Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* "O. Hartmann" [2012-06-03 22:55 +0200]: > ... I spent now two complete days watching my boxes updating their > ports. Several ports do not compile anymore (inkscape, libreoffice, > libxul, to name some of the very hurting ones!). Do you have graphics/libwpg01 installed? After deinstalling this,

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-22 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Jeremy Chadwick [2010-01-19 23:46 -0800]: > You cannot do something like where box1 COM1 is wired to box2 COM1, and > depending on what box you're on doing the "cu -l ttyu0" from, get a > login prompt on the other. It doesn't work like that. :-) Isn't the reason for different dial-in and dial

Re: Block device

2008-11-08 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-04 09:32 -0700]: > 1. disk access in the driver layer still happens on a block basis. It's > true that to the application layer, the device has character dev > semantics, meaning that arbitrary numbers of bytes can be accessed > randomly without any restri

Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious

2007-09-25 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-25 19:43 +0200]: > By the way, an additional confusion is that ".." and "../" > are handled differently. Specifying ".." always leads to > this message: > > rm: "." and ".." may not be removed > > and nothing is actually removed. It is confusing that

Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing

2007-07-19 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 10:32 -0700]: > Are you on a static IP address? If not, ntpd obtains its IP address when it > starts up and uses it forever. If your IP address changes then it will not > be able to communicate with the upstream ntp servers. It has to be > res

Re: Corrupt fonts-alias (Re: xorg 7.2 start problem)

2007-05-24 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 17:08 -0400]: > > Unfortunately portupgrade (nor portupgrade-devel) cannot yet handle > > the rigors of the xorg upgrade without a small bit of help: > > > > # portupgrade -Rf libXft > > > > before you do the portupgrade -a? > > No, that is t

Re: Corrupt fonts-alias (Re: xorg 7.2 start problem)

2007-05-24 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 16:19 -0400]: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > * Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 21:40 +1000]: > > > I've found this problem on one system (the one where I tho

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-24 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 21:40 +1000]: > I've found this problem on one system (the one where I thought the > upgrade had gone the most cleanly). font-alias _is_ installed but > most of my pcf.gz files are corrupt (20 bytes long). > > 'portupgrade -f' on my fonts is fixing t

Re: clock problem

2007-05-08 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-08 16:29 +0200]: > How are you redialling? If you get a new dynamic IP > address, it might be necessary to restart ntpd. > For example, if you use ppp(8) for dial-up, you can > write a "linkup" script that performs the restart. I use the attached patch

Re: How to report bugs (Re: 6.2-STABLE deadlock?)

2007-04-27 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-27 16:03 -0300]: > A thought: how hard would it be to add some method of forcing a system crash, > that would dump core, from the command line? Something that, by default, > would Doesn't 'kill -6 1' work anymore? Nicolas -- http://www.rachi

atacontrol panic

2007-04-11 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
Hallo, the sequence #atacontrol detach ata2 #atacontrol reinit ata2 panics my 6.2-RELEASE-p3 system. I know, the simple solution is "don't do that". But it would be nice if it could be fixed. I can't get a dump at the moment and I can't try a more recent -STABLE or -CURRENT to see if it is alread

security issues of aio

2007-02-16 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
Hallo, in /sys/conf/NOTES there is a comment | # Use real implementations of the aio_* system calls. There are numerous | # stability and security issues in the current aio code that make it | # unsuitable for inclusion on machines with untrusted local users. | options VFS_AIO Are there

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-28 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-28 12:34 +0100]: > I'm afraid I don't know how to specify any mount options > for the root file system when mounting it via the kernel's > BOOTP options, but if you mount it read-only (or just treat You can set some, but AFAIK not -L. :( dhcpd.conf: op

Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-19 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-19 12:09 -0500]: > The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11, gmirror > in 6.x), and I don't know of any way to go from one to the other that > doesn't involve wiping both drives at the same time. You can wipe one of the disks, cr

Re: bash 3.1.10 breaks configure scripts (was Re: configure scripts ignores parameters)

2006-03-05 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 03:41 -0500]: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:36:25AM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > The problem seems to depend on the installed bison version. With no > > bison or bison-2.1_1 installed it works fine, with bison-1.

