Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I believe that this should be supplied by a a package or port named something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. Can anyone point me in the right dire

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: > >> I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the >> following Python error: >> >> ImportError: No m

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:29:44 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) >>> Walter Hurry wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. >> I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in >> case a

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:51:49 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) >>> Walter Hurry wrote: >>>> >>&

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:07:59 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:54:29 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: >> >>> >> >>> How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on >> >>> this I found that a number of the

Unresolvable links

2012-04-27 Thread Walter Hurry
Arising from a very useful link posted by Warren Block in another thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=163415&postcount=17 , I have been running libchk. It now gives the following (relevant) output: Unresolvable link(s) found in: /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/ configmgr.uno.so

FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to work. I have scoured the handbook, and Googled, but to no avail. This is

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:14:35 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to > FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in > FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) > m

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:22:51 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> Option "AutoAddDevices" "On" > > Set this to off. > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried setting it to "Off", but there is no apparent difference; only a new set of messages in Xorg.0.log: (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise

FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:59:01 -0400, Jerry wrote: > Ubuntu, > Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as KDE, GNOME and X.org are in the > process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large monolithic > unmaintainable mess". Well, I finally got it working. I'm far from an expert in this area, but

Re: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:59:01 -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> Ubuntu, >> Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as KDE, GNOME and X.org are in >> the process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large mono

Re: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:58:49 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-06-08 17:51, Walter Hurry skrev: >> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: >> Never mind: Stupid moi. The answer was staring me in the face in man >> rc.conf. moused_port. >> >> >

Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

2012-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice (from 3.4.4 to 3.5.2.5). During the build it has (so far) errored out 4 times, in the following modules: vcl framework sfx2 tail_build Each time, it told me to go into the subdirectory, do a gmake clean and a gmake

Re: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:58:25 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-06-09 00:10, Walter Hurry skrev: >> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:58:49 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> >>> 2012-06-08 17:51, Walter Hurry skrev: >>>> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +, Walter Hurry wro

Re: Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

2012-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:25 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > On 09/06/12 at 04:41P, Walter Hurry wrote: >> FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. >> >> I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice (from 3.4.4 >> to 3.5.2.5). During the build it has (so far) errored out 4 times,

Re: Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

2012-06-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:46:49 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:25 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > >> On 09/06/12 at 04:41P, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. >>> >>> I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice

Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron $ I have a syntactically valid crontab: $ cr

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. > > What's in your shell scripts? Thanks for the quick response. $ pkg_info|grep bash bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell $ which bash /bin/bash $ $ le

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does > /var/log/cron say? $ file /bin/bash /bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash' $ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity) Ju

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > cat /etc/shells $ cat /etc/shells # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $ # # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using # one of these shells. /bin/

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: > The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about > leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions > of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show > that it is starting his

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:18 -0500, Chris wrote: > On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: >> >>> The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about >>> leading spaces, tabs, extra s

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:32:24 +0200, Fred Morcos wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most > comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would > like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all in > a single email

No sound in Flash

2012-06-20 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9 (x86_64). Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I have googled assiduously and found nothing useful. I have installed Flash, following the instructions in the handbook. It works well, and the video element seems fine and smooth. But on (for example) YouTube, there is no audio at all. This is d

Re: No sound in Flash

2012-06-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:31:02 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> FreeBSD 9 (x86_64). >> >> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I have googled assiduously and found >> nothing useful. >> >> I have installed Flash, following the instructions in the handbook. > Flash is adobe product and they don't provide bina

Sendmail and Postfix

2012-06-22 Thread Walter Hurry
A little digging around has revealed that there are two 'mailq' executables on my system: /usr/local/bin/mailq and /usr/bin/mailq. The first is part of the mail/postfix-current port which I have installed and use, and the second is presumably part of Sendmail, which I have not installed and do

Re: Sendmail and Postfix

2012-06-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:41:46 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > When you installed Postfix did you allow it to update the entries in > /etc/mail/mailer.conf ? If so, I wouldn't worry about the mailq binary > that came with the system; it's ignored. Thanks! (Thanks too to the other responders.) Looks li

Re: Understanding XDM

2012-06-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:19:54 +0200, Christian Graulund wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I just install FreeBSD 9, and after compiling Xorg, I started trying to > figure out how to install a Window Manager. > When Following the handbook, I suggest installing XDM. I want to use > something like Openbox, as

Xorg listening on the WAN?

