Re: poudriere and the user ... is it mostly a lost idea?

2025-01-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Jan 15, 2025, at 8:16 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >Over the past month or so I see endless fails in builds for the big > three user facing window manager things. This means that a simple user > type person can not get a desktop. Really? Yes really. For at least a > month or more you can not

Kernel build broken without "options KTRACE"

2024-03-06 Thread John Nielsen
Getting a set but not used warning for “td” in sys/kern/kern_condvar.c when doing a buildkernel for a config file without “options KTRACE”. I failed to copy the full error message/line numbers but I will reproduce this evening if needed. JN

Re: How do I update the kernel of FreeBSD-CURRENT

2023-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Nov 29, 2023, at 12:21 PM, Manoel Games wrote: > > I am a new FreeBSD user, and I am using FreeBSD-CURRENT. How do I update the > FreeBSD-CURRENT kernel, and is it done through pkg? I installed > FreeBSD-CURRENT without src. As a new user you should probably run a supported release version,

Re: twe(4) removed

2023-06-25 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jun 24, 2023, at 4:16 AM, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > I just noticed that I had to remove "device twe" > from my kernel configuration when rebuilding my -CURRENT today. > > Is there any problem with this driver that makes it difficult > to keep around? > > Believe or not, I still rent a mach

Re: Fatal trap 12 booting FreeBSD-CURRENT via isboot kernel module.

2018-02-07 Thread John Nielsen
> On Feb 7, 2018, at 6:07 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: > > 2018-02-06 23:02 GMT+01:00 John Nielsen : > > On Feb 6, 2018, at 11:50 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 11:33 -0700, John Nielsen wrote: > >> > >> Apparently sending a

Re: Fatal trap 12 booting FreeBSD-CURRENT via isboot kernel module.

2018-02-06 Thread John Nielsen
> On Feb 6, 2018, at 11:50 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 11:33 -0700, John Nielsen wrote: >> >> Apparently sending a NULL socket pointer to ifioctl hasn't worked >> since this commit in 2011: >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisi

Re: Fatal trap 12 booting FreeBSD-CURRENT via isboot kernel module.

2018-02-06 Thread John Nielsen
> On Feb 6, 2018, at 10:54 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> >> On Feb 4, 2018, at 2:50 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: >> >> 2018-01-29 18:38 GMT+01:00 John Nielsen : >> [ resending from correct email address ] >> >>> On Jan 29, 2018, at 6:05 AM,

Re: Fatal trap 12 booting FreeBSD-CURRENT via isboot kernel module.

2018-02-06 Thread John Nielsen
> On Feb 4, 2018, at 2:50 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: > > 2018-01-29 18:38 GMT+01:00 John Nielsen : > [ resending from correct email address ] > >> On Jan 29, 2018, at 6:05 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: >> >> I am running >> # uname >> -a >>

Re: Fatal trap 12 booting FreeBSD-CURRENT via isboot kernel module.

2018-02-06 Thread John Nielsen
> On Feb 4, 2018, at 2:50 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: > > 2018-01-29 18:38 GMT+01:00 John Nielsen : > [ resending from correct email address ] > >> On Jan 29, 2018, at 6:05 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: >> >> I am running >> # uname >> -a >>

Re: Fatal trap 12 booting FreeBSD-CURRENT via isboot kernel module.

2018-01-29 Thread John Nielsen
[ resending from correct email address ] > On Jan 29, 2018, at 6:05 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: > > I am running > # uname > -a > > FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r328383: Thu Jan 25 04:48:52 > UTC 2018 > r...@releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC

Re: Error compiling isboot-kmod

2018-01-29 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jan 27, 2018, at 9:20 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 23:20 -0700, John Nielsen wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 26, 2018, at 9:42 PM, John Nielsen wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> [...] >>> --- iscsi.o --- >>> isc

Re: Error compiling isboot-kmod

2018-01-27 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jan 26, 2018, at 9:42 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> On Jan 26, 2018, at 10:35 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 10:00 -0700, John Nielsen wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jan 26, 2018, at 3:37 AM, Maurizio Vairani >>> om&

Re: Error compiling isboot-kmod

2018-01-26 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jan 26, 2018, at 10:35 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 10:00 -0700, John Nielsen wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 26, 2018, at 3:37 AM, Maurizio Vairani >> om> wrote: >>> >>> 2018-01-24 17:19 GMT+01:00 Warner Losh : >>&

Re: Error compiling isboot-kmod

2018-01-26 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jan 26, 2018, at 3:37 AM, Maurizio Vairani wrote: > > 2018-01-24 17:19 GMT+01:00 Warner Losh : > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Maurizio Vairani > wrote: > On this CURRENT snapshot > # uname -a > FreeBSD freebsd12 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r327788: Wed Jan 10 > 22:55:40

Re: bhyve with lagg failover doesn't work on wifi

2016-07-29 Thread John Nielsen
Generally speaking, you can't bridge the station side of a wireless link. The access point will only accept frames with the station's MAC address. So what you are seeing is expected, unfortunately. Your best bet is probably to do NAT. Take lagg0 out of the bridge and use it as your "public" int

Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD

2015-09-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 23, 2015, at 1:51 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > On Sep 23, 2015, at 9:16 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa wrote: >> >>> isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you to >>>

Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD

2015-09-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 23, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > On 0923T0916, John Nielsen wrote: >> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa wrote: >> >>> isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you to >>> boot your root partition u

Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD

2015-09-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> Proposed port here: >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203294 > > Builds on 10.2a+i, fails on current-amd64 and 9.3-amd64. > > Is this supposed to work on 9.3 or 11 ? The README says 9.0-9.3 and 10.0-10.2. I’ve only tested it

Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD

2015-09-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 23, 2015, at 9:16 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa wrote: > >> isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you to >> boot your root partition using iSCSI. > [,,,] >> This was first announced way back

Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD

2015-09-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa wrote: > isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you to > boot your root partition using iSCSI. [,,,] > This was first announced way back in June, 2010: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-June/004425.htm

Re: Devops question: unattended installs of FreeBSD?

2015-01-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Jan 12, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > I had a devops person who is familiar with setting up hundreds of > Linux nodes in cloud environment ask me what is the best way > to do unattended installs in a cloud environment. > Linux has kickstart installs, which are quite useful and po

Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD

2014-12-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Neel Natu wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox >> wrote: >>> I tried to integrate this patch into 10.1_RC3 and I failed. Is there a >>> timeframe to MFC this to 10.1 or 10-STABLE

Re: UEFI display frozen on Retina MacBook Pro

2014-09-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Anders Bolt Evensen wrote: > On 05.09.14 19:37, John Nielsen wrote: >> On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Glen Barber wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: >>>> I have a "MacBook Pro Retina

Re: UEFI display frozen on Retina MacBook Pro

2014-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: >> I have a "MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2012" (MacBookPro10,1) on which I'd like >> to be able to boot FreeBSD from an external USB drive. For testin

UEFI display frozen on Retina MacBook Pro

2014-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
I have a "MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2012" (MacBookPro10,1) on which I'd like to be able to boot FreeBSD from an external USB drive. For testing I've been using the mini-memstick images from the -CURRENT snapshots, most recently the one from 20140903. I am able to select "EFI Boot" on the USB devi

Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 12, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Barney Cordoba wrote: > On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 1:16 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Barney Cordoba >> wrote: >> >>> A continuing issue (with 9.1 previously and now 10) is that FreeBSD >>&

Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Barney Cordoba wrote: > A continuing issue (with 9.1 previously and now 10) is that FreeBSD > occasionally (or always) seems to boot from the 2nd installed drive > rather than the first. I'd be happy to debug this, but I have no idea if it's > bootcode or a BIOS is

Re: [HEADSUP] pkg 1.3.0 alpha1: Breath of fresh air from Kirov

2014-03-17 Thread John Nielsen
Looks great! Thanks as always for the work. I do have one question (below). On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > - Remove support for PACKAGESITE There are two cases where I still define PACKAGESITE in the environment, specifically when building new jails or VM images. Can

Re: iSCSI boot ... root?

2013-10-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > Wiadomość napisana przez Zaphod Beeblebrox w dniu 16 wrz > 2013, o godz. 07:35: >> Is it now possible to boot from iSCSI? I'm not talking about an iSCSI >> controller, but with >> >> pxe -> dhcp -> tftp (loads loader) -> (something

Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2013-07-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, September 24, 2012 12:37:30 pm John Nielsen wrote: >> I have a machine running "FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r240887" amd64 with two > ConnectX (InfiniBand) cards. Relevant bits of dmesg and pciconf -lv below. > T

Re: request for your comments on release documentation

2013-06-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Hiroki Sato wrote: > I would like your comments on release notes for each release. > Although I have been working on editing them for years, the workflow > is still not optimal and sometimes delay of the preparation became an > obstacle for release process. I would

using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)

2012-09-24 Thread John Nielsen
I have a machine running "FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r240887" amd64 with two ConnectX (InfiniBand) cards. Relevant bits of dmesg and pciconf -lv below. The cards are connected directly to a 10GB Ethernet switch so I need to run them in "eth" mode rather than "ib". Unfortunately they come up in "ib"

Re: Script to set/unset "automatic" status in PKGNG database

2012-08-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 30/08/2012 22:44, John Nielsen wrote: >> After dialog(1) exits the script has a list of packages to mark as >> automatic. Is there a non-SQL way to efficiently get the inverse? >> I.e. the set { all_packages - new_a

Re: Script to set/unset "automatic" status in PKGNG database

2012-08-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Thanks you should be enough, can you provide a git format-patch patch so that > you get your name in the logs :D Here you go. 0001-Add-script-to-interactively-set-un-set-automatic-sta.patch Description: Binary data ___

Re: Script to set/unset "automatic" status in PKGNG database

2012-08-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:19:59PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: >> I today noticed the "pkg autoremove" command for the first time, which does >> much the same thing as pkg_cutleaves but relies on the "au

