Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
On 7/10/11, b. f. wrote: > On 7/9/11, Thomas D. Dean wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: > You could cheat, and neither upgrade your base system nor make the > changes I mentioned in my last message, but instead fool portupgrade > into thinking that you have a newer base sy

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
On 7/9/11, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: > >> occasionally trip over problems that will require intervention. (Note >> that in the section of the csup file that you reproduced in an earlier >> message, 'release-cvs' should be 'release=cvs'.) > > The '-' w

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: > occasionally trip over problems that will require intervention. (Note > that in the section of the csup file that you reproduced in an earlier > message, 'release-cvs' should be 'release=cvs'.) The '-' was a typo on my part. The machine I used f

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
Thomas D. Dean wrote: ... > For the most recent try, I have > > ... > # OS_PATCHLEVEL: "" "-p8" > # OS_PLATFORM:"i386" "amd64" > # OS_PKGBRANCH: "7-current" "6.1-release" > OS_RELEASE="8-STABLE" > OS_BRANCH="STABLE" > OS_PKGBRANCH="8-stable" The c

Re: DNS and file system messed up...

2011-07-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:14:21AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:14:21 +0100 > From: Matthew Seaman > Subject: Re: DNS and file system messed up... > To: Gary Kline > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On 08/07/2011 23:04, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 21:45 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > If I understood everything correctly, CVS (csup) and portsnap > do both follow "the one tree" which gets frequently updated, > and by the tag specified above you'll always get the current > version of the tree. Getting older versions (e. g.

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:32:12 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:05 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > Sorry to answer my own post. > > The packages that are out-of-date on the system I was updating are in > relationship to 8.2-release. > > A couple days ago, I cvsup'd the port

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:05 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Sorry to answer my own post. The packages that are out-of-date on the system I was updating are in relationship to 8.2-release. A couple days ago, I cvsup'd the port tree with *default release-cvs tag=. ports-all Today, portsnap fetch ext

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:47 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:33:00 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > > /usr/bin/fetch -v > > 'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-STABLE/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz' > > looking up ftp.FreeBSD.org > > connecting to ftp.FreeBSD.org:21 > > f

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:33:00 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > /usr/bin/fetch -v > 'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-STABLE/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz' > looking up ftp.FreeBSD.org > connecting to ftp.FreeBSD.org:21 > fetch: > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-S

Re: DNS and file system messed up...

2011-07-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 07:49:43AM -0600, Dan Busarow wrote: > Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 07:49:43 -0600 > From: Dan Busarow > Subject: Re: DNS and file system messed up... > To: Gary Kline > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Gary Kline > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) > > > On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:5

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 14:15 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On 7/9/2011 1:14 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > As root, I attempted to use > > portupgrade -PPRv m4 > > which attempted to access > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz > > but failed - F

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On 7/9/2011 1:14 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > As root, I attempted to use > portupgrade -PPRv m4 > which attempted to access > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz > but failed - File unavailable (e.g. file not found, no access) > > I changed etc/

Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
As root, I attempted to use portupgrade -PPRv m4 which attempted to access ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz but failed - File unavailable (e.g. file not found, no access) I changed etc/pkgtools.conf OS_PKGBRANCH="8-STABLE" and portupgra

Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and > FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 ? That's interesting but inconclusive. Can you run prime95 testing overnight under WinXP without issues? Or memtest86? > BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons

Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Chuck, What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 ? BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons unfathomable to me - install /usr/sbin/apmd. I don't know how significant that is, but I have had to insert into rc.conf : apm_enable="NO" apmd

Re: Color Spills Over From SSH Session

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Isom
Screen uses it's own $TERM, screen, so you'll have to make sure it's correct. If you're not committed to GNU screen, you could try tmux which is part of OpenBSD, and ported to FreeBSD. If you use tmux, you'll have to make sure the $TERM inside the screen session is 'screen' and not something

Re: Color Spills Over From SSH Session

2011-07-09 Thread David Krauser
Figured it out. I just needed screen installed on the FreeBSD box. Thanks for all your help! On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Joshua Isom wrote: On 7/8/2011 11:07 PM, David Krauser wrote: Hello everybody, I've tried to setup a kind of 'dedicated ssh client' using FreeBSD, and I'm having some issues wi

Re: Color Spills Over From SSH Session

2011-07-09 Thread David Krauser
I echoed $TERM on both boxes, and they are both cons25. I figured out, though, that I'm only seeing the color spillover issue when I run GNU Screen on the remote box (which is OpenBSD). GNU Screen is not installed on the FreeBSD box. How can I get screen's colors to work in my FreeBSD ssh se

Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:53 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > I am running FreeBSD-8.2-amd64 on a Western Digital 320 GD disk and a > quad-core AMD Phenom processor. After booting, the disk keeps > continuously (meaning continuous I/O) and after a couple of hours (on > the console with the X server not ru

Re: DNS and file system messed up...

2011-07-09 Thread Dan Busarow
On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:27:12AM -0600, Dan Busarow wrote: Gary, add named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf" to /etc/rc.conf. Or change /etc/namedb/named.conf to the /var version if you like/there is no symlink. Dan Dan! I think

Re: openldap24-sasl-client preventing kde4 from installing

2011-07-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 14:35, Jason Garrett wrote: > Even after I pkg_delete -f openldap-sasl-client* trying to compile kde4, or > in this case I narrowed it down to kdepimlibs4, I always end up with this. > How do I get myself out of this dependency? > > ===>>> Starting check for runtime depende

disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Manish Jain
Hello all, I am running FreeBSD-8.2-amd64 on a Western Digital 320 GD disk and a quad-core AMD Phenom processor. After booting, the disk keeps continuously (meaning continuous I/O) and after a couple of hours (on the console with the X server not running), suddenly the whole system

Re: DNS and file system messed up...

2011-07-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/07/2011 23:04, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:01:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:01:45 +0100 >> From: Matthew Seaman >> Subject: Re: DNS and file system messed up... >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >> On 08/07/2011 08:25, Doug Hardie wro