While updating my ports, I've run into a problem. portversion shows
php5-interbase needs updating, but when I ran 'portupgrade
php5-interbase' I got the message: '== Please do not build firebird
as 'root' because this may cause conflicts with SysV semaphores of
running services' ... 'Stop in
I'm running 6.1-STABLE, and a few days ago cvsup'ed and tried portupgrade.
Portupgrade failed on some of xfce4's components. Checking xfce4-print and
xfce4-desktop's output, I have the error message:
libicui18n.so.34, needed by /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so not found (try
using -rpath or
At 09:27 AM 12/1/2006 +0700, you wrote:
I'm running 6.1-STABLE, and a few days ago cvsup'ed and tried portupgrade.
Portupgrade failed on some of xfce4's components. Checking xfce4-print and
xfce4-desktop's output, I have the error message:
libicui18n.so.34, needed by
At 11:40 PM 11/30/2006 -0500, you wrote:
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:30:17AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
At 09:27 AM 12/1/2006 +0700, you wrote:
I'm running 6.1-STABLE, and a few days ago cvsup'ed and tried portupgrade.
Portupgrade failed on some of xfce4's components. Checking xfce4-print
I was getting errors trying to portupgrade PEAR, so I did a pkg_deinstall
and then ran portinstall. The following is the last part of what I get:
warning: pear/PEAR requires package pear/Archive_Tar (version = 1.3.1)
warning: pear/PEAR requires package pear/Console_Getopt (version = 1.2)
At 08:38 AM 8/30/2006 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote:
I would check the errat on the S3 you are using. It sounds like there may
be some kernel/system changes you may need to make since your lockups are
from going back to text mode from graphics mode. It is likely some
conflict this is causing is
I recently acquired a newer box to hold my server. I was using a PII 300MHz
with 64MB RAM. The new box has an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 239MB (?) RAM
and what seems most pertinent, an S3 ProSavage DDR (86c420) graphics chip.
When I first tried configuring X I discovered that when I tried to
I just cvsup'ed the source and rebuilt world, and now natd starts on
boot-up just fine. I don't have any idea what changed, although I did
notice that when I ran mergemaster there was new text in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf, which I installed without examining too closely. The
thing is, I looked it
At 07:21 AM 6/9/2006 -0800, you wrote:
On 6/6/2006 21:13, Roger Merritt seems to have typed:
Everything
starts on boot-up as it should -- except natd. I can start it manually
from
the command line after booting up and logging in and it works fine, but I
can't tell what's going on that it's
At 02:13 PM 6/9/2006 +1000, you wrote:
I've been doing a little hunting around to figure out
how /etc/rc.d/natd's called in the first place and it seems
this is done by the /etc/rc.d/ipfw script, which in turn is run
when firewall_enable is set
in /etc/rc.conf. /etc/rc.d/natd's not run directly
At 08:46 AM 6/7/2006 +0200, you wrote:
Hello Roger,
what happens if you type
/etc/rc.d/natd start
after boot-up?
The script prints out the string natd, leading space but no newline, and
a process is started for natd.
--
Roger
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At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700
Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD
system to
a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the instructions and
had
to make a completely new
At 02:12 AM 6/7/2006 -0700, you wrote:
On 6/7/06, Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:18 +0700
Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700
Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm
At 01:34 PM 6/7/2006 +0300, you wrote:
Try to comment the line natd_enable=YES and then add
a new line at the end of rc.conf:
/etc/rc.d/natd start
Well, that looks like it would work. I'll keep it in mind as a last resort.
if this doesn't work, try to put
natd_flags=
I'll give it a try.
I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD system to
a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the instructions and had
to make a completely new install. Everything now seems to be working the
way it should, Apache, MySQL, PHP, syslog, Samba -- except natd.
Yesterday I ran portinstall to install the mysql-server, left the job going
overnight, and as expected had to reboot this morning. I noticed that
portinstall did some configuring (which I had forgotten to do when I ran
make the previous times), and I didn't want to waste anything that had
I've been having some strange problems trying to upgrade my mysql-server on
a Freebsd6.0-STABLE machine. When compiling mysql* I have a problem with
the machine running out of swap space and stalling in some kind of infinite
loop. I solved it for mysql50-client by going to the
At 04:25 AM 1/18/2006 +0100, you wrote:
Hi!
OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running
6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006
When I start a
# portupgrade -a
up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message:
make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.:
At 12:55 AM 1/18/2006 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:54:39AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
Hi!
OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running
6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE
I want to upgrade mysql from ver. 4.0.26 to 4.1.x but am daunted by the
existence of the separate ports. Can I just run portinstall -R mysql41-\*
or should I do pkgdeinstall mysql40-\* first?
--
Roger
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At 19:22 14/9/2005 -0700, Garret Cooper wrote:
On Sep 14, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Eric Schuele wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:55:25PM +0800, Yuan Jue wrote:
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 23:46, Matt Kosht wrote:
Does anybody successfully run Internet Explorer under
At 08:07 PM 9/1/2005 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
People,
I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright
book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is
and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR
software in recent years.
I've just become aware that samba.org is no longer supporting Samba 2
(which has served me well for so long) and I should upgrade to Samba 3,
which is now the stable version. I don't find any warnings about it in
/usr/ports/UPDATING. Does anyone have any gotchas I should be aware of?
--
Roger
At 12:44 PM 12/22/04, you wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:24:59PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
I hope this isn't too common a question. I couldn't devise a good set of
keywords to use Google.
I just received a new machine to replace my ancient server/gateway. I
decided the best way to go
I hope this isn't too common a question. I couldn't devise a good set of
keywords to use Google.
I just received a new machine to replace my ancient server/gateway. I
decided the best way to go was to install FreeBSD 5.3, and transfer user
directories and config files using ssh over the
I don't know if this is a FAQ, but I haven't seen an explicit discussion.
I've seen some passing mentions that it's going to be difficult or
impossible to upgrade from 4-STABLE to 5-STABLE, when they finally decide
5.x is the new STABLE fork.
I've just received a new, faster box with a *much*
After doing a cvsup on one of my machines I like to run 'portversion -c
needs.update' to see what needs updating. If the output is small enough I
might try doing 'portupgrade -a', but usually I go through the list one by
one to set the flags I think portupgrade will need for that case. This
I recently installed the port shells/tcshrc, and ever since I've been
getting some funny output on the console whenever I change directories:
kepler:/root# echo $SHELL
/bin/tcsh
kepler:/root# cd /etc
\033]2;KEPLER - /etc\007kepler:/etc#
kepler:/etc# cd
\033]2;KEPLER - /root\007kepler:/root#
I think the 'make' program on one of my machines (running FreeBSD 4.10) has
gotten farkled. I made the mistake of running 'portupgrade -a' and now the
whole system is a mess -- among other things it uninstalled my 'perl
5.8.5'. Actually, it uninstalled a lot of things and then quit on an error
I've been playing with this for a while. I need to add a small (4 GB) hard
drive to one of my servers. Partly because I need more storage space,
partly because I think there's something wrong with the present hard drive
-- I get page faults while in kernel mode (fatal signal 12, I think it is)
I just tried to upgrade mysql-client and got the following error message:
Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch: mysql-3.23.58.tar.gz: local modification time does not match remote
Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
port manually into
I once saw, and used, a portupgrade command line to upgrade *all* installed
perl modules. It went something like:
$ portupgrade p5-\*
However, when I try the command now I just get an error message. Can anyone
tell me the proper command?
--
Roger
At 01:41 AM 12/23/03, you wrote:
Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I once saw, and used, a portupgrade command line to upgrade *all*
installed perl modules. It went something like:
$ portupgrade p5-\*
However, when I try the command now I just get an error message. Can
anyone tell me
At 08:48 PM 12/22/03, you wrote:
$ portupgrade p5-\*
However, when I try the command now I just get an error message. Can
anyone
tell me the proper command?
#portupgrade p5-* (as root)
That gives me:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# portupgrade p5-*
portupgrade: No match.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]#
At 04:53 AM 7/11/03, you wrote:
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 05:00 PM, stan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 08:52:32PM +, DanB wrote:
How do you transfer a file from one freebsd box to other using binary I
think, its a tar.gz file?
