Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process

2011-02-11 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 11 February 2011 11:33, Mark Powell wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Daniel O'Connor wrote: [...] >  I suspected BIOS, that's why I was going to get a new motherboard. I've > always had problems getting gptzfsboot working on this hardware and there > are no more BIOS updates now. That's why I

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-29 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 29 March 2011 11:33, Michal Varga wrote: > As with other people that replied before - my opinions reflect my > opinions that might actually *not* suit your personal needs. But you > asked. > > On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 01:32 -0400, Jason Hsu wrote: >> Some questions: >> 1.  Is it possible to i

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-29 Thread Christian Walther
Hello Jeremy, On 29 March 2011 13:36, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: [ZSH PCRE Support] Up to now I probably had to need for pcre, since I haven't noticed that it's not part of the package. ;) And in case of an emergen

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-29 Thread Christian Walther
2011/3/29 Nikola Pavlović : > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: [...] > As others have pointed out NVidia drivers for FreeBSD have been > available for some time, and they work just fine. Yes, thanks for pointing that out, everybody. :) > As far as ey

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-29 Thread Christian Walther
On 29 March 2011 14:53, Michal Varga wrote: > Hi, > [Port building, mplayer/mencoder example w/o options] Packages are build with the default ports options. These turn out to be suitable for me, so I guess they are suitable for others, as well. I never said that building from source is pointless -

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-01 Thread Christian Walther
On 1 April 2011 19:38, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Chris H wrote: > >> On Fri, April 1, 2011 6:29 am, Marko Lerota wrote: >> >  I read that ZFS don't need fsck because the files are always consistent >> on >> filesystem regardless >> > of power loses. That the corrup

Re: (no subject)

2010-06-09 Thread Christian Walther
you add the above mentioned Section "InputDevice", make sure that the Section "ServerLayout" contains a CoreKeyboard entry matching the given identifier. In my case, Section "ServerLayout" looks like: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier

Setting up X Terminals: What about audio, Pulseaudio or NAS?

2010-06-10 Thread Christian Walther
to be an option. Pulseaudio seems to be more widely supported, while I heard some bad things about it that indicate that the Network Audio System has been implemented more cleanly and thus is easier to setup. Has anybody used one or maybe both ports and is willing to share the experience? Regards Ch

startx/xinit + custom xmodmap messes up session

2010-08-03 Thread Christian Walther
odmap. My system is running 8.1-RC2, but it happened with 8.0, too. This is not a very important issue for me, because I don't mind running xdm. I just wonder if this bug is known or if this is a case for a bug report. Regards Christian Walther _

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-14 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, what do you see when you cd to /var/.zfs? There should be a snapshot directory there. Is there any contents in it? Regards Christian Walther PS: Sorry for the repost, forgot to hit "reply all" (and fixed a bug, btw. It should be /var/.zfs insead of .zsh,

Re: ISDN4BSD removal (was: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon)

2010-10-08 Thread Christian Walther
On 8 October 2010 18:12, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: [...] > I don't know how it works in other countries, but here (in Norway) it > works like this: yes - ISDN technology is dying. > However, like all other technologies that major telcos have invested a > lot in, its death is very slow. Extremely sl

Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

2009-02-23 Thread Christian Walther
for any of these issues that I haven't found so far, so that I can eventually use one of my existing wireless cards, or if I should switch to a different brand/model. If the latter is the case I'd like to know which one to choose. Regards Christian Walther ___

Re: Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

2009-02-23 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Kevin, lets say it this way: Right now the DWL-G650 works. I'm not sure why, but I did reset the BIOS configurations to its default and started manually configuration some of the used interrupts. This is why the snippets of the logfiles I sent in my previous mail don't match the current configu

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Christian Walther
irmware, and the cards ID is listed in the laptops BIOS. It won't work with any card not listed there. There are ways to either flash the cards firmware or the BIOS list, but I don't think that it's worth it. Regards Christian Walther ___ fr

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Walther
On 19/07/07, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] The best one can do without massive buffer cache work is what firewire does: it has one attachment to handle all umass devices. When the device goes away, it pauses all operations to that device. If the device comes back, it resumes

Re: Firefox crashing after portupgrade 13 July

2007-07-20 Thread Christian Walther
On 20/07/07, Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, Problem: Firefox segmentation faults when using link encryption. This happens on AMD64 and i386 versions (Opteron and P4 processors) as well as Firefox 1.5, 2.0.0.3 and 2.0.0.4. [...] Mozilla 1.7.13 IS working