2012-06-25 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I think Xorg is listening on external addresses: $ sockstat -46 |grep Xorg root Xorg 1573 1 tcp6 *:6000*:* root Xorg 1573 3 tcp4 *:6000*:* $ netstat -a|grep x11 tcp4 0 0 *.x11 *.*

Re: Xorg listening on the WAN?

2012-06-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:22:57 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > $ man Xorg | col -b | fgrep -- -nolisten Thanks for the pointer. I'm probably being stupid here, and I should have mentioned that I had already tried 'man Xorg' and 'man Xsession'. I appreciate that the answer is probably to put '-nol

Re: Xorg listening on the WAN?

2012-06-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:05:50 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, June 25, 2012 a las 09:58:37PM +0200, Matthias Apitz > escribió: > >> El día Monday, June 25, 2012 a las 07:51:02PM +0000, Walter Hurry >> escribió: >> >> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012

SOLVED: Xorg listening on the WAN? (was Xorg listening on the WAN?)

2012-06-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:33:15 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:05:50 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> El día Monday, June 25, 2012 a las 09:58:37PM +0200, Matthias Apitz >> escribió: >> >>> El día Monday, June 25, 2012 a las 07:51:02PM

Re: Messages not reaching the lists

2012-06-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:24:56 +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 6/29/12 6:40 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> Lately I've been noticing that almost without fail, any messages I send >> to the FreeBSD mailing lists never actually appear on the list. >> >> Just wondering if maybe my ISP (cox.net) h

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:40:37 +0200, Julien Cigar wrote: > On 06/29/2012 11:00, Fred Morcos wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Wojciech Puchar >> wrote: >>> Most probably all filesystems were used with defaults. >>> >>> MAYBE softupdates, but not even sure for this. Compare this to linux

NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (64 bit), with a VirtualBox VM also running the same. On the host I am running NFS server: $ showmount -e Exports list on localhost: /usr/home Everyone But when I try to mount is on the client (the VM guest) I get this: # mount xx:/

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:42:02 -0400, kpneal wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 04:03:27PM +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: >> I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (64 bit), with a VirtualBox VM also >> running the same. >> >> On the host I am running NFS server: >>

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:55:27 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: > Are you root when mounting on the client? > From looking at your prompt # I think you are, but I ask just to make > sure. > You can also take a look at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- nfs.html > in the

Re: pkgng

2013-02-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >>> 'm slowly collecting examples of applications where the shlib analysis >>> doesn&#x

Re: pkgng

2013-02-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:57:57 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/02/2013 17:43, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >>> On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: >>>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthe

Question about port: net/linux-f10-openldap

2013-02-14 Thread Walter Hurry
When I install net/linux-f10-openldap (required by www/linux-f10- flashplugin), it installs a dangling symlink; i.e. /compat/linux/etc/ openldap. I realise of course that this is a rather trivial question, but should it be so? ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Pan-0.139 won't compile

2013-03-11 Thread Walter Hurry
Trying to upgrade /usr/ports/news/pan I get this: ___ mime-utils.cc: In function 'char* pan::__g_mime_iconv_strndup(void*, const char*, size_t, const char*)': mime-utils.cc:80: error: invalid conversion from 'char**' to 'const char**

Re: Pan-0.139 won't compile

2013-03-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:40:40 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Walter Hurry writes: > >> Trying to upgrade /usr/ports/news/pan I get this: >> ___ >> mime-utils.cc: In function 'char* pan::__g_mime_iconv

Re: Pan-0.139 won't compile

2013-03-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:17:33 +0100, Paul van der Zwan wrote: > On 12 Mar 2013, at 0:41 , Walter Hurry wrote: > >> Trying to upgrade /usr/ports/news/pan I get this: >> ___ >> mime-utils.cc