Re: Script to set/unset "automatic" status in PKGNG database

2012-08-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Julien Laffaye wrote: > On 8/30/2012 11:19 PM, John Nielsen wrote: >> I today noticed the "pkg autoremove" command for the first time, which does >> much the same thing as pkg_cutleaves but relies on the "automatic" flag in >

Script to set/unset "automatic" status in PKGNG database

2012-08-30 Thread John Nielsen
t too attached to the name. It shouldn't eat your package database or steal your lunch money, but I'm not responsible if it does. Other than that, feedback is welcome. JN #!/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 2012 John Nielsen # This script presents a checklist of all PKGNG packages registered on #

Re: pkg (aka pkgng) 1.0 released

2012-08-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2012/8/30 John Nielsen : >> Running ps in another terminal shows "pkg query %n-%v". Since the actual pkg >> is now gone, I suspect this is really /usr/sbin/pkg. I further suspect that >> it's waiting f

Re: pkg (aka pkgng) 1.0 released

2012-08-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:43 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > Thanks to everyone involved. > > I've been lightly testing pkg for a little while, but I still mainly use > ports. This announcement prompted me to switch from portupgrade to > portupgrade-devel (20120827 version) to s

Re: pkg (aka pkgng) 1.0 released

2012-08-30 Thread John Nielsen
Thanks to everyone involved. I've been lightly testing pkg for a little while, but I still mainly use ports. This announcement prompted me to switch from portupgrade to portupgrade-devel (20120827 version) to see how it works with PKGNG. I encountered a couple issues: Portupgrade doesn't remov

Re: : Conf string ends with key

2012-04-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Apr 17, 2012, at 8:58 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 04/17/12 14:51, Ivan Klymenko wrote: >> В Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:42:13 +0200 >> "O. Hartmann" пишет: >> >>> Having just built world on 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 >>> r234370: Tue Apr 17 10:17:46 CEST 2012, gives me now a flooding of >>>

Re: Python won't build?

2012-04-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting John Nielsen : On Mar 31, 2012, at 10:21 PM, John Nielsen wrote: I updated a machine yesterday from 9-STABLE to 10-CURRENT (r233631). Everything went smoothly with the update itself, but I ran in to an issue with Python when rebuilding all of my installed ports. Python won&#

Re: Python won't build?

2012-04-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Mar 31, 2012, at 10:21 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > I updated a machine yesterday from 9-STABLE to 10-CURRENT (r233631). > Everything went smoothly with the update itself, but I ran in to an issue > with Python when rebuilding all of my installed ports. Python won't build; it >

Python won't build?

2012-03-31 Thread John Nielsen
I updated a machine yesterday from 9-STABLE to 10-CURRENT (r233631). Everything went smoothly with the update itself, but I ran in to an issue with Python when rebuilding all of my installed ports. Python won't build; it complains about the definition of LONG_BIT. I had python27 installed but py

Re: loader crash / BTX halted on 9.0-RC2 DVD with AMD pseudo-RAID

2011-11-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Nov 22, 2011, at 10:26 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, November 21, 2011 1:45:36 pm John Nielsen wrote: >> This weekend I downloaded the Freebsd 9.0 RC2 amd64 ISO image and burned it > to a DVD. I have a computer that currently runs Windows 7 but I plan to > install F

loader crash / BTX halted on 9.0-RC2 DVD with AMD pseudo-RAID

2011-11-21 Thread John Nielsen
This weekend I downloaded the Freebsd 9.0 RC2 amd64 ISO image and burned it to a DVD. I have a computer that currently runs Windows 7 but I plan to install FreeBSD on it in the near future so I booted it up from the DVD to check the hardware/driver status. Much to my dismay, the boot loader cras

Re: build flags for a 386DX (5.1)

2003-06-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:32, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, John Nielsen wrote: > > As I indicated, my only hangup is that I'm not familiar enough with the > > new GCC 3 build procedures to know where to put the -march and/or -mcpu > > flags for a build

Re: build flags for a 386DX (5.1)

2003-06-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 13 June 2003 15:02, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:44:06PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John Nielsen wrote: > > > [escalated from -questions] > > > > > > Hi folks- > > > > > > I am setting up F

build flags for a 386DX (5.1)

2003-06-12 Thread John Nielsen
[escalated from -questions] Hi folks- I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine may be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS installed with a custom kernel, and things are actuall

dhclient script in rc.d doesn't use ${dhcp_program} (conf/53007)

2003-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
Hi folks- I'm happily using 5.1 and it's terrific. Keep up the great work. I just submitted a PR for a bug I noticed in the dhclient script. Namely, it ignores the setting of dhcp_program from rc.conf. A one-line fix did the trick for me, although there may be ramifications I'm not aware of.

Re: USB support for new HP printers?

2002-12-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 02 December 2002 05:13, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:36:15PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > > Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? > > Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a > >

USB support for new HP printers?

2002-08-25 Thread John Nielsen
Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a new/different/broken USB interface so they're just recognized as ugen devices at the moment.. JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs