Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-07 Thread Martin Jackson
Darren Pilgrim wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: I wasn't aware that the USB to Serial converters would work - I can try them, but there are a lot of those out there that don't work right even under Windows - expecting them to under FreeBSD might be asking too much. I've had good luck with the Dyne

Re: portupgrade-2.1.3.2,2 doesn't work with db42

2006-07-08 Thread Martin Jackson
I had the same problem. Fixed it by deleting db41 and rebuilding db42, ruby-bdb and portupgrade. I had the same problem - but I fixed mine by removing ruby-bdb (since I only used it for portupgrade) and rebuilding portupgrade to use ruby-bdb1. I love portupgrade, but it seems a little...del

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Jackson
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:21:39PM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: On 5/3/06, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This means that they will take a significant amount of time to fix, and that each fix is high risk, as it is likely to reveal latent bugs. This means that

Re: RC2 binary upgrade: var/empty: no chmod allowed

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Jackson
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:14:28AM +0400, Alexey Karagodov wrote: chflags -R noschg /var/empty You missed the point..the claim is that sysinstall barfs when it encounters a /var/empty that is legitimately schg. Kris and freebsd-stable, Your reading of my bug report is q

RC2 binary upgrade: var/empty: no chmod allowed

2006-05-02 Thread Martin Jackson
Hello everyone, When BETA4 was released, I installed it on a very old machine of mine, and tried doing a binary upgrade from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-BETA4. I got an error almost immediately that it failed to write because it couldn't chmod var/empty (due to the schg flag being set). I also had ot

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Jackson
I'm using 6.1-RC built on Apr 18 but that problem was there even on 6.0-RELEASE Are you using an HTTP proxy? The pre-6.1 series portsnap did not play nicely with HTTP proxies. There were some patches committed in March or so to address PR's on the subject. I haven't had an opportunity to te

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Jackson
Here is what I get: # portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching snapshot tag... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Tue Apr 18 03:16:17 AST 2006 to Sat Apr 22 14:30:08 AST 2006. Fetching 4 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches...

Re: 6.1-BETA4 installation report

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Jackson
Sam Leffler wrote: Martin Jackson wrote: 1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that off, and upgrade continued. It's supposed to be that way, so something is wrong if this is c

Re: 6.1-BETA4 installation report

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Jackson
1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that off, and upgrade continued. It's supposed to be that way, so something is wrong if this is causing problems :( Agreed. :) Looking through the source t

6.1-BETA4 installation report

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Jackson
Greetings, First of all, thanks for all the hard work that's gone into the 6.1 release process so far. Today, I tried doing a binary upgrade of 6.1-PRERELEASE (cvsup'ed about a week ago) to 6.1-BETA4. It's really old hardware, a PII 333Mhz. I don't know if what I tried to do is even suppor