Re: make.conf for 6.0

2005-10-24 Thread Chris
rchitecture. > > -- > -Chuck > Hmm so using "-O2" is bad in 5.4 and it should be "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing"? Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: make.conf for 6.0

2005-10-25 Thread Chris
On 25/10/05, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:57:27PM +0100, Chris wrote: > > On 22/10/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > > My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4) > >

Re: 5.4 -> 6.0 buildworld failure

2005-11-05 Thread Chris
r/obj # chflags -R noschg * # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL # make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL # shutdown now # fsck -p # mount -u / # mount -a -t ufs # swapon -a # cd /usr/src # make installworld # shutdown -r now Done.

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-30 Thread Chris
ardware/bios or operating system problem. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-12-04 Thread Chris
table >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > > hello again, > > i've just cvsuped to 6.0-stable and recompiled & reinstalled world & > kernel and guess what ?!? -- loader is still broken!!! > this time my machine is not

Re: System or file system panic on FreeBSD 5.x

2006-01-16 Thread chris
Thats a simple answer your HD is failing purchase a new one backup and reinstall freebsd on new drive > Hi all! > > Once i installed ``old'' FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE with UFS file system. > It had been working fine for a while without any problems but sometime > later; it showed error messages on ttyv0;

Re: fdisk on mounted disks ?

2006-01-16 Thread chris
You can umount any fs as long as it is not /usr or / boot into single user mode and then use fdisk. > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> So, does anyone know the trick to be used to modify >> the slices on a mounted disk ? Or do i have to boot >> from a different media ? > >

undefined reference to calloc

2006-01-27 Thread chris
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Re: Build 4.11 kernel on 6-Release

2006-02-03 Thread chris
Why would you want to do that ? > Just curious if I should even bother trying to compile 4.11's kernel > under Release 6. > > Just tried and couldn't successfully 'config MYKERNEL_CONF': > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] config MIRALINK.serial_console > config: ../compile/MIRALINK.serial_console: No such file

Re: mailing list

2006-02-03 Thread chris
Tell you how to unsubscribe you need to send a email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Please take off this mailing list at once!!! I dunno what this is all > about but i do not wish to receive any more mails, hundreds of them every > day, that makes no sense whatsoever to me. > > T

Re: strange port activity

2001-02-22 Thread Chris
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RE: @Home Connect.

1999-10-04 Thread chris
connected friends, an encrypted tunnel to their network could be a handy thing.. chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

question

2000-06-14 Thread Chris
while upgrading to 4.0-stable i typed "make buildworld" and after a half hour or so got this error: install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/src/gnu/lib/libgmp/../../../contrib/libgmp/gmp.h /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include cd /usr/src/secure/lib/libdes; /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin/make before

RE: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Forgeron
First off, raidz2 and raidz1 with copies=2 are not the same thing. raidz2 will give you two copies of parity instead of just one. It also guarantees that this parity is on different drives. You can sustain 2 drive failures without data loss. raidz1 with copies=2 will give you two copies of al

RE: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Forgeron
essage- From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Damien Fleuriot Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:55 PM To: Chris Forgeron Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks Well actually.

RE: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Forgeron
4 gig of memory for the cost of a 60 gig SSD, and it will trounce the SSD for speed. I'd put your SSD to L2ARC (cache). -Original Message- From: Damien Fleuriot [mailto:m...@my.gd] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 5:20 AM To: Artem Belevich Cc: Chris Forgeron; freebsd-stable@fre

RE: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Forgeron
>> On 6 January 2011 22:26, Chris Forgeron wrote: >> > You know, these days I'm not as happy with SSD's for ZIL. I may blog about >> > some of the speed results I've been getting over the last 6mo-1yr that >> > I've been running them with Z

Re: important NFS client patch for FreeBSD8.n

2011-01-10 Thread Chris H
asking if the messages I'm receiving are related to the corrections your patch provides. Or should I keep looking for the answer for the messages I am seeing. Thank you for all your time and consideration. --Chris > ___ > freebsd-stabl

