Re: hard to read handbook.pdf in text system

I have run into this as well. `make config` used to offer text and HTML. Now it just offers PDF. I think HTML is standard, but I may be mistaken. Having the format in a text-readable format is a good idea. -Henrich Feb 16, 2023, 22:01 by dufres...@zoho.com: > I have installed very recently fr

Re: 13.2-RELEASE and firefox

Apr 13, 2023, 16:42 by greg.b...@gmail.com: > I installed 13.2-RELEASE in a VMware VM and can't get firefox to > start. Everything (xorg, vmware, firefox, etc.) is installed with > packages. There are error messages about "Can't find profile > directory." but Firefox does create the usual config

Re: So much longer to update than install fresh (+ no install feedback)

Hi Paul, I didn't see any other response to this. Is there a ZFS performance regression in 14.0? I wonder what a filesystem benchmark would show. Thanks for your tests! -Henrich Oct 28, 2023, 21:54 by dufres...@zoho.com: > I realized that my previous message was a bit not precise. > > So, ar

Re: kern.version and uname -v

I personally feel that building releases reproducibly is quite important. How can we trust the current 14.0-RELEASE images? Would be nice to be able to build them locally and know they are the same. What do we need to do to make sure that 14.1-RELEASE is built reproducibly? Thanks! PS: It look

Re: gpart device permissions security hole (/dev/geom.ctl)

I agree that this doesn't make much sense. Read only access should not imply any kind of writing functionality. What would it take to change this? I'm not familiar enough to say. Thanks for posting, Vincent! -Henrich Feb 22, 2024, 21:23 by vince@hightek.org: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 01:1

Re: USB CD drive does not work with 14-Stable

Hi Serguey, I just want to say that my USB CD drive works fine on 14.0-RELEASE. No idea about 14-Stable. We do likely have different drives, however. I don't have any other insights to offer right now. -Henrich Feb 24, 2024, 14:12 by serguey-grigor...@yandex.ru: > > Hi, list, > > I've found

service netif stop, instant reboot

Hi, Not sure if this is the best list for this. I'm running an up-to-date 14.0-RELEASE. I ran `service netif stop` and my machine rebooted immediately. I haven't been able to find any logs or obvious errors. I tried reproducing the behavior and had no luck at all. I think it's the first time

Running tests for a single program in src/bin, src/usr.bin, etc

Hi everyone, Not sure if this is the best list for this. Maybe hackers@ would be better? I wanted to tinker with utilities in /usr/src/bin and /usrsrc/usr.bin. I noticed that rmdir exits 1 for usage, which is a pet peeve of mine. I updated it to exit 2 and then wanted to alter the tests to ensu

Re: Running tests for a single program in src/bin, src/usr.bin, etc

Hi Alan, That worked. Thank you! I do still think it would be nice to be able to run tests in isolation, like `make test`. It seems like ideally you could test the individual binary without installing it to the system, in case there are issues. -Henrich Mar 5, 2024, 14:06 by asom...@freebsd.o

xz 5.6.0/5.6.1 backdoored, possibly in src/contrib as well

Hi everyone, I recently read through this: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 It sounds like xz 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 are backdoored. Not sure if FreeBSD is or not, but it looks like 14-stable and main have xz 5.6.0. In my opinion, earlier versions may also be suspect given tha

Re: xz 5.6.0/5.6.1 backdoored, possibly in src/contrib as well

Good to know, thank you! I do think in this case it may be worth going to an older version because the maintainer was actively malicious. Even if *this* vulnerability looks safe. Just feels like playing with fire at the moment. Also, it sounds like libarchive had a suspicious commit by the auth

Can't find bootable partition

Hi, I have 14.0-RELEASE installed with two drives in a ZFS mirror on a x86_64 system. I've been testing a very minor patch, rebooting, testing, etc. This is installed with EFI. Out of the blue, it won't come back. It detects both drives. I see these errors. zio_read error: 5 zio_read error: 5

Re: Can't find bootable partition

I booted the 14.0-RELEASE installer and mounted zroot to /tmp/mnt. There's nothing in the zroot, except other mounts (like /usr, /home, and /var, the defaults). Those appear to have good data. But there's no /tmp/mnt/COPYRIGHT, /tmp/mnt/boot, etc. I did a very lengthy memtest on this machine wi

zroot on 14.0-RELEASE quickly becomes unreadable by the boot loader

Hi everyone, I had previous thread titled: Can't find bootable partition I also have a forum thread for this, but it's slow going as my account is not yet verified and each post requires approval: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/14-0-stopped-booting-mysteriously-zfs-mirror.93101/ Here's wha

Installer can't load kernel... after successful installation

Hi, Not sure if this is the best list for this or not. Thought this was some pretty weird behavior. I installed 14.1-BETA3 on two Dell Latitude 2120 laptops. Everything works fine as far as I can tell. I then tried booting the same USB stick with the installer. It hands at load kernel, on bot

Re: [14.1] iwn firmware fails to load after upgrade

Hi Alain, Just wanted to say that iwn is still working for me on 14.1-RELEASE, so it shouldn't impact everyone. -Henrich Oct 16, 2024, 04:32 by fogti+f...@ytrizja.de: > Hi all, > > after upgrading to the current 14.1 release > (+ pkg upgrade, bumping e.g. drm-kmod, but should be less relevant