Re: GNU/kFreeBSD debian-installer
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 20:10 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: Hello, On sekmadienis 24 Spalis 2010 13:55:01 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Modestas Vainius modes...@vainius.eu writes: This issue is driving me insane. The only (which I managed to find anyway) I did not test vim but when I run emacs in xterm I had to add an X resource (can't remember the name now) to have backspace send ^? instead of ^H as stty -a promises applications that erase = ^?. Seems like current keyboard (mis)configuration on kFreeBSD is an RC bug because it violates Debian policy 9.8 [1]. Now I only need to figure out which package to report it against... I did not know until this that having VIM not working perfectly out-of-the-box was a Debian policy violation. Seems pretty sensible to me however. :-) [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1288175928.4632.12.ca...@fbrt233-laptop
Re: using debian/kfreebsd on daily usage
On 30/04/10 02:55, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com mailto:stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:10:40PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: hi, i'm just curious, how you find running debian/kfreebsd for normal work (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, emailing) so far? my main concern is my daily life as a sysadmin. May I in turn ask what benefits or pitfalls do you expect to get in the areas of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, emailing from replacing the OS _kernel_? Or was this question basically about the completeness of the kfreebsd port in terms of the avaliable packages? Sorry for being unclear. Yes, I'm thinking of completeness and 2 specific hardware; my usb modem which is Huawei e1762 and my built-in wireless device BCM 4312 on my Presario CQ40-115AU. Is it supported on current kfreebsd kernel? There is little hope anyone here in particular would be able to tell you for sure. But the greatest part in support of hardware would be from the kernel, which is known and which has a whole document on the subject, by release. For 8.0, here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html Though your best bet is to try it by yourself. Free Software also means you can try it without having to pay anything. You just need to download, write it to a CD/DVD/USBkey/TFTPserver/whatever, and test. That's yet another benefit of it. You're Free! -- Stanislav -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bda9e56.3030...@beeznest.net
Re: Debian Installer Lenny Beta2: Kernel update work
Funny to get this here, isn't it? :-D On ven, 2008-02-15 at 12:42 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, While we're in the way to release Debian Installer Lenny Beta1, some work can start to be done for Beta2. As you probably know, we plan to do a fast release after Beta1 gets out using 2.6.24 kernels. This is where development can start to be done _right now_. Please porters, let's start the work for upgrading Debian Installer to 2.6.24. Those changes (for kernel-wedge and kernel modules packages) should remain on SVN repository and _CANNOT_ _BE_ _UPLOADED_ until we does have Beta1 images ready. As soon as it gives no trouble for us, I'll ping you all back to uploads start to be done. Cheers, - -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - - Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFHtaTSLqiZQEml+FURAkRPAKCpprZAs6vL/CBY4+JNv5sI3YY19QCeP1zq naHOvrfEKbyF6MaXuvVCDps= =lZT+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyboard disabled in X
I get a strange problem when GDM is starting. My PC is an old PII with ASUS P2B motherboard, with PS/2 keyboard and mouse. The first time X (GDM) starts up, the keyboard is disabled, while it is working in the console while booting. The mouse is working fine, but I cannot type anything, nor switch to console using ctrl-alt-Fx (where x=1-6). If I click on the Actions menu, and on anything that restarts the X server (like the XDMCP chooser for example), I get the keyboard back. -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Applications tracing on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
My Debian GNU/kFreeBSD machine is getting slower everyday. I would like to start some tracing of applications (of which Perl), but no tool like strace or truss seem to be available. The only tool I found is bonnie++, but I can only diagnose disk throughput with it. Am I missing something? Should I look to other tools? Thanks -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: Successful jailed GNU/kFreeBSD
Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 23:27 +1000, Joshua Cummings a écrit : On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 19:44 +0800, Jett Tayer wrote: hi can send me how'd you do it? [..] * One of the most obvious missing pieces is an equivalent to FreeBSD's jail configuration via rc.conf and the necessary init scripts for stopping/starting jails (manually or at boot). At the moment I'm using a custom /etc/init.d/jail script that reads the basic config values (dir, hostname, ip address) from /etc/jail.conf. Maybe using or extending Debian's dchroot would be a good idea? Just my 2 €cents. [..] -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Problem pointing /bin/sh to dash
On Debian GNU/Linux (starting from Etch), I'm used to replace the /bin/sh link to /bin/dash (points to /bin/bash by default). It fails very badly (the system is almost unusable after reboot) because /bin/mount is a shell script (from package freebsd-utils) using exec -a (exec is a shell builtin), which seems to be a bashism. So: 1) we find another way to do exec -a the POSIX-way (if at all possible) 2) we change the shebang to #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh Thanks -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Building Network-Manager
I'm still working from time to time on a working GNOME on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Sid. The blocking issue I get now is that there is a build-dependency on libnl for n-m. Libnl is indeed closely tied to Netlink (so Linux-specific). Anyone working on this? May I help somewhat? Regards -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: Changing console keymap