Re: important NFS client patch for FreeBSD8.n

2011-01-11 Thread Chris H
Hello Jeremy, and thank you for your reply. On Tue, January 11, 2011 12:17 am, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:40:37PM -0800, Chris H wrote: > >> Greetings, and thank you for the "heads up". >> On Mon, January 10, 2011 2:22 pm, Rick Macklem wrote: &g

RE: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Forgeron
Interesting, I was just testing Solaris 11 Express's ability to handle a pulled drive today. It handles it quite well. However, my Areca 1880 drive (arcmsr0) crashes when you reinsert the drive.. but that's another topic, and an issue for Areca tech support.. ..back to the point: Solaris runs

RE: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Forgeron
[mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Boris Kochergin Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:51 PM To: Chris Forgeron Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not? >After a cursory glance at their fault-management infrastructure, I >noticed that it

Re: sed is broken under freebsd?

2011-01-12 Thread Chris H
d: ~4.5 seconds Apologies for the extra noise on the list, but I do a tremendous amount of editing with sed(1) on almost a daily basis. It's a _fantastic_ tool, that saves me _zillions_ of hours. So I'm afraid I become a bit defensive when hearing anyone defame it - it's been like

Re: sed is broken under freebsd?

2011-01-14 Thread Chris H
On Thu, January 13, 2011 11:45 am, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 13 Jan 2011, at 6:10, Chris H wrote: > >> FWIW On a hunch, I just performed an experimentwith sed(1) >> against gsed on 50,000 html documents. My mission; to replace all instances >> of: >> >>

Re: sed is broken under freebsd?

2011-01-14 Thread Chris H
On Fri, January 14, 2011 12:01 am, Chris H wrote: > > On Thu, January 13, 2011 11:45 am, Alban Hertroys wrote: > >> On 13 Jan 2011, at 6:10, Chris H wrote: >> >> >>> FWIW On a hunch, I just performed an experimentwith sed(1) >>> against gsed on 50,0

Re: bind 9.6.2 dnssec validation bug

2011-02-11 Thread Chris H
ves In fact, that's the _only_ reason I haven't already switched to unbound. --Chris > > > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix.fr > In memoriam to Ondine : http://ondine.keltia.net/ >

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-11 Thread Chris H
nothing. Research on forums related to issues on nVidia & ATI video cards have many threads that ultimately point at issues using hald(8). Bottom line (for me anyway) has been that if I disable hald(8), I have nearly no (video related) issues. Th

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-14 Thread Chris H
On Mon, February 14, 2011 10:21 am, Ted Faber wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52:43PM -0800, Chris H wrote: > >> I noticed a potential issue in the output of your attached Xorg.conf. >> > > Can you tell me what looked fishy? I'm happy to poke it it. > >

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-15 Thread Chris H
On Mon, February 14, 2011 2:35 pm, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote: > > >> I'm /not/ on a GENERIC kernel, but here are some relevant pieces from >> my setup that might help; rc.conf(5) hald_enable="NO" dbus_enable="YES" >

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-15 Thread Chris H
"crap shoot" when it comes to setting up Xorg(1). While Xorg(1) -configure is intended to get a "functional" version of X(7) up, and running. Hardware, is not Hardware, is not Hardware. So a lot of "trial, and error" /will/ be required to obtain an "optimal"

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-15 Thread Chris H
On Tue, February 15, 2011 4:05 pm, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote: > > >> On Tue, February 15, 2011 12:21 pm, Warren Block wrote: >> >>> So many people were using AEI that I decided to write an article about >>> it: http://www

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-16 Thread Chris H
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Chris H wrote: >> >> On Wed, February 16, 2011 1:34 am, Tom Evans wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chris H wrote: >>> >>>> Well, the box I'm writing this message from is running a >>>> G

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Chris H
s well as available from: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html It's hard to imagine needing anything else -- even if it's ones very first time. --Chris > > I'm finding it much more difficult to learn BSD than it was to learn Linux. > However, I'm sure it will be worth it, as BSD is l

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-01 Thread Chris H
On Fri, April 1, 2011 6:29 am, Marko Lerota wrote: > George Kontostanos writes: > > >> Not with the same behavior and it depends on what your server is doing at >> the time of the power interruption. > > It was in stage of booting after first power loss. > > >> but ZFS is not the solution to your

