Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-13 Thread David Demelier
Hello there, I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but some files disappeared, including /etc/pwd.db. Thus I was unable to log in. I've been able to regenerate the password database with a live cd but

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-13 Thread CeDeROM
On 13 Oct 2013 11:30, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but some files disappeared, including /etc/pwd.db. Thus I was unable to log in.

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-13 Thread David Demelier
On 13.10.2013 12:16, CeDeROM wrote: On 13 Oct 2013 11:30, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com mailto:demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but some

APC BE750G Power Saving Battery Back-UPS

2013-10-13 Thread Carmel
I have the opportunity to replace an aging UPS with a new APC BE750G Power Saving Battery Back-UPS one. My question is if anyone here has ever used this device under FreeBSD. APC does not have, or at least I couldn't find any, software for a FreeBSD system. Without the software, the unit is

Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-10-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:17:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 7, Message: 5 On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:25:33 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:55PM

Re: APC BE750G Power Saving Battery Back-UPS

2013-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Carmel wrote: I have the opportunity to replace an aging UPS with a new APC BE750G Power Saving Battery Back-UPS one. My question is if anyone here has ever used this device under FreeBSD. APC does not have, or at least I couldn't find any, software for a FreeBSD system.

about setfib arpresolve

2013-10-13 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
Hello On freebsd 8 i get kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for x.x.x.x How can i get rid off this issue? I saw http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/167947 but how can i patch it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Authorisation Errors on 9.2

2013-10-13 Thread Beeblebrox
I have two strange errors but I am not sure whether they are related. ERROR-1: Slim allows login without checking for password. /var/log/auth.log shows: Oct 13 11:44:57: slim: gkr-pam: no password is available for user Oct 13 11:44:57: gnome-keyring-daemon[1225]: couldn't allocate secure memory

Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Kenta Suzumoto
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? I have one directory of data that I want to keep. I can boot from the installer and rm every directory except that (/bin /boot etc), but how could I install the OS from there? I've done ZFS on root installs with the shell and

Re: Authorisation Errors on 9.2

2013-10-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 13/10/2013 18:08, Beeblebrox wrote: I have two strange errors but I am not sure whether they are related. ERROR-1: Slim allows login without checking for password. /var/log/auth.log shows: Oct 13 11:44:57: slim: gkr-pam: no password is available for user Oct 13 11:44:57:

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 13.10.2013 12:16, CeDeROM wrote: On 13 Oct 2013 11:30, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com mailto:demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but

Tunnelling between Cisco and Freebsd

2013-10-13 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I am running FreeBSD 9.2. The FreeBSD server in on a private IP, 192.168.1.6. I have only one public IP and that's on my verizon firewall configured to port forward to my FreeBSD server. I do not control the Cisco device, but here is the config that was sent to me: interface Tunnel10

Re: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE

2013-10-13 Thread Da Rock
On 10/12/13 20:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 11:52 +0200, David Demelier wrote: I don't like much chrome but I'll give a try to see. +1 It's not a browser I like. Since I'm using my computer for audio production my FreeBSD isn't maintained, I need to use Linux, so I don't know

Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports

2013-10-13 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi, I'm following the recipe at the end of man portmaster for deleting and reinstalling all my ports, which I have done many times in the past. This time, I am getting errors on the portmaster -Faf step involving deleted ports, and I'm not sure how to deal with this easily. If the ports aren't

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing partitions. The file system characteristica will be kept, possible content will overwritten. Note that superfluous

Re: Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports

2013-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote: Hi, I'm following the recipe at the end of man portmaster for deleting and reinstalling all my ports, which I have done many times in the past. This time, I am getting errors on the portmaster -Faf step involving deleted ports, and I'm not sure how

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing

Authorisation Errors on 9.2

2013-10-13 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi, I Inadvertently posted the gnome-keyring bit. That's almost standard error message on FreeBSD-Gnome. The relevant bit for the error is in fact: slim: gkr-pam: no password is available for user However, the user cannot login on a tty without providing a password. For ssh, the same error and