FTP has been disabled. on the boxes.
sftp?
Also:
At 09:59 AM 7/11/03, you wrote:
Any suggestions or recommendations would be welcome.
NFS mount the volume you want to back up on the second machine, then
run tar.
Well, that would certainly work. Right now I've got the remote machine set
up as a NFS server and the local machine is a NFS client,
At 11:33 AM 7/1/03, you wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:54:33AM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Bob Hall wrote:
samba-2.2.8a
FreeBSD 4.8
I'm trying to get samba running on my FBSD server. I've done this
previously with another server, but I can't seem to get it to
At 02:24 AM 7/2/03, you wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roger Merritt wrote:
BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
int=0006 err= efl=00010246 eip=1934
eax=00021d60 ebx= ecx= edx=
esi= edi=00020c34 ebp=00094bec esp=00094bdc
cs=0026
I recently got a new, large hard drive for one of my two servers and
transferred everything over from the old 4GB drive. So then I wanted to
take the old drive and combine it with the other old drive -- my idea is to
transfer /usr/home to one of them and leave the rest of the system on the
At 06:54 PM 6/26/03, you wrote:
[admin wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 6/26/03 3:57 PM]
Zope looked to me like overkill for my needs, and I don't really
want a blog site.
Roger,
thanks for the heads up here. what is a blog site?
Zope can be as big or small as you need and is certainly in no
At 07:33 AM 6/25/03, you wrote:
other than zope - are there any good onlin content management tools out there
that allow people to update webpages and cgi code easily?
I'm just in the process of installing one called Pagetool
(http://www.pagetool.org/) which looks good. Based on PHP. I also
I've just installed a new, 40GB hard drive, and copied my system over to
it. It booted and seems to be running fine, but I have a couple of worries.
1. My BIOS setup utility doesn't detect the drive using the Auto Detect
Hard Drives feature. In fact, when I tried to run it, it hung. However,
At 06:25 PM 6/22/03, you wrote:
snip
While it most likely wouldn't hurt anything I
wouldn't make flashing the ROM a priority unless it was having problems
starting up or there was some feature in the newer BIOS I wanted to take
advantage of.
Thanks. That was what I thought from reading various
I have a chance to get my hands on a 4-GB hard drive that's being replaced
by a 40-GB drive. My other machine really needs more space (it also has a
4-GB drive), and I'd like to move the /usr/home slice (or is it partition?)
to the new(er) HDD and delete the /usr/home slice from the older
I've been trying to install a Content Management System for evaluation
purposes. The system needs to have some virtual domains set up and the docs
recommend putting the dummy addresses in the /etc/hosts file. That's fine
by me, because I use /etc/hosts for all the DNS queries for machines on my
Is 'portsdb -U' broken again, or is my machine getting ready to give up the
ghost? For the last month or so, it seems that any time I try to do
'portsdb -U' my machine runs about forty minutes to an hour, reports a
couple of errors (telling me does not exist and the packing list is
At 03:32 PM 6/2/03, you wrote:
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Roger Merritt thusly...
'portsdb -U' ... runs about forty minutes to an hour, reports
a couple of errors (telling me does not exist and the packing
list is incomplete), and then reboots with Signal 12, Page Fault
in Kernel
At 08:04 AM 5/29/03, you wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:51:33PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
: follow the suggestion and actually *use* the suggested refuse file you
: will then be unable to follow the other suggestion and ever use
: portupgrade, or else fix portupgrade so that it does not dump it
What's the currently recommended way to upgrade from XFree86 3.x to 4.x? I
remember last year seeing recommendations to ininstall XFree86 3.x,
uninstall all apps using X that you might have, delete /usr/X11R6/bin, and
then install XFree86 4.x.
Is this still the recommended way to avoid
At 01:15 PM 3/3/03, Kent Stewart wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:55 pm, Roger Merritt wrote:
At 05:15 AM 3/3/03, Kent Stewart wrote:
snip
What portupgrade options are you using? When you do -r, you have
to force -f.
