On 11/16/2012 08:52 AM, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will
> be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is
> a rolling procedure?
Hi
No it only updates the release you have.
To
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:04:17 -0800
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> >> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to
> >> upgrade
> >> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility?
>
> Andreas> Yes, it is.
>
> Can I go from 8.3 directly to
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:52:02 +0100
"Matthias Petermann" wrote:
>do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will
>be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is
>a rolling procedure?
>I ask this because I could not find a parameter et
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:38:43 +0100, Andreas Rudisch wrote:
> But keep in mind that you will have to recompile/
> reinstall all installed ports.
This is not required as long as you install the compatx
port. But as soon as you update some port, or maybe want to
install something new, things tend to
On 11/15/12 15:56, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
>
>> Trying to rebuild ports, I'm consistently getting the following:
>>
>> ahcich1 Timeout on slot 13 port 0
>> ^ slot varies
>> g_vfs_done() ada0p6 [WRITE(offset=38838571008 length=409
On 2012-11-15 17:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
(This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually
knew
what I was doing, but...)
OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew
from the manpage examples, and then followed those up with two
commands
from y
On 2012-11-15 15:57, Matthias Petermann wrote:
Hello,
from a freshly installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I did a freebsd-update
to bring
it to the latest patch level.
After:
# freebsd-update fetch
I got this message:
WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life dat
Hi all,
I ran into a rather odd issue this morning with my FreeBSD 9.0-Release
system running ZFS v28. This system serves as an RSYNC host which all of our
other systems back up to each night. Last night, I started getting the
following error:
file has vanished: "/backup/ldap1/etc/pki"
Now
On 11/16/12 14:07, dweimer wrote:
On 2012-11-15 17:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
(This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew
what I was doing, but...)
OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew
from the manpage examples, and then followed t
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
~$ gpart show ada0
=> 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G)
34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k)
162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) /
419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap
429917788388608 4 free
Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop.
Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under?
___
freebsd-questi
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500
Fbsd8 wrote:
> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
> No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
> running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop.
>
> Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under?
> _
Mario Lobo wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500
Fbsd8 wrote:
Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop.
Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500
Fbsd8 wrote:
> Mario Lobo wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500
> > Fbsd8 wrote:
> >
> >> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
> >> No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
> >> running from the FreeBSD hos
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500
Fbsd8 wrote:
> Mario Lobo wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500
> > Fbsd8 wrote:
> >
> >> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
> >> No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
> >> running from the FreeBSD hos
~$ gpart show ada0
=> 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G)
34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k)
162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) /
419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap
429917788388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.
It looks like this may be the same issue as reported here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-October/027902.html
but that thread seems to have just died off about a year ago.
Zfs scrub is still running, but not reported errors so far. I'm going to run
a "zdb -ccv backup" once
Ok, really confused now. I just ran an "rm -rf /backup/ldap1", which errored
out when trying to rm "/backup/ldap1/etc/pki",
"/backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", and
"/backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.avail". Everything else got purged correctly,
except for those phantom files.
I the
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Brian Gold simons-rock.edu> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I ran into a rather odd issue this morning with my FreeBSD 9.0-Release
> system running ZFS v28. This system serves as an RSYNC host which all of our
> other systems back up to each night. Last night, I started getting the
> following error:
>
Well... apparently I was able to get this to work on my own. To recap, I
have an ExoPC Slate running FreeBSD 9.0 and xorg 1.7 with an eGalax
USB HID touch screen. Out of the box, ums(4) claims it but doesn't
like it.
After investigating a bit more, I found that the screen has multiple HID
collect
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
~$ gpart show ada0
=> 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G)
34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k)
162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) /
419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap
429917788388608 4 fr
Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Plant wrote:
I looked over the GPT sample and have a question.
In the fstab entries, something that uses msdosfs, (thumb drive maybe).
%%%>>
Can you enter it directly in the fstab after the basic partitions and
other /dev have been enter
Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop.
Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under?
NOPE !!
VBoxHeadless -startvm "vm name"
Issueing Virtua
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
>
> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
> No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
> running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop.
>
> Do I need a Desktop for virtualbo
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
>
> I read the UserManual and think I am barking up the wrong tree.
>
It's called the XY problem, and it's resolved by asking better questions.
> So lets start over again with what the wanted desired result is.
> I have 9.0 installed on my 200g
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:18:10 -0500
Fbsd8 wrote:
>
> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host.
> No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox
> running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop.
>
> Do I need a Desktop f
On 15 November 2012 04:06, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me.
>
> My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older
> hardware is very long.
>
> Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build?
>
> If I can
Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
> > I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host.
>
> This would be your problem.
How so? Surely virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the
XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This
suppose
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:10 AM, wrote:
> Adam Vande More wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
> > > I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host.
> >
> > This would be your problem.
>
> How so? Surely virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the
> XP guest, for it
On 11/16/12 12:10, Warren Block wrote:
>> ~$ gpart show ada0
>> => 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G)
>> 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k)
>>162 41943040 2 freebsd-ufs (20G) /
>> 419432021048576 3 freebsd-swap (512M)swap
>
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 11/16/12 12:10, Warren Block wrote:
Additional SSD suggestions: when creating partitions, leave out the swap
partition. If you have lots of memory, leave out the /tmp partition. Add
that extra space to the /usr partition.
Format the UFS filesystems
so, after updating bios, repartitioning, etc,
things seem to be stable, modulo the following:
decided to rebuild ports for peace of mind,
but my basic ports tree is hosed:
# portmaster -t --clean-distfiles
...
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.php.mk", line 335: Malformed conditional
(${_USE_PHP_VE
On 17/11/2012 15:26, Gary Aitken wrote:
decided to rebuild ports for peace of mind,
but my basic ports tree is hosed:
I didn't see anything in the handbook about how to get the ports tree itself
back to a sane condition. Do I have to blow the whole thing away and do a
fresh extract? I don't
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