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-01 Thread Chris H
On Fri, April 1, 2011 10:38 am, 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 >>> &g

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Brennan
cable(s), then what is left? The card. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Brennan
, I would change cards. There is a slim chance it could also be a driver issue. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Brennan
x27;ve tried the obvious, time to move up the chain. I'm sorry you don't happen to like that but there is no need to be rude about it. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >&g

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Brennan
g you. This will be my last post on this topic. George you are rude and I know I will not be offering any more suggestions for you. I foresee few others willing to help you now as well. Jeremy has willingly given you a great amount of detail to work with and it's up to him to look past your

Re: ports/sysutils/diskcheckd (Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD)

2011-08-25 Thread Chris Rees
mment and manpage improvememts. > Hi Perry, The changes look good, so if there's no response for a few days I'll commit the changes. Thanks for rescuing the port :) Chris -- Chris Rees          | FreeBSD Developer cr...@freebsd.org   | http://people.freebsd.org/~crees ___

Re: ports/sysutils/diskcheckd (Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD)

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 August 2011 18:54, Chris Rees wrote: > On 24 August 2011 16:14,   wrote: >>> When the specified or calculated rate exceeds 64KB/sec, the >>> required sleep interval between 64KB chunks is less than one >>> second.  Since diskcheckd calculates the interval in w

Re: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

2011-09-18 Thread Chris Torek
m "as many as script can stuff down the pty at maximum CPU rate" to "one a second". Thus, if I were fixing this, I would lean towards "EOF is just a temporary signal" being applied only to character devices, and/or perhaps having a command-line f

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
What is your Wiki name? On 4 Oct 2011 16:26, "Arnaud Lacombe" wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ken Smith wrote: >>> >>> The third BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now >>> available. Since this is t

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 October 2011 16:35, Chris Rees wrote: > On 4 Oct 2011 16:26, "Arnaud Lacombe" wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ken Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> The third BETA build of the 9.0

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 October 2011 19:36, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> What is your Wiki name? >> > "ArnaudLacombe" > > created this morning, with the same email address as the one I'm > sending this email

Re: BETA3 not buildable

2011-10-08 Thread Chris Rees
server, and there's no way to > know.  Great isn't it? > > If you are syncing directly off of cvsup-master -- shame on you.  You > aren't supposed to do this, and I believe the Handbook or freebsd-hubs > even has a policy about it being considered in

Fwd: Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze starts soon

2011-10-08 Thread Chris Rees
Just on case anyone's not on ports@: -- Forwarded message -- From: "Chris Rees" Date: 8 Oct 2011 10:30 Subject: Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze starts soon To: "Thomas Mueller" Cc: , "Erwin Lansing" On 8 October 2011 10:22, Thomas M

Re: bsdinstall partitioning

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Rees
oved that I could configure my wifi connection w/o hand-editing the > config files, so thanks a lot to Nathan for the hard work! Wifi was the main thing I was pleased with too-- thanks from me. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

2011-10-22 Thread Chris Rees
ete use case for it. > > I finally figured out why my ports aren't updating anymore: when running portupgrade -a --batch from cron, stdin is /dev/null, and that produces the gobs of ^D in the output, as well as the script file that portupgrade creates. What's worse is that the upgrade

Re: WITHOUT_SYSINSTALL (stable-9)

2011-10-31 Thread Chris Rees
y src.conf  looks like it's in good order, and the > other WITHOUT_ options were heeded. > You mention a new sysinstall executable, as in it was *definitely* installed by the installworld and not just left over? Is the mtime the same as others in that dir? Chris __

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Rees
You're not comparing like with like; please do some research on the point of ZFS before asserting that they're fair comparisons. A fair(er) comparison could be ext4 with UFS+soft-updates. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 Dec 2011 21:25, "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 15 December 2011 17:58, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Since ZFS in Linux can only be achieved via FUSE (ad far as I know), it > >> is legitimate to com