Re: syntax highlighting of rc.conf with vim

2007-07-28 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Michael, On 28/07/07, Michael Worobcuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am using vim-7.1.18. > Everything works fine except the syntax highlighting of rc.conf. > The problem is that vim does no highlighting for the rc.conf but > other .conf files are highlighted es expected. > So I came to

Re: Filesystems in 7.0 & reliability

2007-11-07 Thread Christian Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Noberto, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi everyone, > I've been using 7 for a couple of weeks now on my work laptop (kickstarted by > cooling issues while in 6.2, which seem to have largely gone in 7). > > I have a 100GB SATA drive in a Thinkpad

Re: bootable scsi card for Ultra 5

2008-01-03 Thread Christian Walther
Hello Matthew, On 03/01/2008, Matthew Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just bought a Sun branded 375-0005 X6540A card in hopes I might be > able to boot FreeBSD STABLE from it. > Still at the OK prompt I typed "boot" followed by the device pathname > and the Ultra 5 rebooted. It failed to bo

Re: Why does firefox keep locking up on me?

2008-01-15 Thread Christian Walther
Hello Bob, On 15/01/2008, Bob Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having a problem on one particular machine with Firefox locking up > on me, requiring a hard kill to get rid of it. > > The problem is thus: Firefox starts normally, but as soon as I go to a > site that requires authenti

Re: Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

2009-02-25 Thread Christian Walther
2009/2/24 SDH Support : > >> I tried using my ath based D-Link DWL G650, which still seems to have >> some issues in regard to interrupt handling: > > > I've been able to get /most/ wireless cards working with ndiswrapper. > This is just my personal opinion, and I tend to make scarce use of the wor

vpn1411 in Laptop (Thinkpad T31)

2009-03-12 Thread Christian Walther
t I wonder if the traffic to and from the card would saturate the PCI bus and lead to other problems. What do you think? Cheers Christian Walther ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsu

Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape headertype 1853384566)

2009-03-26 Thread Christian Walther
gives a hint as soon as dump hangs. Christian Walther ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ZFSKnownProblems - needs revision?

2009-04-08 Thread Christian Walther
ince I switched to classic UFS. My home server is a amd64 7-STABLE, 4GB RAM, 4x400GB HDD with geli encryption (AES 256). This works like a charm. So my take on ZFS is that it is a no go on i386, but a stable solution on amd64. Regards Christian Walther

Re: make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails

2009-05-26 Thread Christian Walther
2009/5/26 Christian Walther : > Hi, > > I wanted to update my system to FreeBSD 7.2, so after updating my > sources I started a make buildkernel. After a while, it fails with the > following message: > > /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/intr_machdep.c: In function 'intr_register_so

make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails

2009-05-26 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, I wanted to update my system to FreeBSD 7.2, so after updating my sources I started a make buildkernel. After a while, it fails with the following message: /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/intr_machdep.c: In function 'intr_register_source': /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/intr_machdep.c:136: warning: passing ar

Re: make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails

2009-05-26 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Glen, Hi List, 2009/5/26 Glen Barber : > Hi, Christian > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Christian Walther > wrote: >> 2009/5/26 Christian Walther : >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wanted to update my system to FreeBSD 7.2, so after updating my >>&g

cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org out of sync? (was: "make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails")

2009-05-26 Thread Christian Walther
2009/5/26 Rick C. Petty : > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:42:52PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: >> >> Well, for some strange reason the same happened again: I did >> >> # mv /usr/src /usr/src.old >> # csup /root/stable-supfile >> # cd /usr/src >> # mak

Re: ZFS and df weirdness

2009-07-04 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Dan, basically the "size" in df shows the current free space plus the used space of the specific filesystem. This makes sense: Since per default all disk space is shared, and thus can be used by all filesystems, all filesystems need to report it as free space. Well, and used space has to be add

Re: Cannot rm files when ZFS is full

2009-07-29 Thread Christian Walther
2009/7/29 grarpamp : > One week old build... > > # df -i . > Filesystem   1K-blocks      Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on > ram01/mnt1 239465344 239465344     0   100%   13163     0  100%   /mnt1 > # ls -aliT zero > 20797 -rw-r--r--  1 user user  43515904 Jul 28 23:20:57 2009 zero

Re: Cannot rm files when ZFS is full

2009-07-30 Thread Christian Walther
2009/7/30 Arnaud Houdelette : > grarpamp a écrit : [...] > [carenath] /testpool# rm zero > rm: zero: Disc quota exceeded > > So quota workaround doesn't quite works. > It could possibly be an issue where quota limited users fill up their > allowed space : they can free space by themselves. The ide

Re: Turn off rebooting in single-user mode after fail.