Re: bash 3.1.10 breaks configure scripts (was Re: configure scripts ignores parameters)

2006-03-05 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 18:56 +0100]: > Version 3.1.10 (which is the latest AFAIK) of the port contains the > problem, at least here using FreeBSD 4.11. The problem seems to depend on the installed bison version. With no bison or bison-2.1_1 installed i

Re: configure scripts ignores parameters

2006-03-03 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Claude Buisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 23:05 +0100]: > Here (bash built WITHOUT_NLS) Using WITHOUT_NLS does not help here. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

bash 3.1.10 breaks configure scripts (was Re: configure scripts ignores parameters)

2006-03-03 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 12:39 -0500]: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > I hope someone has reported this error to the bash developers. > > > > If te latest bash version fixes the problem, it's a bit too late to > > report it. > > Wel

Re: configure scripts ignores parameters

2006-03-03 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 09:33 -0800]: > > Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:22:31 -0500 > > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I hope someone has reported this error to the bash developers. I haven't yet. I was in a hurry and haven't been able

Re: configure scripts ignores parameters

2006-03-03 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Alexey Karagodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 14:40 +0300]: > try begining yuor scripts with: > #!/bin/sh > > :) I'm not using the bash for my own scripts. But we're not talking about mine or the OP's own scripts. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas

Re: configure scripts ignores parameters

2006-03-03 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* "Elisey O. Savateev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 16:10 +0500]: > Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:56:09 +0100 > Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Do you have shells/bash (bash-3.1.10) installed? > > > > Yes. I have. I

Re: configure scripts ignores parameters

2006-03-03 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* "Elisey O. Savateev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 15:47 +0500]: > I'm not sure when, but may be after last portupgrade configure > scripts began ignoring command-line parameters. E. g. each configure > script i started does (doesn't) the same. > Where the problem can hides? Do you

Re: RELENG_6 weird '..' permission troubles

2006-02-19 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Yar Tikhiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-19 13:58 +0300]: > This looks like a file-a-PR case if you are sure you didn't overlook > anything. To the best of my knowledge, the underlying mount point > permissions should affect nothing since the FS was mounted. But > you didn't show us output from

Re: manual escape to debugger on serial console not working?

2006-01-26 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Niki Denev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-26 10:50 +0200]: > to the debugger with BREAK (~#) i get this on the screen : > The following connections are open: > #0 client-session (t4 r0 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/5 cfd -1) Are you using ssh? man ssh Escape Characters When a pseudo terminal has been

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-16 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-16 16:07 +0200]: > Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > >> >The track which is corrupted could contain data that wasn't written > >> >to in months. How would the journal help? > >> > >> I don&#

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-16 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-16 01:42 +0200]: > David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> A corrupted journal can be detected. If it's corrupted, discard > >> the whole thing, or only the relevant entry. The filesystem will > >> remain consistent. > >> If track corruption o

Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE

2004-01-19 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-19 11:28 +0200]: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:51:48PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > My three comments about this: > > > > 1) It's hard to decide that we can say goodbye to plip (plip is not > >provided as a kernel module), since it is support

Re: How to force a kernel panic?

2003-08-26 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Mike Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-26 09:41 -0700]: > ...so I can test my debugging kernel? kill -6 1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Changes to man page in 4.5-R?

2002-03-04 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:14:18PM +0200, * Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:02:36AM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > * On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:29:26PM -0800, > > * Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

Re: repository size

2001-11-21 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:50:00AM +0100, Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:40:45PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > Guys, there seems to be being an explosive growth in the size of the > > CVS repository. > > > > When I first started keeping a local copy, it was

lp0 device

2001-06-22 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
Hallo, I just installed FreeBSD 4.3-Release. I noticed a new entry in the output of ifconfig, a device named lp0. Where can I find more information about it? Thank you Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message