can't freebsd-update from 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-12-04 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
Hi, Apparently 7.1-PRERELEASE has been pulled from freebsd-update's server while I was being lazy: calvin% sudo freebsd-update --debug upgrade -r 7.1-BETA2 Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... fetch:

Re: Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"

2007-02-13 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070212 19:11]: > But you called it "confusing". That's just your personal > perception. It doesn't mean it is confusing to everybody. > In fact it might be useful to others. It _is_ useful to > me, for example, and I would object for that syntax to go > awa

Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-19 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* SigmaX asdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060919 18:31]: > I have a series of comma-delimited text files with fourteen columns of > data and several hundred rows. I want to use a short shell script to > strip them of the last 9 columns, leaving the same file but with just > five of its columns. I can

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-08 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060309 00:12]: > # ifconfig ath0 media DS/54Mbps > ifconfig: unknown media subtype: DS/54Mbps > # DS/54 doesn't exist. Try OFDM/54Mbps instead. qvb -- pica ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: PXE Installation

2006-01-20 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Karel Miklav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060120 03:34]: > I tried to follow the spirit and did a PXE boot from the installation > CD (6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) files. It started well, displayed > the FreeBSD boot menu, listed devices, mounted NFS share and finally > crashed with: > > Lookup of /

Re: Creating a system RAID-10 device

2006-01-18 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Sven Willenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060117 22:06]: > over 3 mirror raid arrays that would encompass the entire filesystem > including the /boot and root partitions. > > Generally I would create a RAID10 from 6 disks as follows: > > gmirror label -v -b round-robin md1 da0 da1 > gmirror labe

Re: gvinum/vinum on 6.0

2006-01-11 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Brian Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060111 13:01]: > >> But most importantly, gvinum configuration (at least for a raid-5 plex) > >> still doesn't persist across a reboot :( > > > > That's a bug; I think it might be related to compiling gvinum in the > > kernel > > as opposed to loading it fro

Re: Using jails and djbdns

2005-05-13 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Tony Arcieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050513 03:21]: > Is there some easy way to reverse this order, so svscan is started first and > jails started afterward? Follow the author's instructions, and put this line into /etc/rc.local: csh -cf '/command/svscanboot &' qvb -- pica _

Re: updating from 5.2.1 to RELENG_5

2005-04-01 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Phil Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050401 12:19]: > Will it be ok just to cvsup, rebuild kernel and world, mergemaster, > (etc) like any normal update? Or do I have to do a reinstall? Read UPDATING (all of it). Read UPDATING (all of it). Did you notice the 20041001 entry? You should be able to

Re: Kernel panic on 5.3-STABLE w/ ACPI

2005-01-29 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Admin @ InterCorner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050129 20:09]: > I have sent this message before (Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:11:40 +0100), but > without respons. So I'll try again. You didn't provide enough info to help with ACPI debugging http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debu

mismatching vinum configurations

2003-07-20 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
Hi, I had a power failure, and the on-disk configuration for vinum went bizarre. The logs read from disks are at http://biaix.org/pk/debug/ (log.$DEVICE files). The logs in da0 (barracuda) are the ones obviously wrong, I'm pretty sure the others are ok. Is this a 'virtually' dead drive? Can I

Re: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-in phase and other weirdness

2003-03-18 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:50:31AM +0100, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote: > Please have a look at the excerpt of kernel logs at > http://biaix.org/pk/debug/. messages.1.kernel shows what happened (look After a _long_ exchange of mails with [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found out that this drive Tags Qu

palm m500 and USB (was Re: Sony Cybershot ...)

2003-03-10 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030311 01:00]: > There's a bug somewhere which stops pilot-link working with USB. I've > been talking to the author about it, and he's not very motivated to > fix it, particularly because we can't exclude the possibility that > the bug is in the USB sta

Re: Sony Cybershot should be in hardware notes (supported by umass)

2003-03-10 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030311 00:14]: > > > I think it's already covered by the statement "Owing to the generic > > > nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given > > > class will be supported, even if not explicitly listed here." > > I can't sync my Palm m50

Re: Sony Cybershot should be in hardware notes (supported by umass)

2003-03-10 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030310 21:12]: > I think it's already covered by the statement "Owing to the generic > nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given > class will be supported, even if not explicitly listed here." I can't sync my Palm m500 through USB e

Re: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-in phase and other weirdness

2003-03-06 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Andre Albsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030306 15:32]: > On Sat, 01-Mar-2003 at 10:49:34 +0100, Francesco Casadei wrote: > (I assume the cabling/termination has been checked already.) Yep, I also run the controler's BIOS drive check on the drives. > I had bus problems with my DNES until I upgrade