Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Attempting to install X11 server. Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 even when installing into clean directory tree. # mkdir /tmp/test_pkg_install # export PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/test_pkg_install/var/db/pkg # pkg_

Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. The answer is found in http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html. Basically you u

Re: freebsd list admins?

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:14:55 -0400 Robert Simmons wrote: > On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: > > I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves > > anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only > > makes it difficult for others li

Re: freebsd list admins?

On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: > I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves > anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only > makes it difficult for others like myself who read the lists online and > only post occasionally.

Re: Problem with web video

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Carmel wrote: I have been fighting a losing battle trying to get video to display with Firefox. I just updated to the latest version 5;however, it still does not work. This is on a FreeBSD-8.2 system. As an example, the following URL does not display the video or even the p

Re: freebsd list admins?

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jerry wrote: > It is my personal view that FreeBSD-Questions should be consolidated > into the chat forum. Chat forums are rarely moderated and tend to be > open to the general public. Some of us have workflows that favor e-mail over those newfangled web forums fo

Re: freebsd list admins?

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:03:23 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi questions@ > > > Robert Simmons articulated: > > > There > > > seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists > > > that keep spamming it periodically, > I think we should: > make questions@ list wr

Re: Problem with web video

On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Carmel wrote: > I have been fighting a losing battle trying to get video to display > with Firefox. I just updated to the latest version 5;however, it still > does not work. This is on a FreeBSD-8.2 system. > > As an example, the following URL does not display the vide

Problem with web video

I have been fighting a losing battle trying to get video to display with Firefox. I just updated to the latest version 5;however, it still does not work. This is on a FreeBSD-8.2 system. As an example, the following URL does not display the video or even the portion where one would usually click o

Re: can't build graphics/xfig-3.2.5b on 8.2-STABLE nordatabases/p5-DBD-Oracle with lang/perl5.14

Ok Ce message a été envoyé depuis un terminal BlackBerry de Bouygues Telecom -Original Message- From: William Bulley Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:39:17 To: Cc: Subject: can't build graphics/xfig-3.2.5b on 8.2-STABLE nor databases/p5-DBD-

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > As a rule of thumb and for a serious server, I would recommend 1 SSD as > dedicated cache and 2 SSD for a mirrored ZIL (you don't want to lose this > data). > However I think ppl posted about running intro trouble when using both ZIL > a

Re: freebsd list admins?

> > Should we send in a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd ? > > PR it. Sounds good. Thanks. Done. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158238 Now it'll need a commiter. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; In

Re: Spamassassin not working after update of Perl

On 23 Jun 2011, at 21:37, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 23/06/2011 14:55, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> I have updated my Perl version yesterday but now my Spamd doesn't work >>> anymore. >>> Can someone hint me how to solve this? > > You need to reinstall all perl modules if you upgrade perl from 5.1

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 11:26:30 PM Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? Hey guys.this thread is really starting to stink. Take it outside. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:08:59PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Jun 2

Re: Spamassassin not working after update of Perl

On 23/06/2011 14:55, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > I have updated my Perl version yesterday but now my Spamd doesn't work >> anymore. >> Can someone hint me how to solve this? You need to reinstall all perl modules if you upgrade perl from 5.10.x or 5.12.x to 5.14.1. This is explained in UPDATING. If

Re: dnssec with freebsd's resolver(3)

On 6/23/11 2:23 PM, "Leon Meßner" wrote: > This mail got only send to Matthew because of bad time of day ;) > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:58:00PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 22/06/2011 20:02, Osterweil, Eric wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 6/22/11 2:56 PM, "Leon Meßner" wrote: >>>

Re: dnssec with freebsd's resolver(3)

This mail got only send to Matthew because of bad time of day ;) On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:58:00PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 22/06/2011 20:02, Osterweil, Eric wrote: > > > > > > > > On 6/22/11 2:56 PM, "Leon Meßner" wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:17:23AM +0100, Matthew Se

RE: LTO3 tape drive not detected

Seems in theory that LTO 3 should work ok based on this forum post: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8042 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joe in MPLS wrote: > > > The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it seems to know there's > > something at SCSI ID 4, but I get an "AutoSense Failed" for hba/id/lun 0:4:0 > > at boot and subsequent camcontrol rescans. > > > > I ch

