc0b416f5 > > >> esp = 0xe2673000 > >

Re: How to track stable on multiple servers?

2015-06-01 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:19:46 +0300 Kimmo Paasiala wrote > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > I have some set of FreeBSD servers in public internet and continue to > > find optimal way for track -stable branch. > > > > Handbook give next metods: > > > > 1. Tracking -secu

Re: [CFT] Call for testing pkg 1.5.0

2015-04-02 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:03:23 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin wrote > Hi all, > > We just released pkg 1.5.0 beta1 (in ports-mgmt/pkg-devel), > .. > Please test and report as much bugs as you can! > We could be very grateful if regressions tests could be provided along with > the bug reports :) > > Pl

Re: Significant memory leak in 9.3p10?

2015-03-26 Thread Chris H
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:28:15 -0400 J David wrote > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Chris H wrote: > > As Kevin already noted; stopping firefox, and starting it again, > > seems the only solution. > > The machines in questions are servers, they do not run Firefox or any &g

Re: Significant memory leak in 9.3p10?

2015-03-26 Thread Chris H
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:03:45 -0700 Kevin Oberman wrote > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:46 PM, J David wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:52 PM, J David wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Konstantin Belousov > > > wrote: > > >> There are a lot of possibilities to create persistent

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-12 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:08:21 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris H wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=221780 > > > > > > I'd venture to guess the sc

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-11 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:34:30 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > On 03/11/15 02:12, Chris H wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:15:22 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > > > >> On 03/08/15 22:15, Chris H wrote: > >>> On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > >

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-11 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:09:31 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > On 03/11/15 02:12, Chris H wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:15:22 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > > > >> On 03/08/15 22:15, Chris H wrote: > >>> On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > >

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:15:22 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > On 03/08/15 22:15, Chris H wrote: > > On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > > > >> On 03/07/15 01:55, Chris H wrote: > >>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:08:38 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > >

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:29:12 + Pete French wrote > > Indeed. Having read UPDATING prior to the attempted upgrade, I > > followed the advise to add 'compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18' > > to sysctl.conf(5). And rebooted. > > If you rebooted then it should have been set - and you should > not have

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:17:18 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Peter Olsson > wrote: > > > This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did > > upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and > > then mergemaster: > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/b

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:58:07 -0700 "Chris H" wrote > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:05:40 +0100 Peter Olsson > wrote > > > This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did > > upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and > > then mergemaster: &

Re: There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

2015-03-10 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:05:40 +0100 Peter Olsson wrote > This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did > upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and > then mergemaster: > " > # Install the new file if it differs only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD) > FREEBSD_ID=yes > " > Is there some e

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
And rebooted. But what turned out to be the *actual* solution, was to use sysctl(8). Applying it directly fixed it. :-) Maybe update UPDATING? ;-) --Chris > > Cheers, > Freddie > On Mar 9, 2015 6:07 PM, "Chris H" wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:51:06 + Gar

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:11:10 + Gary Palmer wrote > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Chris H wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:51:06 + Gary Palmer wrote > > > > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:44:55PM -0700, Chris H wrote: > > > > I performed

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:51:06 + Gary Palmer wrote > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:44:55PM -0700, Chris H wrote: > > I performed av svn update for both src (r279796), > > and ports (r380829) last night. building/installing > > world/kernel, went as one would hope. Upgr

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:45:11 -0400 Adam McDougall wrote > On 03/09/2015 20:44, Chris H wrote: > > I performed av svn update for both src (r279796), > > and ports (r380829) last night. building/installing > > world/kernel, went as one would hope. Upgrading ports > > w

Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-09 Thread Chris H
I performed av svn update for both src (r279796), and ports (r380829) last night. building/installing world/kernel, went as one would hope. Upgrading ports was a different story. Given this box has an nVidia card. I usually start by upgrading emulators/linux_base; which according to UPDATING; meant

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-08 Thread Chris H
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:14:47 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > On 03/07/15 01:55, Chris H wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:08:38 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > > > >> I've got MSI X99 motherboard and am using it with UEFI installation of > >> 10.1 (BIOS mode doesn

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-06 Thread Chris H
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:08:38 +0100 Piotr Kubaj wrote > I've got MSI X99 motherboard and am using it with UEFI installation of > 10.1 (BIOS mode doesn't work with FreeBSD). At first, sound worked > properly (even in KDE), but now it doesn't. I'm not sure what happened, > since snd_hda is in kernel

Re: No, the FreeBSD website was not hacked.... (Re: Who hacked the FreeBSD website?)

2013-10-08 Thread Chris H
> Please don't use subject lines like that for broken links... Sorry. I was sure that the ports page was rendered as an automated process. Making it unlikely that such a dramatic change in pathing would be highly unlikely, if not impossible. > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:00:14AM

Who hacked the FreeBSD website?

