Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:54:54 +0100 From: Wouter Vijvers <woutje@chello.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: woutje@chello.nl Subject: A bunch of questions (long) Message-ID: <3CA50CDE.5020902@chello.nl>
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Hi all! I have have a couple of (small) problems with my fresh FreeBSD 4.4 install. I'm not new to Unix, but this is my first FreeBSD install. I'll try to keep this mail as clear as possible by using headings and I'm sorry if it's long. BTW, I'm not subscribed to the list, but reading it through the newsgroup mailing.freebsd.questions, so replies from me might take a bit longer. I'm sorry if some of these things are in FAQ's or mailing-archives, but I have tried searching through them and couldn't find the answers to these questions. General info: ============= - AMD Duron 800MHz w/ 256MB RAM on LAN behind NetBSD gateway on cable-modem (IPNat, Ipf) - running FreeBSD 4.4 (installed from CD), KDE 2.2.2, XFree86 4.1.0 - get IP etc. from the NetBSD gateway through dhcp. DNS/Name resolving: =================== I've noticed problems with name resolving. First, sendmail took ages to start up on boot, so I disabled it (temporarily). It was probably waiting for a lookup to time out. Secondly, while browsing with Mozilla 0.9.9, it seemed to stop loading very often, saying "Resolving host www.blah.com...". Seems to be better now that I'm using my ISP's proxy, though. It does get the right DNS-server IP-adresses from the dhcp-server and writes them to /etc/resolv.conf. If I try -- kees# nslookup www.slashdot.org Server: ns1.a2000.nl Address: 62.108.1.65 Non-authoritative answer: Name: slashdot.org Address: 64.28.67.150 Aliases: www.slashdot.org -- everything seems to work dandy, but there obviously still is something wrong (or "not right") somewhere. What am I missing here? Do I need to set up a (cache/internal) name-server? I thought this wasn't necessary. Right now, this computer hasn't a valid hostname (in the sense that it exists on the internet). Is that the problem? XFree86 core dump on shutdown: ============================== Everytime I reboot or shutdown, XFree86 dumps core: -- Mar 29 23:25:06 kees kdm[359]: no modules loaded for `kde' service Mar 29 23:25:21 kees /kernel: pid 358 (XFree86), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Mar 29 23:25:21 kees reboot: rebooted by root Mar 29 23:25:21 kees syslogd: exiting on signal 15 -- with at the end of /var/log/kdm.log: -- Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting -- Is this normal?? I would think not. I'm not going to post XFree86.0.log here, because it's too long, but is this a known problem or worth reporting about? XMMS occasionally stops: Device Busy: ===================================== My soundcard (CS4624) and XMMS work fine, but sometime when switching to the next mp3 file, XMMS pops up and error-message saying the device can't be accessed and writes to the console: -- ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy -- This goes away after a couple of minutes. I have the feeling this has to do with the mail-notification in Mozilla, but that beep uses the pc-speaker, which is on a different device. Also, it only happens while switching tracks, not the moment that a new mail arrives and Mozilla beeps. Can't mount /cdrom: Device busy (again!): ========================================= I was trying to install www/plugger from ports and one of the dependent packages gave a compile error on the line -- #include<sstream> -- But since I deleted /usr/src because I needed the space, that understandable, I guess. When I tried to mount the install CD to get the source, it said: -- kees# mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Device busy -- It gave the same message with /cdrom1, but that has changed now to -- kees# mount /cdrom1 cd9660: /dev/acd1c: Invalid argument -- for some reason I don't understand. dmesg says: -- acd0: CD-RW <8X4X32> at ata1-master using PIO4 acd1: CDROM <CD-ROM 48X/TKU> at ata1-slave using PIO4 -- So they seem to be correctly recognized. What can I do about this? BTW, if I succeed, do I only need the include files to be able to compile? Is there maybe another way to get the source. Mozilla doesn't want me to set personal toolbar: ================================================ Not really a FreeBSD question, but somebody might still know. I imported a bookmarks-file from a mounted FAT32 partition (which was a couple of months old), but Mozilla doesn't want to set the PTF from that file as the current PTF. Phew, that's a lot of typing ;). If some of you can give one or more answers or pointers, I'd be very gratefull. I hope to ever be capable of helping others. Greets, Wouter P.S. Extra dmesg or other messages/logs available upon request. The post is long enough as it is :). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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