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Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to
> small and filling up all the time.
>
> What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a
> solution?
>
> I would ver
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Anders Gulden Olstad wrote:
> Add the size of the g partition to the f partition in the editor. Delete
^^^^^^
> the g partition line and save.
I mean of course partition 'e' and 'g'!
Sorry!
/Anders
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> Add the size of the g partition to the f partition in the editor. Delete
^^^^^^
> the g partition line and save.
^^^
I mean of course partition 'e' and 'g'!
Sorry!
/Anders
dev/ad0s1a128990 119970
CONSOLE
As we know, the console drivers atkbd and sc do not support unicode
(in contrast to linux console drivers, for example).
So we have to use programs able to translate unicode to a single byte
code table. I use my PC successfully in such a manner.
X
You should set LC_CTYPE to ru_RU.UTF-8 (
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Anders Gulden Olstad wrote:
> Given that I don't know what version of FreeBSD you're running, I would
> first try to move and symlink /var into /usr
>
> Got to single user mode first. Then copy /var with cpio
>
> # find /var -print | cpio -pvdmu /us
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600
Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:40, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote:
> > Good work Jonathan,
> >
> > As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you
> > got past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to h
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:35:05PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 14 Dec Bastiaan Welmers wrote:
>
> > One nasty thing is that when afterwards installing a package
> > requiring
> > gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent this you could just
> > "fake"
> > the pkg db that gamin is installed
Lane wrote:
> I can, in fact, run a gui root process on the remote machine, now.
>
> Unfortunately I still can't run qemu so that I can get the console. I get:
>
> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 25 (X_SendEvent)
> Resource
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
2006 December 17 Sunday
What decision junction leads to SELECT DEFAULT DESKTOP in 6.1 install?
I cannot find what decision junction leads to the SELECT DEFAULT DESKTOP
screen as featured in the installation documents and portrayed in
Figure 2-51. Select Default Des
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"Chad Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/15/06, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
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Hi
Im getting the following error when trying to install ruby-
gnomecanvas2...
===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===> Extracting for ruby18-gnomecanvas2-0.15.0.20061130
=> MD5 Checksum mismatch for ruby/ruby-gnome2-all-0.15.0.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum mismatch for ruby/ru
Hi,
I just did "portupgrade -a" and at the end I see a list with 79 skipped ports.
Why did he skip them, and how can I update them?
Thanks
Karl
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Hi,
in the ports collection I can only find the 0.17 version of libopensync.
How can I install the 0.20?
Thanks
Karl
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Hi,
I compiled amule2 from the port collection but there is no choice for the
languages. How do I add the other languages?
Thanks
Karl
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On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:52, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Lane wrote:
> > I can, in fact, run a gui root process on the remote machine, now.
> >
> > Unfortunately I still can't run qemu so that I can get the console. I
> > get:
> >
> > X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window paramete
On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:57, Karl Sinn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just did "portupgrade -a" and at the end I see a list with 79 skipped
> ports.
>
> Why did he skip them, and how can I update them?
Skipped means they were up to date and didn't need updating. You can force an
update by using the "f"
Hi,
I'm having a problem with Firefox 2 and opening pdf files with kpdf.
When clicking on a pdf doc in firefox, the window to "Open with" or "Save"
pops up. But when I want to select Open with..., there is no way to select
kpdf because i can't get into the proper directory (/usr/local/bin/kpdf
On Sunday 17 December 2006 15:41, Beni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem with Firefox 2 and opening pdf files with kpdf.
>
> When clicking on a pdf doc in firefox, the window to "Open with" or "Save"
> pops up. But when I want to select Open with..., there is no way to select
> kpdf because i c
On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:53, Nick Withers wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600
>
> Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (snip)
>
> > one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there
> > was one good article about installing freebsd on an ibm t42 (found
> > it on g
hi...
I would like to ask a wireless problem but has little to do with the
article here...
i want to setup my desktop to use wireless, but there doesn't seem to have a
lot of wireless PCI card supported available, and the supported ones are
quite expensive... I wonder if there is a more updated h
On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said:
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby18.
> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade12405.0
> make PORT_UPGRADE=yes reinstall
> egrep: /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.8.4_9,1/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory
> ---> Restoring the old version
>
> An
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the old version.
When running make deinstall from the ports directory I get:
===> Deinstalling fo
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
> I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
> into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
> it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the old version.
> When running make deinstal
Hi there,
I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and
the another is an i386 machine
with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences.
If I run ggated on the i386 and I try to connect through ggatec from the
sparc, ggated exits telling me
it
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Karl Sinn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I compiled amule2 from the port collection but there is no choice for the
> languages. How do I add the other languages?