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:35:10 -0500, Joe in MPLS wrote: > > I have FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE running on an HP DL360 G5. I recently added > an (HP branded) LSI Logic single channel SCSI 320 card and attached an > HP Ultrium 920 LTO3 tape drive. > > The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it se

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joe in MPLS wrote: > The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it seems to know there's > something at SCSI ID 4, but I get an "AutoSense Failed" for hba/id/lun 0:4:0 > at boot and subsequent camcontrol rescans. > > I checked the supported hardware doc for

can't build graphics/xfig-3.2.5b on 8.2-STABLE nor databases/p5-DBD-Oracle with lang/perl5.14

First there is the xfig issue: No matter what the setting is for I18N (WITH or WITHOUT) there is this: cc -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libpng -I/usr/local/include/X11 -I. -I/usr/local/include -DCSRG_BASED -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:25:16 -0700 Chip Camden articulated: > Yes, Pentadactyl for one. Upgrading to its nightly build version > makes it work, sort of. Looks like text fields no longer scroll > properly. This is taking the Google-led trend of "beta is the new > release" to extremes. Google and

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Quoth Jerry on Thursday, 23 June 2011: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 > Robert Huff articulated: > > > The best part is that many of my "add-ons" again no longer work. From > what I can see in the ports system, and I may be wrong, there is not an > option to use the version 4 either althou

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Hi all, Now the different versions of Firefox are : - Release (version) - Aurora (version +1) - Nightly (version +2) With this roadmap, you don't care with the version number of the release. There will be only one, not like before with 3.6.x, 3.5.x ... I think this is really more easy. You will s

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Why not take this discussion to freebsd-chat? ___ 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: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:08:39 +0200 Admin Cyanide articulated: > The major difference is that when updating Microsoft's OS from a > major version to another you have to pay. > I'm not flaming, I just want to focus on the fact that this products > have not the same constraints. We were, or at leas

LTO3 tape drive not detected

I have FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE running on an HP DL360 G5. I recently added an (HP branded) LSI Logic single channel SCSI 320 card and attached an HP Ultrium 920 LTO3 tape drive. The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it seems to know there's something at SCSI ID 4, but I get an "AutoSe

Re: dnssec with freebsd's resolver(3)

On 6/22/11 5:58 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > On 22/06/2011 20:02, Osterweil, Eric wrote: >> >> >> >> On 6/22/11 2:56 PM, "Leon Meßner" wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:17:23AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 20/06/2011 01:37, Leon Meßner wrote: >>> >>> Ok, my recursive reso

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 6/23/2011 8:08 AM, Admin Cyanide wrote: >> >> The major difference is that when updating Microsoft's OS from a major >> version to another you have to pay. >> I'm not flaming, I just want to focus on the fact that this products >> have not th

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On 6/23/2011 8:08 AM, Admin Cyanide wrote: The major difference is that when updating Microsoft's OS from a major version to another you have to pay. I'm not flaming, I just want to focus on the fact that this products have not the same constraints. What is surprising is why it is not a 4.1 rel

Re: List of Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates...

> 1-Port directory update through portsnap > 2-FreeBSD src update through CTM > 3-Port updates through distfiles and/or packages > > I think 1- and 2- are quite straightforward. To allow 1- I need to white > list the whole content of http://portsnap.freebsd.org/ . To allow 2- I need > to white li

1-ClickWeather for Firefox fails under Firefox-5

I just updated to the new Firefox-5 browser. Unfortunately, the 1-ClickWeather for Firefox (Weather Channel) fails. I tried to remove and re-install the add-on but the results were the same. This is the error message: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_F

Re: Spamassassin not working after update of Perl

On 6/23/11 3:51 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I have updated my Perl version yesterday but now my Spamd doesn't work > anymore. > Can someone hint me how to solve this? > > thanks, > Jos Chrispijn > > Pls see output: > > Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_pe

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Le 23/06/2011 14:30, Jerry a écrit : On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: Jerry writes: > From URL: . Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to u