Re: iconv issue (Re: Pan-0.139 won't compile)

2013-03-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:50:10 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > And it's already been fixed. Well done, and thanks! If you look at my headers, you'll see I'm using it now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Problem with news/pan

2013-03-17 Thread Walter Hurry
This port (pan-0.139_1) will again not compile on 9.1-RELEASE (amd64). There are problems (with gtkspell) when using the default options, which are: GTK3 off gtkspell on The only way I dould get it to compile was by using 'make config' to turn the gtkspell option off. I hope Lowell Gilbert se

Re: Problem with news/pan

2013-03-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:04:54 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > dould s/dould/could/. No spell checker! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: Problem with news/pan

2013-03-18 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:51:04 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Walter Hurry writes: > >> This port (pan-0.139_1) will again not compile on 9.1-RELEASE (amd64). > > When did you last try it? > > It was last updated Saturday, and it builds fine for me. > > If it&#

Re: trying freeBSD 9.1 w/o installing

2013-03-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:51:49 +, ivan1...@netzero.net wrote: > HelloIn command-line form, the disk which i received in linuxpro > magazine is asking for a login and password, please assist.ThanksSteve If it's a live CD, username is root. Password is not required. _

Re: stupid portmaster question

2013-03-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:53:00 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Aryeh Friedman writes: > >> How do I tell portmaster -ad to ignore certain ports because they are >> broken such as editors/libreoffice is currently marked as (I am sure >> this will change soon) > > Your direct question was already an

Still a problem with 'pkg check -Ba'

2013-03-26 Thread Walter Hurry
I hope Matthew Seaman sees this: All the files are of course present and correct in /usr/local/lib/ virtualbox # pkg check -Ba pkg: (virtualbox-ose-4.2.6) /usr/local/bin/VBoxAutostart - shared library VBoxRT.so not found pkg: (virtualbox-ose-4.2.6) /usr/local/bin/VBoxAutostart - shared library

Re: Still a problem with 'pkg check -Ba'

2013-03-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:13:04 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > I hope Matthew Seaman sees this: > > All the files are of course present and correct in /usr/local/lib/ > virtualbox Should have mentioned: This is pkg-1.0.9_2 ___ freeb

Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts

2013-03-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:57:48 -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? > > I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but characters > beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. > > To answer the inevitable followup "why would anyo

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Now there are very few, if any, free servers There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet, nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable. ___ freebsd-que

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:37:43 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: >> >>> Now there are very few, if any, free servers >> >> There are still free news servers available. My I

x11-toolkits/gtksourceview2 is broken

2013-03-29 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64 This afternoon I upgraded textproc/libxml2 from version 2.7.8_5 to version 2.7.8_0 (at least I think it's libxml2 that's the problem - I upgraded py27-libxml2 and gdk-pixbuf2 at the same time). Then x11-toolkits/gtksourceview2 would not compile. I got the following

Re: x11-toolkits/gtksourceview2 is broken

2013-03-30 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:27:20 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 29 March 2013 15:11, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64 >> >> This afternoon I upgraded textproc/libxml2 from version 2.7.8_5 to >> version 2.7.8_0 (at least I think it&#x

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: > My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? > I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time > on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages are on the way apparently, but I have made my o

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:02:38 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500 Joshua Isom wrote: > >> I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the >> first cd-r I used. The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it >> hasn't been done yet. It's be

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:28:15 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Please excuse the top post Why? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsub

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:14:21 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Just made that into a batch file for my library. Should be a target in > the standard ports Makefile, IMHO. Maybe call it "rdistclean". Perhaps > this could be submitted as a PR. There are various options in portsclean (provided by ports-mg

Re: 9.1 Postfix problem

2013-04-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:16:20 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: > When building postfix under 91. I am running into an odd problem. I use > the INST_BASE option, which seems to cause the problem (it worked fine > with 9.0). The 'make' goes fine, but the 'make install' fails when > trying to install the star

Re: Virtual Box on FreeBSD Server

2013-04-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:37:11 -0700, Bill Tillman wrote: > I've been looking into setting up some Linux servers but instead I'm > thinking that I could use Virtual Box on my FreeBSD servers to do this. > I would like some seasoned advice from others on the following before > proceeding: > > 1. As

Flash?