2013-10-08 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I was performing a ports search, and noticed that all the links providing more information about each port goes to the FreeBSD 404 page. For example, autotrace-0.31.1_23; The link to it is: http://www.freebsd.org/home/indexbuild/tindex/ports/graphics/autotrace the "Long description" lin

Re: 9.2-PRE: switch off that stupid "Nakatomi Socrates"

2013-09-28 Thread Chris H
> > On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:06 PM, David Demelier wrote: > >> On 21.09.2013 12:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> On 21/09/2013 11:31, O. Hartmann wrote: I'd like to switch off this silly "Nakatomi Socrates" message which reminds me on Linux and their childish naming schemes. It is onl

ports/gimp mostly broken - ports/182069: [PATCH] devel/py-gobject: Fix GFlags messages

2013-09-20 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I sent a PR for troubles I was having with ports/gimp, and other programs (ports) that depend on lang/python (Python-2.7), after an upgrade. In my quest to find a resolution to this problem, I stumbled on to this PR (patch): ports/182069: [PATCH] devel/py-gobject: Fix GFlags messages (

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Stephen, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. > On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: > >> So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only >> recourse at this point to >> # cd / >> # rm -rf . > > When I get into this kind of b

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you kindly for your extremely thoughtful, and informative reply. > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013, at 11:07, Chris H wrote: >> While that all sounds "dreamy". I don't think setting something >> like that up on a *half* up(graded|dated) server, shou

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Patrick, and thank you for the reply. > Le Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT), > "Chris H" a écrit : > >> Greetings, >> I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the >> manner in which base && ports must be managed h

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. > I can't comment on the perl changes directly, but I can assure you that > if you use port-mgmt/pkg (pkgng) and build your ports into packages via > ports-mgmt/poudriere you will have zero upgrade problems -- a simple > "pkg upgrade" will h

Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the manner in which base && ports must be managed have resulted in more than a fair amount of grief. the migration from cv(sup) --> subversion required re-working long standing, carefully crafted management procedures to be

Re: Does the image on isc.portsnap.freebsd.org have a virus?

2013-07-31 Thread Chris H
> On 01/08/2013 00:28, Chris H wrote: > >> In the first instance, /usr/ports was removed (before initiating portsnap). >> But before >> the second attempt, I performed a mkdir /usr/ports. But in the end, the >> results were >> the same; >> portsnap f

Re: Does the image on isc.portsnap.freebsd.org have a virus?

2013-07-31 Thread Chris H
Greetings, and thank you for your response. > On 31/07/2013 15:44, Chris H wrote: >> Greetings, >> I know this sounds crazy, and apologies if I am. But I have 2 RELENG_8 >> servers; >> 1 amd64, and 1 i386. about 3 wks ago, I migrated from cv(sup) updating, to

Does the image on isc.portsnap.freebsd.org have a virus?

2013-07-30 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I know this sounds crazy, and apologies if I am. But I have 2 RELENG_8 servers; 1 amd64, and 1 i386. about 3 wks ago, I migrated from cv(sup) updating, to svn on the amd64 box. After removing cv(sup) related folders, and the ports folder, I used: portsnap fetch After the fetch complete

Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

2013-07-30 Thread Chris H
> > On 30.07.2013, at 19:49, Peter Maxwell wrote: > >> I personally prefer qmail over sendmail >> but I wouldn't suggest qmail should be in base for the reason that sendmail >> is the de facto standard on *nix shaped systems. >> > > One can argue that BIND is the de facto standard on *nix shaped s

Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

2013-07-30 Thread Chris H
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013, at 8:32, Daniel Kalchev wrote: >> >> >> This is very much an situation like replacing gcc with clang/llvm. >> However, in the case of BIND we have no licensing problems, stability >> problems, performance problems etc --- just concerns that BIND generates >> many SAs -- whic

Re: Trouble building release with docs

2013-07-20 Thread Chris H
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to do a full (customised) release of 9.1 but I am having trouble >> building the >> docs. If I use NODOC it builds fine, but without that I get.. >> [andenes 7:04] /usr/src/release #/usr/bin/time make release >> BUILDNAME=$BUIL

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Shutdown problem with an USB memory stick as ZFS cache device

2013-07-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Maurizio Vairani wrote: > On 17/07/2013 11:50, Ronald Klop wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:27:09 +0200, Maurizio Vairani > > wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> on a Compaq Presario laptop I have just installed the latest stable > >> > >> > >> #uname -a > >> > >> FreeBSD presario 9.2-PRERELE

Re: What are the ideal ranges for kern.ipc.shm*?

2013-07-12 Thread Chris H
Greetings Alberto, and thank you for the reply. > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Chris H wrote: >> Greetings, >> Over the years using the xfce4 desktop, I would occasionally receive >> SHM ERROR messages. As they never interfered (so's I could notice), I >> al

What are the ideal ranges for kern.ipc.shm*?

2013-07-11 Thread Chris H
Greetings, Over the years using the xfce4 desktop, I would occasionally receive SHM ERROR messages. As they never interfered (so's I could notice), I always put off attempting to track the cause down. However, now having performed a fairly major upgrade (~1yr since last), The error appears to grea

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you for your reply. > Is there a reason you're avoiding poudriere/pkg ? It's simple to setup and > extremely reliable. Your headaches go away because all of your package > upgrades get built in a jail and you don't have a half-broken system while > waiting for portmaster t

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