>
> Thanks
> Karl
If there aren't localized versions in your particular language (see
/usr/ports/[la
El domingo 17 de diciembre a las 17:47:13 CET, Beech Rintoul escribió:
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
> > I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
> > into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
> > it worked fine. T
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found these IP addresses?
Are these entries created during ins
Hi all,
bit of a long saga, and a (by now) humble question ..
I reinstalled php5-5.2.0 from its package, after having to deinstall
php 4 and reinstall 5 after the only major glitch on a portupgrade -aPP
on a 5.5-STABLE system upgrading old ports, mostly from 5.4-R days.
[FWIW, portupgrading phpM
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
So, portaudit keeps complaining about openssh, but when I try to upgrade...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo portupgrade -R openssh
[Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 207 packages
found (-1 +1) (...). done]
---> Upgrading 'openssh-3.6.1_5' to 'openssh-3.6.1_6' (securi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found these IP addresses?
Are thes
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the next:
>
> nameserver 82.207.67.2
> nameserver 213.179.244.18
>
> Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
> or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
>
> I wonder how the system found these
In the last episode (Dec 17), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the next:
>
> nameserver 82.207.67.2
> nameserver 213.179.244.18
>
> Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
> or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
>
> I wonder how
On Dec 17, 2006, at 12:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
contains the next:
nameserver 82.207.67.2
nameserver 213.179.244.18
Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
I wonder how the system found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the next:
>
> nameserver 82.207.67.2
> nameserver 213.179.244.18
>
> Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
> or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
>
> I wonder how the system found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the next:
>
> nameserver 82.207.67.2
> nameserver 213.179.244.18
>
> Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
> or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
>
> I wonder how the system found these IP add
Hi there,
I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and
the another is an i386 machine
with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences.
If I run ggated on the i386 and I try to connect through ggatec from the
sparc, ggated exits telling me
it
You should probably report this in the freebsd-geom list.
Andrea Montemaggio wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and
> the another is an i386 machine
> with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences.
> If I run ggated
Hi,
I am running a FreeBSD6.1 Webserver with mysql but having problems
I found below mentioned quote on the net? But I don't know where to find
this "libmap.conf" file?
-quote from the NET
For FreeBSD 6 tests show that using "libthr" gives the best perfor
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
[ ... ]
So, the logs tell me why.
swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
pid 24321 (ruby18), uid 0
Hi!
I now have to work with several charsets simultaneously.
Naturally, I use UTF-8 in xterm, but whenever I need to
work with some exotic (8-bit mostly) charset, I have to
resort to iconv(1), which is not very comfortable.
Does anyone have any idea of how to solve this problem?
I'm thinking on-
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the next:
>
> nameserver 82.207.67.2
> nameserver 213.179.244.18
>
> Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
> or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> So, the logs tell me why.
>>
>>> swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
>>> swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
>>> swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
>>> swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
>>> sw
Maxim Vetrov :
> Hi,
Hello,
> I'm running 6.1 on Toshiba notebook SAtellite L100. Get stuck with
> auto config of wireless cardbus adapter (D-Link DWL-G650). I want to
> load kernel module (if_ath.ko) automatically when I insert it into the
> slot. I found that I need /etc/devd.conf to be confi
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> CONSOLE
>
> As we know, the console drivers atkbd and sc do not support unicode
> (in contrast to linux console drivers, for example).
> So we have to use programs able to translate unicode to a single byte
> code table. I u
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:42:46PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> > contains the next:
> >
> > nameserver 82.207.67.2
> > nameserver 213.179.244.18
> >
> > Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:42:46PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> > contains the next:
> >
> > nameserver 82.207.67.2
> > nameserver 213.179.244.18
> >
> > Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:42:46PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> > contains the next:
> >
> > nameserver 82.207.67.2
> > nameserver 213.179.244.18
> >
> > Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org
On 17/12/06, Bradley Giesbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to
small and filling up all the time.
What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a
solution?
I would very much prefer to not install ano
On Thursday 14 December 2006 00:17, Bastiaan Welmers wrote:
> - sometimes I still can't unmount the media even if all KDE windows (and
> other programs) are closed. I think some instance of gamin or KDE
> keeps running although all windows have been closed. This also
> indicates sometimes no
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> More to the point, you might want to find out what is
> filling your /var as that is quite a lot of space being used
> if you are not running a mailserver.
> du -d1 -h /var (as root) should give you some clues.
Allow me to suggest instead:
du /var
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:47:15PM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
> I am running a FreeBSD6.1 Webserver with mysql but having problems
> I found below mentioned quote on the net? But I don't know where to find
> this "libmap.conf" file?