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-24 Thread Chris Rees
Flat 3 > > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > > JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > > > Thanks for the info Matthew. I think though that it is best for all to > first make sure that the servers all update

Re: libutempter

2012-01-14 Thread Chris Rees
27; (sysutils/libutempter) failed (specify -k to force) > > > I installed misc/compat8x, however it informed my that I'd need to add "" to the kernel conf. When I try to do that, I'm met with this error: > > /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/DESKTOPKERN9: unknown

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Rees
> least x.1. There's no such odd/even number policy with FreeBSD-- I think you're thinking of another OS ;) You're right that x.0 is slightly more experimental in general though (by its nature, it must be). Chris ___ freebsd-stabl

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 February 2012 11:32, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 26 February 2012 18:16:53 Chris Rees wrote: >> On 24 February 2012 01:35, Erich Dollansky >> wrote: >> > >> > On Friday 24 February 2012 01:25:01 Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> >

Re: Regression between 9-RELEASE and 9-STABLE [PCIB ?]

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Demers
g the problem, sometimes you get a bit more info about what was > >>> happening at the time of lockup. > >>> > >>> -- Ian > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Harry Newton > >> _

ixgbe v2.3.11 won't negotiate LACP, v2.4.4 does

2012-03-06 Thread Chris Forgeron
I have a few systems with Intel X520-DA2 PCIe network cards (10 Gig). The problem I've been running into is with a fresh 9.0-STABLE or 9.0-RELEASE install. I can't get a LACP connection established over the ix0 and ix1 ports. It's showing COLLECTING and DISTRIBUTING, but not ACTIVE. I've notic

RE: ixgbe v2.3.11 won't negotiate LACP, v2.4.4 does

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Forgeron
de for the laggport do I have these problems. How can I help Jack (or others) diagnose and test this further? Thanks. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Forgeron Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 7:01 PM To: free

Re: UDP Port Open - Shorewall

2012-05-16 Thread Chris Nehren
eyond not understanding the software forming the basis of Shorewall, you evidently also failed to read the Shorewall web site which provides support resources: http://shorewall.net/support.htm . Please pursue those resources, as this is very much not the place. -- Thanks and best regards, Chr

Re: /usr/bin/unzip not being installed on 8.3-STABLE

2012-05-27 Thread Chris Nehren
ere's also http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/usr.bin/unzip/ which AFAIU was committed in time for 8.2-R. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-st

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Nehren
software and stability (Ubuntu didn't exist at the time, and the less time I spend using that the better). -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren ___ 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: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
ther than directories full of conf files 3) Friendly community; easy to get support from people who really know what they're doing. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

Solaris features in FreeBSD (was: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?)

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Nehren
fall back on. This is *awesome*. /me removes yet another item from the "reasons to use Solaris" list. I cannot wait to try this out. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Nehren
o all of my actual work in either the Mac's BSD userland or a FreeBSD machine over ssh. So, really, this is nothing to do with FreeBSD per se, and I will consider reevaluating FreeBSD as a desktop when something not X11 comes along (although I don&#x

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Nehren
ures as long as it can continue to run on the original hardware. Show me one volunteer Unix OS with a 10+ year support infrastructure. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Rees
h of the stuff I wanted broke on AMD64 after > downloading tarballs for hours. Not good. Contacted package maintainer and > received answer: yeah, I know it doesn't work on AMD64. That is unacceptable. Submit a PR next time you find something like that-- ports that are broken on an arch sho

pkgng (Was: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?)

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Nehren
ted to pkgng is that it's based on a C library with a public API that developers can use / abuse. It's not (AFAIK) officially released yet, but some early work I've been doing with it has shown it to be useful enough. -- Thanks and

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Nehren
S does not? I'm not trying to troll here, but am genuinely curious about ZFS's shortfalls in one of the problem domains it seeks to address. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
me here. It would be of advantage if the ports tree would also have tags like the base system itself. > Unfortunately this is a massive amount of extra work - we only just keep up with updates as it is. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
have shot themselfs into the foot! > Not reading UPDATING until there are problems is not the fault of the ports tree; it should be checked every time you update. Of course, many of us forget, but that still doesn't make it anyone else's problem when we do! Chris