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 08:42 +0200, Jerome Warnier a écrit : Le dimanche 13 mai 2007 à 23:57 +0200, Jerome Warnier a écrit : I don't know where to change the console keymap after install. Where can I do this? In reply to myself: install package kbdcontrol and you will be prompted for a keymap. To reconfigure it later, just use debconf with dpkg-reconfigure kbdcontrol. Well, it seems actually that the service is started before /usr gets mounted (by the mountall service). I just delayed the service until mountall was started and now it works perfectly. As a distinct /usr is proposed by default at install time, I guess this is a (quite severe) bug. Hope it helps Thanks -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Building latest GNOME
Hi guys, It's really hard to refrain from crying when your beloved GNOME is not installable on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Sid for a long time. Don't get me wrong: I do not just want to be the only person on Earth to be able to install GNOME on its PC. I would like to make it a breeze for anybody to do so on his own one also. I already tried to help on this, but there are several steps I cannot fix alone. Is there somebody here willing to help me triaging and fixing bugs to make this happen anytime soon? If so, how can we work together. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ifconfig error message on shutdown
Hi guys, Yet another problem needing a fix: On shutdown, ifdown is trying to call ifconfig with -i parameter, which does not exist on BSD's ifconfig and spits out an ugly error message. As ifdown is a compiled binary, I cannot easily fix it myself or propose a suitable patch. Hope it helps -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Poweroff on halt
I wonder what I could do to poweroff my Debian GNU/kFreeBSD machine on halt. Any idea? Thanks -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Reportbug
Is it a good idea to use reportbug to submit bug reports to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD? Regards -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: Changing console keymap
Le dimanche 13 mai 2007 à 23:57 +0200, Jerome Warnier a écrit : I don't know where to change the console keymap after install. Where can I do this? In reply to myself: install package kbdcontrol and you will be prompted for a keymap. To reconfigure it later, just use debconf with dpkg-reconfigure kbdcontrol. Hope it helps Thanks -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: Installing GNOME
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 08:32 +0200, Petr Salinger a écrit : Hi. I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. This is a known problem. The main server of GNU/kFreeBSD has experienced a downtime, which prevents packages from being built for two weeks. We are now trying to build the missing packages, but it has to be done in the correct order, so there is a lot of work. KDE suffer from the same problem. You can also put into /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unstable main deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unreleased main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/etch/main/binary-i386/ and comment-out all other lines (and refresh Packages by apt-get update). This way, you will get etch based snapshot, which does not contain many unsolvable dependencies. This should be sufficient for installing GNOME. Thanks for the info. A little late, though, as I don't feel like reinstalling now downgrading now. However, this machine is not critical to me, I just installed it to see how faster Debian GNU/kFreeBSD can be compared to GNU/Linux on aging machines (early PII/III-class, of which I maintain a lot). I'm willing to help fix the problems though. So I first try to notice, then report, then try to provide a fix. Petr -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
kbdcontrol: typo in initscript
Package: kbdcontrol Version: 6.2-3 Severity: minor The Usage line in initscript shows a moutall.sh, which is probably a leftover. Please replace it with $0. Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686) Kernel: kFreeBSD 6.2-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages kbdcontrol depends on: ii debconf1.5.13Debian configuration management sy ii libbsd00.0-1.2+r1710 BSD compatibility library - shared ii libc0.12.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfreebsd00.0-5 FreeBSD compatibility library - sh kbdcontrol recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing GNOME
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 09:43 +0200, Jerome Warnier a écrit : Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 07:27 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : Jerome Warnier a écrit : Hi, I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. This is a known problem. The main server of GNU/kFreeBSD has experienced a downtime, which prevents packages from being built for two weeks. We are now trying to build the missing packages, but it has to be done in the correct order, so there is a lot of work. KDE suffer from the same problem. First problem I see is with latest libhal-dev not available (FTBFS). I reported it as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10940 I will also take a look at building OOo, as the machine (and possibly others) will eventually be used as an office workstation. Bye, Aurelien -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Does tmpfs exist at all on FreeBSD?
I found yet another bug, in /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh this time
(package initscripts).
It tries to mount a tmpfs on /lib/init/rw.
The offending lines at the beginning are:
RW_OPT=
[ ${RW_SIZE:=$TMPFS_SIZE} ] RW_OPT=,size=$RW_SIZE
domount tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs -omode=0755,nosuid$RW_OPT
touch /lib/init/rw/.ramfs
Of course, there are further lines, but as they are not used by default
(ie without editing /etc/default/tmpfs), they are not as troublesome.
Hope it helps
--
Jérôme Warnier
FLOSS Consultant
http://beeznest.net
Installing GNOME
Hi, I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. Regards -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
