updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

[Alasdair Reed]

I have been trying to update my system remotely using  freebsd-update.sh . I 
receive this error message;

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

I checked all the suggested solutions,  my resolv.conf is pointing to my ISP's 
nameservers, I even tried pointing to other public name servers, but the same 
result.Changing "Server Name" to "update1.FreeBSD.org" did nothing either.  
What causes the failure to retrieve the key?

Is there any other way of updating that does not involve downloading the iso 
files and burning to CD ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Alasdair


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X session over LAN errors

[Alasdair Reed]

Hi,
I am trying to open an X session over a LAN, the connection via ssh works fine 
however I get  an error message when  I try to open an X application on the 
remote machine

debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
Last login: Wed Nov  5 10:29:41 2008 from 192.168.0.6
NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006

Welcome to NetBSD!

$ xclock -d
debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 3 win 65536 max 16384
debug1: client_request_x11: request from ::1 65447
debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
debug1: confirm x11
X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  55 (X_CreateGC)
Resource id in failed request:  0x5c
  Serial number of failed request:  1
Current serial number in output stream:  3
debug1: channel 1: FORCE input drain
debug1: channel 1: free: x11, nchannels 2


The client  machine, 192.168.0.6 has the following version of X installed
X -version

X.Org X Server 1.4.0
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 
Current Operating System: FreeBSD localhost 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: 
Sun Aug 24 09:27:22 EST 2008 [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNELIPFW i386
Build Date: 01 April 2008  04:41:15PM
 
 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 to make sure that you have the latest version.
 Module Loader present

The server machine, 192.168.0.3  has this installed

$ X -version

XFree86 Version 4.5.0
Release Date: 16 March 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System:NetBSD/i386 3.0.1 - The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
Current Operating System: NetBSD paxpc1.localhost.net 3.0.1 NetBSD 3.0.1 
(GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006  [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200607131826Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
 i386
Build Date: 13 July 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Command line: X -version

Searching the error messages was not very helpful, it seemed like X could give 
out these messages for quite a number of reasons none of the available posts 
seemed to fit my problem.
My windows manager is xmonad-0.7_2 
Any clues?

Thanks in advance,

Alasdair



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Open office won't open files Error: GObject-CRITICAL......

[Alasdair Reed]

Hi,
am having a problem with OpenOffice2.4.0, it will not open any files. It just 
hangs when trying to open from the open file menu. I get the following error 
message on the terminal that OO was opened in
(process:1882): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2248: initialization 
assertion failed, use IA__g_type_i
nit() prior to this function

(process:1882): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 
`initialization_value != 0' failed

(process:1882): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 
`G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

I dont use gnome or kde. My window manager is xmonad. I am running FreeBSD 6.3 .

I have Googled the error message and cut down versions of it with no result.

Any help most appreciated.

Regards,

Alasdair
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