Re : can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?

2010-07-23 Thread Alexandre L.
I think you have not understood the handbook. You MUST rebuild both base system and kernel to correctly upgrade your FreeBSD box to 8.1-RELEASE. If you let your system in 8.0-RELEASE and compile a kernel with 8.1 sources, you will have problem.

Re : cannot install opera

2010-07-16 Thread Alexandre L.
Yesterday, I have written to the maintainer of the Opera port, and he gave me this link : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148294 The port update is in the pipes ;) Alexandre. --- En date de : Ven 16.7.10, zaxis z_a...@163.com a écrit : De: zaxis z_a...@163.com Objet: cannot

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-13 Thread Alexandre L.
The full process is described here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html Alexandre --- En date de : Lun 12.7.10, Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com a écrit : De: Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com Objet: Re: Staying up to date with security patches À:

Re: Problem using Portmaster to upgrade installed ports via packages only

2010-07-05 Thread Alexandre L.
First, Thanks Doug for responding to my mails. I don't know (or understand) if I have to set a value to PM_SU_VERBOSE That depends on your goal. Why are you setting this? I thought that PM_SU_VERBOSE will explain the errors about my sudo problem. I can use portmaster with sudo only with

Re: Problem using Portmaster to upgrade installed ports via packages only

2010-06-29 Thread Alexandre L.
I have done tests last days, and now I can set PACKAGESITE correctly in user's .cshrc (I have unset the parameter in root's .cshrc). Else, I have set /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc, as described in the portmaster's manpage. Here my /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc PM_SU_VERBOSE=

Re : mod_proxy_html upgrade/reinstall outcomments line

2010-06-25 Thread Alexandre L.
I don't know how to fix this, but you can find information about the maintainer on this website : http://www.freshports.org/www/mod_proxy_html/ Have you updated your tree port ? The port has been updated : 03 June 2010 --- En date de : Ven 25.6.10, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com a écrit : De: n

Problem using Portmaster to upgrade installed ports via packages only

2010-06-24 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, On my FreeBSD box running 8.0-RELEASE-p3, I have tried to use PORTMASTER tool to upgrade my ports via packages only. Then I added the following line to my user's .cshrc file and root's .cshrc file, and re-opened user's session : setenv PACKAGESITE

Re : Xorg fails to start after upgrading to 8 stable

2010-06-18 Thread Alexandre L.
When you upgrade your system to a major release (7.x 8.x), you MUST re-install all your ports. See the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html and the section 4.5.4 Upgrading Ports. --- En date de : Ven 18.6.10, Xihong Yin x...@gmx.com a écrit : De: Xihong Yin

Re : change kde4 (pkg) to kde4 (ports)

2010-06-18 Thread Alexandre L.
Why do you want to do that ? Packages are in this directory by default : /usr/ports/distfiles/ --- En date de : Jeu 17.6.10, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com a écrit : De: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com Objet: change kde4 (pkg) to kde4 (ports) À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Re : change kde4 (pkg) to kde4 (ports)

2010-06-18 Thread Alexandre L.
Thank you for correcting me --- En date de : Ven 18.6.10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de a écrit : De: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Objet: Re: Re : change kde4 (pkg) to kde4 (ports) À: Alexandre L. axel...@ymail.com Cc: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date

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2010-06-16 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, I want to use Fuse-SSHFS http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-sshfs/ but the port is old (and it got a Sanity Test Failure). When I go to the website of the project Fuse http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/ , there is a more recent version fuse-2.8.4.tar.gz and available (?) for

Re: RESOLVED: Problem upgrading ports - libintl.so.8 not found

2010-06-16 Thread Alexandre L.
I have encountered the same problem. On FreeBSD forums, I have found the solution : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14655 You have to symlink /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 to /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 --- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws a écrit : De: C. P.

Install Fuse-SSHFS from ports or from Fuse Website Project ?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, I want to use Fuse-SSHFS http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-sshfs/ but the port is old (and it got a Sanity Test Failure). When I go to the website of the project Fuse http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/ , there is a more recent version fuse-2.8.4.tar.gz and available (?) for

Re : Possible to run Linux distro in a jail?

2010-05-29 Thread Alexandre L.
I have this link to a French Blog : http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/Emprisonner_une_debian_dans_un_FreeBSD This describe how to jail a Linux Debian in FreeBSD. I hope this will help you. I haven't used it. Thanks to its author : Baptiste Daroussin. I translated it in English : # mkdir

Re: using automounter (automatically mounting USB drives)

2010-05-19 Thread Alexandre L.
To enable it at system startup, you must add the following line to /etc/rc.conf : automounter_enable=YES --- En date de : Mar 18.5.10, David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit : De: David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com Objet: Re: using automounter (automatically mounting USB

Re : What driver goes with what PCI device

2010-05-12 Thread Alexandre L.
For the SMBus Controller, the driver you can load is : ichsmb To load it every reboot : #echo 'ichsmb_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf To load it one time : #kldload ichsmb For the others drivers, I don't know. --- En date de : Mer 12.5.10, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com a écrit : De: Eitan

Re : nvidia module startup

2010-04-28 Thread Alexandre L.
Have you added the following line to /etc/rc.conf ? linux_enable=YES --- En date de : Mer 28.4.10, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net a écrit : De: sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net Objet: nvidia module startup À: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mercredi 28 avril 2010,

Re : Display country selected during sysinstall

2010-04-23 Thread Alexandre L.
I think this is what your are searching for http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-sysinstall.html Go to 'KEYMAP' and change it. If your system is already installed, you can edit /etc/rc.conf and see what keymap is configured. --- En date de : Jeu 22.4.10, Aiza

Re: u3g network problem

2010-03-31 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, If your DNS are changed, I think that your network card is configured in DHCP mode. To dissallow DNS changes (in /etc/resolv.conf) by DHCP updates, you can add this line to /etc/dhclient.conf : prepend domain-name-servers DNS_IP_adress_1,DNS_IP_adresse_2,DNS_IP_adresse_3; After you must

Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

2010-03-23 Thread Alexandre L.
No, the addon called NoScript is used to block JavaScript, Flash and co. But here the problem is the npviewer and/or the Flash plugin that is/are buggy. If you want to see a video on Youtube for example, you must allow JavaScript and Flash for Youtube in NoScript. Otherwise you can't see the

Re : freebsd-update insists on updating fresh system

2010-03-23 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, I have experienced this when you use csup to sync your sources. You have to use one or other but not twice. There is a difference of the date on the files, because freebsd-update patches are created before the CVS commits are done. see this thread on FreeBSD Forums :

Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

2010-03-23 Thread Alexandre L.
Here the link to this workaround by DutchDaemon : http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=67155postcount=15 --- En date de : Mar 23.3.10, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com a écrit : De: Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com Objet: Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes

Re : OT: dead box

2010-03-22 Thread Alexandre L.
My brother has got the same case : Antec Sonata II. It has been delivred with the power supply. The power supply has exploded capacitors on the mobo (Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe). The LED on the mobo was lightening up but we can't power up the workstation. For your problem, I suggest you to see if this

Re: Re : building from source after freebsd-update

2010-03-15 Thread Alexandre L.
That handbook section is where I read: The default is to update the source code, the entire base system, and the kernel. First, freebsd-update tool sync the source. And in fact much of the /usr/src/ does contain source code. /usr/src/sys/ subdirectories seem populated, and some

Re : building from source after freebsd-update

2010-03-14 Thread Alexandre L.
Please read the handbook section related to the FreeBSD update tool http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html freebsd-update is a binary update tool, so you haven't got anything to rebuild, except your custom kernel (if you are using one).

Re : Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-10 Thread Alexandre L.
You can use pfSense : pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. http://www.pfsense.org/ pfSense is very simple and intuitive to use with is GUI in PHP. --- En date de : Jeu 11.3.10, mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu a écrit :

Re : Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?

