Re: Improving disk reliability

2008-01-03 Thread Marius Hooge
Doug wrote: 2. I don't know the size of the disk to know the size of the backup media required. However, CD/DVD burners are less than the cost of a hard drive and the media is relatively cheap. I personally don't recommend backups to CD/DVD. They degenerate rather "quickl

[OT] postgresql client with libpqxx from ports - linking problem

2008-03-25 Thread Marius Hooge
I think this is kind of offtopic, but google couldn't help and I don't know where else I could ask. I'd like to write a postgresql client in c++ with libpqxx from the ports and can't get it to link. (If I recall correctly, the libpqxx port is only used by koffice.) I'm a little bit unexperienc

Re: [OT] postgresql client with libpqxx from ports - linking problem

2008-03-26 Thread Marius Hooge
mcb, inc. wrote: You did not use '-l' correctly then. You have not specified a library to link against hence the unresolved reference. Get the -l correct and you will be on your way. Exactly. Well, I just figured out, that I have to use -lpqxx instead of -llibpqxx.a Duh... Thank you anyway and

low sound quality (OpenBSD 4.0)

2007-02-27 Thread Marius Hooge
Last year, I switched to OpenBSD 4.0 (from FreeBSD) and noticed a decrease of the *heard* sound quality when playing the same files. It sounds like a lower bit rate (imagine a 96 kbit/s mp3 at higher volumes for example), but I can't pinpoint it, though. My friends told me to fiddle with mixerc

OBSD 4.1 drops to ddb with cdd0: error 22 on component 0 (and 1 (mirror))

2007-06-14 Thread Marius Hooge
Hi, I don't know how to handle this: My OpenBSD 4.1 Generic i386 box "occasionally" freezes completely, without any warning. No Ctrl+Mod1+F1 or any other key-combination, no ssh or ping works. This happened several times over the past 3 days. The last time, I left it at ttyC0 - nothing happened.

Re: OBSD 4.1 drops to ddb with cdd0: error 22 on component 0 (and 1 (mirror))

2007-06-16 Thread Marius Hooge
Can at least someone tell me, why I get no replies? (Is it because I mentioned rtorrent or because I didn't buy the cd-set from the last release? Or should I start with a troll next time? - I don't get it. I read every manual I could find regarding that issue and used Google for hours without fin

Re: OBSD 4.1 drops to ddb with cdd0: error 22 on component 0 (and 1 (mirror))

2007-06-16 Thread Marius Hooge
Have you considered PSU or other hardware failure? Of course I did.. I just replaced the PSU with a spare one i got lying around. - It didn't work out. (Can a PSU even cause such errors?) I dunno, but I think replacing every single component one at a time is the last way I _should_ go? I'll do

Re: OBSD 4.1 drops to ddb with cdd0: error 22 on component 0 (and 1 (mirror))

2007-06-27 Thread Marius Hooge
Hi Maxim, Thanks for your suggestion, but I have 'enough' RAM installed and didn't configure a swap partition. There's only one partition on the mirror and I use it as /home. I did more tests and I figured out that one of my mirrored drives causes read errors, which in turn causes the CCD/kernel

Re: OBSD 4.1 drops to ddb with cdd0: error 22 on component 0 (and 1 (mirror))

2007-06-27 Thread Marius Hooge
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: This is the expected behavior for a failure on a CCD component. Try In this case, is there a difference between expected and desired behavior? cutting the SATA cable to a live system some time; watch the kernel panic there as well. Suddenly it cant stat() / or read/

Re: esd + mpd

2008-09-30 Thread Marius Hooge
Jacob Meuser wrote: first, autospawning does not work in esound-0.2.38. I don't know if that's the version you are using, but that could be part of the problem. I'm pretty sure I had mpd playing through esd at one point. let's see. add a group, _esd. add myself and _mpd to that group. start

Re: esd + mpd

2008-09-30 Thread Marius Hooge
Nick Guenther wrote: Aaah, I didn't realize how the user's homedir interacted with this all. What must have been happening is that when I clicked 'play' in soundtracker (which was running as myself) it looked for ~/.esd_auth, didn't find it, so tried to spawn an esd, which promptly failed because

4.3, snapshot panic while booting after ahci when no cd in drive (amd64)

2008-05-18 Thread Marius Hooge
Hi, I just discovered this weird behaviour. It looks like I've always booted this machine with any kind of cd/dvd in the sata attached dvd-rw drive. Without a cd the kernel panics right after the ahci message. Well, the workaround is obvious. I tried it on 4.3 amd64 and the snapshot from May 2 (wh