2013-04-23 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. I have installed Flash according to the instructions in the handbook. When I do 'about:plugins' in Firefox, I get the following response: Shockwave Flash File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 MIME Type

Re: Flash?

2013-04-23 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:37:49 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > El 23/04/2013 21:24, "Walter Hurry" escribió: >> >> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. >> >> I have installed Flash according to the instructions in the handbook. >> When I do 'about:p

FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Walter Hurry
When I issue 'freebsd-update fetch install I see this: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Prepar

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:05:04 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > The kernel's version message will only change if the _kernel_ has been > receiving changes. So, for example, if you update from 9.1 to 9.1-p2, > and _no_ change has been written to the kernel, it will still report > 9.1, even though the updat

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:35:01 +0200, Alexandre wrote: > Freebsd-update tool apply binary patches to your -RELEASE system and > GENERIC kernel. > Furthermore, sources are synced too (/usr/src) by default. > If you want to see the -p# increased, you have to recompile your GENERIC > kernel. > If you a

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith > wrote: > >> You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no >> kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't >> changed. >> This could very rea

Clean up /sys/obj?

2013-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
After compiling the kernel, there are a large number of files in /sys/ obj. Are these still needed after the new kernel has been installed? Is there some sort of 'make clean' option available? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Clean up /sys/obj?

2013-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:46:13 -0400, mrkvrg wrote: > Hello Walter, > > Perhaps 'make cleanworld' will help. > > Check out comments in /usr/src/Makefile for details. > > Cheers ... > > Marek > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:23:37 Walter Hurry wrote: >&

Kernel Modules Documentation?

2013-04-30 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? Thanks. P.S. Here are the first few: ahc

Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?

2013-05-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. >> >> I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out >> what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I su

Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?

2013-05-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:26 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry wrote: >> > >>

Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?

2013-05-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 01 May 2013 18:31:47 -0400, doug wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2013, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > >> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >&g

pkg question

2013-05-03 Thread Walter Hurry
Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20130502: AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/pkg, ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/ tinderbox AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org This only affects people who are _building_ binary packages for pkgng. If

Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?

2013-05-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 01 May 2013 20:33:21 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > Text file . > > Thank you very much . OK. Sorry for the delay. It's at http://pastebin.com/wvxQRD9w ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?

2013-05-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 07 May 2013 11:16:50 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > > Access to PasteBin from Turkey is PROHIBITED . Oh. Try this then: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6106778/kernel

Re: Keeping my system up to date with CTM or subversion?

2013-05-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:39 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: > Alexandre, > Yes, that helps - thank you. > > So once you have a system up and running, how do you monitor if and when > you need to upgrade your ports tree? > > By the way, your ports tree is different than installed software > packages, ri

Where to get source for 10?

2013-05-31 Thread Walter Hurry
For 9.1 I can checkout http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ But where can I get the source for FreeBSD10? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: Where to get source for 10?

2013-05-31 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 31 May 2013 19:27:36 -0400, Ayan George wrote: > On 05/31/2013 07:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> For 9.1 I can checkout http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ >> >> But where can I get the source for FreeBSD10? >> >> > I assume it'd be the h

Re: Where to get source for 10?

2013-05-31 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 31 May 2013 18:41:49 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 5/31/2013 6:27 PM, Ayan George wrote: >> On 05/31/2013 07:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> For 9.1 I can checkout http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ >>> >>> But where can I get the source for FreeBS

FreeBSD10: lock order reversal with portsnap extract

2013-06-01 Thread Walter Hurry
I'm installing FreeBSD10 (head; snapshot from 30 May 2013) into a VM. One of the first things I do is a 'portsnap fetch extract'. As soon as the extract starts it produces a 'lock order reversal' message with a KDB stack backtrace, but then proceeds successfully to verify the integrity and inst

Re: FreeBSD10: lock order reversal with portsnap extract

2013-06-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:22:29 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, Reference: >> From: Walter Hurry >> Date:Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:43:47 +0000 (UTC) > > Walter Hurry wrote: >> I'm installing FreeBSD10 (head; snapshot from 30 May 2013) in

buildworld selectively?