2009-08-06 Thread Christian Walther
Hi 2009/8/6 Matthias Andree : > Probably not fsck's fault, but if there is a major file system corruption, > it can wreak havoc. Yes, it can. But on the other hand the question is if one is capable of dealing with a major file system corruption during a manual fsck run. It requires in depth know

Problem with IBM Thinkpad T30 shutting down due to high temperatures

2009-08-10 Thread Christian Walther
Hello list, for some time now my T30 shuts down due to temperatures exceeding the safe limit of 92 degrees celcius. Regardless to say that a 2GHz pentium4m powers the machine, and these chips are "well known" for high temperatures. But I'm unable to do anything that causes high load on the laptop:

Cpufreq/ACPI problem? (basically still is: "Re: Problem with IBM Thinkpad T30 shutting down due to high temperatures")

2009-08-12 Thread Christian Walther
Is the behaviour normal and to be expected, or is this possibly a bug? Regards Christian Walther ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Problem with IBM Thinkpad T30 shutting down due to high temperatures

2009-08-14 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Alexandre, Hello list, 2009/8/14 Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko : > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:53 +0200, Christian Walther wrote: >> Hello list, >> [...] > Add something like > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz1.passive_cooling=1 > hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1 > hw.acp

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-15 Thread Christian Walther
This is just a wild, uneducated guess, because I'm not a long FreeBSD user, but from my point of view this error could really be related to ACPI/APM, as already has been suggested. Maybe the machine is trying to go to suspend, but fails while doing so, which in the end would mean that it can't rec

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Christian Walther
Hi there, On 24/08/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] How do you know the applications are running with two threads? Presumably you need to specify the amount of parallelism. Kris To make matters worse you can't even tell if an application running with several threads uses mo

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-22 Thread Christian Walther
Could be a reference to the Linux world, where every odd kernel version number (e.g. 2.1, 2.3, 2.5...) are considered experimental/development kernels. When a kernel is suggested to be "stable", it gets a new version number. 2.5.X becomes 2.6.0 eventually, which marks the end of the V2.5 developme

Re: OpenSSH 4.6 error: channel 0: chan_read_failed for istate 3

2007-03-20 Thread Christian Walther
On 20/03/07, Dominik Zalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, After upgrading to openssh-portable-4.6.p1,1 I'm getting following messages in logs: error: channel 0: chan_read_failed for istate 3 I guess you're either using scp or ssh to execute remote commands? We've the same issue on our

Re: I have a serious problem

2007-03-21 Thread Christian Walther
On 21/03/07, ExTaZyTi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While some days my FreeBSD (6.2-STABLE) reboots without any reason for this .. block the system for 10-20 seconds and then reboots.. please if you know something about this to help me :( Since we're not aware of your setup, it would be quite hel

Re: zfs on FreeBSD

2007-03-21 Thread Christian Walther
On 21/03/07, Claus Guttesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. Probably a bit premature but has anyone used zfs on FreeBSD "without problems". The reason I ask is that I have installed Solaris 10 on an intel-box, but adding additional programs is *not* as easy as 'portinstall postfix' etc. on FreeBS

Re: single user mode buildwerld failures

2007-04-04 Thread Christian Walther
On 04/04/07, KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there were so many steps they didn't seem obvious.. i got halfway thru and realized i was in some prompt for mergemaster -p, or so i thought, so i started over. i had no idea what was happening. i can't log on now. /etc/passwd is gone. i used

Re: can't jump to superuser after buildwerld

2007-04-18 Thread Christian Walther
On 19/04/07, KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how in the werld did i manage to remove myself from wheel. i just ran mergemaster -p Given that "you" means "user account" it's fairly easy: mergemaster collects all the status of all system and configuration files and compares them with the

Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2007-04-19 Thread Christian Walther
On 19/04/07, Kai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:53:32PM +0200, Kai wrote: > > Hello all, > > We're running into regular panics on our webserver after upgrading > from 4.x to 6.2-stable: Hi Again, The panics keep happening, so I'm trying alternate kernel setups. This is a

Re: make mplayer failed

2007-05-18 Thread Christian Walther
On 17/05/07, KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: here is my error message onfigure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0atk >= 1.9.0 pa ngo >= 1.12.0cairo >= 1.2.0) were not met: No package 'atk' found Requested 'cairo >= 1.2.0' but version of cairo is 1.0.2 [...] atk

Re: make mplayer failed

2007-05-20 Thread Christian Walther
On 19/05/07, KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007, Christian Walther wrote: > On 17/05/07, KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> here is my error message >> >> onfigure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.1