Very interesting. Where is that documented? I just did a quick read
At 05:15 AM 3/3/03, Kent Stewart wrote:
snip
What portupgrade options are you using? When you do -r, you have to
force -f.
Very interesting. Where is that documented? I just did a quick read through
the portupgrade man page and don't see anything about it. I believe you,
and I'm going to try it
OK, before I present my problem, I'd like to ask if I should be posting
questions about ports to the freebsd-ports list, or should I be e-mailing
the maintainer of the port?
I've been trying for quite a long time to upgrade libsxml2. The build
invariably stops in
At 03:25 PM 1/30/03, you wrote:
Why isn't there a /dev/one device to provide an infinite number of
all-ones bytes?
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Sounds OK. As I've asked in a separate question to the list, would
I've installed vnc from the ports and it works fine, but it's annoying to
have to log on to my server and start the vncserver every time I want to
connect from my desktop PC. One problem is my server has been randomly
rebooting (I suspect hardware problems but ...), so I can't just leave the
My earlier question about starting up vncserver has been answered with a
couple of possible methods, and in the course of looking at them I found
that during boot-up the PATH variable is set by the /etc/rc script.
Now, it seems to me that modifying the vncserver script is not elegant. I
don't
At 02:56 AM 12/27/02, you wrote:
On Thursday 26 December 2002 03:35 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
Once upon a time it was said that one of the cool things about
Portupgrade, was that you could use it to upgrade itself.
(portupgrade -{|r|R} portupgrade)
But this never worked for me - caused all
I tried running portsclean after upgrading a lot of my ports recently, and
got this output:
[root@kepler:/usr/ports]# portsclean -DL
Detecting unreferenced distfiles...
no unreferenced distfiles found.
** /usr/lib/compat/libc_r.so.4 is shadowed by /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
**
At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix
these
malformed entries, non-existent entries and incomplete dependencies?
Running pkgdb -F shows everything to be fine.
If
I haven't been completely happy with portupdate, partly because of the
numerous errors portsdb reports and which don't seem to harm anything or
have any solution, but I decided to install it on my other server anyway,
after running it on my primary server for about six months.
I installed it from
At 09:29 AM 11/19/02 +0700, you wrote:
snip
So can anybody suggest what I can do to restore these? portupdate won't
work without pkg_create, and maybe depends on some of the others as well.
Whoops! My bad. I went to the directory /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install and
discovered that by running 'make'
Following some suggestions in the recent thread Port Management, I
decided to try running the script
/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/consistency-check. Now I wonder if anyone can help
me understand the output. What does it mean, only on filesystem? Does
that mean that a file on my filesystem is in a port
At 03:39 PM 10/7/02 -0700, you wrote:
From: Andrew Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:18:22 -0400
AFAIK, doesn't portupgrade come with another utility called portversion?
I use portversion -r (for recursive) to figure out what packages I do
need to upgrade. It gives a nice
At 11:13 PM 9/29/02 -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
gotta build it before you can install it.
cd /usr/src/libexec/getty
make depend
make obj
make
make install
just a thought, anyway.
-Adam
I'll give it a try. So far I haven't tried going through the chain of
makefiles, but I notice the
At 02:50 PM 9/30/02 +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
At 11:13 PM 9/29/02 -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
gotta build it before you can install it.
cd /usr/src/libexec/getty
make depend
make obj
make
make install
just a thought, anyway.
-Adam
Well, that sequence of instructions seemed to work
At 11:43 AM 9/30/02 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Hello!
I've been searching the google group without finding anything on this
subject. I must be using the wrong keywords, because I remember (vaguely)
seeing someone post a year or so ago how to restore something in usr.bin or
usr.sbin. Well, I'll
The problem that prompted my original question was that init had stalled
during local package initialization and I couldn't use my console. I
thought the problem was with getty not opening the terminals, but when I
noticed that it stalled while running the mysql-server.sh script I recalled
that I
Last week my server rebooted spontaneously while running 'portupgrade', and
froze during initialization of local packages. Luckily, I have been able
to get in using SSH from another terminal. The problem that shows up in
/var/log/messages is: init: can't get /dev/console for controlling
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