Spamassassin not working after update of Perl

I have updated my Perl version yesterday but now my Spamd doesn't work anymore. Can someone hint me how to solve this? thanks, Jos Chrispijn Pls see output: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.1/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On 23/06/2011 13:02, Robert Huff wrote: > My morning-fogged mind says Version 4 was out less than a year. Much less than a year. V4 came out in April. I'm wondering what the big deal is that Mozilla felt they needed to bump the major version number? There don't seem to have been many user

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Damien Fleuriot writes: > Although, I'll give you, I'm as confused as everyone regarding > this 4->5 bump, surely they could have done 4.1 or something... It is my understanding there are (even more) substantial (than usual) internal changes, particularly relating to HTML v5.

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

On Wed, June 22, 2011 9:26 pm, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > You will lose your main ZFS pool if you lose: > - more than 1 of your full ZFS pools > or > - your ZIL (need confirmation on that) >From my reading, on the ZIL: Under 8.2, true. If you have patched your ZFS install, or are running -CURRENT

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On 6/23/11 3:10 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Jerry writes: > >> > > Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to >> > > update to version 5 which is now in the ports system. What amazes >> > > me is how quick support was pulled from version 4. >> > >> > My morning-fogged

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Jerry writes: > > > Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to > > > update to version 5 which is now in the ports system. What amazes > > > me is how quick support was pulled from version 4. > > > >My morning-fogged mind says Version 4 was out less than a > > year.

Re: ZFS on Root

* Peter Toth [2011-06-23 22:54:59 +1200]: > Did you set the mount point properly for your ZFS root? My previous post > was intended as an example only, you need to tailor it to your setup. > Also, you can use mfsbsd for installation very easy and straightforward > http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ . This lo

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On Jun 23, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Jerry writes: From URL: >>> >> _4_from_security_support>. >>> >>> Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to update to >>> version 5 which is now in

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 23 07:02:56 2011 > From: Robert Huff > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support > > > Jerry writes: > > > >From URL: > >

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: > Jerry writes: > > > >From URL: > > > > . > > > > Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to > > update to version 5

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

On 6/23/11 2:02 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Jerry writes: > >> >From URL: >> >> . >> >> Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to >> update to version 5 which is now in the po

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

Some points: 1) I did use the handbook as reference, and my ruleset mimics the layout used there. 2) Handbook uses divert natd, which I used until I switched to the kernel nat approach. 3) I did not find any concrete examples of ipfw nat rule usage, so I'm using them the old natd way. I did s

Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Jerry writes: > >From URL: > > . > > Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to > update to version 5 which is now in the ports system. What amazes > me is how quick support wa

Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

From URL: . Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to update to version 5 which is now in the ports system. What amazes me is how quick support was pulled from version 4. -- Jerry ✌

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 368, Issue 6, Message: 21 On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:16:32 +0200 umage wrote: > Hi, I'm an ipfw user that finally got the opportunity to set up NAT on > an interface with a public IP. I was doing some multi-homing experiments > using ipfw fwd combined with outbound

Re: ZFS on root and "find" performance

I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/23 03:56:07 -0700 Andrew Moran => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : AM> AM> Is anyone else running zfs on root and running into very slow finds? The /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security can take over a

ZFS on root and "find" performance

Is anyone else running zfs on root and running into very slow finds? The /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security can take over a noisy HD thrashing hour to finish, the culprit being the find that crawls the filesystem. I'm hoping there is some I'm not sure if there if some simple zfs tuning I

Re: ZFS on Root

On 06/22/11 12:47, Chris Brennan wrote: > * Peter Toth [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: > >> Did you set the "bootfs" property on your root pool? Example: "zpool set >> bootfs=tank/root tank" > OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank) and > zpool promptly tells me the follo

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

On 23 June 2011 02:38, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 22 Jun 2011, at 22:22, krad wrote: > > > On 21 June 2011 21:23, Matthew Seaman >wrote: > > > >> On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >>> I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror > >>> In OpenSolaris you can install dir

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot > is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. > However, I have one question: > > I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror > In OpenSolaris you can install