You should be able to find it in /etc/. If it doesn't exist then yo
--On December 16, 2006 10:07:27 PM -0500 "Michael P. Soulier"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just did a portupgrade on mailman, and now it's doing this.
Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error.
Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group
"nobody", bu
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:24:04 -0600
Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:53, Nick Withers wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600
> >
> > Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (snip)
> >
> > > one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld it
halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the error
the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys. But this
doesn't delete the symlink.
No flags are set on /sys.
Anybody got any idea what is
> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:31:58 -0800
> From: Bradley Giesbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: var out of space
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> Hello,
>
>
> I inherited a freebsd i
Hi,
Am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2006 18:14 schrieb Garrett Cooper:
> In general though, I don't think that there's really an easy way for
> installing multi-language binaries in FreeBSD at this time though, but I
> could be wrong..
Your answer surprises me, because all the amule versions that I saw
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld it
halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the error the
script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys. But this
doesn't delete the symlink.
No flags are set on /sys.
Any
Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the old version.
When runni
James Long wrote:
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:31:58 -0800
From: Bradley Giesbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: var out of space
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Hello,
I inherited a freebsd ins
José G. Juanino wrote:
El domingo 17 de diciembre a las 17:47:13 CET, Beech Rintoul escribió:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
it wo
Greg Groth wrote:
Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install,
and
it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the ol
I've always thought that writing to a file descriptor with O_NONBLOCK
set was supposed to return quickly. Isn't that the whole point of
O_NONBLOCK ?
I have a C program writing to stdout, which is set to O_NONBLOCK,
and the shell redirects stdout to a regular disk file. Dispite
O_NONBLOCK, my pro
I choose minial installation, NAT, uncheck Attach CD.
I have the ISO on my desktop and throw it on the CD
picture of the virtual pc which is where I've
read it to install to this point so I know that is
working.
It writes holographic and then I get this error
message:
"Cannot parse information
In the last episode (Dec 17), Andrew Pantyukhin said:
> I now have to work with several charsets simultaneously. Naturally, I
> use UTF-8 in xterm, but whenever I need to work with some exotic
> (8-bit mostly) charset, I have to resort to iconv(1), which is not
> very comfortable.
>
> Does anyone
El domingo 17 de diciembre a las 21:53:00 CET, Greg Groth escribió:
> Beech Rintoul wrote:
> >On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote:
> >>I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran
> >>into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and
>
In the last episode (Dec 17), Dieter said:
> I've always thought that writing to a file descriptor with O_NONBLOCK
> set was supposed to return quickly. Isn't that the whole point of
> O_NONBLOCK ?
>
> I have a C program writing to stdout, which is set to O_NONBLOCK, and
> the shell redirects std
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
At 22:01 17-12-2006, you wrote:
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld
it halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the
error the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys.
But this
I'm about to move my system, I've read the FAQ, I don't want to rearrange
anything. I want to make sure I have the process down correctly before I try,
so I am asking here. I am using 6.0 #2.
First, I hook up both drives. I partition the new hard drive and label it the
same way as the previous
On Sunday 17 December 2006 18:16, Oliver Iberien wrote:
> I'm about to move my system, I've read the FAQ, I don't want to rearrange
> anything. I want to make sure I have the process down correctly before I
> try, so I am asking here. I am using 6.0 #2.
>
> First, I hook up both drives. I partition
Where can I ask questions about the web hosting?
I am being asked to set-up a web site that will deliver video, a
youTube wannabe :-) So I'd like visit a forum that discusses such
things
malcolm
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On 12/17/06, Malcolm Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where can I ask questions about the web hosting?
I am being asked to set-up a web site that will deliver video, a
youTube wannabe :-) So I'd like visit
Hi,
I've been playing around with geli and I was wondering if anyone
managed to actually use the feature which loads the keyfile before the
root filesystem is mounted.
Specifically, to use something similar in /boot/loader.conf:
geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_load="YES"
geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_t
I'm using the newest FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on our web server (compiled at
last friday, 06-12-15). But it always crashes these days.
The following information displayed on the screen with system crashed.
Fatal trap 30: reserved (unknown) fault w
On 12/17/2006 00:02, Jonathan Horne wrote:
well, a day well spent, i finally sat down to get the intel 2200 wireless on
my ibm t42 working. i have sucessfully configured it to attach to my WPA
encrypted wifi on bootup. everything is otherwise working to my
satisfaction.
now, my questions ar
Hi All,
I installed PC-BSD 1.2 (FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2) on a PC with i810
chipset. Well, as you might have guessed from the subject, X did not
start, with an error indicating the /dev/agpgart was not present.
AFAIK, agp, drm support is built-in for FreeBSD 6.1 - so I am not sure
why /dev/agpgart
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