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Nehren
levant to ports you're interested in. There are also systems like gmane which provide an NNTP feed for mailing lists. Combined with a newsreader with good killfile / scoring features, it shouldn't be hard to keep up. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren __

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: >> On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, "Erich Dollansky" >> wrote: >> > >> > But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to >

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
more would be needed. Of course, we have then a huge number of versions. Would it matter? Give the ports tree the major version number of the latest release. So, at the moment it would be 10. Increment then the minor every hour if you want. Just make sure that the ports tree can be downloaded

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 3, 2012 5:26 AM, "Erich" wrote: > > Hi, > > On 02 June 2012 PM 2:56:01 Chris Nehren wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 14:11:06 -0400 , Paul Mather wrote: > > > I'm not sure what the solution is for the end user. I know I get > > > s

Re: Solaris features in FreeBSD

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Nehren
ay. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren pgpnxSxVZLdHX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
> port maintainers to write a bit more documentation on the options they > are providing? Where are you looking? I updated the Porter's Handbook- is there something missing? Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
BSD's ports becomes again > a problem. There is no convenient way to downgrade or allow the > user/admin managing how to deal with the load of updates. You can't have both. As has been repeatedly explained to you, you should not expect an easy life with the very latest of softwar

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Nehren
option for every port. At the very least it'd take quite a lot of time and effort to document all of that. Beyond this, such explanations would duplicate each port's own documentation. If you're not familiar with something, you very probably shouldn't be installing it. Show me on

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
do not want any extra work spend here to make this perfect. I only want a simple way to fall back to a big net which is not that old from which the user can restart. > I and most others will purposely refuse to document this in any official capaci

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
; > > I think that this states very clearly that there are no tags. > No it doesn't. It states clearly that you shouldn't use tags unless you know what you are doing, as several of us have explained more than once. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich wrote: > Hi, > > On 06 June 2012 8:48:10 Chris Rees wrote: >> On Jun 6, 2012 3:38 AM, "Erich" wrote: >> > > >> No it doesn't. It states clearly that you shouldn't use tags unless you >> know what you are doi

Re: Mergemaster Fails

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Nehren
s well, like fsck and dd do). It sounds like something is waiting for input or otherwise wedged, and ^T might tell us which command and what it's trying to do. Additionally, the output of ps ax -d (show process trees) would be helpful. This should also show what mergemaster is waiting on. --

Re: Mergemaster Fails

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Nehren
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:05:24 -0700 , Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On 06/06/12 21:20, Chris Nehren wrote: > > >Have you tried ctrl-t? This will send SIGINFO to the process which > > No response to any key except ^z > > >Additionally, the output of ps ax -d (show process

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
eBSD is losing strength > here, in my opinion. Er... people always test their commits. Sometimes edge cases will creep in, such as the libreoffice failure which was due to different configurations, but to suggest that the commit wasn't tested is quite frankly insulting-- it built on a clean

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 11:51, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 06/10/12 12:37, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 10 June 2012 11:12, Martin Sugioarto wrote: >>> Am Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:09:09 +0700 >>> schrieb Adam Strohl : >>> >>>> I get the feeling people are upd

Re: WAS: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? New: port annoyance LibreOffice

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 18:10, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 06/10/12 17:43, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: >> On 06/10/12 09:54, Martin Sugioarto wrote: >>> Am Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:37:09 +0100 >>> schrieb Chris Rees: >>> >>>> Er... people always test their c

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-12 Thread Chris Rees
essential for a desktop to work properly > > of course the package collection needs then something similar to portversion, > but not based on ports tree versions, in order to find available updates > > who then wants to customize or learn or who dares, can use the ports tree You have hit the nail right on the head there, and that is the intention with pkgng. Please feel free to have a go with it using the beta repos :) Chris ___ 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: FreeBSD not so free anymore ? Long live FreeBSD...

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Rees
> confirmed without any warnings. > > A good reason to stop using this bloated OS if you ask me and use > something more respectful to their users base relaying on STABLE for > stability reasons... > New versions of Skype require ALSA. This is at their insistence. Chris _

MFC for ZFS fix?