2013-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
As a relative newcomer to FreeBSD I am planning a 'make buildworld' for the first time. Since this is likely to be a lengthy process (my first attempt will be in a virtual machine), I am wondering whether it is possible to be at all selective about what is built. I have read the handbook sectio

Re: buildworld selectively?

2013-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:56:10 +0100, Gary J. Hayers wrote: > Have a read of the man page for /etc/src.conf > > On 09/06/2013 19:52, Walter Hurry wrote: >> As a relative newcomer to FreeBSD I am planning a 'make buildworld' for >> the first time. Since this is lik

Re: buildworld selectively?

2013-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:27:52 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Walter Hurry writes: > >> Ah, src.conf. That's what I missed!. Thank you so much Gary, and sorry >> if it was a silly question. > > Bear in mind that you're only going to be able to shave a small

Re: buildworld selectively?

2013-06-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:08:23 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > Walter Hurry writes: > >> Fair enough. Point taken, thanks. Nevertheless I see no reason to >> compile stuff I neither want nor need. > > While I endorse the principle ... it can be difficult for the >

libchk issue

2013-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On my system (9.1-RELEASE-p3 on amd64), libchk reports: Unresolvable link(s) found in: /usr/local/lib/liblangtag-gobject.so.2 liblangtag.so.1 'pkg which' informs me that: /usr/local/lib/liblangtag-gobject.so.2 was not found in the database How can I fix the problem?

Compile a port without its dependencies?

2013-06-28 Thread Walter Hurry
Is there a way to compile a port without its dependencies? I ask because recently I wanted two shlibs: wnck.so and rsvg.so (they are provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop). I didn't need all the accompanying baggage (half of GNOME it seems), but it dragged in over 80 other packages. In the

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:28:59 -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all > with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage "don't fix what > ain't broken", but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get > corrupted on occasio

Wireless Networking

2013-07-10 Thread Walter Hurry
9.1-RELEASE-p4 on amd64. This is a laptop with an Atheros 9280 wireless chip in a domestic setting with a single router and a cable "modem". I have never had to use wireless before, but am now in another room. I have followed the handbook, and it seems to be working well. One question though: '

Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?

2013-07-16 Thread Walter Hurry
What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg? As far as I can see, in a properly organised system, all the shared libraries in there should be redundant. If this is correct, is there an easy way to clear them out, or should I just rm? ___ freebsd

Re: Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?

2013-07-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:05:19 -0700, Charles Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg? > > It holds old versions of shared libraries which were once used by > installed ports. > &

Re: Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?

2013-07-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:59:21 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > Install the excellent sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run pkg_libchk to > check for packages still depending on those libraries or missing ones. > If it doesn't complain, it's safe to delete them. Otherwise, rebuild > everything it complains

textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-18 Thread Walter Hurry
I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspell has '--with-readline' in the CONFIGURE_ARGS, but on 9.1 it doesn't seem to be honoured (or maybe it is, but at any rate it isn't recorded as a dependency or a shlib). 9.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64 with pkgng. Is there a reason for this? __

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:58:59 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 18/07/2013 10:42, Walter Hurry wrote: >> I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspell has '--with-readline' in >> the CONFIGURE_ARGS, but on 9.1 it doesn't seem to be honoured (or maybe >> it is,

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:28:34 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/07/2013 09:30, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:58:59 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >>> On 18/07/2013 10:42, Walter Hurry wrote: >>>> I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspe

/usr/src for 9.2 beta?

2013-07-26 Thread Walter Hurry
I'd like to try out 9.2-BETA1 on a test box. >From where do I check out the sources please (using svn)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-

Re: /usr/src for 9.2 beta?

2013-07-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:56:09 -0400, kpneal wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:30:17PM +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: >> I'd like to try out 9.2-BETA1 on a test box. >> >> >From where do I check out the sources please (using svn)? > > I believe you want: > svn

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