Re: * Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:19:32PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > On Jan 20, 2012, at 7:43 PM, gore wrote: > > > > why not just use 8.x or something? I'm not being sarcastic > > or anything either, I really am asking why not jut go to 8.2 which I > > also Loved? > > SU+J by Kirk McKusick ?? :-D

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 21 Jan 2012, at 05:47, Michael Sierchio wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1, and IMHO, the 9.0 installer SUX! > It blow chunks. It's a POS. It's crap. It is a joke. > > I hope I made myself clear. ;-) > > - M Just because you see things a certain way doesn't make them a fa

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: > Just to give thoughts as a younger user... > Also, there was plently of time during RC to discuss this, I don't see why you > all cry right now. To me, it seems you are afraid of change and getting out of > your comfort zone. I don't ha

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-20 Thread 'Frank Shute'
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:31:00PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- From: 'Frank Shute' > > [mailto:fr...@shute.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:52 > > PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Chad Perrin'; > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Dave Robison Subject: Re: FreeBS

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Lyubomir Grigorov
Just to give thoughts as a younger user... I first touched FreeBSD around 2005. The current insteller is much more appealing and useful. All the people displaying elitist attitude toward the arcaic installer which infact DID push people away from FreeBSD, I don't understand you. The old install

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Sierchio
I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1, and IMHO, the 9.0 installer SUX! It blow chunks. It's a POS. It's crap. It is a joke. I hope I made myself clear. ;-) - M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

* Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Devin Teske
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2012, at 7:43 PM, gore wrote: [snip] > I also bought the newer 4th Edition when it came out. (Having Marshal > Kirk McKusick do the forward made me happy, he's one of my personal > heros. I also got to speak with him recently and I was almost > speechless

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread gore
I've been sort of keeping track of this particular thread, because it interested me, and after reading through, I'd like to share my personal opinions. Now, before I go any further, let me just state here and now; This is my personal opinion, so, please, don't take this in a bad way, or in the

kgzip(8) regression in RELENG_9 GENERIC

2012-01-20 Thread Devin Teske
Taking a GENERIC 9.0-RELEASE kernel and running kgzip(8) on it produces an unusable kernel which causes immediate BTX halt in loader(8). NOTE: This is w.r.t. a completely un-modified src-tree (including the GENERIC config itself). Just thought I'd share this regression. 8.1-RELEASE-p6 doesn't ha

Re: Was... A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues Now... The other way round problem

2012-01-20 Thread Tim Kellers
If you backed up up your ~/.thunderbird file before you upgraded (yes, I was shocked to see that I actually did back mine up), copy the mimeTypes.rdf from your old install to the new install (its in the .thunderbird directory, 2 levels down) and your browser of choice will launch on a thunderb

Re: Was... A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues Now... The other way round problem

2012-01-20 Thread Da Rock
On 01/21/12 02:27, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-01-20 17:16, Leslie Jensen skrev: Excuse me for using this thread but I feel I have a problem related to this, but with Thunderbird not opening URLs. I followed all instructions I can find, but have not been successful. Using the config editor I

problem to kill -KILL process

2012-01-20 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi # ps ax|grep rad 45471 ?? Thttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread ajtiM
On Friday 20 January 2012 13:41:25 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:21:38 -0600, ajtiM wrote: > > The other one is with Opera-11-60: /usr/local/lib/opera/liboperagtk2.so > > misses libz.so.5 > > > > I have on the system ;ibz.so.6 > > I think you need to reinstall Opera so it will be lin

Re: freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:24:53 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Is it true that freebsd-update does not update the souce files from > 8.2-R to 9.0-RELEASE? I think also updating src/ is the default behaviour. See "man freebsd-update.conf", setting "Components": The parameters following this

Re: libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 January 2012 14:21, ajtiM wrote: > Hi! > > I ran pkg_libchk on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 and I got: > libreoffice-3.4.5: > /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program/libofficebean.so > misses libjawt.so > > I did check and I have /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/i386/libjawt.so > I had installed d

Re: libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:21:38 -0600, ajtiM wrote: > The other one is with Opera-11-60: /usr/local/lib/opera/liboperagtk2.so > misses > libz.so.5 > > I have on the system ;ibz.so.6 I think you need to reinstall Opera so it will be linked against the current version libz.so.6. Maybe you have left

libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I ran pkg_libchk on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 and I got: libreoffice-3.4.5: /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program/libofficebean.so misses libjawt.so I did check and I have /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/i386/libjawt.so I had installed diableo which I deinstalled and install openjdk6. I reins

Re: Was... A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues Now... The other way round problem

2012-01-20 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-01-20 17:16, Leslie Jensen skrev: Excuse me for using this thread but I feel I have a problem related to this, but with Thunderbird not opening URLs. I followed all instructions I can find, but have not been successful. Using the config editor I added the following, and have checked tha

freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Is it true that freebsd-update does not update the souce files from 8.2-R to 9.0-RELEASE? And if not what is the best way to get the src.txz installed on an updated system? I do have the disc1 iso. Is src.txz installed under /usr/src or /usr/src/sys?

Was... A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues Now... The other way round problem

2012-01-20 Thread Leslie Jensen
Excuse me for using this thread but I feel I have a problem related to this, but with Thunderbird not opening URLs. I followed all instructions I can find, but have not been successful. Using the config editor I added the following, and have checked that it is in the file prefs.js: user_pr

[SOLVED] A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues

2012-01-20 Thread Da Rock
I don't know who else has come across this, or who even uses this particular combination of firefox and thunderbird. I use it for the sake of my users, so its just easier to be a roman in rome. I have setup IceWM as the standard though. In firefox when one clicks on a mailto: link it fails to

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 1/20/12 9:36 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> >> On 1/19/12 3:25 AM, Allan McKinnon wrote: >>> I finally got to install FreeBSD 9 onto my computer and noticed that >>> the installer is now different. It seems to me that it forces you >>> into doing extra steps that I was comfortable

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Fbsd8
Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 1/19/12 3:25 AM, Allan McKinnon wrote: I finally got to install FreeBSD 9 onto my computer and noticed that the installer is now different. It seems to me that it forces you into doing extra steps that I was comfortable doing on my own. I really enjoyed the old in