Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Bas Smeelen
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

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
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 9.1, or

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:52:02 +0100 Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net 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

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Polytropon
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 compatn-1x port. But as soon as you update some port, or maybe want to install something new, things tend

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-16 Thread Gary Aitken
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=4096)]error=6

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-16 Thread dweimer
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

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread dweimer
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

odd phantom directory

2012-11-16 Thread Brian Gold
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,

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-16 Thread Arthur Chance
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

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-16 Thread Warren Block
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

virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Fbsd8
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? ___

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Fbsd8
Mario Lobo wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-16 Thread Gary Aitken
~$ 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 (4.0G) /var 51380386

RE: odd phantom directory

2012-11-16 Thread Brian Gold
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

RE: odd phantom directory

2012-11-16 Thread Brian Gold
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 then reran

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Re: odd phantom directory

2012-11-16 Thread jb
Brian Gold bgold at 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:

Re: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-16 Thread Bill Paul
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

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-16 Thread Warren Block
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

Re: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?

2012-11-16 Thread Al Plant
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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Fbsd8
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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:18:10 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: Light word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-16 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 15 November 2012 04:06, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu 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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:10 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. This would be your problem. How so? Surely virtualbox

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-16 Thread Gary Aitken
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 429917788388608 4

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-16 Thread Warren Block
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

how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-16 Thread Gary Aitken
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

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-16 Thread Shane Ambler
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

confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Pope
Dear FreeBSD community, It has been wonderful being a full-fledged member of this community, an administrator running FreeBSD on bare hardware (in his basement) for years. This is the coolest, hippiest, historically pure, and most technically advanced UNIX community on the planet (I'm one of