2010-02-15 Thread Alexandre L.
I can play Youtube movies using Firefox 3.5.x or Firefox 3.6, and linux-f10-flashplugin10 10.0r45. I followed the tutorial : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 I'm pretty sure this will work for you. --- Alexandre --- En date de : Lun 15.2.10, Yuri y...@rawbw..com a écrit : De:

Re : .zshrc

2010-02-02 Thread Alexandre L.
I can't help you with ZSH but I think it is not a good idea to replace root's default shell. You will have problem if your system break. see http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2194 and http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2009-01/msg00202.html --- En date de : Mar

Re : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread Alexandre L.
You can see here : http://www.meinberg.de/english/ I don't use their products (I don't know about the quality products), I just use their NTP package software for Windows. --- En date de : Sam 30.1.10, Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se a écrit : De: Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se

Re : polkit-0.95_3: update fails

2010-01-24 Thread Alexandre L.
You could read /usr/ports/UPDATING because there is section for policikit and polkit. --- En date de : Ven 22.1.10, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat..fu-berlin.de a écrit : De: O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de Objet: polkit-0.95_3: update fails À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,

Re: FreeBSD beastie plush toy?

2009-12-22 Thread Alexandre L.
You can find here too http://shop.mensys.nl/uk/catalogue/mns_FreeBSDDaemon.html --- En date de : Lun 21.12.09, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk a écrit : De: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk Objet: Re: FreeBSD beastie plush toy? À: Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com Cc:

FreeBSD port : audio/mpdscribble

2009-12-22 Thread Alexandre L.
changed the owner of ths directory to nobody user (owner), and I 'chmoded' 755 on the directory. Now I can start mpdscribble at startup without error. I hope this can be useful for others. Thanks. Alexandre L. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Alexandre L.
I think you wrong. I read the Official Announce for FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html You can find this sentence : Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade as follows: You can upgrade directly from 7.1 to 8.0 with the

GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).

2009-12-04 Thread Alexandre L.
) Thanks for your help, Alexandre L. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re : cvs authentication

2009-11-27 Thread Alexandre L.
I haven't set authentification process to sync my sources with freebsd cvsup server. Have you try to sync your sources with another cvsup server ? You can find the list here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, Dominic Fandrey

Re: Re : cvs authentication

2009-11-27 Thread Alexandre L.
kamik...@bsdforen.de Objet: Re: Re : cvs authentication À: Alexandre L. axel...@ymail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Vendredi 27 Novembre 2009, 10h59 Alexandre L. wrote: --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de a écrit : Should the CVS/SVN mirrors

Re : freebsd-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration

2009-11-26 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, I paste this link where Colin Percival explain who to use the tool freebsd-update with custom kernel. But I think that same thing as been written in the handbook. http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=30920postcount=9 --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, S4mmael s4mm...@gmail.com a écrit :

FreeBSD port : audio/mpdscribble

2009-11-19 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, I have installed mpdscribble on my laptop under 8.0-RC3 and configured it (/usr/local/etc/mpdscribble.conf). I have add the line in /etc/rc.conf mpdscribble_enable=YES to launch it at startup but I got the message mpdscribble: Failed to create pidfile /var/run/mpdscribble.pid: Permission

Re: FreeBSD port : audio/mpdscribble

2009-11-19 Thread Alexandre L.
to lauch script set in the /etc/rc.conf file ? The goal is to launch mpdscribble at startup. --- En date de : Jeu 19.11.09, J Sisson sisso...@gmail.com a écrit : De: J Sisson sisso...@gmail.com Objet: Re: FreeBSD port : audio/mpdscribble À: Alexandre L. axel...@ymail.com Cc: FreeBSD Question

Re : linux emulation problems

2009-11-04 Thread Alexandre L.
Which version of FreeBSD do you use ? With the version 8, linux-f10 infrastructure port is used With the version 7, linux-f4 is the default infrastructure port used. linux-f8 can be used but it is not completely operational See :

SLIM and XFCE4

2009-11-03 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi all, I want to use SLIM (Graphical login manager for X11) with XFCE4. After the installation, I have enabled it with the line slim_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf When I log in (from SLIM), the language in XFCE is english. If I don't use SLIM, I log in on TTY and use %startx, XFCE language is in