2012-07-16 Thread Chris Lee
I've been seeing a panic on my FreeBSD/ZFS server (running 9-STABLE built on 6/28), where the relevant line appears to be: avl_find() succeeded inside avl_add() I found a patch pjd committed to trunk (r230454), which apparently was supposed to be MFC'd a week later, but it doesn't appear to be in

Re: csup: Invalid greeting from server

2010-07-06 Thread Chris Timmons
There was a problem with the server. It is updating at this moment and should be up-to-date quickly. Regards, -Chris On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 04:55:15PM +0300, nickolas...@gmail.com wrote: Is everything OK with cvsup.freebsd.org? I got message

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Webb
s to boot 8.1R on Linux KVM with AMD hardware! I'll patch the system on lon-b not to advertise mca this morning Luke. It'll be interesting to try again once I've done this to check if it fixes normal booting without the extra hw.mca_enabled="0" flag. Best wishes, Chris. _

Dell T710 with Xeon x5660 Kernel Panics - Fixed under 8.1-STABLE

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Forgeron
BTW, just passing on that my Dell T710 which would Kernel panic under 8.1-RELEASE randomly between 10 minutes-2 days, no longer does this under 8.1-STABLE. I was running it with 2 of the new Intel 6 core Xeon's - X5660 Under 8.1.-RELEASE FreeBSD didn't recognize the processor, and I guess that'

Re: repeating crashes with 8.1

2010-10-22 Thread Chris Morrow
Note, Warren and I attempted to test this this evening on a 10.04 Ubuntu box, no crashy-crashy... -chris On 10/22/10 16:27, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > Ok I'll try testing that on some box I can reach with both hands. > > fyi nagasaki is: > > [r...@nagasaki ~]# uname -a > Fre

Re: The FreeBSD 7.4-BETA1 CD wont boot properly on this machine

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Rees
; 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/asus_v7-p7h55e > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen Did you try installing using a different computer onto that hard drive? Is the hardware supported by 7.x (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.3R/hardware.html for pointers) Is there a reason

Re: 8.2-RC1: installer does not recognize some disks properly

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Claus Assmann > wrote: > I just tried to install 8.2-RC1 (amd64) on one of my machines. It > has two disks: WDC WD1001FALS-4 and SAMSUNG HD103SJ, both 1TB SATA > disks. The installer shows them as ad10 and ad8. Both disks are > already in use and have been "forma

installworld: check your date/time - Installworld NOT possible...

2010-12-30 Thread Chris H
p, followed by cd /usr/src && make installworld, returned: "/usr/src/Makefile", line 177: check your date/time: WTF? Should I simply comment lines 174-178? Why does make(1) refuse to installworld? My date and time are correct (in sync). Any insight in

Re: installworld: check your date/time - Installworld NOT possible...

2010-12-30 Thread Chris H
Greetings, and thank you for your reply. On Thu, December 30, 2010 4:38 pm, Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 16:06, Chris H wrote: > >> Greetings, >>  I've spent the morning grooming a fresh kernel on a freshly installed >> 8.1 amd64, from the DVD. I cv

ZFS v28 and zil_disable

2010-12-31 Thread Chris Forgeron
BTW, I'm noticing the removal of vfs.zfs.zil_disable as well - It's not listed as a sysctl when I check vfs.zfs, but I see it's still in the source code; In usr/src/sys/cddl/ : # grep -r zil_disable * cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zil.h.orig:extern int zil_disable; cddl/contrib/

RE: ZFS v28 and zil_disable

2010-12-31 Thread Chris Forgeron
l: ch...@acsi.ca 2070 Oxford Street, Suite 100, Halifax NS B3L-2T2 Tel: 902-425-2686  Fax: 902-484-7909 -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Forgeron Sent: December-31-10 6:01 PM To: freebsd-stable@freebs

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE and Flash

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:16 AM, ben paley wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using FreeBSD since 3.4 but I've been away for a while. Now I've > put 8.2 on an old laptop, and everything's lovely except power management > (I'll get round to that eventually) and the Flash plug in. > > I've followed the s

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