Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line but again, nothing, it just sits there, no error msg, but process list again, sais there running. I have tried recompiling both ports with no success and im runnin gout of theorys as to whats happening. Any ideas/thoughts welcomed. ___ 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 Hi Warren I also had this problem, I resolved it by; portupgrade -Rf firefox My understanding is that this goes and forcibly builds all of the ports that firefox depends on, then firefox itself. If you run the commands with truss it will give you some debug information on what it is getting stuck on. Kind Regards Craig Butler ___ 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: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying
Hi Warren I also had this problem, I resolved it by; portupgrade -Rf firefox My understanding is that this goes and forcibly builds all of the ports that firefox depends on, then firefox itself. If you run the commands with truss it will give you some debug information on what it is getting stuck on. Kind Regards Craig Butler Thanks, i did this and everything works fine now, guess something in the packagaes got a bit screwd around somewhere. ___ 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: programs...
What about Miro? On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:19 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ Music/audio only, or video too? When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! Ha! Well, I stand to inherit my daughter's MacBook in a few years. Okay, so if Apple has this, can I use it? I mean for-free, not having to sub to some monthly deal or whatever? This is an idea I thought up a couple years ago when all the audio podcasts began appearing. At any rate, seems to me that the open-* community could do at least as well as our brother hackers at Apple. Just a thought. Come Monday, OZ-time, I'll let everybody know my major idea. ___ 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: [Fwd: Re: programs...]
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:22:40PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: What about Miro? Somelike like miro is a start, but may need a special or different kind of interface. Say that you KNOW you want to hear a show on the BBC every week. [Sure, just set it up on Google, right...?] Have the same podcast-storing//link caching deal on miro. Or say that you missing a broadcast of NOVA on a few days,weeks back. You don't knoe if the show is webcast, it's name, it's date(s). Miro is one of the few streams that always just-works. Be great to have just-one-program whose stream never failed. If it were available for d/load, or if I could intercept/capture the stream somehow for when I had TIME to watch/listen... Outstanding. Feedback, anybody?? gary Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ Music/audio only, or video too? When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! Ha! Well, I stand to inherit my daughter's MacBook in a few years. Okay, so if Apple has this, can I use it? I mean for-free, not having to sub to some monthly deal or whatever? This is an idea I thought up a couple years ago when all the audio podcasts began appearing. At any rate, seems to me that the open-* community could do at least as well as our brother hackers at Apple. Just a thought. Come Monday, OZ-time, I'll let everybody know my major idea. ___ 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 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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
[Fwd: Re: programs...]
---BeginMessage--- What about Miro? On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:19 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ Music/audio only, or video too? When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! Ha! Well, I stand to inherit my daughter's MacBook in a few years. Okay, so if Apple has this, can I use it? I mean for-free, not having to sub to some monthly deal or whatever? This is an idea I thought up a couple years ago when all the audio podcasts began appearing. At any rate, seems to me that the open-* community could do at least as well as our brother hackers at Apple. Just a thought. Come Monday, OZ-time, I'll let everybody know my major idea. ---End Message--- ___ 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: programs...
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ Music/audio only, or video too? When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! Ha! Well, I stand to inherit my daughter's MacBook in a few years. Okay, so if Apple has this, can I use it? I mean for-free, not having to sub to some monthly deal or whatever? This is an idea I thought up a couple years ago when all the audio podcasts began appearing. At any rate, seems to me that the open-* community could do at least as well as our brother hackers at Apple. Just a thought. Come Monday, OZ-time, I'll let everybody know my major idea. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org First update of http://transfinite.thought.org/ab/ in seven months. ___ 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: programs...
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ 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: Programs don't free memory
On 2006-01-07 20:51, Nguyen Danh Hieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody Sorry for my bad English but I have a question.I have 512Mb memory on my PC but as I realize at starting my system have about 100Mb active memory, but when the system have worked for a while there is no free memory on my system ( about 350Mb inactive) As I understand this means some programs ( like kdeinit) don't want to free memory after workes. Is this true? How can I fix th??s problem out? free memory is memory wasted. For a better, more lengthy and more detailed explanation of this, please see the excellent article of Matt Dillon that describes ``virtual memory'' and how it works in FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programs don't free memory
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:51:09 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-01-07 20:51, Nguyen Danh Hieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody Sorry for my bad English but I have a question.I have 512Mb memory on my PC but as I realize at starting my system have about 100Mb active memory, but when the system have worked for a while there is no free memory on my system ( about 350Mb inactive) As I understand this means some programs ( like kdeinit) don't want to free memory after workes. Is this true? How can I fix th??s problem out? free memory is memory wasted. For a better, more lengthy and more detailed explanation of this, please see the excellent article of Matt Dillon that describes ``virtual memory'' and how it works in FreeBSD: LOL I've we've always said ''virtual memory is free memory!'' ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programs and lib's disappearing, FreeBSD 5.4
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 03:44:19PM +1200, Nick Larsen wrote: Hi, I love FreeBSD, but lately I've found in version 5.4-RELEASE every so often I won't be able to run a program as it depends on a library (which used to be there). Eg: today i tried to access my webserver...Failed... So I SSH'd into the box and ran # apachectl start It complained that it couldn't find libsasl2.so.2 which was needed by modules/libphp4.so, but my web server had been working fine other days, with absolutely no changes. I fixed this problem, and then it couldnt find some *expat*.so.5 file, which i then created sym links in /lib and /usr/lib (as it resides in /usr/local/lib) This was the wrong solution. Later on today, I tried to sudo a command, and got... bash: sudo: command not found I had to reinstall sudo. I'm extremely cofused, and have checked auth.log (My passwords are quite difficult to crack as they have no meaning). Either you had/still have some serious disk corruption (drop to single-user mode and run fsck -f), or someone (e.g. another admin, or you in a moment of forgetfulness) did some deleting or a misdirected portupgrade session. Kris pgpkLZ8TkiSIC.pgp Description: PGP signature
